#athena reacts

[bugwolfsstuff]

If i was Poseidon i would be so pissed that Zeus didnt invite me during godgames

LIKE FIRST YOU LET THE GUY I WANT DEAD CHOOSE BETWEEN HIMSELF OR HIS CREW AND NOW YOU HAVE AN ENTIRE ASS FAMILY MEETING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU'LL LET HIM GO HOME WITHOUT ME?????????????

[eir-trixa]

Okay, this was probably already said before and I might be slow in this uptake but don't you think that Annabeth's fear of Percy controlling poison in HoH is less because she fears him using that against Akhlys or against her or anyone, but more on that she was getting flashbacks of Luke as Kronos and how the same kind of anger and unlimited power lead him to betray his family and leave her behind?

I think to see that same thing that happened to Luke happen to someone she loved as much as Percy was what triggered her. Cause she's already seen Percy harness so much power before, probably had the front seat to most of his feats. But seeing the same anger as Luke's - which Percy already admitted to having understood in MoA - and having been presented power great enough to allow him to get revenge was probably the combination that threw her off like... that's not Percy. If he continues to that same path she's gonna lose him, like she did her older brother.

[watcher0033]

Annabeth: I trust your dad.

Me @ Athena:

[my-name-is-apollo]

Hermes convincing Apollo and Poseidon to stop fighting each other:

"You then yield to your elder, the ruler of the sea; do this grace to your father's brother, because Earthshaker the ruler of the brine honours your seagirt Delos: cease not to love your palmtree, to remember your olive.

And Earthshaker, what second Cecrops will be judge here? What second Inachos ' has awarded her city to Hera that you take arms against Apollo as well as Athena, and seek a second quarrel after your quarrel with Hera?" (Dionysiaca, Book 36. Trans. William Henry Denham Rouse )

The way he gently convinced Apollo by reminding him of the bond between him and Poseidon, and then turned to Poseidon like "wtf is your problem???" 😭😂

[thesummerstorms]

The other thing that I think I would want in an Annabeth Wayne AU that I don't think I've seen so far is Bruce being absolutely pissed at Athena.

It was bad enough with Talia and Damian, but Athena is a literal god of wisdom who should know better AND he doesn't even have the "culpability" of having slept with her.

She one hundred percent saw Batman, tactician of the Justice League, was drawn in by her aspect of the Goddess of Strategy, and proceeded to create a child without his consent, a daughter who she didn't even raise before the child became a weapon.

And like whatever else, however fucked up Damian was by his own training to become a child-weapon, at least Talia loved Damian.

Whereas Athena loves Annabeth in the way a Goddess loves, not the way a Person loves, and I don't think Bruce, whose entire identity is so fixated on his relationship with his own parents, would recognize that as love at all.

And, like, Talia put Damian through a lot of shit. I think Bruce would be angry there too. But when push came to shove, she at least at some point brought him to Bruce because she thought it was in her son's best interests.

Athena actively lead Annabeth away from Bruce and into the streets at the age of seven, which Bruce would never see as in her best interest, whatever Athena's godly perspective is, however badly he reacted after Jason's death, even though he couldn't see (and dismissed the idea of) the spiders and the monsters. She was seven. In the streets of Gotham.

Athena let Annabeth fight a major role in two wars back to back without being there to train her or protect her or love her or even advise her. Athena advocated for the cold blooded murder of the other children who had actually tried to keep his daughter safe. Athena sent Annabeth against Arachne when Athena's children have universally died on that quest for a thousand years.

Athena let Bruce think he had gotten Annabeth killed because of his own inability to handle his grief. Let him think his daughter was dead or worse for years. Would have let him keep thinking that if the Fates didn't have other plans.

And just, in true fashion for all of my ideas on a PJO x DC crossover, everyone really comes out more traumatized than before. This includes Bruce.

