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All three sons of the Big Three have got their memories wiped once in their lives. Only Percy fully gained it back. Huh.

and it was always on purpose too

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Happy birthday Percy Jackson!!!

Bring on the Monsters really drives home the nostalgia I feel for the adventures we went through with Percy. I am forever thankful I found this series

i never said i didn’t like you.

me: i’ve never understood the big deal about height differences

percy and annabeth:

me: ........fine

the art I’ve done for @viinas‘ amazing new song, ReWrite. When I first saw it I legit cried, yallz, it smacked me over the head with how much I love this boy. 

not going to lie i am kind of obsessed with annabeth at 12 years old watching one of those "is megalodon still out there?" bullshit ass documentaries and she wholeheartedly buys into it because she's 12 and still thinks that if it airs on animal planet or the history channel it must be accurate, so she tells percy all about the totally real facts and figures and percy's like "that's bullshit. if we had giant sharks we'd know. that's such bullshit" and there's like..... you know how they canonically email each other when they're not at camp? there's like half the email dedicated to "here's what i did this week" and then 15 paragraphs about their megalodon argument. neither of them do any research about it because annabeth thinks she's done the research by watching the documentary, and percy is a) dyslexic, and as much as he wants to stick it to annabeth he will not be reading anything he does not have to, and b) why would he READ he can just ASK THE FUCKING SHARKS. but he's stuck in NYC so he can't ask any sharks until the summer, and the fact that percy is disagreeing with her means that annabeth is digging her heels into this argument and refusing to budge, so it's a completely inane back and forth argument because both these 12 year olds are just making up their own arguments to try and own the other, and eventually percy defaults to going i am a SON of POSEIDON i think i KNOW A THING OR TWO ABOUT SHARKS i am BASICALLY KIND OF RELATED TO ALL SHARKS EVERYWHERE BECAUSE MY DAD MADE ALL OF THEM TOO SO SUCK IT. and then he hits send on that particular email and has an existential crisis because, if his dad is the ocean, and made all the things in the ocean, and also horses, are they all his siblings? or were the first ones of each species his siblings, and now it's kind of questionable? how many genetic steps away is he from a fucking manta ray? he can't ponder for long because sally reads his email to annabeth over his shoulder and grounds him for telling annabeth to suck it, and makes him write an apology email.

and then they get to camp and naturally the megalodon argument falls to the wayside because of the fact that percy and annabeth's lives are a mcdonald's playplace for gods and titans to do what they want. but i'd like to think during the downtime in sea of monsters, annabeth resurrects the argument and percy's like I'M ASKING THE FUCKING SHARKS and marches to the bay and patiently waits for a shark to answer his I'm The Son Of Poseidon And I Have A Question call, and it does happen to be a traveling great white that answers. percy's like "i've gotta win this argument please tell me megalodon is extinct" and after crossing the language barrier, the shark explains that yes, megalodon is extinct. they don't call their ancestor sharks megalodon, sharks have their own words for their ancestor sharks, and because percy as tiny lord of the ocean is technically partially their god he gets to understand special shark language. but nobody else does, so when percy is explaining this interaction to annabeth and tries to repeat the shark-word for megalodon, he opens his mouth and makes a rumbling-clicking-bad-ear sound, and annabeth calls him a liar and swears he's making up this entire shark interaction and he can't prove anything. percy is so mad. he goes back to the ocean and talks to another shark because he's like I'M RIGHT AND SHE WON'T LISTEN and this shark, a bull shark, helpfully suggests that cannibalism might be the answer, because he's a shark. the conversation kind of devolved into percy nervously asking if all ocean life everywhere is technically related to him, and the bull shark is like no, no, no, that's not how it works, son of poseidon. you're not related to US. you're related to the WATER. and the bull shark sounds so happy that he could help that percy just beams at him and goes "thanks!" even though internally he's more confused than ever, and he has to sit at the bottom of the ocean having an existential crisis

cut to many years and near-death situations later, after percy's gap..... years, in which he just did not care for the prospect of college, and annabeth kicking her own ass during undergrad and now moving on to graduate school (shhh the chases can afford it), percy's wandered into a marine biology track. the megalodon argument has been buried by less fun arguments, like percy arguing that annabeth should help do his laundry because she pretty much only wears his clothes anyway. percy has made College Friends, and he's really excited to introduce his beautiful, wonderful, best friend-girlfriend to his College Friends. annabeth starts the conversation by going "i think megalodon is still out there" and percy's Marine Biology College Friends all turn to stare at percy while percy chokes on his own spit and tries (read: fails) to breathe

I was rereading son of Neptune and it occurred to me than it would have been really interesting if Percy had actually gone by Perseus until he received his memories back because it wasn’t uncommon in pjo that when gods or monsters first encountered Percy, they would often use his whole name Perseus Jackson.

