actually Luke is pretty much the most radical person in the series, perhaps just not in the way you prefer. find me another character that waged war against Olympians, who sit at the top of the Greco-Roman pantheon food chain. to be radical is to be extreme, whichever direction on the political compass you swing, and you can’t get any more extreme than collaborating with the gods’ oldest enemy, stealing their king’s most powerful weapon, and getting their children to turn on them.
Luke himself is a child. even if you don’t consider him as such since he was 19 in TLT, kronos was manipulating him even before that, presumably since his failed golden apple quest—when he was 17 years old.
specifically naming Chris and Ethan as half-assed evidence that he targeted boys of color is crazy 😭 a) we never get any in-text evidence that Chris and Ethan’s motivations for joining the TA are tied specifically to Luke, though ofc it’s easy to imagine that Luke was subtly turning the unclaimed against their parents; and b) Chris and Ethan aren’t the only members of the TA??? 😭😭😭 this is a classic logical fallacy of composition. Chris and Ethan being boys of color who joined the TA doesn’t mean Luke targeted one specific demographic to recruit to his cause.
“Had a thing for underaged girls exclusively” jury’s out on whether or not Luke meant his last words to Annabeth in a romantic way. personally, I don’t think it makes sense for his character to have meant it in any way that’s not familial or platonic. and yeah, I won’t deny that what he did to Annabeth and Silena was extremely shitty… but including Thalia and Kelli as an example of “Luke’s underage victims” made me laugh??? Thalia was 12 to Luke’s 14 when they met, which would’ve been a completely acceptable relationship, and KELLI IS AN EMPOUSA. A MONSTER. SHE’S IMMORTAL. 😭😭😭 (besides, their one-scene interaction puts Luke as the vulnerable party in their dynamic, not the other way around.)
Luke barely treated Percy as an equal, it was Percy who put himself on Luke’s level HEHEHSHSJSHSHSH much less because Percy was a white boy. Luke really only acknowledged the threat Percy posed by the time BotL came around (“I should’ve killed you long ago, Jackson!”) because up til that point, Luke had been pulling his punches, particularly in SoM where he had a LOT of chances to kill them on the Princess Andromeda.
It’s true that Luke never does anything to fix the system: he victimized the very people he was trying to save (children, at that!), he betrayed his family and closest friends, and he was a manipulative bastard who was ruthless in getting what he wanted—revenge. but Luke himself is a product of child neglect and trauma. he watched his mom go insane, saw hal green rot away because of a curse apollo put him under, became an adoptive single dad at 14 when he watched his best friend die, and was given the thankless job of being cabin 11’s counselor and chb’s sword instructor, watching kids go unclaimed and die at the hands of monsters every year. and this is even before the golden apple quest and kronos happen. “hurt people hurt people,” so the saying goes, and luke dealt with his experiences in a very violent, selfish way. but to label him a fascist for not being a perfect victim makes no sense and is absolutely wild to me.
but ultimately: HE’S A FICTIONAL ANTAGONIST. ANTAGONISTS IN THE CONTEXT OF A NARRATIVE ARE MEANT TO DO THINGS THAT ARE MORALLY REPREHENSIBLE. fascism is a grave ideology implying ultranationalism, authoritarianism, militarism, and the integration of a bio-sociocultural hierarchy in a nation. luke, who fought on the premise of getting kids of minor gods recognized and for the Olympians to treat demigods better, is NOT a fascist.
stop slapping shit like that onto characters just because you don’t like them. at the very least, make sure your arguments hold water with both canon material and basic logic.
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