| “ | I, Lucius Silver, son of Mercury, pledge my life to protect this blemmyae! He shall not be harmed while I draw breath. Who is with me? | ” |
–Lucius rallies the First Cohort to protect Johan in The Court of the Dead. | ||
Lucius Silver is a Roman demigod son of Mercury.
History[]
Lucius was born to Mercury, the Roman god of boundaries, commerce, communication, eloquence, financial gain, languages, luck, thieves, travelers, and trickery, and an unknown mortal parent. When he was old enough, he was brought to the Wolf House and survived Lupa's training. He made his way south to the San Francisco Bay Area and found Camp Jupiter where Lucius joined the First Cohort.
The Nico di Angelo Adventures[]
The Court of the Dead[]
On Nico and Will's second night at Camp Jupiter, Lucius, accompanied by a friend, throws an apple at Johan. Furious, Nico scares them both off.
The next day, taking advantage of Johan's polite nature, Lucius tries to pull a prank on the blemmyae using a dodecahedron, only for it to backfire and Lucius to get trapped by his own prank. While tempted to leave Lucius as he is, Nico frees him and warns the kid to let his centurions know what he did because Nico will be telling the praetors soon enough. Nico expresses confidence that Lucius is so scared that he won't try anything else.
A few days later, after three of the mythics are abducted from Camp Jupiter by an unknown intruder, Lucius stands with the First Cohort centurion Terrence and Johan as Terrence gives a rallying speech to the cohort to protect the remaining mythics. To Nico's surprise, Lucius stands with his hand on the blemmyae's shoulder/forehead, nodding along like he's acting as a character witness for Johan. Once Terrence is done speaking, Lucius pledges his life to protect the blemmyae, causing the entire cohort to cheer in agreement.
Lucius is chosen to be a part of the strike team to rescue Hazel and the mythics from Golden Gate Park along with Nico, Will, Frank, Deion, Yazan, Lavinia Asimov, Orcus, Johan, and Semele. Savannah, Yazan and Deion are chosen because they worked with the Coco Puffs before while Lucius has become Johan's self-appointed bodyguard. The team is each paired up with one of the Coco Puffs to be able to see through the Mist better. Before Nico gets the creatures under control using chocolate, the team attempts to capture them with butterfly nets.
On the ride to Golden Gate Park, as Lucius is paired up with Guilt, he apologizes profusely. During the Battle of Golden Gate Park, Lucius, the other legionaries and Will form a circle around Dolus and Apate to buy Hazel and Nico time to free the two trapped gods from the Chains of Prometheus. After being freed, the two gods go overboard on the Mist, but Will is able to get Frank and Yazan reunited with their Coco Puffs who then help reunite the others.
Following Pirithous' defeat, Lavinia and Lucius dance to Cotton Eye Joe. Will provides everyone with chocolate and the group debates what to do with Pirithous who wants to be punished, but Will, Hazel and Deion agree that enough has been done to him and it would be like killing an injured animal. The debate is interrupted by the arrival of Hecate and Deion has to be shushed by Savannah due to his commenting that Hecate is a goddess that he actually recognizes. Hecate returns Pirithous to his punishment in the Underworld while making him think that it's actually a reward and erases the memories of the mortals who witnessed the battle.
Before Nico and Will return to Camp Half-Blood, Johan tells them that he and Lucius went back to the park while Nico and Will were asleep and retrieved the dodecahedrons so that they don't fall into the wrong hands. Lucius is actually very nice, although he doesn't know much about tea which Johan intends to work on.
Personality[]
Similar to his Greek half-siblings from Hermes' Cabin, Lucius is a prankster, although he can be more malicious about it. After being reprimanded for his actions towards Johan, Lucius experiences a change of heart and befriends the blemmyae, even appointing himself as Johan's bodyguard. Johan later tells Nico and Will that Lucius is actually very nice, but he doesn't know much about tea.
Relationships[]
Friends[]
Johan[]
At first, Lucius is cruel to the blemmyae, bullying him and taking advantage of Johan's polite nature to play malicious pranks on him.
After getting in trouble for his actions, Lucius befriends Johan, pledging his life to protect his new friend and rallying the First Cohort to do the same. While holding Guilt the Coco Puff, Lucius apologizes profusely for his actions due to the guilt that he feels over them. The two continue their friendship after the threat is over with Johan planning to teach Lucius about tea.