#caleo hate

[hyperfixation-fix]

And he's cured, folks!

Inspired by this post from @massiveladycat

[poppitron360]

[what-you-like-about-the-moon]

rip jason grace you would’ve loved shitting on calypso with piper

[lavenderfairiez]

Leo must be colorblind the way he doesn't see all of Calypso's red flags

[jasongracetism]

dni caleo voters

[lavndvrr]

Leo is so shippable like Rick could have put him with anyone but he chose to put Leo with Calypso FREAKING CALYPSO!!!!!

[riri-loves-cats]

I had a dream that there was a Heroes of Olympus TV show and they made Valgrace canon

[thefandombringer]

As much as I think solangelo is a perfectly okay relationship I am an avid believer that Nico and Leo, given the chance, would’ve been an infinitely more interesting relationship to unpack and would do justice to all characters involved :)

[reginadeltrash]

I kinda think that the biggest problem is that it was doomed from the start, uncle Rick is really clever in the way he uses the actual characters from mythology in his story, but I low-key feel like he dropped the ball with Calypso.

Her age is so weird, cause if we assume she's 'mentally' 15 then it's creepy that she was with Odysseus in this version, but if we rationalize that she's millions of years old, well we all know where the problem starts.

I feel like there's a reason why the actual gods and monsters from mythology never really have any type of meaningful relationship with the PJO characters that's not a 'familial' one, it's a weird balance that Calypso and Leo completely destroy.

Also they are not healthy, which is crazy cause I think that the PJO and HOO books gave us some of the most healthy relationships in children's literature.

Maturing is realising Caleo was honestly really badly developed

[live-laugh-ukotoa]

anyways chat if Caleo is pedophelia despite the fact that Calypso has the mind+body of a teenager, and that time works differently on Ogygia shouldn't you hate Solangelo for the same reason? Nico didn't die. he's chronologically like 93 or something! but what's the solangelo fans reasoning? "he has the mind and body of a teenager, and time works differently in the lotus casino!" tl;dr some of you are hypocrites

[katiefromcabin7]

why does Leo have more chemistry with literally everyone but Calypso 😭😭😭

[im-not-a-virgo-im-a-lesbo]

Thought about it recently and realized that i just.

Have never liked Caleo

I get the appeal, I understand it, but I never really liked their chemistry

Valgrace is better tbh

[eyluvu]

REYNA AND LEO SIBLING DYNAMIC OH MY GOD?!??!?!?! WHY DID I NEVER THINK OF THIS?!?!?!?! IM SQUEALING

[poppitron360]

Thinking about names having power in the Riordanverse- because it’s exactly the kind of literature motif that I LOVE.

Thinking about “Leo” being short for “Leonidas” who was a Spartan King who sacrificed his life fighting to save his people in the Battle of Thermopylae.

Leo, similarly, gave his own life to stop Gaea and save the world.

That comparison has already been made before, but there’s more-

Leo rejects the name “Leonidas” and chooses to go by “Leo”- in a way, rejecting the fate he’s assigned to. And he doesn’t suffer that fate in the end. He lives.

Yeah, names have power. But what you choose to name yourself has even more power. For example, the fact that Thalia rejected the last name “Grace” because it associated her with her mother, but then taking it back up again when she found out Jason was alive. And Leo chose to not go by “Leonidas” and he also chose to take the physician’s cure and come back.

And here we get onto what Calypso’s doing. By calling him something that he asked to not be called, she is taking away that agency of choice. She is taking away that power.

It’s a small moment, but it REALLY bugs me. Because, like Leo, I go by a shortened version of a longer name, and often one of the ways bullies used to hold power over me was by calling me by my full name repeatedly, even after I asked them to stop. It’s also a way a lot of transphobes hold power over trans people- by deadnaming. By taking away the power of their name, their choice, their identity, who they are, who they’ve built themselves to be, and their right to control all of that.

Now, I’m NOT saying Calypso is going as far as deadnaming Leo, but it’s a similar premise. It’s a manipulation tactic used to knock people down.

Now friendly nicknames -e.g. “Seaweed Brain”- are different, because Percy consents to it. It’s a term of affection between them (and notice how it’s different when Thalia used it. It’s a name that symbolises percabeth’s love, and it’s a name only Annabeth can use). But this is a name, while said in a jokey, banter-y manner, that Leo has SPECIFICALLY ASKED to not be called. And she does it anyway, ignoring the boundary he’s set, ignoring his choice to shape his own identity, ignoring everything that symbolised INCLUDING the fact that it’s literally Leo saying “I choose life” by rejecting the name that fated him to death. It’s just a big red flag for me. And if you put that on top of the fact that she also physically hurt him in this (enough to make him say “ow”) then you just get a whole host of Reasons Why This is NOT Leo’s “Happy Ending”- which the narrative paints it out to be.

[wisegirl1448]

imagine saying caleo is healthy and percabeth is toxic. percabeth!

imagine saying calypso is a caring loving gf but annabeth is toxic!

[what-you-like-about-the-moon]

can we have blitzstone and valgrace instead of whatever the fuck this is

tw caleo