Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Legends

Charon is tall, elegant, and handsome, with chocolate-colored skin and bleached-blond hair, shaved military style. But most of the time he appears as an ugly old man, with a greasy beard and a cone-shaped hat. His eyes are empty, full of death and despair, as Percy Jackson puts it. Charon wears tortoise-shell shades and a silk Italian suit that matched his hair. A black rose was pinned to his lapel under a silver name tag. While in the Underworld, Charon wears a black tattered robe, while his appearance starts to resemble that of a skeleton.

Charon was stylish and witty in his answers. He mentions that he wants a raise because he would like to buy more Italian suits, which he loves. Charon is shown to have a British accent, but as if he learned English as a second language.

Charon was born from the primordial goddess of night, Nyx, through parthenogenesis (by herself). At some point, Charon became the ferryman of Hades. He carries the souls of the newly deceased across the River Styx, that divided the world of the living from the dead. A coin to pay Charon for passage, usually an obolus or drachma, was sometimes placed in or on the mouth of a dead person. He sometimes grudgingly allows the living to enter Underworld such as Hercules, Orpheus, Aeneas, and Psyche.