Gabe Ugliano

This is with female Percy. Percie’s mother, Sally Jackson, chose to marry Gabe Ugliano to protect Percie from the ever-growing threat of Greek monsters and gods. Gabe had a pungent odor, which was described by Percie as “moldy garlic pizza wrapped in gym shorts,” earning him the infamous nickname “Smelly Gabe”. Grover Underwood later described him as a mortal who smelled so horribly human that his scent would mask any demigod’s scent from monsters. Gabe’s scent would help protect Percie from monsters, as monsters can smell children of the Gods especially those of powerful gods like the Big Three. Since she was a son of Poseidon, one of the three most powerful gods, Percie’s godly scent was much stronger than that of the children of the lesser gods. Gabe was said to have been nice to Sally and Percie for “the first thirty seconds they had known him”, and afterward showed his true colors as a “world-class jerk”. He often abused Sally, beating her and treating her more like a servant. He hated Percie and didn’t seem to trust her. Percie often got into trouble with him. He played poker every day with his ‘poker buddies’. Gabe’s job was managing the Electronics Mega-Mart in Queens, although we never see or hear of him going to work (Percie’s even surprised why he never got fired). All Gabe seems to do is drink beer, eat tortilla chips and guacamole, smoke cigars, play poker or blackjack, and be abusive to Sally, Percie and even his own ‘poker buddy’ Eddie. Gabe is said to be fat, looking like ‘a tuskless walrus in thrift-store clothes,’ has a double-chin, and is bald but for three black hairs he has combed over his scalp. He is a heavy smoker of cigars, chews tobacco, and drinks heavily, resulting in a very out of shape and aged appearance. Gabe is described by Percie as a “world-class jerk” and the lowest definition of a human being: he’s selfish, vain, disrespectful, lazy, and a very impatient man