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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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Morning Doodle: “You don’t look remotely fatigued. It’s not normal.” “I think fatigue suits you, Zoya. The pallor. The shadows beneath your eyes. You look like a heroine in a novel.” “I look like a woman about to step on your foot.”(Leigh Bardugo’s King of Scars CH 11)

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What if Kaz joined Sturmhond's crew

Listen, hear me out.

Kaz is bored as fuck in Rule of Wolves. That's so obvious. He built an underground tunnel under half the city, he expanded Dregs territory, he bought a new gambling parlour, he upgraded the Crow Club. He steals things for fun. But it's getting so boring.

"What are you without your vengance" "What will you do when there are no more scores to settle?" Kaz's whole life has been about revenge, and now that Pekka is gone, he doesn't know what to do with himself. This was made clear in both show and book (the quotes above) when the Jordie hallucination and Inej both ask him what he will do when there's no more revenge to exact. He never really thought about it but now his revenge is done. It's completed. Early. Kaz mentions how he was going to use his haul to start a new gang and destroy Pekka, but he clearly never thought it would be so soon. Now, he doesn't know what to do. He's rich. He's the king of the Barrel. He's got his gang. There is nothing left to do.

There's nothing in Ketterdam left to occupy him. He wants to be the king of it, and he loves the city, but he's bored out of his skull. So he goes on a voyage. He leaves his lieutenant in charge, and his gang have orders to continue terrorising the Barrel whilst he's gone, but Kaz personally slips away onto the sea. With Nikolai.

I chose Nikolai and not Inej because of how similar Kaz and Nikolai are. Nikolai slips away from his kingly duties, Kaz from his. Nikolai has an unquiet mind, so does Kaz. They both love to put on a show and a disguise and Nikolai's reputation on the sea is pretty ruthless. He fed a guy's fingers to a dog. Kaz would love that. Also when Inej finds out he went on the sea but on a ship that isn't hers it'll be funny. Do you see my vision?

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Six of Crows: A Comic Adaptation

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Percy Jackson's fatal flaw

You know, I really wish that Percy's fatal flaw would have come into play and would actually have consequences.

Because, the thing is, I just saw a post about Percabeth saying that Annabeth has abandonment issues but Percy whose fatal flaw is loyalty will ALWAYS choose her-

and I feel like that is such a beautiful, bittersweet concept.......

Except it's never actually executed.

We never see Percy having actual consequences for his flaw. We never see him choosing Annabeth over something very important. We never see him pay the price for that.

Imagine Percy choosing Annabeth over a group of demigods and said demigods dying. Imagine how that would impact their relationship. It would be so sweet and haunting for both of them.

Maybe not something fatal. Maybe have Percy choose Annabeth again and again-over important events or friends, have him choose her?

I'm not saying that he shouldn't spend time with his friends and family, I'm just saying that Percy always choosing Annabeth ultimately falls flat if there are no consequences as a result of it.

I mean, OG PJO Percabeth could definitely have been written better (CAN ANNABETH NOT HIT PERCY ALL THE TIME?!) and this would have been the cherry on top.

Percy's fatal flaw could have been so interesting, but in the end, it went nowhere, which is very disappointing.

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I seriously do not trust Ricky-doo-daa to write this but. A Luke Castellan book that’s basically just his and Halcyons diary entries. It starts off with a bit of Halcyon but we see the dates are getting farther between them like Halcyon just doesn’t see a pint in writing when there’s nothing happening. and then we see Luke’s first entry. And then we see a lot more of Luke and his troubles and we see him start scheming things and we slowly watch the entries get angrier and sloppier while the dates become farther. But then they get closer but content remains about the same. But then it gets even sloppier and more so scared anxious depressed suicidal than angry. He starts forgetting to put the dates so we don’t know for sure when he wrote it but we can imagine it’s near the end. We watch his slow descent into madness. We watch him go from trying to destroy everything to only trying to destroy himself or at least only destroy the entitty that wants to use him (Kronos). We see him saying goodbye and that this may be his last entry. But there are a handful more. The few moments of clarity while Kronos was in control. These last few entries vary from the scribbles of a madman scheming and plotting an obviously failure and a scared teenager regretting everything and crying for help. Then they just stop. Then the rest of the pages in the book are just empty. There is no ending. Well there was an ending. It just wasn’t able to be recorded in this diary because the narrator Luke finally succeeded in destroying himself as well as the cruel entity that used him. No more Luke. No more Kronos. No more reason to write in that diary. The end.

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I never thought I'd say this but Rick being so involved in this tv show was the worst thing that could've happened to it.

First, it makes close to impossible to critique anything without The Cult of Riordan jumping you and shutting down each and every discussion with responses like this one.

Secondly, and other people have said this before (including Rick himself), he's using the show basically as a rewrite — and unfortunately, he's a much worse writer nowadays. Maybe pjotv would be better in the hands of someone willing to treat it purely as an adaptation, and not a chance of a soft reboot of the books and to spite the movies

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Cabin 19: Nemesis ⚖️🗡️