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Some of ya’ll are being clowns again when it comes to Luke Castellan so imma lay down some facts for you. Again. This is Part One of Three.

In Regards To May Castellan

We all know that Percy is a momma’s boy. He loves his mother dearly, so much so that he would go to the underworld for her and he would trade himself for her.

Luke loves his mother just as much.

The difference between May and Sally is that May was insane. Her fits of insanity terrified Luke to the point that he hid from her in closets and when he couldn’t stand it anymore, he ran away from her. While Sally has never so much as raised her voice at Percy. Percy has never had a reason to be afraid of Sally.

“Luke was so kind,” Ms. Castellan murmured. “He left to protect me, you know. He said if he went away, the monsters wouldn’t threaten me. But I told him the monsters are no threat! They sit outside on the sidewalk all day, and they never come in.” (TLO, pg 95)

“So... You had the courage to visit the Styx. I had to pressure Luke in many ways to convince him.” [Kronos] (TLO, pg 191)

This isn’t a coincidence. Kronos stationed monsters to watch May around the clock with the explicit intent of using her against Luke.

After he ran away, Luke only saw May twice as far as we know: once when he was 14 to get supplies for Thalia and once when he was 21/22 to get her blessing for the Styx. But he still loved May enough that Kronos threatening her life worked to manipulate Luke into bathing in the Styx.

Hermes Isn’t Like The Other Parents

By the end of The Last Olympian, Percy has enough of Luke’s life story that he can piece together how much Hermes knew about Luke’s Fate. Which is to say, Hermes knew everything. Hermes and May both knew that Luke was going to die. He was the hero of the prophecy, his soul was the one going to be reaped.

For being a god that often deals directly with humanity, Hermes is an awful parent. He gives Luke absolutely nothing. His excuse for this is that the gods aren’t allowed to interfere but...

Zeus uses a goat (Amaltheia) to lead Thalia to Luke on her first night of homelessness. Athena helps Annabeth fight monsters while she guides her to Luke and Thalia over the course of a few months.

Hermes admits that he didn’t help Luke at all. His nine year old son had no help for the five years that he was homeless. To add insult to injury, Hermes admits that he’s still been regularly visiting May while Luke has been gone and he doesn’t want Luke to return to May’s house.

Zeus and Athena both helped Thalia and Annabeth to find Luke. Hermes gave Luke nothing except a quest that hurt Luke.

Even more salt is rubbed in the wound when you list all of the gods who have helped Percy along - Poseidon, Hermes, Dionysus, Athena, Hera, Hestia - while Luke was given no help even when he asked for it.

Chiron Plays Favorites

“I’ll speak with Chiron at Camp Half-Blood and ask him to send a satyr to collect you.” [Hermes] (TLO, pg 224)

“I was supposed to escort Thalia to camp,” he said, sniffling. “Only Thalia. I had strict orders from Chiron: don’t do anything that would slow down the rescue.” [Grover] (TLT, pg 248)

Assuming that Hermes did in fact speak with Chiron, Chiron then decided that Thalia was the important one. He didn’t care that Luke and Annabeth would be left behind or that he would be taking half of their fighting force.

“You filled his head with empty promises. You said the gods cared about me!” [Kronos/Luke] (TLO, pg 313)

This is glossed over entirely in the book but it gives us a lot of information. It tells us that Luke went to Chiron seeking reassurances. It says that despite Chiron caring more about the prophecy’s chosen one, Luke still sought a connection. He believed Chiron until it became obvious to Luke that Chiron was wrong.

fanfic-lover-girl

Ever since learning more about Luke's character, I can't enjoy PJO the same anymore. I can't even love Percy the same anymore either. I know his life was hell too and it's sick that Percy has a "privileged" position (it's not really all that privileged when you consider what the gods have put him through). But it hurts to see Hermes spending more time with Percy than his own son.

It's just so sad how every adult figure let Luke down.

#luke castellan #pjo hermes #may castellan #pjo kronos #pjo chiron #pjo percy

justaneedle

Okay, let me be a whiney lil' bitch a little: I hate this joke about

Luke: You can't force the gods to do anything.

Percy: Bet.

Cause it became possible only cause of Luke's actions! This assholes don't understand anything but force and they were almost razed!

And they're still broke the oath almost immediately.

fanfic-lover-girl

I never found this joke funny, even in the height of my love for fanon Percy. Percy never forced the gods to do anything. Part of the reason Percy had as much sway as he did in book 3 was because Poseidon is his daddy. In book 5, the gods graciously gave them gifts. Zeus could have easily sent the demigods home empty-handed if he felt like it. The guy never lost sleep over attempted murder after all. As badass as Percy is, he has no true power over any of the gods. Which is why post-TLO Hermes, Apollo and Hera can easily use him as their little plaything and Percy can do squat about it.

justaneedle

To be honest I never finished the books normally till last year, cause I just can't managed to go through the 3rd book, idk, and I had a very mediocre idea of the ending of book 5.

