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man, the parents they could've been...

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I know Juno claimed him as her champion when he was born and stuff, but I do wonder if a part of what endears Jason to her is that he isn't one of Zeus/Jupiter's favorites.

She probably has a big inferiority complex directly caused by Zeus cheating her. Not helped by Zeus keeping his gloating mistresses Leetoe & Smelly in her sight on Olympus and openly favoring their sons to hers.

But Jason Grace is not one of the sons he favors. Despite his power, this boy is no Hercules, he's not lucky enough to be that loved.

Maybe she sees her own children's pain in him... Ares never being able to make Zeus proud no matter what he does, Zeus being a major asshole to Hephaestus when he opposes Zeus to do the right thing, Hera's daughters never receiving the same love from Zeus that Athena and Artemis do (if he remembers them at all).

Obviously Jason's case is made worse by Beryl being... not a good mom.

Remember that Hera is the same woman who acted motherly to Heracles after he was rejected by his mother (not blaming Alcmene btw, Heracles was a product of her rape) before realizing he was one of her husbands favored bastards (who he planned to make king of HER patron city).

She has a soft spot for children like Jason.

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I still can't get over that hermes' caduceus canonically turns into a high voltage cattle prod

like,,

what the fuck is this symbolism

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NOOOOOOOOOOO

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Alright this is going to be a sensitive question to ask but some of my friends have spoken about fics where luke (🍇) other characters, some even have said he’s done that to their own characters where they were underaged and since you’re the best person I know that can speak super well about Luke, I was thinking do you think Luke would be capable of doing such thing to underage characters or ocs?

TW: DISCUSSION OF UNDERAGE RAPE, PEDOPHILIA, GROOMING AND UNDERAGE (ASWELL AS IN GENERAL) SEXUAL ACTIVITIES

So, I will start this off by saying thank you for comming to me with this anon. I know this is a very delicate topic. Which is why I want to say that I am more than welcome to have these discussions, since I think it's important to talk about these heavy things openly and seriously. That being said, my answer to that question is a resounding No. Luke would never even THINK about such a thing. Before we start (and this is by no means an attack on you or any other one of your friends) we need to remember that discussions like these are based in canon. Meaning that things such as "But Luke did it to my character" or "well Luke did it with my OC" are all worthless. Fact is I could also just aswell go and say "well Luke renounced Kronos and married my OC, he's actually loyal to the gods now because of them!". But that also wouldn't mean that Luke is suddenly not the leader of the TA anymore or suddenly loyal to the gods. So yeah, that entire part of the question is something I'm going to be ignoring for this. Now onto the real meat of it. Based on his canon actions Luke has never once shown any interest in anyone underage. He's had only two semi-romantic relationships in the entire series as a whole where he expressed even a bit of intrest. One with Thalia when she was 12 and he was 14, which was only ever implied and was immediately dropped and never picked up again when Thalia died. And one with Kellie, who was a fully grown monster and was more than eagerly consenting to a sexual relationship with Luke during BotL. Both of these cases were consensual on both ends aswell as having happened with both parties around the same age and or level of maturity. I think the reason for this conversation all comes back to the Pedo and Groomer arguments we've had about Luke ever since TLO dropped- the rape being a continuation of that. Because, fact is- the only talk of Luke liking anyone underage we ever got only ever came from that one quote in TLO and other character's POV. The quote in TLO being the one where Luke asked Annabeth if she loved him, and she in kind responding that while she USED to love him, he's like a brother to her now. Which....I'm not going to lie, yeah that looks BAD. But what I see myself needing to point out here is that the question in and off itself does not need to mean romantic love. The whole theme of Luke and Annabeth always was family. Luke was laying dying, and in my opinion most likely just wanted to know if he and Annabeth still were family.

