How to Persuade Someone Properly
Odysseus: Achilles, help! Everyone’s dying! And Agamemnon has stuff for you!
Achilles: F**k Agamemnon. And you guys should go home.
Phoenix: Remember how I’ve raised you? You should fight for your honor! Now you’re acting like Meleager!
Achilles: I have my honor already. And you should stay here for a night, dear old papa.
Ajax: Let’s just go, Odysseus. This man is too selfish and prideful. But before I go—Show some kindness, Achilles!
Achilles: Well said, son of Telamon. Now go tell Agamemnon that I don’t give a damn until Hector fights his way here!
*Hector fights his way here*
Achilles: I’m still waiting for an apology…you can go if you want to, Patroclus. Just remember to get back safely.
Nobody:
Achilles: I’LL KILL HECTOR MYSELF. Agamemnon? Let’s chill.
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in s2ep1 when b-15 is saying "protect? is that what you think we've been doing? with all due respect, ma'am, we haven't been protecting, we've been destroying" the camera pans to mobius. because. because he failed to destroy a little boy long ago and paid the price. because every time he tried to protect the branches, the people on the timelines, ANYONE, he failed. oh. oh okay.
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a single choice shall end his days
something something the choice not being percy's choice to give luke the dagger but annabeth's choice
wouldn't it make more sense? yes, percy gave luke the "cursed blade", but annabeth got through to him first. what would have happened if she didn't? maybe percy would have died instead by kronos's hand. the first time i read the last olympian i immediately connected the scythe's description to the prophecy (it's consistently described as something that affects the person's soul when injured)
there is a consistent pattern between annabeth's choices pertaining to luke and how they affect his fate. hermes is aware of this, getting angry at annabeth for not having done more to help luke when he'd gone to talk to her years prior, because he knows that she could have made a difference.
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botl emphathises this point in multiple ways
it shows very clearly the duality between percy and luke and how their narrative foil can flip at any time. what happens to one can easily happen to the other and nothing is certain until it has come to pass. this is represented through the prophecy ("lose a love to worse than death"), which annabeth spends the whole book worrying about (what i would give for an annabeth pov of botl)
it shows how important annabeth is when it comes to fate:
(taken from riordan wiki)
the god of choices himself doesn't come to bother the first person he comes across. he was there for a reason, that being that he knew annabeth's importance in the grand scheme of things
furthermore, going back to the titan's curse brings a new player into the game: thalia. had she not chosen to become a huntress, she would have turned sixteen. here it get's harder to form theories as to what might have happened because, as i've just said, it's difficult to know fate before it happens, but there is one thing that we do know: thalia chose to not turn sixteen because she didn't trust herself to be able to save olympus. she had been a tree for several years, she was still getting used to life again, and the person she trusted most had hurt and betrayed her little sister.
no matter how you frame it, the prophecy is always going to come back to luke, annabeth and thalia
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Okay. Okay, I know, I KNOW, that the clips at the beginning of EP1 are probably meant for foreshadowing... BUT the video First is watching and... having a good time with, the video in the first minute...
does it...
...seem familiar...
...to you?
It should, because this fucking video is the same as Nont is watching in the preview of the newest ep.
This is the video where Nant acted in the porn and probably got stabbed (we don't know yet, we know he looked frightened and Nont started crying after/while watching?)
So... is this foreshadowing or did First KNEW what Nant was doing?
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