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aroaceleovaldez · 2 months

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the show chb logo was also ripped from fandom, like in the past decade all the official chb shirt had the logo without the circle and then the fandom started doing and the show went for it, sorry your tags reminded me of that

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Yeah, I know Delphi Strawberry Service has done more circular-based CHB shirt designs for ages, and I've seen the more circular-based designs floating around for awhile. I think Magicbysab's circular-based CHB shirt designs also predate the show design? Those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head. I understand on a level that if they did base it off fandom designs, particularly if they're basing anything on widespread fanon or fandom-based concepts, it can be difficult to pin down credit or may even seen unnecessary. But if they're going to be doing that I feel like at least they could hire like, a fandom consultant of sorts? Instead of just ripping off from the fandom, hire someone from the community who produces that already so at least there's some recognition and acknowledgement of where it originated.

Heck, in some instances if you ask around in the fandom it's not hard to pinpoint who specifically popularized certain concepts! I could talk for ages about Cherryandsisters being a driving force behind photokinesis!Will, or Saberghatz with plague!Will (tbh between the two they spearheaded a ton of early Will/Solangelo fanon), and I swear Drksanctuary alone is behind like 50% of Alabaster fanon, etc etc etc. People in the fandom know these things! Heck, we know ReadRiordan company knows how to do that kind of thing! They commissioned Viria for the official art, and the UK Riordan newsletter reaches out to fans all the time to feature their work (with credit, they're one of the better ones)! Though in Rick's book tours he did showcase Viria's art (at least with credit) without asking before she got commissioned, and during the Tower of Nero book tours they actually straight up stole a solangelo edit from Pervysloth with completely zero credit (link is to my canon url readriordan parody blog).

I think it doesn't help as well that Rick and his editor allegedly use the fandom wiki in place of a series bible. The PJO wiki is notorious for putting inaccurate information or fanon onto pages at random and having no sources. (What I wouldn't give for the PJO wiki to have frequent book/page sources a la Warrior Cats wiki...) There are what, now almost 18 books in the main series alone? Of an extremely renowned best-selling series that's 20 years old and now being adapted for TV? And they STILL don't have a series bible? That's like, step 1 of writing a series. This kind of reliance of the fandom for resources and concepts definitely isn't new for them.

It just feels so bizarre as to what it says about how the ReadRiordan company views the fandom and the creatives within it. I understand that trying to figure out how to give credit to the concept of "CHB shirt design, but circular!" is difficult, if you even can find out who did that first or popularized it. But if you're going to rip things from fandom, at least find somebody to try and credit? Show that you put in even the tiniest amount of effort? And if you get it wrong and people know, they'll correct you and that's that! But ReadRiordan just keeps trying to actively obscure these kinds of things, even with their own media, not ripped from the fandom, which makes it feel all the worse when it gets pointed out. And a lot of the time the whole reason those concepts get popular is because they're filtered through big names in the fandom! The fandom is a community! We know these people! We can point to them and explain exactly what they popularized! Remember how Velinxi popularized long haired Piper with the heart-shaped flyaways? Goodness only knows how many fandom designs are heavily influenced by Viria and Minuiko and Burdge (and Indigonite and Fuocogo and Ikimaru and Thecottonproject and Joker-ace and Sixofclovers and Vikingmera and Saber and Cherry and and and-). If you are in the community this stuff is easy to find. But Rick and the ReadRiordan company clearly being ~5 years behind with fanon pretty obviously tells me that they're not in the community at all, and aren't bothering trying.

#riordanverse #pjo #readriordan #pjo tv crit #rr crit #Anonymous #ask #long post //#sorry i am passionate about fandom history and crediting artists #its late and im too lazy to proofread right now so im just throwing this one out there #apologies if it's nonsensical #anyways Rick and ReadRiordan stop ripping off literally everyone challenge #stares pointedly at Rick blatantly recycling his own writing. its not a fun callback my guy thats just lazy writing #percy making a dam joke to himself in SoN? cute callback #solangelo falling into tartarus scene in TSATS being a direct rip of percabeth in MoA/HoH? what the hell man

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3-frogs-in-a-trenchcoat · 5 months

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random thoughts on athena and annabeth

annabeth is widely recognized as the pride of athena's offspring, meaning she would have had to put in the insane level of effort, training and obedience required to reach the level of perfection and devotion that would have earned her the title, both by her peers, her enemies (alecto said something to that effect) and presumably athena herself (im relying on the fact that even in the books the other children of athena we meet dont have magical items from their mother like annabeth has her hat).

but that was before and while she was at camp. before she got to camp and before she met luke and thalia, she was likely relying mostly on her wits to survive, yk, having the strength and training of a SEVEN yr old. its likely athena would have recognized this (even if she doesnt interfere or help bc shes a god and why would she), annabeth gets to camp and becomes a year rounder, she probably gets claimed relatively early in her time at chb (if we leave enough time for her to become her cabin's counselor by virtue of being there the longest). she is able to succeed greatly but thats largely in controlled environment (monsters dont get into camp unless you go looking for them in the forest, and none at camp at the time is purpose looking to kill). annabeth is able to live up to athena's standard of perfection while the conditions are favorable and controlled. its not to say her life wasnt hard at chb, but the point of chb's existence is to keep demigods safe. its literally said the reason she wants to go on a quest is bc the only way left to prove herself to her mother is out there, in the real world, with real threats.

she gets her wish and is thrust in a volatile environment for her, where she knows she is the one with the most experience and takes the responsibility for keeping her friends alive. she is now supposed to be making the kind of serious decisions that she wouldnt have had to face, at least yet, had she stayed at camp. even so annabeth has been and is the picture of unquestionable devotion to athena, and medusa acknowleges it. "i wasnt like you, i WAS you"

but, like medusa, one slip up was all it took to fall from athena's grace. poseidon did not care for medusa but percy does already care deeply for annabeth. once its brought to his attention that the hat is annabeth's only acknowledgment from athena and a reminder that maybe athena does love her, maybe she is watching over her, he does the first thing that comes to his mind to let her keep it, a desicion that is naturally influenced by his own feelings about and for his father and the gods in general. annabeth goes along because, among other reasons, she gets to keep her hat. annabeth is still part human and even then she recognizes that the gods will not like it; her mother does not know her but she knows her mother enough to know her likely reaction. all it takes for annabeth, previously implied the favourite (if that means something), is for her to listen to her emotions, listen to her human side and even listen to percy, for athena to decide that annabeth is not worth it anymore. and she puts the responsability of her wounded pride (poor her) on annabeth even though she very likely knows that both her and grover protested sending the head to olympus for the very same reason she would use to punisher her. bc lets face it, by letting echidna into the arch, athena, a strategist, was probably aware that her daughter would be the one to face the chimera and was not expecting her to survive.

side note: percy makes a pretty logical argument that the head can be considered tribute and why shouldn't it really? athena is embarrased when annabeth kills one of her enemies and sends her the proof but years later sends her to a quest where she KNOWS annabeth will have to kill another of her enemies and offer her the proof, another woman made an enemy only by virtue of a percieved offense. the two situations are barely different but athena gets to decide when something is her will and when its embarrasing. wisdom where??

athena expects her children to honor her by acting on the side of wisdom, whatever that may mean to her. by ignoring the reasons annabeth let the head arrive at olympus and blaming her rather than percy directly, athena shows that she does not believe that emotions have a place in wisdom, in strategic thinking, directly foreshadowing the lesson she is forced to learn (and quickly forget) at the end of the series: (SPOILERS FOR SHOW ONLYS) that MAYBE letting their children feel neglected enough so that they defect to the dark side fighting for their destruction (which nearly succeds by the way, were it not for percy's EMOTION DRIVEN decision to give the dagger to luke, bc lemme tell you that was not the strategic move) was PROBABLY not the wisest move.

and if these things are true for annabeth, the supposed favourite, then how difficult is it for annabeth's siblings to gain their mother's respect or acknowledgement and how easily can they lose it? i would not be surprised if the show sets it up for more children of athena to defect camp than is mentioned in the books. The books don't really specify which cabin lost the most demigods to kronos' side, apart from the unclaimed. but it would not be out of this world to me for children of athena, if tempted by luke and company and they unlearn their belief in their mother's perfection, to associate all those issues to their mother's hypocrisy. and i believe athena to be amongst the most hypocritic gods simply bc of the nature of prioritizing strategy etc above all other things, being the one to recognize the root of the problem and then doing practically nothing better for five more books. especially when from the get go, the show is really honing in on the main character *openly and frequently* questioning the unfairness of the god's treatment, whats not say, after later events ifykyk, children of athena who dont have the same loyalty to percy annabeth does but do have the information at hand she does, wont come to the same conclusion?

