Someone: Who’s your favourite Percy Jackson character?

Me: Obviously it’s Annabeth Chase

Someone: that’s such a basic answer.

Me: alright you want the real answer? The prophetic arrow in Trials of Apollo that only Lester can hear and only speaks Shakespeare. Look it up. That’s my favourite character.

Arrow of Dodona post

‘I may have yelled a few choice words, but the sphere of silence censored them, so you will have to use your imagination’ (Lester Papadopoulos ,pg.267, ch.27, Trails of Apollo the Tyrants Tomb)

my favorite god lester papadopoulos!!!! everyone cheer and scream and shout for him or im blowing this entire camp up.

[transcription under the cut]:

top right: arrow pointing at lester saying “Man contemplating partricide”

arrow of dodona: thou shallt go fuck thyself

apollo/lester: Hey Zeus? I know you’re still watching--what the FUCK am I supposed to do w/ THIS???

Had to visit my favorite little guys to break through some art block.

In that last one their having a cute lil coffee date and AoD ordered tea, unaware of how it was made.

i love trials of apollo

All the series combined, (pjo, hoo, toa) I think Trials of Apollo might be my favorite. I’ve said Heroes of Olympus for a while, but after finishing toa, I was actually really sad in a way that I wasn’t with the other series. This is my reasoning: *TOA SPOILERS AHEAD*

Lester/Apollo’s narration and character development was top notch. In The Hidden Oracle, at first I thought the book series was gonna be full of arrogance and whining. Oh, how it was the complete opposite. He went through stuff that no other god will ever go through. Pain, and grief. The empty feeling of not being yourself anymore. And he finally realized how the gods are, how clueless they have been about mortals and demigods. Everything that happened in toa was just building up to the perfect Apollo, the Apollo that’s not in fact perfect.

The characters. Like, these characters are so good? First of all, they are so fleshed out. Meg McCaffrey, who saw her own father dead and got mentally abused by the emperor who killed him. “The Beast,” was just himself, but Meg was too scared of him to stand up for herself. And like, how is an arrow kind of making me empathize with it? The arrow of Dodona was supposedly the worst piece of wood in the forest, and so Lester needed to prove the others wrong, and I think he did. Especially in that final battle against Python.

The amount of different stories and adventures. Obviously you would have sooo many adventures, because you need to get a different oracle in each one! In every single one, we’re introduced to a new character and new goal. It doesn’t really start in the first one, as it’s just introducing the main characters. In the second one, it’s Emmie, Jo, Calypso, and Leo. In the third one, it’s Piper, Jason, and Grover. In the fourth one, it’s Lavinia, Reyna, Hazel, and Frank (a lot of characters from SoN). In the last one, it’s just a lot of chb campers. Will, Nico, the Troglodytes, and more. See what I mean? There are so many different stories in just one series.

And lastly, how powerful it is. The fact that it could make me cry is impressive, because I don’t cry at much (book and movie wise). Jason’s death, Lester’s misery, Meg’s abuse, and so much more. It’s just so sad but powerful at the same time. If you prefer a different series, (PJO, HOO, TOA) then tell me why!

^literally iconic lmao

I need to put this out there just for the record and ask this to you guys once and for all...

Am I the only one who cried when the Arrow Of Dodona sacrificed itself for lester (apollo) ?

I mean, Did I really cry over a talking arrow for 5 hours? I cried over an inanimate object guys?!?!

Can't be JUST ME, right??!

I am not the only one who gets Emotionally too attached to a sassy arrow with great comebacks and only speaks in Shakespearean language, right!?!?

Guys, we all are losing our mind together, RIGHT!?!?

Someone come over here and assure me that we will all PJO fans go crazy together..

"Shut thee up" is going into my vocabulary.

Percytober Day 6 - Arrow of Dodona 🏹 Arrow that only speaks Shakespearean and a god turned mortal is a duo I never knew I needed but I love them so much.💚

ko-fi

Just wanted to remind you that Apollo is a very Proud Dad™ because when AoD was trying to give this guy a clue in the TTT on the identity of Harpocrates, it decided to use doctors and Apollo without a second thought said Asclepius's name and then Will's as his favourite and best doctors

I call this one bleeding heart because apollo is excessively sympathetic to everyone but himself get it

What if post-Toa Apollo misses the arrow of dodona so much he decided to make an ENTIRE BOW AND QUIVER FULL OF ARROWS from dodona wood. Now instead he’s got a whole flock of obnoxious little men on hold for advice in various British English dialects.

wake up babe, it's time for the bimonthly polldona post!!!

Lester: I’m a flirting machine with no off button.

Arrow of Dodona: Hubris will be your downfall.

Lester: Kind of sexy of you to say that haha.