#i'm like if fall out boy pjo pmvs were a person

[rachiebeee]

i have qualifications, 20% of my minutes for spotify last year were fall out boy (9000/49000 roughly not including to what i listened to on youtube either which owuld make it way more who cares).

love from the other side.

it so starts w the first first as pjo, then second -> end as hoo.

'modern house life meltdown/ still a modern dream let down' percy not fitting into modern society in the first book, modern house not just being his actual house but the mortal world itself. demigods are a paradox of both an ancient and modern person, with neither world fully accepting them.

'it kills me you know i'm dying out here/ what would you trade the pain for / i'm not sure' the mortal world is not built for him and is actively against him, monsters are more protected by laws and rules than he is. mrs dodds never existed and he gets expelled after defending himself. trade the mortal world for the divine one and things are still trying to kill him. pain being existing as something that heralds change in some way. pain being existing outside an incredibly strict binary. mortal vs immortal, modern vs ancient.

'we were a hammer to the statue of david' genuinely one of my favourite lines of all time. 'we' being percy, annabeth and grover. hammer being them as quest goers. the statue of david is the world itself. they as three kids are doing things to not only save the world but make it a better place. not just that, but the statue of david. they are the little guy, they are also david. they're facing against threats that are their goliath - kronos and all the other titans, but also their own parents who care so little of their lives.

"we were a painting you could never frame and" their lives and experiences are not only too complex to 'paint' and display, but also they're not sanitised at all. demigod suffering is an uncomfortable reality for non demigods to think about, or in the case of mortals its simply not known at all. their actions that are portrayed are usually the ones that hurt the least, or they're simplified to give the illusion of good prevailing over evils (the gods and their children being 'good' and the titans being 'evils'). the trio's quests are too much to ever be portrayed in a painting or in full because it would not fit the world those in power want to exist.

"you were the sunshine of my lifetime" yeah like this is literally just percy, annabeth and grover being their for each other. annabeth isn't just the light of his life, she's the one who gave percy the strength to get through the styx. grover isn't just important to percy, they're literally soul linked for life because percy wants to know if/when grover is in danger (on my hands and knees begging rick to write more w the empathy). there's also a point to be made how in 'the last of the real ones' there's a line abt the subject of the song being the sun and fob is the planets spinning around them, but i connect that song w leo valdez and festus and think of it more platonically so. the love between an automaton and the person who fixed him up, and refused to give up on him. thats besides the point i just had to mention it.

"the city always hangs a little bit lonely on me" the last olympian when the manhattan is asleep and its just the demigods. the city also being the demigods themselves, w the ares cabin missing and percy initially thinking he's not the leader.

"loose, like a kid playing pretend in his fathers suit" if this was an animatic you could have a cool scene w percy sitting on poseidons throne. not just because they're father and son, but because they're both now leaders of an army but percy has just started in this role. not just that but the throne was way too big with him, and sure there's the point that the gods in olympus are usually in forms that are larger than the demigods, both to inspire some sort of awe/display of power, but also to hammer home they're not *human* and they're especially not like the demigods. outside of that, percy is filling this role not because he wants to, not because he has to. he's a 16 year old boy, he should not be leading an army. the city is "loose" because he's quite literally not ready and should not be ready for the roles he's in.

"i'd never go, i just want to be invited, oh got to give it up / get the feeling get the feeling, don't fight it fight it" the thing percy will never go for, will never be invited to, is a normal life. like most demigods, thats what he wants, and none of them currently want to be fighting a war. even the ares cabin and clarisse who are considered the most violent and the ones who like to fight stay out of it at first (for pride, but i think part of its is also they're kids, they're not even old enough to drink yet. clarisse has matured past her desire for glorying and is now more preoccupied with taking care of her cabin, chris, sliena. the rest of her cabin might've wanted to join in the fight, but she only did after someone she cared abt was killed, and i think theres something to be said about ares representing the more personal aspects of war, not just the violence but also just being in the trenches themselves. athena is a general who stands back and forms strategy, ares is the one used in the strategy. he is the soldiers, and therefore the bonds between them).