#its an unspoken rule that the gods need demigods #athena should be the one that is capable of more easily coming to terms with the fact #yet she acts the same as the others #she doesnt care and will look for the tiniest excuse to give out penalties #and that speaks volumes #shit thats a long read damn #pjo book spoilers i think #percy jackson #annabeth chase #pjo tv show #pjo series #percy jackson tv show #pjo athena #pjo tv show s1 ep4

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daisychains111 · 5 months

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incorrect chb camper quotes but it's actually just my sister's quotebook from Twitter

Disclaimer: This post is gonna be LONG AF

Percy: "Ahh, die quieter"

Clarisse to Silena: "Do I look majestic?"

Will: "I live in America. Cultures?... casserole"

Nico: "At-home lobotomy"

Baby Nico to Clarisse: "You look like Harry Potter, You just need a scar black hair, different clothes, and to be a boy. "

Annabeth:"I don't know if I have enough sanity for 2 Holy books"

Leo: "I've seen titties before....not really in person, but yk"

Annabeth: "Do you have ears?"

Jason: "I kinda wanna work at Taco Bell"

Piper: "I've never been passive-aggressive in my life"

Will to Apollo: "There's no batteries in my butt Dad I'm not a robot"

Clarisse: "I'm not upset I don't hold grudges"

Ares to Clarisse: "I don't like your clothes it forces me to look at you"

Frank to Leo: "It's not 'drip' it's stupid"

Travis to the whole Hermes Cabin: "I'm the Rizzington bear... like Paddington bear but Rizz" (after his 1st date with Katie)

Nico: "I love Olive Garden, I wish Italians were real"

Rachel: "Come on, you guys stop trying to cockblock the view"

Katie: "If people can smoke weed in the middle of the day, then I can drink chamomile tea"

Rachel: "You don't want to piss me off I'm witewally a werewolf"

Piper about Jason: "All my friends are boys, and one just died... he would have made a great bridesmaid"

Frank: "I was doing a silly but the funny didn’t land"

Jason: "Why am I white"

Rachel: "I am not a whore, I am a celibate queen!"

Drew: "It's not the fashion statement that you think it is"

Nico about the Ares Cabin: "They're gonna call you a slur, but they're gonna be really nice about it"

Piper to Annabeth: "If we both think it, it's not bitchy"

Grover: "I'm just gonna write a paragraph or two about global warming"

Annabeth"I have like a 7th-grade reading level!!! (this is impressive when you're dyslexic)

Jason: "Dude I love yoga"

Will: "They say that Utah is the promise land"

Kayla: *explains what a text-fic is to grandparents (Apollo)*

Clarisse: "Put that on your Twitter!" *points knife at me*

Travis: "Do you eat?"

Katie: "...um yes?"

Travis: "Oh, I mean do you want to eat." (when he asked Katie out the first time)

Hazel: "That's not gonna change my heart. That's just gonna make me cry!"

Alabaster: "I wanna find someone somewhere to impregnate and then steal the baby......Where's your Twitter, that was kinda funny"

Percy about Leo: "I would spoon that man so hard"

Frank: "The closer I get to nature, the closer I get to being a werewolf"

Apollo: "I feel like Jaba the Hut"

Rachel: "It's because you ate girl dinner"

Apollo (same convo^)"I fell asleep, and I woke up, and I ate a girl dinner, and I didn't feel that good"

Percy: Don't mind me just cleaning the ocean" *hand angrily on hip*

Will to the Stolls: "Although my bellybutton was once my mouth I don't want soda in it!!"

Connor: "Look at how majestic I am"

Clarisse: *gasps* *throws uno cards* "This is communism at its finest, and I hate your life." *Is losing* "All I'm doing is humoring you now. There is no reason for me to play anymore." *throws cards* *again*

Nico: *passes out*

Will: "We need to take you to the doctor like right now."

Nico: "No fireworks are more important than my health"

Leo about Percy: "That's a pretty boy right there... if we were in prison, it's over."

Kayla when Will came out to her: "Slay motherfucker"

Annabeth: "I hope to not run over any old ladies...old men are fair game tho."

Percy: "Main characters get bullied, Jesus....yep!"

Leo: "What if I was an astronaut!!!!"

Travis: "Banana, Banana, Meatball"

Clarisse: "I am going to break your toe shut the hell up"

Katie to Connor: "I hope you get bullied in high school."

Clarisse about Leo: "This guy's a fuckin goober"

Clarisse: "What did you do to your sweatshirt? Did you get hungry?"-Grover: *sighs*

Nyssa (Hephaestus kid) to Leo: "Dont hurt me. I'm Batman!.... You better not tweet that"

Kayla to Apollo: "It's called multi-tasking Apollo! "

Apollo: "It's mother to you"

Clarisse: "I could fight God and win"

Percy: "So you wanna fight rn"

Clarisse: "No, I'm good"

Jason; "You look gang"

Leo: "What? I look gay!?!?!"

Jason: "You look straight, but nice"

Leo: "Oh... thanks!"

Apollo to Rachel"Lie, deny, cry, and for good measure be a raging slut."

Silena: "There's all kinds of nature out here"

Katie: "Live, laugh, love, low iron"

Annabeth to Piper: "Keep backing up...Cuz you have a fear of commitment

Lou Ellen to Katie: "Does your knee affect your shoe size... or are your feet just that small??"

Travis: "The amount of testosterone in me, peanuts are allergic to me!"

Leo: "I'm cracked up on feeling sexy"

Connor to the whole Hermes Cabin: "The "10" of us? our parents sp*rm pets"

Apollo about Athena: "OH gods, a single mom"

Apollo about Kayla's dad: "I cheated on myself with a man"

Malcolm about Athena: "She's a mom boogie woogie woogie"

Nico: "I cried at Chick-fil-A the other day"

Nico: "Live, laugh, lobotomy."

Drew about Thalia: "She has no friends and a dead brother."

Katie: "I wrote fanfiction on my i-pod touch"

Lacy to Leo: "Was it a tech? or was it a human?"

Will: "Live, laugh, love, tampons"

Kayla: "Die, cry, hate, condoms"

Aphrodite to Clarisse: "Do you like being a girl? You just always wear pants"

Percy: "Chill I know how to make conversations I have Rizz"

Will: "What! no! cow!"

Frank: "Fvcking knock it off seriously you guys are acting like children!!"

Travis to Lou Ellen: "Yesss pussy-pop you slayed"

Ashlyn (Hermes kid): "Chick-fil-A is mid, Taco bell is where it's at"

Percy during tlt: "You couldn't even buy a gumball with that shit (drachmas)"

Percy (same convo ^): "A quarter? You could buy a gumball with that shit"

Nico: "Your soul and your money!"

