Rachel is literally one of the richest people in the countryâŠall she had to do was say her full name and that chauffeur in botl immediately cancelled on his client to drive her and her friends around. When you add her wealth and status to the fact that sheâs very outspoken about her familyâs entire business and organizes and promotes multiple protests and does performance artâŠlike. sheâs popular online. no doubt.
Piperâs dad is supposed to be like, the hottest guy in Hollywood, and even though those girls from the wilderness school didnât recognize her, he doesnât really strike me as the type of celebrity parent to shield her from the media or events- he wants her to enjoy and take advantage of the privilege she has. Iâm sure heâs got her plastered all over his social media and takes her as his date to every red carpet premiere. When you take into account sheâs a Troubled Youthâą, Iâm sure gossip mags and anyone who likes celebrity kids is obsessed with her.Â
Annabeth, since Magnus is ââââdeadââââ, is legally the sole heir to her familyâs entire fortune, and technically owns the building that Blitz and Hearth are running that wonderful homeless youth shelter out of. Iâm sure that will get her some media coverage.Â
And then weâve gotâŠPercy, the kid everyone remembers blew up the St. Louis Arch and Iâm SURE there are still debates about whether he was really a hostage or not years later. Frank, whoâs grandmother was a wealthy business woman, who hasnât been seen since his familyâs estate mysteriously exploded. Thalia and Jason, who are literally the missing children of a disgraced Hollywood starlet. Donât you think this couldâŠget messy?
LikeâŠPercy popping up on Rachel and Annabethâs instagrams, and people who recognize him are just like âhey what the fuckâ, and internet sleuths who have been obsessed with that case look further into it, and realize Annabeth was also involved in the mysterious kidnapping/terrorist streak, then looking further into her and realizingâŠapart from her and her nuclear family, everyone sheâs related to has died under very mysterious circumstances? Magnus was pulled out of a river with a hole burned into his abdomen. Randolphâs wife and children drowned at sea, Randolph was thrown down a cavern or something, Magnusâ mother was mauled by wolves in her apartment in the middle of BostonâŠlike hello? Then they realize thereâs no record of Annabeth like, existing, between the ages of 7 and 12, andâŠdoes this bitch even have a birth certificate? Her fatherâs a notable professor and author, but thereâs no mention of her mother anywhere, not even a single picture, and when pressed his life long friends said he just showed up with a baby one day, without even having ever mentioned he was seeing a womanâŠso this baby just? appeared? one day, with no warning, and now sheâs an heiress who owns a homeless shelter in a city she doesnât live in? what the fuck? The internet sleuths started out trying to crack the mystery of the Arch Bombing and somehow opened up a whole other can of worms.
Oh, right- the bomber! How does Percy Jackson know Rachel Elizabeth Dare?! The conspiracy theorists are worried about that- maybe it wasnât a kidnapping, maybe the kid really was on a crime spree, and now maybe Rachel is looking to take her protests up to a new level and is looking at this criminal mastermind for help. Some weirdo who knows how to use a facial recognition program and has too much time on his hands identifies them both as being present at the Hoover Dam Riots from a few years ago- the riot that lead to the destruction of those angel statues! The sleuths are then able to pull up an article tying both of them to an explosion at their high school- but with Rachelâs fatherâs wealth and Percyâs stepfather being a respected teacher there, itâs no wonder charges were dropped! They then find some other weird, buried reports- Rachel stealing a helicopter and flying it into Manhattan? Rachel appearing to have deranged, mysterious âepisodesâ in the middle of class? Wait, what the fuck- Percyâs school principal reported him as a missing person, and his mother and stepfather were uncooperative with the police investigation? Then Percy showed up 8 months later and claimed his aunt kidnapped him, but wouldnât give the police any information past that?
So the sleuths start digging into those 8 months- thereâs security camera footage showing Percy, looking haggard and homeless, stealing a cop car? around the area of that huge explosion in Rome? spotted all around Greece in the days before the bombing at the Parthenon? What the fuck?Â
Then, holy shit- they find footage of him and missing teen Frank Zhang getting onto a private plane less than 20 minutes after the Zhang estate was blown up?? These conspiracy theorists arenât even barely ready for this rabbit hole. The Zhang kid isnât very active on social media, but combing through Percy Jacksonâs pages theyâre able to find a few images of him. Recent, post-estate bombing ones. Most of them appear to be goofy selfies with Percy and an unidentified girl that was also spotted on the security footage with them, but thereâs one group shot that catches everyoneâs eyes- because apart from featuring the weird Chase girl, what the fuck is that Tristan McLeanâs daughter????
So they start combing through Piperâs pages- sheâs more active than the Zhang kid, but apart from posting her mugshots with goofy captions, going on rants about meat-eaters, and posting videos of her dad being weird, she doesnât have a lot of information. ExceptâŠone internet sleuth that joined this internet search party swears she recognizes a boy that pops up in a lot of pics on her instagram. Some more digging and they got it- itâs Leo Valdez, the kid who was accused of killing his mother! Heâs got some cousins that have been trying to clear his name for years now, but they havenât been able to find him because he keeps running from foster homes, they have a whole page dedicated to people trying to track him down! They contact the Valdez family members, and theyâre elated to find out heâs alive and safe- but then it becomes a question of how does he know Piper McLean and what was he doing with her, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Frank Zhang in Greece around the time of the Parthenon bombing???
