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[punkeropercyjackson]

Percy Jackson in those fuckass Pjo x Hp crossovers

[nicothespy]

tiny will solace what are you watching little dude

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[helpallthenamesaretaken]

headcanon that during hoo percy and annabeth were fully aware of the silly crushes the other had on jason and piper.

but they've just been through too much together that they know it's not a threat to their relationship in the slightest and they're not jealous at all whatsoever so they're just like

annabeth: see you, pipes!

piper: i'll see you later *blows a kiss and leaves* MWAH BYEEE

annabeth, blushing: *squeaky voice* .....bye?

percy, from behind her: you're hyperventilating.

annabeth: NO I'M NOT. WHAT DO YOU MEAN? I DON'T HAVE A CRUSH ON PIPER

percy: who said anything about piper? AAAH--*gets hit by pillow*

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jason: oh GODS, we can't escape from here. and that hydra is getting WAY too close. wait--

*swoops percy up bridal style and flies away*

*lands somewhere safe*

jason: are you okay, percy? you're not hurt right?

percy: *flustered* yes...no...*error 101* ....you're really strong...bro

jason: uhh thank you, i guess? i'll go check on the rest.

annabeth: *appears randomly* I know what you are, jackson...

percy: we're literally in a committed relationship.

annabeth: you're changing the topic

[allurakorra]

those moments in au fics when you finally figure out how the author is reinterpreting a specific canon event and you basically go ‘oh snap that’s brilliant’ for five minutes straight

[gachainherveins]

why has everyone just decided to disregard everything that makes percy interesting?

we are always begging for a main character who is given a life outside of being a main character and then we were given percy jackson, a demigod in the summer, saving the world and looking good doing it, but is also just a kid.

he skateboards and collects them, he listens to punk rock and alternative rock (are they the same thing or is punk rock a sub-genre?) but doesn't dress 'alt' (like thalia) and has anger issues and has been kicked out of multiple schools for said anger issues, some of them being (court-ordered) military schools.

he also has problems with authorities who abuse their power (gabe, the gods, the nypd etc.) and will not hesitate to call you out on your bullshit no matter how powerful and important and feared you are.

but he has morals and doesn't do things without reason. he has a level of maturity and integrity that isn't even present in most adults. he is really smart and gets better grades than annabeth, and is the most considerate person you will ever meet. he is humble and never tries to be the center of attention.

he's not the most optimistic person in the entire world, but he tries to find reasons to be happy in really crappy situations (when they were traversing Tartarus and he was so happy that annabeth was with him that he started smiling).

he is always grateful for everything he has and tries to show genuine interest in all the things that interest his loved ones, even if they bore him to death (like annabeth with her architecture).

and we completely erase that for some reason to make him nothing but 'annabeth chases' boyfriend,' and, well he is her boyfriend, and he's very proud of that fact, but he is his own person as well.

people get really mad when we erase all of annabeth's character to make her nothing more than percy jacksons' girlfriend but we do it to percy all the time.

[somuchfuckingsalt]

I don’t think many people in this fandom really understand the level to which Percy Jackson does not give one (1) fuck about the rules. We don’t see it often, because most of the time Percy’s thought processes are centred around things like quests, other characters, and other things the move the plot along and there isn’t much room for examples of Percy’s lack of fucks about rules.

I mean, this is the boy who ran an illegal candy racket out of his dorm room in the sixth grade to make some extra money. 

This is the boy who didn’t want to read Tom Sawyer so he got his essay off the internet despite the fact that in many schools the punishment plagiarism could be suspension or expulsion.

This is the boy who was ready to throw hands with Nancy Bobofit for throwing pieces of a sandwich at Grover despite a) fighting being a no-no in general and b) he was already on probation for bad behaviour.

This fandom really confuses being ‘good’ with following the rules because we know Percy is good and wants to be good, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to be a conforming member of society or want to be one. I cannot emphasize enough how every time Percy shows concern for getting expelled his thoughts immediately switch to what his mother will think and how he doesn’t want to upset her. Like, he genuinely only cares about getting in trouble when it affects his mother’s feelings and is only concerned about himself because it mildly inconveniences him.

