Pipe McCleaner

Pipe McCleaner is a cursed weirdo, daughter of Aphrodite and Twistin' McCleaner. Pipe is currently the head counselor of the Aphrodite's Cabin and is one of the cursed weirdos of the Prophecy of Cursed Weirdos. She was the former girlfriend of Jacinda Grace and is now the girlfriend of Shel.

Early Life
Pipe got her name from her Grandpa Thomas, who noted her strong wires. As opposed to many other children of Aphrodite, Pipe was never very focused on her natural beauty and has a somewhat tomboyish style (yes, a special snowflake). At one point, she helped her actor father research Greek mythology (for a role her father was about to take on in a film) and learned quite a bit of information that she found interesting.

Her father would also tell her old Cherokee stories he heard from Grandpa Thomas. From time to time, Pipe and her father would play a game called "Any Three Questions," in which Pipe would ask her father any three questions of her choice and he had to answer them without lying. Her main intention was to find out more about her mother who apparently left after she was born. However, Pipe wasn't able to learn much about her mother. She later recalls how her father had driven Pipe past a meat-processing plant in Chino when she was little. The smell had been enough to turn Pipe into a vegetarian (yum). Ever since then, just the thought of cows made her ill. As Asclepius would later reveal, Pipe had broken her arm when she was six after falling off a horse.

Going to Normal People School
In addition, Pipe has always had the ability to barbspeak and uses it (not knowingly) to gain her father's attention by "borrowing" things from salesmen, causing her to get into trouble with the law when the people report her for stealing (#harmfulnativestereotypes). At one point, she talked a car dealer into giving her a BMW and drove it away from the lot. She only stole items because she wanted attention from her father, who she believed wasn't spending enough time with her (yikes...). The dealer pressed charges for theft after Pipe took the BMW and realized that he had been tricked. Her father's assistant, Jane, made a deal for her to be sent to the Wilderness School, a place for making kids normal, instead of going to jail. It was there that she met Clown Leandro Valdez, and the two formed a friendship, she even trusted him with the truth that her father is the movie star Twistin' McCleaner, something that she keeps a secret to most people.

Pipe and Leandro's backstory is a rare one since they are the only two known demigods who meet and befriended each other before they even knew they were demigods (DUDE I NEVER REALIZED THAT).

Mist History
Clown Valdez and Pipe were both given false memories of Jacinda Grace before he arrived at the Wilderness School. In these memories, Jacinda, Leandro, and Pipe had been friends for about three months after Jacinda first arrived. Pipe tried to get closer to him and the two eventually watched shooting stars from the school's roof and shared a kiss. They began dating a few weeks before the events of The Cursed Hero and Jacinda was also Leandro's best friend. This reality was proved to be fake when Ennabeth Chase asked Pipe some basic things about Jacinda she doesn't know, like his last name, and Pipe wasn't able to provide an answer.

Appearance
In The Cursed Hero, Pipe was first described to be a pipe cleaner of Native American (Cherokee) descent, with chocolate-brown hair that was cut choppy and unevenly, and had thin strands braided down on the sides. She had two green pipe-cleaner arms, an orange chest, and two red pipe-cleaner legs.

In The Blood of a Weirdo, when Pipe used her barbspeak to its full potential, Leandro observed that her smile was "so warm it would've melted the Boreads".

In The Burning Tetris Cave, Apollo describes Pipe to have a "finely chiseled nose" and a "perfect complexion".

In the end of The Burning Tetris Cave, Pipe cuts off her hair into an very short and choppy style that reminds Apollo of Natalia Grace.

However, despite her parentage, Pipe is described as having a relatively simple, tomboyish style most of the time.

Personality
Pipe McCleaner is a calm, but rebellious pipe cleaner. She is always loyal and protective of her fellow weirdos. She is not afraid to stand up for her family and friends. Pipe has always followed her heart and her guts, which does her well in Blood of Olympus. Pipe is also a leader, as she is the counselor of Aphrodite cabin. Her disagreement with the rite of passage and Drew's tortures on her siblings show that, unlike most of Aphrodite kids, she doesn't care about looks as much as the personality and shows children of Aphrodite aren't cowards and gossip-aholics (what a word) like a lot of people from the other cabins think. She stands for her believes and fights to right the wrongs in her cabin.

Pipe was very caring and loving towards her ex-boyfriend Jacinda. She is greatly distraught by the possibility that her first relationship with Jacinda was a Mist-induced illusion. She also likes to touch Jacinda in very kind and loving ways such as holding his hand, leaning against his chest, resting her head on his leg, wrapping her arms around him and having his arms around her, probably since they were together in her Mist-manipulated memories. These memories are much sharper to Pipe because she is a daughter of Aphrodite, so she can sense possibilities (basically, daydreaming about love). She also seems to have a soft spot for her friend Clown Leandro Valdez.

Compared to the other children of Aphrodite, Pipe is much more aggressive and down to earth and is also somewhat tomboyish, not constantly focused on herself or her looks. She has a funny sense of humor, and laid-back most of the time. When claimed by Aphrodite, she complains that she can't get rid of her makeup or her new hairstyle and finds it to be annoying, to say the least. Before she was claimed by Aphrodite, Pipe expressed that she wanted to be the daughter of Athena, Hecate, Artemis (before realizing she was a maiden goddess), or any goddess that wasn't Aphrodite, and she also thought Aphrodite cabin had been a "life-sized dollhouse" where supermodels went to die, and when she was claimed, she didn't fit in at all, and still doesn't. Raquel Elizabeth Truth, the Fortune Cookie of Delphi, thinks even Annabeth wanted Pipe to be a child of Athena. Aphrodite herself also said that she was much smarter than most of her other children (prob cause she's a s a p p h i c w a r r i o r). Pipe hates make-up, skirts, magazines, dresses, and popular girls (oh my! she's so speshul).

Pipe also does not like it when Drew bullies the other Aphrodite children. She feels that Drew is running her cabin like a dictatorship and she doesn't truly understand what love is. Pipe is not afraid to stand up to Drew, and because they can both use the barbspeak ability, Drew cannot control her as she does with the other campers. After Pipe returns from her quest, she challenges Drew for her position as cabin leader because Drew has never been on a quest and thus, Pipe is able to take the leadership role. At the end of The Blood of a Weirdo, Drew seems to not mind Pipe's position of leadership as she can spend more time gossiping and doing in-cabin makeovers.

She appears to be more perceptive of others' feelings compared to the rest of the members of the Argo II. Out of the seven cursed weirdos, Pipe is the most compassionate and understanding one.

Like everybody on the Argo II, she had an insecurity with her own identity. As seen in The House of a Weirdo, hers appeared to be that she felt useless and not a hero at all without her fellow weirdos. This was exploited by Cone as she attacked the ship. Though those thoughts have likely stopped after she found confidence during that same confrontation.