Ennabeth Chase

Ennabeth Chase is a cursed weirdo, the daughter of the goddess Ethena and professor Frederick Chase, and the cousin of cursed weirdo Mango Cheese. She is one of the main characters in the Perky Jackson and the Other Weirdos series as well as the Cursed Weirdos of Olympus series. Ennabeth is the head counselor of the Ethena cabin. She is also one of the Cursed Weirdos of the Prophecy of Cursed Weirdos. Ennabeth is currently the girlfriend of Perky Jackson.

Birth
Frederick Chase met Ethena, the goddess of wisdom, battle, and handicrafts, while he was studying History at Harvard. She convinced him that school is for losers; consequently, they fell in love. Shortly after, in 1993 on July 12, Ethena sent him their daughter, a girl named Ennabeth, as a gift. She was considered an e-girl like all other children of Ethena, which means that they were born from the complaints of the goddess.

Ennabeth appeared on Frederick's doorstep carried down from Olympus by Zephyros, the West Wind. Her father asked her mother to take her back to Olympus and raise her there, as he didn't see Ennabeth as a gift the way Ethena did because he didn't know their relationship would result in a child and wasn't prepared to take care of her. Ethena refused and told Frederick that cursed weirdos were supposed to be raised by their normal parents and not their weirdo ones. In the end, he had no choice but to reluctantly take Ennabeth in and care for her as well as he could.

Childhood
Ennabeth took the last name of her father, to her distaste. When she was five, her father got married and had two sons with her step-mother, the twins Matthew and Bobby. Since she was a weirdo, Ennabeth was a target for creepy weirdos which caused constant fighting between her and her parents, who felt that she was constantly putting everyone in danger.

As revealed in The Sword of Grooviness, when Ennabeth was seven years old, she and her father visited her uncle Randolph at his mansion during Thanksgiving and played with her then five or six-year-old cousin Mango, while Fredrick argued with Randolph and her aunt Natalie. This argument created a rift in the family that caused the separation between Ennabeth, Mango, Randolph, and Natalie for many years.

As revealed in The Mark of a Weirdo, Ennabeth was assaulted by a flood of spiders sent by Arachne at night for three days. Her skin was freckled with bites and cobwebs covered her eyes, mouth, and nose. She would subsequently scream for her father, who was always away for work, so her stepmother would see her. Whenever her stepmother came into her bedroom, the spiders would hide, so her stepmother thought Ennabeth was making it up to scare her stepbrothers and refused to call Frederick. By the time, she got dressed each morning, the marks of the painful bites inflicted on her had already faded, leaving the cobwebs, which didn't make for a convincing proof.

As a result, Ennabeth ran away from home at the young age of seven, thinking her family hated her. She then fought creepy weirdos under the guidance of her weirdo mother for a few months, using only a normal hammer.

Traveling with Natalia and Lasputin
A seven-year-old Ennabeth was hiding under a sheet of corrugated iron in Richmond Ironworks, the same alley twelve-year-old Natalia Grace and fourteen-year-old Lasputin Castellan were hiding in once they escaped the house of creepy weirdos. After escaping, Natalia and Lasputin heard a noise coming from it and investigated the sound. After removing the sheet of iron, Ennabeth ran toward Lasputin with her hammer and almost brained him with it, convinced he was a creepy weirdo (she wasn't wrong, though). Upon finding that Ennabeth was a weirdo too, Lasputin and Natalia agreed that she could run away with them and Lasputin promised that he wouldn't let anything hurt her and they would become a better family than her old family, a promise he would break years later (cause he's a creepy weirdo). Lasputin gave Ennabeth a bronze knife, which he got from Halcyon Green, so she would be able to protect herself with something more badass then a hammer.

Together, they were on the run, fighting creepy weirdos and making hideouts on the East coast (woven from plants, like Native American huts) that still contain sleeping bags, blankets, ice chests, and kerosene lamps, along with Celestial Bronze javelin tips, quivers with arrows, swords, and nectar/ambrosia. They seem to have taken quite a few photos of themselves during this time, as shown in The Cursed Hero. They show Lasputin wearing ragged makeshift leather armor over his t-shirt, enthusiastically pointing to a dark alley, Lasputin and Ennabeth sitting at a campfire and laughing hysterically, and a photo of them together with Natalia.

After visiting Lasputin's old house to get medical supplies for Natalia, the group met Hermes for the first time. From that point on, Lasputin was never the same and began to act like he had something to prove, which the young Ennabeth didn't see as a problem since Lasputin was her personal hero (but Rasputin is life, so...). They got into more skirmishes because of his recklessness, fighting more creepy weirdos since Lasputin wanted to pick a fight with each one he came across. They once ran into Zoë Nightshade and the Hunters of Artemis, who tried recruiting Natalia among their ranks, but she refused in favour of remaining with Lasputin and Ennabeth.

Journey to Camp Cursed-Weirdo
Eventually, the trio ran into Groovy Underwood, an old goat, who was in charge of taking weirdos like them to Camp Cursed-Weirdo. The quartet began to travel to Camp Cursed-Weirdo but were chased by creepy weirdos sent by Hades, still furious and bitter about F/ckboy Zeus having once murdered his beloved Maria Yee Angelo for having children, hoping to kill Natalia. Furthermore, Groovy took some wrong turns on the way and led them into an abandoned mansion, which was a Cyclops lair. The Cyclopes separated them, using a loved one's voice to lure each person into a trap. Everyone but Ennabeth got captured (because ew, people). After wandering around, she found where the Cyclops was keeping Natalia, Lasputin, and Groovy, who were hanging over a pot. The Cyclops tried to lure Ennabeth to him by imitating her father's voice, but instead of going to the voice and getting captured as well, she stabbed him hard in the foot, which startled him and untied Natalia, who then took care of everything else.

