Piper McLean is shown to be a very self-conscious but generally calm, intuitive, and caring young woman who goes through much personal growth throughout her arrival at Camp Half-Blood, first quest to rescue Hera, and subsequent journey on the Argo II thereafter. After The Heroes of Olympus series, her ensuing appearance in The Burning Maze shows that she grows even more from her hardships and she communicates to Apollo a resolve to discern her identity regardless of her parentage, culture.