Piper McLean

Piper McLean is a character in The Heroes of Olympus. Piper is the demigod daughter of Aphrodite and a Cherokee movie star, Tristan McLean. She is also the counselor of the Aphrodite Cabin. According to Leo, she has been Jason's girlfriend for some weeks at the beginning of the story, although Coach Hedge states that he sees Jason for the first time and there seems to be a manipulation of the Mist causing the others to think that they know Jason, although later she decides she still likes him. She is unsure whether Jason likes her back, though, at the beginning of The Lost Hero.

Family
Piper's dad, Tristan McLean, is a well known actor with a powerful position and is of Cherokee decent. Her father is always at work and busy. Piper wants her to feel recognized by him which is why she gets in trouble and "steals" things (charmspeaking).

"...if those girls found out the truth about her dad, they'd all be bowing down to her screaming, 'We're not worthy!'."

- Leo

Her mother is Aphrodite, goddess of love, beauty, and lust.

Description
Piper is a gorgeous girl of Cherokee decent. At first, she has chocolate brown hair that is cut choppy and uneven. Her eyes change color, going from brown, to blue and green. She wears faded jeans, a snowboarding jacket and hiking boots. After being claimed by Aphrodite, Aphrodite made her even more beautiful. Piper's hair had turned thick, long, lush, braided with gold ribbons so it fell across one shoulder. She wore a beautiful white sleeveless Greek dress that went down to her ankles and a low V-neck, perfect makeup, delicate gold armbands on her biceps, a necklace of amber, coral, and gold flowers on her chest. Jason even exclaimed, "Beautiful, Piper, you...you're a knockout." After her mother "fixed" her up again, she was dressed in a turquoise dress with black leggings and black boots. She wears her favorite silver charm bracelet and her snowboarding jacket, and it went well together. Unfortunately, when Aphrodite claimed her, this meant she had to lose her snowboarding jacket, and obtain magical makeup and hairdo, which Piper was not pleased about.

Personality
Piper is cute and smart but she is also very violent. Despite her violent nature, she is very caring and loving towards Jason and is frightened, sad and angry at any thing that may pose a threat to her bond with him, she also becomes violent, aggressive and angry at anyone who would stand in the way of her love for Jason, such as her half-sister Drew. She is greatly saddened by the possibility that her first relationship with Jason was a Mist-induced illusion. She also likes to touch Jason in very intimate and loving ways such as holding his hand, leaning against his chest, resting her head on his leg, wrapping her arms around him and having his arms around her. Compared to the other children of Aphrodite, Piper is much more aggressive and down to earth, not focusing on themselves and their looks constantly. Before she was claimed by Aphrodite, Piper expressed that she wanted to be the daughter of Athena. Aphrodite also said that she was smarter than most of her other children.

The Lost Hero
Piper appears the first time in the bus driving towards the Grand Canyon, holding hands with Jason. She's the first to realize something is wrong with him. Shortly afterwards she is torn away by Dylan, who declares her his partner for the school work.

As a strong storm starts, Piper and Dylan help the others to leave the sky-walk, until only she, Dylan, Leo, Jason and Coach Hedge are left. As Piper loses the door, which suddenly seems to be magically locked, Dylan reveals to be a Ventus, a storm son of Typhon, and battles the four of them. With Hedge's baseball bat as weapon Piper fights alongside Jason against the venti, while Hedge tries to retrieve Leo, who was thrown off the skywalk by Dylan. As Dylan tries to take Jason with him, Piper hits him to prevent him from doing so. In an act of revenge he creates a torrent that throws Piper off the skywalk. She is then saved by Jason, who, after jumping over the railing, stops in midair and catches her, thus returning her onto the skywalk safely. After Hedge is abducted by Dylan, Piper and the other two are picked up by a chariot, driven by Annabeth Chase and Butch. Soon after they arrive at Camp Half-Blood, Annabeth gives her a tour of the camp and helps her pick out her weapon (a dagger previously owned by Helen of Troy). Called Katoptris that has the ability to show much more than the users reflection when looked at. Later, that night when Jason is picking the two others to come on his quest, after he picks Leo, Piper says she has to go too while trying to compete with Drew to be on the quest. She was claimed by Aphrodite. Later she becomes friends with two of her half-siblings in the Aphrodite cabin and learns of her ability to use charmspeak. The next day, Piper, Jason, and Leo take Leo's new "pet dragon" and begin their quest.

Abilities

 * She has the power of charmspeaking, allowing her to influence others with her opinion. She is such a powerful charmspeaker that she put Gaia to sleep near the end of The Lost Hero and brought Jason back to life after he saw Hera in her true form.
 * She can speak perfect French naturally because it is considered the "language of love".
 * Like most other demigods, she has ADHD and dyslexia.

Weapons/Items
Piper uses the dagger Katoptris, a wedding gift for Helen of Troy. The dagger seems to show a scene of something that has importance to whoever looks at their reflection in the blade.

Trivia

 * Leo calls her "beauty queen" after she was claimed by Aphrodite.