Tyson: "You've seen fishes, fishes move fast"

Leo to Frank: "What the fvck is a kilometer"

Leo making fun of Frank: "Mua ha ha ha I'm Canadian"

Percy: "Jesus didn't give up his life he gave up his weekend"

*as seen at 2am in the Apollo Cabin*

Gracie: "You're discriminating against me"

April (the token straight): "It's cuz she's gay"

Will: "We're all gay."

Nico: You don't have any slurs about you."

Leo: "No because I'm perfect"

this was fun to make lol....there will probably be a part 2 but like far in the future. if you made it this far I love you....also if you don't recognize names it's bc I deep-dived Wiki to find canon names for each cabin.

If y'all want one-shots based on these TELL ME I NEED STUFF TO WRITE ABOUT

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sodamnbored · 1 year

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Alright so, I am obsessed with the idea that Jason has personally pissed off the Fates and that’s why his life sucks so much.

In both series that he appears in he has been slapped with a death prophecy almost immediately after getting involved in the plot. In each death prophecy it’s his life weighed up against the life of somebody he cares about a lot - his best friend, and then his girlfriend.

I’m sorry but somebody wants this boy dead.

And I am convinced it’s because he keeps wriggling out of his own death.

In The Lost Hero, everything is fine and normal right up until the end where they free Juno. And then Jason fucking dies. But because the doors of death are open and Piper yells at him until he stops being dead, he just - comes back.

Not long after that narrow escape they’re back at CHB and Rachel vomits up the prophecy of seven which demands either Jason or Leo die. Because Jason was supposed to be dead. And you can’t cheat Fate.

Jason gets away with it again when Leo takes the hit. And maybe, maybe, that would’ve satisfied The Fates. Jason should be dead, but they’ll accept taking somebody else in his place if it comes to it.

Except Leo doesn’t die either.

So then not too long after that, the first real demigod business Jason gets involved with again in ToA, going into the burning maze to see what’s up - he gets another death prophecy. This time it’s demanding either he or Piper die.

Like, they left him alone for a bit as far as we know. But they were still owed one dead demigod, so they had to try again to collect on him. I fully believe if he’d wiggled out of it again somehow that he’d just keep getting new ultimatums.

Obviously there was, what? A couple months from the end of HoO to the burning maze fiasco, and during that time Leo was running around and clearly not dead. It seems like they left him alone there. Fair enough. But we just didn’t see what was happening around Jason in those couple months. I like to think it’d gotten to sitcom levels of trying to end this boy.

Like remember that episode of Supernatural where that one Fate put out a hit on Sam and Dean, and there’s that little sequence of them walking across town afraid of dogs and skateboarders and fire jugglers and every little thing that could accidentally take them out?

I like the idea of probably oblivious Jason wandering around on dates with Piper narrowing avoiding being hit by a bus every time they cross the street, or nearly choking on hotdogs or something. Until he got back to work and they could pull out the big prophecy guns again.

I just think it works and makes sense because he did die at the start, and then it just keeps trying to happen. So I’ve taken it from when we first meet him in HoO. The alternative is that this has been going on already though. Remember when he first meets Chiron and the first thing Chiron says to him is “You should be dead.” And he looks uncomfortable and shocked, and we literally never got any explanation for why he thought Jason should be dead? Maybe he and the Fates have had beef since he was like seven and he just keeps getting lucky.

Doesn’t have to be the Fates of course. Could be Thanatos. But somebody definitely had beef with this kid.

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castieelsblog · 4 months

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Hello! So I'm in the PJO Fandom (have been for a couple of years) and I wanna talk about some of the characters that get hate or aren't understood. Starting with Bianca Di Angelo. There ARE spoilers to HoO and TOA, proceed with caution.

Bianca and Nico grew up in WWII era Italy and were brought to DC when Bianca was...10?? I think?? Whatever that's not the point, when they were brought to DC with their mom, Zeus had tried to kill them (because hades, Zeus, and poseidon kids were too powerful and Bianca was a hades kid) but he only killed their mom because hades had a barrier around the two kids. Fast forward to when we meet them, Bianca is 12 and Nico is either 9 or 10 (can't remember but that's not the point) and Bianca leaves Nico to join the hunters of Artemis. On the surface level, you might think that's a pretty shitty thing to do but let me put this into perspective for you: their dad is a God, meaning he can't associate with his kids directly and their mother died. Bianca had to become the sole caretaker to a hyperactive 9 or 10 year old boy for 70+ years. The ONLY reason she left was because she KNEW Nico would be safe at CHB (or as safe as you could be) she wanted to do something for HERSELF for once. It's not her being a bad sister, it's her wanting to finally do something for HERSELF. As an older sibling, I can understand her more than anything.

Next, Reyna. She grew up in Puerto Rico with her older sister and father, she was the first person in her family to be a decendant of Bellona, but her father became manic and she killed him. In doing so, all of her ancestors had gathered and called her a murderer-punishable by death at camp Jupiter. She and her sister fled Puerto Rico. Fast forward to current times, she's 16 years old and a commander of camp Jupiter. She's the one that brought peace between the Greek and Roman demigod camps. 16 and a commander. Why is she disliked so much? I think she's a badass person who shouldn't be treated like filth-from ANYONE, fictional or not. She's been through so much and yet you don't like her? Grow up.

Next is...well Jason AND Thalia Grace. Thalia and Jason were born a couple years apart (I not sure how many) to the Greek and Roman forms of Zeus. Their mother was a beloved actress who turned to the bottle because Zeus wouldn't notice her anymore. Jason was kidnapped by Hera when he was 2 and brought to Lupa. Thalia ran away from home. Fast forward to current time, she finally finds her brother again, but his memories are...well, they aren't in tact. Thalia is a hunter of Artemis and Jason is a child soilder. Thalia is forever 15 and Jason just turned 16 while on a quest to defeat Gaia. In which he nearly died. He hadn't seen his sister in YEARS and he couldn't even remember her because Hera had wiped his memories, can you imagine how they both felt? Thalia was so relieved to see him alive and he didn't even remember her face. They're both so complex and I WISH we saw them together more...instead Thalia will never see her brother again because he's dead.

Next, funshine bear personified: Will Solace. Okay, where to start with him...his mother traveled all over as a country singer bringing him along. When he was 9, monsters disguised as pigeons attacked him. He was brought to camp half blood, claimed by Apollo and then...well..hell broke loose. In the first war, he lost so many of his siblings it-hurts. The ONLY reason he's head of the Apollo cabin, is because the one before him died. He was only about maybe 11 or 12 when he was leading the main healing legion in the war with Kronos. He's lost so many people in his life, yet when people think of him they only think about him being Nico's boyfriend.

There's so much more and I could do a whole essay on this. ESPECIALLY Bianca and Rachel, but for now: please read their backstories before you say someone is selfish.

#percy jackson #pjo #bianca di angelo #reyna avila ramirez arellano #will solace #thalia grace #jason grace #they deserved better

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universe-of-peoples · 4 months

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I wanna talk about the Camp Half-Blood Necklaces

Ok so this is something I’ve been sitting on for a while because it’s kind of a niche topic, but I wanted to do a short little study of the Camp Half-Blood necklaces in relation to a very similar real-world tradition! Read more under the cut.

The Camp Half-Blood necklace tradition, featured in the books and only in the background of the TV show, is really interesting to me. Each camper gets a leather cord to put around their neck, and for each summer they spend at camp half-blood, they get a bead to put on their cord that has been painted with a design unique to that summer. It’s a really cute and unique idea, but it is actually really similar to a real-life tradition in the world of drum corps.

Drum corps is like major league marching band - like how there’s Major League Baseball, or the NFL for football - if you’re really good at marching on a field while playing music, you may find yourself lucky enough to compete at its highest level. There are many many different corps you could march in, but there’s one tradition that almost every corps has in common. That’s corps necklaces.

