#charlena

[renesyce]

demigod doodle dump !!!

[freddie-77-ao3]

Beckendorf: People who say “go big or go home” seriously underestimate my willingness to go home. Beckendorf: it’s literally my only goal for most of the day. Silena and Chris, horrified: Clarisse: personally i also enjoy starting fights but home is definitely top two

[drewlover]

silena saying goodbye to charlie as he gets on the back of blackjack to percy knowing full well that kronos knows their plan and that charlie probably wont come home and its her fault. silena watching charlie and blackjack disappear until they were nothing but black specks against the sky. silena mourning charlie before he's even dead. her wanting so bad to tell charlie to not go but knowing full well that he would because he wouldn't let any of his other siblings do it. silena waiting and hoping and praying and clinging to a faith that doesn't have any roots

[luvingsolace]

Charlena you are so loved by me

Kinda proud of this since I never draw couples!!!

[punkeropercyjackson]

Minus the 'Hero of the Great Prophecy' copout,Luke Castellan is such a well-written villain because he's so real.Not sympathic but that he's so awful in the way so many real cishet white men in power are and historically have been always been.Luke is a fascist.He's a misogynist.He's a racist.He's even a serial pedophile

Luke started grooming Silena before the series even started by taking advantege of her crush on him by flirting with her because girls that age don't know any better,oh he's different,we're different.He had the effect on Annabeth too but much stronger due to being her older brother figure and pseudo-dad,raising her since she was 7 and confessed to her at 16,on his deathbed,due to wanting to haunt and have power over her ONE last time.He wanted her to know what he'd thinking the whole time he was pretending to see her platonically.Thalia was 2 years younger than him pre-tree and he still liked her at 15 to his 20s.I'd go as far as to do a Lolita comparison,with Thalia's death giving him that little girl fixation to 'replace' her and let's not forget that while Kelli's age isn't stated,she passed as Percy's classmate when Percy was 14 and wasn't even technically a high schooler and there's no mention of no Mist Kelli showing her as older.It's implied he straight up SLEPT with her and maybe even did it multiple times judging by how long she was in the Titan's Army.She was also the only black girl member and that's absolutely relevant

And he was way closer to the Stolls than he was Chris but targeted him,the mestizo boy,even though Travis and Connor would've been easier to get to join him.The first camper he killed was Beckendorf and he gaslight Silena into thinking he wouldn't only for Beckendorf to be have been only a tool to him.He had zero respect for Ethan,the japanese/wasian boy,and unless you count Alabaster from the side books,the named Titan's Army's male members were all boys of color.The named girls were the lil white girl he hit on to fuck it up for everyone and the ambigiously aged but young looking black girl he made his bedmate because he saw her as a sexual being unlike her.Everybody likes saying he was so obsessed with Percy because he was in love with Percy and use it as ship fuel but the real concrete subtext is that he only saw Percy as an equal because they were both intended as white men.This is really the only logical explanation as really,the guy you knew for not even three months over your years long companions??????Who just so 'happen' to be girls.Luke was NOT slick!!

The Titan's Army is a military by definition.It's an army,the members are soldiers,they were created for the The Second Titan War.A war Luke started over personal trauma for vengeance and openly stated he dosen't care if he hurts anyone(see his Good Kid Reprise)for his own goals and functions on a cryptofash ideal('destroying society to built it from the ground up' and see his Good Reprise again but the last three lyrics specifically).Luke believes himself superior to everyone because he 'sees the truth' but perpetuates the cycle of abuse with it and does nothing to fix society,help the people he's the 'Champion' for or even to depower the high authority.He kisses up to an EVEN HIGHER and also WORSE authority to get power for HIMSELF!He wants to be a gods stand-in,not their opposite and that's why he treated everyone like shit.His speeches?That was propaganda on his part,not radicalization.'Western civilization is a disase'says the cishet physically abled blue eyed blonde white man who's constantly described as traditionally attractive after he groomed a HUGE chunk of troubled kids i.e minority kids who get abused for it no matter how hard they try to be good,because THAT'S what Percy meant when he said he was a troubled kid in The Lightning Thief-it's an insult and he was reclaiming it as a lower class audhd survivor of multiple kinds of abuse.He truly believed he was 'not like other half-bloods' and that everything he did was a means to an end when he meant to end it all for everyone,not be a saviour