In that sense it would be logical for Luke to say love, as in- the love between family. The way Annabeth answered that was honestly stupid in my opinion, and I genuinly do not know what Rick was thinking. The reason why Luke never clarified anything was probably because he was actively dying and just didn't have the time for it. The second instance were other characters describing the relationship between Luke and Annabeth, and thus "confirming" that Luke had a romantic interest. Here I again have to point to the fact that A)it was only a statement, never an action. And B) It was from a different character's first person POV. Such POVs can never be fully trusted by the nature of being first person. Out of universe we also have to remember that Rick is, frankly said, a hack. If you look at the newer books we can see how he regularly forgets his own characters and mischaracterizes them. He has openly stated he doesn't have a series bible, instead using the Fandom Wiki as a source to fact check. His editors also openly stated that they "barely do anything" because his "writing is already perfect." The chance that Rick just...forgot who Luke was and how his relationship to Annabeth should be isn't exactly small. Giving birth to these "confirmations" The "groomer" name has even less reason than the "pedo" name.

Grooming describes the action of an adult deliberately establishing a friendly relationship with a minor to manipulate them into certain actions or roles. We have no case of Luke ever doing that. I've mostly seen him being called a groomer in relation to Annabeth and Silena, which are both equally baseless. We first have to start off with the fact that Luke never really talked to them while they were a minor and he an adult. He met Annabeth when he was 14 and she was 7. He never once sook her out, their meeting was an accident. Even after meeting Annabeth he, on multiple occasions has expressed explicit platonic love. In The Diary of Luke Castellan he referred to himself as the "father" of the group after meeting Annabeth. Thalia in this context being the "mother". If anything that was more a hint at romance between Thalia and him than between him and Annabeth. During the main five books he also repeatedly called Annabeth his "little sister". That all also ignored the fact that Luke grooming Annabeth would mean that he got Annabeth to do something- in this case, something sexual. Which never happened. Annabeth consistently does the exact opposite of what Luke wants her to do- that being fighting for the gods. Not to mention that they never did anything remotely sexual ever. Luke knew her and was a trusted authority figure for years, we know he's very good at manipulating and talking himself into getting what he wants. If Luke truly groomed Annabeth, do you really thing absolutely nothing would have ever happened between the two in all these years? For Silena it probably comes from the fact that her saying that Luke was "charming" and "nice" as a reason for her joining and spying for the TA. Aswell as him blackmailing her to keep doing it. Again, Luke probably met Silena at camp purely by accident. Most likely while he too was a minor still. (Remember he was only 19 in TLT and had been at camp for ages prior, he knew Silena for a good amount of times based on how she talked about him) Is Silena's reason for joining the TA a bit weak? Definitely- but it also proves that it was her decision. There is no reason to believe Luke actively manipulated her into it.

The blackmailing was just that, blackmailing. Plain and simple- Luke did some fucked shit for his goals, which I'm not going to deny. But that certainly wasn't grooming. We also need to remember that it can be pretty harmful to excuse Silena's decisions as Luke "grooming" and "manipulating" her, as it strips her of her independence and abilities to make decisions for herself in the greater narrative. Having all that debunked, my personal theory as to why the fandom hangs so consistently onto these things is that they need reasons to villainize Luke. (A deeper dive into this here) Fandom as a whole seems to need a reason to justify their hatred of Luke- and the easiest way to do that is to make him a villain and evil. What is the easiest, most evil crime could commit? Easy, rape. Especially rape of children. So, with the abovementioned things combined, they just jumped to saying Luke is attracted to minors. And wants to do stuff with them even without consent. But coming back to your question, I have one last, extremely strong argument to make why Luke would NEVER do anything like that. Because, as hard as it may sound- if Luke wanted to rape someone, especially children, he would have done so already. He was the main caretaker of them at camp for a LONG time. He had minors of all ages lining up infront of him wanting to impress him, fully trusting him and his actions. Most of the minors having had bad homelives before getting there. Luke would have had an extremely easy time taking advantage of any of the campers. All while basically having free picking and choosing in terms of gender, look, age ect. And even if we say that he couldn't have done it at camp for some reason, he certainly could have done so in the TA. We all know Kronos wouldn't give much of a fuck if Luke had sexual relationships with the minors in the TA. He had a (most likely) sexual relationship with Kellie, which shows that Kronos allows romance. And he also doesn't seem to have a strong enough moral compass to stop Luke from going after kids would he want to do it. Not only would everything from above still apply in the TA, but Luke would also be their leader. Meaning an IMMENSE power imbalance between him and your average TA member. Luke, throughout all his life, was in a prime position to take advantage of children. Especially so in the TA where he had 0 consequences to fear. And the fact that he simply never did (like any decent human being if we are honest) proves in and off itself that he had no interest in anything like that. And would never even THINK of doing something like this.

