Character from Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
God of the Sun, Music, Poetry, and Prophecy — the most vain Olympian, which is really saying something. He was turned mortal as punishment and had to survive as a teenager named Lester.
Apollo narrates the Trials of Apollo series, and his voice is peak narcissism slowly cracking open into genuine growth. Zeus punished him by making him mortal — a teenage mortal named Lester with no divine powers — and the experience of being vulnerable, weak, and dependent on demigods he used to ignore taught him what none of his immortal centuries could. As Lester he sweated, wheezed, and bled like any awkward teenager, and the indignity of it cracked through his divine ego until something genuinely humble started growing underneath. His haikus remain terrible throughout.
Usually: golden and gorgeous, the image of youthful perfection, with sun-bright eyes. As Lester Papadopoulos (his mortal punishment form): pudgy, acne-covered, with frizzy hair and zero combat skills. The contrast is devastating to his ego.
Also known as: Apollo, Lester Papadopoulos, Phoebus Apollo