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demigod-shenanigans · 26 days ago

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One reason I really dislike the Leonidas thing btw is that there is just way in hell Esperanza Valdez, who was keenly aware of Leo being a demigod and everything that meant since he was born and was actively trying to protect him from being a hero for as long as she could, would make her kid share a name with a Greek king who died sacrificing himself. That makes no sense.

Esperanza would not name Leo Leonidas for the same reason Sally didn’t name her son Jason instead of Percy. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

#personally I’m choosing to believe Calypso drew parallels between Leo and Leonidas and nicknamed him that #and one of the reasons Leo dislikes it is that it’s just not his name #plus it’s kind of old-timey so it makes sense for Calypso to default to something like that considering how long she’s been away from human #leo valdez #esperanza valdez #hoo #heroes of olympus #toa #trials of apollo #leo pjo #anyway I saw a rick tweet at some point that Leo’s name was just Leo and not short for anything #but I’m not on twitter and he may have changed his mind since as he sometimes does #but this is why I personally just dislike the whole concept #it makes sense as far as out of universe symbolism goes but in universe it’s nonsense

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