how far we’ve come

Jason and Nico defender PJO / HOO ★ 🧜 🦦 🐚

[thecottonproject]

Sometimes, Percy heads out onto the Sound at night to be alone and think about things. 

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:(((((

[jasongracestan12]

Omfg people in this fandom piss me off with their blatant misunderstanding of characters and plot often in favor of one character over anotherrrr

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and it’s almost always dragging down jason in favour of percy

[bisexualcroissant]

feeling like crying because you do you think that part of why leo tried so hard to fix festus—despite the curse, despite the danger—was because he looked at him and saw a kindred spirit, something that everyone had mostly given up on just like he had been? “see, they think you’re broken and have to be scrapped. but i don’t believe that. i can fix you, if you’ll let me.” and just how honest and pure it was. leo, who knew what it was like to be discarded, what it was like to be seen as something capable of destruction, something broken. whose family blamed him and turned on him, shouted at the social workers to take him away, left him at the mercy of the foster system, and even there he was shut out. leo who was given up on in many ways, but turned into someone who would never give up on anything, who believed that most things were fixable if you worked on them hard enough. “you can’t go. you’re the best thing i ever fixed”

[itsis0k]

Nico and hazel WIP helo

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literally my siblings

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another day seeing a percy glaze post shitting on jason and all the other big three kids. percy is ofc the Most Powerful and the rest of them haven’t done anything apparently. acting like that’s a hot take when it’s the coldest take i’ve ever seen in this fandom and i am TIRED

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“jason was just a watered down version of percy” 😐 “nico lacked experience / gets too tired using his powers” 😐 “we didn’t see much of thalia” and the complete ignoring of hazel. every damn time.

it’s FINE to love percy, but to completely disregard the other characters and conclude that, as usual, percy is Innately Better is so fucking lame (and such a cold take! we’ve heard it before a thousand times!)

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another day seeing a percy glaze post shitting on jason and all the other big three kids. percy is ofc the Most Powerful and the rest of them haven’t done anything apparently. acting like that’s a hot take when it’s the coldest take i’ve ever seen in this fandom and i am TIRED

[dranktwocoffees]

kitkats and a sun globe his mom got him... youve never seen someone more prepared for tartarus

[dranktwocoffees]

EXACTLY EXAFTLY YOU GET IT

[crimsonwaltzz]

they really said "it's so dark and he's never been away from the sun (his dad, who loves him btw) for so long so he holds a sun globe and sings to himself to feel better" like what if i CRY ACTUALLY

[poppitron360]

Jason "raised by wolves" Grace and Leo "lived in a dumpster" Valdez.

No but seriously people forget that Leo was on the streets for at least part of his childhood- he fights like a fucking cornered alley cat (which Jason obvs thinks is super hot and tragic).

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both of them DEFINITELY have their own unique feral ways of fighting idc !!!!!! people forget these things way too often

[freddie-77-ao3]

Leo: People tell me I have a unique way of lighting up a room. Jason: It’s called arson and those people are called witnesses.

[aria-upside-down]

Unpopular opinion, but what if we actually let Jason Grace be his own character and not some copy of Percy or a guy version of Annabeth?

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that one tag that says jason is either hated or mischaracterised - exactly. and when he’s not seen as a percy copy, he’s seen as percy’s complete opposite where percy keeps the good traits and jason can only have the bad. it pisses me OFF so bad

[gracious-midnight]

Notice how all Jason Grace fans are hot asf

[sunshinemoon3341]

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LMAOOOOO CANONICALLY ACCURATE 😭😭😭

[lilyfrey]

Rarepair day: choppy haircuts and black leather boots edition

(Jason and Leo are cheering and rooting for them in the background btw trust me)

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gods of olympus this is perfection

[bisexualcroissant]

rereading the lost hero and i’m so struck by how much of jason’s pov is about how his brave persona is a complete act and how inside he really feels scared and lost all the time. in his head he’s so full of self-doubt and fear, about not knowing what to do or where to even start. but jason always just shoves this down and puts on a brave face because he’s supposed to be a leader. this being a recurring theme of his life, too: jason having to stomp down on any weaknesses from the age of two because lupa, the closest thing he had left to a family, would tear him to shreds if he didn’t.

all of this only to be mischaracterised for years. like the whole point of jason’s image as this “perfect hero” is that it’s a facade. only a mask, not the real person underneath, who was constantly afraid, constantly wondering. who wondered if anyone actually cared about him, if anyone was out there looking for him like they were all looking for percy. who was devastated to find out that his mortal parent was unstable, neglectful and descended into madness. his only shred left of a family, and that was what he got. thalia telling jason about their mother and leo for once not being jealous of him, because even though his own mother was gone, at least she had been loving, at least there had been good memories. but jason didn’t have any. even if he did remember, those memories weren’t good ones.

for all his bravery, jason never had anything to fall back on. all his life he’d found that courage from inside himself, somehow, some way, because he had no other option. leo’s “you’re not alone” because in that moment he realised just how little jason really had.

it’s just so startling to me, how imperfect and human jason is, compared to this warped idea of him in fanon. he’s constantly doubting himself and afraid, he just puts on a brave face because he has to. “everyone seemed to think he was so brave and confident, but they didn’t see how lost he really felt.”

[jasongracestan12]

Something, something, doing my re-read and recognizing how often other characters, including Leo and Piper, interpret Jason to be confident and brave while he, himself, often feels anxious, scared, and lost.

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IF JASON HAS NO DEFENDERS I AM GONEEEEEEEE

[bisexualcroissant]

you know that scene when percy’s telling jason about why he didn’t control polybotes’ poison and it basically goes like:

percy: so i didn’t fight the poison because a part of me thought maybe i deserve to die like this after what i did. is that crazy? jason: no i get it percy: 👁️👄👁️

and percy just stares at him but jason doesn’t say anything else so he changes the subject.

just seen a post joking about how jason was exaggerating here except that… i don’t think he was.

percy wanting to give up because “what if i deserve this?” vs. jason wanting to give up because “what if the bad parts of me win?”

percy’s low self-esteem is more obvious in his narration/dialogue but then there’s jason, who, despite a long history of making noble choices, doesn’t trust himself to not collapse into madness and make wrong decisions like his mother did. jason confessed to piper in the same book that he wanted to give up after seeing beryl’s spirit because he was so afraid of turning out like her, and too tired to fight it.

percy’s “i won’t fight it because this is retribution for what i did/the bad person i am” and jason’s “i won’t fight it because i don’t trust myself to not be a bad person/because i might make irreversible mistakes”

i don’t think it’s fair to blame jason for not reassuring him here because the point is jason himself knew what it was like to want to give up, so he didn’t realise how concerning it was. when jason is dying/in pain his reason to keep going is always for the sake of his friends/other people/greater causes, never for the sake of his own life.

i think in this moment specifically percy realised they were more alike than he realised, and it means something to me that he trusted jason enough to say something so vulnerable. i guess my point is… jason and percy have way more in common than they don’t, which is why i’m tired of everyone pitting them against each other all the time.

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