Thalia Grace

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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 twelve 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 Athena gave her a bracelet that turns into Aegis, a shield with the Medusa's head carved into it.

Personality

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 is always listening to rock bands and is into the punk style.

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, 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 has acrophobia, she has yet to test them.
Thalia has always beat Luke in battle.
Thalia became one of Artemis's hunters in the end of The Titan's Curse, and as a result is immortal.

Weapons

A decoy copy of Aegis that expands from a metal bracelet that she wears on her wrist, which many of the campers cower in front of.

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. In this book it says that Thalia has Green eyes, but in The Sea Of Monsters it says she has blue eyes.

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 baby 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 and returns in the 5 book.

The Last Olympian

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

Fatal Flaw

It is unknown, but is implied that she has a weak resistance when she is offered power. Another, while not a fatal flaw is shown in the third book she has acrophobia.