Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Legends

Daedalus appeared to be in his fifties. He had short gray hair and a clipped gray beard. He dressed in black mountain-climbing pants and a bronze breastplate strapped over his Camp Half-Blood t-shirt. When meeting him again in his workshop, he was dressed in jeans and boots, but still had on the camp t-shirt. He had a sword by his side at all times.

Daedalus was incredibly intelligent, but could also be a coward at times. He tended to run and hide from his problems instead of facing them, even hiding from death itself for nearly two millennia. He was also a very sad and lonely person, claiming to only work for himself. When he was younger (during his first lifetime), he loved to invent and considered the Labyrinth his greatest creation. He prided himself so much on his intelligence, that when his nephew began to show signs of being even smarter than he was, he became jealous and bitter, eventually leading him to kill the young boy. When confronted about his flaws however, he is able to do the right thing and even sacrificed himself to save others, even knowing he would not receive a fair trial in the Underworld thanks to Minos, as the King had become one of the Underworld Judges, being a son of Zeus and having experience with law and order.

A skilled inventor and artificer, Daedalus was hired by Minos of Crete, to create the Labyrinth, in order to house the Minotaur. Daedalus was offered a deal that when the Olympians fall, he would be placed as the ruler of the Underworld so he could have his son and nephew back, a deal which he accepted. He also took the deal so he could finally be rid of King Minos, the king who had followed him for revenge even after his death. However, Daedalus asked Nico di Angelo to release his soul and allow him to die, as he can no longer run from his past and his sacrifice would save Camp Half-Blood. While in the Underworld, Hades gives him a special punishment; to build overpasses in the Fields of Asphodel to help ease the congestion of souls. It is a punishment he enjoys and he gets to see Perdix on the weekends.