| Annabeth Chase | |
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| First appearance | The Lightning Thief |
| Created by | Rick Riordan |
| Portrayed by | Alexandra Daddario[1] |
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| Age | 16 (as of The Last Olympian) |
| Date of birth | 1993 |
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Annabeth Chase is a fictional character in Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. She is a demigod, a child of a god and a mortal parent. Her father is the mortal Frederick Chase while her mother is the Greek goddess Athena.
First appearing in the first book of the series, The Lightning Thief, Annabeth soon befriends the series' protagonist and narrator, Percy Jackson.
She will be played by Alexandra Daddario in the upcoming film Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief.[2]
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Author Rick Riordan, when asked in an interview, "Do you feel those who aid the main character, such as Grover and Annabeth, are heroes in their own right?" replied, "Annabeth is Percy's rational side. She can think through things and look at options that sometimes evade Percy in his moments of battle panic."[3]
Annabeth Chase is the half-blood daughter of the Goddess Athena[4][5][6] and the mortal man Frederick Chase. Being a daughter of Athena, she was not physically born, but is a literal 'brain child'. When she was seven, she ran away from home. On her journey, she met Luke Castellan, Thalia Grace, and Grover Underwood. Together, they travelled to Camp Half-Blood, running from and fighting hordes of monsters. Upon arrival at the borders of Camp Half-Blood, Thalia sacrificed her life when they were all attacked by monsters so that Luke and Annabeth could safely get into camp. She lived at Camp Half-Blood for five years prior to Percy Jackson's arrival.
It has been shown that Annabeth does not get along with her father and step-family. According to her, her father was not very happy when she first appeared and tends to look at her as a nuisance. Her step-siblings appear to dislike her and feel afraid of her. Her stepmother seems to hate her and feels that she endangers the family by being only half-mortal. At the end of The Lightning Thief, Annabeth returned to her family to see if she could get along with them. She was able to stay with them for approximately a year, but it is unknown if her feeling towards her family have changed; however, in The Titan's Curse, her father and stepmother seem to care for her deeply, and her father helps fight off Kronos's army to save Annabeth.
Annabeth is a good fighter, and has been shown to be able to think on her feet in high-pressured situations. Despite this, Annabeth dreams of being an architect, and the story has made many references to this. In The Lightning Thief, she enjoys and quickly becomes addicted to the 3-D holographic SimCity-esque game at the Lotus Hotel and Casino, and in The Sea of Monsters, it was shown that Annabeth’s greatest dream is to redesign the whole world to make it better, make Luke good again, and be accepted by her mother and father.
Hubris, or deadly pride, is Annabeth's fatal flaw. Annabeth thinks that she is able to do anything: get her parents back together, build great monuments, and save Luke as shown in the second book. She sometimes even thinks she can rebuild the world into an even better place than the immortals did. She also has a deep fear of spiders, due to her parentage.
Annabeth first appears in The Lightning Thief and is twelve years old. She initially was nicknamed "Wise Girl".
She first meets Percy Jackson after he was attacked by the Minotaur and makes his way into Half-Blood Hill. When he first saw her, Percy described Annabeth as "pretty" with blond hair curled "like a princess's". While he is recovering from his battle wounds, she feeds him ambrosia and nectar in the Big House. While she is feeding Percy the ambrosia she asks him "What is going to happen at the summer solstice?" Percy manages to say, "I-I'm sorry. I don't know...", and then Annabeth hears something, and he does not get to finish his sentence. Afterwards, she hears that he is to go on a quest and wants to go along, thinking Percy is "the one" from Chiron's prophecy. Together, she, Percy, and Grover go searching for Zeus's lightning bolt. Throughout the book, Annabeth shows her unique intelligence, which she inherited from her mother, and also her arachnophobia that she shares with all her siblings on her mother's side (originating from the story of Arachne and Athena). At the end of the book, Annabeth is deeply hurt by Luke's betrayal.[7]
This time, Annabeth and Percy are friends as opposed to the tension that was between them because of their parents in Book One. Together, they journey to the Sea of Monsters (also known as the Bermuda Triangle by mortals) to find the Golden Fleece (needed to save Camp Half Blood) and save Grover from Polyphemus, a huge cyclops. She hears the Sirens' song and confirms that her fatal flaw is hubris, which means "deadly pride"; it is the most common flaw of Athena's children. On Circe's island, she gives Percy multivitamins to change him back into a human after being turned into a guinea pig by Circe's smoothie. She also learns to accept Tyson, Percy's half-brother, who is a young Cyclops, after having a bad experience with one long ago. When they return back to camp, she and Percy team up and win the chariot race. Her feelings for Percy just barely emerge at the end of the book when she kisses Percy on the cheek after winning the chariot race.[8]
