#Hal pjo

[ssavinggrace]

OH MY GODS. I JUT GOT JUMPSCARED SO BADLY. IN DEMIGOD DIARIES THERES THE OFFICIAL ART.

hals isn't that bad

oh gods

IM CRYING THE FUCK

[lukecastellanshandholder]

Another thing to add to the list of “things that Rick dropped the ball on” is…

You mean to tell me that throughout the entirety of The Trials of Apollo, the 5 book long series from Apollo’s POV, that Hal wasn’t referenced ONCE?

Ya know, Hal, the son of Apollo who was imprisoned and tortured for at least 90% of his life because he used the powers inherited from his father to save someone? The one who was the main catalyst in the start of Luke’s rebellion that almost destroyed Olympus? The son who sacrificed himself in Apollo’s name just to save other demigods so that they could hopefully live happy, long lives?

Because I’m not just gonna simplify it down to, “well Apollo probably didn’t know what they did to Hal so he wouldn’t think about it that much.” No way, with how Zeus is, AND how he blamed Apollo for what Octavian did? Apollo definitely knew about it, and if he wasn’t someone that helped set up that trap that Hal was in, he at very least got an earful from Zeus about it.

So… why didn’t Rick include even just one scene of Apollo thinking about Hal, especially near the end of the series when he’s beginning to understand that the lives of the demigods matter too. When he learns how it is to truly feel human? It would’ve been a perfect addition and an even further showing on just how much Hal’s ghost haunts the narrative of everything in the Percy Jackson Universe.

In this essay I will…

[marspumpkin]

halman - l'audace

[anns-works]

An alien refugee family living in Arizona waiting for Green Lantern (Nora) to show up. They're all nervous and shit cuz its her. THE Green Lantern. The best of the best in the corps and is greatly respected by several galaxies in the cosmos.

Only for Nora to show up in a fucking megamind tshirt over her uniform with lime crocs and a half drunk oreo milkshake going "I'm here to talk to you abt your car's extended warranty."

[aesiraa]

wrote a 1.5k word young justice x pjo crossover fic about an oc member of the team that is a daughter of poseidon it’s gonna end up longer than 1.5k words but i think its insane that its even that long because i was just supposed to be writing a little blorbo to text a friend

[m4gp13]

When Hal gave Luke the dairy he said it might help him because it had his predictions, notes on the future and where he thought he went wrong so like-

Luke basically had a copy of the Nice And Accurate Prophecies Of Agnes Nutter sitting who the fuck knows where throughout the series

[bright-eyes-strawberry-lies]

I think about Halcyon Green often and every time someone is like "Apollo is so uwu He totally learned from his mistakes" I think of what Apollo did to his son (and countless demigods for 75 years) for using his gift of prophecy to save someone's life.

[erenfox]

RICKY MAKE THIS CANON ISTG OR ELSE I'LL BEAT SOMEONE UP 🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥

Mythomagic is a Demigod-owned company that loves Nico back.

[my-pjo-stuff]

*YAPPING AHEAD, THIS IS LONG*

As someone who has circled through a LOT of fandoms, you know what differentiates the PJO fandom from most of the others? Their raging hatred for what normally would be a very popular character archetype. "Who's that character archetype then" you ask? The answer is Luke Castellan. Unirnonically, I'm complety straight with this.

Luke Castellan is one of the most popular character archetypes in most other fandoms I am/were in.

Now before I get further into this meta, we should establish what archetype Luke actually is and what the criteria are. To me, Luke is the classical Sympathetic Fallen Hero. Someone who only wanted what's best at the end of the day who was wronged by an unjust system, and pushed into straight-up villainy and evil deeds in a desperate attempt for revenge or justice. Oftentimes that push happened by him joining up with a larger, more evil figure who manipulated his hatred into serving this larger, evil goal. Generally also has some deep-rooted trauma in the form of a DARK backstory.

Like literally, that guy is TEXTBOOK. He checks all the boxes. -Someone who only wanted what's best at the end of the day

Check. His goal was a "golden age" for demigods, a future where they would no longer have to die during quests or would be abandoned by their godly parents.

