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im so much more interested in a hoo that lets Percy keep the status and power he'd left off with in the Last Olympian and explores how he grapples with that instead of immediately forcing him back into the role of the underdog at the expanse of his prior development. Let the fact that he alone has the title the "Savior of Olympus" mean something. Let the fact that he is the sole survivor of the great prophecy mean something. Let the Curse of Achilles mean something. Let us see how it's a curse and how it could warp his sense of self. Let Percy be on a completely different playing field than the rest of the seven (or even the other children of the big three at this point) and show us how it alienates him.

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I'm very attached to the idea of percy being like, Part Of The Sea as well as a demigod. like yes it's a godly domain that he has powers from but the sea as like, it's own separate primordial Thing that he's also connected to. his powers are so different from other demigod powers, even the other big 3 kids- like, hazel doesn't heal faster if she shovels dirt on an open wound. lightning and shadows can actively kill jason and nico if they aren't careful. none of the other kids can both telepathically AND verbally speak to animals (frank can't speak to animals even when he Is an animal, but he still gets the under water telepathy!). all the sea nymphs he comes across act like he's their baby just as much as he is poseidon's. he gets sick and irritable if he's too far away from the water for too long, and even when he's inland if poseidon is in a mood and causing storms because of it, percy's mood is also affected? whenever he's in the water, it seems like everyone in the ecosystem immediately knows it. sea creatures literally cry out to him for help and he'll sneak out in the middle of the night to go free them 🥺 like sorry I will never get over that it's so sweet 😭. I'm too tired to really articulate this right but I just love the idea that he's not so much tied to the water as he is part of it, like there's just this sort of otherness to the ocean and it's various deities and creatures that is different than all the other demigods and their parent's domains. he IS a demigod but he's also literally a sea creature in his own right and there's a whole community to it. like there's different life forms in the ocean but at the same time everything in it is One in a way. the way he's instantly soothed and calmed by the water, the way the sea always greets him with love, like whenever he's not in the water everyone feels the hole where he should be. like it's more than just being the sea god's kid- he's part of the ocean and an extension of the ocean and Is the ocean all at once. there's like a spiritual hivemind going on there. he feels who goes in and out and they weep whenever he goes out. what belongs to the sea will always return to the sea. am I making any sense here.

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pjo/hoo/toa + the cycle

The Lightning Thief / Growing Sideways, Noah Kahan / Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan, Ilya Repin + Saturn Devouring His Son, Goya + Saturn, Rubens / The Blood of Olympus / The Family Jewels, MARINA / The Last Olympian / The Sea of Monsters / The Family Jewels / Orestes Pursued by the Furies, Bouguereau / The Hidden Oracle / Apollo and Marsyas, Manfredi / In The Blood, John Mayer / The Sea of Monsters / The Combat of Ares and Athena, Jacques Louis David / The Family Jewels / Mark of Athena / The Combat of Ares and Athena / The Lightning Thief / Family Line, Conan Gray / Cronos and Rhea, Schinkel / The Lightning Thief / The Blood of Olympus / In The Blood / The Last Olympian / Chronos and His Child, Romanelli / Desireé Dellagiacomo / The Lightning Thief / Family Line / The Fallen Angel, Alexandre Cabanel + The Last Day of Pompeii, Bryullov / The Blood of Olympus / The Outcast, Botticelli / Glass, Irony and God, Anna Carson / House of Hades / Family Line / The Last Olympian / The Lament for Icarus, Herbert Draper + Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Roman School + Minerva and Arachne, Houasse + Venus Induces Helen to Fall in Love with Paris, Kauffmann / The Last Olympian / Hadestown / The Lightning Thief / apple, Charli xcx / The Last Olympian / I Would Leave Me If I Could, Halsey / The Sea of Monsters / ? / LET YOUR DAD DIE ENERGY DRINK, Lavery and Corrigan / The Last Olympian / Eat Your Young, Hozier / The Last Olympian / Orpheus and the Bacchantes, Lazzarini / The Blood of Olympus / Susan Smith, wych elm / Orpheus and the Bacchantes / The Burning Maze / ? / The Tyrant’s Tomb / Perseus Freeing Andromeda, Veronese / Abduction of Psyche, Bouguereau + Bacchus and Ariadne, Van Loo / The Tower of Nero / The Tower of Nero / The Tower of Nero

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once jason remembers the exact location of camp jupiter and is able to provide it to the others, everyone's like we have to wait until leo is finished his giant boat then we'll go to camp jupiter and get percy, and grover's like cool beans, understood, 100% gonna wait for the giant boat to be finished, anyway i gotta go do a lord of the wild thing, don't wait up, bye!

cue him staking out camp jupiter with a pair of binoculars for a few weeks, seeing nico pop in and out, bothering him abt it and then abt percy who nico genuinely hasn't seen yet, and bing bang boom percy finally shows up carrying hera/juno on his back and grover's just "alrighty, my time to shine" and careens into him at full speed once percy's past the river and juno is just "wait is that the goat"

percy, no memories but a strong gut feeling: i think you're my best friend

grover on the verge of tears: WE ARE BEST FRIENDS

percy, clueless but enjoying the hug: oh my gods that's fucking awesome

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Percy “Has Been Waiting to Use This Meme as an Excuse” Jackson, and Annabeth “Never Seen a Meme” Chase

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Annabeth as Odysseus. Both too smart, too cunning, with eyes that have seen to much and dreams too big for this world.