The even more hilarious part is while reading TLT when he’s talking about war cannon and shark tank incidents his entire language and vocabulary use sounds like a kid who did something he knew he wasn’t supposed to and when he got caught tried to talk his way into seeming innocent. 

“…I had this accident with a Revolutionary War cannon. I wasn’t aiming for the school bus, but of course I got expelled anyway.” (TLT, pg. 2)

Mhm, sure boy. Like, I know fifth grade boys are dumbasses in general but even they know that they should not be even touching war cannons let alone aiming them at anything, even if that something was not the school bus.

“…I sort of hit the wrong lever on the catwalk and our class took an unplanned swim.” (TLT, pg. 2)

Yeah this definitely sounds like someone who decided to dick around with a Cool Looking Thing and when the dicking around went a little too far tried to play it off like an accident. Like, his ten year old ass would have 100% had to sneak around all authority figures present in order to get within touching distance of that lever if it had the power to dump them into the shark tank.

Both in SoM and TTC Percy was specifically told that he Was Not Allowed to go on the quest. It wasn’t even just “these people are going” and he wasn’t one of them. He wanted go and was told he Was Not Allowed. And both times he wound up sneaking out of camp and going on the quest anyway. 

Even almost-adult Percy in the Trials of Apollo drives like laws, safety, and general driver-to-driver courtesy are things that Do Not Exist and he’s allowed to drive how ever he wants no matter the consequences. I wouldn’t be surprised if he had traffic tickets from cameras coming out the ass.

Percy Jackson does not give one, singular, flying, fuck about the rules. 

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

I find it so ironic that Percy is perceived as a mindless goofball and yet pretty much every fight he has won was because he outsmarted his opponent

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

Bringing this back cause that “mindless goofball” perception is circling back around and I genuinely understand WHY this keeps happening - Percy’s self perception of himself is so so so bad and readers continue to take his self reflection as the Ultimate Characterization and just like

Percy is extremely resourceful. He’s calculating and clever and cunning and if you were to tell Percy that he was any of the aforementioned traits he would say “No I’m not.” 

Because he doesn’t think he is.

Percy outsmarts his opponents a lot. Like 90% of the time. And it’s just a very clear moment where he acknowledges “alright, I recognize that I can’t physically take on this monster/opponent down because of reason x,y, or z. So now what?” 

And then his next step is very clearly to manipulate the person. He talks with them. He goads Ares into a fight, he manipulates Luke to spill his secrets to the Camp, he gets Crusty to lay down in his own bed, gets Gaea to choose him in a rigged game, gets the gods to swear on the River Styx. 

Honestly he’s just really good at getting his opponents monologuing to give him more time to think.

But his internal thoughts throughout this entire process is “Wow I have no plan whatsoever I’m so reckless lol”

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

Hey! I've seen your posts about Percy and Achlys a few times, and I wanted to ask: have you ever considered the idea that Percy was lashing at her out of desperation? My interpretation of the "how much misery Misery could take" was because, at that point Percy was at his lowest, according to Achlys herself. So hopeless he was semi-dead. I always saw it as "I'm gonna push her to her limit, just so I can see how much worse my life can get", while also using her as an outlet for all his pain.

My Percy and Achlys posts are from years ago, so I’m not gonna lie, I don’t really remember my standpoint heavily on them, but I’ll go ahead and give my current view.

I completely agree that Percy felt hopeless, desperate, and at his lowest. I definitely agree that he used her as an outlet for all of his pain. He and Annabeth are literally in the deepest part of hell and had just been betrayed by Achlys.

