#luke castellan

[charlie-percys-version]

Annabeth and Thalia with all the damage Luke did.

"I did it for you" has gotta be my favorite form of betrayal. You gave me a gift I never asked for, and now I have to look around at the world you destroyed with the knowledge that it was gift wrapped and addressed to me.

[percabethluv]

FOR REAL THO LOL

[kittenscookie]

AU CRACK MOTHER FUCKERS

M.E Luke: Okay...With the shit you've just described to me I'm kinda shocked you didn't snap sooner.

Canon Luke: Honestly? So am I.

M.E Luke: And on that note—your life story is the exact same as his right?

GLAB Luke: Sounds like it yeah.

M.E Luke: Okay then what stopped you from going ape shit? Why didn't you steal the bolt?

GLAB Luke: Oh no, I stole that shit.

Canon Luke: ...What?

M.E Luke: Yeah what?

GLAB Luke: Yup! Framed Jackson and everything. Left Kronos before anyone found out it was me though.

Canon Luke: May I ask why?

GLAB Percy: *Opens door, both babies on his hips* Hey Luke, the girls were getting fussy—think they want their papa.

GLAB Luke: C'mere little guppies *Grabs babies*

Babies: *Snuggles Luke*

Canon Luke: ...

M.E Luke: ...YUP! That'll do it!

GLAB Luke: Wanna hold one?

M.E Luke: I don't think I should be trusted with children that young.

GLAB Luke: What about you?

Canon Luke: Sure...?

GLAB Luke: *Hands Canon Luke a baby*

Baby: *Snuggles Canon Luke*

Canon Luke: ...yeah...yeah this would have definitely done it, damn—

M.E Luke: ...So who—?

GLAB Luke: They're adopted

[silenab]

just what fast is

22k, complete, canon compliant

“It’s only illegal if you get caught,” Luke declares as the speedometer ticks up higher. 

He’s weaving flawlessly through the lanes although there are so many cars, Annabeth can’t believe it. The deep black night is illuminated in angry reds and the palest of yellows, and she couldn’t possibly imagine where all these people have to go at 3 AM. Luke says they’re going home, most likely. Or maybe they’re on a road trip. She tells him she wants to go on a proper one someday, with money and motels and gold bars of ambrosia in the trunk. In a car that’s his, she thinks, but doesn’t say.

(“Sounds like a quest,” he says.

“Well, I think we’ve established I want one of those too.”) 

With one hand on the wheel and another flipping off the reckless motorcyclist in their dust, he looks pretty. It’s something she’s always known, and became increasingly difficult to ignore the longer they stayed at Camp. Girls clung to Luke like bees to honey in the winter. Or, they did. Since his quest, if anything clings it's the smoke, and she’s working on building her tolerance to that just as she had to his fleeting, failed dates. 

“And you never get caught?”

His scar twitches. He bites the corner of his lip, and Annabeth feels poorly for the implication even though she hadn’t even meant it that way. She’d already tested him, having him change directions earlier and she knows him well enough to recognize that he’s not in the best of moods tonight. 

She doesn’t want a fight, and, lucky for her, he doesn’t either. 

“That’s why you’re here right now,” he reminds her. 

Annabeth smiles. “We’ll see about that when we get back.” 

“Mr. D doesn’t care.” 

“Makes your job easy then,” she teases. 

“Goading me isn't gonna work.” His cheeks tuck up into a lazy grin and when he turns his head (hazardously, may she add) his eyes are faux-bored in a way that makes her stomach flutter. ���You’re so greedy.” 

She almost turns his face back to the road with her hands. She sits on them, not trusting herself.  “I’m very reasonable. Since when do you play it safe?” 

“With you? Often.” 

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ik everyone has this Luke hc but I need a summer reader and a “Where my hug at” Luke fic or hc and I love your writing and summer roberts reader smmm 🫶🫶🫶🫶

👙 °❀* 𓍼:･ luke castellan thinks he’s slick, but summer!roberts!reader is not having it

summer!roberts!reader x luke castellan

The thing about Luke Castellan is that he is so predictable.

Like clockwork, he appears whenever you’re busy—which, in this case, means lounging on a deck chair, sipping an iced coffee, and tanning like the daughter of Aphrodite you are. Your sunglasses are on, your lip gloss is fresh, and your perfume is so potent you might as well be the human embodiment of a department store’s fragrance section.

