Piper McLean Demi-God

Dad, just listen for once. Don't make me wait for you to ask your stupid three questions. I want to go to regular school. I want you to take me to parents' night, not Jane. Or homeschool me! I learned so much when we read about Greece together. We could do that all the time! We could-

- Piper to her father Tristan.

Piper McLean is the demigod daughter of Aphrodite (the Greek Goddess of Beauty and Love) and the actor Tristan McLean, the counselor of Cabin 10 at Camp Half-Blood, the girlfriend of Jason Grace and one of the main characters of the 2010-2014 Greco-Roman book series The Heroes of Olympus.

Personality :

Piper McLean is a calm, but rebellious spirit. Always loyal and protective of her friends. She is not afraid to stand up for her family and friends.

Compared to the other children of Aphrodite, Piper is much more aggressive and down to earth and is also somewhat tomboyish, not constantly focused on herself or her looks. She has a funny sense of humor, and laid-back most of the time. When claimed by Aphrodite, she complains that she can't get rid of her makeup or her new hairstyle and finds it to be annoying to say the least. Before she was claimed by Aphrodite, Piper expressed that she wanted to be the daughter of Athena, Hecate or any goddess that wasn't Aphrodite, and she also thought Aphrodite cabin had been a "life-sized dollhouse" where supermodels went to die, and when she was claimed, she didn't fit in at all, and still doesn't. Rachel, the Oracle of Delphi, thinks even Annabeth wants Piper to be a child of Athena. Aphrodite herself also said that she was much smarter than most of her other children. Piper hates make-up, skirts, magazines, dresses and popular girls. She said that if she started a craving for fashion magazines, she would complain to her mother. She also has no care of her looks at all.

Appearance :

In The Lost Hero, Piper was first described to be a very beautiful girl of Native American (Cherokee) descent, with chocolate-brown hair that was cut choppy and unevenly, and had thin strands braided down on the sides. Her eyes seemed to change color like a kaleidoscope, going from brown to blue to green, and she was dressed in a fleece snowboarding jacket, faded jeans, and hiking boots. Though she wore no makeup, and she had facial imperfections (such as pimples, namely one at the base of her nose, which had been there for some time), she was still so beautiful that she drew attention even when trying not to.

After Piper was claimed and subsequently blessed by Aphrodite, she temporarily became the most gorgeous girl in Camp Half-Blood: her hair turned lush and long, braided with gold ribbons down one side so it fell across her shoulder, and she wore perfect makeup that made her lips cherry-red and brought out all the different colors in her eyes. Her skin also became perfect, she was adorned in a beautiful, sleeveless, ankle-length white gown with an embarrassingly low V-neck, and her biceps were circled by delicate gold armbands, while an intricate necklace of amber, coral, and gold flowers glittered on her chest. Her pimple also disappeared too. However, Piper still preferred her old look. Jason Grace even exclaimed that she was "beautiful" and "a knockout" in front of the whole camp, and though Aphrodite's blessing faded later on, he thought that she looked more beautiful without makeup and her hair back in its old choppy style, and it seemed that her facial imperfections had still permanently vanished.

In The Blood of Olympus, when Piper used her charmspeak to its full potential, Leo observed that her smile was "so warm it would've melted the Boreads".

However, despite her stunning beauty and her parentage, Piper is described as having a relatively simple, tomboyish style most of the time.

Abilities:

As one of the seven, Piper is definitely an extremely powerful demigod whose powers develop rapidly throughout the series.

