[the-camp-half-blood-library]

Do you have any Clarisse-centric recommendations? Would prefer if ships aren’t the main focus and instead it focused on her as a character and/or her platonic relationships to other characters and to camp.

Hey there! Here's what we've got...

Mothers & daughters by Potatosalad7

Percy didn't expect to end up in Arizona, much less at Clarisse's house or her mom's house but whatever, but when the gods lose something and demand you find it by teleporting you to Arizona you can't really decline Or Percy is in a quest, gets hurt, and somehow meets Clarisse's mom

Demigods Bleed Gold by Ravenclaw_Peredhel

The children of Camp Half-Blood are just that, children. Child soldiers pushed into a never ending war that they can never hope to win. But they are also the children of gods, divinity trapped in such fragile mortal skin. I just really like some good eldritch demigod content, okay? Don't sue me.

Funerary Rites by Ellinor

With Chiron now aware that the ill-fated quest resulted in the deaths of Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Grover Underwood, he looks for the burial shrouds for Percy and Annabeth, ones he had hoped to only burn with the return of the children as a celebration. He finds the shroud the Ares cabin made for Percy and is not happy about it.

Put Up Walls and Paint Them All A Shade of Grey (You Wished Them All Away) by juniorsized

Clarisse stopped caring about friendships when she was fourteen. She was too old to be so dependent on others anyway. And she didn’t get lonely like the others did. She was too focused on impressing her father for any sort of relationship anyway Or Clarisse's friendships (or lack of) before and throughout the first Percy Jackson series.

Clarisse's Journey to Get the Golden Fleece by @passingghostfriend

“Would you like some peanuts or chips?” “No. Thank you,” Clarisse answered, gritting her teeth together as she clutched onto the Golden Fleece in her lap. Thankfully, she didn’t get any workers demanding her to put it somewhere else. Because there was no way in Tartarus she would look away from the Fleece. But when the flight attendant came up with water bottles and soda, she took a water bottle to replenish her thirst. Or Clarissa doesn’t want the airplane peanuts. She just needs to get back to the camp before Thalia’s tree becomes even more sick.

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[iknowshocker]

hiii I don’t think I’ve seen you answer this question so please forgive me if you have. How do you think Kai would have been different if he merged with Liv or with Jo instead of Luke?

ahhh i think i've touched on this a few times here and there but i've never given a full answer - so thank youuu anon!! let's get into it:

Kai / Liv

one of my faaavorite things to explore in my fics are the obvious similarities between these two, even down to the way they dress and present themselves. this is from chap 4 of HD: 'It must have driven Joshua crazy, watching Liv unwittingly craft her sense of self in the shadow of Kai’s memory.' i love the idea that liv has more traits from kai while luke has more from jo, the subtle connections between the four of them fuel my parker fam angst. in terms of liv and kai specifically it's easy for me to find ways for them to connect and get along because they already react / think alike in canon, so it never feels like a stretch to turn their banter into oldest + youngest sibling affection (especially if they stay a lil mean.)

based on the timeline I think that luke/liv are more than likely Sagittarius' and if you go with jokai being born under Taurus that's a really interesting astrological combo to cram into one body. when i picture them merged i see the moment of panic kai has fighting against luke when he tries to kill liv but cranked up to like a 100/10.

i think ultimately the biggest issue would be their combined tendencies toward cruelty. in s5 we see liv go full vampire killer on elena in the shop classroom and then again when she crashes the car with luke:

luke ends up struggling a little bit more with the violent parts of their tasks, but liv is prepared to kill with veryyy little remorse, only giving up the reason the gemini are going after elena and stefan to begin with once damon tortures the information out of her. most of the time, it takes directly threatening luke to get her to do anything she doesn't want to do.

canonically, she's fairly mean, vindictive, and petty when she needs to be or she's been backed into a corner and feels threatened. these are all traits we often see in kai, so multiplying them would have definitely made things messier for everyone. though i do think we'd still see a version of bonkai unfold, since liv and bonnie had chemistry of their own. i have less hope for parkwood only because tyler would be too upset about failing to protect her the way he wanted to / kai would be more invested in bonnie anyway.

what's really interesting is the fact that liv and kai are also the two that do the most out of the parkers when it comes to really over doing it with magic to help the others:

they really will do whatever it takes for the people they care about, the problem is they also go scorched earth the moment things don't go exactly to plan / they feel like they're being toyed with. so i think this version of merged!kai would've been significantly less softened than what we saw with luke, but still willing to help / looking for a spot in the group.

now for Jokai:

gonna be so real with you anon, i think these two mixing together (regardless of whose body woke up) would have resulted in nancy from the craft vibes. yk a lil of this:

and ofc a lil more of this:

we're talking about combining two of the most intelligent, selfish, independent, sarcastic, obsessive and manipulative people in the show. jo's avoidant as hell while kai is fairly anxious, so now you've got a disorganized cocktail of trauma ready to explode at the slightest inconvenience. congrats, you've made a gemini molotov.

they're already spiteful and bitter toward each other when they reunite in canon, so regardless of the winner i think they'd both fight each other over Every Single Decision just because they can / it's the only way to stop the other from completely winning. but at the same time there's still obvious affection between them:

so once they've accepted their fate things would probably mellow, hopefully. we've got absolutelyyy no chance of jolaric continuing but there's simply not a world where bonkai can't happen if we all want it bad enough. i know i've said before that i think merged jokai ends up being the monster everyone was already saying kai was and i stand by that - they really just shouldn't share a mind any more than they already do with the twin link.

thank youuu again for the question anon!!

