#sally jackson the mother that you are

[holdfastperseus]

No words just this parallel

[damnikindadontcare]

Sally and Percy Jackson are such a wonderful example of single motherhood and how young boys don’t need a father figure to become good men. Sally was the only parent Percy had for the first thirteen years of his life and he was already a kind, compassionate, and loving person far before Paul and Poseidon entered his life and that was because of Sally’s amazing parenting. The way Percy respects all the women around him, the way he treats everyone with kindness unless proven undeserving, his undying loyalty to all of his loved ones and his protective nature. That is all because of Sally and she clearly didn’t need a man to raise Percy to be the wonderful young man he is

[adastreia-12]

poseidon’s relationship with percy is something that is so personal to me. love so flawed and complicated, so wary and tentative. your father is here. he’s always been here. he’s not sure what to make of you but he is proud of you. you’re not sure what to make of him either. you’re sally jackson’s son, but you have your father’s eyes. you are the sea as much as he is. trust him. trust yourself. breathe. the sea does not like to be restrained.

[mydairpercabeth]

Percy’s love and admiration of Sally just makes me tear up every time I think about them. Percy literally went to the underworld and defied the gods to get his mother back. Sally making a point to ensure Percy knew who he was so that when it was time for him to join the world of the gods, he wouldn’t be swayed. The way Percy can acknowledge that his mom did her best despite everything and appreciates her. He finally meets his dad and all he wants to know is if he loved his mom. Their relationship is the backbone of the first book and Sally is who made Percy the way he is. I literally cant wait to see what they do with them next season.

[aryxchse]

the same type of blue. | percy jackson x daughter of hera! reader.

a / n : the history book on the shelf, is always repeating itself. and i won't shut up about how logan lerman and his wife being sally and poseidon in my head

warnings : emotional, i can't warm up to paul im sorry, sally and poseidon should've been an endgame but idek how, mentioning past, you looking like sally, crying, some of the hera cabin power mentions that i had in mind

the moment sally jackson met you, was the moment she saw her teenage self in your eyes.

you were this funny and bubbly girl who was too nice for your own good. you had these mother instict in you that later she found out it was because of your mother being hera. you would always say what type of marriage you imagine with percy and how many kids do you want. one boy and one girl, doesn't matter who's the older. the girl was going to have percy's eyes, but the boy will have yours.

and it always put a smile on her face to listen you talk about your dreams so comfortly to her. because she saw herself in those dreams. they were once her dreams too.

percy looked and acted too much like poseidon for sally's own good. he would unknowingly make his dad's jokes, and would call you 'darling' like he did to her back then. all these little details would remind sally her past love.

it was a barbeque day for the jackson-blofis family at the montauk cabin. where you were obviously invited, and poseidon, obviously was not. he liked to show up in family gatherings once in a while, to spend some time with his son or suprisingly, estelle.

you and sally prepared the table as the boys made the meat while laughing at something. paul and poseidon had this awkward friendship that always made you giggle. and percy would chat with his biological dad more often, since he felt more comfortable with him. don't get me wrong, he loved paul. all of you loved paul. but poseidon's warm energy made him easier to talk.

you never thought you'd have a dinner with a god but here you were, eating a meal with one of the most powerful gods ever existed. poseidon was really good at making people forget that he's a god, the one that rules the seven seas.

after the dinner, percy and you started to clean the area as paul went inside to watch this new game he followed, you didn't really paid attention. sally stayed outside, smelling the sea's calming scent, her bare feet dipping in the sand.

she looked over were poseidon and estelle was playing. he made sand castles with her as he laughed like a true grandpa. it made sally chuckle too, seeing him acting all fatherly with her daughter.

"he wants to make up for it," you said, and it made sally slightly jump. you apologised while putting a hand on her shoulder. "you know, since he couldn't look out for percy and you."

sally's eyes started to water up, but she managed to crack a smile. "how do you know this?" she asked. you shrugged, "i can feel a parent's feelings, even if they're a god. weird power, i know." you chuckled at the end with her.

