I'm gonna ship Apollo/Reyna in the most pathetic onesided way possible no I am NOT taking criticism

Reyna: I'm craving something sweet

Apollo, gesturing to himself: ;)

Reyna: I said something sweet, not a little bitch

This is for the reypollo shippers.

Apollo is the son of Zeus, aka Jupiter.

Reyna is the child of Bellona. Bellona is the daughter of Jupiter.

no reypollo, thank you very much

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Didn't specify a character so I'm defaulting to- *puts on neon pink sunglasses* MY BOY,,, Lester Papadopoulos.

Apollo/Lester is super shippable but I honestly hate Reypollo (is that the name?) although a very dishonorable mention to Apollo X Meg- EW EW EW NO WHY DO PEOPLE SHIP THIS?- but lemme just rant a sec.

Reyna, in my opinion, is ace, and I despise it when aro/ace/aroace characters get shipped with anyone romantically. It's a bit disrespectful in my eyes to do that. I can understand the appeal to those two, but I'm sorry, it is absolutely not my cup of tea. I do not like at all.

I was so uncomfortable with the whole reyna x apollo situation at the start of the tyrant's tomb, but thankfully rick completely bait and switched me and made me love their interactions by the end

Reyna : *throws an apple at Apollo*

Apollo : *confused whether he should run away as apples keep doctors away or should he go kiss her as throwing an apple at someone is a sign of greek marriage proposal*

Apollo :

I get some people ship Reypollo. I was scrolling through insta and I saw Reypollo fanart. As a multishipper I was like holy shit- I cant fall into another worm hole...

Who ever made that fanart, you made me fall in love with Reyna even more. How can you make a character so goddamn hot???!!!!

with the new book coming out soon, how do you feel about reyna and apollo possibly getting together or whatever's going on? i REALLY don't like it and honestly, i'm pretty sure no one else does either

So I am personally really against the pairing, I don’t think they are compatible at all and I just don’t think they would be good as a couple, their personalities make it hard for me to picture them ever being in a healthy relationship, they are just too different, and that’s not to say that people who don’t have a lot in common can’t be in a functional relationship, I just really can’t find anything about either of them that would make me think they would be good as a couple, they have a few minor things in common, but their personalities are polar opposites, they’d likely get bored of each other if they actually dated. I think they have potential to become close friends who support each other and have a platonic relationship, but they both seem to want such different thing in their life, I don’t think them being together romantically would work. Apollo’s quest is for him to regain his immortality and to bring back the oracles he neglected, when his quest is over and he becomes a god, how would they even stay together? Their options would be for Apollo to stay mortal for Reyna, have Apollo become a god and Reyna stay mortal or have Reyna become a goddess with him. And none of those options really sound great to me, and I will riot if this series ends with Apollo not being a god. But lack of compatibility aside, my main problem with the ship is that the age gap seems highly inappropriate to me, I think in the Heroes of Olympus Reyna was sixteen or something, she might be seventeen by The Tyrants Tomb, but regardless she is a minor. Apollo on the other hand is thousands of years old, even though he is technically in the body of a sixteen year old, he’s still had the life experiences of an adult, he has kids for crying out loud. He’s definitely lost a lot of his memories, and doesn’t remember all of his 4612 years, but he clearly does remember quite a lot of his life and he doesn’t really seem to think of himself as a teenager, and he definitely doesn’t have the maturity of a teenager, so him dating a minor is very much off the table in my opinion. He even stated that Olujime, the guy he was flirting with in The Dark Prophecy, who would have been in his twenties and in college, was too young for him, so Reyna would certainly be too young for him. The age gap for me is the biggest reason I don’t like it, and another reason that I really don’t like the ship is that I know that Apollo is a character who has gotten a lot of hate from the pjo fandom for being “annoying” and because a lot of people in the fandom have decided its his fault that Jason is dead (people seem to be more mad at him than they are at Caligula for Jason dying which infuriates me to no end, even though everyone knows it was Caligula that killed him and no one denies Caligula’s role thankfully, there are still people spending more time being mad at Apollo than at Caligula, I have even heard people say “it’s almost entirely Apollo’s fault”) and if Apollo, someone who is hated by a decent chunk of the fandom dates a character like Reyna who has a lot of stans who think she is too good for this world and that no one is worthy of her, Apollo is going to get even more hate. And not to mention that I think a lot of people will be annoyed if Reyna ends up with any man at all, people want her to be a lesbian (despite the fact that she has had male crushes, so if she were to be wlw she would surely be bi or pan) I think the fandom will throw a hissy fit if Reyna doesn’t either stay single or end up with a girl, and if she ends up with Apollo, people aren’t going to be happy and they’ll take their anger out on him and I’m not ready for that to happen. I’ve already seen him get enough hate for Jason dying, if this happens too, Apollo and toa is going to get so much hate I can’t stand it. 

