#The lost hero : a reread

[ashxketchum]

Percy Jackson slayed a Minotaur when he was just only 12, he fought against Ares the god of War, he battled countless strong monsters in the Labyrinth, he bathed in the River Styx, and he stood his ground against Kronos and protected Olympus from falling in the Great Titan War-

AND YET

In the first 100 or so pages of The Lost Hero, Jason, Piper and Leo only know him as ‘Annabeth’s boyfriend’ and I just find it hilarious that that’s their initial introduction to Percy as a person.

Though knowing Percy I think he’d be pretty proud to be known as Annabeth’s boyfriend over any of his other accomplishments 😂

[shadowhandss60]

Amnesia Percy: “Dude, how many gods and monsters did you piss off?”

Past Percy: “Yes.”

[fablesage]

Me aged 10 (because I apparently read these books much younger than I thought), reading The Lost Hero: "Where the fuck did Percy go?! Who's Jason?"

Me aged 21, reading Nona the Ninth: "Where the fuck did Gideon go?! Who's Nona?"

[therubyreader]

And after eight years I have found my way back home

[wanderingmind867]

Rick Riordan seems (in my personal opinion), to try to paint Rome as more brutal and cruel. Constantly reminding us that they don't tolerate weakness. But I don't see that as true. I really don't. Rome is not worse, and Rome is not cruel and barbaric. Rome is more regal and just, if anything! Rome is home to fine culture and good rulers. Rome is probably better then Greece to me. New Rome sounds way better than Camp Half-Blood. So don't try to tell me about Lupa the wolf who kills the weak. Don't give me that. I know the truth, and the truth is that Rick Riordan made Rome sound super appealing.

[dv-kelp-face]

Rereading Heroes of Olympus

I just love how much disbelief Jason was in The Lost Hero when he realised that Piper was his girlfriend and Leo his best friend

[captain-eppe]

In where Jason is Superman

Or, Jason ii

Well, turns out the creep making Piper uncomfortable was the monster. Could we have a sequence where Piper tries to hold him off? Nope. Instead we get the info that da coach is really bad at his job, and yet was watching two powerful kids. ‘Hey Gods, good to know your feelings on child safety have stayed consistent!’ Weren't things supposed to be getting better after that promise Percy had you made, the one he turned down immortality for?

How ungrateful. 

Coach gives the club to Jason and goes off to save Leo, Jason promptly throws the club. May I interject to say, don't throw your weapon away in a fight. Piper grabs the club. 

Jason uses more Roman terms for things. Ooh Foreshadowing. Piper, conveys her intent to have Jason be distraction bait, so she can brain the foe. 

“Cute, smart and violent” Jason's turn ons, apparently. 

Jason gets zapped in the chest, and promptly remembers how to kick ass. 

Coach comes back for some pointless boasting,Piper successfully uses tackle, the storm spirit gets recalled, rather than drowned. 

When Piper goes over the edge, Jason is told to steal Superman's gig, and go save her. 

He does. He discovers he can command air. 

Leo discovers Coach saved his ass twice, and he was useless in this fight. Camp Half Blood arrives to pick them up, and discovers Percy is not here. Annabeth is disappointed and a tad stab tempted over that. The audience discovers Percy Jackson is missing

[minjimunji]

Quick piper sketch

[wannabe-british-fangirl]

~ books read in 2024 ~

#13: The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan

Even before he got electrocuted, Jason was having a rotten day.

Rating: 5/5

Three Sentence Review: I am so excited to start my re-read of the Heroes of Olympus series. It has been a while, so my memory of how some of the specific plot points in this story were connected was a bit hazy, but it made it almost like I was reading it anew. The expansion of Riordan's universe into Roman myths still stands up quite well this many years after I first read it!

[sweet-marigold]

holy sh holy sh holy sh AMY YOU LIKE PJO :00000

I must ask

if you could dump blitzo, fizz, and Ozzie into the pjo fandom, what godly parents would they have? (idk why I asked bc they're kinda givens for Ozzie and Blitzo but y'know I got excited)

anyway toodles, stay awesome! :)

HI HI HI! I adore pjo reading the books is how my English got strong XD

R they given for Ozzie and blitz? :0

My first thought for blitz was as a Hephaestus kid with fire powers (like Leo my fav lil guy) and he accidentally burnt his mom (like Leo again XD) and fizz

Like it would be a rly intresting parallel to the accident I think

My heart says kid of Aphrodite Fizz but logically…. He’s an actor and clown, clown would like up with Hermes kids I think…but Dionysus is the god of acting.

