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iamrizaka · 1 year ago

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Didn't Kronos contact him a bit after Luke's quest? I think Luke's teammates also died during the quest, so Luke was kinda out of it and generally in a bad state.

And didn't Kronos send him dreams for 2 YEARS before Luke gave up and stole the bolt and the helm????

"Luke made the choice to join Kronos. Luke made the choice to betray everyone at camp. Luke made the choice to-." Blah, blah, blah.

Anyways, given that Kronos obviously manipulated Luke into believing that he wanted what Luke wanted (and that was to make life for demigods better and to hold the gods accountable for their actions), only to get Luke to say yes and join him… did Luke really have a choice? It’s states multiple times throughout the first series, by various characters, that Kronos could manipulate even the person with the strongest will power. Hell, Kronos even manipulated Ares! A literal god!

You think that Luke really had any chance of turning Kronos down, especially right after his quest when his emotions were all over the place?

Then let’s not forget that it’s stated right in the books that Kronos would straight up torture Luke with nightmares when he would "fail" or he felt Luke’s loyalty to him wavering. So, if he was punished/tortured whenever he may have wanted to disband the alliance with Kronos… did he really have a choice? Or was he stuck in that awful predicament because of one bad decision that wasn’t even truly his very own decision?

Luke may have thought that he had a choice in the beginning and it may seem that way to Percy and the others. However, it’s made perfectly clear in TTC that all of the "power" that Kronos had given Luke (as far as letting him see over the army in SoM and everything) was really just to pacify Luke and keep him compliant and unquestioning until he was ready to use him as his vessel if things didn’t work out with the fleece.

As far as I see it, Luke stopped having the true ability to make choices after he agreed to join Kronos and that happened before we even see him in TLT. In this essay I will-…

#luke was one of the few with the strongest will EVER #he was holding the sky for who knows how long. his hair was entirely w h i t e #kronos then spent a lot of time nagging him to jump in the styx #i hc that luke didnt actually do it. not willingly at least #like in ttc he was pushed by thalia of the mountain and should have died but didnt #instead we see him healthier than before #so maybe the reason he survived the fall and injuries he was left with is because kronos made the army throw his body in the river??#and then after kronos used him as a we were multiply times told and shown that he is here #he never gave up #he was fighting kronos and giving him headaches almost all the time #and and his own will was the reason olympus was saved in the end #luke deserved and DESERVES way more and better than this!!!#reblog

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