-and pushed into straight-up villainy and evil deeds in a desperate attempt for revenge or justice.

Check. Luke wanted both revenge and justice, which led him to form the Titan Army and all the bad stuff he did. Some include attempting to kill Percy multiple times and leading attacks on camp. The obvious superiority the gods would have over a demigod army led to Luke allying himself with Kronos and other evil forces. (Thus the "desperate" part)

-Oftentimes that push happened by him joining up with a larger, more evil figure who manipulated his hatred into serving this larger, evil goal.

Check. On multiple occasions has it been mentioned that Kronos punished and pressured Luke, using fear tactics to get him to do what he wanted. I mean- Kronos himself said that he would have preferred Percy because he "did things easier" referring to taking the CoA ("I had to pressure Luke in many ways(.....)")

-Generally also has some deep-rooted trauma in the form of a DARK backstory.

Check. His mother went insane when he was still an infant. Hermes practically abandoned them, leaving Luke to be raised by his mentally unstable mother having episodes that scarred him so bad he hid in closets. He proceeded to run away at 9, living on the streets completely alone before meeting Thalia. From then on he went around with her having to deal with monsters. Hal happened, they met Annabeth and Luke started to get parentified/parentified himself. He proceeded to watch Thalia die as he attempted to get to camp at 14. At the same age he had his quest, which he failed and got himself a nasty scar. Luke proceeded to get no discernable mental help or sufficient support to deal with the mental strain resulting from that. Instead, he was put into a caretaker role for younger children not only showing him the results of the system's neglect first hand but also effectivley robbing him of any semblance of a childhood. Once Kronos got to him he continued to the plagued by nightmares.

All that being said, we now established that Luke in fact is a textbook example of what I call the Sympathetic Fallen Hero. (SFL for short from now on) Now onto my point that the other fandoms generally really love the SFL archetype that Luke is. That I will do with examples. Before I list these examples, a short disclaimer. I HEAVILY shortened and abridged the plot and storylines on here as to not make this post overly long. I definitely recommend checking each of these media/characters out for yourself.

Anyway, here we go : STAR WARS :

A big part of the fandom LOVE Anankin/Darth Vader whom they view as a SFH. (Even though him not really being a SFL in the way that he checks all the boxes. But I'm going with the majority fandom view here so ig Vaderkin counts. For those who want, I made a post on my main comparing him to Luke here and how Luke is what the star wars fandom pretends Vader is.)

MY HERO ACADEMIA/BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA:

I want to talk the Villain Deku AU. Which is basically just an evil version of the MC who also checks all the SFH boces. The AU is hugely popular in the fandom with tons of fanart, animatics, cosplays and even a fan song. Honorable mention to the main anatonigst from the League of Villains, but especially Shigaraki and Dabi. They may not check ALL SFH boxes but an overwhelming majority. They are very popular with the fandom and generally regarded very kindly. Another honorable mention goes out to Stain. Also doesn't check ALL the SFH boxes, but most, and is also regarded generally positivley by the fandom.

THE PROMISED NEVERLAND

Norman, one of the main trio, spends a good part of the later manga seperated and leading his own resistance group against the main bad guy race (of monsters eating human brains- long story but I recommend the manga(don't watch s2 of the anime tho, it's basically the pjo movies for the manga)). Later on it is revealed that the main bad race isn't pure evil. Norman however got to the point where he wanted to commit a straight-up genocide against the race. Women, children, and elderly included. Bit of an outlier for a SFH, since he has no higher figure manipulating him into wanting to commit that genocide- but I'll let it slide. I did use the words "oftentimes" and "generally"- he also get's "redeemed" at the end/stopped from committing said genocide. Again the fandom regards him positively, even having him as a fan favorite.

