God how I wish Percy and Grover having an empathy link had been more of a game changer in the story.
I wish the link had allowed them to communicate consistently even while grover was out searching for pan. I wish Percy had felt the moment Grover fell in love with Juniper. I wish they shared dreams with each other almost every night. I wish Grover felt more connected to the sea and Percy more connected with nature in general after the link formed. I wish they had a low level of understanding of what the other was feeling at all times, allowing them to communicate without words and to annoy the shit out of people around them who know they are talking about them but just can't prove it yet. I wish they could send each other mental images of things they saw. I wish they could send waves of emotions to comfort or help the other calm down.
I wish they had a kind of connection that was unlike anything they had with anyone else, something they could never have with anyone else. I wish them having an empathy link had impacted the og trio dynamic permanently. I wish it had changed the way percy approached all of his fights, bc if he dies, grover dies as well. I wish the first thing he had done after learning the great prophecy was try to find grover and beg him to undo the link (and I wish grover had refused to do so). I wish they were the most important person in each other's lives. I wish they both felt entitled to be the one making decisions regarding the other in their absence/when they are unable to for some reason. I wish they both felt like no one knew the other better than themselves. I wish Hera blocking their link in SoN had almost made grover go insane. I wish they had been THE definition of platonic soulmates.
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