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Meg McCaffrey

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A Guide to the Trials of Apollo series by Rick Riordan

Meg McCaffrey is a 12-year-demigod daughter of Demeter, and the main character in The Hidden Oracle. Her father was murdered by "the Beast" (Emperor Nero) and she was subsequently adopted by Emperor Nero, considering them as two separate people. Nero taught her the arts of a demigod and gave her a pair of crescent rings which can transform into sickles made of imperial gold, before giving her a task to lure Apollo into the Grove of Dodona.
Meg appears to Apollo at an alley of Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan to defeat the thugs, also sent by Nero, to stage "robbery". Meg demands Apollo's servitude and travels with him to Camp Half-Blood with Percy's assistance. There, Meg displays unusual abilities even before Demeter claims her, and later goes with Apollo to search for missing demigods and the Grove in the nearby woods, having to endure a brief abduction in the process. Her relationship with Nero is revealed at the climax, but her growing doubtfulness regarding Nero's ways, not to mention her already familiar friendship with Apollo, leads her to rob Nero of his chance to burn the Grove. While she helps Apollo bring the Grove alive, she severs their bonding spell and leaves.
In the second book, The Dark Prophecy, she returns to Apollo and helps him fight Commodus.
Meg is described as small and pudgy, with dark hair chopped in a messy pageboy style and black cat-eye glasses with rhinestones glittering and shimmering in the corners. She is free-spirited and adventurous, inquisitive, and is also confrontational. She poses questions with no subtlety, something that Apollo is annoyed with but later comes to regard as a unique trait. Her abilities as Demeter's daughter allows her to connect better with nature as well as summoning a karpos (crop spirit) called Peaches (a spirit of peach trees), a power that none of Demeter's other demigod children are known to possess.
Even though she is Demeter's daughter, not Ceres (the Roman manifestation of Demeter) she fights like a Roman, with two swords; one for offense and one for defense. She is also known for her liking of unicorns in the fourth book The Tyrant's Tomb.