I don’t like either of those 😭😭😭😭😭

Apollo is the god of singing I think I which fits fizz well sooo I’ll go with that 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

And Ozzie :0 would he be a demigod or like a god? If Demi god hmmmm

Hephaestus again fits but nooot happening (unless blitz is like a Hermes kid instead cuz I feel like that fits him too)

Soooo maybe son of Aphrodite? I feel like that fits best

TO RECAP

🩷🩷🩷

Fizz son of Apollo

Blitz son of Hephaestus

Ozzie son of Aphrodite

🩷🩷🩷

(Unrelated but mammon is son of Zeus and bee is daughter of Demeter if they were demigods)

(Loona hunter of Artemis, 👀. Millie dauhhyer of ares, moxxie son of Athena)

[gaygirldoodles]

As much as i love all of the heroes of olympus books for some reason i like the way i imagined piper in tlh better than the rest of the books

[hauntrobins]

iirc jason wasn't mentioned in blackest night because it was ambigious whether he was alive or not but a black ring chasing his ass across gotham wouldve been so funny

[cas-theghostking]

I haven't read the heros of Olympus books in a long time but Leo Valdez was one of my favorites. Here's my desgin of him.

[skyward-floored]

Oh dear. Getting Lost thoughts again. Should I try and finish up that fic where Zelda meets one of the sages, or one of the other things with him... or work on the IAU fic I was working on

[zoueriemandzijnopmars]

Isn’t is kinda wild that the title The Lost Hero seemingly refers to Percy, a character who isn’t even in the book and frankly his disappearance isn’t even important for the main characters

[crowshoots]

TIMELINE FOR JESPER'S DEMIGOD VERSE.

tada! here's the post that i was talking about early -- this post primarily covers the years that the percy jackson series covered, considering that i just finished my reread, but i do eventually want to drum up a prophecy for jesper and the rest of the crows to embark on after the events of heroes of olympus. there is a little bit at the end where i discuss what jesper was doing during the events of the lost hero and a few months after that, before the son of neptune.

from his birth all the way to being about fifteen, jesper was mostly on his father's farm. he remembers seeing monsters at the boundaries of the farm for as long as he can remember --always there, always lingering, but never crossing into the actual grounds of the family farm. aditi sometimes went out to shoot them, and she tended to return safely.

there was a day when she didn't. there had been a girl that she had been trying to protect. that was the very same day that jesper fahey plunged into the woods beyond their family farm, picked up the gun that was with aditi hilli's mangled body, and shot the karpoi that had killed her, all point blank in the forehead.

some notes about this period of time between 0 - 15:

the fahey family farm is a safe haven, and as a result jesper wasn't ever attacked inside of its boundaries. however, the monsters would brush up against the very edge of the boundary in attempt to snag jesper when he was running errands for his father.

colm had tried to send jesper to school after his mother died, considering the fact that she was homeschooling him and colm didn't have the time for that.

colm explained away the monsters as rabid animals, and although jesper really didn't believe him, it was the only way he could come to understand what happened. he heard a lot of growls and noises while he was tending the fields, and usually the farm animals seemed skittish at all times.

a lot of jesper's abilities didn't really strike colm as odd as they weren't too obvious as they manifested.

aditi's guns had twelve rounds, each with celestial bullets. they are a gift from hermes. the gun that jesper carries on her left hip has a sonic ability, letting out a boom loud enough to be heard in a giant radius and affecting monster (and usually halfblood) hearing. the gun on the right has the ability to confuse and disorient whatever it hits, their internal sense of direction and balance becoming jumbled. both of these abilities can be tied to one bullet in a full chamber of six, so jesper only has one shot at both abilities until she needs to reload and bind it to a particular bullet again.

at age fifteen, jesper was sent off to the united states as an international student. due to his skills and intelligence, he got accepted to a university that primarily specialized in taking in people with ADHD and other neurodivergences. when jesper was out at a gambling den, he was attacked by monsters.

he joined up with other half-bloods before even knowing exactly what they all were yet. she went on the run with kaz brekker and inej ghafa, traveling across the entirety of the united states for about a year to a year and a half before they stumbled into a satyr.

inej and kaz are both half-bloods, but none of them exactly know it. they just stick together and run. none of them have nectar and ambrosia while they're moving, so any injuries that they mantain are ones that they have to shoulder and keep moving with, including kaz's leg.

they all have weapons that they can use to fight monsters. jesper has to be particular about wasting the bullets in his chambers, since they only have twelve, so a role they also play is bait/traps/etc. in addition jesper mentally has a pull towards the east coast so he offers to navigate, although they're not exactly sure where they're being pulled to go

jesper does try and call colm a few times which unfortunately sends up a giant flare to their location said few times.

