#silena

[ruegarding]

"pick a side" is really that song like you've got ruegard bickering, silena threatening to pulverize someone, clarisse hyping her up, and luke telling his dad to get fucked. it's all there.

[hondacivicbrain]

I’ve been seeing a lot of discussion about Clarisse’s casting in the PJO show that basically boils down to “anyone can be ugly if they have a mean personality.” And like yes, that’s true, but "ugly" people also exist (by ugly, I mean not conventionally attractive). let ugly people be ugly (so long as their ugliness is not a reflection of wider prejudice - ie, if only the evil characters are fat, that’s bad).

This bothers me especially because there is no representation for tall, broad, fat, “ugly” preteen and teenage girls, at least not any that isn’t centered around them becoming beautiful. I don’t think ugliness is a bad word on its own. making a character who rejects femininity and is described as ugly both pretty and feminine isn’t making some kind of statement about how pretty people can be mean too, especially because Clarisse is ultimately redeemed.

For her character to be ugly and mean at the start of the story and end still "ugly" (by conventional standards of femininity) and nice means that her character growth is about her personality - and that her looks were never a reflection of her morality.

It's true that you can be pretty while rejecting femininity, but the way Clarisse is styled in the show (in my opinion) is too feminine. Her appearance is too put together, too subtly feminine, for how she's described in the books. This is no shade to Dior! I actually think she does a great job as Clarisse and I look forward to seeing more of her. But tv and movies have a long history of casting attractive women only to call their characters unattractive, thus reinforcing harmful stereotypes about what is and isn’t beautiful, instead of casting actually *average* looking women.

THAT is the representation my middle school self is aching for. I want a middle schooler who’s taller than all her friends, who’s got a belly, who looks awkward in dresses because of her build, who’s wider than her male friends, who's going through puberty faster than her friends, who has acne and doesn’t wear makeup and doesn’t understand what femininity is and dresses like a Tom boy. These traits aren't ugly. They're normal. They're just not aesthetically attractive, so they are invariably erased from media.

Where is my preteen girl in basketball shorts because the shorts available to girls are too revealing for someone of her size? Where is my teenager who has been told, explicitly or otherwise, that she doesn't conform to beauty standards, so she refuses to wear dresses or skirts? Where is the girl who knows she's "ugly" and doesn't care? Where is the one who never cared until someone told her, and suddenly she wishes to be skinny and slender and not broad-shoulder and not tall and to look like her mom instead of being told she looks like her dad?

I'm all for diversity in casting because people are diverse. But body type - and not just visually appealing or acceptable body types - is part of diversity to. Annabeth’s appearance has virtually no impact on her character, and Leah carries her perfectly. For Clarisse and others like Piper, their appearance is INCREDIBLY relevant to their characters.

Let “ugly” girls be ugly. Combatting fatphobia - which also includes normal sized women and broad shoulders, because the fashion industry has labelled all non-models as fat - in media is not just about showing non-skinny people as attractive. It’s about showing non-skinny people as EXISTING. and being valid for that alone, outside of their moral or aesthetic value.

I can only think of one actress who’s roughly my build. I can think of zero times I watched media aimed for kids and saw a kid my size. Diversity is not just an aesthetic designed to be palatable. Casting characters with ugly personalities as beautiful people when the character in question will go through a redemption isn't the slay some people think because it's still reinforcing the idea that looks have moral value. I rarely see characters without aesthetic attractiveness nowadays, not ones who are on the hero's side; when it comes to children, when I say attractiveness I mean the way a child in a clothing ad looks cute and cheerful, not romantic/sexual attractiveness. For children especially, body positivity is far less important than body neutrality - the idea that their bodies don't have morality or attractive value attached.

What's most important to me is that "ugly" and unfeminine preteen and teenage girls see themselves represented neutrally, in a way I can't recall ever seeing myself.

I don't mean to hate on Dior. I really do think she's excellent as Clarisse. This is just my perspective, as an "ugly," tall, broad-shouldered, chubby former middle school girl who would've loved to see someone who looked like me.

[s0mb0d7]

pink hair

silena beauregard x reader

"maybe in another universe you lived."

warning: drakon fight silena angst

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

you saw it all happen.

you cried into your dying girlfriends chest, after watching who you thought was clarisse get spat in the face by the drakon.

her blue eyes fluttered open and closed as you cupped her cheek on the side that wasnt burning with poison, and gave her a tender kiss. to your surprise, she actually slightly kissed back.

