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Ares is the god of war. When Percy meets him, Ares takes the form of a larger-than-life biker, with a leather jacket, loud motorcycle, and dark sunglasses. When he removes his sunglasses, his eyes are infernos. Ares is menacing and intimidating; he frightens several mortals when he joins Percy, Annabeth, and Grover in a Denver diner. This is partly because, as a god, Ares naturally emanates power and danger, but it’s also because he’s a power-hungry and self-important individual. Though copping an attitude is a major risk for Percy to take, Ares fortunately finds Percy’s sass and attitude charming. Ares sends the trio on a brief quest to an abandoned waterpark to fetch his magical shield, which he forgot there after a date with Aphrodite. It’s clear that Ares knew about Hephaestus’s trick—installing cameras and filling the pool with mechanical spiders—and so he sent the kids on purpose to save himself the embarrassment. Though Ares follows through on his promise to secure the trio’s passage to Los Angeles in exchange for his shield, unbeknownst to Percy, Ares also plants a backpack that secretly contains Zeus’s thunderbolt with the trio. As Percy later discovers, this is because Ares is being controlled by Kronos and, on Kronos’s orders, is trying to incite war between Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades. There are a number of Ares’s children at Camp Half-Blood: they’re all hulking, loud, and violent.
Ares Quotes in The Lightning Thief
The The Lightning Thief quotes below are all either spoken by Ares or refer to Ares. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16
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“So if the gods fight,” I said, “will things line up the way they did with the Trojan War? Will it be Athena versus Poseidon?”
She put her head against the backpack Ares had given us, and closed her eyes. “I don’t know what my mom will do. I just know I’ll fight next to you.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”
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Chapter 20
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“Hades will be mad at both Zeus and Poseidon, because he doesn’t know who took this. Pretty soon, we got a nice little three-way slugfest going on.”
“But they’re your family!” Annabeth protested.
Ares shrugged. “Best kind of war. Always the bloodiest. Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”
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My senses were working overtime. I now understood what Annabeth had said about ADHD keeping you alive in battle. I was wide awake, noticing every little detail.
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The middle Fury, the one who had been Mrs. Dodds, stepped forward. Her fangs were bared, but for once she didn’t look threatening. She looked more disappointed, as if she’d been planning to have me for supper, but had decided I might give her indigestion.
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Ares Quotes in The Lightning Thief
The The Lightning Thief quotes below are all either spoken by Ares or refer to Ares. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 16
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“So if the gods fight,” I said, “will things line up the way they did with the Trojan War? Will it be Athena versus Poseidon?”
She put her head against the backpack Ares had given us, and closed her eyes. “I don’t know what my mom will do. I just know I’ll fight next to you.”
“Why?”
“Because you’re my friend, Seaweed Brain. Any more stupid questions?”
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Chapter 20
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“Hades will be mad at both Zeus and Poseidon, because he doesn’t know who took this. Pretty soon, we got a nice little three-way slugfest going on.”
“But they’re your family!” Annabeth protested.
Ares shrugged. “Best kind of war. Always the bloodiest. Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.”
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My senses were working overtime. I now understood what Annabeth had said about ADHD keeping you alive in battle. I was wide awake, noticing every little detail.
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The middle Fury, the one who had been Mrs. Dodds, stepped forward. Her fangs were bared, but for once she didn’t look threatening. She looked more disappointed, as if she’d been planning to have me for supper, but had decided I might give her indigestion.
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