Despite everything, It's still you.
Or, maybe it's not. Because brothers don't do that. They're supposed to care and understand, and oh how you do not. Oh how you're just angry and on the wrong side of this war, and you're only willing to hurt. (The brother he knows is not one that is convinced all they do is wrong.)
Or, maybe it is, at least supposedly. Maybe it is still you, in there somewhere, because you backtrack so easily. You backtrack so easily on your actions the second you realize they're hurting the only person still willing to extend you an olive branch. (The only person still willing to love you like you are - because not even your father is willing to do that.)
Or, maybe it never has been. Maybe the real you died the first time you did. Maybe you've never been the same since, trying to piece together a person from broken and breaking pieces, and only succeeding in putting them back together wrong.
Maybe there is no you anymore. Maybe there's only a husk of someone so desperately hoping to become whole again by fixing this. The you that should be isn't the you that is, and yet, maybe in some regard, that is the you that should be. That is still you.
Maybe you are still you. Maybe you're not. Maybe you never were. Maybe so so many things.
And yet, one thing in this is not a maybe. Because despite everything - you or not - he'll still call you his brother. So, maybe you are still you, the good caring nice you. Maybe that person is still in there somewhere. Because if they weren't, you wouldn’t've panicked - you wouldn't have cared enough to save him, but you did. And maybe, maybe thats indicative it's still you.
Despite everything, It's still you - and maybe he can say that more confidently than you'd like. But it's right. It is.
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do you ever see a person and you are overcome with incredible fondness? and you just think "oh." but not in a romantic or sexual way you are just filled with warmth and it makes you happy, it just does. and you think "i'm so happy you exist. i'm happy you are somewhere out there in the world, doing your thing". it's love but also not entirely
like people are lovely and i feel it in my entire chest like a burning candle that smells like roses and a sunny day
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its funny because Percy has been spiraling ever since pjo and whenever he has a particularly bad episode you have other characters actively worried about it and you think to yourself surely they're going to intervene, surely someone is going to talk to him about it, and then like no one ever does lol
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doctors are so fucking funny; if you go in like "based on my extensive research and corroborations i think i have this Disease" they will immediately go on the defensive and ask you demeaning shit like "how do you even know this Disease exists?" but if you go in and play stupid and say "gee whiz i'm just a silly little bimbo who doesn't know a thing but i have symptom, symptom, symptom, and symptom" they will very eagerly be like "oh wow, that sounds like Disease!"
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