#son of neptune

[bayetea]

son of neptune is also funny because the characters have no significant issue with each other. every other previous mainline book involves some kind of tense dynamic with the questing characters. in tlt it's percy and annabeth. in som annabeth hates tyson and percy is defensive of him whilst trying to swallow the fact that he's embarrassed to have a monster for a brother. in ttc percy and thalia and zoë are all fighting with each other constantly. in botl percy is back to childish quarreling with annabeth over the luke/rachel stuff + grover is scared of tyson + annabeth is intensely antagonistic towards rachel. and in tlo percy and annabeth are bickering again + percy strangles nico for lying to him. even jason and piper (though jason is still immediately jumping off a cliff to save her whilst unaware that he can fly) have instant tension in their dynamic that runs through the veins of tlh and beyond + leo struggles with feeling like a third wheel + piper is worried about betraying them for her father and that impacts the way she interacts with them

and then son of neptune rolls around and percy is immediately just like Wow you two are just awesome. I know we just met but we're besties now. and frank and hazel both already like + know each other and they immediately stick their necks out for percy and like him. like this has never happened in any other book before. they don't clash with each other At All. they have uncomplicated affection for each other in all directions of their trio and that kindness and affection is the soul of son of neptune. they are just so so friendly to one another and the only source of awkwardness among the main characters is frank's crush on hazel since the start of the book, a crush that barely even results in any real tension or conflict because they're still best friends from the jump and hazel likes him too, she's just a lot less willing to do anything about it because she hates herself and thinks gonna die by the end of the week

[froggo-frog]

I've just realised that I have never posted anything about any of the Percy Jackson books or anything like that

In the Percy Jackson series I've read up to Last Olympian (I'm reading the books in chronological order)

And in Heroes of Olympus I've just finished Son of Neptune

Literally like and hour ago lol

[miss-athene]

Aspec Pjo Headcanons

Alloace Percy: Aceflux and Bi Annabeth: Greysexual and Straight Nico: Asexual and Gay

Aroallo Leo Valdez: Aromantic and Bi Jason: Grey-aro and Bi Frank: Demiromantic and Straight

Aroace: Hazel: Demi angled aroace (straight) Reyna: (pan) Oriented aroace Piper: Grey angled aroace (omni)

[meaningxmeaning]

Huh. I never realized why I liked SoN so much, but I think I just put it together- I like seeing Percy take the lead with clever tricks sometimes, and a lot of the time when he's with Annabeth he doesn't get a chance for that.

one of my fav scenes in the entire riordanverse has to be the one in SoN in which percy makes a 50/50 life or death bet knowing he will win bc he knows gaia has to keep him alive. denying the plot armor allegations is OUT, weaponinzing it is IN

[hpandcarbs]

Things Percy Jackson remembers in Son of Neptune:

Annabeth exists

I met Annabeth at a camp

Annabeth and I kiss sometimes

Fuck Ares

[o-w-l-h-e-art]

THIS MADE ME GIGGLE SO HARD I HAD TO DRAW IT RAGGZGDGG

[the-ghost-king]

I think it does a good bit of both actually! It shows there's a decision that he has to make but it also shows that Nico isn't making some grand decision on behalf of the fates or anything, it's a casual decision (more or less) that's at least in some way his choice. It's not such a grand thing he's doing it needs to be compared to some great mythical item, he's just doing a thing that in that moment is no different from what billions of people do everyday. Which is cool!

Ok dork

[ilovepjo]

percy getting INTENSE annabeth flashbacks like he’s in the middle of a damn war 😭😭😭

[nashazie]

he’s so silly

[helpallthenamesaretaken]

can't believe the same man who wrote wottg percy also wrote THIS

people literally drowning out him out with applause when he tried to downplay himself?? making him walk around the mess hall because they wanted to be his friend?? "I want to be percy jackson when I'm older"??

take me back to when percy was characterised like this I beg of you rick

[modawg]

it’s so funny to me that franks like first impression of percy was trauma dumping then assuming exactly what type of person percy was based off his reaction to franks extremely depressing childhood LMAO

frank: and then my mom died :/

percy: mega L

frank: damn this kids seen some shit

like this was all from franks perspective but i feel like part of percy’s brain the entire time that convo was going down was like “damn i really wanna go to that spa that would hit soo good rn”

but the entire time franks like “percy looked majestically out over the city with the true face of a hero; he knew exactly what to say to make frank feel better. it was like he too felt the weight of death looming over his and all his loved ones every move😔😢🙏🏼”

[newlyfoundwren]

Leo was never the seventh wheel, Jason was.

Jason is the anomaly, son of Jupiter but actually liked by Juno, a loyal Roman who’s 12 years of service get thrown away to live with the enemy, the son of the king but hates leadership, the younger brother to a Greek that will never truly know his sister until all of his memories get wiped.

Piper and Leo knew each other before the lost hero.

Frank and Hazel knew each other before son of Neptune.

Percy and Annabeth were dating before Heroes of Olympus.

Jason Grace is the seventh wheel.

[rise-deepseamonster]

Love how Percy just casually drops lore all throughout the Son of Neptune. Frank and Hazel are getting the encyclopedia knowledge on every monster they encounter plus some extra side stories from how he fought them in gym classes and "oh yea, I had a fist fight with Kronos in Manhatten."

And then they meet Annabeth and realize that behind every goofy looking powerful guy, there's an incredibly smart, capable and even more powerful woman who makes sure he doesn't die on a daily basis and are like, "oh. thats why he's still alive."

[lilislegacy]

i feel like we gloss over the first few pages of SoN FAR too much. i mean, take percy’s name out and i would think it’s all about hercules. the book opens by dropping banger after banger regarding percy’s recent escapades, as if this is some epic greek myth.

like how did rick just casually slip in that percy strangled a sea monster with his bare hands (no biggie) and we as the readers were just like “sounds right, anyway—”

[luh-lloyd-garmadone]

Greeks: Yeah Jason is cool ig

Romans: We’ve only had Percy for a day and a half but if anything happened to him we’d kill everyone in the room and then ourselves

[melsun7]

Pov Percy, in SON, unable to beat the greek allegations, this boy was walking around with "GREEK" written on his forehead fr