Hazel Levesque facts for kids
Hazel Levesque is a fourteen-year-old demigod, a daughter of Pluto and Marie Levesque. She first appears in The Son of Neptune, at Camp Jupiter. It is later revealed that she has returned from the dead, assisted by her half-brother Nico.
Fictional biography
She grew up in the 1940s in New Orleans, where her mother had a gris-gris shop. When she was born, Pluto offered to grant her mother a wish, but her request for wealth backfired into an ability to control precious metals and gems, which both first view as a curse. Hazel died after Gaea tries to use Hazel's power over earth to resurrect Alcyoneus. When Hazel's mother changes her mind about helping Gaea, Hazel buries herself and her mother under the earth, delaying Alcyoneus's rebirth and killing them both. While Hazel's spirit is being judged, she gives up the chance to go to Elysium to save her mother from punishment, and they are both sent to the Fields of Asphodel instead. At some point before The Lost Hero, Nico finds Hazel in the Underworld while trying to visit Bianca, only to find she has tried for rebirth. With the Doors of Death open, Nico is able to take Hazel to the world of the living through them, resurrecting her and then delivers Hazel to Camp Jupiter. Hazel and Nico are protective of each other, much as true half-siblings.
Appearance
Hazel is described as African American, having cocoa-colored skin, curly cinnamon-brown hair, and golden eyes. Her legion tattoo is described as looking like a cross with curved arms and a head. She eventually learns to manipulate her curse, manipulating precious stones and metals and sensing structures underground. She is an accomplished horse-rider and skilled with a spatha. She tames the horse Arion, who eats precious metals. She is unusually knowledgeable about the Underworld because of her time there. During The House of Hades the goddess Hecate insists Hazel learn to manipulate the Mist. Hazel becomes very gifted at this. After the Second Gigantomachy, Hazel is promoted to the rank of centurion of the Fifth Cohort, succeeding her boyfriend Frank Zhang. During The Tyrant's Tomb, Hazel reveals that she has managed to break her curse with Frank, which is confirmed in The Tower of Nero. This confirms something that Juno had once told Hazel: that a descendant of Poseidon would some day wash away her curse. She is now able to summon precious metals and use and spend them without terrible consequences. In The Tyrant's Tomb, she and Frank team up with Apollo and Meg McCaffrey to protect Camp Jupiter from the emperors Commodus and Caligula as well as the undead king Tarquin. In The Tower of Nero, she and Frank are stated to be the best praetors that Camp Jupiter has ever had.