NARUTO CLASSIC/NARUTO SHIPPUDEN

..... I mean most of the villains are SFH in that show. To the point where we would be here ages if I wanted to list them all. The two main examples most popular with the fandom tho would be Pain and Sasuke. Pain is a main villain whose home got destroyed, partially because of the MC's own home village. He watched his own parents die, and later lost one of his two best friends which finally pushed him over the edge (among others). Pain is also an outlier in terms of a SFH since he didn't have a major bad guy to manipulate him, instead leading his own evil (basically) terrorist cell. His goal was to achieve world peace by harnessing an ancient power, wanting others to suffer as much as he did so they recognize the value of peace. He killed a BUNCH of people. Pain did later revive a good chunk at the price of his own life however post redemption by the MC. Sasuke is the secondary MC and rival of the protagonist. Honestly he has so much going on I couldn't possibly mention it all. Basics are that his family got killed by his own brother due to difficult politics, he was the only survivor. His drive for revenge against his older brother caused him to join up with the main bad guy of Naruto Classic who rly only wanted him as a vessel (flashbacks much). Sasuke betrays his home for the bad guy to get the power he needs to take revenge. All that was stoked by the main bad guy and his comments. More plot happens, turns out the brother rly wasn't entierly bad and was also just used by other higher powers. Sasuke switches sides again and kills OG bad guy and joins up with Pain's previously mentioned terrorist group. The main goal from there is to destroy his home village who used his brother. He was not shy to kill ppl at that point, and was also basically ready to just commit a genocide on his own home. More plot happens, he get's redeemed eventually. Again in both cases the two are CRAZY popular with the fandom.

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS

I talked about this once already on here, but the fandom seems to LOVE AUs where dark!Percy just opts to straight up overthrow Olympus. I don't think i have to elaborate more on that tbh, but for those that are interested: Here's the post I made about the fandom's hypocrisy concerning dark!Percy and Luke.

And those were only 5 examples, there are many more SFL examples LOVED by the fandom I haven't mentioned here. I'm sure of that.

Seeing this pattern really makes me wonder why Luke seems to be so despised. Logic would dictate him to be rather popular.

My personal theory ? It's a mix of a few factors. Those being : A) The fandom over-sympathizes with Percy Jackson

Percy is easily the most popular character in the fandom. He is the MC afterall. The fandom tends to take his side no matter what, without properly and honestly empathizing with his enemies. It's similar to having rose tinted glasses with a relative or friend. You take their side no matter what- not even wanting to hear out the other side. The fandom seems to have an inherent bias towards Percy, those nice to Percy are viewed positivley. Those having more negative interactions (,even if the interaction is relatively low on the nagtive scale, like a character being critical of Percy for example,) are generally viewed more negativley.

B) The First Person POV of the books and the average age of the fans when they first read the books.

This relates to the first factor in the way that the very Percy-centric set up of the fandom AND the books influence the fandom's perception of characters. The books where Luke appears in are all in Percy's POV. Luke as a character in very complex and needs a lot of empathy and reading between the lines to properly understand and analyze. The books being in Percy's POV hurt Luke in the way that Percy's opinion of Luke is omnipresent with him. Any First Person POV is inherently unreliable, thus Luke often gets presented as a rather one-dimensional evil since that's what Percy views him as for most the book. Luke lacks his own POV, meaning he doesn't really get the chance to truly explain himself. Then ontop of that is the fact that everything he does is filtered through Percy's eyes which are inherently hostile towards him ost the time. Such delivers a wrong first impression of Luke throughout the books. The fandom, due to their attachment to Percy, often do not take their time to objectivley reevaluate his POV or confront the fact that he's an inherently unreliable narrator. Especially for Luke. Furthermore, from what I have seen are a lot of the fans in the fandom "old timers". People who read the first few books as young children and were children when their opinions of characters formed. Them having been so young when first getting introduced to the characters saw them often unable to even really realize all I said above. It also further glorifies Percy as he get's the nostalgia bonus. People generally do not like to challenge their own believes, so large parts of the fandom never took their time to reevaluate Luke and his story once they got older and learnt about the concept of Unreliable Narrators.

C) The fandoms views Luke as a threat to Percy and Percabeth.

