Annabeth Chase

GENERAL INFO: Annabeth Chase is the Greek demigod daughter of Athena and Professor Frederick Chase. She is the deuteragonist in Percy Jackson and the Olympians series and is a main character in The Heroes of Olympus series, as she is one of the Seven demigods of the Prophecy of Seven. Annabeth is studying to be the architect of Olympus.

APPEARANCE: Annabeth is described to have tanned skin and a slender, athletic body. She has long honey-blond hair set in perfect princess curls, like Cinderella. Percy said that she "looked like a typical California girl, except that her stormy grey eyes ruined the image." As revealed in The Mark of Athena, she has a belly button despite not being born in the usual way. In the same novel, Aphrodite/Venus noted the beautiful young lady she's grown into.

Annabeth often wears a ponytail, an orange Camp Half-Blood t-shirt, and often wears her magical Yankee cap during fights, since it turns her invisible.

PERSONALITY: Like her mother, Annabeth is an intellectual genius, wise and very witty. Her eyes look calculating, like she is analyzing whoever she is looking at during a first meeting, as if "thinking of the best way to take the person down in a fight". She loves architecture and spends her free time designing new buildings or visiting national monuments. She has a soft side for those who seek knowledge. She sometimes gets too philosophical, which causes the less complicated Percy to glaze his eyes.

Annabeth is very strong-minded and stubborn, shown to be incredibly determined and daring. Much like Percy and Thalia, she has shown many signs of bravery, courage, and dauntlessness. One of her most impressive displays was in The Titan's Curse, where after holding the sky for hours and starting to die, she vehemently protested against Artemis for taking her burden. Even beings like Kronos acknowledged that she is very spirited and understood why Luke wanted to spare her from the destruction.

Though she is very kind-hearted, Annabeth can be very harsh and judgmental during first meetings, but she is very loyal to those who later win her approval. She isn't quick to give up on those she cares about: even after learning Luke was a traitor in The Lightning Thief, she never completely stops caring about him and quickly took the sky from him in The Titan's Curse to save him from death.

According to Sally Jackson, Annabeth is the most level-headed demigod she has ever met. She hardly ever shows her true feelings, often hiding worry or upsetness with raw or teasing anger. When she assumed that Percy was dead in The Battle of the Labyrinth, she said to the crowd "He was probably the bravest friend I ever had", but when he emerged and she figured out that he recuperated on Calypso's island, she said he was "the single most annoying person I've ever met!"

FATAL FLAW AND FEARS: Annabeth's fatal flaw is hubris, otherwise known as excessive pride: she thinks she can do anything and do it well, even building a world better than the gods. She believes that she could get her parents back together, build great monuments, and save Luke as shown in The Sea of Monsters. When Percy thinks that a world run by him would be terrible, Annabeth says he is lucky he doesn't have hubris, because she knows it is a really dangerous fatal flaw, which shows that she can recognize and acknowledges her mistakes.

Evidence of how her hubris can be a hindrance is seen during her confrontation with the Sphinx, where Annabeth was forced to answer several random questions from her. Despite answering all correctly, she notices that none of these questions are riddles, just random trivia, and demands a true challenge of her intelligence, though she knew that refusing to answer the riddles can result in her and her companions' losing their lives. Her actions effectively caused the Sphinx to attack them.

Like all other half-blood children of Athena, Annabeth has immense arachnophobia, freezing up just when she sees a spider or anything bearing a close resemblance to one. This fear is caused by Athena's bad history with Arachne, the mother of spiders who challenged Athena to see who could make the best tapestry. Both works were equal in beauty, but Athena couldn't stand the insult towards the Olympians, so she destroyed Arachne's tapestry and transformed her into a spider. Ever since then, Athena's children have been paranoid that every spider they see is out to get them - which is largely true as spiders are unusually aggressive to them. When she was young, the spiders would attack her at night and hide again when it was morning. Her stepmother would never believe her, thinking that the cobwebs were some sort of clever trick.

Annabeth was scared of Cyclopes because of an event in her childhood when Luke, Thalia, Grover, and herself were trapped by one when trying to make it to camp. The Cyclopes used Luke's voice for Thalia and Annabeth's voice for Luke. She states that when she found Luke, Thalia, and Grover, they were tied up and hanging from the ceiling. The Cyclopes used a variety of her friends' voice to try and lure her out into the open, using her father's voice when they finally located her. Annabeth says that she still has nightmares about the Cyclopes' voice and finds it very creepy when a Cyclops mimics another person's voice, such as when Tyson mimicked the voices he heard on the Princess Andromeda. Though not as scared of Cyclopes as she is of spiders, it still takes her most of The Sea of Monsters to be able to get close to Tyson, even though he was Percy's brother and helped her a lot throughout the book. However, she would later accept him along with other friendly Cyclopes.

Birth: Frederick Chase met Athena, the goddess of wisdom, battle, and craftsmanship, while he was studying History at Harvard. She helped him get through his studies; consequently, they fell in love. Shortly after, On July 12, Athena sent him their daughter, a girl named Annabeth Chase, as a gift. She was considered a "Brain child" like all other children of Athena, which means that they were born from the thoughts of the goddess.

Childhood: Annabeth appeared on Frederick's doorstep in a golden cradle carried down from Olympus by Zephyros (or "Zephyr"), the West Wind. Her father asked her mother to take her back to Olympus and raise her there, as he didn't see Annabeth as a gift the way Athena did because he didn't know their relationship would result in a child and wasn't prepared to take care of her. Athena refused and told Frederick that heroes were supposed to be raised by their mortal parents and not their godly ones. In the end, he had no choice but to reluctantly take Annabeth in and care for her as well as he could.

Annabeth took the last name of her father. When she was five, her father got married and had two sons with her step-mother. Since she was a demigod, Annabeth was a target for monsters which caused constant fighting between her and her parents, who felt that she was constantly putting everyone in danger.

As revealed in The Mark of Athena, Annabeth was assaulted by a flood of spiders sent by Arachne at night for three days. Her skin was freckled with bites and cobwebs covered her eyes, mouth, and nose. She would subsequently scream for her father, who was always away for work, so her stepmother would see her. Whenever her stepmother came into her bedroom, the spiders would hide, so her stepmother thought Annabeth was making it up to scare her stepbrothers and refused to call Frederick. By the time, she got dressed each morning, the marks of the painful bites inflicted on her had already faded, leaving the cobwebs, which didn't make for a convincing proof.

As a result, Annabeth ran away from home at the young age of seven, thinking her family hated her. She then fought monsters under the guidance of her immortal mother for a few months, using only a hammer.

A seven-year-old Annabeth was hiding under a sheet of corrugated iron in Richmond Ironworks, the same alley twelve-year-old Thalia Grace and fourteen-year-old Luke Castellan were hiding in once they escaped the house of monsters. After escaping, Thalia and Luke heard a noise coming from it and investigated the sound. After removing the sheet of iron, Annabeth ran toward Luke with her hammer and almost brained him with it, thinking he was a monster. Upon finding that Annabeth was a demigod, Luke and Thalia agreed that she could run away with them and Luke promised that he wouldn't let anything hurt her and they would become a better family than her old family, a promise he would break some years later. Luke gave Annabeth a bronze knife, which he got from Halcyon Green, so she would be able to protect herself with something better than a hammer for monster slaying.

Together, they went on the run, fighting monsters.