Because now he wasn't just used unknowingly for a child just once, but twice. And in both cases he's going to have to live forever with the guilt of not having been able to protect his kids from what their other parent wanted to make of them

(On top of all the ways he has directly failed them and made any complexes worse, of course )

[youre-where-i-wanna-go]

it's so crazy to me when people defend copaganda or worse praise cops bc one is played by angela bassett when she herself has said playing one has not made her any less afraid of cops irl

like it's okay to love a character bc of their actress and still criticize when said character is used to downplay the violent institution that is the police

[hazellvsq]

actually analyzing the first flashback hazel shares with leo, where she's getting bullied and sammy swoops in and rescues her. there's something interesting about how leo is literally watching this play out like a movie and then sammy in flashback tries to defuse the situation she's in by literally scripting it out in front of everyone and reenacting the situation but this time he steals from hazel instead of the bully. and obviously this is done on hazel's behalf, but everything that she actually says gets ignored and nothing she does changes the outcome of the scene. she's in these two opposing narratives and is essentially an object in each for all the difference she makes - and she's still getting robbed! leo as he's watching can't pinpoint the reason that she's crying. idk rick uses the trope a lot where characters trick/script their way out of situations so i'm not sure if this is worth analyzing; except hazel isn't playing along at ALL, she's trying to prevent something worse from happening but it doesn't matter. she can't stop either of them.

[sillygoofyqueer]

YOOOOOOO, LISTENING TO THE NEW TROY SAGA AND I CAN ALREADY TELL THAT JORGE HAS BEEN COOKING FOR US FR. HORSE AND THE INFANT IS MAKING ME GO WILD SOBBING AT JUST A MAN. THIS CAN'T GO WELL. OH MY FUCKING GOD. THESE VOCALS ARE MAKING ME FEEL THINGS. The 'forgive me' is really fucking me over. It's pleading for any sort of mercy and it never coming. DAMN IT. FUCK. "Full Speed Ahead" my beloved. Having to move on after such a heartbreaking song is amazing. It's like pushing forwards and not being able to think too hard about what he did. "WE'RE OFF, WE'RE OFF AND AWAY WE GO". DON'T GO TO THE ISLAND. PLEASE. NOOOOO. LISTEN TO YOUR INSTINCTS. POLITES NOOOOOO. I LOVE YOUUUU. "Open Arms" may be my favourite fun song from Epic. It's got a good beat and it's just Polites being a brilliant sweetheart. NO MATTER THE PLACE, WE CAN LIGHT UP THE WORLD HERE'S HOW TO START, GREET THE WORLD WITH OPEN ARMS. Don't trust those bastards. DOOOON'T. Polites I love you so much. Polites. I love you. "Warrior Of The Mind" is what introduced me to Epic. It's always a huge fucking banger. "ATHENAAAA!!"

[divine-victory]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/58167310/chapters/149477855

Chapter 5 is up!!

I’m so excited I love this chapter so much it hurt to write

[mazzystar24]

“She’s so fucking cool”🥰🤭😍☺️😊- abt Athena

[that-sad-guy]

something something rule of 3

anyway have some attorney/prosecutor/detective trios <3

[what-is-my-aesthetic]

Strange Magic is STRANGER THAN I THOUGHT

[finelythreadedsky]

huh why does vergil in the aeneid have juno describe athena killing ajax the lesser (by impaling him on a rock) when proteus explicitly tells menelaus in the odyssey that it was poseidon who killed him even though athena had the greater grudge against him?

[transpanda-1]

What really sucks about Dual Destinies is it almost had a core emotional theme about listening to people who struggle to communicate or even process events that happened, but because Athena wasn’t allowed to be the main character that was never allowed to be realized.

We’d go so far as to say DD completely gutted itself because the actual main character is treated like an assistant instead of the protag. It’s also probably why Athena reads poorly by “outing people”. She’s barely given the time of day to do anything but that, and all times she actually helps someone process trauma or their own condition she’s quickly shoved back to the sidelines.

Like we’re gonna craft an immediate thought: the whale from the whale case. Obviously people struggle to identify what it’s feeling because, it’s a fucking whale. But Athena’s special sauce is she can sense emotions no matter who they’re coming from. Imagine if that case played out where Athena won the day by trying to listen to it as closely as possible.

[jomnki]

"please tell my kids they're siblings one day"

"okay" *apollo goes to khura'in and becomes the minister of justice there* *phoenix's eyes snap open* "i forgo r"

[darcyfangirlsfrequently]

I was worried for a moment about Michael being weird about Bobby just showing up but he's like, "No, wtf, why is he outside and not inside at our dinner table eating with the rest of us come on let's go jfc, after the day this man has had???"

Stan.