#“but piper hates the cabin bc of drew and ppl like drew” and who wrote drew as feminine and weak and shallow

[ruegarding]

actually rick recycling a bunch of writing from percy and pjo is a good way to show the difference in the quality of writing between pjo and hoo, as well as how his biases affects piper's writing.

for instance, the difference in how they describe their cabins prior to being claimed and how it sets up their arcs.

the description in tlt:

percy is ostracized bc he is the only one of his kind. there are six beds (and later tyson!), but percy is still alone: the only demigod of poseidon, the only child of prophecy. everyone around him will treat him differently bc of this, for better and worse.

by using montauk, this description sets up the conflict throughout the entire series: where percy feels his mother's love at montauk, percy feels his father's absence at camp. the rest of the series is abt re-establishing the connection between the gods and their children.

the description in tlh:

piper is ostracized bc she doesn't like barbie. this sets up the conflict between piper and rick's nonsense.