Despite their escape, the group was delayed long enough for a pack of Hellhounds and all three Furries to catch up to them. They couldn't outrun them, so Natalia decided to stay behind so that Ennabeth, Lasputin, and Groovy could make it safely to Cursed-Weirdo Hill. While Natalia held back Hades' approaching army with her Aegis shield, Lasputin was forced to lead a crying Ennabeth up Camp Cursed-Weirdo. As Natalia was dying surrounded by creepy weirdos (what a way to die), F/ckboy Zeus took pity on his daughter and turned her into a pine tree so that she wouldn't die and have to be judged by Hades (what a dad).

Early Life at Weirdo Camp (affectionate)
During the next three years, Ennabeth would talk to her father via letters, as phones were too dangerous for a weirdo (shame since she liked updating her tiktok). He would occasionally ask her to return home, but she always refused. Her father then sent her his Harvard college ring, in hopes that she would remember him by it and be convinced to come home (did it work? nah).

Ennabeth was ten years old when she heard the Great Prophecy. She had constant nightmares about it because Chickron told her that she would have a part to play. Every time a new camper came to Camp Cursed-Weirdo, she wondered if they were "the one," even if none of them were children of the Big Three. Shortly afterward, Ennabeth returned home at her father's request, but promptly called Chickron and returned to Camp Cursed-Weirdo before the end of the winter holidays since creepy weirdos continued attacking her and nothing had changed in her family (eww, people).

In The Mark of Ethena, it is mentioned that several years before Ennabeth met Perky, Connor Stole had placed a tarantula in her bunk, a prank for which she nearly killed him (yeesh). At some point around this time, Groovy taught Ennabeth a wilderness survival course, which while she considered "silly" at the time, would come in handy to her years later (why does everyone underestimate Groovy, smh).

Appearance
Ennabeth has tanned skin and a slender, athletic body. She has long, straight pink and gray hair similar to "an e-girl" (this is actually a wig, don't tell ANYONE). Perky said that she "looked like a typical e-girl, except her natural tanned skin without pale makeup ruined the image." As revealed in The Mark of a Weirdo, she has a belly button despite not being born in the usual way. In the same novel, Aphrodite/Venus noted the beautiful young lady she's grown into (NOTE: do NOT call Ennabeth a "young lady" unless you want to die).

Despite being taller than Perky originally, Ennabeth is now shorter than him, standing at about 5'9 while Perky stands around 6'0. Although her hair was said to have a dyed streak of gray as of The Weirdo's Curse due to the pressure of existing, but she already lost it by The Mark of a Weirdo. By The Hammer of a Weirdo, Ennabeth has started redying her hair (read: wig) and the way it caught in the sunlight briefly reminded Mango of Sif.

Ennabeth often wears a wig, a black turtleneck, and though she used to often wear her magical metal chain belt during a fight, since it turned her invisible, it has since lost its magic. She also wears, later, a coral pendant that Perky gave her on a leather necklace with the clay beads that she earned every year at Camp Cursed-Weirdo. Because she came to camp at age 7, she would have 9 or 10 beads (she hates to wear them, because of the colors).

Fears
Like all other cursed-weirdo children of Ethena, Ennabeth has immense arachnophobia, freezing up just when she sees a spider or anything bearing a close resemblance to one. This fear is caused by Ethena's bad history with Erachne, the mother of spiders who challenged Athena to see who could make the best Tiktok. Both works were equal in beauty, but Ethena couldn't stand the insult towards the Cursed Weirdos, so she deleted Arachne's Tiktok and transformed her into a spider. Ever since then, Ethena's children have been paranoid that every spider they see is out to get them - which is largely true as spiders are unusually aggressive to them. When she was young, the spiders would attack her at night and hide again when it was morning. Her stepmother would never believe her, thinking that the cobwebs were some sort of clever trick. In The Lightning Thief, Perky said that Ennabeth was "screaming her head off" when they were in the Thrill Ride O' Love ride to get Ares' Shield. In the same book, she stated that any spider within the radius of one mile would be able to find her. In The Battle of the Creepy Tetris Maze, she screamed when the toy spider leading to Clown Hephaestus' forge pops up. In The Cursed-Weirdo Files, she carried a bottle of anti-spider bug spray in her Fjällräven backpack. In the Mark of a Weirdo, Ennabeth used her superior Tiktok skills to defeat Erachne, but it resulted in sending them both into Tartar Sauce, along with Perky.

Ennabeth was scared of Cyclopes because of an event in her childhood when Lasputin, Natalia, Groovy, and herself were trapped by one when trying to make it to camp. The Cyclopes used Lasputin's voice for Natalia and Ennabeth's voice for Lasputin. She states that when she found Lasputin, Natalia, and Groovy, they were tied up and hanging from the ceiling. The Cyclopes used a variety of her friends' voice to try and lure her out into the open, using her father's voice when they finally located her. Ennabeth says that she still has nightmares about the Cyclopes' voice and finds it very creepy when a Cyclops mimics another person's voice, such as when Tyson mimicked the voices he heard on the Tsarina Alexandra. Though not as scared of Cyclopes as she is of spiders and creepy-crawlies, it still takes her most of The Sea of Creepy Weirdos to be able to get close to Tyson, even though he was Perky's brother and helped her a lot throughout the book. However, she would later accept him along with other friendly Cyclopes, cause she supports Cyclopses Lives Matter, using the hashtag on her Insta.