[what-a-precious-seaweed-brain]

“I choose the prophecy. It will be about me.”

In my opinion, this quote from The Titan’s Curse is one of the most important moments for Percy’s character in the whole series. Here he is, still a kid, pushing down his fear and choosing a prophecy that could easily end in his death, all to protect Nico from that very same burden. He admits in the next few lines that he doesn’t want it, but he steps up and claims it anyway to spare a kid who hates him. It’s the selflessness and compassion that Percy displaye here in willingly shouldering such a heavy burden that, to me, truly makes him such a remarkable hero. There are so many stories about heroes having a great destiny, but Percy really stands out here because of his choice. He accepts the personal pain and suffering that could potentially come out of this prophecy and doesn’t shy away from it, just to save Nico. To me it’s this moment that truly shows that Percy is the child of the prophecy, not just because of his choice, but because of what his choice proves about who he is - a courageous, selfless person who is truly strong enough to fulfill his destiny and lead the demigods. I honestly still feel proud every time I reread this scene.

[phoenixystix]

Omg imagine if Percy had gotten to keep the curse of Achilles and he confides his weakness to Hazel and Frank…….. you cant even say he wouldn’t bc fairs fair, Frank shares HIS, Hazel shares HERS…..

[goldenaltar]

concept: no astrophage au where eridians and humans still make first contact but like, properly. a whole diplomatic mission meeting in the middle of space to save travel time. stratt is humanity's greatest representation. the eridian equivalent is equally as scary and secretly soft. it's all very star trek.

but rocky and grace put the whole diplomacy thing in jeopardy by being too best buddy with it. like they're both really low level members of the mission. some engineer necessary for ship maintenance, and an obligatory molecular biologist they brought along in case they found more alien cells out in space. and these two guys like, somehow keep ending up hanging out essentially "at the back of the classroom." consistently left out of the actually important negotiations, and well, they're bored!

grace steals some laptops and starts jury-rigging his own personal translator for rocky, despite the fact that the official translation software is way quicker to learn and much more nuanced. rocky starts learning english, simplifies his eridian, and immediately starts mocking grace for needing the software. they start blabbing to each other about all the weird quirks of their respective cultures and advanced science their planets can do. the whole time they are ribbing each other about culture stuff. grace eats in front of rocky. rocky forces grace to sleep in a corridor somewhere so he can keep watch.

then stratt and the eridian leader find out and it's like

stratt: you. you've been meeting in private with a member of the eridian deligation?

grace: ... yyyes.

stratt: and you shared with them classified scientific documents?

grace: i... maybe gave him. a laptop. he's so smart! what was i supposed to do?

stratt: HIM? you've assigned male pronouns to a genderless species?

grace: he said he likes to match!

stratt: do you even know the name of this eridian?!

grace: i call him rocky :)

stratt: 😰

then on rocky's side of things it's like

eridian leader: sorry did you say you called the human after one of its digestive noises?

rocky: yeah :)

eridian leader: and. you've been telling it about how to make xenonite. one of our most vital trading resources.

rocky: yes yes, grace is very ignorant about basic chemistry 🙄

eridian leader: right. and you watch it sleep. despite the fact that all the human beings we have spoken to have described this as a cultural violation?

rocky: well he didn't like it at first but he came around!!

anyway both sides of the delegation are sweating profusely (metaphorically speaking) until they see rocky and grace in action and are like ohh! they're both freaks. we are not to blame for this. these two are just really bad at navigating cultural norms.

cut to grace curled up with rocky while he sleeps like a baby.

[anglaised]

mamdani feels like he comes from the spider man universe does that make sense

[foralittlewile]

Something else I see people keep forgetting: between humans and Eridians, we are the astronauts. And we are good at it.

Eridians' perception of the world relies on something that is completely absent in space — sound. They haven't been looking at the stars their entire existence the way we have. Their concept of aliens might only be as old as their discovery of astrophage. They made a bad ship, because it was their first one ever! Rocky himself says they rushed it, and that multiple (vital) things broke. Their mission was just as much of a Hail Mary pass as ours was — they had no idea what they were doing, if they could even travel in space safely. And, as it turns out, they couldn't.

Humans are the ones who have been doing it over multiple lifetimes. Mary is state of the art. We've been space farers longer than most humans have been alive. We can actually see through space. We are more likely to survive exposure to the void. We can encase our lighter, more flexible, more mobile bodies in a material that lets us walk outside of our ship, and, to a degree, we can get our bearings out there in a way Eridians just can't.

Eridians are not looking at Mary and thinking she's a bad ship. They are not thinking humans have no idea what we're doing. They are looking at this species that can walk in the stars, have been perfecting machines to take us to them for decades, have been dreaming about them and mapping them and naming them for millennia, and used all of that to save them, and thinking, wow.

[partyintheusanus]

HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A SHAVED RABBIT

[pachurz]

Put a hat on it and ask it to bust myths.

