#book: the son of neptune

[1800-lemon-boy]

Friendly reminder that Annabeth was Percy’s mortal anchor when he bathed in the river Styx, and about a year later is the only thing he remembers about his life.

(🎶my grand plan, is that I will be remembered🎶)

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[nashazie]

he’s so silly

[haliaiii]

Finished rereading Lost Hero!

[lilislegacy]

i feel like we gloss over the first few pages of SoN FAR too much. i mean, take percy’s name out and i would think it’s all about hercules. the book opens by dropping banger after banger regarding percy’s recent escapades, as if this is some epic greek myth.

like how did rick just casually slip in that percy strangled a sea monster with his bare hands (no biggie) and we as the readers were just like “sounds right, anyway—”

[helenofsparta2]

R.I.P. the version of Percy Jackson, who spoke competently in front of the senate, fairly easily ridiculed Octavian, and managed to sway the romans to his side simply by providing good arguments and being a natural born leader in Son of Neptune, you will always be famous to me

[dv-kelp-face]

SPOILERS FOR MARK OF ATHENA!!!

Makes me wonder if Zeus and Poseidon bicker like this

[madzbustinout]

i miss when i’d open up pinterest, search “percy jackson memes” and a bunch of text memes would pop up (different character = different font/color type deal) where the prompt would be something like “The seven react to…leo being alive??? 😱😱😱”

now it’s just black n white text over pictures of walker scobell, please take me back.

[medievalatkinson]

muriel and beano are a sisters goal fr

[bayetea]

why was she getting jealous over ella giving frank her feather 😭😭😭 girl he gave u his LIFE. IT'S IN YOUR POCKET

[liesmultixxx]

tyson & percy = best brothers

they’re so precious 🥺🥺

[megamindsupremacy]

So, way back when I was a wee little cringe nerd (tentatively affectionate), I was absolutely bonkers obsessed with Percy Jackson. I also had basically zero access to the internet and only an extremely vague idea of what fanfiction was, and I definitely wasn't immersed in the fanfiction culture of the time. So that meant whenever I had Thoughts and Ideas, I was writing those fuckers straight into my class notebooks for all the world but especially my teachers to see. That being said, I just remembered my very first ever fanfiction idea, of which I wrote three pages of looseleaf in my seventh-grade social studies class with my best friend in between assignments. Which I will now elaborate on as an Adult because honestly, what else do I have a semi-popular Tumblr blog for?

The basic idea is that, in the Son of Neptune, instead of heading straight for Camp Jupiter, Percy very vaguely remembers that the mysterious Annabeth lives very close by. He skids down the hill next to the Caldecott Tunnel, but instead of crashing into the highway, he lands in the back of a pickup and is carried away by a very panicked+annoyed driver who wants the kid in the back of his truck out.

(Please imagine Frank and Hazel, standing guard, watching some random kid go screaming down the side of a hill on a serving platter while pursued by gorgons, land in a pickup, and, still screaming, swordfight said gorgons. Who get whacked out of the air and run over by a school bus. Can you fucking imagine)

(Please also imagine Juno, waiting invisibly next to the road, also watching Percy go screaming by in a truck. She had been waiting there to give Percy her mysterious "choose safety or your memories" spiel but now he's fucking gone)

The pickup driver pulls over to the side of the road near the bay and tells Percy to get the fuck out of the back of his car. Percy, seeing the gorgons in hot pursuit in the distance, makes the logical move and jumps straight into the bay. He lets instincts and muscle memory guide him to the edge of one of those fancy neighborhoods that border the edge of the water. He continues following muscle memory and instincts and ends up at Annabeth's house, and he knocks on the door.

Fredrick, opening the door: Percy Jackson??

Percy: ...who are you

Fredrick: you exploded my car four years ago! my daughter has been looking for you for months. ANNABETH COME DOWNSTAIRS I FOUND YOUR BOYFRIEND

Percy: HUH WHAT

Annabeth gives him a flying tackle hug and Percy is 60% confused, 40% relieved because finally this is someone he remembers. Annabeth starts talking about how they need to get Percy to CHB stat, everyone is so worried about him, they knew Jason had had amnesia but it had been so long they weren't sure if Percy was still alive, etc etc,

Percy is nodding along in confusion and pretending he knows wtf she's talking about.

