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Luke's canon aesthetic

VS

The aesthetic he could have had (had things been better)

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to this day im still obsessed with why the fuck luke was missing a piece of his chest when percy found him in the sarcophagus in botl. “a clean black hole the size of a bullet wound, right where his heart should’ve been.” then kronos’ first words out of the sarcophagus being “this body has been well prepared.” what the fuck

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one of thalia’s lacys is seeing percabeth so in love and then having to reminisce about all the things she never had/never will have with luke

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If I was Luke Castellan and I found out that Athena's kids tend to get sent on a doomed quest looking for the Athena Parthenos, and I also had a lil sister/cousin who is a daughter of Athena who REALLY wants to go on a quest, and I myself also got unbearably traumatized on my own quest to the Hesperides, then you can bet your ass that I would become very, VERY CONCERNED that the Gods are gonna get her killed at some point.

I might even be convinced to uproot the whole system because fuck those guys.

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I FINISHED I THINK!!

It’s so upsetting to me that some parts of the fandom treat her like she’s a full responsible adult who knows pretty much anything, bc she wasn’t. She was 12, idk why people forget that

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thinking about thalia desperately calling for luke as the furies and hellhounds are swarming her on half-blood hill. even after she told him to grab annabeth and run. because luke always came when she called. he always saved her and she's twelve and she's scared. but now it's too late. and the last thing luke heard was thalia calling his name

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I'll say it once and don't ever!! make me say it again: Luke is wildly different from Octavian because while Luke was a victim of the oppressive killing machine of a system that the gods put up, Octavian not only benefited from it but reinforced the hierarchy.

Luke Catellan was a revolutionary that lost sight of what was right, but came from the right place; and at last, he understood, sacrificing himself for his people and making ammend for his mistakes.

Octavian is an opressive tyrant who never cared about anything or anyone but himself; his death was not a sacrifice but an inevitable self-destruction, caused only by his hunger for glory and power.

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Hc that every demigod that fought in the second titan war and survived is constantly muttering “should’ve joined luke”

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What do you think Luke was thinking about everyone simping over him in TLT?

Like, it's a fact most of the Camp had a crush on him, gossiping about how he's hot — Luke CANNOT not noticed it. But like…

Annabeth and Percy. The fucking twelve y/o who's blushing like hell; Annabeth hyperventilating and about to passed out.

…I would be creeped out as hell, if I was Luke. Especially with Annabeth, since she's fucking creep (not at 12; when this thing still presents at her 17) — not only she's like a sister for him, but more sister-daughter if we're talking about his own POV.

I mean, there's no way he didn't see it! So he's just??? “I swear they will get over it, just ignore this shit. Anyway you're leaving soon,” a sigh of relief.

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pov titan army recruitment numbers are down

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Long awaited Kronos Luke headcanons….. I don’t know if these make sense

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hes just a little guy

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If we're going to talk about parentification in PJO,Luke feels like the prime example of it,lol. Not only that,but he never seemed to have any reliable authority figure in his life. In fact,I'd dare say most of his "pure evil" moments in early books were him snapping after all the trauma he had to go through.

THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT. I think most readers of the books just completely gloss over the fact that Luke never once had someone to look after him properly, yet he always had to look after others. May was insane, she couldn't have raised Luke properly even if she loved him. That boy was basically forced to raise and take care of himself ever since he can remember. Then he ran away at the age of nine, he hadn't even reached the double digits, and was already out on the streets. During that time he meant Thalia and Annabeth, and based on The Diary of Luke Castellan we know that Luke pretty much immediately took to taking care of Annabeth from the get go. He knew her for less than a minute and already compared himself, Thalia and her to a family, with him as the Dad. Luke was fourteen when all that happened, you really think that this is healthy? Then when they do get to camp there's still no adult to take care of them. Thalia dies, he gets separated from Annabeth and shoved into the overcrowded Hermes cabin. Can you imagine what that's like? All your life you are forced to take care of yourself and are the only one looking out for someone even younger, and then when you get to the place that's supposed to be safe for you, you realize all the other kids still have to take care of themselves. Just now you have another kid who's supposed to look after you. Luke becoming the Hermes counselor really was just the last straw in his long line of parentification. Imagine being a teenager and suddenly the adults around you tell you that from now on, you are in charge of a HUGE group of other kids. The Hermes cabin was the largest cabin of CHB with MANY demigods of different backgrounds and parentages, yet Luke was still completely left on his own to figure it out. You think that doesn't fuck with you? Most bemoan Bianca's fate having to look after Nico during that time in the school or so, imagine how horrid she would have had it had she been homeless with the guy for a while and then was also forced to take care of like- 30+ different Nicos. 'Cause this is exactly what happened to Luke.

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Help me to stay off from thinking about thaluke and how Rick messed up Thalia.

Okay, what fandom (and Percy Jackson News acc) loves to say? Thalia was revived, discovered that Luke joined Kronos and the boy she once knew is no more?

But! Thalia still talking how Luke never would let her down! So let me tell it straight: Thalia isn't mad at him for poisoning her tree. She's actually pretty chill about Annabeth being kidnapped, aka, "yes, she's in danger but not in the way they can kill her, cause Luke wouldn't be okay with that" (which true, since he talked Atlas out of killing Annabeth and healed her).

And after all of that she's suddenly worked up about the whole “He's a traitor” thing on the cliff cause Luke asked her to join him and Kronos—

Why? Why the fuck Thalia gives a damn about Kronos and the gods? As a kid Thalia spent two years on the run, hunted by monsters on the orders of Hades, cursing the gods and believing that they has no right to rule the world, died because of this fucking Hades, fell into a coma, and now — for some reason — she's give a shit about some Kronos and The Olympian gods? Why?

And do not give me that "Kronos is evil" shit — Thalia doesn't know. While what she is know — the person she loved joined that Kronos. And do you want to say she had no hesitation? Distrust towards Chiron and all he said? Yeah, there was Annabeth, but let's be real — Thalia knew this 7-year-old child for a month or so. They never were friends, much less best friends as with you-know-who.

Rick fucked up everything he could.

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But a chair, sunlight, flowers: these are not to be dismissed. I am alive, I live, I breathe, I put my hand out, unfolded, into the sunlight.

Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

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