Annabeth is kidnapped along with the goddess Artemis by Dr. Thorn and has to be saved by Percy, Thalia, Grover, and the huntress Zoë Nightshade. In a dream Percy has, Annabeth is on a mountain, and she sees Luke holding up a black roof (unknown to Percy, it is the sky). Annabeth helps him hold it, and then Luke slips out from underneath, making Annabeth hold it. This is later used to trick Artemis into holding the sky, as Artemis would not be able to resist helping a maiden. Unlike in the other books, Annabeth's role is quite minimal. It is hinted in this book that there will be a romantic future for her and Percy. Aphrodite, the goddess of love, also convinced Percy about his love with Annabeth, though she also made it exceptionally harder for them to fall in love. In the end, Percy saves both Annabeth and Artemis and then they start to show their feelings for each other.[9]
By this book, Annabeth is fifteen. Percy and Annabeth find an entrance into the Labyrinth. She realizes that Luke may try to use this entrance to invade Camp.
Annabeth leads the quest into the Labyrinth, fulfilling one of her ambitions at last. Annabeth descends into the Labyrinth with Percy, Grover, and Tyson to find a way to stop Kronos's evil forces from penetrating the borders of Camp Half-Blood by searching for its inventor, Daedalus. The prophecy the Oracle gave her appears to have scared her and she refuses to say the last line. As they go into the Labyrinth, they face many obstacles. Annabeth faces a Sphinx and finds the riddles (which are actually factual questions) not challenging and an insult to her intellect. They escape the claws of the Sphinx and continue on to find Hephaestus so he can tell them about where to find Daedalus.
As they head towards Hephaestus' forge in Mount St. Helens, they find telekhines there making a weapon for Kronos. Percy tells Annabeth to escape while she can. She kisses him for luck and they part ways. Annabeth believes that he dies when Mount St. Helens erupts, but this is not the case. Percy fell onto the island Ogygia, prison of the nymph Calypso, a daughter of Atlas. She falls in love with him, and he starts having feelings for her, but he has to leave. She kisses him on the forehead before he leaves. When Percy comes back to camp, Annabeth is performing a funeral ritual for him. When she notices him, she hugs him, making a scene. However, when she finds out about Calypso, she is very jealous. Percy then asks a mortal girl, Rachel Elizabeth Dare, to help them on their way through the labyrinth (Rachel has a rare ability to see through the Mist). Annabeth becomes very jealous at how close Percy and Rachel are getting. The three of them discover Luke, who has become Kronos's vessel. After a battle, Luke is forced back into the Labyrinth, leaving two casualties. Annabeth refuses to believe that Luke is all bad, and gets quite mad at Percy for saying otherwise.
In the final chapter, Annabeth first shows up when Percy returns from blowing up Kronos's ship, the Princess Andromeda, telling Percy she is happy he is not dead. Annabeth helps Percy get the Great Prophecy. The next day, after cabin inspection time, Percy and Annabeth get into a fight. Annabeth storms off. Percy bathes in the River Styx(seeing Annabeth pulling him out and saving him) and calls Annabeth, telling her to meet him in front of the Empire State Building with all the demigods from Camp Half Blood. When Annabeth and Percy go up, they meet Hermes, and when Annabeth trys to apologize about Luke turning into Kronos, Hermes gets angry at her and blames her for not saving Luke. Hermes leaves, and they go down, and try to defend Manhattan along with Mount Olympus. In battle, Ethan Nakamura attempts to stab Percy in the small of his back, his Achilles spot, and Annabeth jumps in front of him, taking the knife. After a few hours of rest, Annabeth, though still weak from poison, goes back into battle. Kronos goes up to Olympus, and Grover, Thalia, Percy, and Annabeth follow him. Thalia's legs are pinned under a statue of Hera, but she insists that they keep going. Kronos attacks Percy, and Annabeth jumps in, but Kronos slams her back into Athena's throne. In the end, she saves Percy and Olympus by finally realizing for whom the prophecy is truly meant: Luke; she convinces Percy to give Luke her knife (that was given to her by Luke when she was seven) so he can stab himself, killing himself and banishing Kronos to Tartarus yet again. She is rewarded by the gods, now being able to fulfill her dreams and design the gods a new city on Olympus, as the old one was ruined by the fighting, an opportunity given to her by her mother, Athena. At the end of the book, she and Percy have a normal kiss and an underwater kiss on Percy's birthday, August 18. Annabeth is last seen racing Percy down Half-Blood Hill and not looking back.[10]
In the film, Alexandra Daddario will play Annabeth, a warrior at Camp Half-Blood with Percy and potential romantic foil.[11] In the film trailer, Annabeth says to Percy, "I definitely have strong feelings for you, I just haven't decided if they are positive or negative yet." Another scene shows them leaning in to kiss. Also, Annabeth has blonde curly hair, and in the movie has brown and straight.