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these are my mutuals. they know who they are

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My favorite wheather is thunderstorm haha and now we're having one even though it hasn't rained much yet. And it's like pitch black outside and it makes me so happy X)

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I saw one extract and I love him like this! I’m going to watch the rest of the series

watched blood of zeus guess who my favorite character is

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As a fellow Luke fan, I have so many questions cuz my biggest fear is misrepresenting my favourite characters and I also have a Luke RP acc and I wanna do him justice.

1. How do you imagine Luke pre-quest for the apples vs. after the quest?

2. Do you ship Thaluke? (PRE TTC OFC)

3. Do you believe that Luke cared about the campers even after his betrayal?

(These are the only ones I can think of for right now.)

Thanks you so much for the ask! However I must remind you that I do prefer it if asks are kept to one topic for me to seperatly answer, as otherwise it often get's too much. I'll let it slide this time, but please remember to read my bio the next time ^^

Alnway let's get on with it! 1. How do you imagine Luke pre-quest for the apples vs. after the quest?

I think, personally, he got a lot less ambitious. Pre-quest Luke was openly vying for glory like most other demigods, and we can see in the way he talks about the quest afterwards that he considered it an insult to be sent on one that was already done.

Quests and victory are huge things for demigods, so I think it's reasonable for Luke to feel like Hermes was a jerk. I mean...with all the backstory of those two, for Hermes to promise him this quest, only to then not even come up with something original? I do feel like that sent a pretty clear message to Luke.

I also think that post-quest, Luke became a lot more openly scpetical and pessimistic. Like, before he wasn't exactly thrilled about demigodlife but still had a modecum of respect and joy of fighting and getting famous as a hero. But after what happened to him with Ladon? Yeah no, that disillusionment is hitting hard.

2. Do you ship Thaluke? (PRE TTC OFC)

Canon Thaluke? No. My personal Fanon Thaluke in my AUs? I used to ship it, but now I prefer it more as a tragedy.

The truth is.....Thalia as a character makes me intensly uncomfortable. No joke. It's not even that I dislike her (though I also kinda do), she makes me uncomfy.

It's her blind obedience to the gods, and how she never really questions anything she is told by them. I mean...she litteraly died because of Hades. Who targeted her for no other reason that the fact that he wanted revenge on Zeus for what happened to Maria. And somehow she STILL blames Luke for that??? Like whut???? She litteraly has round about 0 internal conflict before deciding to kill one of her oldest and bestest friends. Only to then skip off to basically a nepobaby position within the hunters of Artemis.

Notice how she very obviously disliked them that entier book over, yet suddenly was a-okay being one when Artemis offered her the position of lieutenant? Don't tell me Zoe's death did anything for her, those two were strangers and also not exactly friendly. And don't tell me Thalia deserved that position more than other Hunters who had been with Artemis for millenia.

Thing is, I really hate blindly fanatic character who remain blindly fanatic. Who are entierly incapable or unwilling to properly question stuff despite being met wit reasons to time and time again. I read a lot of history stuff, and whenever I see this exact mentallity all I can imagine is the shit it caused to go down over basically all of human civilisation.

3. Do you believe that Luke cared about the campers even after his betrayal?

Luke's explictily stated, canon motivation for joining Kronos was that Kronos "promised a Golden Age for the Demigods". Like, I think that speaks for itself, doesn't it? Luke wasn't promised glory or riches for himself, but instead a Golden Age for ALL demigods. If Luke only cared about himself or his revenge post-betrayal, the whole reason he does all this would just vaporize into thin air.

