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queenangst · 2 years ago

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percy didnt want to be a half blood. he never wanted to be a hero. he goes home every summer. he craves normalcy. he asked for blue coke. he plays basketball and likes skateboarding. he made the empire state building light up blue for his mom. he turned down immortality because he wanted to live a normal life. percy has always, always wanted to stay tethered to the normal, mortal world. he didn't look back.

#there's no point to this post I'm just emotional abt percy jackson #that's also why percabeths early dynamic was so interesting too bc #their perspectives were completely different #annabeth was DESPERATE for a quest #always wanted to prove herself in the real world against monsters #she was a year rounder and wanted nothing to do with her dad and her mortal life #until percy convinced her but even then it took years for annabeth to get to a point where she was really like. reconciling with her dad #but i love percy bc he's always been the one torn between worlds #mortal and immortal.... normal and fantasy...#i mean that's why... the scene of Percy turning down immortality is so powerful #bc he was offered what might be considered the most honored gift a hero could have #and he looked back. at annabeth. at his friends. and he refused it #like we talk abt the romance of it blah blah but it's REALLY a deeper choice of percy #choosing to ground himself in the mortal world #percy would NEVER accept immortality #to do so would go against his very character #he wants to go home.#he loves camp and he loves his found family #but his home is in an apartment in new york with his mom #wailing sobbing i love him so much he was just a kid he was always a kid who wanted to go home #and wanted to be normal

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