The tradition can vary from corps to corps, but the basic idea is that you get a cord, commonly made of paracord (or marimba string), and on it is a charm that represents your corps, usually something to do with the corps name or logo. Then, you get a bead to put on your cord for every summer you march.

Sound familiar? It should: spend a summer, get a bead. When I came home from my first summer marching drum corps, my sister took one look at my necklace and said “it’s just like Percy Jackson!” It’s probably just a coincidence, but I’ve sometimes wondered whether Rick knew about drum corps necklaces when he got the idea for the CHB ones.

There are some differences in the CHB beads versus drum corps beads, for instance the CHB beads are unique for each summer, whereas most corps keep their beads the same. But it looks like even the way the cords are tied around the neck is the same in the PJO tv show as how we tie them in drum corps.

Another difference is that with drum corps necklaces, each necklace has a charm representing their corps. I think it would be interesting to see a version of the CHB necklaces where the campers each got a charm representing their godly parent - Percy’s could be a trident, Annabeth’s an owl, etc. The problem would be with the unclaimed campers - would they get no charm, or would they adopt the Hermes cabin charm? Food for thought.

Anyway, thanks for reading my analysis comparing Camp Half-Blood necklaces to drum corps necklaces! Both are topics I care deeply about and I’ve been wanting to do something on the necklaces thing for a while.

#pjo #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo hoo toa #percy jackson disney+#rick riordan #drum corps #dci #wgi #dca #rip dca

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fryingpan1234567 · 1 year

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you get malconnor you get them you understand them the way we (squints like the five people who like malconnor) get them

esp with the whole entire betrayl dramatics like yeah theyd do anything to win against eachother in capture the flag i just know it i do

THEY WOULD. I SO APPRECIATE THE SIX OF US SITTING IN OUR LITTLE MALCONNOR BOX IN THE BACK CORNER OF CHB

~ Game Night at Camp Half-Blood is probably the most organized thing anyone in said camp had ever accomplished— especially when you think about the fact that a bunch of ADHD teenagers of varying ages organized a monthly event without the help of a single adult. Relatively successfully, too.

There’s like. Three hundred kids at CHB during the summertime. With that many people, it’s hard for anything to be organized at all. The Athena kids had a fix, though: cabins are their own teams, and someone is nominated to be the player for the different games.

No matter who’s playing, no one has ever beaten a Hermes kid at Blackjack, and no one has ever beaten an Athena kid at Monopoly.

Connor Stoll and Malcolm Pace are firm believers that there’s a first time for everything.

The entire Athena cabin was gathered behind Malcolm, likewise with the Hermes campers and Connor. They sat on opposite ends of the game board. Percy and Nico, poor souls, occupied the other two spots, which was good. The Poseidon cabin’s porch was getting crowded.

Obviously Malcolm had hotels on Boardwalk and Park Place… but Connor had his hands on pretty much everything else, Nico and Percy only having a couple houses each and both on the verge of bankrupt. Since the beginning, the game had pretty much always been between Connor and Malcolm.

Only once had the two of them won the camp’s vote for Cutest Couple of the Summer (otherwise Percabeth and Valgrace had that thing on lock), and yeah, it was because they’re disgustingly domestic. It’s rare to find them apart during the summer months. Mal helping Connor out with pranks of varying levels of ‘likeliness to get beat up by an angry camper’, Con taking a nap in the strawberry field while Malcolm reread the same book about Patroclus and Achilles, just sweet little things that makes all the newbies think they’re already married.

The exception, is, of course, capture the flag.

Hope to the gods they’re never on the same team. With Malcolm’s battle strategy and Connor’s masterful ability to colossally fuck you up, the opposing team doesn’t typically win.

A lot of the times, though, they’re put on separate teams (thankfully for everyone else). It’s Malcolm’s favorite time to play front line patrol, mostly because Connor typically is on the offensive stealth team. Which he always spots a mile away, to Connor’s dismay. He still doesn’t know how he does it.

At some point, the game changed.

Malcolm was patrolling through the forest, everything around him almost dead silent. There were no footsteps besides his own, no battle sounds. He was close enough to hear the creek, but not see it. Honestly, he was a bit bored, but he’s never one to abandon post. Annabeth put him there, so he’d do it. He just hoped Connor showed up soon.

As if summoned by Malcolm’s thoughts, footsteps approached from the other team’s direction. Connor appeared, alone, from the treeline.

Malcolm, careful not to impale himself with his own sword, managed to cross his arms over his chest plate. “You were slow today. All by yourself?”

Connor grinned, spreading his arms. He wasn’t holding a weapon; his own sword was sheathed at his side. “Is that not enough for you?”

“Hmm…” Malcolm pretended to think as Connor stepped closer, backing him into a tree. His helmet hit the wood with a thunk. The plume was tilting his head at an awkward angle, so he just took it off and dropped it into the grass. He wrapped his arms around the back of Connor’s neck. “I guess you’re all right. Maybe.”

Connor tipped his own helmet off with a huff of annoyance. “Dick.”

“Later.”

And then Connor’s lips were on his, and Malcolm melted into the familiarity of his boyfriend, ignoring the discomfort of the fact that they were both wearing very heavy and very metal armor. Malcolm was pressed completely into the trunk’s wood, a branch poking uncomfortably at his ribs. He didn’t particularly care about that, but he did feel bad about whatever dryad they were borderline violating at the moment. Connor tasted like the chocolate ice cream he’d had for dinner— a decision Malcolm had berated him for earlier, but didn’t mind as much anymore— and his hands were gently gripping at his waist, and neither of them particularly had places to be, and nothing else mattered.

Until cheers abruptly rang up from the red team’s side, and Connor broke away.

The offense team had run right past them. They were there, less than five feet past the banks of the creek, hoisting a blue banner and three campers up onto their shoulders.

Malcolm turned to Connor in disbelief. “You-“

“Won. Aren’t you proud?” Connor gave him a shit-eating grin, patting Malcolm’s cheek condescendingly. “Thanks for your help, sweetheart! Couldn’t have done it without you!”

“That was cheating,” Malcolm said, gripping the collar of his chest plate and pulling him back when he tried to back away. “I don’t think so, sweetheart. That’s not allowed.”

“Technically, it is.” That voice was Percy Jackson’s. He was on the red team that round, and he’d come up to them along with a few other reds and most of the blues. Percy grinned. “I’ve done it before. Works really well, actually. Try it next time.”

Annabeth ripped her helmet off and threw it at him. He barely caught it, shooting her an amused look.

“Mal!” she snapped, sticking her finger in Malcolm’s chest. Using the distraction, Connor backed away, trying to contain his laughter. “What in the name of ALL HADES was that?! They ran right past you!”

“I-“ Malcolm glared at Connor, who smiled innocently and waved. “He, um. Distracted me.”

Annabeth sighed, pinching the bridge of her nose. “Fine, whatever. I know the feeling.” She gave her own boyfriend a fairly vicious glare, which he responded to by sticking his tongue out.

Malcolm wasn’t actually mad. Mostly he was shocked he fell for it. Connor was actually apologetic later that night at the campfire, but Malcolm told him not to worry about it, as long as he knew what kind of opportunities that opened up in the future.

Connor did look a bit nervous about that one.

Anyways. Back to Monopoly.

“Malcolm, hermano.” For some reason, the way Leo Valdez had decided to entertain himself for the day was watch the Athena vs Hermes board game match, and now he leaned over Malcolm’s shoulder to get his attention. Connor was whispering strategies with his siblings, and Percy and Nico were both out. It was between Connor and Malcolm.

“Wazzup, Leo?” Malcolm said absently, running numbers through his head. He was mostly trying to figure out his next ten steps, but what Leo said next got his attention.

