Percy Jackson

Background

Full Name: Perseus "Percy" Jackson

Powers & Abilities

• Demigod Physiology: As a son of Poseidon, Percy is an extremely powerful individual and one of the most powerful demigods in the series. The only other demigods whose powers rival his are Thalia Grace, Nico di Angelo and Jason Grace. He has fought and defeated many monsters probably more than any other demigod in the series, including other demigods, gods, and Titans. On more than one occasion, Percy has contributed to the salvation of Olympus and the world as a whole. Nico later states in The Mark of Athena that Percy is the most powerful demigod that he has ever met which includes the other members of the Seven who are all extremely powerful in their own right such as Frank Zhang and Jason Grace, the latter of whom is depicted as being nearly equal with Percy in terms of sheer power. In The Chalice of the Gods, it's mentioned that Percy mostly has full control over his powers, but they can get away from him in moments of rage. Percy's display of power in one of these moments is enough to frighten a river god to tears.
  • ADHD: Percy's supernatural alertness and keen senses that keep him ready for, and alive, in battle. It also lets him analyze his opponents fighting style as well as pick up minor details about an opponent, such as where their muscles tense so he can tell which direction they will attack from.
  • Dyslexia: Percy's brain is "hard-wired" for reading divine Ancient Greek instead of mortal languages.
  • Dreams: Like most demigods, Percy had dreams that showed him events occurring in the past, present, and future. However, due to his father's unpredictable nature and raw power, Percy's dreams are a lot more potent than those of other demigods. He has managed to view the dealings of fellow demigods like Luke and Hercules; gods such as Hades; and ancient beings like Kronos himself, something Luke proclaimed was impossible.
  • Superhuman Durability: Being a demigod son of one of the Big Three, Percy is more durable than regular humans and fellow demigods. He shook off a hard kick in the chest from Ares, speedily recovered from a dodgeball thrown by a Laistrygonian Giant, brushed off from a whack in the chest by a giant, shook off hard hits from the Titan Atlas, and withstood a hard blow from Kronos without the Curse of Achilles.
  • Superhuman Strength: Being a demigod son of one of the Big Three, Percy is considerably stronger than a regular mortal and demigod. He can strangle a snake when he was a toddler, rip out the Minotaur's horn, topple a seemingly insurmountably strong Polyphemus, snap Clarisse's second electric spear "like a twig", knock out demigods with one hit, and force the tip of Porphyrion's spear into the ground while the giant was running, causing the giant's own momentum to flip himself over. He had even held on a ledge, while supporting Annabeth's and his own weight with just his fingers, without much discomfort. While he does admit that he's strong in his own right, he's still not exactly super strong as he always struggled wrestling Clarisse and was unable to overcome Geras with brute force alone.
  • Superhuman Reflexes: Being a demigod son of one of the Big Three, Percy's reflexes are faster than a regular human. He was able to cut a volley of arrows in half in The Sea of Monsters and deflect a bullet that can travel 1,700 miles per hour in The Titan's Curse, even though he could barely see the bullet.
  • Superhuman Agility: Being a demigod son of one of the Big Three, Percy is more agile than a regular mortal. He was able to leap on the huge Minotaur neck, dodge several slashes from Ares, and climb up to Anteaus' head in a matter of seconds.
  • Latin: Although a Greek demigod, Percy has shown at least a limited affinity for Latin, a language that is more closely affiliated with the Romans. At Yancy Academy, it was stated to be his best subject, although this was at least partially due to him having Chiron as a teacher. In The Lightning Thief, while fighting the Furies on the bus, Percy instinctively cursed them out in Latin and afterwards he wasn't even sure of where it came from. Percy's affinity for the language may have helped him out during Percy's time at Camp Jupiter in The Son of Neptune where he learned to understand and possibly speak Latin.