Basically? You’re thriving.

Until Luke ruins it.

“Hey pretty girl, where my hug at?”

You don’t even flinch. Don’t even move, but you do have to suppress a shiver at his cringeness. You exhale through your nose and adjust your sunglasses, pretending you can’t hear him.

Maybe if you ignore him, he’ll disintegrate.

Luke, ever the menace, leans over your chair.

“C’mon, Princess. I know you heard me.”

“Unfortunately,” you say flatly. You finally turn to him, tilting your sunglasses down just enough to glare. “And stop calling me that.”

“What, Princess?”

You give him a very slow, very deliberate once-over. “You are not my type.”

Luke gasps, hand over his heart like you just mortally wounded him. “I’m everyone’s type.”

Annabeth, who has been standing nearby, watching this like it’s a live-action rom-com, snorts.

“She has a point,” Annabeth says.

Luke turns to her, looking betrayed. “Et tu, Wise Girl?”

You roll your eyes and take a sip of your iced coffee. The straw is pink, your nails are perfect, and everything about you is untouchable. Luke, on the other hand, is standing there looking so smug, so unfazed, that you know he’s going to keep pushing.

“You know what I think?” he says, leaning against the armrest of your chair like he belongs there.

“I don’t care,” you reply sweetly.

“I think,” he continues, completely ignoring you, “that you’re playing hard to get.”

You blink at him. Once. Twice. Then you reach for your Sol de Janeiro body mist and spray him directly in the face.

Luke chokes.

Annabeth wheezes.

“Oh my gods—” Luke stumbles back, waving his hands in front of his face. “WHAT IS THAT?”

“Brazilian Crush,” you say, inspecting your nails. “Now you smell good. You’re welcome.”

Luke is still coughing. “That was uncalled for!”

“You were breathing my air.”

Annabeth is gone. She’s doubled over, laughing so hard she might actually pass out. “I—I can’t—”

Luke glares at you, still recovering. “You think this is funny?”

“I think you’re annoying,” you reply. “But sure, let’s go with that.”

For a second, you think he might actually give up. But no—this is Luke. Luke never gives up. Instead, he straightens, rakes a hand through his stupid blond hair, and grins.

“You’re gonna fall in love with me eventually,” he says.

“Ew,” you reply automatically.

“See? You’re already obsessed.”

You grab your water bottle and chuck it at his head.

He dodges—barely—but his laugh echoes all the way down the hill as he jogs away, completely victorious.

Annabeth recovers enough to look at you, smirking. “You know he likes you, right?”

You sip your coffee, unimpressed. “I know he’s insufferable.”

“Uh-huh.”

You roll your eyes and go back to tanning. Luke Castellan is not your problem.

…But the fact that you kind of want to throw something else at him might be.

[iamrizaka]

Can you tell me more about how you see Lee Luke? It's one of my favorite ships, thank you! 💓

They are so older brothers to me. Two tired campers who have seen each other at their worst and helped. They had to wrestle their siblings on a daily basis just to get things done.

Luke saw Annabeth and went, "Guess I'm a dad now." Lee has lots of cousins (a hc) and is constantly surrounded by kids. Both are experienced babysitters, share advice on how to keep their kids (aka cabinmates) from killing someone. Definitely ended up taking Will and Annabeth on playdates so they can hang out and keep an eye on these two.

But before that? When they were regular campers and not head counselors? Lee sneaked in his old Game Boy so they could play during sleepovers (no one knows where the sleepovers were held, except for these two). With Lee's conviction and Luke's wet hamster eyes, they were allowed to bimonthly marathon of Disney movies held by head counselors.

They were both pissed off by the conditions Hermes cabin was in and tried to do something about it but got turned down every time. They decided to create their own safe place for demigods when they are older and can leave camp freely. So Luke's betrayal hit Lee hard.

They were this close to fulfilling this promise; and yet, Luke decides to ignore it all and abandon their dream. He decides to hurt, and manipulate, and kill every demigod he'd sworn to protect. And Lee was left to pick up the pieces, wondering if he was never enough.

