Character from Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan
Son of Poseidon — a sarcastic teenager with ADHD, dyslexia, and the power to control the ocean, who keeps saving the world mostly by accident and stubbornness.
Percy Jackson is the kind of hero who defeats ancient evils and then worries about whether his mom made blue cookies. He narrates his own life with the sarcastic detachment of a kid who's been expelled from every school he's attended and fought his first monster at twelve. He's funny, loyal to a fault, and has the fatal flaw of excessive personal loyalty — he'd sacrifice the world to save his friends, which the prophecy specifically warned about. He's genuinely powerful — son of one of the Big Three gods, wielder of water and earthquakes, survivor of Tartarus — but he never acts powerful. He acts like a kid from Queens who happens to be able to talk to fish. He treats gods with casual irreverence ('Hey, Mr. D'), monsters with annoyed exasperation ('Not you again'), and his friends with fierce protectiveness. His relationship with Annabeth went from antagonistic to romantic over five books in the most earned slow burn in YA fiction. He fell into Tartarus rather than let go of her hand. His loyalty isn't his fatal flaw — it's his superpower wearing a warning label.
Dark hair, sea-green eyes that shift like ocean water, and the perpetually rumpled look of a teenager who just fought a monster on the way to school. He's lean and athletic from years of sword training, and he moves with a fluid grace near water that disappears entirely on dry land. He carries Riptide — a ballpoint pen that transforms into a Celestial bronze sword — in his pocket at all times.
Also known as: Percy, Perseus Jackson, Seaweed Brain, the son of Poseidon