#that your fave may be ProblematicTM

[takaraphoenix]

For the ask game, Annabeth Chase?

Thanks for playing! ^^

How I feel about this character:

Also very conflicted. I think conceptually she is a very interesting idea and the version of Annabeth Chase that lives in my head rent-free is a character I love very much, but I also acknowledge that she has very little to do with the canon version of her character, because the way she treats Percy alone is honestly enough to make me greatly dislike her. But since I want her around, I got Annabeth 2.0 living in my head and my fics.

All the people I ship romantically with this character:

Reyna!

Piper!

Bianca

Rachel

My brOTP for this character:

Percy! Their friendship is very important to me. wlw and mlm solidarity.

My unpopular opinion about this character:

The way she treats Percy is shit. And abusive. But you’ll deadass have weirdos in this fandom that go “well you gave TWO detailed examples of where she canonically used physical violence against him to punish him that that’s nOt AbUsE you need x quota per book to make it aCtUaL aBuSe!!!111!”... like y’all are for real, huh? If a partner uses physical violence to punish their partner for displeasing him, that is domestic abuse. Especially when it doesn’t occure as one isolated incident. The fact that Riordan went outta his way to include it not once but twice is already hella fucking wild, why y’all want more explicitely in the text, why y’all gotta twist the meaning of abuse to a quota and shit just because you can’T live with the fact that just maybe that fictional ship you like may not be as healthy and morally upstanding an example of a real relationship as you’d want it, it’s fine, it’s fucking fiction you do you if that does it for you, good for you, you can still ship and stan it or whatever but don’t come into my house when I say “this is the line that I draw for myself and that makes a fictional relationship unenjoyable for me” and demanding a quota of how often she has to punch him for it to count as abuse, y’all are wild .... :D”

One thing I wish would happen / had happened with this character in canon:

I wish she had gotten to be... her own character... in HoO instead of just Percy’s GirlfriendTM. Seriously they put the daughter of Athena in there and didn’t let her do one (1) wise/clever thing on her own, even beating Arachne she only managed because of an idea Frank gave her. Let the clever girl be actually clever and come up with the clever solutions on herself and let her be more than just the token girlfriend!

Give me a character and I’ll break their ass down