"its all okay. everything is gonna be fine." you sobbed as she looked blankly into your eyes. to all the gods, you prayed that silena would actually live.

your grabbed her hand, squeezing it to try snd reassure her. percy and annabeth, who had been watching over her were gone now. you didnt blame them, you were in a war right now. you were about to call for an apollo kid, but they had all died on the bridge.

after force-feeding her an unsafe amount of nectar and ambrosia, the burn didnt get better. a minute and thirty seconds had passed since she fell.

"take care of my siblings for me.. okay..?" she managed as she slipped her bracelet onto your wrist. her voice was soft and weak which made you tear up more.

"no. silena please." you choked out, watching her eyes close.

they didnt open this time.

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you stood at the center of the amphitheater, giving your small speech about silena. fidgeting with the bright pink dyed ends of your hair, specifically for silena, you finished talking and sat down. the pink smoke rose into the sky, as the burial shroud burnt. it took all your willpower to not run away crying. she would want you to stay.

you twisted the rose quarts bracelet around your wrist, as tears fell from your eyes.

"im sorry silena. im so, so sorry."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

aaaa i know this isnt the octavian fic but i needed something short to post! sorry for any flashbacks this caused anyone, love you all!

please leave requests! i do pjo, hoo, tpn, and sp!

[just-another-cynic]

am i the only one who just realised the parallels between clarisse and silena and achilles and patroclus? like? achilles refuses to fight due to his wounded pride from agammemnon taking his war prize and then his 'companion' (yall we all know it was gay) takes his armour, leads the myrmidons and gets killed by the one person only achilles could kill.

and clarisse refuses to fight from wounded pride, so silena takes her armour, leads the ares cabin and gets killed BY SOMETHING ONLY AN ARES CHILD COULD KILL!!!

am i the only one who didn't notice?

[halfclanbloods-writing-blog]

Percy Jackson Mortal Au

Part 2

Annabeth reached her usual lunch table with some news.

"Hey, you heard about the musical this year?" They all assisted an ambitioned high school. It was one of the best ranked high schools in arts and sports, and a very ambitioned one.

"I think Mr. Apollo's already working on it." Will replied.

"With Mr. D. Even he is helping. And so are Pollux and Castor, they're helping to choreograph. And direct, for that matter."

"Those really want to get into Juilliard, aren't they?" Nico commented from beside his boyfriend Will.

"Yup, they're hoping this will help."

"I doubt Juilliard will be very interested in this kind of stuff." Percy said, opening his arms to welcome Annabeth in an embrace.

She shrugged. "I mean, this school is very recognized in the arts." It was true it was a school with a great arts program. A group had been preparing a Musical on Black History since the previous year supposed to be presented this year and they were very secretive about it. No one other than Mr. Apollo, Mr. D and the group had seen or been to the rehearsals. Even Hazel refused to say something.

"But you didn't ask about the musical." She continued.

"I'm sorry, Annabeth, we'll ask next time." Nico replied sarcastically.

"What about it?" Will asked.

"They're making the continuation of last year! They're making High School Musical 2!"

"Really?"

"Yup."

Last year, they'd all performed in the well-known High School Musical show. They'd been surprised they could sing as well as their paralelisms with their characters. Since they would perform for an entire month non-stop, there had been two casts.

That was how Annabeth and Percy met. They performed as Gabriella and Troy, respectively. Like her character, Annabeth was crazy smart and had originally entered her school for the maths and physics program, but decided to give theater a shot. As she found out, she had a really great voice with a great range and followed to love that form of art. As for Percy, it was shocking to everyone, as he was kind of the stereotypical jock. He was the star and captain of the swimming team and awarded the school with a dozen prizes on his first year.

It didn't come as much as a surprise when they both started officially dating. Everyone on the play would tease them mercilessly and say the characters were made for them.

Even Piper and Jason, who played Gabriella and Troy in the other cast had ended up dating, but it hadn't lasted as much. Jason had originally entered as a jock in the football team

It was also how Nico and Will met and started dating, with the whole cast teasing them as well. But their characters didn't interact a lot, or have chemistry, at least in the first part.

"So, did you hear about the musical?" Silena asked as she plopped down next to Will and grabbed one of his french fries. She'd played Sharpay last year, but she was a much better person and friend than her character.

