if percy jackson were chilean i'm one hundred percent sure he would be called benjamín, "el benja", that sounds so good stop-
i'm one hundred percent sure that aphrodite's approval is worth a lot. i don't think she approve someone just for being attractive, it goes further. you remember that moment in the titan's curse when aphrodite says that she would love the idea of one of her daughters could break the heart of a boy like percy, well that's it. if there is someone who cares for, loves and respects their children, it will be worthy of aphrodite's approval.
for example, jason. in the lost hero everyone, including her own daughter, changes their clothes. to improve them, make them reach their full beauty, instead, with jason, she simply cleans the clothes with which he met piper and leo, she does not give him a suit or comb it, she simply cleans it and gives him clean clothes. thus showing that she approves of it, aphrodite believes that he is worthy of being her daughter's boyfriend. because that boy is "perfect", he is handsome, powerful, talented, kind, and most importantly, he believes that her daughter is the most beautiful human being in the world.
she would never approve of someone who cheats on their children or someone who treats them like shit or someone who would not die for them, she thinks her children deserve the best, and only the best gets her approval. like every mother who believes that her children deserve the best in this world.
unfortunately for me right now i'm on the side of tiktok where everyone hates piper, which got me thinking because i always assumed that piper's attitude about femininity is about a trauma she has and how stupid people are i'm going to explain why piper is not a pick me or an i'm not like other girls (which btw are super misogynistic terms).
we all know that piper is not very feminine, she does not like makeup, or many stereotypical things for girls, i say that all this relativity made the feminine began when piper was about 12 years old. piper being a girl who grew up in hollywood with a father who was not present at all, she began to live with great women in the industry, they said that piper was their little doll, they adored combing her, putting on her makeup and dressing her, over the time piper developed a great sense of fashion (reflected in the mark of athena with that beautiful hello kitty top), a great love for makeup and a great love for those women who cared about her. every time piper wore a nice outfit it made her feel close to those loving women, who were the only people who showed her love.
it wasn't long time until the media started talking about how beautiful piper was, it wasn't long time until they started sexualizing her. they gave her nicknames like "the new lolita", or called her sexy, being just a 12-year-old girl who liked fashion. due to all this piper began to move away from the world of hollywood from the world that had taken away the love of his father. she began to wear looser clothes, not to put on makeup and to cut her hair alone, all this to be anarvert so that no one would see her. she no longer felt comfortable in a dress, or a skirt, or anything.
piper was never an "i'm not like other girls" because she secretly continued to adore all that, she adored fashion, makeup and everything steotyped for girls, with fashion she expressed herself was herself, but all that was ruined by adults men who said it would be a dream to spend a night with her. piper was not a pick me girl because she never put down a woman for being feminine, how would she do it? she loved being. piper does not deserve all the hate she has is a 14/15 year old girl who does not want to be sexualized.
even though at the end of the day nothing of what piper did was of any use because people keep reducing her to being the hot one, a clear example of this was that chapter of the mark of athenea when hercules flirts with her, being a minor of 15.
these last few days my fyp has been full of those videos of "she knows, i know she knows". well the thing is that i realized something, the hunters of artemis know the existence of both camps, artemis mentions in the titan's curse that she admits all women among her hunters both mortal and demigod, well then you are telling me that among that "all women" it does not also include roman demigods?
i think that when the hunters take their oath of no boys and that stuff they also swear to keep the secret of the two camps, because they are both artemis's and diana's hunters after all. a clear example could be thalia and reyna. thalia is a greek demigod daughter of zeus and reyna is a roman demigod daughter of bellona. greek and roman, camp half-blood and camp jupiter.
