30 Facts About Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson is played by Logan Lerman in the film adaptations and by Chris McCarrell in the musical.

Development of the character Percy Jackson began when Rick Riordan started inventing stories for his son Haley Riordan, who was diagnosed with ADHD and dyslexia in the spring of 2002.

Haley and Percy Jackson have been cited as the "same age" and share several character traits, though they are by no means the same person.

Percy Jackson has ADHD and dyslexia, allegedly because he is hardwired to read Ancient Greek and has inborn "battlefield reflexes".

Percy Jackson's personality is described as "changeable like the sea" and hard to predict — with the important exception that he is dangerously loyal to his friends and family.

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Percy Jackson serves as the first head counselor of the Poseidon cabin at his demigod summer camp – Camp Half-Blood.

Percy Jackson has amnesia and slowly struggles to regain his memory over the course of the novel.

Percy Jackson arrives at a Roman establishment called Camp Jupiter, and is elected praetor as a result of the help he offers them on a quest.

One of the character's darkest moments comes in The House of Hades, when Percy Jackson discovers that he can control the water in a person's body, and uses it to torture the goddess Akhlys.

Between the time of The Battle of the Labyrinth and The Last Olympian, Sally Percy Jackson marries Paul Blofis, a man she met in a writing seminar.

Percy Jackson likes and respects his new step-father and eventually reveals to him that he is a demigod.

Percy Jackson first met Tyson at a school called Meriwether Prep, and did not learn of their relationship until much later.

Percy Jackson is distantly related to horses, pegasi, some other monsters, and numerous gods and demigods through his father.

Percy Jackson is close to many other characters in the book series.

Finally, Percy Jackson has an interesting relationship with Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares and Camp Half-Blood's resident bully, whom he allegedly dislikes but often helps.

However, Percy Jackson's first move towards a serious relationship does not occur until the final pages of The Last Olympian.

Percy Jackson's is a hellhound whom he receives from Daedalus before the inventor dies.

Percy Jackson sometimes uses Mrs O'Leary's ability to "shadow travel" to cross large distances almost instantaneously.

Percy Jackson knows a hippocampus named Rainbow who likes Percy's half-brother Tyson.

Percy Jackson has traveled with a small calico kitten called Small Bob by Bob the Titan.

When Percy Jackson is trapped in Tartarus during The House of Hades, Annabeth, Bob, and he find and travel with the kitten.

Percy Jackson's purr is disproportionately loud for an animal of his size.

Percy Jackson is described as handsome, with messy jet black hair, a Mediterranean complexion, and sea-green eyes like his father Poseidon.

Percy Jackson loses this power when it is washed away in the Little Tiber surrounding New Rome, as part of his acceptance there.

Percy Jackson has a degree of authority over his father's subjects.

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All of Percy Jackson's abilities correspond to the myths about and abilities of his father.

Percy Jackson has used magic javelins made by his brother Tyson, magically camouflaging armor made by Charles Beckendorf, and the wand of Carter Kane.

Percy Jackson has several magical items obtained from battles against monsters.

Percy Jackson gives the head away several times, finally leaving it with his mother, who "disposes of it".

Percy Jackson obtains a bullet- and sword-proof lion skin coat when he killed the Nemean lion, which he later sacrifices as an offering to Poseidon in order to save Annabeth.