  • Egyptian Magic Resistance: As a demigod, Percy was shown to be resistant (but not immune) to most forms of Egyptian magic. As shown in the Demigods & Magicians crossover, during his fight with Carter Kane, the latter tried to cast a spell on Percy, but he was merely staggered and the spell "flashed and crackled around him as if it didn't know what to do with him".
  • Hydrokinesis: Percy can control great volumes of water to a very high degree, lifting 10,000 gallons of water in The Demigod Files. He can dry himself and items (such as a lighter) underwater as long as he holds onto it, extract water from petrified seashells, create oxygen bubbles underwater for people who cannot breathe underwater, propel himself through water, summon waves that can easily sink ships, as well as control water in order to make it explode or use it to grab something. Percy's skill allowed him to temporarily contend with Ares even while he was unfamiliar with his powers. However, he has a harder time controlling the rivers of the Underworld, particularly while in a weakened state. In The Demigod Files, he managed to lift the River Lethe, but as he was weakened from a Keres' claw, he struggled with it. He also struggled with the River Cocytus after falling into it in The House of Hades due to the negative effect it had on his mind. In a moment of rage, Percy causes Elisson's river to explode outwards away from him in every direction. Percy had reached outward to the source of the river deep down in the Underworld or maybe Yonkers and pulled it up by its roots. As a result, millions of metric tons of water roar through the cavern, flood the pool, scour the cliffs, surge over the riverbanks and probably surprise a whole bunch of snakes bathing downstream before flooding back in around Percy. However, Percy inadvertently cleans the river and its surroundings in the process to the point that the river god didn't even know he had so much water pressure before.
    • Water Solidification: Percy can harden water into an almost solid shape by increasing the surface tension of the water. He can use this power to walk on water and create a strong water shield, and on two instances in The Son of Neptune, he hardened the water into giant hands that followed and imitated the movements of his own hands.
    • Hydrogenesis: Percy can create water from his own power by summoning the "force of the ocean" inside of him as long as he concentrates hard enough, though it takes much of his energy for him to do so. He learned this ability from a Naiad. At Mount Saint Helens, he created water to cause a volcanic eruption, which was powerful enough to cause half a million people to evacuate and cause ash to fall as far as Lake Tahoe and Vancouver. He later used this skill while creating his own personal hurricanes in the Battle of Manhattan. While traveling on the Argo II during The Mark of Athena, he presumably used this ability while combining his powers with Jason's to create powerful storms.
    • Water Empowerment: When in contact with or in the presence of water, Percy gains a disproportionate amount of superhuman clarity, strength, speed, agility, and endurance. While in this state, he was strong enough to snap Clarisse's electric spear "like a twig", effortlessly defeated four children of Ares (including Clarisse) in rapid succession with ease, and shear off a portion of Luke's shield. However, this only lasts for a limited amount of time unless he is completely submerged in water. In The Crown of Ptolemy, falling into the ocean combined with his abilities from Nekhbet empowered him to defeat Setne who previously had the upper hand against Percy.
    • Water Immunity: If he falls from great heights into water, Percy will be unaffected by any amount of water pressure. He doesn't get wet if submerged in water unless he wants to. Additionally, Percy can breathe underwater for unlimited amounts of time and see in the darkness underwater. He is only unable to breathe in the River Styx. While in a weakened state in The Demigod Files, Percy had to actively concentrate to use this power underwater in the River Lethe, either because of his injuries, the river's innate power or both. Percy notes that the small effort of staying dry - something that he had done countless times in normal water - was almost more than he could handle. Later, while grappling with Iapetus, Percy remained dry when he pulled the Titan into the river, possibly aided by Poseidon as Percy prayed to his father that his protection would hold as he pulled Iapetus in. At the same time, the current, which should've ripped the Titan out of Percy's hands, channeled around them, leaving both Percy and Iapetus alone.
