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adult damian and jon chillaxing in a field🖤

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dick grayson being damian’s parent is what i live for, especially when it lets damian act like a kid for once

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colored-in sketch of jason and reyna (pre HoO)

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x I plead the fifth

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no one can make me believe that jason and reyna spoke in ENGLISH w eachother lol they're both latin freaks and discussed fully in latin that it became a lil awkward when they'd spoke english to one another (which is my imagined justification as to why they both found it soo difficult to connect after he became greek-ish, and why reyna was so put off by how unroman he became)

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idea: pjo short story and additional content book (like the demigod diaries or smthg similar), only about jason grace

it could be a collection of stories about him, even drawing on the latin phrases „in memorium“ or „memento mori“ focusing on his childhood in new rome, meeting reyna, maybe a snippet from the argo ii with leo and piper, his role in the titan war, getting his memory’s back, etc. it would be a great way to make him a more interesting character, and rectify the lack of energy (in my opinion) put into his character in HoO

(or, i could just read fanfiction)

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thank you for tagging me!

me (right) and my oc kal (left)

tagging: @jayfeather1789 @cupio-audire-cicadae @coulours-smells-noises

writer vs oc

@seastarblue tagged me on this a while ago and i finally had time to get to it!

rules: use this picrew to make yourself and an oc

here's me and enzo (p:n) :]

i have ._. resting face due to the autism. i am filled with joy and whimsy i promise

tagging @oh-no-another-idea @my-cursed-prince @walkman-cat @trixierosewrites and anyone that wants to do this !

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“jason is so cold and inconsiderate” his natural instinct when he found out nico was staying at camp was to hug him tightly but he restrained himself because nico mentioned to jason ONCE that he doesn't like being touched. consent KING

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okay fuck it im speaking my truth

jason's handwriting is completely illegible, no curves, he's missing a whole ass 4 letters so he can't even spell his name right (he spells it "IASON C-RACE), and the only reason his signature works is because it's so unusual no one can copy it. the closest anyone has gotten is leo, who was running off of 2 hours of sleep, diet coke, and sheer fucking force of will at the time.

jason "what's a zero?" grace (those were invented after the roman empire). jason except he has no clue what g, j, u, or w are. jason except he's really smart in select subjects and quite literally the dumbest man alive in others. he only uses roman numerals for a while and eventually switches to the regular 10 digit thing after enough time with piper and leo.

he can't read english. he simply cant. he knows caesar cipher and morse code and latin but he can't read english. he speaks with a thick latin accent and it gets worse when he's upset. we were robbed of jason actually using proper latin. he should have been cursing in his mother tongue. give this bastard an accent im begging you rick he should have one.

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So let's finally talk about it. There's very few things that can actually make me mad on PJO fandom. Calling Percy dumb is the first one. It makes me seethe in rage. And among the other ones is calling Jason Grace boring.

What do you think is worse than trauma? You guessed it. Childhood trauma. Jason Grace is one of the most tragic PJO characters ever. You could almost say the quest with the Seven was one of the better things that happened to him.

Let's recap his life real quick.

Absolutely terrible mother who dumped him near Lupas territory when he was literally 2 years old. And the fact that he would be better off with Lupa than with Beryl Grace is just a testament to how shit of a mother and person she was.

Then he had to win Lupa's approval while she trained him when he was a literal toddler. If you think that's the end of it, it's not even close. Then he was sent to the camp. It was pleasant, as pleasant as a child-soldier factory can be. Which is not at all.

Being the son of Jupiter, he had insane expectations and prejudices forced upon him, along with a certain caged way of living. Fight a certain way, behave a certain way, think a certain way, and repeat. A monotonous, cyclic existence with no escape and no way for self thinking. After all, the Romans are about as creative as a marble is sharp. Imagine it, a child being raised in the legion, by the legion, molded to be the perfect soldier and Praetor who should have only the Legions benefit in mind with no opinions of his own.

