#pjo reference

[that-girl-glader]

The only thing I hate about being aroace is that I can't name my kids after fictional characters I like.

[chekovs-merkin]

[thesummerstorms]

Camp Half-Blood Numbers Over Time

Okay, I was originally doing this to figure out my own headcanons and confirm what I had figured out before, but I thought it might be useful to actual PJO fic writers or something.

So here's a quick reference post of the number of demigods in CHB through out the first series (not HoO or TOA) with screenshots of the relevant text evidence. Everything from The Last Olympian & "Son of Magic" is under a cut because there were more quotes to pull and things got long.

Beginning of the Lightning Thief: 100+ Campers attend CHB in the summer

(mentioned in BOTL as a contrast)

Begining of Battle of the Labyrinth: ~80 Campers left in attendance at CHB

Number of Campers dead in actual BOTL: 2+

(Lee Fletcher & Castor are confirmed dead, but more deaths are implied by the phrases "among the dead" and "there were too many goodbyes" which would be odd if only referring to two deaths)

Number of Campers Dead between Battle of the Labyrinth & Battle of Manhattan: ~1+ Beckendorf dies on screen. It's implied that there are demigods on raids and missions spread throughout the country, and we don't know the results of those.

Number of New Campers between BOTL & TLO: 0.

Number of Campers @ Battle of Manhattan: 40 before the Ares Cabin showed up.

45+ after Ares Cabin arrived. (Chris, 3 specific Ares kids, Clarisse + an unknown number of "cabin mates)

Kids left at Camp during the B.o.M.: 0 (it's unknown if the difference between the number from BOTL and those at Manhattan is due entirely to losses during the Battle of the Labyrinth or other previous skirmishes/missions.

Some of the missing numbers might be kids who chose not to fight, kids were sent home for being to young/unable to fight, kids who deserted, kids who were on other missions and couldn't make it back in time, etc.)

Campers Dead On-Screen in the B.o.M.: ~5-6 (Silena Beauregard, Ares kid eaten by Drakon, Apollo kid eaten by hellhound, Michael Yew, Apollo kid under shroud, possibly that Ares kid whose armor was destroyed by acid given what the acid did to Silena through her helmet)

Possible Off-Screen Deaths: ??? Many???

It's mentioned that some CHB demigods disappeared during the fighting.

Many are too injured to keep fighting and could have died from their wounds since only 16 Campers out of 45+ are in fighting shape on the final day of the Battle.

The Apollo cabin likely had more than three losses since they were referred to in the plural even when Michael had sent Kayla and Austin to lay traps and the one had already been killed by the hellhound, even though the only other named Apollo kid is Will. However, the exact numbers are unknown.

While Apollo went from having the second most number of kids to only having three kids at the start of at least TOA (possibly HOO? I don't remember enough to search for that) we don't know how many were lost here, how many were lost in other skirmishes, how many defected, or how many aged out after the War or left for other reasons.

Deaths During the B.o.M. per Alabaster: 16

Technically he said this was CHB 's losses total, but someone already disproved the possibility of this including the Hunters, Satyrs, centaurs, or nature spirits so we can infer it is mostly likely meant to be the number of demigods.

I don't love Son of Magic as a source for several reasons including narrator bias. Plus we know the "hundreds" of causalities can't be all TA demigods based on CHB's prior numbers and the run down the other poster did on the on screen ration of monsters to demigods in the TA.

But this is canon and isn't directly contradicted elsewhere, so do with it what you will.

New Campers who arrived after the B.O.M.:

??? Many, compared to the previous few summer's number of "new enrollments", but exact numbers are unspecified.

Son of Magic also states that some former defectors rejoined camp under an amnesty, though it's never brought up anywhere else and no numbers are given. It does seem strange that it's never a point of contention, honestly.

Ending Figures?

Because of the vagueness of the descriptions of the number of defectors and new kids, we don't end up with an updated total number of Campers. (There may be evidence in HOO but that's another post.)

Personally I would interpret it as still slightly under the enrollment during TLT. It's also going to be a really interesting dynamic because so many of the "replacement" numbers missed the war entirely but are going to be walking into a Camp that is dealing with its aftermath.

[eeve06]

When your grandpa is Dionysus

[ultimatedreamer104]

Percy has a play date and a movie date all ready go when this quest is over

[qwerty-between-the-lines]

Percy shrugged. ‘Okay. But a word of advice: when you see Apollo, don’t mention haiku.’

Hazel knitted her eyebrows. ‘Why not? Isn’t he the god of poetry?’

‘Just trust me.’

[blue-the-gay-king]

I feel like Percy Jackson when ever I drive my blue Prius

[charliethinks]

guys… i found a dam notebook…

[milomilesmib]

Christ I thought this was Solangelo for a second

I realised I never actually post this one so please indulge in this while I finish something else in the meantime.

[ghostermctoaster]

going to the GA aquarium >:)

time to drop random moa dialogue 🥰🥰

(I NEED TO SEE SHARKOS)

[finnslay]

There's a tree on a hill

[stormythalamus]

i hope the pjo show makes lmm hermes. not him playing hermes; he IS hermes.

percy: you’re hermes? wait aren’t you that guy who wrote hamilton

hermes: i made a bet with apollo bc he said i wouldn’t be able to write a musical better than him. i needed to prove my superiority. artemis gave us each a topic to write about.

percy: what was his show about?

hermes: spider-man.

percy: there’s a broadway show about spider-man??

hermes: exactly.

[ultimatedreamer104]

"only suckers wait in line" THEYRE DEAD PERCY LEAVE THEM ALONE

[ultimatedreamer104]

One minute, I'm chewing on a staple rn, updates soon

[ofswordsandpens]

Percy, who had finally accepted to bear the burden of the great prophecy after agonizing over it for years only for everyone to repeatedly tell him in the final book that he's not the hero and its not about him:

[lice-haver]

Friendly reminder that Will Solace canonically sang a song so pretty it made little yellow flowers grow up out of the ground.