Now don't get me wrong, he was deffinitly willing to accept their deaths for his goals. But he was at literal war, and if you want to come at Luke for that you better offer up the same scrutiny for Percy, Annabeth, Chiron and co. Because they just as willingly accepted and even partook in the killing of other demigods that belonged to the other side.

This may sound bad, but morality in wars and revolutions on large scale goverment and leadership cannot be equated to morals in peace-time. Sacrifising five people in peacetime is horrible no matter for what, sacrifising five people in wartime to win an important battle are still a tragedy that deserved to be honored- but it isn't inherently morally wrong. Why else do you think that war is such an absoloutly detestable thing that should be avoided at all costs?

At this point to the larger PJO fandom - Luke was preparring for a war just like everyone else was sooner or later for most of the books (friendly reminder that he had no part in fighting the actual Second Titan War, as at that point he was already posessed by Kronos and had no longer any control whatsoever). How about we all cut the guy some slack if you aren't willing to throw the same shade equally?

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Maybe he did and Luke throw it away 😂💀 but then he also gave him the flying shoes lol

Friendly reminder that just because Luke's fate was to be the Hero of the Great Prophecy that doesn't mean Hermes had no way of changing Luke's life. The only thing really set in stone by the prophecy was was that Luke A) Would make a choice wether to preserve or raze Olympus and B) Would die by way of a "cursed blade". What exactly that blade was or how that choice looked? Completly up in the air.

Luke was never directly prophesied to have the life he had (what May saw was not an official prophecy, mind you.) It was never written in stone that he'd have to suffer the way he had. Even if Hermes couldn't have changed to end, he could have atleats made the journey more bearable for his son. And before you come at me with "but he wasn't allowed to get involved" or any other excuse- A) Rick already plays lose and fast with the none interference rules. Poseidon activley intervened and helped Percy in his quest during TLT by sending a servant in his stead. Being in a MUCH more precarious situation than Hermes ever way. You telling me Hermes had no servant left over to like...idk, get Luke to camp or sum? B) If you wanna excuse it by saying Hermes is busy- how come he has time to fuck more women to create kids then, huh? There are Hermes kids younger than Luke. You telling me he had time for hookers but no time for his homeless son? C) "oh but Luke wouldn't have listened to him had he-" by the time of TLT. Luke would have stopped listening to him by the time of TLT. Hermes had 19 years before that to do anything and he did nothing.

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WIP that I'll probably pass onto paper to paint in watercolor.

Anyway. Hermes with baby Dionysus.

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I don't think percy and annabeth will ever get beyond 17 in RR's world no matter how long he drags out their stories but if RR actually wrote any material on percabeth's children, how confident are we that he would not name one of their kids Luke

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If you scrolled enough on this page you know that no character is safe from me when it cames to Nico's mistreatment. Not even Chiron.

I have a very grey opinion of him,I don't hate him but I also don't like him. He is in the middle of tolerance for me,because let's be honest,the guy made some questionable decisions during PJO for being the millennial teacher of legendary heroes and head of the only demigods's greek camp for years.

I see a lot of criticism about the "No one told Nico that his sister died,they were waiting foe me to do so." scene,which is a good thing because it's fucked up. Chiron is the adult here,but he didn't do shit and waited for an already stressed and guilty Percy to tell the news. And while I love Nico with all of my heart and understand that he was extremely hurt by Bianca's death,telling Percy that he should have be him to die is just adding to his trauma. The poor boy is barely 14,saw 2 people he went on a quest with die (and he already bleamed himself for their death,even tho it's not his fault,before this) and had a whole rollercoaster for his mission to save Annabeth,while dealing with camp being shit to him because Thalia was back. And what does Chiron do? Instead of helping him,he give him another emotional draining moment with a 10 years old that had to process his older sister died and now he's alone,without a family. Great job Chiron,couldn't do it better.