But I don’t quite agree with “I’m gonna push her to her limit, just so I can see how much worse my life can get” – Instead, his reasoning falls more in line with “I’m going to hurt her for hurting me (and the one I love)”

Quite literally: “He didn’t want to stop. He wanted to choke this goddess. He wanted to watch her drown in her poison. He wanted to see just how much misery Misery could take”

Now this where the point of contention seems to come in for the fandom: Is this extreme vengefulness ooc for Percy?  I didn’t actually realize until recently that some people saw this section of Percy as ooc – Now Percy’s characterization in hoo is always a point of contention because who he is in hoo is widely different from who he his in pjo. But, personally, what Percy did to Achlys didn’t strike me as something widely out of character and instead felt like something that he could realistically be pushed to do.

There has always been a thread of vengefulness of Percy, even pjo. Whether or not he acted on it is one thing, but it has always been present in his character.

The Lightning Thief ended with Percy wishing he had been the one to kill Gabe himself. “I had one last twinge of doubt. How could I turn down the perfect chance to take revenge on him?” In the Titan’s Curse, Percy had a dream in which Annabeth agrees to take Luke’s place to hold the sky and Percy thinks “’Let him die,’ I wanted to scream. Luke had tried to kill us in cold blood too many times. He didn’t deserve anything from Annabeth. There’s a part of the Last Olympian where he talks about laughing while he is destroying hordes of monsters.

Again, fantasizing about wanting to extract revenge on someone and actually doing so are two separate things. But again, my point is that the mindset has always been there.

So for him to be pushed to that point in House of Hades where he actually does  hurt someone for hurting him? Quite literally, torture Achlys? It’s not really surprising to me at all. Or at least not something that I would consider ooc. 

Now do I feel that this path was inevitable? …That’s certainly debatable and could be another post all together.

But Tartartus brought the worse in Percy, and I felt really emphasized the ickiness of his fatal flaw. Loyalty is a wonderful characteristic to have, but I feel the fandom tends to forget that its a flaw for Percy – he’s loyal to a fault. It’s personal loyalty. Percy would sacrifice the world for a friend. He values his loved ones above all else, and if anyone were to hurt his loved ones, he unleashes his wrath. In this case, he wanted to see just how much misery Misery could take for hurting them.

[theseaofmonster-deactivated2020]

i’m gonna need y’all to stop making memes about percy being dumb

[childofathena]

adding onto this:

hes not dumb. he has been called dumb and stupid all of his life, so painting him as that is so harmful. a lot of the reasons hes considered dumb are because he doesnt know as much about mythology compared to others (annabeth), he lacks book smarts, and hes reckless/impulsive.

so addressing that:

hes never had a reason to need to learn about greek myths before he found out he was a demigod, and even then, a lot of what he faces is kind of obscure. it helps that he typically has someone who knows about the monsters they face, yes, but its not the end of the world that he doesnt know. the end of the world is his nosebleed

hes ADHD and dyslexic. im not even dyslexic and school can be really, really hard for me. hes never had the motivation to get through school, which makes it even harder for him to focus. calling him stupid because of his learning disabilities makes you an asshole.

yes, dear lord, percy is so reckless and impulsive at times. but even if he doesnt communicate his plans to the reader or to his teammates, he obviously knows what hes doing. if he didnt, he would be dead. hes been through countless quests and two wars. he would 100% be dead if he was truly as reckless as people (including characters) believe even tho he fought a god at 12 y/o w minimal training like a dumbass

reynas joke about how percy couldnt find his way out of a paper bag w/o annabeth pissed me off. percy did so much for annabeth in tartarus, and while the joke was probably meant to lighten the mood, calling him dumb is terrible. hes called dumb and stupid so many times in canon, even thru jokes like that, and its not okay.

[demigodlybeasts]

Thanks Spen and might I add? - There are like, several examples in every book of Percy being incredibly smart, specially when it comes to figuring out his enemy's weaknesses and motivations. And he does it on the go, WHILE FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE. He’s an incredibly fast thinker and has good instincts, which is a kind of intelligence as well. 