“I’ll go bug Connor for the rest of the game if you help me out with a project I’m working on. It involves big numbers. Bad Boy Supreme doesn’t do big numbers.”

That got Connor’s attention, too. He snapped back to the game, staring at Leo and Malcolm in disbelief.

Malcolm grinned maliciously, shooting Connor a wink. “Oh, I love big numbers. Just how distracting can you be?”

Leo matched his smile. “Ask Jason. The answer is very.”

“No!” Connor yelped as Leo scooted over to his side of the board, ‘accidentally’ knocking over the stack of little plastic houses Connor had made on the way. Malcolm hid his laugh with an aggressive cough. “Cheating! This is cheating! And interference!”

“Outside interference,” Leo agreed. “It’s totally allowed. Suck it up. Unless you want to forfeit, of course.” He pulled what looked like a broken music box out of his tool belt, and when he started cranking it, horribly flat notes drifted out in a terrible melody. Most of Connor’s siblings stepped back in horror, but Leo seemed perfectly fine with the situation.

Connor and Malcolm had a very intense staring contest for a moment, Malcolm’s confident smirk never wavering for a second. And then Leo’s terrible music got to him when the music box hitched and let out a sound like a dying goose right next to his ear, and he broke away.

“Fuck, fine!” Connor threw his hands up, earning groans of disappointment from some of his siblings. “You’re such a dick!”

Malcolm grinned, reaching over the game board to pull Connor forward by his shirt. “We’ve been over it before.”

Connor pouted. “It’s true. You’re mean to me.”

“How mean?” Malcolm asked, feigning sympathy.

“Very mean.” Connor flicked him in the forehead, but that was where they met halfway over the board. Malcolm let go of Connor’s shirt to run his fingers through his curly brown hair, hearing lots of retching and “EW!”’s from both of their groups siblings, but neither of them particularly cared.

Someone’s foot nudged Malcolm sharply in the ribs. He broke away from Connor, turning to glare at Nico.

“No PDA during Monopoly,” he said flatly.

“I think it’s cute,” Percy volunteered from the other end, earning a high five from Connor as Malcolm shook his head.

“It’s technically after Monopoly. I won,” he said proudly, turning back to Connor. “Aren’t you proud of me?”

Connor wrinkled his nose, pressing their foreheads together. “Literally fuck right off.”

“Actually? Want me to leave? Because-“

“Obviously not, dumbass. C’mere.”

And everyone else decided to leave them alone. If they wanted to miss the bonfire to make out, fine. And that’s exactly what they did.

#Malconnor #Riordanverse #percabeth #valgrace #malcolm pace #connor stoll #nico di Angelo #Percy Jackson #Annabeth chase #leo valdez

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bookishjules · 10 months

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do you guys ever think about how jason was so in need of answers and solutions when he came to camp half blood? like that kid was asking questions like they were demands. like he was already in charge. like he refused to be in the dark as much as possible. do you ever think how if it was piper or leo who had been the one to lose their memory like that, they probably wouldn't have been so vocal about all of that? because at least they were used to chaos and change and not knowing what a day might bring. but here jason is having spent the entire span of his awareness as a human being adhering to military scheduling. most demigods come to chb a bit worse for the wear. they've transfered schools and had run-ins with monsters and for them chb is like wow i can finally breathe here! but jason doesn't know any of that. like on top of him obviously not knowing a single thing about himself, he also doesn't have any built-in instincts for this level of chaos. because he never he never had to develop them. at cj, he always knew what's for breakfast. and what the plan for the day was, and who's going on what quests. even before he'd become praetor, this was the m.o. and like yeah!!! i'd want answers faster than that old horse can give them too if i were in his shoes!! chiron finds and supplies answers like a stalagtite drips water, it's what he does. but it makes sense that jason would feel far too desperate to have some modicum of control over literally anything to put up with his shit. or anyone else's for that matter

#this post was brought to you by the thunderstorm that woke me up at 2:30am #also by my 10yo thinking jason was mean when we first started reading tlh #oh also by a post i will rb in two seconds #jason grace

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eliza1911o1 · 2 years

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Rant about Heroes of Olympus because as a sequel series to Percy Jackson it pains me pt. 1

So I just reread the PJO (one of my all time favorite series) and HoO series and I’m just struck by how unfulfilled I feel after finally finishing BoO for the first time…

I didn’t read it when I was younger because it came out just as I got really busy in school and was growing out of my “reading phase” and before I knew I had ADHD/attention struggles

I know I’m older and they’re aimed at young audiences and a bit outdated in general now but the original Percy Jackson and the Olympians series is still amazing. No contest. It may have plot holes, it may be lacking in some areas like representation, but everything has flaws and all of those are just so easy to get over with such heartwarming characters and carefully crafted quests. Not to mention the high stakes and actually pretty realistic struggles??? I’m probably biased, but I just really love them and am not above fighting others if they put it down

But even after realizing both series are kids books, the plot valleys (not just pothole level inconsistencies), OOC moments, anticlimactic ending, general lack of dynamic characters and lasting themes, and lacking world building all prove HoO to be underwhelming compared to PJO. Like it’s not bad, but it’s not close to perfect either. It’s even hard to argue how most of the events and characters in HoO add and further the stories of PJO, let alone why to consider all of it as sacred canon. Especially by the end of BoO, the lackluster vibe overall was really disheartening

They aren’t bad books. I just don’t think they lived up to the heart of PJO. I didn’t feel like I was reading more about characters I love or learning about great new characters and settings or invested in why this battle against Gaia will be the greatest of all time. Instead, I my brain was caught trying to convince myself why all of that was true and I was blatantly put off by some of the story directions, which made me feel incredibly sad

Again, it’s a fun read. Not considering any sort of literary analysis or strong personal opinion and taking into account the intended audience, it meets expectations. I just feel like the original series did so much more than be average and I’m just grasping at straws here because HoO had potential to do the same

Anyway, here are some of my strongest complaints with brief explanation and in no particular order:

- where were the old characters??? Grover?? WHERE WAS GROVER??????

- Percy was very underplayed in BoO for no reason; even if you consider his time in Tartarus, he was very weak compared to SoN and it wasn’t really explained, which felt lazy. They should’ve let him rest if he wasn’t up to fighting

- mental health issues were brought up but skirted by (Nico’s coming out was awful, Percy’s suicidal thoughts weren’t really addressed seriously (that’s a whole nother post), Hazel’s literally having died once)

- Too. Much. Romance. Why did everyone need to be a couple?????

- same structure as PJO, but without any reinvention (TLT and TLH had almost the same beginning)

- povs past SoN had weird distribution; I don’t think it made sense HoH had all seven povs but the final book, BoO, didn’t

- what made Jason, Piper, and Leo more special than any of the other seven? The explanation that they began everything felt lazy and discredited Frank and Hazel….

- Reyna and Nico and even Coach Hedge held a lot of importance in the plot and it felt weird since they weren’t even part of the seven. Distribution of responsibility and the idea of seven great heroes saving stuff (even if it was ironic) was downplayed

- the seven never really felt like a team or had a moment where it seemed like all of them were vital to make things work. The splitting up into smaller groups all the time definitely worsened this

- why was New Rome a whole mini country when CHB is a literal camp… the world building was quite slapdash and felt unreastic

- no developed Roman side characters really; wish Dakota, Lou Ellen, and others had more importance and interest

- Percy came back to NYC (to CHB) and no one said anything? No Sally-Percy reunion? No Grover-Percy reunion? No campers cheering for Percy to be back?