And when Nico run away? Percy and Annabeth were the only one searching for him at the start,but when they went to Chiron and explained the situation (without telling about his parentage),he just went on with a "Oh poor soul,hoping that he will be eaten by the monster instead of joining Luke's side." Like,what the fuck? Who the fuck say that about a 10 years old to an another child,that even tried to get him back multiple times while the adult didn't do shit? Chiron,you good here? Because I'm pretty sure that this isn't the way you need to behave with children: who cares if they are demigods,heroes,war veterans or whatever else,they are all children. It's already rare to live past 16,18 if you get lucky,don't treat them like shit.

Nico was alone in a place he didn't know,and we all know the forest isn't a safe place even if it's inside camp (look what happened during Percy's first year there-). Instead of trying to do something he just goes on with his no sense. He didn't even try to do something about it. Percy and Annabeth did. Chiron need to thanks Nico's golden heart, otherwise it wasn't going to end nicely. And beside,I'm pretty sure that being eaten alive by a monster is worst than working with other demigods for a Titan that isn't even back yet. Chiron you need to check your priorities here. Also the irony that Nico wasn't eaten or joined Kronos,and just did his own things alone in THE Labyrinth,one of the most dangerous place for demigods,will always be funny to me.

But really,where is his teacher's wisdom at? Chiron trained so many heroes for all of his life,and now that it cames to modern children,or pre-teens,he don't know what to do or how to act? This is insane even for their standard.

And even tho he is the "legal guardian" of the camp,he still doesn't do much for Camp Half-Blood. Talking with the people that suspect something? Ok. Pretending to be someone's guardian to avoid them trouble? Fine. Help maintain camp's coverage as a strawberry field? Sure. Calling for reinforcements during a war? Thanks. Making the demigods respect camp's rules? Alright. Teaching some classes there and here? Good.

But these are simple things and quite frankly the bare minimum he should do. The demigods are all abandoned to themselves,by both their parents and even by the one that should help them. He isn't the worst,but he also isn't the best.

When Thalia come back,he favored her to Percy in any way possible,and the whole "She might be the child of the profecy since she is going to turn 16 in a bit." excuse is bullshit. Luke was not even half done with his planning during TTC,the real game started at the half of BotL,so it was impossible for him to be already ready for the final battle. They all knew that,Thalia too. But no,Chiron decided to focus more on her and ignore Percy,when he could have teached both of them. Again,thanks Chiron,such a good teacher you are.

There are moments where he comes in clutch: during SoM he is the one that save them from Luke's ship,and in TLO he calls for reinforcement during the battle against Kronos,and he is kinda there if some demigod wants to talk to him. But again,most of those things are bare minimum.

I don't hate him,but I just don't understand why he is so well liked when all of the time he just does....nothing? And give Percy more stress and problems (And basically hoped that Nico would be eaten-).

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You do understand that Luke groomed and used teenagers, also asked a teenager if she loved from when she was sixteen and he was 23…

(I only dislike Luke, I don’t completely hate him, but reading your account description made me wonder…)

*sigh* ok, I’m going to try my very best to be nice and explain Luke’s character. (I only say this because I’ve made countless posts about these things already, but you seem new so I’ll explain)

First of all, Luke himself was groomed by Kronos for about 2 whole years before the events of The Lightning Thief took place. Kronos started coming to Luke in his dreams shortly after his quest to retrieve a golden apple from the Garden of Hesperides. Kronos came to Luke with his offer to help him dethrone the gods when he was upset and thinking irrationally because of his (very justified) anger towards Hermes. After this, Kronos continued to haunt Luke’s dreams, making him think that they both had the same goals.

Luke had always wanted a better life for demigods and for their godly parents to treat them better, he never wanted to hurt other demigods (as is plainly said in The Diary of Luke). While Kronos just wanted to gain power over Olympus again and to reshape the world. However, Kronos convinced Luke that he didn’t want to bring harm to demigods and that he could help Luke achieve his goal.

When Luke started to realize that Kronos just wanted power and that he no longer wanted to help Kronos, Kronos tortured him with nightmares. He was verbally and mentally abusive, driving Luke to near insanity until he broke and became Kronos’ perfect little soldier.

“But Luke groomed and used teenagers!” First of all, what do you think that the gods and Chiron do to all of the children at camp Half blood? They use those poor kids to run their errands and fight their wars under the guise of offering protection from monsters in the mortal world. And Camp half blood had been around long before the Titan Army was established.