And this is also a thing I just find very interesting with their dynamic: pretty much in all of Lee's story (again, a hc), he ended being a caretaker. First he was looking after his cousins, who were much younger than him; when he got to camp, he continued to worry about them, especially because him being the baby of the cabin was very unusual to him (soon enough though their cabin got more people, and some of them seemed to be glued to him); then he becomes head of the cabin and officially accepts to take care of his "sunbabies".

Luke was almost the same age as him and never needed a babysitter; they were equal. They were friends, they listened to each other and supported each other; and Lee was able to finally see the future with him, where he can allow himself to not be a parental figure to a bunch of kids. He could see himself grow into his own person.

And then Luke leaves and the war is waged. Lee can't leave. He swore that he'd protect these children and camp till his last breath, and so he does. The moment Luke left with Kronos, Lee's string was cut.

Also, Luke is very oblivious and doesn't realize his feelings until he runs away. The moment he collects himself he's just, "Oh SHIT."

The divorce is strong in this. Lee wants to put an arrow through that guys head, Luke spends half of Kronos' money to buy gifts for Lee. Kronos is homophobic. Michael and everyone else at camp is Lukephobic. One of the reasons why Chris decided to navigate the Labyrinth was to get away from Luke's constant sobbing about "missing his husband."

[goldengirlonthemoon]

Posting this earlier because I don’t want to stay up to late tonight :)

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Apollo! Toa book two, chapter one, page 3

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[fanfic-lover-girl]

Luke's promise of family to Annabeth is honestly a sad moment. A 14-year-old child should not be making promises like this. Luke needs someone to be looking out for him.

If we're going to talk about parentification in PJO,Luke feels like the prime example of it,lol. Not only that,but he never seemed to have any reliable authority figure in his life. In fact,I'd dare say most of his "pure evil" moments in early books were him snapping after all the trauma he had to go through.

THANK YOU! FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT. I think most readers of the books just completely gloss over the fact that Luke never once had someone to look after him properly, yet he always had to look after others. May was insane, she couldn't have raised Luke properly even if she loved him. That boy was basically forced to raise and take care of himself ever since he can remember. Then he ran away at the age of nine, he hadn't even reached the double digits, and was already out on the streets. During that time he meant Thalia and Annabeth, and based on The Diary of Luke Castellan we know that Luke pretty much immediately took to taking care of Annabeth from the get go. He knew her for less than a minute and already compared himself, Thalia and her to a family, with him as the Dad. Luke was fourteen when all that happened, you really think that this is healthy? Then when they do get to camp there's still no adult to take care of them. Thalia dies, he gets separated from Annabeth and shoved into the overcrowded Hermes cabin. Can you imagine what that's like? All your life you are forced to take care of yourself and are the only one looking out for someone even younger, and then when you get to the place that's supposed to be safe for you, you realize all the other kids still have to take care of themselves. Just now you have another kid who's supposed to look after you. Luke becoming the Hermes counselor really was just the last straw in his long line of parentification. Imagine being a teenager and suddenly the adults around you tell you that from now on, you are in charge of a HUGE group of other kids. The Hermes cabin was the largest cabin of CHB with MANY demigods of different backgrounds and parentages, yet Luke was still completely left on his own to figure it out. You think that doesn't fuck with you? Most bemoan Bianca's fate having to look after Nico during that time in the school or so, imagine how horrid she would have had it had she been homeless with the guy for a while and then was also forced to take care of like- 30+ different Nicos. 'Cause this is exactly what happened to Luke.

[ruegarding]

that scene in tlo where thalia tells percy he can't start feeling sorry for luke bc luke made his choices. and thalia reveals that the reason they couldn't make it to camp in time for all of them to make it to camp was bc luke kept picking fights. and annabeth never saw this as wrong bc luke was her hero. so thalia had to pick up the pieces. and percy thinking both that luke was put in a cruel position and that luke was putting others in a cruel position. and percy is the only character who understood both sides of luke bc annabeth sees only the best of him and thalia sees only the worst. and that's why percy is the prophecy kid and the one who gives luke the knife. bc annabeth had spent the entire series essentially giving luke the knife when he didn't deserve it. and thalia was never going to give luke the knife. but percy is the only one who can see exactly when luke deserves the knife.

[cryptic-and-machiavellian]

luke: *is the lightening thief*

me, who’s known that for literal years:

[kittenscookie]

Give-Luke-A-Baby Au

Percy: *Points to the girls* Who's babies are those?