As a biracial afrolatina who has multiple neurodivergent disorders including autism and with bpd and ptsd,is transgender and gendernonforming and was raised by the VERY white side of his family,i'm genuinely impressed with how good of commentary Luke works as on white supremacy and accompanying bigotries-Yes,misogyny like i said but also ableism/eugenics with his hurtful words directed at Tyson who's implied to have Down Syndrome and if memory serves i'm pretty he took a dig at Grover's crutches and possibly even Hephaestus' own physical disability and i'm not exactly sure if i'd say that includes queerphobia on his part but he is a VIOLENTLY cisheterosexual character in his actions so the subtext is pretty obviously there.As discussed by tons of other lgbt Pjo bloggers,Silena and Clarisse are an Achilles and Patroclus parallel and Thalia fits the bill for MANY transfem and alt lesbians norms and a more niche reading is Percy as an accidental transfem narrative that actually holds a lot of water with the most blatant one being her proving to Zoe she's not a normal man at all,which is a constant trait of hers but it was made it a plot point in The Titan's Curse and Annabeth as a comphet butch lesbian thanks to how gay her and Clarisse,Piper and Reyna interact with eachother and while i don't ship Percabeth,transfem Percy and lesbian Annabeth are complimentary in evidence for obvious reasons(even if YOU don't ship Percabeth either!)

Luke Castellan is real.Luke CastellanS are real.The word for them is 'colonizers'.I love how he's written and potrays the ugly truth of whiteness as an intentionally perpetuated structure,not 'the natural order',and i hate how Rick in his own cishet physically abled white maleness couldn't stop being a pussy and let Percy be the anarchist revolutionary to his full potential he deserved to be.Not surprised considering this is the same who disrespects greek culture so hard and has from the start in addition to the very long list of everything else but i'm allowed to still be dissapointed and wish Pjo had been thought up by an autistic black person since that's what Percy is realistically supposed to be so write what you know principal would've helped big time.Luke Castellan is sympathic and relatable if he's the only kind of person you think deserves sympathy and chances but not anyone else out of your own sheltered experiences

[pjo-tvs-version]

The list became unhinged as it reached the end

[manygeese]

Thinking bout an au where Beckendorf and Silena survive (bc they DESERVE it)

Silena has to work to regain the trust of the other campers, ESPECIALLY her siblings in the Aphrodite cabin. Still in the process of it when HoO starts.

Silena probably resigned as Head Counselor after the Titan War, so Drew’s still in charge.

She, Charlie and Clarisse hang out a lot. They spend evenings in the forge together while Charlie makes Clarisse a mace. Charlie and Silena are holding hands in the arena while watching Clarisse kick everybody’s asses. Silena teaches Charlie and Clarisse to weave bracelets.

Silena’s grateful when Piper comes in because she has a little sister without any underlying wariness against her again :) Piper’s awkwardly like “haha we’re besties (who tf hurt you)”

Charlie, Nyssa and Jake do the best they can to welcome Leo despite the curse. Charlie sets off a confetti popper that malfunctions and somehow catches fire. They all laugh about it (Charlie single-handedly raises morale, you can physically never be bummed with him around).

Leo casually puts out the fire, but the only one who sees him do it is Charlie, who pulls him aside. Obviously, he asks Leo if he’s a fire user, and Leo tries to brush it off with jokes but eventually tells the truth. Charlie agrees to keep it a secret if Leo agrees to practice controlling his fire.

Charlie is SO happy when Leo brings Festus back

(also Silena is dating both Charlie and Clarisse, if you even care)

[hellisanhonourstudent]

Extremely Unpopular Opinion

I've never seen any romantic chemistry nor potential between Clarisse and Silena,even knowing it's based on Patroclus and Achilles. When I first read the books,I didn't know much about Greek Mythology nor about gayness.

