CLARISSE LA RUE

Clarisse is generally hot-tempered, arrogant, brave, and strong like most of her siblings. She is also known as a bully that dunks new campers' heads in toilets. Clarisse is very proud and defensive of her cabin and often defends the camp from monsters. Clarisse is a fierce and daring warrior, and is all too aware of this, taking extreme pride to the point of hubris in her own combat skills. Clarrisse is a child of Ares who was the camp consoler of Ares cabin but now has gone off to collage. Clarisse is generally hot-tempered, arrogant, brave, and strong like most of her siblings. She is also known as a bully that dunks new campers' heads in toilets. In The Battle of the Labyrinth Clarisse shows strong feelings for Chris Rodriguez and shows her kind and caring side to him, even before he becomes her boyfriend. Clarisse is very proud and defensive of her cabin and often defends the camp from monsters. She is also defensive and very protective of her good friend Silena Beauregard after she gave Clarisse some dating advice. Although never seen in a one-on-one duel with anyone in the series, Clarisse is a fierce and daring warrior, and is all too aware of this, taking extreme pride to the point of hubris in her own combat skills. Her anger toward Percy increased after he defeated her father. During The Last Olympian, she is angered by the camp for never respecting the Ares' Cabin. Her pride even prevented her from allowing her cabin from fighting in the war until Silena's intervention, mirroring Achilles preventing his army from fighting in the Trojan War. She is similar in that way to Achilles, in the sense that her pride sometimes gets in the way of her good sense. This also makes her extremely similar to her own father, Ares, in that they both value strength as a primary advantage - although, Clarisse does not only rely on strength, and is an extremely charismatic leader who even Percy recognizes to have inspirational bravery. Clarisse is described as having the height of a basketball player and the muscular body of a rugby player, making her the most physically adept female fighter at Camp Half-Blood. In The Last Olympian, she is described as being a foot taller than Michael Yew, who is 4'6", making her 5'6". She has dark "pig eyes," and pale brown hair that is described as stringy. Percy also described Clarisse, along with the rest of her siblings, as having the same vicious sneer as their father, Ares. After returning from her scouting mission in The Titan's Curse, she has a new scar on her chin and her long hair is cut short and ragged "like someone had attacked it with a pair of safety scissors." ADHD: Like most demigods, Clarisse possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that she uses to analyze the fighting style of her opponent. Dyslexia: Her brain is "hardwired" for Ancient Greek instead of modern languages. Fighting Skills: Clarisse has been trained in hand-to-hand combat during her stays at Camp Half-Blood. Clarisse is one of Camp Half-Blood's best warriors, demonstrated by her easily defeating Deimos in combat, and ultimately being able to quickly slay a Lydian Drakon alone and without armor in The Last Olympian, killing it with her spear (although it had been somewhat injured beforehand), a feat that impressed even Ares himself. Electric Spear: A gift from her father, Ares, it is a five-foot-long spear with a barbed metal tip that "[flickers] with red light." This "red light" is electricity that will electrocute Clarisse's target even if the spearhead is blocked by armor or a shield. Although it is normally used to stun or otherwise disable opponents, it will release lethal amounts of electricity if broken. It was destroyed by Percy in a game of Capture the Flag in The Lightning Thief. She later gets a replacement electric spear which she names Maimer (nicknamed Lamer by her cabin mates and the other campers behind her back) that was also destroyed when she used it to kill a Drakon in The Last Olympian. This too is replaced by a third spear between the events of The Last Olympian and The Lost Hero. Armor: Clarisse's armor was painted red (possibly to symbolize blood) and had a matching boar-shaped helmet along with it (presumably to display her status as leader of the Ares Cabin). Sword: After destroying her second electric spear to slay a Drakon, Clarisse temporarily wields a sword from one of her deceased siblings (presumably a brother) between the events of the Second Titan War in The Last Olympian and The Lost Hero. Knife: She carries a knife at her belt as a sidearm. Ares' War Chariot: The chariot that belongs to her father, which she may borrow from time to time. It can change form (motorcycle, tank, convertible, etc.). Additional Aid from Ares: She can pray to her father for aid—usually in the form of weapons or undead minions. She uses this to obtain an ironclad warship and a troop of skeleton Confederate soldiers, courtesy of her father, Ares, in The Sea of Monsters; both are destroyed by Charybdis on her quest for the Golden Fleece in the same book. Clarisse's mother lives around Phoenix, Arizona; somewhere close to an exit to the Labyrinth. In The Titan's Curse, Percy Jackson says that Clarisse had dirty blonde hair. Clarisse's first name is like Annabeth's first name - Annabeth is an anagram of Athena with extra letters and Clarisse is an anagram of Ares with extra letters being C, L, I and an extra S. Clarisse's weapon, Maimer, was destroyed in The Lightning Thief and her second one in The Last Olympian, yet in The Lost Hero, one camper comments on its inferiority to Jason's weapon. It is possible that after the first and second were destroyed, she acquired a third Maimer. Behind her back, many people call Clarisse's weapon (Maimer) Lamer. Clarisse's actions in The Last Olympian very much mirror the actions of Achilles in the Iliad. After not receiving what they thought they deserved, they refused to fight in the war. Then, a close friend stole their armour (Silena and Patroklos respectively) and lead their forces into battle, before being killed by the enemy (the drakon and Hector of Troy respectively). This leads each of them to go into a blind rage, rejoin the war, and kill the being responsible for the death of their friend. Clarisse is one of the characters in either series to have Ares' Blessing, the other being Frank Zhang, who attained the Blessing of Mars. Clarisse somewhat resembles Gunilla from the book, The Sword of Summer. Clarisse's age is unknown. However given that she is attending college in The Hidden Oracle, it can be assumed that the daughter of Ares is at least eighteen. Nico says that most kids couldn't touch Clarisse, with the exception of Will Solace.