But in SON, the sisters of Medusa immediately call him “Percy” and maybe you could even assume from the text that Lupa did as well considering this is what Percy refers to himself as, despite having no memory.

And I think it would have been more impactful if Percy had woken, no memory, and Lupa called him Perseus Jackson, and from there on out thats how he referred to himself. In a literary sense, it would have created a distinction between our Percy Jackson, the boy we know from the original series, who hated his full name and went by his nickname, and Perseus, the boy with no memory, and doesn’t know to correct anyone because he doesn’t remember. 

By simply changing something so basic and yet so fundamental to him, it could have established a greater sense of uncertainty for the readers on if he was really going to get his memory back. It also would’ve been cool to see characters like Hazel, Frank, and Reyna call him Perseus and, after he got his memory back, whether or not he would correct them, and if they would accidentally still call him that if he did.

not to pat myself on the back or anything but like, can you imagine reading the Son of Neptune for the first time, desperately wanting to know whats happened to Percy, and the character narration name of the chapter is Perseus?

And when he gets his memory back, we flip the page to the next chapter, and the name is now, once more, Percy? I would have rioted.

The romans distrusting the son of Neptune with the name of a greek hero… distrusting the boy with name that means to destroy.

Or imagine, when Percy talks with Nico, and Nico slips and says “Percy………us” and it feels like a jolt in Percy’s spine.  

Perseus is a raw as hell name and it really could have been utilized here. 

having loyalty as your fatal flaw is terrifying, but not in the reasons people think.

like yes, to save a friend you would sacrifice the world and all that but here’s a little secret. the only reason that matters is because the gods are scared.

percy became as powerful and motivated as he was purely because of his friends and family. you think he would have accepted that first quest without the motive of getting his mom back? absolutely not. he wouldn’t have tagged along on the sea of monsters and titan’s curse quests if grover and annabeth hadn’t been taken. he took on the curse of achilles to try and fight kronos so he could save chb. he lost his MIND in the last olympian when annabeth got hurt. look how mad he got when new york city was put to sleep! it wasn’t because it meant the invasion was starting. it was because that was HIS city. he’s loyal to the city he grew up in!! just look at the extent of his loyalty!! it’s these people, the people he cares about, that motivate him to save the world.

it isn’t “to save a friend you would sacrifice the world.” it’s “the idea of having to sacrifice a friend motivates you to save the world.”

but if the gods are in trouble? they’re going to want a hero with something to prove. a hero with hubris as their fatal flaw, that thinks they’re best suited for the job. they aren’t going to want someone that’s only in it to save his friends and family, because percy jackson does not consider any of the gods except poseidon as his family.

percy jackson isn’t that unpredictable weapon the gods pull out of their back pockets. hell, he’s the most predictable of them all. the reason he scares the gods is because if he ever had to choose between them and a loved one, he would choose the loved one, even if it meant sacrificing the gods. again, look at trials of apollo. apollo was in serious danger, but annabeth told him not to get himself into trouble, so he didn’t.

loyalty in a hero like percy jackson is a powerful, powerful weapon. but it’s also a terrifying one. he fell into TARTARUS for annabeth, took on all of the arai curses for her, was willing to stay behind and sacrifice himself so she could get to safety. where’s the line drawn for what he’s willing to do to save a loved one? would he destroy olympus? would he kill the gods?

where does he stop?

god what i wouldn't do to have nico, percy, and thalia back-to-back-to-back facing down an endless army of monsters with no civilians or fellow demigods or necessary infrastructure nearby........... sometimes being a PJO fan is wanting to see three immensely powerful traumatized individuals just destroy everything in a fifty mile radius. riordan gave me a taste of pure wanton destruction when percy flattened mt st helens and i've been shook ever since. author, i crave violence.

PLEASE imagine being the person in line behind percy when he tried to put a fucking sand dollar into the vending machine at school

I just love how this also implies that when Percy Jackson was given a profound gift of currency from his father, a literal god, with the ominous statement that ‘he would know when to spend it’, he figured that a fucking snack from his high school vending machine was worth it.

Memories came flooding back to me- sharper and more colorful. I stopped dissolving. My name was Percy Jackson. I reached up and took Annabeth’s hand. page 136, The Last Olympian

its the end of the summer after sea of monsters. percy tells annabeth she should come over to his house sometime to hang out and he's so awkward and his palms are sweaty and he won't look her in the eye and annabeth is confused and amused at the same time. she's like, "to your house?" and percy is like "yeah to my house like..to hang out. some time." annabeth is like hes weird but ok. "yeah ok ill come to your house." percys like "its actually an apartment. just so you know. my mom said it was ok already by the way. shes...........excited to meet you" and that makes annabeth a little anxious but she also feels weightless? shes glad percy is her friend :)

THIS USER IS (NAIVELY) EXCITED ABOUT THE NEW PERCY JACKSON ADAPTATION

I drew an excited Book 1 Percy because I am excited, can't say fairer than that