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hoo really should’ve capitalized on percy’s loyalty bc in pjo it’s built up to be a dangerous thing except it ended up that the narrative needed percy *because* of his fatal flaw, not in spite of it. so it gives a false sense of security like “oh well we heard this speech before and it didn’t matter.” the payoff would’ve been huge

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Percy’s promise to Luke in pjo to never let the gods mistreat their children again and using his one gift from the gods to ensure they would do exactly that + the gods nearly immediately breaking all of their promises in hoo and forcing percy back into the fight against his will and giving him amnesia + Percy becoming rightfully angry and resentful and sympathizing with what Luke did + the head canon that instead of getting a nosebleed in the blood of Olympus Percy gets a sword injury across his face, getting a scar like Luke’s….

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I know percy and thalia and nico are no more or less related than any other demigod but in my heart they are cousins in the most literal sense like that's a family right there

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wtf does "she looked surprised—me comforting her, kind of switching things up" mean. sorry did u read pjo percy is constantly comforting annabeth. does botl mean nothing to you.

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Bro stop making me think abt percabeth i’ll cry

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also like. not to rehash old shit but I am so forever pissed about the fact that riordan was SO adamant that percy and annabeth had to take a step back and let other people be the heroes at the end of boo just to fucking. turn around and write about how percy has to get recommendation letters aka just him being the one those fuckers turn to when they need shit done for them. like did you really think that one through there buddy. "they needed to realize that they're not always going to be the ones doing everything" smash cut to them being the ones doing everything always. you could have revisited and expanded literally any other character's storyline, background, etc. instead you completely missed your own goddamn point and retroactively made the message pointless. and then you had the AUDACITY to shove it in with the original series instead of making it its own??? the original series where they were the only ones who could do anything....I'm smacking you upside the head so hard I didn't like your fucking point but at least I didn't walk facefirst into it and still miss it.

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I wish I could be optimistic about the second pjo season, I really do, but every time I see that hopeful sentiment of "maybe the show runners will listen to the complaints about season 1 and fix it going forward!!" it reminds me of another notable time that RR's work received a not insignificant amount of criticism (the Blood of Olympus), and in response he wrote a passive aggressive one-shot wherein the seven literally just sit and verbally justify everything that happened asdlfksdjfsdf

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“With great power, comes great need to take a nap, wake me up later”

—Nico Di Angelo

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trying to explain that I don’t want Percy to rebel against the gods in an “edgy, I want him to be the villain” kind of way but in a “since the optimistic ending of the last olympian was ruined by hoo, and Percy was forced back into the fight and was distinctively portrayed as becoming jaded and resentful, you have to follow through with the repercussions and implications of doing so since the gods clearly have not changed, and that they ARE the bad guys that need to be taken down, and Percy wouldn’t break his promise to Luke nor stand idly by as demigods continue to suffer at the hands of the gods” kind of way

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it is so dumb that in hoo the narrative blames percy for not double checking that the gods freed calypso. first of all it is not his fault that they broke their promise. second of all he was abducted less than four months after they made the promise, then he was in a coma, then he woke up with amnesia, then he had to fight in a new war. he was BUSY

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yeah but

what if percy didn’t catch annabeth in time

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This Kid's Not Alright

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thinking about a world in which RR actually committed to the path he set Percy on in hoo (wherein Percy has become jaded, angry, and resentful at the gods for breaking their sworn promises, is frequently sympathizing with Luke, is getting more and more powerful, and frequently losing himself to wrath) and instead of the subsequent Percy Jackson books being about getting recommendation letters, we could have gotten a trilogy exploring a fallen hero arc for Percy (that would ultimately have a positive resolution to it.)

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“average demigod goes on 3 quests a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average demigod goes on 0 quests per year. Percy Jackson, who lives in New York & goes on over 10,000 quests each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

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something i feel like we don’t talk about nearly enough is the fact that percy is healed by water.

it’s so normal to us because it’s one of the first abilities we discovered he has. and it makes complete sense. but like… he’s the only demigod with that ability. jason doesn’t get healed by a gust of wind. hazel doesn’t get healed if she touches a diamond. nico doesn’t get healed if a skeleton gives him a hug. annabeth doesn’t get healed if she walks into a library.

like percy could be stabbed in the chest multiple times, he could break every bone in his body, he could be slammed in the head resulting in a crushed skull and hemorrhaging, but get him to some water fast enough and not only is he good as new in no time, but he’s stronger and freshly rejuvenated.

it’s insane when you think about it. no one else can do that. do you know how hard it is to kill percy? even if he’s not near the ocean, he can be healed by rivers and lakes and streams and ponds and all sorts of water sources. water recharges him. it makes him immediately stronger.

that’s a huge reason why i argue percy is the most powerful demigod. yes, he’s shown he has incredible super strength and super speed. yes, he’s a legendary sword fighter - arguably the best one alive. yes, he has control over air, land, and sea. (deadly hurricanes with heavy winds and thunder and lighting, huge volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc.) yes, he’s capable of mass destruction. yes he can single handlely cause natural disasters and mass casualties. and yes, he’s capable of controlling people’s bodily fluids, including their blood and saliva. he is terrifying

but even if someone manages to beat him, he dips one toe in some water and he’s immediately healed and even stronger than before. whether the injury is internal and external. he’s healed all on his own. no ambrosia or nectar or external remedies necessary.

guys. percy is insane. he’s way overpowered.

and i love it.

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oh and I sincerely believe that Poseidon telling Percy "You're my favorite child" was absolutely a manipulation tactic/power play and it worked

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idk if this is an unpopular opinion or not, because i’ve seen a lot of people say stuff like “percy knows better than to go against annabeth”

but see, most people - anyone with a brain, really - are way too scared to challenge annabeth. because 99% of the time, she’s right. she’s always the most intelligent person in the room. shes not only logical and strategic, but she’s sharp, cunning, and even manipulative if she has to be. (as we’ve seen when she’s faced monsters). no one goes against her. one wants to, no one dares.

expect percy. if there’s one thing he knows how to do, it’s argue with annabeth. it’s like breathing. but unlike when they were kids, they don’t truly fight over stupid things. sure, they bicker and squabble over little things, because that’s who they are as a couple. but percy is the only person who will actually challenge her on something real. something big. he doesn’t do it lightly, because he knows how smart she is. but if he truly believes there’s another angle to something, or that she’s wrong because maybe she doesn’t have all the information, or maybe his heart is just in a different place - he’ll go against her. we see it in mark of athena a couple times. (their face-off kinda puts hazel in a trance). in BotL, there’s an argument between them, and i remember it’s stated that watching them argue is like watching an intense tennis match. its heated and fast paced. people make fun of percy for being dumb, and yet percy is the only one that can keep up with annabeth. he knows her better than anyone. he doesn’t think the same as her, but he knows how she thinks. so yeah, he will call her out. he’ll tell her he disgrees. he’ll even tell her that she’s wrong. and people think he’s crazy when he does it.

but annabeth respects the hell out of him for it. and while she might dismiss anyone else immediately, she won’t with him. because she respects him tremendously, and knows if he’s challenging her, there’s something to it. it doesn’t mean she’s gonna let him win, or that she’s gonna back down, because they are both ridiculously stubborn and determined. but he’ll go head to head with her. he’ll have a screaming match with her. and she loves him for it. she respects him for it. and she finds it ridiculously attractive.

because percy and annabeth are equals.