    • Toxikinesis: Percy can control poisons and other liquids to a certain degree as they have water content in them. His most popular display of this ability was in Tartarus, where he was able to bend poison that was used against him by Akhlys. In The Son of Neptune, the giant Polybotes launches water turned to poison at Percy, only for him to "deflect it with his will." In The Blood of Olympus, Percy and Jason are in battle with Kymopoleia when the giant Polybotes suffocates Percy with a poison. After the fight, Percy confesses to Jason that he didn't control the poison because he feared his own power, reflecting back on his unusually aggressive state when he manipulated poison in Tartarus.
    • Cryokinesis: Percy can use cryokinesis to a small degree. He can manipulate frozen or icy water around him, as shown during his interrupted fight with Thalia in The Titan's Curse.
    • Vitakinesis: Percy can heal most wounds and cure most poisons when in contact with water, the amount of water and time needed for the healing being proportionate to the severity of the wound. However, this is limited as he couldn't cure Pit Scorpion venom and nearly died from it.
    • Heat Immunity: Percy has a higher than normal resistance to heat burns, due to his father's nature. In The Lightning Thief, he managed not to drop his sword when Alecto wrapped her fiery whip around his wrist. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, he was able to survive being engulfed by lava thrown by the telekhines (though it began to get more painful the longer he was in contact with it) and not being killed by the super-heated steam from the Mount Saint Helens' eruption.
  • Watercraft Manipulation: Percy possesses an intimate awareness of any ship he is on (sailing ships, canoes, motorboats, possibly submarines) and can telekinetically operate one, although he has so far only shown control over sailing vessels and similar boats. Percy discovers this power when he is able to control the Queen Anne's Revenge in The Sea of Monsters. Later, in The Son of Neptune, even while amnesic he is able to control the Roman rowboat Pax in this manner, displaying a few new aspects to the ability including magically cleaning the boat by commanding a piece of steel wool similar to how he can command a ship's rigging and sails. By the end of the journey, Percy's willpower is the only thing keeping the boat together and it eventually falls apart after they abandon ship. In The Mark of Athena, Percy is able to control the Argo II, releasing the dock ties, weighing the anchor and unfurling the sails as Annabeth fires the engine.
    • Perfect Bearings: Percy always know his exact nautical coordinates wherever he is, which allow him to easily navigate his way at sea.
    • Instinctive Understanding of Sailing: In The Sea of Monsters, Percy discovers that he has an instinctive understanding of sailing while controlling the Queen Anne's Revenge, letting him know which ropes to hoist, which sails to raise and which direction to steer. He could even detect that they are moving at about ten knots and understand just how fast that is.
  • Atmokinesis: Percy has limited control over weather. He can summon storms, such as miniature hurricanes. With his Curse of Achilles, his hurricanes were powerful enough to extinguish the fires on Hyperion's body and leave the powerful Titan vulnerable to attack. However, Percy's control is limited and his power drains him over time. By the events of The Son of Sobek he is able to sustain the storm to knock a giant crocodile off its footing with less effort than his first use of the skill, although it still drains him over time.
    • Aerokinesis: Percy has limited control over the wind. He can summon strong winds, which allow him to create miniature hurricanes.
  • Geokinesis: Percy has utilized water to alter the earth around him. However, in Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes, Percy admits that he did not inherit his father's earthshaking abilities.
  • Communication: Percy has divine authority over his father's subjects. He can talk (normally and telepathically) to equines and sea creatures who mainly treat him with deference and lordly respect. He can also speak to other children of Poseidon underwater as seen in The Sea of Monsters, in a conversation with Tyson. In The Mark of Athena, when Frank Zhang shapeshifts into a koi, Percy is also able to communicate with him in this fashion.
    • Zoolingualism: Percy can understand and talk to marine animals, equines and similar creatures, who mainly treat him with deference and lordly respect.
