chewing on big 3 kids being capable of absolutely devastating natural disasters and apocalypse-level outbursts of power.

Percy who creates hurricanes complete with lightning that pummel titans and flooding and whirlpools that can trap god-powered crocodile kaijus. Earthquakes that erupt volcanoes. Hazel who sunk an entire small island entirely on her own with her final breath, against giants and a primordial goddess of the earth.

If Nico dramatically wilts plants and cracks the ground when he's mildly stressed, and disintegrates enemies down to their skeletons with a single touch or rips their souls out of their still-living bodies, and can command armies of the undead, what happens if he tries to cause destruction? Even outside of total zombie apocalypse or insta-killing a crowd, he's shown enough geokinesis to absolutely be capable of the same destruction Percy and Hazel can manifest.

What about Jason? He can control the winds and storms. There's no way he can't create the most destructive tornadoes with casual effort that he can never justify using for the collateral damage they'd cause. With a single thought he can rip up a town and launch the remnants 50 miles out. (Jason in the center of a Dead Man Walking tornado, vortexes responding to his movements like an avatar...)

And what can anyone do to combat it? How can you fight the wind lifting everything you know and love into the sky, or floods sweeping you away, or the ground giving way beneath you? The Big 3 kids are scary because they are forces of nature, and their whims are the only thing preventing you from witnessing that at any given moment.

I know we all have to pick and choose what we consider canon from pjo/hoo at times because of the inconsistencies in riordan’s writing between the two, but for me, I will never ever ever ever let go of the “children of the big three are so disproportionally powerful in comparison to other demigods that Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades vowed to never sire anymore of them because they could very well bring about the end of the world should they desire it” aspect from pjo. Its so essential to the set up and foundation of pjo and the consequent treatment Percy, Thalia, and Nico receive because of it. The way they become outcasts to a camp of people who are already outcasts. The way the gods debate at the end of nearly every book in pjo on whether they should let them live. I still think about just how quickly the fight between Percy and Thalia got so messy that campers were visibly scared of them (or Percy, at least), and you think about how they’re only young teens at this point in time and get this inkling of “oh, so this is what the gods are afraid of.” And sure, hoo doesn’t outright dissuade this notion of big three kids being scarily powerful, but it does undermine it by having other demigod children of non-big three gods suddenly have power that puts them on the same playing board of big three children. And to be clear, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with other characters having powers, but the level of power shouldn’t be, nor ever get, to the same level that big three children have and hoo really suffers from these sorts of powerscaling issues.

okay so i feel like this should be obvious but apparently it's not?

thalia, nico, and bianca were never even players in the prophecy during the pjo series.

even if thalia never joined the hunters, she wasn't a player--she would have turned 16 when she was a tree, and despite whatever r*ck said about her joining the hunters the day before she "turned 16" the prophecy wouldn't have come to pass, which is obvious given what we knew about kronos' army. even if she didn't join, nothing would have happened, kronos' army wasn't ready. why? because she skipped 16. she might look 16, but she would have never had her actual 16th birthday as a living person regardless of the age she looked.

now a stronger argument could be made for nico and bianca because they never died, but likewise, both of their 16th birthdays had already happened before thalia and percy were ever even born. correct me if i'm wrong, but they were also born before the pact was made, and im assuming that means before the prophecy was officially presented. so in all likelihood, it didn't even refer to them. so let's say percy died and nico "turned 16," the prophecy wouldn't have come true then either because he wasn't actually turning 16.

also i could take this a whole separate direction and say that it never specified that it was the first child of the big three to turn 16. it just said "a child," meaning that if that dumb thing about thalia looking and "turning 16" was actually true, it very well might not have been her, anyway, because it didn't have to be the first one of them.

regardless, it was always going to be percy. his fate was signed and sealed before he was ever even thought of, before the gods were ever even presented with the prophecy. there was nothing that could change that.

based off thst one text post of the big 3 canonically looking like emo sk8r bois

the next time percy sees thalia i hope they go on a little criminal misadventure. a little illegal spree through the city at 3am

We were robbed of the relationship Percy, Thalia, and Nico could have had as the Greek Big Three Kids in the books and it will always be my biggest disappointment