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i have this deranged headcanon that had annabeth died while percy had the Curse he would have been forced to ascend, and the poisonous air slowly killing her in tartarus was bringing him closer and closer to divinity as his mortal tether slowly started to wither

oh my god. look this is sincerely the coolest take on that entire dynamic and we can be deranged (complimentary) together because I sincerely believe that if mortals cannot survive tartarus for an extended period of time, you either die or become something other and we were witnessing that happen in real time to Annabeth and Percy respectively, and this hypothetical just adds a whole other layer to it. the notion that the mortal tie that bound them becoming their very undoing...

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im so much more interested in a hoo that lets Percy keep the status and power he'd left off with in the Last Olympian and explores how he grapples with that instead of immediately forcing him back into the role of the underdog at the expanse of his prior development. Let the fact that he alone has the title the "Savior of Olympus" mean something. Let the fact that he is the sole survivor of the great prophecy mean something. Let the Curse of Achilles mean something. Let us see how it's a curse and how it could warp his sense of self. Let Percy be on a completely different playing field than the rest of the seven (or even the other children of the big three at this point) and show us how it alienates him.

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Percy with a cap that says women and men want me, fish respect me

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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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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