In my rereads of the books throughout the years,when learning more about literature in general,LGBT themes in fiction and about the world,the relationship between Silena and Clarisse doesn't come across to me as any more romantic/sexual than it did before(at least in canon). Patroclus/Achilles parallels aren't enough for me to see them as sapphic,the romantic vibes have to appear on their own,and the elements Rick picked of from the original can also be applied on any strong/passionate relationships,not only romantic ones. Clarisse got romantic advice from Silena and latched onto her as a friend,it seems enough for the events to happen the way the did.

Clarisse refused to help the war efforts because of a magic charriot and her own wounded ego;

Silena disguised herself as Clarisse to get the Ares cabin to(at least) fight the drakon and ended up dead in said fight;

Clarisse goes on a rage due to Silena's death and kills said monster.

The loss of a friend,especially the one who helped in a moment of hardship(Clarisse surely sucked at relationships,and Chris was dealing with the aftermath of the Titan Army and the Labirinth) is a very harsh hit on it's own. Besides,tropes are tools,and some romantic tropes can be used in friendship/family relationships and vice versa. To top it all,I love canon when it comes to both girls.

Of course,those are my 2¢. Each to their own,but I kinda feel lonely for not liking this romantic pairing. If I was going to ship Clarisse with a girl,it would be Annabeth - blame it on a fic,lol.

[flueroses]

Making a another one if your favourite isn’t here

[t0p-1-sidecharacter--fan]

Aphrodite-Hephaestus ships ❤❤

[the-sassy-owl]

Silena means well, I promise 😅

Headcanon (not really mine lol): I remember that Silena is mainly described as having blue eyes and long black hair but, for some reason, she’s described in one scene of a spin off book to have light blonde hair and green eyes (*cough* probably because Rick can never keep track of what he writes *cough*)

So back in the day when that happened I remember the fandom came up with a theory: Aphrodite kids can Metamorph, aka Shape Shift. It can be into an specific person’s appearance (like Silena shifting into Annabeth) or just to alter their appearance whatever they like. It can be a rare power like Charmspeak, or maybe all Aphrodite demigods can do it with enough practice (imagine how Percy could always control water, but he had to discover it and train himself in order to do it properly)

[freddie-77-ao3]

*Clarisse drunkenly wanders around the house and Silena is drunkenly giggling*  Chris, completely sober: *sighs* Well, looks like it's just me and you against the wold, Charlie.  Beckendorf, going to his room: Nope, just you. *shuts door*

[drewlover]

“Beckendorf pulled a piece of paper of out his pocket. I thought it was a map or something. Then I realized it was a photograph. He stared at it in the dim light—the smiling face of Silena Beauregard, daughter of Aphrodite.”

[punkeropercyjackson]

If y'all don't like me saying Percy is transfem and pastel punk instead of a skater boy,wait til you find out i think Beckendorf was a stud and her cool lesbian big sister

[bookishjules]

Twelve days, twelve ships! One present for every day, one holiday-themed drabble for every present, and one (chosen by you) ship for every holiday-themed drabble! [more info]

Dec. 13 -> poll // present 4 (kitty - tsc)

Dec. 14 -> poll // present 3 (cresswell - tlc)

Dec. 15 -> poll // present 10 (percabeth - pjo)

Dec. 16 -> poll // present 9 (sizzy - tsc)

Dec. 17 -> poll // present 7 (shirbert - aogg)

Dec. 19 -> poll // present 6 (connabeth - pjo)

Dec. 20 -> poll // present 7 (clace - tsc)

Dec. 21 23 -> poll // present 1 (gracetopher - tsc)

Dec. 22 Jan. 3 -> poll // present 5 (ladynoir - ml)

Dec. 23 Jan. 9 -> poll // present 11 (blackstairs - tsc)

Dec. 24 Jan. 18 -> poll // present 8 (wessa - tsc)

Dec. 25 Jan. 23 -> present 2 (charlena - pjo)

[floof-ghostie]

Breaking my silence, the ideal ship dynamic will forever be Fighter/Unhinged fucker and Their mechanic who more or less goes with their shit