"he didn't had any choice," sally muttered, looking at the sea again. you nodded. "i know, but he still feels bad. he really loves you sally, still like the first time." your whispering words made sally want to breakdown right then and there, but she only sighed.

"baby!" percy called behind you, smiling like a little kid. you both turned around as you made your way to percy, giggling. once again, it reminded sally the good times. but she wasn't alone this time, poseidon could also see the similarities between them. how you had sally's hair back then like how she used it, and how percy was a literal copy of himself.

sally sat next to poseidon as he sat there silently, watching his son and his girlfriend chase eachother around the beach, just like he and sally did. estelle was asleep in his arms, the calm energy he radiated making the girl fall asleep immediatly.

"they're just like us." poseidon whispered, not looking at the woman he still loved. sally smiled, not that he would see. "yeah. but a better version." she responded.

"one that ends happily unlike us." he agreed, too afraid to look in her eyes. sally didn't said anything, and the past lovers watched their son having the time of his life with the girl he loved.

suddenly percy lifted you up on his shoulders and ran into the water with you, still being clothed. you whined the moment you swimmed up. "percy it's not fair!" you yelled at him between your giggles.

"m' wet too baby, see? there's nothing unfair in this!" percy laughed with her, hugging her waist tightly so that she won't slip away.

"you used to do that too," sally whispered to poseidon, smile hurting her cheeks at this point. poseidon mimicked her facial expressions as he nodded quickly.

"and you would always whine like her." he chuckled, making the woman laugh along with him.

percy stepped out from the water with the help of the waves, still holding you in his arms in bridal style. while he made his way into the cabin, he spinned you around once in a while to make you laugh.

"he's really your son." sally chuckled, watching the couple enter the cabin.

"he's our son." poseidon corrected. he finally faced the woman, and saw the tears perking in her eyes through a smile. this was sally jackson, the woman he loved the most. smiling through everything.

he made the tears go away with a flick of his hand, too afraid to touch her. "a proof that our love was real, not a dream i had."

[demigods-posts]

I've seen a lot of discourse about Virginia Kull's portrayal of Sally Jackson in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians TV series, and I'd like to say that I loved her. Don't get me wrong. I love Sally from the original book series, and I, too, would fight the God of War on her behalf. But something that I enjoyed about Virginia's portrayal of Sally that we don't get in the books is the character depth. We don't hear much of Sally's backstory in the TV series, apart from a couple of flashbacks with younger Percy and that scene with Poseidon (Toby Stephens). However, those scenes do an excellent job of showing us that alongside being Percy's mother, Sally is also a young woman who fell in love with a man she could not be with and is enduring the natural consequences of having Percy. She struggles to communicate with him when she's frustrated, gets teary-eyed when she lies to him to prolong the inevitable, and actively sacrifices her happiness to ensure his safety. Virginia Kull's portrayal of Sally Jackson reinforces the character's humanity, imperfections, and determination, and it's everything to me.

[goldenn-moments]

I'm sorry but THE PARALLELS OF SALLY TELLING POSEIDON THAT PERCY IS BETTER THAN WHAT THE GODS WOULD MAKE HIM, AND ANNABETH TELLING HEPHAESTUS THAT PERCY IS BETTER THAN THE GODS AND THEIR HUNGER FOR POWER AND GLORY. JUST. I-

percy is the change the godly world needs because sally gave him the tools. then years later, a girl who's only steady part of her life has been the gods and their callous ways, knows percy for less than a week and starts to change for the better too. the power of one mother loving her son enough to affect what will eventually be a whole generation, and the future of demigods as we know it

sally jackson the goddess that you are

[batcavescolony]

I feel like people aren't getting it. In. The. Books. Perseus. Jackson. Is. An. Unreliable. Narrator. This goes for everything he thinks. Percy loves his mother, so he writes her praises. In the show we get to see what Sally does from an outside POV not filtered through a child that idolizes his mother. It's not ooc for Sally to act like she does in the show. she's a single mother raising a neurodivergent, Demigod, and she's scared that when the Gods get to him they'll corrupt him. She's not suddenly a girl boss we're getting to see her for how she is.