"sending my love from the other side of the apocalypse / and i just about snapped, don't look back / every lovers got a little dagger in their hand" (x2) apocalypse is so easy to connect to the actual war/battle the demigods were apart of. they're all fighting not just to save the world, but also for each other. the only people the demigods have to rely on are each other (and the parties ponies, courtesy of chiron who is a paternal figure to many of them). its their bonds as that allow them to stay strong as they're an army of 40 against one of thousands. the demigods on kronos' side are also motivated by some form of love, but love thats tempered w rage. luke is motivated by the desire to have a world were demigods can be safe BECAUSE he cares, not in spite of it. its just he also *hates* the gods. 'dagger in their hand' is so annabeth coded too. annabeth taking a dagger for percy on the feeling that something could be wrong. annabeth begging, "family luke. you promised". on that note i also think luke wasn't asking annabeth if she ever loved him romantically, but if she loved him the same way he loved her - as someone who deserved dignity and respect. his father didn't love him in the way he wanted or needed, he wanted to know if annabeth who was in many ways his family loved him in spite of everything he did. annabeth saying he was like a brother but she didn't love him is a reflection of her letting go because he hurt her so much, and he betrayed her trust. he was still her brother, but she couldn't bring herself to love him because of everything that had happened.

second verse then being the second series and mainly focusing on leo, jason and piper instead, because it started and ended w them mostly. not just them tho bc the entire series is not only them.

"generations sleep, i'm falling in and out of love again" this is SO leo coded i'm afraid. not just him deciding whenever he meets some pretty who's mean to him that yeah thats love, but also him "falling in and out" of places that should be homes. not letting himself actually be loved because he can't love himself. outside of leo, also piper and jason having fabricated feelings for each other, finding out its fake and then piper trying to make it real.

"what would you trade the pain for, i'm not sure" leo's pain is his powers, his guilt. piper is also her guilt, but mostly because she knows in order to save her dad (pain being him kidnapped), she has to betray her friends (pain of harming her friends). jason's pain of course being his memory and identity issues. also him after figuring out he's roman in a greek camp starting to feel as if he fits in more w the greeks.

"nowhere left for us to go but heaven" the great prophecy needs to have one of them - leo, jason, percy or frank (bc yes frank can also be considered fire its not pointed out in the books really but it feels so obvious to me) - die. they're going through everything just to die for the greater good anyway, for one of them there is nowhere left to go. disregarding that, its also commenting on how (like in the first verse), in them being demigods they cannot live life like anyone else. they mostly die very young, and most of them aren't able to actually explore what they want to do or be. annabeth wants to be an architect, but percy doesn't know what college course he should take because he thought he was going to die at 16. jason has never been anything but a soldier, him deciding to build temples for all gods was huge for him, he decided what he wanted to be on his own. most of the 7 are simply trying to survive in that moment, they don't realy have time to look to the future, there is nowhere in their mind for them to go until they are safe and they are *never* safe. and they never will be unless they can survive to their 20s.

"summer falling through our fingers again" this being about how demigods use their summer to train so they don't die. if the pjo wiki dates are correct, leo uses his winter and spring to build the argo ii and misses out on camp activities, and then the actual prophecy of the 7 (when they're all together) starts in summer. (i had to look up american seasons i'm australian so its all flipped for me). summer for these kids being saving the world and fighting for their lives instead of enjoying themselves like every other kid, and this ALWAYS being the case for them. summer is never just about fun for them, its always about survival.

"you were the sunshine of my lifetime, what would you trade the pain for" percy and annabeth, piper and jason, hazel and frank vs leo. the sunshine of his life is dead, because his mother was his whole world and now that she's gone, that leo blames himself for her death, he doesn't let himself be loved like everyone else. the closest thing he has is festus, buford and the argo ii. things that he makes and has some degree of control over, not in terms of what actions they take but how long they can stay alive. since bringing festus back to life, leo now has the confirmation that so long as he lives he can at least have one "person" he can't harm irreparably.

"we're taught we gotta get ahead, yeah, no matter what it takes but there's no way off the hamster wheel on this rat race" demigods are taught they need to fight and kill to survive, are taught their lives are functionally worthless to those they're fighting for unless they are useful. quests, prophecies and dying young are just an inevitable part of their lives that they cannot get out of. it was also inevitable that the greeks and romans would be against each other until the athena parthenos was returned, there was no real way for them to break the prophecy.

"i'd never go, i just want to be invited, oh got to give it up / get the feeling get the feeling, don't fight it fight it" once again more abt leo's relationship w the prophecy. he knows that on that ship he's the one everyone likes least. the only people who are really his friends are piper and jason. the only other people who weren't hostile to him were hazel and annabeth (she was also v close to a friend, but they're not really comparable to leo, piper and jason), and hazel accidently pit frank against him by wanting to figure out his connection w sammy. and yes, it was frank jealously that started the beef between him and leo, leo just took it further because he's an abused ex homeless foster kid who social standing depended entirely on how other people viewed him. the first time leo met percy he was terrified; frank let leo fall after the eidelons left his body, which is exactly the reason leo felt like frank dropped him into the romans on purpose. now, considering the other people the prophecy could be about are jason, percy and frank, all people who are far more liked than he is, who still have family or friends outside of the ship that care about them, leo's feeling is him being the sacrifice. in his mind there's no fighting it bc not only does he love jason, the most likely other sacrifice, he also values himself less than everyone else. also he has the closest connection to gaea, w her killing his mother. the is no fighting when he thinks through all the reasons.

