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im just now thinking about the comedic implications of Luke canonically keeping a diary as a young teenager because it becomes even funnier to imagine him maintaining that habit into his adulthood and angrily writing in it every time he got his ass beat by a 12 year old
Luke Castellan (20) after getting humiliated by Percy (13) at the end of SoM
hey-
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Sometimes I think about how Reyna killed her father (who was, at that point, a mania rather than actually alive) in self-defense when she was a child and how she spends her entire life afterwards with this fact hanging over her head, thinking if it gets out it will doom her. She’s tormented by ghosts for this, saying she’ll be never escape her crime, calling her a traitor and a murderer. Nico tries to tell her that her father was gone by then, and she did what she had to do to protect her sister, but Reyna tells him it doesn’t matter. Her punishment will be the same regardless.
Sometimes I think about how Jason dispelled his mother’s mania and it’s treated as a narrative triumph. He’s chosen his family and she is not a part of it. He has two homes and she doesn’t have a place in either of them. She is in his past and has no power over him. She cannot hurt him anymore.
Sometimes I think about the fact that they never get to fucking talk about this.
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version of SoN where after percy loses the curse he loses the memory of annabeth, which he only had because she was his mortal tether. so as he stumbles into camp jupiter he's panicking because he knows he just forgot something important—he had it just a second ago—oh gods what was it
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Please read Chalice of the Gods
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oh, don't mind me. Just thinking about how Percy canonically used nature magic even though that shouldn't have been possible for a normal demigod. (in the lightning thief on gabe, I swear)
oh don't mind me, i'm just thinking about how Sally seems to get younger when she's near the sea and her eyes change colors as well.
oh don't mind me, i'm just thinking about how Percy described the sea nymph his father sent to talk to him as looking exactly like his mother.
oh don't mind me, i'm just thinking about how Percy is part sea nymph and nobody fucking noticed.
EDIT: no I don't think sally is a full blooded sea nymph I still think she is more human than mythological creature. I just think it might explain a few things
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Love Me, Won’t You: Annabeth Chase
It felt strange to see her like this, like he was looking through someone else’s eyes. She was his nemesis, the girl who nearly made him fail eighth grade and who made up an annoying rhyme about him which stuck for two whole months. She was evil, annoying, proud, and self righteous.
But, right then, he couldn’t help but think about how pretty she looked.
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at the end of botl, annabeth knows that
1) luke wanted to escape kronos, asked her to run away with him, and she said no (and now he has been possessed by kronos and she blames herself for it)
2) percy is fated to die in one year and doesn’t know it
and she’s secretly keeping both these things inside on top of the pining, jealousy, and full-blown WAR that we’re aware of in percy’s pov. like jesus christ
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jason's death was inevitable from the moment he went against zeus in boo. there was no other way it could have ended. ouranos was a tyrannical king who was overthrown by his youngest son, kronos. kronos was a tyrannical king who was overthrown by his youngest son zeus. zeus is a tyrannical king. he knows he will be overthrown one day. fate cannot be escaped, not even by gods. not even by fate itself. zeus knows he cannot retain his power forever. that his youngest son might be the one to take the power away from him. and his youngest son questioned his decision. without hesitation. his youngest son had the power to go against gaea herself. of course zeus wanted to dispose off him. jason had performed his part. he saved the world, fulfilled the prophecy. there was no other reason for keeping him alive. of course jason died after doing his part. jason is the proof that you can do everything right in your life but still not get your happy ending. that you can try everything and still fail to survive. i cannot stand people completely ignoring the fact that he died. he did not just die. he died for a cause. his death has meaning. and erasing is death also erases that meaning.
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u know when 10yo Nico was like ‘if Annabeth is the daughter of Athena why didnt she know better than to fall off a cliff’ but he nailed her entire personality in that one question
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hoo would have been So much more fun if the seven just. hated each other.
annabeehive
hazel: i just feel like everyone keeps taking me for granted even though like! i’m a big three child too come on
frank, who just spent four hours complaining to dakota on IM that he keeps getting stuck with this 13 year old Child just bc they’re both roman: mmhm
annabeehive
jason: isn’t it ridiculous how everyone keeps deferring to percy? i’m the only member of this quest who has been formally elected leader, and i heard that he didn’t even kill kronos himself i mean
annabeth, wanting to slap a bitch but not because he’s about to listen to her complain to him about how most of the people on this trip have barely been on one(1) quest before: …yeah
annableghchase
nike tells them that they have to fight to the death and percy, leo, hazel and frank are like Aight who wants to go first
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Anonymous asked:
I’m big time upset about annabeth’s characterization in these new books. She looked for Percy for a year or something, did everything she did in HOO, she’s so amazing that she caught up on all of her school work (in fact she’s back on track to go to an ivy if she wants after everything that happened to her), she has all this extra time for Percy (having a boyfriend is time consuming enough without his quests), and then she’s so good at socializing with mortals and so popular…. Just to go to New Rome University (wtf is new rome university) and live in new rome. It makes me sad for her because I feel like RR won’t let her be bad at anything or awkward anymore and she just has to be this hyper competent angel gf all the time…
Oh also the way Percy is contrasted against annabeth in this new series makes me nauseous. I feel in some ways she only exists as this hyper-competent angel gf so that percy has something to "aspire to"… as though he hasn't proven himself a million times and deserves to constantly measure himself up against annabeth. It really just robs them both of their depth and motivation and mutual respect for each other that was so painstakingly built up in the original books.