Anyone, anyone would go insane and lose their mind because this is torture, complete, and utter torture. But do you know what's worse, that Jason didn't know how the world was supposed to be. Whatever he was used to living, he believed to be the normal thing. He had no idea the things that happened to him were wrong for a long time. In fact, he strived to be even more perfect, all for what? The approval of a god that was his father? A god he had never seen or heard from? That in itself is the tragedy of most Roman demigods or just demigods in general. But at least the Greek ones get to see them every once in a while.

I think Reyna was the first to see his as his own person and to give his individual opinions actual importance. Because she knew what it felt like to live a life of servitude and imprisonment. Under Circe and the pirates. I like to think that's how they bonded. By making each other's lives a bit happier than their former bleak prospects. And I bet they were super close. You can't convince me otherwise. Which is why I will never forgive Rick for ruining their relationship over Piper of all people.

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Then, of course, he was demigod too on top of that, so his life was obviously and decidedly terrible. Being sent on fatal missions? Having the responsibility of not only his own life but his comrades life thrust upon him? CAN YOU IMAGINE LIVING LIKE THAT?? THE ABJECT HORROR OF A LIFE LIKE THAT?

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If that's not enough his even more repulsive and terrible godly father fucking offers him to Hera to appease her rage like he is some sort of bloody object. An object to be sold. A fuckinhg APOLOGY GIFT. And then what does Hera do to him? She wipes his memories, sends him to a foreign land which was previously considered enemy territory by the Camp he grew up in, forces fake memories upon him of fake friends, and sent him on another death quest. But at least Leo was one of the nicer things about that whole situation. I won't be touching the wreck that is Jiper with a ten foot pole.

And on, of course, he also gets nearly killed by the same goddess he was offered to as an apology gift. If that was enough, he would find out about the existence of his sister who had grown up and gone her own way, thinking he was dead and now was basically a stranger to him? Yeah wow.

And then everything else from the series happens like dear God, him and Percy are practically drowning in trauma. With Hazel, Nico and then Leo after them.

But at least Percy had Sally (even though the reason he put up with Gabe and his mental and physical abuse was Sally) and even though he felt like Sally was always sending him away and no longer wanted him which was fair of him to think but a grave misunderstanding. Sally was still the best thing in his life. Percy had someone to live for something to live forward to even though he was practically almost dying every year, which kept adding to his trauma. And Poseidon, he cared, acknowledged, and helped Percy. The bare minimum and Poseidon actually did even more.

We can assume Jason also had similar experiences with neither a mother's unconditional love nor a god's genuine care and love.

I am not going to say the Camp point because being the son of Jupiter, Jason had certain assurances, but Percy was practically ostracized or badly treated till book 3.

The only good thing that happened in Jason's life was meeting Reyna, the other Seven, and being friends with them, Nico and his sister, and also not falling in Tartarus, so yeah man's living his best life.

So no Jason Grace isn't boring, he is the most in depth character who had his autonomy and childhood stolen, his interests and opinions razed and his entire life molded and shaped for him, turning his mind and body into a tool to serve so called greater interests of Gods and Camp Jupiter. It's like ridiculing a blind man for not being able to see.

Next time, think twice before making that absolutely thoughtless, mindless, wildly inaccurate and cruel comment ever again.

There's no need to blindly hate Jason cause you love Percy or on Percy cause you love Jason. Hell, Percy is my absolute favorite, 90% of my posts are about him, but Percy is awesome and arguably the best all by himself. This is also true for Jason's character. (I am probably the only one who thinks Jason is stronger than Nico just due to greater experience and stamina.) We don't need to be like Rick or ship stans who demean Percy to prop up Annabeth or other characters. They are both iconic and great friends despite whatever rivalry Rick was trying to project.

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the picture of dorian gray (1890) - oscar wilde

"fuck my yaoi life"

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The Lost Hero

Readers: Who the fuck is Jason?

Jason: idoNTKNO W

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this is based off of my rapidly expanding au where percival (one of the little guys) begins to realize the stuff he experienced on the island as he gets older, only made worse by having jack attend his university and bring up terrifying images of a pig heading monster and dead boys