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cutesilyo · 2 years

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pjo reading the books pitch: the olympians are forced to read the books not so they can change things in the future, but so the demigods can witness how carelessly unsympathetic their parents are to their plight, where:

the demigods are from right before the gods show up to fight in BoO, when theyre feeling hopeless and unsure of victory

the gods are from post-TLT, when they’re still paranoid of the looming great prophecy, unsure of percy, and only zeus and poseidon definitively know that kronos is reforming

the whole thing was orchestrated by a joint effort between gaea and whats left of kronos’ power

and it would have succeeded in demoralizing the demigods and alienating the gods from each other if not for the fates bringing in their own wildcard: post-canon percy, who’s forced to play mediator between all of these quarelling parties

#mine #pjo #so ive been thinking about rtb plots on and off for the past decade....#and have been envisioning an rtb with the usual set up of olympians + main eight #but also with older percy #and then i thought. hey. what if luke is behind the whole thing. or kronos #because they need to prove to the demigods that the gods are nothing but obstinate and power hungry tyrants #who have no real capacity for empathy and love #and then it just plays off as normal emotionally charged rtb where the gods find out #hey! their kids actually need them to show some love!#and that whoa! demigod life sucks so they need all the love they can get!#but the story's greater emphasis is actually on how #you cant even really rely on the gods to enact change #in that way luke/kronos is right #the power does not lie in the olympians but with their children; with heroes #its the power that sustains the fates after all; why else would all of these important life shattering fate changing prophecies #center on demigods if not for their capacity to substantially change the world?#to change the gods?#and thats why the fates send in post-canon percy #because he understands that better than anyone else #he understood it when he turned down godhood in tlo #rejected the banality of immortality unchanging to force the gods hand towards progress #when he shouldered prophecies year after year #when he surrendered hope to the hearth. to family #post-canon percy who has seen jason's death and apollo's redemption #who has seen new rome create a home for demigods out of their own brick and stone #and a camp half blood invigorated by the return of the parthenos #post-canon percy who is older and wiser and wearier #but has also been given the time and space to process everything he's been through in hindsight #and to process everything that everyone has been through in hindsight

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