And I know I’ve given a lot of reasons why I think it doesn’t work, and I don’t think it does, but honestly if it weren’t for the inappropriate age gap, I would be willing to give Reypollo a chance if it were well developed, and I think that if Venus’ prophecy was about them, there wouldn’t be the problem of underdevelopment, since it’d be in the making for several books now. But given Reyna’s age no amount of development is going to make me like it. If Venus’ prophecy was about Apollo and Reyna being a couple and Rick has been planning this for several books now, I really wish that he had given more thought to the age thing, and made Reyna at least eighteen if she were to end up with a four thousand year old in the body of a teenager. Like if Rick has been planning this for so long, I’m going to be pretty mad that he never gave consideration to the fact that Reyna would be too young for Apollo, he could have easily avoided it by making Reyna 18+ and having Apollo be turned into a mortal a few years older than sixteen, and then the age thing wouldn’t be a problem. But I think Rick just really doesn’t seem to consider the age gaps of characters when pairing them up, like Caleo for example, it’s a ship I would otherwise be fine with if not for the fact that Leo is younger than Reyna and Calypso is older than Apollo. I think the only thing about Caleo that makes it a little less terrible is that Calypso at least acts like a teenager and wants  to go to school like a normal teen, and since time was very distorted on Ogygia, maybe she does have the maturity of a teen, but that’s a big maybe and I just don’t understand why Rick would even go there, Caleo is a pairing that is hard to defend. And Sadie and Anubis, which I don’t remember too well, but Sadie is twelve or thirteen and her love interest was thousands of years old. I need to reread the Kane Chronicles, but I don’t think they actually ended up together, I think they just sort of liked each other or something, but even that just weirds me out so much. 

And yeah, there certainly aren’t many people who like this ship and want it to be canon, I’ve only heard maybe two people say they were open to it, I haven’t seen Reypollo really get much more support than that, most people seem to agree that the ship just does not work. 

And I know that during the lead up to The Tyrants Tomb there are going to be Reyna stans that are going to hate the ship because “Reyna deserves better” I know that we are going to start seeing more posts saying stuff like “Reyna don’t worry I’ll save you from that idiot Apollo” I already have for months, and this was before we had that excerpt from TTT hinting at Reypollo, I’m honestly scared to check the toa tags these days, because even though it isn’t canon (yet) Apollo is probably already getting hate. 

I think in the next book we will find out what Venus’ prophecy that “no demigod would heal her heart” meant and who it was about. I have argued before that Venus’ prophecy could be about Apollo, but the heart healing was meant in a platonic way and that Reyna and Apollo will confide in each other and help each other through some of their past traumas. The prophecy was vague, and to me “healing her heart” doesn’t necessarily have to mean that they would need to be in a romantic relationship to do that, sometimes what people need isn’t a romantic relationship to fix their problems, sometimes what people need is a friend who can support them and who they can confide in, and I’m really hoping that Apollo can be that person for Reyna, and that is what the prophecy was talking about. I’m hoping that Rick is just trying to subvert our expectations, Reypollo seems almost too obvious in my opinion, however that’s probably just wishful thinking on my part, it’ll likely end up being canon.

