Your my favourite wild child I've adopted as my sibling atleast :)) (despite the britishness) ( I look past it)
Nico's like Percy's adopted little brother and I love that so much. He's Percy's little emo Italian street rat that he claimed as his own. Percy takes care of Nico the same way Grover took care of him I'm in shambles
I know it’s not hard to point out reactionaries hypocrisy when it comes to like safe spaces or hug boxes or whatever but genuinely how much of an echo chamber do you have to exist in for you to think this is a reasonable thing to say
Sometimes Percy forgets he and Jason come from too different worlds.
Percy: Easy Jason, it's alright if you mess up.
Jason: No, it's alright if you mess up. If I mess up I've failed, and I fail I might as well be dead.
Percy: I think you're taking this a bit too far.
Jason: Percy you could trip over your own feet and at least five people would stop to help you up. When you fall people catch you.
Percy: What about you?
Jason: What about me? If I did that I'd be thrown away like a used rag.
Percy: Jase that's not true.
Jason: Your camp would never think to replace you. Your friends would scour the earth and the underworld to find you.
Percy: They didn't look for you?
Jason: No, they replaced me with you. Your camp loves you for who you are. If I'm not the perfect son of Jupiter...Than I might as well not exist at all.
Luke being given a quest at 17, feeling like there's no glory in it because it's a quest someone's already succeeded before, but then failing that very quest he considered to be beneath him, getting a permanent scar, "ruining it" for the rest of the campers because now no one else can go on quests and earn glory in the eyes of the gods, so he turns to Kronos, and years later here comes a possible candidate for the great prophecy, 12 years old, gets the first quest the camp has done since Luke's fucked it up, and Luke is actively ensuring this quest is an impossible quest!! he's literally rigged it so Percy's gonna fail (the shoes, the bolt appearing in his bag) and then this kid somehow succeeds still??? and not only that, Percy got the unique quest Luke wanted in the first place and achieved feats no one else had and earned glory in the eyes of his father, all because Luke created the circumstances for that to happen??
oh my god yeah I don't think I'd ever recover from that either