They start looking into the other two teenagers pictured with the group in Greece- they canât find anything on the young girl, other than the Jackson kid referring to her as âHazelâ in some of his posts, but the other boyâŠ
Heâs not very active online- just some aesthetic coffee shop pics, a few blurry selfies, and designs for what appears to be an architecture project at his school. But his username is â*disgraced*â, heâs called âJayâ and âJasonâ in posts by his friends, heâs got blond hair, striking blue eyes, and a very specific scar on his lipâŠ
THE TRUE CRIME COMMUNITY IS FLIPPING THEIR FUCKING SHIT. DID THEY JUST FIND BERYL GRACEâS MISSING SON AFTER 15 FUCKING YEARS?!?!?!
Sleuths completely drop the bomb plot at this fucking point, and put all their energy in finding out if this is The Jason Grace, and- they literally canât find a record of this person before he suddenly started appearing on Piper McLeanâs and Leo Valdezâ media profiles. It looks like all his social accounts were started in August of the year he wouldâve turned sixteen. But heâs the right age, he looks close to the computer generated age-up pictures made for the case, and- holy shit someone found a picture on Percy Jacksonâs instagram of Jason and a girl called Thalia!
People are losing their minds- this girl looks a lot younger than the 20-something Thalia should be, but Beryl Grace was known for her innocent baby-faced look, so that can explain the difference between her and the aged-up picture. Same striking blue eyes as the boy next to her, same freckle pattern splashed across her nose, same raven hair and sharp smile that made her one of Hollywoodâs biggest beauties before she could even talk properly.Â
She doesnât seem to have any social media herself, but pops up in quite a few of Jacksonâs and the Chase girlâs pictures. Once Beryl Graceâs old friends, who have been searching for her children for years, see the picture of the smiling siblings together, itâs nothing but tears. Theyâre insistent that these are absolutely the Grace siblings, and are begging the police in charge of their case to track them down. They want to know theyâre safe! And the rest of the world wants answers! Where have they been for all these years!
And how are they connected to what appears to be an ongoing bombing/murder/money grabbing plot????
what is going on here?!?!?!
 All this information gets dragged up in less than a month. People are going full Pepe Silvia level crazy trying to piece everything together. Netflix has already announced a conspiracy documentary about the hunt for the truth about this band of kids and what their end goal is.
Chironâs just sitting at Camp Halfblood watching all this shit go down like:
Annabethâs little brothers Bobby and Matthew are going Full Feral Gen Z online to fan the flames of conspiracy, âoh yeah the first time we met Percy Jackson and Thalia Grace they stole our dadâs car and drove it off a mountainâ, âone time Annie stabbed a man in front of usâ, they post a tik tok of what appears to be Annabeth and Percy drenched in blood and dust cleaning off weapons??? They set an ABBA song over it??? Everyoneâs losing their minds but then one day on a live stream people start asking if they know Why their sister and her friends are like this and they just dead pan, âoh, theyâre all demigods. the ancient gods are all real and it just gets messy for their kids sometimes, Annieâs mom is Athena-â and everyone is like ah. theyâre just assholes feeding us false information. (they still post tik toks like âput a finger down if one time your sister took you out for ice cream but then this weird man who would later hold the titan kronos in his body showed up and begged her to run away with him so he could avoid the kronos thing even though she was like 15 and he was an adult and then she pulled out a knife and told him she should slit his throat after all heâs put her through but then he called her out on her bluff but still accepted the rejection and left and then she offered to get you a second helping of ice cream if you didnât tell your parents about that whole thing and then later the ice cream parlor was attacked by a snake womanâ lmao)
Anyway, desktop detectives keep pressuring the police and the fbi and whoever the fuck to look into this whole thing deeper and make some arrests, but they canât, because while everything thatâs been surfaced is suspicious, itâs all circumstantial. The only ones that actually have arrest records are Piper and Leo( and Leoâs was without evidence, as his cousins are still fighting to get the case reopened!), all charges on Percy and Rachel have already been dropped or overturned, thereâs absolutely nothing physically connecting Annabeth and her father to their familyâs deaths, Frank was never actually a suspect in his familyâs fire and while the footage with Percy was suspicious it wasnât illegal, and they still havenât been able to physically produce the Grace Siblings or even get a phone number for either of them, so likeâŠ.all that plus the occasional intervention of the Mist, even though it absolutely looks like this is a whole criminal master plotâŠthey canât prove it! Just taking a group picture on a boat in Greece isnât enough to legally claim they bombed the Parthenon!
This all comes to a head when the Netflix docuseries premieres, full of the online theorists who pieced this whole puzzle together but where unable to find the last piece that would connect the whole plot and make it make senseâŠ.
Percy Jackson films a video of him and all his friends who are fingered in the docuseries watching and reacting to it. They think itâs completely hilarious. He posts the video to his youtube channel (which Sally later Murders him for) and itâs the top trending video for likeâŠhalf a fucking year.Â
likeâŠthe drama. the mess. the conspiracy. I want it.Â