This relates to both factors above, while also including the popular false narrative of Luke being a "pedo" or "groomer" If you read the first five books you will see that besides his last question to Annabeth at the end, nothing Luke does can be even remotely read as pedophilic or grooming of nature. Quite the opposite acctualy! He has stated on multiple occasions canonically that he sees his relationship with Annabeth as platonic. The ONLY canonical romantic relationship he had was with a grown monster. He's only ever portrayed having interest in adult women (monsters) , and even that romance plot is just barely there. The fandom, again, is overly attached to Percy however. And they do not like it when other characters challenge him. Luke however is the MOST challenging character for Percy. Not only does he serve as main antagonist, but he also serves as a narrative foil to Percy. He is what Percy could become. He's the canonical dark!Percy AU. He's the other side of the coin toss. Furthermore, Luke also challenges Percy not only on the physical department (fights) but also in terms of morals. At the end of the day Luke was right afterall. One could argue that Percy wasn't really fighting for the "good guys"- he was simply fighting for the "lesser of two evils" Luke brings moral challenges to Percy. He doesn't allow Percy to be a wholly good , squeaky-clean hero. Percy was fighting for the upkeep of an oppressive system. (If U wanna argue with me on the gods being oppressive, take it up with the offical wiki article first : found here) Percy killed other demigods. Percy had flawed views. The fandom who over sympathise with Percy didn't like that Luke was an active threat towards the "goodness" of their favorite. The easiest way out eliminate that "threat" was to demonize Luke. Thus making his points "invalid" as he now was a pure evil villain only aiming to hurt. (Same for the entier TA btw) Percabeth is just as popular as Percy. Annabeth had a deep and important connection to Luke- at the time of the books arguably even deeper and more important than her connection to Percy. Throughout the book has Percy expresses annoyance at Annabeth's insistence in holding onto Luke. This combined with the points above saw Luke being viewed as a possibly threat, due to him being arguably the most important person of the other gender in Annabeth's life. And an obvious point of contention between Percabeth. Inorder to lessen that "threat" the fandom turned to demonizing Luke (again). Annabeth's and Luke's relationship can easily be swept away by saying that Luke was interested in her romantically thus making him a pedo, no ? As for the grooming....... honestly? People just used a buzzword there, because if Luke truly had groomed Annabeth she would have been on his side on the books. All I can say there is please you guys, read a dictionary and know what words mean before you use them.

D) Rick fumbled HARD writing Luke

Luke may just have been the biggest continuous mistake Uncle Rick made in terms of writing. His characterisation in the first two books made him seem VERY evil and unlikable, which is bad as a first impression for a character such as him. SFL like Luke need a lot of focus and insight aswell as sympathy to get behind them. In most examples I mentioned for SFL they backstory was known very early on and they had a lot more focus outside of villainy. Rick simply didn't give that. The backstory reveal with Luke happened far too late, he was far too evil with too little insight for a SFL in the first two books. His "redemtion" was a bit rushed. We got basically nothing on his relationship with his army. His goods sides and his doubts weren't really highlighted enough early on. His last words and questions to Annabeth were frankly said stupid. It broke the themes of family between Luke and Annabeth to some degree and only served as fodder for later accusations. The fact that it was (apperantly) later confirmed that he romantically loved Annabeth was just straight up stupid. It wasn't in character at all and just broke the themes even more, not to mention that it goes against everything we previously saw or heard of Luke. Not to mention that it also just served as further fodder for the fandom to demonize Luke.

Thanks for everyone who stuck around to read this absolute giant of a meta XD Probably was the largest Tumblr post I have written so far.