"What musical?" Leo asked. He wasn't interested in either scenic arts nor sports. Although he could dance to a certain point, he'd joined the school for their maths and physics program, just like Annabeth.

"The one they're doing this year." Silena answered.

"Annabeth just told us." Will commented.

"So, are you auditioning?"

"Yes!" Nico and Will said at the same time, before sharing a kiss.

"No." Leo replied crossly while working on his project.

"Yup." Annabeth said.

"What about you, Percy?" Silena asked.

"I don't know," he admitted. "I'm not really sure it's my thing."

"That is such a Troy thing to say." Will commented.

"Yeah, you were an amazing Troy last year," Silena added.

"Last year." Percy remarked.

"Why not?" Annabeth asked her boyfriend.

"I don't really think I hace a good voice. Or can act, like put the emotion into it." Percy admitted.

"You have a really great voice, Seaweed Brain." Annabeth reassured him.

"Yeah, and the fact you know acting is about putting emotion into it shows you do know about the art." Silena comforted him

"I just don't know. I really want to focus on swimming now."

"Please, you're the most talented swimmer I've ever seen, and I come from Venetia." Nico said.

He just shrugged. "I don't really know. Coach won't like it."

"That's literally the plot of High School Musical," Will whispered under his breath.

"Please, Seaweed Brain? Can you think about it?"

Percy stared into Annabeth's begging eyes he couldn't resist. "Ok, I'll think about it."

"What about you, Leo?"

"Oh, I don't dance."

[phoenix--flying]

todays flavour of tweet is very oc centered bc im on my bs and brainrotting over her again 💀 shes one of my favs but i dont think ive EVER talked about her on here aside from these tweet posts nor has she been anything outside of a brief appearance in cabin seven chronicles or a mention in a different vessal

with that being said i present nicolette (nico) my silly lil daughter of aphrodite who in my aus is a big part of where drew picked up her attitude in tlh <33 she came to me in a vision of having aphrodite/apollo kid duos but not having a canon character in michaels age range that vibes with him SOOO i made her to match his energy plus i love the idea of an aroace child of aphrodite SO HER!!

last part can be found here! i do apologize for this post literally just being mostly her and her friend group but shes on my mind rn cause I've been talking about one of my time travel aus with river recently LMFID

[valewritessss]

hi! i hope you're enjoying your trip!!

I was just curious on what you think about the clarisse/silena as a romantic ship, and their parallels to achilles and patroclus (because i think about it all the time)

i hope you have fun!!!

Hello! thanks I am enjoying my trip and since I’ll be in the car for a few hours I’ve decided this is the best time to answer these questions.

I really like the idea of the Clarisse/Silena as a romantic ship, and I think the parallels to Achilles and Patroclus is really cool, even though when I first read the pjo books I didn’t catch on to that until I saw everyone talking about it. Then I did a little research and things made more sense and I started to see why people shipped Clarisse and Silena. And it just makes so much sense and it was so perfect regarding their characters and personalities (Clarisse’s anger, aggressiveness, and the way she holds grudges). And Silena being the traitor tied into it really nicely. While I do like both of their canon romantic pairings, I put Clarisse/Silena at the same rank, and sometimes I even forget they weren’t canon.

I hope this answers the question the way you wanted it to, thanks for the ask!

[cheesewelsom]

Pretty aphrodite cabin, Everyone is looking at the cabin of the dove with fear, worry, funny looks.

Because there is a humongous poster that is saying' GENEVA SUGGESTION ' as a table spread with bombs that may have cologne in them.

[bookns]

My friend sent me this saying it’s ME

(Silena Beauregard is my girlhood and this is proof)

[rxvengal]

“can I sleep with you?”

No estaba completamente segura de que sus sentimientos por Nils realmente fueran románticos o simplemente ella confundiendo la cercanía que tenían, pero aún así dolía.

Llevaba un buen rato dando vueltas en su cama, hasta que finalmente se levantó silenciosamente para ir hasta la habitación de su hermana, donde buscó lugar en la cama.

[pernilongo-da-malasia]

Nico is sent back in time by Afrodite.

[ruegarding]

imagine you're holding someone you love in your arms and you are begging her to live and she isn't even listening to you bc she's thinking of seeing someone else and she dies saying his name. i would've one-shot a drakon and dragged its corpse around too.