I was telling @perseannabeth last night that while Annabeth had a lot of pagetime in Wrath, she felt like an utter non-presence other than the last couple of action scenes. And yes, it's because he keeps writing Percy as the only one with all the problems and Annabeth is the perfectest, smartest angel who is always right and can do no wrong, unlike stupid idiot Percy. Ha. Ha.
I do think a lot of the character issues in these books come from him avoiding or only introducing easily resolvable conflict with the main trio. Part of what makes Percy and Annabeth, well, Percy and Annabeth is that they have conflict. Conflict doesn't mean they have to be mean to each other or something terrible has to happen to them, but having them at odds with each other of something (anything) allows for interesting character development and growth.
Grover and Annabeth each get moments of "aw I kinda fucked up" in Wrath that are resolved with basically no effort because Percy shrugs it off or blames himself for their actions. I couldn't even begin to tell you how Annabeth's hubris played a part in the third act ghost fight, but apparently it did, so that's a thing he can brush off because teamwork is all that matters in the end, kids!
And the thing is, Rick is actually setting up a really good conflict with Percy constantly bottling up his rage and messy feelings, but he's too much of a coward to pull the trigger on it. Grover destroying the house and releasing the animals was the perfect spot to actually pursue that conflict and give everyone something to do other than mini quests. Percy could've yelled at Grover and Annabeth for failing to do what they had promised him, and then everyone could deal with the consequences (both of the initial mistake and the fallout of his anger) and make amends in a meaningful way. Instead, Percy has to grit his teeth and fucking apologize to Grover instead. (I'm gonna do a separate post about this because boy howdy do I have THOUGHTS on that.)
By making Annabeth the perfectest, smartest girlfriend ever for dumb dumb Percy, RR is basically removing the conflict that makes them interesting together. There's also the matter of conflict being one of Annabeth's main drivers. Conflict happens to Percy ("I didn't want to be a half-blood."); Annabeth looks for it. And now she's just along for the ride... as long as it doesn't mess up her studying schedule! Her job is school now. Don't get your hopes up.
Also, super controversial opinion ahead, but I think the show casting has contributed to how he's writing Annabeth now. He's deliberately avoided describing her in these books. It's all very vague impressions of her, to the point of Percy describing her having a "human face, human hair" when she turns back after the animal transfiguration in Wrath. No blonde hair. No gray eyes. It's weird.
(Note: I'm not saying the TV cast is wrong or weird, I'm saying it's fucking insane that this man is trying to retcon 15 books worth of character descriptions so his dumbass "actually we never SAID annabeth was white, you just perceived her as it!!!!" defense holds some water.)
#she was just. there. for 90% of the book like it was so annoying#also somewhat related#and not at ALL a dig at the cast but at the writing#the show is also writing annabeth as a goody two-shoes#like part of the reason the spiders scene in tlt was so important was because it showed her as a 12 year old u know#anyway they're all losing their grip on her and it sucks because she was such a good character#i never want to hear the word 'mom' come out of any of the trio's mouths again unless it's in relation to sally#pjoverse#pjodisc#wottg spoilers#rick riordan crit
so my take on the new pjo series is that it reads like a reasonably well written oneshot/missing scene fic. straight to the point, occasional plotholes or forgetting of canon, generally low stakes, a “no beta we die like leo valdez” tag, and an a/n that warns you of all of the above.
the problem though is that instead of a a random person writing it purely for fun and no expectations, it’s the actual creator doing so as a cashgrab that we’re basically forced into accepting as canon. the plotholes and mistakes and lack of willingness to follow through on literally anything may (and should) be negligible when a fan does it, but that doesn’t make it in any way acceptable for a professional. what the hell
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again i say to you
if this man would just let the percy series mature and dig deeper into the emotional arcs he presents in chalice and wrath instead of hopping from one kooky adventure to the next and undermining any story depth with fart and piss jokes and blatant flagging to the disney+ audience, we could have had a very good set of stories on our hands
but NO
percy's rage issues, grief, trauma, and just the general angst of being an older teenager on the cusp of a huge life change are all there and every time the story touches them, it's like RR gets electrocuted and told to get back to Conflict Free Therapy Speak zone before things get too messy
additionally, the third act upping the stakes to Oh Shit We're Gonna Die doesn't work if we already know 1) everyone lives and 2) PERCY GETS INTO COLLEGE at the end of this. the whole point of the series has already been decided!! there are no stakes with your main plot or any of the bullshit mini quests! the opportunity to go for a deep dive character book is there and waiting and ready
but NOOOOOOOOO
gotta make sure all of our main characters have been peed on instead, it's fine
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after increasingly reducing her to The One With The Braincell the girl character’s nickname is now “Mom” listen rick riordan has gotten too comfortable i’m serious
i can’t believe i still have to get through more than half of this book
when did annabeth become the mom of the group??? when did this happen???