Meg McCaffrey is the 12 year old Greek demigod daughter of Demeter (the Greek Goddess of Agriculture) and the late Philip McCaffrey, the stepdaughter of Nero and the master of Apollo (the Greek God of the Sun). She is one of the main characters of The Trials Of Apollo book series.
Backstory[]
Meg was born to a botanist named Philip McCaffrey and Demeter in Palm Springs in California. For the first five years of her life, Meg and her father lived in Aeithales (a series of greenhouses built by Philip), but were forced to flee to New York after they were threatened by The Triumvirate Holdings (a trio of Rome's worst emperors) and Aeithales was destroyed by a member of the group, Caligula.
Sometime later Nero (another member of The Triumvirate Holdings) separated her from Phillip to raise her as his daughter. Before parting, Phillip gave Meg a rose as a gift. When Meg was six, she was disobedient to Nero, who killed Phillip as punishment, but manipulated Meg into thinking that a person called The Beast had been responsible.
Meg then spends the next six years being raised in Nero's Imperial Household. At some point, Nero gave Meg two rings that could turn into siccae blades made from Imperial Gold (a metal used by Roman demigods)
The Trials Of Apollo[]
In the first book "The Hidden Oracle", a now 12-year-old Meg saves Apollo (who is in a mortal for of a teenage boy) from muggers. After learning that Apollo needs to serve someone in order to eventually become a god again, Meg claims him. They then go to Percy Jackson's apartment, where Percy drives them to Camp Half-Blood, but along the way, they are attacked by Nosoi, but are helped by a Karpos which was summoned by Meg, who names the Karpos Peaches. Meg and Apollo reach Camp Half-Blood, where Meg is claimed by Demeter.
They later encounter Nero who reveals that he told Meg to lure Apollo to the Grove of Dodona, which Nero attempts to burn down. Peaches stops him whilst Meg (who begins to question her loyalty to Nero) and Apollo place wind chimes in the grove and hear a prophecy. Meg then frees Apollo from serving her and returns to Nero.
In the second book "The Dark Prophecy", Meg is sent by Nero to capture Apollo. Nero has a Germanus guard and a man named Marcus go with Meg to make sure nothing happens. However, Meg escapes them and reunites with Apollo and helps him, Leo Valdez and Calypso defeat the second member of Triumvirate Holdings, Commodus.
In the third book "The Burning Maze", Meg and Apollo battle the third member of Triumvirate Holdings, Caligula, who attempts to become the new sun god by taking Apollo's power. During this time, Meg and Apollo return to Meg's former home which had been destroyed by Caligula after forcing Meg and her father from it. Meg is revealed to be a descendant of Plemnaeus and her father had been trying to rebirth the Meliai, something that threatened Caligula so much that he had forced Meg and Philip from their home and destroyed it in order to prevent that. Meg manages to find the hidden Meliai seeds and uses her powers to rebirth them as her father had intended.
In the fourth book, "The Tyrant's Tomb", Meg and Apollo make their way to Camp Jupiter following the disastrous events in the previous book to warn and help prepare them for an impending invasion by many the members of Triumvirate Holdings.
In "The Tower of Nero," Meg and Apollo return to New York to face Nero where Meg is reunited with her old friend Lu, an immortal Celtic warrior who has served as Meg's guardian and trainer. Lu is revealed to have been responsible for Meg learning her rare fighting style and offers to help them against Nero who demands the surrender of both Meg and Apollo or he will destroy New York City. Nero resumes trying to manipulate Meg back to his side, but she finally rejects her stepfather completely and renounces all of her ties with him. With the help of Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Nico di Angelo, Will Solace, the troglodytes and the combined forces of Camp Half-Blood, Apollo and Meg finally succeed in defeating Nero and Apollo kills Meg's villainous stepfather before leaving to fight Python.
Two weeks later, after becoming a god once again, Apollo visits Meg who has moved back into her former home with her stepsiblings from Nero's household. Apollo promises to always be there for Meg if she needs him and gifts her with a unicorn at Meg's request.
Appearance[]
Meg has short dark hair and dark brown eyes. Meg's usual attire consists of black cat eye rhinestone glasses, a green dress, yellow leggings and red trainers.
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Trivia[]
- Meg is similar to Luke Castellan (an antagonist from Percy Jackson & the Olympians books, which take place before The Trials of Apollo). As both are demigods (Meg is a daughter of Demeter whilst Luke was a son of Hermes). Both were in league with an antagonist (Nero and Kronos). Both later betray their master and redeem (Meg escapes Nero and joins with Apollo whilst Luke kills himself by stabbing his Achilles Heel (his armpit) in order to destroy Kronos (who was using Luke as a host).
- Meg may be a descendant of Poseidon. Meg is stated to be a descendant of Plemnaeus who, in mythology, is a grandson of Poseidon. However, this possible relationship to Poseidon is not mentioned in the books.
- If she is in fact a Legacy of Poseidon, this would make Meg a distant relative of both Percy Jackson and Frank Zhang.
- Meg is stated to be unusually powerful for a daughter of Demeter.
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