Edit: Okay since posting this I’ve also come to the realisation that Rick’s timelines are as the kids say “whack” so with that in mind there is the possibility that Reyna is fucking somehow eighteen years old by the Tyrants Tomb tbh I don’t really remember her age too well so you’ll have to forgive me if I’m wrong but if she is eighteen by the Tyrants Tomb, then the ship would definitely be less problematic in my opinion and I’d definitely have less ground to stand on when I say that the age is inappropriate, however from my memory of her age in hoo, she would still be a minor, and if she is a minor I am not cool with it. Any other problems I have with the ship are incredibly small compared to my problems with the age gap. So if it were to be canon and they were both at an age where they could consent to a relationship, I could live with it, if Reyna is a minor however, I am very much not okay with them dating. But unless it’s confirmed in canon that Reyna isn’t a minor, I still stick by the statement that the age gap isn’t appropriate. And even if she is eighteen, it still would be pretty weird in my opinion.

Okay whatever your thoughts are on Reyna/Apollo, I think it’s important we remember that it isn’t yet canon. We don’t know for sure that they will be a couple, and in my opinion the excerpts we were given were designed to mislead us, I think that the point of the excerpts is to get us to think Reypollo will be canon and then subvert our expectations. But regardless of your opinions on the ship or what you think of the pair, remember that it isn’t yet canon. I mean I’ve been saying for months that it’s a bad ship and it would be awful if it were canon, and I still don’t want it to be canon, they’re better off as friends in my opinion, but it isn’t canon yet and that’s the main thing I’m going to focus on. People are already calling Rick out for writing a problematic pairing (which frankly I do agree that there are some elements of the ship that are problematic) but it isn’t even canon yet, so I think people who wanna call Rick out for being problematic have to,,, idk wait until he actually writes this problematic ship? I mean have whatever opinions you want of the ship, just have those opinions while keeping in mind that it isn’t canon yet and perhaps won’t ever be. This post will no doubt age poorly after TTT is released, idk I just think that we as a fandom need to calm down.

I only wanted romance for Reyna

I thought she wanted it for herself as well

Yo I heard Reyna joined the hunters of Artemis, which doesn't really seem so surprising judging her characteristics, but I sorta wanna see how the Apollo/Reyna ship turn out and idk how I'm feeling about her choice rn man

You've heard of Reyna/Apollo, now consider

Rachel/Apollo

(Obviously I'm not hating on Reyna/Apollo as a ship, just. CONSIDER IT)

You guys speak much about Reypollo these days and bind it with Aphrodite`s prophecy for Reyna. Thank you for it. Cos thanks to this I remembered that this very forgettable prophecy actually exists. 

Really, your memory is fantastic.

A lot of people seem to think that Apollo and Reyna will happen in the next TOA books, what do you think about it?

Humm, honestly I don't think so. Rick has been pretty clear about it : he doesn't want to fall in the cliche and prefer let Reyna single. He made many tweets about the subject.

Plus, Apollo has had a lots complicated relationship in the past and I'm not sure that Rick will give him another one (he already has to come at peace with his previous lovers).

But, I have to admit, that knowing that Rick had already planned TOA during the writing of HOH and BOO (with the discussion between Rachel and Reyna and the prophecy of Ella), what Piper told Reyna at the end of BOO, and especially how she said it, is intriguing.

So, for me, that's not impossible, but I really don't think it will happens (and I don't want it).

Apoleyna (la teoría + el ship) ❤.

Muchos odían esta teoría, muchos la aman... ¿pero, será posible que sea real?

¡Checa mi opinión! 😉😊

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Non-canon Percy Jackson ships!