  • Curse of Achilles: After bathing in the River Styx, Percy was given supernaturally superior speed, strength, and invulnerability except for his vital spot opposite of the navel. With the Curse of Achilles, his combat skills are enhanced to the point where he can single-handedly tear through entire armies, gods like Hades, and Titans like Hyperion (albeit he had some help in defeating Hyperion). He held his own against Kronos for a rather long period of time, though the Titan Lord was only on a fraction of his full power. Percy later loses the Curse by touching the Tiber River as it was a Greek blessing and he couldn't enter Roman territory with the curse.
  • Eye of Horus Symbol: Percy has an image of the Eye of Horus drawn on his palm, which can allow him to summon Carter Kane wherever he is just by speaking his name, though Percy can use it only once. He used this to get Carter and Sadie to Governors Island to help him and Annabeth face off against Setne.
  • Empathy Link: Percy has a psychic connection with Grover. This connection allows them to talk each other in dreams as seen in The Sea of Monsters and tell when they are close by, which was why Percy was able to summon Grover to his side in The Titan's Curse. If one dies, the other might die as well. However, they may just go into a vegetative state.
  • Mist Control: Though he can indeed control the Mist, Percy isn't an expert and his power over the Mist is inferior compared to those of children of Hecate and Hazel. Chiron told Percy he would teach him how to manipulate the Mist in The Lightning Thief, but still hadn't by the time of The Titan's Curse. Percy once tried to manipulate the Mist after he watched Thalia do it. However, the mortal he tried it on could see through the Mist. Years later in Percy Jackson and the Singer of Apollo, Percy managed to make a police officer look at an imaginary line of limos to distract him.

• Eye of Nekhbet Abilities: In The Crown of Ptolemy, Percy temporarily hosted the goddess Nekhbet and gained several abilities while doing so. He lost those abilities when Nekhbet left him.
  • Superhuman Strength: The kopis Percy was wielding felt heavy in his hand except while he was hosting Nekhbet.
  • Vulture Avatar: Percy could summon a giant glowing purple vulture around himself. He used the avatar to fly and to hold onto Setne while flying. The avatar was also able to protect Percy from Setne's attacks.
  • Surveillance Magic: Percy was able to see into the Duat with Nekhbet's "super vulture senses". This allowed him to see magical auras and allowed him to see what Setne was doing to the Duat. However, while Carter was wearing Annabeth's Yankees Cap, Percy couldn't detect him.
• Swordsmanship: Percy is a naturally talented swordsman. His skills continue to grow as time passes, capable of holding his own against and defeating larger, more experienced, and more powerful opponents, including several monsters and Ares, although he had underestimated Percy. In The Lightning Thief, he was able to disarm Luke, the most skilled swordsman at Camp Half-Blood for the last three hundred years, in a swordsmanship class with a complex maneuver he just learned. In The Sea of Monsters, even when Percy had only trained for a year at the time, he was already regarded by other campers to be better than any other camper in Camp Half-Blood at swordplay in the last 100 years, with many comparing him to Luke. At this point, Percy sparred against entire cabins at a time, and rather easily beat the guys from the Apollo Cabin. Despite being out of practice when he fought Luke, Percy was briefly able to fight him off, but was overpowered rather easily. He repeatedly injured the giant cyclops Polyphemus until he was laying on his back. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy was skilled enough to defeat Ethan Nakamura and beat a recently awakened Kronos without the Curse of Achilles. In The Son of Neptune, even after losing the Curse of Achilles, he fended off an entire army of continually resurrecting ghosts by himself while still protecting Frank and the golden eagle of the legion, as well as easily defeated an Amazon. According to Frank, Percy "fought like a demon." When possessed by eidolons, Percy fought Jason on even footing (Piper couldn't believe the speed of their sword fighting which she described as a 'blur', as they exchanged multiple blows that lasted only a second). It should be noted that Jason was distracted by Piper's charmspeak twice, which allowed the possessed Percy to eventually exploit the opening in Jason's defense. In The Son of Sobek, Carter admitted that Percy was a way better swordsman than he was even with Carter's specialty being combat magic. The only people shown to be his superior are Luke (who was possessed by Kronos at the time) and his half-brother Chrysaor.