[bajaja-blast]

you dislike Luke Castellan because he disagreed with an oppressive government system and actually took action to change the abusive ways him and his peers have been forced to follow for millennia.

I dislike Luke Castellan because in the Titans Curse he manipulated Annabeth, who he raised as his little sister, into holding up the sky, the FUCKING sky, for over 20 hours and had the audacity to walk away as though he was completely apathetic towards it while she begged and pleaded with him to help her.

we are not the same.

[helyeahmangocheese]

hey gays how are we feeling knowing she leads her cabin to change the tide of the battle of manhattan after her patroclus dies in her armor? i feel really normal and ok about it lol.

[the1astolympian]

rip charles beckendorf you would've loved throwing percy and annabeth into the canoe lake

[halfclanbloods-writing-blog]

Percy Jackson Mortal Au Part 2

Part 1

The only thing the school was talking about was the new show. Every month or so, a new show would appear. Not all of them made the cut, but everyone was sure this show would make it, seeing the hit it had been last year. And new things happened this time.

The first Troy, the star, Percy freaking Jackson, was doubting whether to audition or not. And the second one, Jason, was sick. Nothing like a throat infection to ruin your singing career. And he was still training the football team.

This opened up the auditions. It was known that Octavian had ended as a forerunner last year and had ended bitter about it and made sure to have everyone know he was running for it.

Another possible candidate was Travis Stoll. He wasn’t able to try out last year as he was already signed up for another musical, where he starred, so he already had experience singing and acting, unlike Octavian.

As for the Gabriellas, there wasn’t much certainty. What gossip said was that Piper McLean, daughter of famous Tristan McLean, was moving to another city. What Drew Tanaka could outwardly confirm, as she said she’d seen it, was that Piper hadn’t signed up for Gabriella, but for Kelsie.

What half of the school thought was that Katie Gardner was going to get the part. She’d starred in a dancing performance, along with Lavinia Asimov, who claimed she’d heard her sing and had a ‘truly wonderful voice that could move anybody.’ Though Katie had shown herself modest, she hadn’t denied she wasn’t interested in the part.

The other half of the school believed Drew Tanaka herself would achieve the part. She was going to perform in a musical last year, but it had been canceled. Lacy had fired the rumors by saying Drew wasn’t the reason it got canceled and had actually been carrying the show. Drew hadn’t said anything about it, but she was actually aspiring to be Sharpay, or at least that was what Mitchell claimed.

Everyone still thought Silena Beauregard would get the first Sharpay, but Valentina Diaz, one of the school's best costume designers, if not the best, was overheard saying she wouldn't be surprised if Silena took over Annabeth's role.

All throughout the day the buzzing sounds of the phones could be heard as people conspired and posted their theories. Lee Fletcher, from the Shakespearean drama club, seemed to have taken it as a personal job to report everything.

"Stop it, Lee, it's starting to get annoying." Will told him when they met at his locker.

"It was always annoying." Nico suported.

Lee shrugged. "Everyone wants to know what's going on."

"Not true. I bet the jocks don't care. Like, at all " Nico refuted.

He and Will ha been followed around all day. Everyone wanted to know if they'd known beforehand, or would get a head start, but they didn't know.

Similarly, Annabeth had been followed all day, everyone kept asking her about her boyfriend not auditioning. She was glad Thalia got her back and helped her out with it. She was also glad with Silena for calmly telling everyone to back off and Clarisse for just looking like a bodyguard, although Thalia alone was intimidating enough and had been dragged by Silena.

“I honestly don’t get the hype,” Annabeth told them in Piper’s car. To say she was tired was an understatement. She was beyond exhausted.

"It was a great hit when it came out." Silena offered. "And was one of last year's shows that weren't canceled."

"I'm with Annabeth in this one," Clarisse said. "I really don't get the hype."

"That's because you're a jock." Silena said endearingly.

"If you ask me, High School Musical is overrated." Thalia said from the front of the car.

Piper shrugged. "Well, what can you do about it?"

"And what did Percy mean by that, that he's not auditioning?" Annabeth demanded.

"That he doesn't wanna?" Clarisse replied like it was obvious.

Silena glared at her. "Maybe he's not sure."

"Yeah, he probably said what he meant. Guys usually say what they think." Thalia supplied. "They can't add much meaning or layer." Piper laughed in the seat next to her.

But that didn't ease Annabeth's worries.