#book: blood of olympus

[poppitron360]

Imagine being Jason hearing that. Jason, who has spent the past five books trying to figure out where he belonged in all this. Jason, whose “Romanness” had been called into question- whose ambrosia no longer tasted like New Rome’s brownies but instead like sawdust. Who could not control those ghosts in the House of Hades because they didn’t recognise him as Roman, and who had to give up his Praetorship because of that. Who has been yearning for a place to belong this whole time, and finding himself being separated from Camp Jupiter…

And then this. Leo tells Frank and Hazel about his plan because they’re Roman, and they’d understand… and Jason isn’t. Not anymore. Jason’s best friend- the person he cares about most in the world, who he would willingly die for- doesn’t even recognise Rome as Jason’s home. He doesn’t even trust him enough to tell him of his plan, doesn’t think he’d understand about sacrifice.

Jason, who has thought multiple times about giving up his life for his friends and especially for Leo, who has basically devoted his whole life to serving others, given up everything, always put others needs before his own?

Jason. Wouldn’t. Understand. About. Sacrifice?

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[medievalatkinson]

delphi strawberry service 😈

[1800-lemon-boy]

Bryce Lawrence, a legacy of the Roman god Orcus (Greek name being Horkos), the god of punishment in the underworld.

Nico literally ended Bryce’s existence, turning him into a ghost and sending his soul straight to the underworld

It was during the blood of Olympus:))

He takes down both Bryce’s zombie army and sends Bryce’s soul straight to the underworld after he overhears Reyna share the story of how she killed her father. He attempts to capture her and bring her to Octavian so he can charge her with Patricide (murder of a parent)

He’s actually the only known demigod to die at Nicos hands- (according to the wiki at least)

do you also remember that hoo moment where nico killed a guy without even touching him during athena parthenos delivery or i was reading hoo high ¿ i seriously dont know anymore

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

"annabeth chase is an cold and emotionless character"

the judge: please rise, defendent, you have the right to address the court. do you wish to say anything in your defense?

the canonical teddy bear in her camp trunk pulling up like:

[jupiterisastarr]

Inspired by the INCREDIBLE photo of Gabriel Medina!!! I’m sure they are siblings or cousins because LOOK AT THIS PHOTO

https://www.instagram.com/priu.png?igsh=YmgxMGx2dHZzMXU4&utm_source=qr

VAI BRAAASAAAAAA🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

[valewritessss]

Rick made up for not having Percabeths pov in Blood of Olympus by giving us three new books of the celestial trio so I forgive him

[iwannascreameurekaa]

is this a safe space to say that the lost hero was my favorite book in the hero's of Olympus series? 🙁

[littlestkoi-n]

the rage I feel when reading Blood of Olympus chapters 45-56 is almost equivalent in magnitude to the absolute joy I experience when reading The Last Olympian chapters 1-23.

remember when percabeth was good? when they meant the world to each other but had other people they cared about (nico, for one. both of them. so much), other worries and other storylines aside from their romantic plot? and when nico's completed arc wasn't repeated for no reason other than to dump more trauma on the youngest character in the series? when background characters were included in the story not for all the unnecessary last minute romantic subplots but because they were fun and fascinating to learn more about? and were actually friends with main characters? remember when grover was percy and annabeth's best friend forever? and antagonists were actually interesting and intimidating and had compelling goals? and the story revolved around friendship and family and loyalty? and death was definite and loss was palpable and battles were thrilling?

yeah. good times.

[poppitron360]

Did we just gloss over the fact that Leo was canonically abused as a child??

[that-pjo-obsessed-b1tch]

store worker: would an "annabeth please come to the front desk?

annabeth, arriving at the desk: hi, is there a problem?

store worker, pointing to grover and percy: i believe they belong to you?

grover and percy, simultaneously: we got lost

annabeth: i didn't even bring you guys with me-

[wtaffy]

thats my boy, always squaring up with literal gods

[mentallyunstablequeen101]

Someone please make a fanfic with this prompt and tag me thank you very much

Prompt: Will solace and Kayla Knowles singing If we have Each Other By Alec Benjamin at campfire.

I need this in my life

[witchhazelevesque]

Wait… I get that Venus’s warning to Reyna about how “no demigod shall heal your heart” hit her hard because it meant she and Jason wouldn’t be together, but it also didn’t completely rule out A LOT of her people because like… so many of them weren’t demigods, they were legacies.

And okay, yeah, maybe that could be explained but, no not really because in BoO, when Reyna tells Piper about it, Piper says: “There is someone out there for you, maybe it’s not a demigod. Maybe it’s a mortal or… or I don’t know. But when it’s meant to happen, it will.” (492)

Like… the narrative literally forgets that legacies as a concept existed??

And no, it’s not that Piper isn’t aware of that or was distracted by Leo’s death because: “Piper kept busy helping Reyna and Annabeth coordinate between the Greeks and Romans. To Piper's surprise, the other two girls valued her skills as a go-between to smooth over any conflicts.” (489)

Now, Piper gets the short end of the stick when it comes to being written with nuance (hello one off lines about her best friendship with Hazel with talking, crying and sword fighting in HoH), but we’re meant to assume that she’s doing more than is actually written, and she’d have to be aware of these dynamics between demigods and legacies, that SHOULD have been a significant element here since all of Camp Half-Blood are demigods while a large, if unknown, portion of Camp Jupiter are legacies.

But no, the conflicts are like: “Piper did manage to return some Roman helmets that mysteriously made their way into the camp store. She also kept a fight from breaking out between the children of Mars and the children of Ares over the best way to kill a hydra.” (489)

Like.

The narrative itself goes out of its way to make a one to one comparison between the camps in terms of how directly descended from the gods the camper are. With the same god’s two aspects and everything! Ignoring the other descendants of Mars!

But actually!! No, in the same book they do bring up legacies! Nico asks Reyna: “So… is your whole family descended from Bellona? I thought you and Hylla were her daughters, not legacies.” (284)

So why? Is it so inconsistent? (This is a rhetorical question, I know why but feel free to add more)

And all he had to do was change the word ‘demigod’ to ‘hero’. At least for Reyna’s situation.

TLDR: Legacies? Wasted potential. Reyna? Victim of inconsistent writing, vol 132.

[theslug7]

Just a girly winning at life.

[whatyoullneversay]

i love how in pjo/hoo the greeks are like "omg!! this new great prophecy!! woah!" and the romans are like "oh yeah we've known about this for millennia"