Sure, he might not be the bookie kind, but just as Sadie put it once “How often do monsters give you the luxury of googling them?” Percy kept himself alive all these years by:

1. Being good at reading his enemies, and 2. Being good at reading his friends. 

He is a natural leader, a commander and a strategist because he inspires confidence and knows how to make the most of the strongest points of everyone on his side. He FUCKING LED AN ARMY during BoO. When Zeus offered him immortality he specifically said that Percy would be HIS FATHER’S LIEUTENANT. Even the King of the Gods could see Percy was no dull brunette with good reflexes. 

So yeah, If anyone says Percy is dumb they can go and suck on my gym socks, because that means they have the comprehension skills of a washing machine.  

[percyvannabeth-deactivated20190]

remember when percy jackson, a 14 years old from new york, beat the hell out briares while playing rock paper scissors and using a finger gun? and when briares said it doesn’t fair that percy won because he used a finger gun, percy just glanced at him, smirked a little and said: i didn’t say anything about fair.

[percyvannabeth-deactivated20190]

i just…… i love my slytherin kid.

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

I’m sorry but baby Percy goes so hard in the lightning thief because it entirely consists of this smol kid trying to make sob stories up on the fly to play his cards rights and it’s just:

She said, “Children, it is too late to be out all alone. Where are your parents?”

“We’re orphans,” I said.

.

“You kids have money to pay for it?”

I was trying to think up a sob story for the waitress…

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“All I want,” I said, choking back my tears, “is to see my loving stepfather again. Every time I saw him on TV, calling me a delinquent punk, I knew … somehow … we would be okay. And I know he’ll want to reward each and every person in this beautiful city of Los Angeles with a free major appliance from his store. Here’s the phone number.”

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Iconic

[ofswordsandpens]

Percy @ Annabeth in House of Hades

[moved-to-ofswordsandpens]

me: dark percy is so edgy now… I don’t know if it’s my thing anymore ya know

also me, at any given moment: PERseus… means to destroy…. the power… the symbolism… the daarKNess… we couldn’t HANDLE his full potential

[bogkeep]

Let's talk about how terrifying Percy Jackson is

because I really wanna talk about it. I mean, I want to talk about absolutely everything about the Percy Jackson series and The Heroes of Olympus right now because I’ve been reading them, but let’s take one thing at a time. One of the things I like about the PJ series is that we are constantly remindered that heroes are bastards. In every sense of the word. And while ridiculously heroic and efinitely a nice guy, our protagonist for five books, Percy, is pretty freaking scary when you think about it. “Is he dangerous?” she asked. Nico managed a dry smile. “Very. To his enemies.”

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[thecottonproject]

Poseidon Destroyed the World in 1200 BCE, Wrecked Atlantis, and Killed Mortal Culture For Over A Century, And His Kid Is Just As Dangerous. Or, how I took an archaeology class on Ancient Greece and got blindsided by headcanons and plot. Lots of thought about Poseidon and Percy. (Warning: if you don’t like history/archaeology you will get bored, but if you do, HELL YEAH GET IN ON THIS)

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[willow-lark]

[tending-the-hearth]

one morning post-heroes of olympus when everyone's at chb having breakfast in the dining pavillion percy just comes storming in towards annabeth with the most panicked look on his face, and everyone's like ?????? what is going on?????

but annabeth's trying so hard not to laugh bc percy's still in pajamas and clearly has just woken up and the panic is not his usual "we're going to die" panic so she's not worried

and percy takes her face in his hands and just looks at her and says "if i hadn't blown up would we have gotten together after you kissed me in the volcano?"

and annabeth thinks quietly for a moment before nodding, and percy just collapses on the ground with his head in his hands muttering things about stupid volcanoes and magical islands while she starts laughing

and it takes a second but malcolm's the first to get it and he just looks at his sister "YOU KISSED HIM BEFORE THE WAR?"

and the head counselors lose their MINDS because yeah clarisse won the bet for when percy and annabeth get together but goddamit who was close to winning it and travis pulls out his notebook and it was malcolm who bet they would get together after the labyrinth quest, and he just drops his head down on the table and screams because he had to endure another year of the two of them pining after each other and being awkward