She dreams, sometimes, of the raging sea, of bloodied fields and weary soldiers. Of the warm sun and sand of an island that feels like home. When she wakes up, the memories tug at her mind, tantalisingly out of her reach. (When storms hit the shores of the camp, she hears the roar of waves against the beach echoing in the cabin and she hides under her covers, trembling and gasping in a fear she doesn’t understand).

The first time she meets Clarisse, a new camper with wild eyes and an angry scowl she nearly calls her Achilles. (The only one to notice her hesitation is Mr D. He looks pitying for a second before retreating behind his disdainful apathy).

Percy as Penelope. Both fiercely loyal, resilient and strong. To have them as friends, as lovers, is like having a home.

Percy who flinches at smelly Gabe’s voice, who sees other men superimposed with him, stronger, taller, familiar men. He feels dread and determination rise within him. He lifts his chin. Royalty never bows to anyone. (People forget Penelope came from Sparta after all. She has smiles full of teeth and a sword in her closet).

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I actually physically need more of Percy and Rachel shenanigans. The dynamic between them needs to be two people who Know waaay more than they logically should. Because we know Rachel is the literal Oracle BUT! Percy is also Weird like that and has dreams? That show way more than he should be able to see? And people constantly tell him things they don’t usually just say? So I need these two to be Weirdos together. Please just let them say comments that genuinely make the others completely baffled while Rachel and Percy are just chilling and not seeing anything weird. This is the only thing I need.

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Chiron and Mr D: now that you've trained at camp for one (1) week it's time for you to embark on a quest to retrieve Zeus' lightning bolt and stop all out war from breaking out amongst the Gods.

Percy: are you aware that i am twelve years old

Chiron and Mr D: this is your dad's will

Percy: is he aware that i am twelve years old

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Trying to think up a good pairing for a PJO story where Odysseus and Penelope were reborn into pjo times - specifically, Penelope was reborn as Percy Jackson (boy or girl, though I'm leaning towards girl). I can't really think of someone to be Odysseus though. My first thought was Annabeth, but it doesn't feel like the best choice.

I once talked with @perseabeth of Luke as Odysseus coded. Hear me out!

Descendant of Hermes;

Beefing with gods;

Odysseus was close to Athena, Luke was close to Annabeth;

Enemy to a child of Poseidon;

Owns a boat (LOL);

In the end, his story resolves around family;

I made much clearer points and comparisons when I was talking with perseabeth, but I believe Odysseus!Luke would be chefs kiss!

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U did goth leo, and goth nico

But how about goth percy?

Hehehehehe GOTH Percy!!! This was super fun to draw!! Especially bc I love drawing makeup on characters 😵‍💫💖💖 thanks for the idea!! I'm no tattoo artist so pls don't judge 😭 hope you like it!!

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when i first read the books as a kid, i interpreted “fails to save what matters most in the end” as a reference to percy’s failure at saving sally the first time around but with the changed betrayal scene in the show and percy mentioning this line along with his appeal to luke (“this is not you, this is kronos”), it makes me think that maybe that line refers to luke. maybe luke is the one percy fails to save in the end and obv, that responsibility doesn’t lie with percy but this prophecy is tailor-made for his perspective and i don’t doubt that the percy we see having that conversation with luke wouldn’t have felt regret over failing to persuade luke to not turn his back on them. which is just...so painful to think about.

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An essential part of Percy and Annabeth's dynamic for me is that they need to be in cahoots

I need them to be scheming, plotting, bitching etc.

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had the image of this scene stuck in my head for weeks

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claimed by the sea 🔱

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After the Titan’s Curse, Artemis presents a gray stripe in her hair to match Annabeth and Percy whenever she sees them. She has great respect for the two of them after the Titan’s Curse. So whenever she sees them she has the gray stripe to represent their shared burden of holding up the sky.

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actually the potential of a good percy-ares dynamic is so immense because percy literally says “i wanna kill this guy 🤬” and ares looks at percy, all fond and impressed, “i knew i would like you 😌” like percy can be such a chaotic, angry little hellion when properly motivated and with his every monster kill stacking up i just imagine ares looking at poseidon, pointing at percy’s kill count displayed on some olympian tv screen, going, “can’t believe your spawn of all people is my favourite cousin 🙄”