"sending my love from the other side of the apocalypse / and i just about snapped, don't look back / every lovers got a little dagger in their hand" (x2) the apocalypse once again being the war and prophecy, but also tartarus. the thing that kept percy and annabeth sane in there was love after all, the thing that let them survive the river of misery was laughing because they care about each other, and were talking about a future together. just about snapped, percy nearly losing himself against akhlys. as the way, 'every lovers got a little dagger in their hand" as piper. daughter of love, in 'love' w jason, dagger as her primary weapon, yeah its her. 'sending my love from the other side of the apocalypse' as the gods join their kids in the final fight against the giants, but this time the love is conditional, they only aided because it was absolutely necessary. zeus's love for control, power, being in charge did send them across the world bc it actively made him do something instead of watch (zeus anti until i die)

"i saw you in a bright clear field, hurricane heat in my head" i like to think this is abt leo making his plan. he sees the others, the heat in his head is him convincing himself he's the one the prophecy is abt. its him telling frank and hazel because they 'understand sacrifice' and really he only needed hazel for the plan to work but he told frank also. like i know there was a reason he told frank 'make a call no-one else could make' but i genuinely cannot tell you what he actually did. hazel was super important, w the fake cure and all. the only thing frank did was stop percy from joining jason, leo and piper, which he could have been convinced to do without the entire telling him about the sacrifice in advance. i like to think leo told frank because he needed to tell someone, and he knew jason and piper would be against it. he wan't close enough to percy or annabeth to say anything, and hazel was already being told bc he needed the mist, not for emotional support. frank being told is leo is leo giving himself another pillar of support, also i think its huge for their relationship in general. i do think its interesting how leo was always the one initiating trying to be better friends w frank (connecting over his mother also being killed by fire, fireproof bag, reassuring him that no he's not interested in hazel its fine, etc) but thats another thing entirely so.

"the kind of pain you feel to get good in the end, good in the end". the kind of pain you feel after you get revenge or closure. leo's letting himself sit in his hatred of not only gaea, but himself too. tihs might be me reading too much into things, but i've always viewed him as being so okay with dying in his plan as him in a way thinking he deserves it, and it'll make up for his mother dying. in his mind there were two people to blame for his mothers death, gaea and himself. them both dying is closure, but him planning to come back is him forgiving himself also. he's letting his rage and guilt die, he's coming back to actually start living.

"inscribed like stone and faded by the rain, give up what you love / give up what you love before it does you in" i like to think of this like its the prophecy itself. its like stone because its immutable. it will come true no matter what. its faded by the rain because they weren't able to figure it out completely before events that matched started to happen. the propechy is tragic, because of course it is. everyone on the argo ii is preparing for one of them to die, with piper and annabeth needed to grapple with maybe its their partner also. hazel and frank being the ones to *know* it's going to be leo. and for leo, it is love that does him in. loving jason and not wanting him to die, loving calypso and this being a way to free her (i dont like romantic love caleo, but platonically yk). love is going to do him in, and he's planning for it.

"sending my love from the other side of the apocalypse / and i just about snapped, don't look back / every lovers got a little dagger in their hand" (x2) now if this was an animatic i'd have the first one be leo, piper and jason killing gaea, and the second be the demigods on the ground fighting against the army of monsters, camps finally united. there's not much more to say about this after all, they're once again fighting a war for the right to live, but this time after overcoming a centuries long feud.

"sending my love" leo telling piper and jason he loves them before dropping them, w piper sobbing and jason being unable to anything but watch as his best friend died.

"sending my love" the fight dying down, demigods looking over the battlefield and seeing their friends and family who died. the two camps coming together and weaving funeral shrouds that the burnt together, as one collective group of grieving child soldiers. its the remaining 7 and nico coming together to grieve leo and finding out he planned this all along.

anyway

the entire so much (for stardust album can be applied to the Percy jackson extended universe I can go song by song line by line and explain In detail which songs are what characters and what lines are what scenes. I might not be able to do animatics because God knew I'd be too powerful