Juno appears in the Chase house. She's mad as hell that a) percy isn't already in Camp Jupiter and b) he's with Annabeth (derogatory). She teleports Percy straight into CJ but Annabeth manages to hang onto him and come with.

They land on the near side of the Little Tiber, where Frank and Hazel are reporting on the weird screaming demigod in a pickup that had gone by twenty minutes ago. Juno realizes she accidentally brought Annabeth along and is Very Unhappy about this.

"Romans, I bring to you the Son of Neptune-" ("I'm the son of a planet?" Percy muttered). "For months he has been slumbering [etc]. Instruct him in your ways, induct him into your legion. As for the daughter of Minerva…” The Romans gasped, staring at Annabeth. Juno curled her lip, shooting an icy look at the girl. Annabeth snarled wordlessly in response. “She is extraneous. Do with her what you will.”

Juno disappeared

More will be added in the reblog

[poppitron360]

Umm… did we forget that, in Riordanverse canon, Hitler was a son of Hades?

[pjo-nerd-15]

So i finished the son of Neptune and started mark of Athena on chapter seven I read 22 chapters that night I made a new record lol I wanted to scream so bad while reading the mark of Athena ⚠️ soilers for the mark of Athena ahead!⚠️

When annabeth finally seen Percy I was like "GO HUG UR MAN GURL!" While trying not to be to loud cuz my family was asleep 😅 and then when she judo flipped him I was laughing my but off so hard 😂 but then when Reyna wanted to have the talk with annabeth I was like "oh shit Reyna idk what she did just don't kill her pls" I also felt so bad for Reyna like getting rejected by two boys and seeing them with there girlfriends I would be upset to also is wanted to scream so loud when the Argo ll was destroying cj 😭 i was like "WHAT THE HELLS GOING ON IS OCTAVIAN DOING IT IS GAIA CONTROLLING SOMEONE" i was just in shock cuz everything was doing just fine at first 😭 then when I found out Leo did it I was like "LEO WOULDN'T DO SUCH A THING!!" And then when his POV came i wanted to cry like this boy has enough trauma why add more 😭😭😭

(sorry for the rant I needed to ramble a bit Abt it I have no one who understands me when I rant on Abt pjo/hoo so I do it on the Internet hopefully I didn't spoil anything for people who just started reading!!)

[lilislegacy]

random person: what’s percy jackson about? summarize it in three sentences

me:

[wanderingmind867]

Octavian somehow managed to bow even lower. "Um, Lord Mars, just one tiny thing. A quest requires a prophecy, a mystical poem to guide us! We used to get them from the Sibylline books, but now it’s up to the augur to glean the will of the gods. So if I could just run and get about seventy stuffed animals and possibly a knife –" "You’re the augur?" the god interrupted. "Y-yes, my lord." Mars pulled a scroll from his utility belt. "Anyone got a pen?" The legionnaires stared at him. Mars sighed. "Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!" He slung his M16 onto his back and pulled out a hand grenade. There were many screaming Romans. Then the grenade morphed into a ballpoint pen, and Mars began to write. Frank looked at Percy with wide eyes. He mouthed: Can your sword do grenade form? Percy mouthed back, No. Shut up. "There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on your floor, whatever." Octavian read the scroll. "This says, Go to Alaska. Find Thanatos and free him. Come back by sundown on June twenty-fourth or die." "Yes," Mars said. "Is that not clear?" "Well, my lord … usually prophecies are unclear. They’re wrapped in riddles. They rhyme, and …" Mars casually popped another grenade off his belt. "Yes?"

"The prophecy is clear!’ Octavian announced. ‘A quest!" "Good answer. "

I loved reading this scene. Octavian was so desperate to get a prophecy, and then Mars created the most honest and literal prophecy ever. Octavian and Mars were like a perfect double act for this scene.

[astraeajackson]

I still can't get over how percy, even having lost 99% of his memory, STILL rejected reyna, who is arguably the most BEAUTIFUL and POWERFUL woman in camp jupiter, all because he had the VAGUEST inkling that he was in LOVE with a girl named annabeth... and at that point the only thing he could remember about her was her NAME.

he is down BAD for her and she is for him too so you literally CANNOT be telling me they AREN'T meant to be together... like bro they raised the whole ass RELATIONSHIP STANDARD simply by EXISTING tf you mean they aren't MADLY in love with each other???