[bvckbiter]

re: luke castellan having “good intentions but bad execution” and my thoughts on it, copypasted from an old twitter thread of mine

theres a general agreement in the pjo fandom that luke having “right intentions but wrong execution” is why he is the antagonist and ultimately loses but i propose: it might be the other way around

in the end percy is only able to change the system BECAUSE luke started a war. how do you not only make a point to the literal Olympians but also make it stick? you have to get on their level of power, otherwise it’s hopeless. enter kronos and armed violence

but no im not defending the fact that luke manipulated people and got a bunch of kids killed. i’ll borrow an episode title from arcane and say that in a way it was the base violence necessary for change. there may not have been another way

unfortunately the higher power he allies himself with is an absolute megalomaniac clusterfuck who’s bitter bc his own children diced up up after he ate them… and the reason why he allies with kronos in the first place is not necessarily bc he wants a better life for demigods

he allies with kronos bc kronos knew exactly how to play his bruised ego (thanks to his failed quest) and his past fears/traumas (may, thalia, hal). so he’s driven to a point of uhhh… short sighted hate

and by the time he realizes he’s just a stepping stone, he’s in too deep and hes got blood on his hands. hence the slaughter of innocents. instead of a united demigod front, he got kids defecting and killing each other, rather than aiming their anger at who was actually at fault

end of thread sorry i think about luke castellan and the intricacies of the titan war way too much

[freddie-77-ao3]

🌛 for any Riordian trio?

🌛Favorite character in (insert fandom)

Okay, so I think you mean book by book (let me know if not and I can redo BUT FOR NOW)

TLT-- Annabeth by far. When I was reading the books for the first time as a kid who had ADHD and was always called dumb even when I was top of the class (also being called overboard) I absolutely loved her.

SOM-- Okay so I feel like even though Tyson, Annabeth, and Percy are the trio, Clarisse is also technically part of the trio? Anyway, it was Percy this time.

TTC-- Five main characters this time, and I absolutely have to say Thalia Grace. I loved her since TLT, and it only grew the more she was in the series and more we learned about her.

BOTL-- again, questing group sort of ended up with six people (I'm counting Annabeth, Percy, Tyson, Grover, and Nico) and I have to say Annabeth again.

TLO-- I feel like the main characters here are just Percy and Annabeth. I think Nico is the only third we could truly consider to be part of the trio. Anyway, in this one, I don't think I can choose. Both of them were equally as great. Overall in the book, I thought Michael Yew was great.

Minor sidequests in PJO series:

The one where we meet Festus: Beckendorf, out of Beckendorf, Silena, Annabeth, and Percy.

The Sword of Hades: Nico, out of Nico, Thalia, and Percy.

The Chariot of Ares one: Clarisse, though it's just Clarisse and Percy there.

the pre series Luke one: Thalia. (Main three were Thalia, Luke, and Hal)

In Heroes of Olympus:

TLH: Jason, from Jason, Leo, and Piper.

SON: Probably Frank out of Hazel, Percy, and Frank. I definitely thought his narration was the best (though I do love all the classic Percy comments in his narration).

MoA: I'm just going to use the seven for this, and in this book, I think it's probably Leo. He wasn't nice and he made mistakes, but he had a good narrative and no one else really stood out there. (Except for the Tartarus scene in which Percy is the obvious GOAT).

HOH: Using the 7 and Nico: Frank again.

BOO: From between the 7 + Nico and Reyna, it's gotta be Jason or Leo.

Gonna be honest I don't remember enough from ToA to say right now. Haven't read SATS or COTG. I liked Sadie and Carter pretty equally in TKC and MCGA, I don't remember book by book.

[andromeda-moon]

My DC character ai bots

Still in progress and updating

Warning: Anything with a 🔞 is not for minors and can lead to adult content.

Random DC bots:

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@The batsiblings have a discord

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I may take some requests for bots, feel free to send me your ideas but I can't guarantee I will make it. I will only work on DC comics bots right now.

[lukecastellanshandholder]

My thoughts on the trailer?

1. AAAAAHHHHHHH MY BOY! MY BOY WAS IN IT AND HE HAS HIS SCAR AND HE LOOKS SO GOOD! 😭😭😭❤️

2. All of the actors look to have done an amazing job and I cannot wait!

3. With Hermes being in the casino it actually opens up the opportunity for them to add in something really cool that we don’t get to see in the books until much later in the series. What is that? To see how Hermes and Annabeth react to each other or the mentioning of Luke.