[endless-natterings]

Top 5 Liv moments!!

So sorry it took me so long to get to this! Lets see:

"No, you didn't" And then she smothers a guy with her bare hands to save a boy (a boy she can barely admit to herself she actually likes) from a life of constant pain. I cannot stress it enough that they weren't really anything yet, they hadn't gotten past flirty banter and pretending to be annoyed at each other. She took that death and I'm pretty sure it was her first direct kill. I'm not surprised Tyler looked at her in awe like her did. (Also it creates a horribly painful parallel for later)

Her desperate murder-suicide attempt after Kai and Luke merged. Just all of it, how she won't let anyone stop her, how she's just willing to die so long as she can take Kai down with her. She's hurt and she's angry and it's the sort of grief that really digs deep into your bones (also the actress did a fantastic job in my opinion).

Now @icarusofathousanddays hurt me with this one just yesterday but it was always going to make the list regardless "Don't waste it." It's the fantastic parallel to number one and it always gets me every time I watch it. Liv is just so determined to not let anyone she loves die, not if she can help it. I think there's a lot to explore (and also I've been writing something today regarding Tyler and the aftermath so I'm in a special sort of hell about it)

I don't just love tragedy (I promise I don't), so next on the list is Liv being the witch equivalent of a cat while playing with a keg stand (now that's a mouthful). It's just so playful, and she's trying to process how she feels about Tyler (and it's hard because feelings and vulnerability and changing her mind about something), and Tyler is such a perfect mix of fond and frustrated in that scene. I love that she gets to be a little difficult and obviously then we have the almost-kiss which I love so very much (look I was raised on slowburns, I love that stuff)

And last but not least! Her getting Tyler's book to right page , it's very sweet and still very playful, shows that she cares in spite of herself and I adore her little smirk.

[icarusofathousanddays]

I have so many… conflicting feelings about season six, but I will always be grateful for the inclusion of the Parker siblings. Nothing—not even the strange enmeshment the Trinity or the horrific death-spiral the Mikaelsons are trapped in—will ever touch the cursed siblingism of the Parkers in my heart. If only because it’s so clear the narrative is going to let some of them survive—that at least one of them will outlive their grave.

But the Parkers?

They’re already dead. They've been dead since the beginning. Season six is just a love letter to their method of execution.

There’s so much there—the Gemini death cult, Joshua and his already marred hands (the cult runs on murder and death, and all its leaders are culpable—did he love the twin he absorbed? What parts of them still live on in him? Has he ever loved anyone the way his children have? Does he even know how? But also—his final moments screaming for the only child still available to him. Is that him? Is that the twin he murdered? Can you ever know for sure? And does it matter? Did any of it ever matter?), Jo and the twins desperately trying to outrun death since Kai cut through their family.

And, God—the picture of Kai, Jo, and the twins... the only members of Joshua’s family who have ever truly mattered.

How clearly the narrative says: You should have died in that house when Kai cut through your family. They are dead children walking. Jo holding the twins under that bed. Kai believing, truly, that Jo still loved him enough to die for him even after everything he did to her. Jo holding Luke’s body. Liv telling Tyler to kill her, to live for her—to not waste it. Jo’s twins. Luke’s final act of love buried in Kai’s chest, a burning ember. Liv’s final sacrifice.

Something something: do not weep for me—I did not die.

[pjosource]

Clarisse + Smiling during fights

[captcaine]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79216286

“I’ve decided to make this simple.” The crowd leaned in.

“A fight, to the death.” Luke said. The wind gusted across the deck, snapping the torches sideways. “The winner, walks off this ship alive… and takes Annabeth with them.”

Percy remembered a different moment, quieter, far away from this ship, the words he had thrown at Annabeth without thinking, fierce and certain: that he would burn Olympus down if it meant saving her.

He had meant it.

But standing here now, with the salt wind in his lungs and Clarisse beside him, another question rose up like a weight he couldn’t push away: would he kill someone to prove it?

“So,” Luke spread his hands. “choose.”

And Percy understood the real cruelty of it: Luke wasn’t asking whether they would die. He was asking who would have to live with blood on their hands.

Or

Percy, Annabeth and Clarisse get captured on the Princess Andromeda trying to get the fleece. Luke decides his crew needs live entertainment: a duel to the death.

