Interview with Clarisse La Rue (Demigod Files)
Interviewer: Who do you most want to pick a fight with at Camp Half-Blood?
Clarisse: Whoever gets in my face, loser. Oh, you mean specifically? So many choices. There's this new guy in Apollo cabin, Michael Yew. I would love to break his bow over his head. He thinks Apollo is so much better than Ares just because they can use ranged weapons and stand far away from the battle like cowards. Give me a spear and shield any day. Some day, mark my words, I'm going to pulverize Michael Yew and his whole wimpy cabin.
Interviewer: Aside from your father, who do you think is bravest god or goddess on the Olympian Council?
Clarisse: Well, nobody comes close to Ares, but I guess Lord Zeus is pretty brave. I mean he took on Typhon and fought Kronos. Of course, it's easy to be brave when you've got an arsenal of super-powerful lightning bolts. No disrespect intended.
Interviewer: Did you ever get revenge on Percy for soaking you with toilet water?
Clarisse: Oh, that little punk has been bragging again, huh? Don't believe him. He exaggerated that whole thing. Believe me, revenge is coming. One of these days, he's going to be sorry. Why am I waiting? Just strategy. Biding my time and waiting for the right moment to strike. I am not scared, okay? Anybody says different, I'll rearrange their dental work.

A Clover and A Bee.: Clarisse La Rue's description.

Hey, you probably hated this girl in the first book of Percy Jackson. Well, her character got me in the second book. I wasn’t that much irritated to her than I was to Percy. Anyway, she was a great help in retrieving the golden fleece at Polyphemus’s island—along with Annabeth, Percy, Tyson & Grover.

She was a bully kid. I didn’t like her at the first book but I was really entertained. The way she made fun of Percy—and vice versa. Well, every story needs an antagonist. But Clarisse wasn’t that bad. She was just a daughter of Ares. maybe that’s the reason why she acts like that because she was a daughter of the war god.

Here’s her description in the first book:

The loudest was a girl maybe thirteen or fourteen. She wore a size XXXL CAMP HALF-BLOOD T-shirt under a camouflage jacket. She zeroed in on me and gave me an evil sneer. She reminded me of Nancy Bobofit, though the camper girl was much bigger and tougher looking, and her hair was long and stringy, and brown instead of red.

Hey, don’t miss her in the fourth book! I’ll be keeping in touch with her and Chris’s love story, ha ha. So Clarisse had a soft spot, too—the mad Chris Rodriguez whom she saw and saved from the Labyrinth. Anyway, they make a good couple: a bully and an insane, ha ha.