#i've only ever loved pjo for the story and characters and adventure and haven't been thinking about deeper implications at all

[haaam-guuuurl]

But here's the thing about casting an actual child, especially one that looks so young, like Walker Scobell does - we are going to see him get attacked by monsters stories higher than him, fight all powerful gods, watch his mom get killed right in front him, lose his friends to an actual war, be betrayed by people he considers very close to him, and so so much more of all the crap Percy goes through, and it's got so much potential to hit hard just how absolutely fucking horrible it is that this is the normal life for demigods. That they are little kids literally carrying the weight of the world. That most of them do not reach adulthood. That they are hunted since they are born. That the gods are constantly sending their children to die and so many times do not even care enough to claim them, help them, or get attached at all.

It is so very easy to look at Percy Jackson & The Olympians and just see the "little kid gets to be a hero" story, but I would really love for them not to shy away from how traumatizing it all is. I want to hear Percy say "Look, I didn't want to be a half-blood" and understand the exhaustion and fear and regret behind it, because while it is an adventure, it's also a death sentence, and I think that's an aspect of the story that has remained so unexplored but that adds so many layers to all of it.