And if Percy and Clarisse refused?

Well that's what they have the son of Aphrodite for - charmspeak

[allarica]

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[captcaine]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/78861881

Annabeth was the first to break the moment, nudging Percy lightly with her elbow. “Come on,” she said, eyes flicking toward the beer pong table. “If Jake can embarrass himself that badly, we can at least try.”

Percy laughed. “You say that like Clarisse isn’t going to destroy us.”

Almost on cue, Clarisse’s voice cut through the clearing. “Jackson,” she called, already on her feet. “You and Wise Girl up for the next round, or are you just here to spectate?”

Chris followed her, grabbing a couple of cups and lining them up with practiced ease. He shot Percy an apologetic look that did nothing to hide his grin. “House rules,” he said. “No mercy.”

Annabeth’s eyes lit up, competitive instinct kicking in immediately. “Fine,” she said, stepping forward. “But we get first throw.”

Or the Head Counselors actually get to be Counselors as the last few weeks of the summer wind down.

[captcaine]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79010691

“Annabeth,” Percy said, the word tearing out of him as he turned, scrambling for language, for logic, for anything that sounded sane. “Poison is basically liquid, right?”

Annabeth froze. Her eyes snapped to his, already sharp with fear, already calculating the worst case scenario. She knew him too well not to hear where this was going.

“Percy,” she said slowly, carefully, like she was stepping onto thin ice. “What are you thinking.”

“What if I can move it,” he said, the words spilling faster now, tumbling over each other. “Like water. What if I can redirect it instead of letting it keep spreading.”

Understanding slammed into her expression, hard and immediate. Her jaw tightened. “You mean take it out of her.”

He turned back to Clarisse before doubt could catch up with him and grabbed her wrist, wrapping both hands around it like an anchor. Her skin was burning beneath his palms, fever hot, slick with sweat. The dark veins pulsed angrily against his fingers, thick and unnatural, crawling higher with every second.

Or the first time Percy tries to control poison is on top of Half Blood Hill when a Manticore attacks.

It does not work.

[hugenthusiast]

Pjotv ships + incorrect quotes

[murasaki-cha]

The disbelief and fear on Percy's face in this shot after Luke punches him. He is scared of what Luke is doing to him, the way he's hurting him. He disarmed Luke, yet he is STILL hurting him. He is only thirteen, and the guy he thought was his first friend at camp is actually going to kill him

[jazz-i-guess]

there is something SO palpable about the guy who taught him the rules of sword fighting, of honourable battle, to be the first person to break that honour, to hurt Percy in a way that is so brutal and visceral.

Percy has been bullied for most of his life, but this guy who showed him what it meant to belong in the first place is the most vicious attacker out of anyone he has faced. Even Aries, the god of war, held to the rules.

brutal.

[captcaine]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77868926/chapters/206178311

Camp adjusted around them in quiet ways. No announcements. No speeches. Just small shifts. People stopped flinching when Clarisse walked by. Stopped whispering as much. Some still stared, but she learned to live with that. Or at least walk through it without breaking stride.

Percy realized one afternoon, watching Clarisse pass a plate to Chris so he could steal the last bite, that he hadn’t seen her burn a meal in months.

The fire still flared sometimes when she made offerings, but now it felt different. Less desperate. More deliberate.

Healing, Percy learned, wasn’t loud. It didn’t come with declarations or victories or moments where everything snapped back into place. It came in choices. In showing up. In staying.

And for the first time in a long while, Percy felt like camp wasn’t just a place they fought to protect.

It was a place they were learning how to live.

[idburnitalldown]

in some ways the tv show does make me crazy because it's actually committed to examining Betrayal as an explicit theme. like wdym the books have one of the main antagonists betray the protagonist(s) and half the 'evil' force is other demigods/former campers and then we never really talk about betrayal as a Thing. wdym

[captcaine]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/77868926/chapters/205996366

“Don’t follow me,” she said. “If you do, I won’t stop myself next time.”

Clarisse disappeared into the darkness beyond the arena, leaving behind the broken dummies, the churned sand, the metallic scent of blood.

Annabeth let out a shaky breath she’d clearly been holding. “She’s going to destroy herself.”

Percy stared after Clarisse, chest aching, shoulder throbbing, heart heavy with the kind of helplessness that didn’t fade. “I know,” he said quietly.

And for the first time, Percy understood how wars didn’t start with monsters or prophecies. They started with gods convincing their children they were nothing. And Percy swore silently, fiercely that this was where it stopped.

[wolfstarwitch70]

Clarisse x Chris secretly dating moodboard?!

[herculanium]

clarisse, probably: if i had a nickel for every time i threw this pasty ass sea twerp to the ground, i'd have two nickels. which isn't a lot, but it's weird great that it happened twice.

[nyttvera]

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS | SEASON 2

THE SEA OF MONSTERS