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the line in hoh where percy is like "I wish frank were here 😔 in hell 😔 with me 😔"

this tickles me so much obviously percy just thinks frank's abilities would be useful to get them out of there but if you go back and reread some of percy's most Dire moments in the series you'll find that it's very rare for percy to hope to be rescued by a friend when he's in danger (and I think this speaks to how frank is one of percy's closest friends out of this entire cast #longlivesontrio). I am also tickled by the thought of percy telling frank after the fact that he was thinking of him in tartarus

bayetea

percy: while I was trudging through hell with annabeth, I just kept wishing that I could see you buddy. we really could've used your help

frank, touched: me? not hazel or someone like jason? you wanted me?

percy: yeah I just kept praying and praying to your dad that you would trip and fall down the tartarus hole or something

frank: wh

percy: in hindsight your dad hates me and praying for his son to go to hell probably didn't help

amesliu

forrpercyy

chb

dranktwocoffees

bianca with an outfit i wore once

#BBBBBIIIIIIAAAAANNNNNCCCCCAAAAAAAA #my baby!!!

whispersinthetide

I see your “Will hates Percy for what happened on the bridge” and raise you: “Will hates Silena for what happened on the bridge.”

Because Percy may have been the one to break the bridge, but why was the bridge so overwhelmed that it was deemed necessary? Silena.

The Last Olympian, pages 204-205:

Jake Mason cleared his throat. He'd been standing there so silently I'd almost forgotten he was in the room.

"Percy, something else," he said. "The way Kronos showed up at the Williamsburg Bridge, like he knew you were going there. And he shifted his forces to our weakest points. As soon as we deployed, he changed tactics. He barely touched the Lincoln Tunnel, where the Hunters were strong. He went for our weakest spots, like he knew."

"Like he had inside information," I said. "The spy."

Silena is canonically the actual reason why the Apollo Cabin got slaughtered on the Williamsburg Bridge, and I almost never see this even acknowledged, let alone explored.

Like, imagine being Will here. Your cabin, your family, has just been absolutely decimated by the battle. Your older brother, your mentor as far as TSATS tells us, is MIA, with certainty growing that he’s dead, and you couldn’t even help with the search because Annabeth was in desperate need of healing, and as the best healer left (as far as we know), you were her best shot at survival. Suddenly, you are now head counselor, and it’s now your job to ensure the survival of your remaining siblings. You are also 13.

And then, you hear that the reason why you were so overrun is because of the camp spy. That someone in your midst told the enemy that you were the weakest point of camp’s forces. That someone in your midst told the enemy that your leader, the one person they’re desperately trying to get rid of, was headed for your location. That someone in your midst is (in part) directly responsible for the deaths of your siblings. That’s already reason enough to hate the guts of whoever did it.

But then… the drakon. The Ares Cabin finally decide to show up, and you hear that Silena was the one who got them here, losing her life in the process. You now have to mourn yet another friend and ally. Then it comes out that she was the spy. That she was the reason most of your siblings are dead. That she was the reason for your other siblings’ lives now being on your 13-year-old shoulders.

And then… when the dust settles and everything’s over, she’s lauded as a hero. She gets the same honored sendoff as all the campers she helped endanger. Her shroud is burned right next to the empty shroud of your still-missing brother, right beside the other kids who she effectively killed. And based on what we see in HoO, “Silena was a hero” seems to be the prevailing opinion among the camp. Everyone just seems to have forgotten, or worse, are straight-up brushing aside, the massacre she caused.

