Thalia (Percy Jackson)

Infobox Percy Jackson character
name = Thalia


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first = "The Sea of Monsters", though referenced in "The Lightning Thief"
last = N/A
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nickname = Pinecone Face (by Percy)
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parent = Zeus
age = Only a few hours from turning 16 (as of "The Titan's Curse")
born = December 22, 1992
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allegiance = Camp Half-Blood and The Gods of Olympus, Artemis
hair = Black
eyes = Electric blue, although mentioned clearly in The Lightning Thief in Percy's dream as green.
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Zeus (father)

Apollo and Hercules and several male demigods (brothers)

Athena, Artemis, and several female demigoddesses (sisters). Unnamed Mother (deceased)

Hera (Step-mother)

Percy Jackson (cousin)Athena Selene(cousin)
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creator = Rick Riordan

Thalia is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's "Percy Jackson and the Olympians" series.

Character's background

Thalia is the daughter of Zeus. She is a child of one of the Big Three. Grover was meant to watch over her when she ran away from home at ten years old. On her journey, she met Luke and Annabeth. They also had a brief encounters with the Hunters of Artemis and she was enticed to join by Zoe Nightshade. When she was twelve, they were all soon attacked by a horde of monsters and caught by a Cyclops in New York. She was captured, but thanks to Annabeth, was freed. They escaped, but found that the monsters they had briefly escaped caught up to them. As they reached Half-Blood Hill, Thalia sent Luke, Grover, and Annabeth over the boundary line while she faced the monsters. She sacrificed her life for her friends, but her father, Zeus, took pity on her and turned her into a pine tree to preserve her, keeping the rest of the camp safe. At the end of The Sea of Monsters she was brought back to life by the golden fleece. Zeus has given her a spear which shoots electricity and turns into a small canister that fits in her pocket and a bracelet that turns into Aegis, a shield with the Medusa's head carved into it.

Personality

Thalia is brave, strong, and independent and has exceptional leadership qualities, probably from the fact that her father is Zeus- king of the gods. She is very courageous and is always putting the lives of people she cares for before her own. She is very loyal to her friends. She tends to be headstrong and stubborn at times but ironically she is sometimes unsure of herself, probably from the fact that she grew up with an unstable family. She is also very impulsive, which causes her to head into battle and jump into situations without thinking. Annabeth told Percy in The Sea of Monsters, "You and Thalia are so much alike it's scary. If she were alive, you guys would have been either best friends, or you would have strangled each other." As a result of their similarities, they both tend to argue and clash with one another and have a sort of rivalry where they try and outdo each other. (This could also be a result of their fathers' competitive and rocky relationship.) But even with the bickering they still manage to stay close friends and they get along well when they're not fighting. Thalia is a very skilled fighter and as she stated in The Titan's Curse, she could always beat Luke in combat, something Percy has never quite done. It is also mentioned throughout the series that she has a punk/skater sort of style. She's always listening to rock bands and is into the punk style. It is often implied that she has strong romantic feelings for Luke, and Luke does as well for her. Thalia was left brokenhearted and in the most emotional pain at Luke's apparent "death" and betrayal. Thalia is the daughter of Zeus Lord of the Sky, yet ironically she is afraid of heights. At the end of The Titan's Curse, she joins Artemis and the Hunters.

Powers and Abilities

* Thalia can send powerful amounts of static shock throughout another's body on contact.
* Thalia can 'manipulate the Mist' which means she can make things as she wants them to appear to the eyes of a mortal (taught to her by Chiron).
* Things that belong to her father, Zeus's, domain can do as she asks, such as statues of the angels in The Titan's Curse, which were gifts to her father. They, on her request, flew her and her friends to San Francisco when she asked them to.
* Thalia has ADHD like other half-bloods, which allows her heightened awareness in combat.
* Thalia has a strong leadership quality which is probably a result of being the daughter of Zeus.
* It is assumed that Thalia can also manipulate electricity and lightning due to Zeus, the god of lightning, being her father.
* Thalia has some control over air and the sky, being daughter of Zeus, Lord of the Sky. Since she's scared of heights, she has yet to test them.
*Thalia has always beat Luke in battle.
*Thalia can control weather such as wind, hail and rain.

Weapons

*A spear that shoots electricity that expands out of a Mace container.
*A decoy copy of Aegis that expands from a metal bracelet that she wears on her wrist.

In the books

"The Lightning Thief"

It was mentioned that Thalia was turned into a pine tree when she risked her life saving her friends atop of Half-Blood Hill, which guarded the boundary line for Camp Half-Blood.

"The Sea of Monsters"

Thalia appeared in Percy's dreams and she comes back to life to conclude the second book after Clarisse places the golden fleece on her tree, which is good and bad because it means that Thalia can also be the one of the prophecy and Kronos would take advantage of that.

"The Titan's Curse"

Thalia and Percy have some occasional fights at camp because their similar personalities tend to clash, and Thalia was sometimes called "Pinecone Face" by Percy, and in contrast she called him "Seaweed Brain" which Percy does not like because it is only okay when Annabeth calls him that. Thalia goes on the quest to find Artemis and rescue Annabeth, with Percy, Zoe Nightshade, Bianca di Angelo, and Grover. Together, they face the Titan General Atlas's army and make it to Mount Tamalpais. There, she fights her old friend Luke, and it seems that she has strong feelings for him, and they discover that Kronos used Thalia to return, to twist destiny into her hands, since she would be turning sixteen on the day following the Winter Solstice. She escaped this deadly path and turned to her half-sister, Artemis, who made her into a Hunter, which would stop her from being sixteen, because whoever becomes a Hunter becomes immortal, unless they shall die in battle, or break the oath by falling in love.

*Thalia's tree still remains standing on Half-Blood Hill with the Golden Fleece for energy, it is currently being guarded by a dragon.

"The Battle of the Labyrinth"

Thalia was absent from Camp Half-Blood this summer due to her adventures with Artemis and the Hunters, but she is mentioned once in the book.

"The Last Olympian"

Thalia and the Hunters are set to reappear in Book 5 in the series.

ee also

*Thalia for several characters from Greek mythology with the same name, although different stories.