- last minute Solangelo; they should’ve had some sort of interest to sudden love/slow burn/opposites attract relationship with proper time to develop

- issue of Greeks vs. Roman felt sort of weak and their sudden cohesion at the end felt too forced (how is one statue gonna fix eeeeeeverything)

- final battle was awful. No words. Giants easily killed, Greeks and Romans united in a minute, Gaia contained in a little storm immediately after waking and killed like no biggie

- minimal lasting damage or deaths (Leo’s death…. Don’t even get me started)

- BoO and later books ruined Leo’s character and made him seem selfish, unaware, and rude

- Annabeth and Percy being captured immediately by the giant princess in BoO; you think they escaped Tartarus for the ending to be THAT

- Frank’s whole situation; firewood and the whole idea of life being fragile felt pretty useless by the end when nothing could touch him

- weak usage of prophecy — I feel like the oracle being dead at the end was a sign for everyone to live without forced guidance, which was a big deal in PJO, but the point wasn’t really made and it felt like he just didn’t want to come up with more. Also, it felt like lines were added randomly to the prophecy of seven but we never hear everything together??? The prophecy felt cheap and forced with how everything played out

- no issues with Percy and Annabeth going to New Rome for college, but they’d be that quick to abandon their home in NYC? I get the trauma associated with it, but there was nothing that made it seem right for them to think the trauma was enough to leave everything… lowkey wanted Annabeth to go to Columbia or Barnard or NYU and be fixing up CHB to house adults or have a veteran demigod network

- cutting off character development and interactions. A lot of the characters were used to further others (Jason furthering Nico’s in BoO) or never even talked to each other (Percy and Piper). There wasn’t much growth in the last couple books even though it was very clear in the beginning ones (Frank is an obvious example) and more importantly, there was a supreme lack of resolution in their stories. Especially Percy and Annabeth, who went to hell and back, we never feel like they suffered for a reason or needed to be the ones to suffer or the suffering changed them for better or worse or any other real indication I should accept the ending

- no backlash on the gods. At all. Percy, like many others throughout PJO and HoO, is struggling to respect the gods, let alone continue being used by them. And in HoO, the gods are USELESS. They do literally n.o.t.h.i.n.g. They have one fight scene and when we have Jason’s equivalent to the asking for childcare scene of TLO, Zeus responds and his backbone breaks. The only consequence was Apollo being demoted but that honestly felt like a marketing scheme knowing ToA

- lots more but I’ll stop myself here

(Btw I did not read it because of the show lol though I am glad I did so I’m ready for it)

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citrusreadstoa · 1 year

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Reading The Dark Prophecy: Chapter 30 (SPOILERS)

"setting up trip wires and motion-sensor alarms . . . I used to flirt with them shamelessly, but I never went further than that." I'm sure that greatly reassures the Hunters, who I'm sure have never had any bad experiences with other male gods and have no reason to worry about the one who flirts with them the most potentially changing his mind one day and deciding to take advantage of their vulnerable sleeping state. No, I'm sure they're just paranoid. /s

"ẹlọmìíràn--one of the others." Have we stumbled upon yet another pantheon? Yoruba are from around West Africa. This could legitimately be a whole other pantheon. "I am also a graduate accounting student at Indiana University." Very applicable to the situation. What do you mean that's not useful information? This is stuff we need to know!

"Not a gladiator. I only fight on weekends for money." Oh, so it's his part-time job. Puts him through college. I have a feeling he won't mind looking for a different job after this.

"My name is actually Olujime." And ebook Olujime's nickname is actually Jimmy. The more trivia you know. "I was getting very tired of spelling out Papadopoulos." At what point does Apollo have to write his name down? This is deffo Rick Riordan projecting here. He's regretting picking this name for him.

"'Your girlfriend. Yes. Will you excuse me?' I fled." Very subtle, very subtle. Wow. You could not have had a worse reaction. I'm impressed, genuinely.

"Besides, he was much too old for me" Right, I forget he's in a 16-17 year old form. "or young, depending on how you looked at it." If Olujime's too young, then why did he want to flirt with Chiara and Damien? Pick an angle to look at it from and stick with it. Gods are way too used to their shapeshifting abilities.

"until I stumbled upon a small library . . . the old-fashioned kind without books, just scrolls stacked in cubbies." I immediately feel like the Waystation definitely sensed this place could help him and sent him there. "Now she was a smart melomakarona." MELOMAKARONA (n.): an egg-shaped Greek dessert made mainly from flour, olive oil, and honey. A traditional dessert prepared primarily during the Christmas holiday season. They are also known as finikia

^ Hypatia, ladies and gentlemen.

"VERILY, THY LEVELS OF STUPID ASTOUND ME." "Have you ever wondered . . . why you have no friends?" LMAO he's so fed up with this screaming little shit.

"you two intend to remain at the Waystation." They do? They don't want to go back to camp? Is this permanent or are they just waiting until the Triumvirate threat is over before they go back to CHB? "The furtive glances?" FURTIVE (adj.): attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble; secretive "And she can teach you to regain your magic." Oh yeah, that. "Josephine reminds me so much of my mom." Awwwwwwwww. Yes, stay with them.

"A car? . . . Oh, I can hook you up with one of those!" Oh no.

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shippy-pjo-shipper · 2 years

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Racheleo ~ Colors

It was stupid. So stupid I wasn't even sure of how it all started. Stupidly, for sure.

CHB was at war and it was his fault. Or mine ? Okay, maybe it was our fault, but really, he's the one who took it to the next level first !

What was it he said again ? Oh, yeah. 'Fire is orange and fire is my thing, paint palette. Consequently I win and you loose !'

He looked so smug and proud of his little triumph that I'm sure he practiced it beforehand.

Seriously, I never heard Leo use the word 'consequently' before.

I think the applause got to his head. When really there was nothing that impressing. I knew Festus enough to not be impressed by his little show. No matter how many fireworks were at use. Orange fireworks.

When you know how beautiful the sunset before which it all started was the week before, that was a real shame.

She was at the top of the cliff, admiring the sky and its colors, paintbrush in hand, and a look of concentration on her face. Leo was there too, smiling but empty handed.

He was looking at her. She knew it. He loved to do that. That must have been what attracted her to him first : how he looked at her like a work of art, rather than the crazy artist seemingly on the verge of killing everyone in the room, if only with terrifying prophecies or a blue hairbrush.

And all it took to ruin this beautiful moment was one off comment.

"Orange is such a pretty color. I can't believe no god claimed it as their trademark."

That in itself was okay. But she never should have continued.

"Well, that way I can make it mine."

The rest of the conversation was blurry but I was sure it was stupid.

All I remembered was that it ended with a handshake and a stolen kiss. And after that started an entire week of handling his stunts.

Gods know I tried to let it slide. I tried keeping it low. But that's impossible. Not with Leo.

And slowly but surely, the silence of peace turned into a silence before the storm. And everyone at camp could feel it.

Some tried to reason with us : "But colors belong to everyone."

"Orange suits you both."

"Maybe try different shades of it."

"...You do realize that everyone in CHB wears orange ?"

They were missing the point !

It's not about the color. It's not about them. It's not even about us arguing because there was no argument !

Actually we love each other even more during stupid squabbles like this.

No. It's about rendering the person we loved to listen to the most in this world speechless.

And by the end of the week, he was. Not just him, but the whole camp.

Had I thought this through ? Yes. Had I realized the terrible consequences it could have ? Yes. Did I still value the joy of imagining Leo's happy and proud smile seeing my work above them ? Also yes.

And he did not disappoint. The spark in his eyes and the way his lips curved in a clear way to hold his laughter back was enough to let mine slide. He soon followed my lead.

So here I was, running across Camp, Leo on my toes, both using the chaos to hide ourselves as much as possible. But surely running in the opposite direction of everyone must have attracted the attention of one or two campers. Especially when it was 'Dare & Valdez' doing so.

I used to wonder why campers put it in that order. As if I was the worst troublemaker of the pair. But running away from the Big House and a Dionysus covered in orange paint, I think I started to understand.

