there are so many absolutely insane things about heroes of olympus, some of them are so good that they're bad because they don't carry enough weight in the text lol and some of them are just insane and like dropped in there and never resolved. like it makes me feel crazy look at all of this:
main characters plucked out of lives brains wiped meant to start over as a blank slate. the horror of this. and we're just like 'well that was fun! time to move on :)'
jason's mom being revealed to be a mania, restless spirit grasping, welcoming him back home, he's like 'if this is where i come from how can i trust myself to make a good decision' okay i'm shaking. this is crazy. he's sixteen.
jason being dropped off by his mommy and handed to a wolf when he's 2 and being a toddler soldier. ok what
young native girl grew up on a reservation but her dad is now famous she's plunged into a life almost certainly very different from the one she knew growing up. she is used to racists bullies and she obviously is lashing out at her dad and her mom and she has severe identity issues. some of these issues would appear to manifest in her chopping off her own hair (and yes i realize lack of research is probably what motivated this but is it possible she's doing it to hurt her dad? could that be possible?)
piper's dad being incapable of reconciling his worldview and this breaking his mind so badly that she has to parent him and give him a potion to make him forget. she's fifteen.
piper having an entire fake daydream scenario implanted so firmly in her mind that she believes it really happened and it feels like it really happened even once she knows it didn't
piper has a siren power that is so strong she can bring people back to life and animate machinery and sing primordial goddesses back to sleep and she like uses it occassionally on mortals and her friends but only for good i guess :) except that sometimes she does it on accident to the people around her :)
leo being groomed by juno into being a hero. being baited by gaea into accidentally causing the death of his own mother. what
hazel levesque death girl who died. dead girl walking. cheating death girl. second chance to live girl. gaea telling her her second life is an illusion. being shown what she might have been if she got the chance to grow up. girl plucked out of time girl. WHAT
hazel's mother being the daughter of a slave who herself gets enslaved to an evil entity. hazel being exploited by her own mother but perceiving her mother's trauma and being unable to resent her for it, loving her mother still, forgiving her mother, wanting her mother to find peace in the afterlife, sacrificing herself to give her mother peace. she was fourteen
hazel and her mother suffocating by their lungs filling with oil hazel remembering this frank witnessing this hazel and frank then sitting for what feels like an eternity experiencing the afterlife together. what
frank's life being tied to a stick frank giving the stick to hazel hazel keeping it next to her heart
frank's mother sacrificing herself in war like a month before the series starts frank being rocked by the grief and so full of anger at her for leaving him and he apparently needs to come to terms with the sacrifice and accept it and learn to do the same thing with his own life. then his grandmother dies. he's sixteen
quest to free death frank directly putting his life on the line to free Death. hazel knowing the grim reaper is literally coming for her throughout the entire book and just like going and setting him free anyway.
nico being clearly still unable to cope with bianca's death and still in the bargaining phase. like as an introduction to hazel. nico's eyes being like shattered glass after tartarus. nico losing control turning someone into a ghost. getting harassed by eros
reyna's dad becoming a mania her watching this process being terrified of him her having to kill him to save her sister her carrying guilt around from this her being told no demigod is going to heal her heart
frank being afraid of fire leo being afraid of fire but leo controlling fire but sometimes it getting away from him and killing a loved one. ok
hazel and sammy had a life together that was essentially stolen from them and this being told to hazel directly by gaea and then hazel witnessing sammy realizing he never forgot her never stopped thinking about her and she just has to hang out with his descendent who looks like a reincarnation of him.
annabeth whose identity is like formed around being a daugher of athena getting disowned by athena. finding out a monstrous immortal spider has been stalking her for years and has this unrelenting hatred for her. this hatred dragging her into tartarus
nico letting octavian die despite it being incredibly obvious that octavian does not understand the consequences of his actions
percy choking a goddess and then trying to kill himself for it because he believes he deserves punishment from the fates and the narrative just moves on like nothing happened
annabeth admitting that she's scared of percy and what's happening to him and again the narrative just moves on like nothing happened
the psychological horror of tartarus
one of the premises of the series being that death has been stopped
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