• Wit: Although Annabeth makes most of the plans when they are together, Percy is quite intelligent in his own right. He skillfully capitalizes on his surroundings and his opponent's weaknesses when he cannot overwhelm them directly. This has been shown numerous times, such as when he tricked Procrustes into his own technique and Ares into walking into a pressurized tide in The Lightning Thief, when he tricked Luke into revealing the fact that Chiron was framed for the poisoning, when he choked the Nemean Lion on space food so that Zoë and Bianca could shoot the inside of its mouth or when he tricked Nereus into jumping into the water where Percy could overpower him in The Titan Curse, when he tricked Antaeus into jumping into chain, depriving him of his mother's rejuvenating touch in The Battle of the Labyrinth, and when he outsmarted Chrysaor, by utilizing his crew's fear of Dionysus to his advantage in The Mark of Athena.
• Archery: As shown in The Lightning Thief, The Battle of the Labyrinth, and The Demigod Files, Percy is horrible at archery. However, he has improved, as it is shown on his report card that "he has stopped shooting his own teammates."
• Intimidation: During his training with Lupa, Percy mastered the "Wolf Stare" that says "No matter how bad you think you are, I'm worse," which is so intimidating it allows him to scare off gangsters.
• Will Power: Percy is shown to have great willpower as he held up the weight of the sky for a long period time and endured the sufferings of Tartarus.
• Leadership: Percy has great leadership abilities which is noted multiple times in the series by many different characters with Percy showing himself to be a natural leader from a young age. Most notably, Percy led the demigod forces to victory in the Battle of Manhattan against the Titan Army. In The Son of Sobek, after witnessing Percy give orders to some mortal kids just minutes after they met, Carter Kane is able to tell that Percy has experience rallying outnumbered troops. The impressed Carter notes that Percy sounds a bit like Horus - a natural commander.

Equipment

• Riptide: A Celestial Bronze sword called Anaklusmos. It is usually kept as a ballpoint pen when not in use and will always return to the user's pocket. When uncapped, it becomes a 3 foot tall double-edged sword and causes the fear of most monsters around it. When combined with Percy's hydrokinetic powers and Curse of Achilles, Riptide became an "arc of pure destruction." It was given to Percy by Chiron to fight monsters. It used to be the weapon of Hercules, who got it from Zoë Nightshade.
• Minotaur's Horn: Percy obtained this as a spoil of war when he killed the Minotaur in The Lightning Thief. As one of his few possessions when he first arrived a Camp Half-Blood, the horn became a prized trophy and Percy eventually hung it on the wall of Poseidon's Cabin after being claimed by the god where it remains. In The Last Olympian, Percy chooses not to claim the two horns that he'd cut off of the reformed Minotaur and lets them presumably fall off of the Williamsburg Bridge when it collapses.
• Winged Shoes: Whose wings spring out when the wearer says "Maia". They were supposed to be a trap from Luke, as the shoes dragged the user into the pits of Tartarus due to Kronos dragging them in. The shoes were given to Percy by Luke. Percy later gave them to Grover. In the film, he used them to retrieve a pearl.
• Annabeth's Yankees Cap: Annabeth's magical cap that allows the wearer to turn invisible. Annabeth briefly lends it to Percy in The Lightning Thief in an attempt to avoid the Furies. In The Titan's Curse, after Annabeth is abducted, Percy recovers the cap and uses it throughout the Quest for Artemis, eventually returning it to Annabeth after her rescue. In The Chalice of the Gods, Annabeth lends it to Percy to sneak into Zeus's Palace to return Ganymede's Chalice.
• Medusa's Head: Percy's second spoil of war collected in The Lightning Thief after he killed Medusa. Percy chooses to send it to the gods on Mount Olympus, but Poseidon later returns it to him. After Sally Jackson uses the head to turn her abusive husband Gabe Ugliano into a statue that she sells as The Poker Player, she disposes of it somehow.