And now when I know exactly what happened there, I don't really understand why Percy got the choice award (because Annabeth and the restoration of Olympus sounds like bullshit, tbh)?

After all, it's not about the efforts made to protect (which they effectively failed), otherwise you have ≈30 demigods there who need to be rewarded. Percy doesn't even have much to do with the prophecy, cause it's not even about him.

Well, like his choice to give or not give the dagger is not the same choice from the prophecy. To be completely honest, there were two stages — Percy's choice could only effectively raze Olympus, but not save it — this responsibility lay solely with Luke.

Why Percy? Because he's an MC? The privileged child of the big three? Or did someone overhear his promise to Luke and say, "Well, at least that way"?

sokkastyles

"Sure, Iroh was a good uncle to Zuko, but to Az-"BRWROOOOOONG DO NOT PASS GO DO NOT COLLECT $200

firelxdykatara

What always gets me about this argument is how much context has to be flatly ignored to make it.

Iroh was only able to be a 'good uncle' (by that particular metric) to Zuko once he was exiled and therefore away from his primary abuser's direct control and influence. And even at that, it took three years for him to even begin to make any headway on Zuko's internal thought processes, because if he'd started out just trying to make Zuko believe that his father didn't love him and couldn't restore his honor because he could never take it from him in the first place, he wouldn't have gotten anywhere. He has a hard enough time getting through to Zuko after three years of trying to gently soften him up and pull him away from the way Ozai trained him to think of himself!

So what, exactly, was he supposed to be able to do for Azula? Azula, who stayed by Ozai's side, who was made Crown Princess on her brother's exile, who had absorbed Ozai's worldview and continued to parrot it even after she was sent on her own mission, because she was acting on his orders and with his approval so there wasn't the slightest crack or weakness there to exploit.

I've never seen any of the 'Iroh was a bad uncle to Azula' people explain how he was supposed to actually do anything for her, or why it was wrong of him to protect the child he could when he had no power to reach the other (nor any way of making her listen to or accept his support if he tried, since she shared her father's opinion of his loser older brother to the the point where at eight years old she was mocking his grief over her own cousin's death).

erisluna35

Not to mention, Azula had no qualms attacking Iroh and potentially killing him. Zuko may throw temper tantrums and yell a lot but he never attacked Iroh. It's only natural he'd prioritize the one that won't end with him dead - can't help either of them when he's dead.

sokkastyles

Oh, these people have plenty of ideas about what Iroh should have done better, but it's all, as was said above, out of context to try and make it seem like Azula's violence against Iroh is his fault. They think Iroh should try and stop Zuko from attacking Azula while she and her soldiers are attacking him. What they really want is not for Iroh to help Azula, but for Iroh to drop dead. They wanted Iroh to get Azula a better gift, because apparently Azula burning his gift is a sign that it just wasn't good enough. As if this is the problem. When in fact, the problem has always been Azula's mindset that she only deserves the best and deserves to treat others cruelly, which Ozai instilled in her, which is why she burned the doll in the first place. And burning a gift someone got you is violence, it's cruelty, especially when she accompanies it with words about how she thinks Iroh is a loser and should die and mocks his son's death. I've seen people try and argue that she was just disposing of the gift the most convenient way, and 1) burning something to ash is not the most convenient way to dispose of it even for someone who can create fire at their fingertips, 2) who the hell thinks it's acceptable for an eight year old to recieve a gift, decide they don't like it, and immediately throw it in the trash?, and 3) if Azula wanted to get rid of it conveniently, she didn't even light the whole thing on fire, she lit its head on fire. She's making a specific statement towards Iroh here. And we know why, because she talks often about how she thinks Iroh is weak and loser for mourning his son's death and not being like her violent, cruel father who she is imitating.

They do not want Iroh to actually help Azula. They want more fuel to make it seem like Azula was victimized by all the people she hurt. That's all it is.

#atla #uncle iroh #atla azula #atla zuko #atla iroh

doclici-art

portrait practice I did in my free time while watching my one of my current favorite shows!

#school spirits

meirora

Poseidon and Amphitrite

qinnyanimation

I also did this. Apollo’s forgot about the loophole.

My girl Cassandra deserved a better fate. Let her be one of the Ithacan sisters.

sarnai4

Yesss! Cassandra truly deserved so much better. I felt terrible for her. All she did was attract the eye of an immortal. Such a horrible punishment for something that shouldn't even have been a crime.

#cassandra of troy #justice for cassandra #odysseus #epic the musical