[sandycohen420]

[j3nbug]

Having a moment

[phoenixystix]

Percy's fatal flaw has a loophole. He respects people's autonomy too much to override their decisions, and I think this is potentially the only thing that keeps it from bringing about the disaster that Athena predicts in TTC. Percy:

leaves his mom in the Underworld because he reasons that she would make this choice herself and she would never allow him to sacrifice himself for her

does not save his mother from Gabe because he figures he is "leaving her in good hands - her own"

advocates for Grover to search for Pan - a quest no satyr has ever come back alive from - because he will not deprive Grover of his dream. Including advocating for Grover and Tyson to split off in the Labyrinth (extremely dangerous, Annabeth thinks it's a bad idea, they go missing as a result, etc)

does not ask Nereus about Annabeth because he knows she would never accept that decision and she would be furious about it

sends Annabeth off to a solo death quest and stuffs down his angstier feelings about it for her sake, sensing she needs him to believe in her, and, even crazier: realizing that he has such influence over her that he even could potentially convince her not to go and refusing to use it because he does not want her to have to live with knowing she backed down from her greatest challenege.

And these are the people he loves the most in the entire world!

So very fitting that Percy's story culminates with handing his antagonist the metaphorical and literal instrument to reclaim agency over his own destiny

[piglia-mosche]

Spirk doodle because why not-

[patheticbard]

TOS s2 really opens with a bang huh?

[sylveonsbowties]

i'm not afraid to admit that this was the scene that made me start watching star trek tos

"this is one of the gayest things ive ever seen, is the whole show really like this"

later

"oh okay so the whole show really is this gay"

[godlessondheimite]

whenever i see someone lambast a piece of media for portraying a character getting away with bad behavior instead of getting narratively punished, i have to laugh because that’s literally the hays code. it’s not hays-code-esque or hays-code-coded, it’s just straight up the hays code.

[cabingold]

potentially my favorite thing about percy's and ethan's relationship is that its quite literally left 90% up to interpretation. it starts with percy wasting crucial time he could be using to save camp to save ethan's life in book 4 and helping ethan escape the titan's arena. we get no explanation for why he does this by the way, they met literally five minutes ago. ethan quickly proceeds to assert his position as the Morally Gray Character by thanking Percy, saying IOU, and ditching to help the titan army resurrect kronos and make the cost of that lost time even worse. he tries to kill percy again, blah blah blah, that is the last time percy is going to spare some idiot titan army member's stupid ungrateful ass, three months later they run into each other again ethan tries to kill percy again Percy calls Ethan a lot of really rude names and then proceeds to spare his life again. Like he doesn't even try to harmlessly capture him this time. No explanation again because they are fucking Weird. flash forward to the battle of manhattan, percy takes on the curse of achilles so he can fight kronos, now he is completely invulnerable except for one secret weak spot on his body that nobody knows the location of, except ethan apparently, because that guy somehow figures it out in less than 24 hours. ethan tries to kill percy, annabeth takes the knife, now percy really hates ethan, and Ethan, who has hated percy for the past two books, who is on kronos' side, should tell kronos where percy's secret spot is so this whole war can be resolved quickly, right? but does he? No! and are we ever going to find out why? no!!! instead we get an incredibly dramatic and tragic scene in which kronos tells ethan to reveal percy's secret spot, ethan refuses (he literally tried to kill percy himself like ten minutes ago), proceeds to take the sword stab that was meant for percy, dies with percy's weak spot as their secret, and directs his last words to percy with no malice right before he falls off olympus and dies six hundred floors below. zero explanation why he suddenly felt the need to sacrifice himself for a guy he's tried to kill multiple times before and never had a one-on-one conversation with in his Remarkably Short Life. oh yeah percy makes an offhanded comment afterwards about how he made sure to tell everyone ethan was on their side in the end and deserved a camp burial. On a Completely Unrelated Note does Anyone Want to Hear my Headcanons on which Characters are Bisexual

[timdrakemybeloved]

you know it is interesting, for all that the sea doesn't like to be restrained, and percy is impertinent, he has a talent for connecting with the gods and spirits. he is usually quite polite, for all that he's represented as wildly rude by the fandom.

he uses respectful terms with the gods who care about that kind of thing: lord/uncle hades, lord zeus, even though he greeted his father first. he's more careless with hermes, but in a friendly, empathetic way. he's rude to ares but ares finds it funny. he made friends with apollo, and then impressed artemis, which probably made an even better impression on apollo. he followed through on his commitments to hades, both in the first book and after he was offered immortality, which made up for the whole beating the brakes off him after getting the achilles' curse. he trusted hestia with hope, which impressed and touched her. not sure about hephaestus, but he did fulfill a quest for him and he seemed to have a good impression of him. he's generally polite to hera i believe and carried her across the river in SoN, but i think he may have gotten mad at her after? not sure but i don't think he was crazy rude or anything. athena never liked him but he stayed polite, and i dont think he really interacted with demeter. he did a quest for persephone and got mad at her but she accepted her wrongdoing graceully i believe. dionysus and he have a semi-fond, semi-bitter relationship where they pretend they don't like each other i think by the end of the second series.

his father of course loves him and percy is polite to him, and poseidon has high enough regard for him to hear him out on a plan to defeat typhon, which he was right about, and that plan was enacted. and he's very kind to minor spirits, who are used to bad treatment from the gods because they have the power. like when the river nymph was scared he would use her water to clean the stables and he saw that and felt for her and chose to find another way even though he literally had no clue if that would even be possible.

and he got the minor gods cabins at the camp in lieu of immortality. which btw he did consider, but he didn't turn it down for annabeth. he turned it down to get leverage to help ALL his fellow demigods who suffered at camp halfblood, and the minor gods and hades who were disrespected.

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