Wouldn’t you be PISSED?

cowardgrace

god this moment from ship of the dead is so unintentionally dark lol

cowardgrace

making it canon that percy has never confided this to annabeth is even wilder than just pretending it never happened

cowardgrace

yeah like!! holy shit, it would be absolutely devastating in such an interesting way if it was going somewhere. man if only

sleepyvib-es

defending percy jackson on the internet isn't enough i need to take him away from his own author

the-sunniest-angels

Working on a mini comic from a fic I wrote. I'm unsure comic is the right word since it'll probably only be four panels with simply some lines from the fic I liked, but still :) Also, I'm new to Tumblr so please let me know if I'm doing things incorrectly, haha

#oh hello beautiful

lordamaranthus

This is how that scene went right?

poisonpercy

There’s something to be said about Percy outliving the version of himself that was expected to die on his 16th birthday and having to relearn how to live without a rapidly approaching deadline constantly hanging over his head and coloring every aspect of his life

poisonpercy

There was always hope that Percy would live past his 16th birthday, but the moment he was claimed by Poseidon at 12, his eulogy was already being written by everyone that has and will love him. Imagine being 12 and learning your birthright, while not wholly set in stone, is essentially to die before you even graduate high school. One day you’re just a kid living your life as any other kid would, not at all contemplating your own mortality, and the next you’re acutely aware that every breath could be your last. Your life now has a deadline. The hourglass has flipped and the sand, your life’s essence, is trickling down.

Percy has to live with the fact that any interaction he was with anyone could be his last interaction with them because the possibility of reconnecting when they’re old and gray is not in the cards. Percy is expected to die at 16. He might not, but he has to live like he will because what if he does die that day?

While all his peers are planning for their futures and all the adults are asking who and what they want to become, Percy does so with an understanding that his odds of seeing the future in which those dreams come true are not high. He would like to, and he holds onto that hope, but he has to keep his own wishes to himself so he doesn’t cause more grief for those who might miss him.

And what’s worse is that Percy knows that those he’s closest with, those that will mourn and miss him if he dies, have already lost so much. He has to live with the fact that he might be another person that leaves them, despite saying he would be the one that would stay. He’s made a promise to them that he might not be able to keep, and they know that, but they hold onto that promise anyways.

And then Percy sees a glimpse of what he will leave behind when he’s 14. He sees how they will honor him. He attended his own funeral, and while he didn’t actually die, it’s very much premonition of what’s to come if the prophecy goes the way everyone expects it to go.

And then when the deadline approaches, Percy tries to hold on to what he can. He makes the best out of it because he might not see tomorrow, but then he does. And he has to live with that too.

Because while there was always hope that he would live past his 16th birthday, everyone, including himself, had already contended with the version of the future in which he didn’t. In a way, there was nothing set in place for a version of him that did survive. And so Percy keeps living, but he lives in a way that still expects death.

He doesn’t have to cling onto every moment like it’s his last, he can speak up about his future ambitions, and he love in a way he truly wanted to, but at the same time there’s still that countdown clock in the back of his mind that stopped at 1 second left. He has to ignore it because it’s broken, it was wrong, but it’s hard to ignore it because it used to be the only thing he was sure about

aroaceleovaldez

one of my favorite subtle implications in the series is that it seems the Titan Army was fully banking on Percy being the host of Kronos. Why else would they make their main base a cruise ship if their primary enemy is a son of Poseidon? Named after Andromeda, the wife of Perseus? Why would they work on Oceanus specifically being free so much? Side notably with other children of Poseidon? Why plant Zeus and Hades' items of power on Percy when Luke already had them? Why only Zeus and Hades' items, not Poseidon's? Well because they really need Percy as Kronos' host, that's why. (and Poseidon siding with them because of that would be a bonus as well)

I like to imagine Luke's cabin on the Princess Andromeda is fully decked out with like "WELCOME PERCY" and sea-themed sheets and everything and he hates it so much cause it's a constant reminder he failed and he was Kronos' second choice. Also then he gets his super special pegasus not even exactly stolen by Percy, but the pegasus willingly defects to be Percy's personal steed instead, which must just be insult to injury. Luke has immense one-sided beef with Percy and Percy has no idea.

kurzler

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

angelcak-3

aw percy did you get attached to bessie? bessie who shouldn't be alive and who's only purpose to the gods is to die? bessie the sacrifical lamb? yeah I bet you did