[happyk44]

Hades not actually keeping Sally immobilized or stuck in a room in the dark the whole time after he saved her, that was just a thing he did to freak Percy out, but like. She's just stuck in the underworld. And they hang out while waiting for Percy to show up and start throwing accusations and generally get along pretty well, when you ignore the Percy of it all, lol. Sally pitches in around the palace and finds she got paid for her work when she gets returned to the surface and there's a stupid amount of money in her bank account, before she turns Gabe into a statue and sells him.

Anyway cut to Percy coming home early from visiting Annabeth at New Rome one day and being surprised by his mom, uncle, aunt, and step-dad having tea and chatting casually about their lives.

[mythology-void]

thinking about the parallels between hermes thinking he's a terrible father and sally jackson thinking she's a terrible mother only Sally had Poseidon to talk to and Hermes only had May, his beautiful fragile mortal wife who went insane because he wasn't strong enough to keep her safe

oh God i can't do this someone hold me

[readerconfused]

i was talking about PJO TV show with someone and she talked bad about Sally Jackson. She didn't say anything bad about her personality, or her decisions, (which would already be a red flag) SHE spoke badly about her APPEARANCE

Honestly, imagine not finding Sally Jackson beautiful, i feel sorry for you

[caito-does-stuff]

PJO SERIES SPOILERS!!!!

THEY DID NOT JUST GET RID OF THE FACT THAT HALFBLOODS KNOW ANCIENT GREEK THEY FUCKING DID NOT

[boilingcowboy]

personally what made Sally’s death scene in ep 1 even sadder is how you can see how much it physically pained her to say the words “broken” cus that’s like one of the things you never would wanna hear from your neurodivergent child is them calling themselves broken and it’s so sad that it like you can see her being in pain and being heartbroken by having to say to percy “you are not broken”

but yeah anyways good morning people

[moonlightperseus]

i can’t think of the right words right now but there’s something to be said about percy and luke and their relationship with their mothers having been directly impactful on their paths in life

[yonemurishiroku]

Ok but it’s nice that for some reason, we all imagine the Big Three sons’ mothers on… like, a whole personality spectrum.

I mean, we all know Sally Jackson are nice and kind and all, right? She’s friendly and gentle with generosity to spare. Sally’s like the perfect sample of an average family’s loving mother, who makes you feel all warm and loved just by sitting together on the couch, eating cookies. And she can do it to everyone, really.

And then there’s Beryl Grace who was a celebrity and practically saw her children as tokens of power. I can’t recall how exactly she treated the Grace siblings, but I assume beauty and power meant more to her than Thalia or Jason. She’s the starlight. She’s beautiful, gorgeous, stunning as she’s too distant to reach.

And then we have Maria di Anglo, whom, for some reason lol, are often pictured as a graceful noblesse and a caring mother at the same time. It probably had something to do with the fact that Maria loved her children very much and the di Angelo family might have been a prestigious one back in Italy, but I still find it absolutely interesting - how we’ve come to see her in both the resplendent light of Beryl Grace and the loving warmth of Sally Jackson. She’s practically the middle of the spectrum. A mix of both ends.

[crunchycrystals]

rereading the pjo series with the new athens headcanon in mind its really strange that its not canon like it fits percy and annabeth's characters perfectly and allows people like piper to stay at camp half-blood forever without having to move to new rome. like in canon their only option is to literally move to new rome to survive you think percy's gonna be that far from his mother and baby sister???? a big part of his character in the first book is about how much he loves his mother there is NO WAY he's living away from her forever