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Kelli

A empousai who is a double agent serving in Kronos' ranks while working for Gaea originally. After having second thoughts and a chance encounter with the future Monster King, she abandons the Titans (and Gaea's) cause and joins the Olympians.

- Adaptational Friendship: with Kayla, and by extension — Colton, Annabeth, and Percy.

- Adaptational Heroism: She saves Silena (who was disguised as Clarisse) from the Lydian Drakon and redeems herself in the process. Also saves Butch and Damien from monsters prior to the Battle of Manhattan.

- Alternate History: due to her Face and Heel Realization, she goes down this path.

- Angst: implied to be suffering from this up until she is forced out of the Titan Army.

- Anti-Hero: she's by no means totally heroic given her past deeds, but she is at least trying to make up for them now.

- Being Evil Sucks: she is implied to have realized this. Doesn't help that she also knows she is in between a rock and a hard place.

- Best Friend: with Kayla, to the point she can be somewhat regarded as her lady-in-waiting.

- Defends Against Their Own Kind: Word Of God says that this has happened off-screen before and during the Battle of Manhattan, fighting off some of her own fellow Empousai to protect the demigods and Olympus.

- Even Evil Has Standards

- Face Realization: Word Of God states that Kelli has had this somewhere between her attack on Percy and when she encounters Colton in the Labyrinth.

- Heel-Face Turn: She goes through this during the Battle of the Labyrinth and before The Last Olympian, almost entirely off-screen. Also a High-Heel Face Turn given that the Host Of Kronos, with the exception of Hecate, is surrounded exclusively by men. Also a Mook-Face Turn given how close she is with the Host of Kronos while being a double agent for Gaea.

- Heel Realization: She is implied to have had this just like the Face Realization.

- Must Make Amends: Word Of God states that this is her motivation for saving Butch and Damien and allowing them to make it to Camp Half Blood.

- Power Of Trust: Because Colton doesn't try to kill her and listens, she decides that she can trust him, and once Luke/Kronos and the others turn on her, she decides to go through with living up to that.

- Redemption Equals Life: since her conversation with Colton, per Word Of God, means that she doesn't get killed by Annabeth later on in Battle of The Labyrinth, her continued existence in the mortal world up to and during the HOO series and beyond — including after she redeems herself — can pretty much count as this.

- Screw This, I'm Outta Here!: More like she's forced to leave when Luke/Kronos and the others turn on her.

- Took A Level In Kindness: she is this very much so.

- Villainous BSOD: Self-explanatory given the prior actions elaborated above.