Think about it. Annabeth had met Hermes first when Luke and Hermes had their big fight that one night at May’s house. I would love to see Annabeth coming face to face with Hermes and saying like, "oh, your Hermes. Luke’s father." And see just how Hermes reacts to that.

See if he reacts at all. Just seeing how those two interact with each other would be very interesting to see.

[freakurodani]

a quick lil revamp of my pjo!homestuck au for @mindofthemage <3

im thinkin that dirk and hal are both sons of athena, they were twins but hal like died and so dirk full metal alchemists'd him into an automaton body like how Daedalus had in the battle of the labyrinth i ALSO think they had been stuck in the lotus hotel for ages, maybe theyre from the 1960's and the last movie they saw in the mortal realm was 2001: a space odyssey :)

[joanthangroff]

WIP ask game

RULES: make a new post with the names of all the files in your WIP folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them, and then post a little snippet or tell them something about it! then tag as many people as you have WIPs.

Tagged by my dadson @lalalenii <3

Okay, I'm only listing those that I have already written something for because if I wrote down ALL my fic ideas, we'd still be sitting here in five business days.

Ah

Iris & Hartley team-up

new ice rink fic

Riverdale OT4

Ralph Chapter

ColdFlash kissing as distraction

Henry/Joe Co-Parenting

Cisco Religion

Thiam PJO AU

Gallo's bi panic

Westhallen New

Snart E38 AU

Sciles fake dating

Hal in Arrowverse

Snart's parka

Oliver Teacher problems

Stucky song

Rogues/Serpents AU

Nate & Lita talk

QuaranKlaine

GLEE/FLASH CROSSOVER

I am not going to tag 21 people because I don't even know 21 writers, but I shall tag @sophiainspace @softboydepot and @simpledontmeanpeachy

[sapphicfandompirate]

PJO Live Reaction Episode 8 Finale Time

Minor spoilers for the books/possible upcoming events

Wait hold a rephrasing of the opening lines by Luke?!?!

Be still my beating heart

Luke and Percy practice scene! Oh the foreshadowing. Yeah Luke. When will Percy ever need to learn how to fight another swordsman? Ok. The rules speech is good.

Percy you impertinent cute little badass.

Fight scene fight scene! Not much to say on fight scenes tbh

C'mon Percy! Control that water! Let's go Son of Poseidon!

First blood! Percy won!

I think that was faster than in the books, but eh

Oh. Ares didn't curse him? But that comes back to bite Percy later doesn't it? Kinda missing out on the curse...

Well they got the helm at least.

Oh? Sudden cute little bungalow? Oh wait. It looks like the Montauk cabin, doesn't it?

Hi Alecto

Poor Annabeth is so out of the loop

Percy does have some manners

I kind of like Alecto tbh

So....how do they get the money for the flight if there's no crowd to feed a sob story to and raise money?

"Zeus will never let you leave alive." "I'm done running from monsters." OOOH Get rekt Zeus. Honestly, the Olympians should be groveling to Percy to not join Kronos

Oh, Annabeth's necklace does have the college ring on it. I think i missed that in a previous episode

Grover. "This could have been an e-mail." Underwood Everybody

Oh so we just magically get to New York? What? How? From California?

Percy is so fucking done with this shit

#letpercysayfuck2k24

Olympus is beautiful tho. I love the gold accented Corinthian columns

Luke comparing demigods to spiders? *Chef's kiss*

*Manifesting bi!Percy and a crush on Luke* I'm Percabeth all the way, but them both having complex feelings for Luke is too good

*One thousand steps later*

Hello Zeus

Oh sweet Percy. Zeus does not want to hear that. He doesn't believe you. He doesn't want to. Wait. He's admitting Kronos even has any power? But...he's continuing this war. Of course he is.

Percy. Zeus doesn't listen to reason....

Oh boy... Percy spitten facts Zeus isn't going to like

Thank you Poseidon! Oh this is good.

Is...is Zeus actually gonna do shit about Kronos? Or just pretend to make himself look good?

Ooh, Father Son meeting time!

Its ok Percy, you'll get better at ancient Greek. And Latin, if I remember right, he's surprisingly good at it for a Greek.