A key subplot in the series is the relationship between Annabeth, Percy, and Luke. Luke is Annabeth's hero and one of her first half-blood friends. Annabeth likes Percy, which she hints at, but she still has lingering feelings towards Luke. At the end of The Last Olympian, Luke shows slight feelings for her, sort of like an older brother. These feeling are present despite the fact that Luke and Percy are arch enemies and he has attempted to kill Percy numerous times. In The Sea of Monsters, it emerges that one of her life's wishes is to save Luke. Nico di Angelo, Son of Hades, has also shown signs of a crush on her.
In the beginning of The Lightning Thief, Annabeth is shown to dislike Percy when she discovers that Percy is the hero of the prophecy (maybe also him being Poseidon's son). She thinks he is weak, and is influenced by the rivalry between her mother, Athena, and Percy's father, Poseidon. At the very end of The Sea of Monsters, Annabeth kisses Percy on the cheek after winning the chariot race, although it is unclear why she did so. In The Titan's Curse, there are suggestions of some romance between Annabeth and Percy, although this is complicated by her lingering feelings towards Luke and the fact that her mother, Athena, disapproves of her "friendship" with Percy. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Annabeth finally expresses her feelings for Percy by kissing him good luck before vanishing using her Yankee's cap. When Percy returns, she is highly jealous, because she knows he has been with the sad yet seductive Calypso. It is implied that Percy is trying to tell Annabeth about his feelings, but Annabeth remains distant due to her lingering feelings towards Luke. In The Demigod Files short story the Bronze Dragon, Annabeth asks Percy out to the Fourth of July Fireworks, the biggest dating event of the summer at Camp Half-Blood. What they did is unknown.
In The Last Olympian, after the defeat of Kronos and the saving of Luke's soul, the romantic relationship between Percy and Annabeth is solidified. Annabeth confides to Luke as he dies that she always saw him as a brother, but never loved him. (Part of the prophecy demands that she understand Luke's 'family') Later, she and Percy share their third kiss after she tells him that she will never, ever make things easy for him. He describes it as if his brain felt it was melting through his body. But, nosy campers snoop on this and throw them into the camp lake. Then comes to a fourth kiss underwater in an air bubble made by Percy.
They are together as of the end of the Percy Jackson series. It is hinted that they might be married one day in the future, as Annabeth said she wanted "to build something permanent", and Percy states that maybe they were "getting a good start together".
B. Allison Gray praises how in Battle of the Labyrinth: Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 4, Riordan "successfully conveys Annabeth's emotions."[12]
The casting for the film has had an altogether different reception. One one hand, as Rama's SCREEN reports, "the one that’s been causing argument is Alexandra Daddario as Annabeth Chase....apparently some of Rama’s SCREEN readers out there did and the comments on her casting were in mixed response....Ashley thought Annasophia Robb (Race To Witch Mountain) should’ve played that role meanwhile Kara and Victoria saw Daddario as too old because apparently, the character Annabeth Chase in the book is about 12 years old but Lily thought Daddario should be given a chance to prove herself worthy and Joe said that to make this work, the movie needs to make her hot, athletic, with blond hair and grey eyes."[13] On the other hand, Katey Rich writes that Daddario "looks just right for that Hermione-esque role of the brainy brunette....Daddario, who has been in movies like The Hottest State and the recent Jonas Brothers concert movie, may have just signed on for a role that will take over her life, and bring her plenty of Emma Watson-scaled fame in the process. I hope she's got her wizard's wand-- oh, wait, I mean mythical god powers-- ready for the challenge."[14]
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