Luke: Mine

Luke Internally: ...oh FUUUUUUUUCK—

Rest Of The Cabin: *Completely unfazed/under the impression Luke already completely accepted fatherhood*

Percy: Oh! What are their names?

Luke: ...

Chris: Oh shit—what are their names!? You call them "guppy" or "little fish" so damn much I never caught them!

Luke: ...

Chris: ...What are their names, Luke...?

Luke: ...*Visibly Sweating Now*

Connor: ...Have you not named your fucking daughters—!?

Luke: Don't cuss in front of the babies—!

Travis: They're asleep, they can't hear shit—!

*One Baby Startles Awake*

Luke: Look what you've done!

Chris: What about what you haven't? It's been like five months Luke what the hell—!?

[fanfic-lover-girl]

As much as I am sometimes fond of Apollo after TOA, I think the gods being abuse victims muddies the waters even more. I am curious how this will impact the gods moving forward.

despite being, atleast in part, a atory about oppression, the percy jackson series does a very bad job of showing oppression, the resulting exploitation, and the reality of the oppressed class. but by being so bad at it, the series somehow ends up showcasing oppression and oppressive systems perfectly.

from the first book itself, the protagonist, percy, understands that he is in a system designed to facilitate oppression. more so in his case, with his very existence being a reason for his exploitation. percy understands that, and attempts to change this system in the final book by asking the gods for a promise to treat their children better. throughout the series, there are various instances of percy being very vocal of the gods' injustice towards the demigods. he even criticises the gods for being deadbeat parents multiple times.

as such, percy makes the perfect revolutionary leader. he is tired of the oppression and exploitation, he knows that the system is designed to be oppressive, he has seen himself and those around him suffer, he is brave and bold and impertinent enough to speak out against those in power, he feels compassion towards other victims of the system, and he is strong and capable enough to actually raise a revolution. and yet, he... doesn't.

luke tries to recruit percy into the titan army because of him being a stereotypical 'opposition to the system' character. percy, instead of joining the army, which his whole character build-up leads the readers, and even the characters, to believe to be the logical choice he should make, opposes luke. the two become each others' foils, with the message of the series being that percy is 'good' and luke is 'bad'. with it especially being targetted towards children, who are mostly incapable of understanding the fuzzy boundaries and the gray areas between good and bad, it leads to the mischaracterisation of luke as this big bad evil in fanon, which we actually see a lot of.

the series, therefore, propagates the idea that a peaceful method of protest and coming to a mutual understanding between the oppressor and the oppressed is the way to abolishing oppression. percy strives hard, rises up the ranks, reaches a position of importance, proves his worth to the gods, and finally, in exchange for his contributions, asks for better living and working conditions for the demigods. luke, on the other hand, takes drastic, often violent measures, and aims to dismantle the system, rather than change it. the book concludes with percy succeeding in changing the system, whereas luke dies without even making an impact in the larger picture. except, does it?

history is, essentially, a story of oppression and protest and then oppression again. innumerable revolutions have been staged, and many of them were, in varying degrees of the word, successful. these successful revolutions were not the result of any sort of understanding, but of violently shaking the system to its core.

one cannot retaliate against oppression by appealing to the moral or logical part of the oppressor. oppression is built on immorality, irrationality, hegemony, and fatalism. the oppressor knows what they are doing is immoral. they know it is illogical. they know it is wrong. but they do it anyways. similarly, the oppressed, though only subconsciously, know that they are being treated unjustly and that they have every right to oppose the system. but they are made to believe that no matter what they do, they cannot change anything. they are made to believe that their oppression is just the natural order of things. they end up conforming to the image the oppressor curates for them, not because it is who they are, but because it is all they know how to be. and this image, which is curated for them, is one which allows the oppressor to oppress them even further. any possibility of a proper uprising is eliminated, because the oppressed are made to believe that they are inferior and weak, that they cannot make a difference, and by painting violence, the very tool that helped the oppressors get into that position, as bad. any attempt of violence by the oppressed is used by the oppressors to further reinforce the idea that the oppressed are inferior and uncivilised, and that it is because of it that they are in an unprivileged position. it not only makes anyone who does use violence against the oppressors an outcast, it also dissuades any further attempts. the oppressed are instead encouraged to put their faith in the (non-existant) morality and compassion of the oppressors, and to plead their case to their oppressors, because they are made to believe that their oppressors are unaware of their sufferings and if they were made aware, they would surely stop. except, the oppressors are not only aware of what they are doing, they are doing it consciously.