Secondly, do you think that the gods are such good parents to their children that they didn’t have other kids who would willingly want to dethrone them? Because we have at least 2 examples of demigods who wanted to dethrone the gods for their own reasons. Ethan Nakamura and Alabaster Torrington. Ethan could’ve cared less about putting Kronos in power, he just wanted minor gods and their children to be treated better. Then Alabaster couldn’t have cared less about Luke but did want to see Kronos in power only because he would treat his mother, Hecate, better than Zeus did. So to say that Luke groomed every demigod who joined is completely ignoring the fact that the gods were terrible parents who have wronged so many of their children.

And third, Kronos was the one who wanted that army to fight against the army that Camp Half Blood had been building for years. Kronos was the one with all of the control, because once a demigod joined they were put under a haze. They were under Kronos’s influence and didn’t come out of it until Luke killed Kronos. So to blame Luke for the use of those demigods is also completely ignoring who had the true power in the situation. The gods and the Titans started this feud hundreds of years ago, Luke, Percy and the other demigods were just dragged into it.

Now about the whole Annabeth thing. I’m 100% sure that when Luke asked her if she had loved him, it was meant as in platonic/ familial love. As we see in The Diary of Luke (the only story that we ever see from Luke’s POV) we always see him thinking of Annabeth as nothing but a little sister or even a daughter. The only person that we ever see him show romantic feelings towards is Thalia when they were on the run together before going to camp. Well, except for Kelli, but I feel like that’s a special kind of situation.

“But Percy said-.” Percy is the most unreliable narrator out there, and he was a jealous teenage boy. Of course when Percy has a huge crush on Annabeth and he hears Luke ask Annabeth if she loved him, that Percy is going to think he meant it in a romantic way! He doesn’t have all of the information about practically anything going on! Now I’m not saying anything against Percy, but again he didn’t have all of the information and was just going off of what he thought he knew.

“But Annabeth said in the Heroes of Olympus series that-!” In this situation, Annabeth is also an unreliable narrator. Think about it, if you have or had a crush on someone and they asked you if you ever liked or loved them, aren’t you going to automatically assume that they mean it in the same way as you do? Aren’t you going to assume that they meant in a romantic way and think that they also had a crush on you? And again, I’m not saying anything bad against Annabeth but, the only time we get to hear from Luke’s POV about Annabeth he’s always referring to her as his little sister. So, are we going to believe what Luke says in his own point of view? Or are we going to believe what two people without all of the information think Luke meant?

So yeah, if you were wondering if I like Luke, the answer is yes! He’s one of my absolute favorite characters because his story is so interesting and intriguing to me.

No, I don’t blame Luke for what the gods and Kronos caused. I don’t think that he’s some evil monster like most of the fandom seems to think he is for some reason. Luke is a victim of the gods and Kronos. He was used just like every other demigod and in the end, died a hero.

I hold the actual villains of the story (Kronos and the gods) accountable for their actions instead of just blaming everything on one of their victims.

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You do understand that Luke groomed and used teenagers, also asked a teenager if she loved from when she was sixteen and he was 23…

(I only dislike Luke, I don’t completely hate him, but reading your account description made me wonder…)

*sigh* ok, I’m going to try my very best to be nice and explain Luke’s character. (I only say this because I’ve made countless posts about these things already, but you seem new so I’ll explain)

First of all, Luke himself was groomed by Kronos for about 2 whole years before the events of The Lightning Thief took place. Kronos started coming to Luke in his dreams shortly after his quest to retrieve a golden apple from the Garden of Hesperides. Kronos came to Luke with his offer to help him dethrone the gods when he was upset and thinking irrationally because of his (very justified) anger towards Hermes. After this, Kronos continued to haunt Luke’s dreams, making him think that they both had the same goals.

Luke had always wanted a better life for demigods and for their godly parents to treat them better, he never wanted to hurt other demigods (as is plainly said in The Diary of Luke). While Kronos just wanted to gain power over Olympus again and to reshape the world. However, Kronos convinced Luke that he didn’t want to bring harm to demigods and that he could help Luke achieve his goal.