Leo was holding onto my hand as if his life depended on it. Which honestly probably did trusting the God of wine's cries of outrage.

Coming from him who never used another voice than one full of tiredness and disinterest, yes, it was meant to be scary.

But as we were finally away enough to not hear or see any form of life, Leo suddenly took the lead to guide us toward the woods.

If I didn't trust him that much, I would have planted my heels in the ground to insist on leading them where I first intended, my cave. I was more than strong enough to do so. But I complied, quickly understanding his plan.

***

"We should be safe here." He said as he activated the last lock on the massive door. "You truly believe what you're saying ?" "Not in the slightest, babe."

The bunker 9 was an obvious place for us to hide in, but no one would ever be able to get into it before Leo said so. So it would do for now.

We were in complete darkness before he enlightened his hand, letting me exclusive view on his proud grin, pointy ears, soft eyes and shiny curls.

How long was it since the last time I drew him ? Too long. I had to get back to it quick.

I was so entranced with my idea that I barely noticed his smugness as he was finding the interruptor right before light burst into the whole bunker.

The cute bastard. I couldn't help but think when all the usually white and yellow light turned out to be of a soft and not as blinding orange.

"Nice attempt at overstepping me. I think it easily deserves a second place." I wasn't about to let him think he won even for a second.

"The winner had to prove orange was theirs. My bunker. My orange light bulbs. My color."

The artist in me overtook the other parts of my brain once more at his words. He does look even better bathed in this colored light.

I tried to focus on something, else, looking around as if I didn't already know everything about this place that I had drawn so many times. But when I brought my eyes back on him, I was surprised to see him look at me, though more my whole me, rather than my eyes or even face.

And as I studied his look for a second, I knew he must have seen it around me too, this aura.

And with one last shared look, everything was said. Yes. Orange was our color. Orange was love's true color.

Without another word I went to grab the snacks Leo always put in the top drawer while I heard him lay a blanket down and turn the cracked TV on.

"Splatoon ?" Bless Hephaestus and Esperanza Valdez for bringing to this world the first demigod ever capable of allowing us access to video games.

"I'm gonna kick you ass." "And I'm gonna paint yours."

And with that, we both sat down, cuddling, as if dozens of kids with superpowers weren't after us. Who cares ? She just had to pretend a prophecy told her to do so. That wouldn't be the first time.

Yes it was stupid. Everyone knew that and the two of them even more. But they didn't care. They loved being stupid. They missed being stupid. And thanks the gods who put them in this hardship of a life, they also gave them each other. Making sure the orange fire and the orange tempest would never be apart.

@them-awesome-rarepairs

#pjorarepairs2022 #racheleo #valdare #leo x rachel #leo valdez x rachel dare #leo valdez #rachel dare #rachel elizabeth dare #colors #fanfiction #my fanfiction #shippys

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arch-dieangelo · 2 years

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ON ABANDONMENT , TRUST , AND COMMITMENT ,

hey. it’s me. let’s unpack this baggage. same warnings as the overall warnings of this blog apply.. familial death mostly. sprinkled with other death. post contains toa spoilers

alright let’s start with the obvious: bianca. coming out of the lotus hotel was nothing short of heavily disorienting. he had only bianca to rely on & didn’t remember anything at all of his family otherwise. put into some random boarding school where he could obviously see that things weren’t right and had monsters posing as teachers. he trusted bianca and nothing and no one else.

then in comes percy and the hunters to the rescue and his mind is completely blown. he’s too naïve to not trust these people. even when bianca almost immediately oaths into the hunters, he doesn’t care because this new world is too damn cool to care about little things like that.

it’s not until bianca’s chosen to go on the quest that he starts feeling that sense of abandonment. he’s stuck in a year that just doesn’t feel right, talking in a language that’s still somewhat difficult for him, told that he’s a demigod, and his sister his only family the only kind face he knows ... abandons him to go across the country in search of a person that he doesn’t even know. he’s stuck at chb and even though he’s surrounded by things that should be cool, it sucks because he doesn’t have bianca to share it with. but whatever. it’s fine! bianca will be back.

except she doesn’t come back. he feels her die and percy’s confirmation destroys him. percy, the guy that nico trusted because he’d saved them, broke his promise to keep bianca safe. he doesn’t trust percy or the camp or the gods. all he can trust is himself. he has to live with the truth that bianca abandoned him to join the hunters without even knowing what she was getting into and that he is on his own from now on.

he’s reluctant to get close to anyone else from that point forward, even after tlo, he’s reclusive and isolates himself. doesn’t stay at camp for longer than a week right after the war because there is no space for him and honestly? whatever. he’s fine with that. if no one there trusts him, then he doesn’t trust them either. the further he keeps everyone from himself, the easier it is to not get attached (coughs. commit to a friendship) and the less likely he is to get abandoned again. he cannot take another hit to him like bianca’s death.

he takes a risk with hazel, a calculated but necessary risk. after all, she is his sister. nico’s inclined to trust her immediately, and he appreciates having someone around anyway. the first time in years he’s allowed himself to get attached, and it’s good. it feels nice. he can’t let himself do this again.

when the seven rescue him from the twin giants, he trusts only hazel. for a while he talks solely to her other than to give advice/knowledge to the crew when needed. he’s exhausted and unwell and cannot afford to extend more than just the basic amount of ‘hazel trusts you so i trust you i guess’ level of trust. besides, they don’t trust him at all either. it’s a mutual thing.

anddddddddddddddd then the cupid thing happens. it’s terrible. it’s awful and jason is there to witness it all. he has to trust jason on default, because if he doesn’t, then nico’ll be burying himself.

the trust he has with jason grows, and arguably jason becomes one of his closer friends on the argo ii. yay. friendship <3

reyna !! we love u reyna. (am ignoring that she joins the hunters bc its stupid) he trusts her as much as he trusts hazel. they went through a harrowing journey together you just dont come back from that without committing to a strong friendship. he literally killed for her. he trusts her and trusts that she won’t abandon him but it’s hard.

thennnnnnnn jason dies. nico can argue that jason abandoned him all he wants but that wasn’t abandonment. jason had highschool to finish in california and it simply couldnt have gone any other way. when jason dies, the wound that was left when bianca left is reopened.

conclusions: major abandonment issues. god forbid your muse is friends with nico and then they have to leave for an extended period of time without communication for some reason and then they show up again. nico’s gonna give them hell. it won’t be pretty it won’t be nice he’s going to be upset and childish about it no matter the circumstance. it’s a major character flaw but he’s working on it. maybe.

further conclusions: re: romantic relationships. good fucking luck. it’s gotta be a 3 year slow burn at least. trying to get him to trust anyone like that is very difficult. he’d try though. maybe. it’ll be hell on his end.

further further conclusions: he’s the kind of person to leave before he gets attached in any sense of the word in the first place. oh ? you’re a friend? uhhh too bad you’re not going to see him for a solid 3 months he’s gods know where. leaving first as soon as he realizes he can trust someone so that they cant abandon him >>>

EDIT 11/18/22 - i want to make it incredibly clear that i do not condone or support the way nico rationalizes his anger and uses his grief. i thought it was obvious but it’s clearly not so here. it’s incredibly unhealthy and very selfish but it’s also a primary character flaw. thus is life. he’s working on it and that’s all we can hope for.

#ok thats all none of this makes sense so im cutting myself off here ! if this is gone in the morning ummmm :) my bad #errr also touches on one of my issues w his canon ship but. waves hand.#tfw you trust easily so you refuse to get close enough to anyone to trust them >>>#HC.

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transannabeth · 5 years

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ok so like thinking about percys loyalty being a fatal flaw again, i cant remember but was it hard for someone to gain his loyalty?

