#it's just that calling calypso his biggest 'what if' seemed so forced bc he spent so much time on that island unconscious

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i was literally thinking about this earlier. the fact that percy referred to calypso as his biggest 'what if?' makes no sense because he was not tied to her. we could argue that he cared for her safety and reparation, which is proven by him planting her flower outside his bedroom and asking the gods to free her from the island a book later. but he didn't have romantic feelings for this girl. sure, he thought she was pretty, friendly, and he wanted to be there for her. but that doesn't equate to romantic attraction.

i'd argue his biggest 'what if' is miss rachel elizabeth dare. bc she actually challenged annabeth's place in percy's life. percy showed genuine interest in rachel. in fact, he spent the entire year after tbotl hanging out with rachel and ignoring everything related to being a demigod, which included annabeth. and the only reason percy never explored the option of pursuing her after tlo was bc she became the oracle and was given explicit instructions not to date. otherwise, percy would have had a difficult choice to make. annabeth was jealous for a good reason. tf lmao.

Y’all get mad at Rachel for cockblocking Percabeth, but you should really be mad at Calypso.

Rachel is actually an interesting character, with an arc that separated herself from Percy and she actually got to be her own person.

Calypso was written as an obstacle to keep the will-they-won’t-they going so that Rick could sell another book. She is there for one chapter, and doesn’t really do much for Percy’s arc except to give Annabeth a reason to be pissed at him.

She was then brought back in HoH because Leo “needed” a girlfriend. She served no other purpose.

Something something female characters being written by men that only exist to enhance the arc of the male protagonist something something.