1. ADHD: Like most demigods, Piper possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that she uses to analyze the fighting style of her opponent.
2. Dyslexia: Piper's brain is hard-wired for reading Ancient Greek instead of modern languages.
3. Fighting Skills: As shown in The Lost Hero, despite her lack of any real training, Piper was already a decent knife-fighter, being able to defeat dozens of monsters though she charmspoke them first, and in The House of Hades, she started to learn how to fight with a sword under Hazel and started improving rapidly. By The Blood of Olympus, Piper's skills had improved to the point that she single-handedly defeated an entire flock of "demon chicken ladies" while on guard duty, which implies that she is a prodigious swordswoman. During the final battle with the Giants, Piper also held her own against the Giantess, Periboia, in an intense fencing duel, and ultimately defeated her with Aphrodite's help.
4. Knowledge of Greek Mythology: As seen in The Lost Hero, through her previous research on the subject for a movie role her father played, Piper had an extensive knowledge of Greek mythology allowing her to know ways to defeat different ancient Greek characters.
5. Singing: While Piper's father had always told her that she had a good singing voice, she was too self-conscious and shy about ever singing in front of anyone, not even participating in campfire sing-alongs. However, when Piper finally did sing in front of her friends and Kekrops in The Blood of Olympus, her words "filled the mess hall", greatly impressing Jason and Leo. Piper could also weave Charmspeak into her singing.
6. Superhuman Strength: As a demigod, Piper possessed physical strength greater than an average human's - she easily threw a fifty-pound shield at Medea, making the latter topple on a table full of potions.
7. Superhuman Agility: As a demigod, Piper is more agile than the average mortal - she was able to weave herself through a thick group of Giants to haul herself up to Achelous' neck.
8. Superhuman Durability: As a demigod, Piper is more durable than a regular human being, as shown by how she only suffered a broken ankle when she fell dozens of feet from the sky.
9. Superhuman Reflexes: As a demigod, Piper's reflexes are greater than the average mortal, as shown by her being able to dodge an axe thrown by the Giant, Mimas, even when she did not see it.
10. Willpower: As shown in The Lost Hero, Piper possessed tremendous willpower that enabled her to effectively resist charmspeak from both Drew and Medea who were both powerful charmspeakers.
11. Amokinesis: As a daughter of Aphrodite, Piper has a level of control over the emotions of love, lust, etc., but on a much smaller scale than her mother. As seen in The House of Hades, she was able to use the power of love to melt Khione's ice and permanently start up Festus.
12. Emotion Reading: As a daughter of Aphrodite, Piper is extremely good at reading people's emotions. In The Lost Hero, even without really knowing how she did it, she was able to translate the expressions on Annabeth's and Chiron's faces into a real conversation by just reading them even though she didn't know them very well yet.
13. Charmspeak: Piper has the power of charmspeak, which allowed her to influence others with enhanced vocal persuasiveness. At first, this ability was described to be unreliable and tiring but after the encounter with Khione in The House of Hades, this ability gradually became increasingly powerful as the series progressed, to the extent where it could even affect certain deities even though some others were completely resistant to her charmspeak. As of the The House of Hades, Piper's skills in charmspeaking had evolved to the point where she was even able to awaken Festus after finally understanding her abilities. In The Blood of Olympus, she used her charmspeak to make a fully-powered Gaea herself fall back to her slumber, though she stated that it would not have lasted long.
14. Beauty: Regardless of how she looked and what she wore, Piper was able to radiate beauty, which sometimes prevented enemies from willingly attacking her even as she charged them head-on. She could also attract the opposite sex when she walked by, and she might have the ability to change her physical features - Jason once mentioned that her eyes "constantly change color, like a kaleidoscope going from brown to blue to green a bit like Aphrodite."
15. French fluency: As a child of Aphrodite, Piper is noted in The Lost Hero to be able to speak French fluently due to it being the "language of love."

Weapons/Items :

1. Katoptris: Piper is the wielder of an Ancient Greek ceremonial dagger called Katoptris. It was given to Helen of Troy as a wedding gift from Menelaus, Helen's first husband. The dagger seems to show a scene of something that has importance to whoever looks at their reflection in the blade (for example it showed her dad captured by giants in The Lost Hero). Katoptris is a Greek word meaning "looking glass." In The Blood of Olympus, after Gaea and the Giants' defeat, the dagger's visions have stopped completely, and Piper subsequently locks it in her hope chest in Aphrodite's Cabin.
2. Horn of Plenty: In The Mark of Athena, Piper receives the Horn of Plenty after cutting off the horn of the River god Achelous. It allows her summon food and water if she has enough will and concentration. It powers also seem to increase if multiple people focus at the same time. In The Blood of Olympus, her Horn is sacrificed to Deimos and Phobos, the twin gods of fear and terror.
3. Sword: In The House of Hades, Piper also picks up Zethes’s sword after he was defeated, and Hazel starts to teach her how to use it. But it was lost in The Blood of Olympus
4. Blowgun: During their journey for The Oracle of Erythaea, Piper uses a blowgun given to her by her grandfather. It was destined during her fight with Medea.

How does Piper end up naked ?