#this is worded bad #i just saw that quite thats like #let me introduce you to my other family #and i was trying to fo the math of how long hed been at cj #and if hes putting that on chb level #how hard is it to actually gain percys loyalty #chitter chatter

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my-apollo-gies · 3 years

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At the start of Tlo when Will shows Leo the camp, they actually kinda flirt don't you think

(I'm assuming you mean tlh?)

Tysm for the ask anon🖤

I completely agree. There is no way this wasn't flirting, and it makes it ten times funnier when you consider how pissed off Leo is at the time, because he just realised he might not be able to date any of the girls at chb

(Looking at specific quotations beneath the cut)

"Sure, Annabeth."

"What's Cabin Nine?" Leo asked. "And I'm not a Vulcan!"

"Come on, Mr Spock, I'll explain everything." Will put a hand on his shoulder and steered him off towards the cabins.

Ok, so literally the first time Leo and Will interact, Will already has a nickname for Leo? If this doesn't eventually become a pet name then I don't know what will

"He, um, can't. You'll see why." Will forged ahead before Leo could ask anything else.

Don't tell me he wasn't just gay panicking here and decided to run off as quickly as possible

"Just messing with you, man." Leo pulled some gears and leavers from his pockets and started fiddling with them to calm his nerves.

Welp, there's Leo's gay panic less than a page later

This last one's a bit more subtle, because Will's obviously a medic, so of course he has some protective instincts, but the only other person he's canonically this protective over is Nico:

"Dude, the old lady. The one in black. How many old ladies do you see over there?"

Will frowned. "I think you've had a long day, Leo. The mist could be playing tricks on your mind. How about we head straight [straight?] to your cabin now?"

Will clearly does not want Leo to be thinking about some old lady, so attempts a diversion, whilst still being able to spend more time with him.

Jake nodded. "That's good. Because I'll give you the best bed in the cabin- Beckendorf's."

"Woah, Jake." Will said. "You sure?"

Jake is completely chill with the idea of giving Leo the cursed bed, and he probably knows more about the curse than Will does, so it's safe to assume the risk that using the bed brings is pretty low. Will is definitely being over-protective.

"Well, alright!" Leo said. "I hear this is the party cabin!"

Nobody laughed. They all just stared at him.

Will patted Leo's shoulder. "I'll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it's time?"

The pat is the most awkward thing on Earth, because Will clearly wants to comfort Leo here, but is also well aware that everyone is watching them, and that may come across as wrong (also, Will's canonically 4" taller than Leo, although in my head it's closer to a foot, but either way, Leo's shoulder would probably be around the same level as the bottom of his chest, which is hilarious to imagine). Also, he makes a big deal about someone taking Leo to dinner, mainly so he definitely arrives. Will definitely wants to see Leo again.

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rcl-stan · 3 years

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the seven and co as how toasty they like their marshmallows

percy - percy’s a little bitch this man has such weak taste. i can tell you with 100% certainty that he would go to montauk w his mom and make s’mores with the marshmallow having barely touched the fire, if it even went near it. hes a different breed and the argo II crew hates him for it

annabeth - she likes hers melty but not burnt. she can never get it just right and it bothers her so much she rarely eat s’mores

jason - a “science king” that really just learned the perfect tactic from his boyfriend leo. he doesn’t like his burnt but likes them gooey as if they were burnt. leo and piper made fun of him but later leo figured out how to make them just like jason likes because thats what good friends do ☺️☺️☺️ he eventually shows annabeth

piper - the elite type that likes her marshmallows burnt. she will not touch the marshmallow to the cracker and chocolate unless it was fully on fire at one point. blowing it out is her favorite part

leo - another of the elite type except he doesnt always blow his out before he sandwiches it. it’ll usually put out the fire but sometimes it doesnt. he eats it anyways

frank - “i’M lActOsE iNtOleRanT” “hoe u know you can still eat smores, right?”

hazel - no consistency with the toast level and she likes it that way. “a smore is a smore, at least im not like percy”

nico - doesnt like smores because they’re too sweet and messy but still enjoys making them and is fascinated by the many ways a marshmallow can be toasted

will - this boy grew up camping even outside of chb. if you think for one second he doesnt like his burnt idk what to tell you. him and leo + piper bond over this

reyna - she likes hers the way annabeth hates hers. they argue over this

#soel.txt #pjo/hoo #riordanverse #percy jackson #leo valdez #piper mclean #jason grace #annabeth chase #nico di angelo #hazel levesque #frank zhang #will solace #reyna avila ramirez arellano #pjo #hoo

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that-unhinged-stem-dude · 3 years

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Ok so I’ve been working on a Dark! series of the Riordanverse so imma start off with CHB/CJ

Also these are my own interpretations

I’ll be explaining through the characters

Dark! Zeus/Jupiter: Thalia and Jason have considerable power over air, meaning they have power over all the winds. They can literally kill a person by blocking the air flow from their nose to their lungs. Also lightning. The intense heat caused by it is enough to kill an entire group.

Dark! Poseidon/Neptune: Percy can control water. Humans are 70% water so he can control them. Put him near a body of water, he can drown them in 0.5 seconds. Can bloodbend as blood consists of water and cause blood to dry up or make the person bleed until all the blood has left the body. Can encase a person in ice and can deprive them of warmth by taking the heat in the water. When fighting in the ocean/sea, he can command all the fish and aquatic mammals to fight for him and can command most Pegasi to follow him

Dark! Demeter/Ceres: Meg is an excellent swordswoman bcoz u gotta reap ur crops and the dark! equivalent is sword fighting also Demeter/Ceres kids have the power to deprive/increase nourishment of humans. So if anyone makes them mad, say goodbye to your food. They can also make plants grow out of nowhere with seeds and can entrap a person in the plant

Dark! Hades/Pluto: lemme start with Nico. He can literally summon all dead people and can make his own zombie army. Also he can fvcking ghostify a person bcoz that’s what he did to Bryce Lawrence. Now Hazel. She represents the wealth part. She can literally make u broke and bury you in the earth with her earthbending skills. Can curse each and every precious stone u find.

Dark! Ares/Mars: being children of war, Frank and Clarrise know all war tactics and techniques. All the armies on the loosing side are forced to serve Ares/Mars and his kids so they can summon them at a time of battle and increase their power by invoking their dad’s powers

Dark! Athena: Annabeth’s planning peaks when she’s taking revenge on someone for hurting someone close to her. She goes into full strategy mode and I would love it if this happened, she can summon a massive group of owls and they attack the enemy. While in battle, she’s a killing machine, swiping through hoards of enemies

Dark! Apollo: Will being a healer, knows all about the human anatomy. He knows where to strike first to incapacitate the enemy. Kayla, an amazing archer, has deadly accuracy and can strike the part where she’s aiming. SHE CAN RELEASE FUCKING PLAGUE ARROWS LIKE THE TORTURE WITH THOSE. Austin can release the most horrible tunes which can make monsters’ ears’ bleed which is so horrible

Dark! Artemis/Diana: TWO WORDS: DEADLY ACCURACY. So I kinda have a theory. They can be so god dam stealthy u probably won’t hear them coming but when the do come their fighting and hunting skills are unmatched like completely. And once the fight is over, the enemies are probably turned into animals.

Dark! Hephaestus/Vulcan: Leo is an amazing engineer and has fire powers. These are like amazing powers. So Leo, to get back at everyone who has hurt him, would build a cage with such amazing workmanship that only Cabin 9 can open it. He would place a flammable substance and set fire to it once the enemy is trapped. That is level max superiority also he can firebend

I’ll post part 2 in some days :)

#percy jackson #annabeth chase #nico di angelo #hazel levesque #jason grace #thalia grace #meg mccaffrey #frank zhang #clarrise la rue #will solace #kayla knowles #austin lake #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #leo valdez

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