"Do you ever dream about mom?" Just stab me

And back to CHB!

Have I mentioned I like how the have Thalia's tree in the vague shape of a human? Nice touch

Baby Percabeth Hug!

Oh guys. Clarisse didn't steal the bolt

Luke is taking full advantage of this

Oh I don't like this splitting of the party...

Oh no Oh no Oh no

Percy. That's not the oracle line you should be remembering right now

There you go. Worry about the Betrayal line

Oh wait he figured it out

Lame

I mean, the shoes were kind of a giveaway

But still

Oh good. I always wondered why Luke didn't try harder to recruit Percy

Oh ok. Hi Backbiter?

Still not sure how he does that. The sword just, opens doors?

I like how Luke's scar looks more like a tear track than anything else tbh (yes yes, there still a whole discourse about scarred villains. i don't wanna touch that right now. Luke looks good ok?)

Annabeth! Oh that's a fun change

Not sure if it's a good one yet. But interesting

I do like how they changed Luke's betrayal to just after the quest, it feels more like how the prophecies usually play out, that is, all happening within a short time frame rather than months (besides the great prophecies of course)

Y'know, I wonder if we'll get an adaption to Luke's Diary/Demigod files story with Luke, Thalia, and Hal in later seasons? I hope so

I can't wait to see the reactions of all those fans who never read the books and were gushing about Luke and being so sure he was NOT the traitor (Not in a mean way, just in a let chaos reign way)

Chiron is worried about Percy being kidnapped/defecting? Fair

Percy. Yes. You are Very stubborn.

Ah! The proud comment from Chiron!

Dionysus is killing me here

Annabeth looks cute with that hair. Oh her commentary about Disney World is adorable!

Grover got his searcher's license!!!

Oh ok, so Grover is planning to go to sea?

Ok the pact to meet back is cute and all. But uh. Well. I'm not so sure about Grover...

Sally's back! Reunion hugs!

Ok, are we gonna get Gabe's death?

OH wait hold up what

Oh no

What

Hi Kronos? Why do you look like the grim reaper? I thought you were Thanatos for a second...

Oh ok Sally is actually back

Oh, dream journal for Kronos. Kind of smart actually

Percy you adorable little shit

So....no turning Gabe to stone?

Is he gonna be in future seasons?

Divorced?

I want Paul....

I mean, the ending is sweet and all, Percy and Sally are adorable. But...Gabe? Hello? Not gonna tie up that plot?

Oh. Ok. End credits Gabe scene

Oh bitch got the locks changed on him

Good for Sally

Oh! Hello Hermes Express!

Opening someone else's male in a crime gabe

Get fucked

Do I like that it was an accident instead of intentional? I'm...not sure actually

Overall thoughts:

I really liked the finale! Some of the changes made sense, some did not. It feels like a lot happened, pacing was a bit weird. The father son reunion could have gone better, but could have been worse to. Might have been better as two eps but eh. Sally and Annabeth were great, Percy was adorable, I was so scared for him when Zeus nearly killed him. He was really going off tho, good for him I really liked Luke this ep. It was a lot of good set up and foreshadowing. I like that Chiron caught on that well Luke isn't entirely wrong and Percy would be very dangerous if he worked with Kronos.

I really want a season 2. I loved Sea of Monsters, and I'm exited for Tyson! He's one of the best characters. I also really like Clarisse so that will be good. Not to mention Thalia's revival!

I've seen a few comments about how the kids are just figuring everything out, and I kind of agree. I would like to see them bamboozled a bit more like with Clarisse as the thief. I also would have preferred if their disabilities were a bigger part of the story/plot/characterization. It was a big part of the books, and it was why they were written in the first place, so I wish it was touched on more

Overall, there were some good part and some not so good parts. I'm still hoping for a season 2. Hopefully they can tighten up the pacing a bit, and work on some more tension in the plot.

I am so hoping we get all 5 seasons, and maybe more but I doubt it. I really want season 3 and the di Angelo siblings.

Also. Where is my Magnus Chase series????