percy, then, makes the perfect revolutionary leader who isn't a revolutionary leader at all. he believes the gods will pay more attention to their kids and treat them better if he lets them know how bad the demigods have it. he believes the gods will keep their promise. he believes in cooperation and moderate measures, he opposes violent means. and it works. but only for a while, because the method was designed to fail in a system designed to oppress.

if percy had succeeded in changing the system, hoo and toa should never have happened. the two recent books should never have happened. if percy had succeeded, tlo should have been the last book about the demigods. but it isn't, and there is twelve books worth of stuff that happens after that. the gods didn't keep their promise, because that's what the oppressors do. what reforms percy brought about were just a placating measure, not meant to bring about changes, but to prevent the demigods from staging an uprising again. just adding a few new cabins in the camp doesn't magically take away any of the exploitation the demigods have already gone through, nor does it prevent any future exploitation. the gods continue to oppress the demigods just like they used to. nothing has really changed, despite the whole story being about percy changing the system.

on the other end of the spectrum is luke. the violent extremist, the heartless revolutionary, the big bad evil that the protagonist has to defeat. he only focuses on his goal, not caring about who he hurts in the process. he is ready to sacrifice anyone and everyone, even himself, if it means he can achieve what he wants. and what he wants is to overthrow the gods because of how much they've made him and those around him suffer. his motivations are the same as percy, he wants to bring some change in the system that is made to oppress him and those like him. but what sets him apart from percy is the fact that he is ready to take extreme steps and abandon morals and ethics. percy abides by the rules. luke not only breaks them, he breaks them cruelly.

with the story meant for a young audience, who cannot comprehend the complicated ideas of hegemony and fatalism, who cannot properly critically evaluate the themes and the context, who cannot understand the system of oppression and exploitation, to such an impressionable audience, when presented with the story from percy's point of view, where luke is depicted as an antagonist, the very idea of a violent revolution becomes something negative. the audience is encouraged to be like percy, to strive for peaceful reforms. except, that is not how one opposes oppression. riordan's work, then, becomes a text for reinforcing hegemony and fatalism, to a particularly impressionable audience, which puts it in opposition to progess.

but luke himself isn't a perfect revolutionary. he was manipulated, his dissatisfaction with the current system and his subsequesnt anger towards those in power were used by kronos to become the fuel for a fire that would burn the system to ashes, not so that no one is trapped in it anymore, but to clear the land for the formation of another system, which would be equally oppressive and harmful to the oppressed. once again, throughout history, many oppressive systems have been replaced with similar oppressive systems, though the general public that helped destroy the first system was promised that the next system will treat them better. luke becomes a victim to this very cycle, and thus, loses.

the percy jackson series, due to this, does a very bad job of showing how to stand up against oppression. instead of opposing oppression, the series acts as an ideological state apparatus to further propagate hegemony. but in doing so, it perfectly showcases the real mechanism behind the system and its operations, with percy and luke being on two opposing ends of the continuum of rebellion.

[mydairpercabeth]

Everyone holding Annabeth to an impossible Standard

And then there’s Percy

[aroaceleovaldez]

one of my favorite subtle implications in the series is that it seems the Titan Army was fully banking on Percy being the host of Kronos. Why else would they make their main base a cruise ship if their primary enemy is a son of Poseidon? Named after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus? Why would they work on Oceanus specifically being free so much? Side notably with other children of Poseidon? Why plant Zeus and Hades' items of power on Percy when Luke already had them? Why only Zeus and Hades' items, not Poseidon's? Well because they really need Percy as Kronos' host, that's why. (and Poseidon siding with them because of that would be a bonus as well)

I like to imagine Luke's cabin on the Princess Andromeda is fully decked out with like "WELCOME PERCY" and sea-themed sheets and everything and he hates it so much cause it's a constant reminder he failed and he was Kronos' second choice. Also then he gets his super special pegasus not even exactly stolen by Percy, but the pegasus willingly defects to be Percy's personal steed instead, which must just be insult to injury. Luke has immense one-sided beef with Percy and Percy has no idea.