• Poseidon's Pearls: Can transport a person to the sea when smashed. They were given to Percy by a Nereid.
• Master Bolt: Thanks to Ares and Kronos, Percy temporarily has possession of Zeus' Master Bolt in The Lightning Thief before returning it to the god.
• Tyson's Javelin: A light special javelin created by Tyson that Percy uses in the Chariot Races. It has buttons to decide if it would explode on impact, make a blunt spearhead, and active a grappling hook.
• Chameleon Armor: The armor that Percy uses in of Capture the Flag in The Bronze Dragon. It only works from a distance.
• Hermes' Multivitamins: Can make the person who eats them to be immune to nearly any attack. Annabeth used them in The Sea of Monsters to turn Percy back into a human after Circe turned him into a guinea pig.
• Thermos of Winds: It was given to Percy by Hermes. It was used by Percy and Annabeth in The Sea of Monsters to escape the Princess Andromeda and Charybdis.
• Golden Fleece: Percy obtained it from his fight with Polyphemus. He first used the Fleece to heal a wounded Annabeth and then to save Thalia's tree at Camp Half-Blood.
• Wristwatch Shield: A wristwatch that turns into a shield. It was inscribed with the images of the events of The Sea of Monsters, including Percy fighting the bronze bulls, Annabeth killing the Laistrygonian, Tyson riding Rainbow the hippocampus and battling the Hydra whilst holding a box of doughnuts. It was given to Percy by Tyson. It was badly dented by Dr. Thorn in The Titan's Curse, but Tyson came back and fixed it at the beginning of The Battle of the Labyrinth. The shield was lost later in The Battle of the Labyrinth when it was thrown at Kampê.
• Nemean Lion's Pelt: Percy it obtained after he planned the Nemean Lion's death. He sacrificed the pelt to Poseidon in The Titan's Curse.
• Stygian Ice Whistle: A special dog whistle made of Stygian ice cooled in the River Styx. It was given to Percy by Quintus to summon Mrs. O'Leary and was shattered after it was once blown. Percy used the whistle when his friends were having trouble fighting an army of monsters in The Battle of the Labyrinth.
• Daedalus' Wings: They were stolen in a skirmish in the center of the Labyrinth. Percy later threw the wings in a trash, as they were too damaged for further use.
• Moonlace: A flower that grows in the moonlight. It was given to Percy by Calypso. He planted it in a trough at his apartment to remember her.
• Sand Dollar: A Sand Dollar that was given Percy him for his 15th birthday by his father. He split it in half, giving one half to the Hudson River and the other half to the East River gods to stop Kronos' forces on boats in The Last Olympian.
• Travel Rose: A special rose that returns a person to the world of the living. Percy used it in The Sword of Hades after having returned Hades' sword.
• Pandora's Pithos: It was given to Percy by Prometheus to open it and give up hope. Percy later gave the Pithos to Hestia to look after it because "hope survives best at the hearth."
• Kopis: It was created when Percy took Carter Kane's wand and Percy wielded in battle against Setne in The Crown of Ptolemy. It was destroyed in the battle.
• Twelfth Legion's Eagle: Percy seized the Eagle from the undead army of the frozen Roman Camp on the Hubbard Glacier during The Son of Neptune. He later used it during the battle at Camp Jupiter, where he used its lightning to destroy hundreds of monsters before passing it to Dakota.
• Mercedes: In The Chalice of the Gods, Percy has possession of Iris' staff Mercedes for a brief period of time after agreeing to cleanse it for the goddess in exchange for her help. Percy manages to use the staff himself briefly to help Grover before returning to it to Iris.
• Ganymede's Chalice: Recovered by Percy in The Chalice of the Gods from Geras, the god of old age. After sneaking into Zeus's Palace and getting the cupbearer alone with the help of the kitchen staff and Athena, Percy returns the chalice to its rightful owner.