at age sixteen, jesper and her friends are finally led to camp half-blood. all three of them are shoved into the hermes cabin, and while jesper is claimed in the first few days, kaz and inej take longer. inej is claimed not soon after, and kaz not at all. while jesper easily makes new friends at camp, there's a certain sort of... wariness that she has with interacting with the other campers. it's a lot of information, but she has no problem befriending anyone. she's a charmer, that's for sure.

she keeps hearing whispers about luke. it's hard not to, when you're in the hermes cabin.

she arrives at camp halfblood in the summer of titan's curse, which is about six months before the events of that book actually take place

although i think jesper would technically be the eldest demigod in the hermes cabin, he doesn't feel comfortable with the role of head cabin leader, especially not since she just arrived at camp, so it doesn't go to her

in the few days before she was claimed, there was some ideas ruminating about jesper being a son of apollo due to their skills with a bow and arrow after they adjusted to not using a gun. while jesper still has the guns with them, they kept them a quiet secret from majority of the camp goers for quite a while. the exception to this was the hephaestus kids, as jesper was working with them to make more bullets melted with celestial bronze. due to their engineer-like brain and their skill with those types of task, there was also some thought of them being a hephaestus child

absolutely a BEAST at capture the flag. good with horses as well

no interaction with hermes ever in their life, nor do they really care. they hear a lot about kronos' army and gathering strength and they see some deserters and while jesper isn't SUPER keen on the gods, they don't see the point of deserting either

pals with the stoll brothers <3 they bet and barter with camp chores all the time

at age seventeen, jesper goes back to ireland to visit his father, who has been worried sick about him ever since he got news of jesper not showing up for an entire semester at school. while colm hasn't been bothered by monsters ever since jesper disappeared, he's really missed him :( and yet, when jesper comes back, it's immediately his presence that starts attracting them back to the farm. as a result, after a summer, jesper comes back to camp half-blood and starts spending the rest of his year there, although seemingly with no interest of going to college.

instead, jesper spends the year prior to the second titan war being one of the scouts for watching kronos' army, considering their abilities and their skills. when kronos attacks, jesper fights alongside the hermes cabin.

jesper's hearing was damaged by a fight between several monsters and the hermes cabin. in addition to some damage already done by handling guns as their main weapon, both ears are affected so badly that they develop mild deafness in both ears.

after the events of the second titan war, jesper offers their skills in engineering for helping construct new cabins, particularly fun little things for the cabin interior. he also visits his dad in ireland again for a few months where he tells him the whole truth about what exactly happened over the past few years to him. in return colm tells him about meeting hermes, who jesper still has not spoken to at all yet

after the events of the last olympian, jesper still is in camp. they're starting to consider going to university again, especially because they feel like they've gotten a lot better mentally, until percy goes missing. for the events of the lost hero, jesper is off towards the west coast actively looking for percy, considering their skill with direction, and their father being the god of travelers and thieves, letting them go around generally undetected while keeping their wits about them. also i think possible as a kid of hermes she's able to keep a cell phone on her, used for emergencies, and her abilities let her scramble the transmission and signal a little bit if she needs to get an emergency voice message out.

it's here that jesper gets sucked into the curse of the lotus hotel and casino. it just happens. it's an itch that she needs to scratch, after attempting to . the world settles around her, the things that have been nagging her go away. it feels good to be at the tables, the same way it felt good all those years ago before everything went wrong. but it's okay. she's safe. she's not.

jesper spends a day and a half in there. the first day is her gambling nonstop, enjoying the adrenaline and enjoying the glee. her abilities as a kid of hermes means that people around her get good luck, so she made easy friends at the casino.

the extra half of a day is after she starts spotting glimpses of her (dead) mother in the corners of her vision, and she keeps getting calls from her father and her friends. for the first time in the entirety of the lotus casino's history, one of patrons has a meltdown right amongst everyone else having a good time. jesper absolutely cracks and staggers off to a private corner and starts yelling at himself, as well as other old harmful anxious habits. it takes her far too long to save herself from having a meltdown and an overstimulation episode. just as she's teetering on the edge, someone sits down right next to her, puts their hand on the small of her back, tells her to put her head down and breathe. she does.

it's the same technique jesper's always used to calm herself in these episodes. when she lifts her head: it's the first time she's stared hermes in the eye.

when jesper leaves the casino, it's been the equivalent of about three months since she was last seen or contacted. people had assumed that she died out there.