When Luke started to realize that Kronos just wanted power and that he no longer wanted to help Kronos, Kronos tortured him with nightmares. He was verbally and mentally abusive, driving Luke to near insanity until he broke and became Kronos’ perfect little soldier.

“But Luke groomed and used teenagers!” First of all, what do you think that the gods and Chiron do to all of the children at camp Half blood? They use those poor kids to run their errands and fight their wars under the guise of offering protection from monsters in the mortal world. And Camp half blood had been around long before the Titan Army was established.

Secondly, do you think that the gods are such good parents to their children that they didn’t have other kids who would willingly want to dethrone them? Because we have at least 2 examples of demigods who wanted to dethrone the gods for their own reasons. Ethan Nakamura and Alabaster Torrington. Ethan could’ve cared less about putting Kronos in power, he just wanted minor gods and their children to be treated better. Then Alabaster couldn’t have cared less about Luke but did want to see Kronos in power only because he would treat his mother, Hecate, better than Zeus did. So to say that Luke groomed every demigod who joined is completely ignoring the fact that the gods were terrible parents who have wronged so many of their children.

And third, Kronos was the one who wanted that army to fight against the army that Camp Half Blood had been building for years. Kronos was the one with all of the control, because once a demigod joined they were put under a haze. They were under Kronos’s influence and didn’t come out of it until Luke killed Kronos. So to blame Luke for the use of those demigods is also completely ignoring who had the true power in the situation. The gods and the Titans started this feud hundreds of years ago, Luke, Percy and the other demigods were just dragged into it.

Now about the whole Annabeth thing. I’m 100% sure that when Luke asked her if she had loved him, it was meant as in platonic/ familial love. As we see in The Diary of Luke (the only story that we ever see from Luke’s POV) we always see him thinking of Annabeth as nothing but a little sister or even a daughter. The only person that we ever see him show romantic feelings towards is Thalia when they were on the run together before going to camp. Well, except for Kelli, but I feel like that’s a special kind of situation.

“But Percy said-.” Percy is the most unreliable narrator out there, and he was a jealous teenage boy. Of course when Percy has a huge crush on Annabeth and he hears Luke ask Annabeth if she loved him, that Percy is going to think he meant it in a romantic way! He doesn’t have all of the information about practically anything going on! Now I’m not saying anything against Percy, but again he didn’t have all of the information and was just going off of what he thought he knew.

“But Annabeth said in the Heroes of Olympus series that-!” In this situation, Annabeth is also an unreliable narrator. Think about it, if you have or had a crush on someone and they asked you if you ever liked or loved them, aren’t you going to automatically assume that they mean it in the same way as you do? Aren’t you going to assume that they meant in a romantic way and think that they also had a crush on you? And again, I’m not saying anything bad against Annabeth but, the only time we get to hear from Luke’s POV about Annabeth he’s always referring to her as his little sister. So, are we going to believe what Luke says in his own point of view? Or are we going to believe what two people without all of the information think Luke meant?

So yeah, if you were wondering if I like Luke, the answer is yes! He’s one of my absolute favorite characters because his story is so interesting and intriguing to me.

No, I don’t blame Luke for what the gods and Kronos caused. I don’t think that he’s some evil monster like most of the fandom seems to think he is for some reason. Luke is a victim of the gods and Kronos. He was used just like every other demigod and in the end, died a hero.

I hold the actual villains of the story (Kronos and the gods) accountable for their actions instead of just blaming everything on one of their victims.

[fluffanonn]

Aw young innocent Zeus 😓🥺

'To meet your father as a child/when he was younger (you cant save him)' from those 'if you know yourself what are you choosing?' Tiktok slideshows

but make it Post-ToA! Apollo and either before or a little while after the Titanomachy! Zeus

Bright-eyed young Zeus who wants to be a good and kind king and not like his father meeting Apollo who knows what Zeus turned out to be.

@yikesy @hazel-nethzzz