“She’s the goddess of snow,” Jason said. “What’s she going to do, throw snowballs at us?” But as he said it, Jason had a feeling Khione could do a whole lot worse.
Not that I hate Jason but if Percy said this, there would be a whole seaweed brain comment and everyone would be doing a whole lot of mental gymnastics to figure out how to save Percy from his own stupidity.
I like when Jason gets to be silly. I also agree that Percy has antagonized gods canonically. But I don't like that he's the only one who gets called out for it. Or how he's the only one called stupid for doing something they've all done.
“And you,
Percy Jackson, I assume you’ve come to ask a favor. Perhaps you’re starting
to regret turning down immortality?”
I must have looked like I was about to bust out the sarcasm, because
Annabeth intervened.
Hebe narrowed her eyes. “Perhaps. Still, Percy Jackson, turning down
eternal youth? You can’t really want to grow old. Don’t you understand how
terrible that will be?”
I didn’t want to contradict the goddess, though, so I tried a careful
answer. “I mean, I guess getting older is part of life—”
“This pizza is great!” Grover interrupted, probably in an attempt to save
me from god-level zappage.
“You want to take the lead?”
“Oh, no,” Annabeth said. “You’re the one who made Hebe mad!”
“Me? That was all of us!”
“Only ninety percent, though. I’m improving!”
He didn't though. He was constantly interrupted even when he was trying to answer after thinking it through. I'm not saying it's Annabeth's and Grover's fault either. Gods get offended for whatever. It's a thing. But Percy is always the one who gets blamed.
Piper had been watching with horrified fascination, the way she might watch
a car wreck in progress. Now she realized Percy was not making things better,
and Annabeth wasn’t around to rein him in. Piper figured her friend would never
forgive her if she brought Percy back transformed into a sea mammal.
“Lord Bacchus!” she interrupted, slipping off Tempest’s back.
“That sounds pretty normal for you,” Percy said.
The god’s nostrils flared. One of the grape leaves on his hat burst into flame. “If we know each other from that other camp, it’s a wonder I haven’t already
turned you into a dolphin.”
“It was discussed,” Percy assured him. “I think you were just too lazy to do
it.”
As for the giants, I know them well. I fought
in the first Giant War, you know.”
“You can fight?” Percy asked.
Piper wished he hadn’t sounded so incredulous.
Dionysus snarled. His Diet Pepsi transformed into a five-foot staff wreathed
in ivy, topped with a pinecone.
“A thyrsus!” Piper said, hoping to distract the god before he whacked Percy
on the head.
Now this? Definitely needs intervention. Percy is actively making him mad like he can't see the grape leaves catching on fire or understand that Bacchus is getting angry. Also, you might remember Mr D visiting Percy in a dream in the middle of the battle of Manhattan when he was injured to warn him about needing heroes and saving the Gods seat of power and how hard it would be to win if Kronos attained full power. Percy was very sarcastic then too and I will take this interaction like every other Mr D- Percy interaction where they are constantly insulting each other but Mr D never does smite him like he threatens for whatever reason.
Or Percy is suddenly not perceptive, an idiot or does not remember the many interactions he's had with Gods over the years and how to deal with them. He suddenly doesn't remember Mr D fighting in the war and using what little power he had to reach out to give them a warning or asking about his son. Either way, Piper's intervention is completely reasonable.
"Now she realized Percy was not making things better,
and Annabeth wasn’t around to rein him in." Not reasonable or a normal thing to think about a couple.
Annabeth insulting Hera is not seen as stupidity. Percy wanted to do it too, so I'm not saying it was wrong or unwarranted or anything. But she's not blamed for it by anyone other than Hera. Now if it was Percy? Seaweed Brain behaviour.
Jason and Nico talking back to Cupid. Righteous and absolutely warranted. It was one of the most godly instances in PJO. But it's not seen as stupidity. (It wasn't but that's not my point.)
Everything that happened with Lester. Like, they do realise that he'll get back to being a God and will remember what they did, right? Even if they were right and Apollo was wrong, they had no way of knowing he'll have character growth. Actually, mythological evidence (?) suggests that Apollo didn't learn anything about humanity the last two times he was turned mortal. Reyna actually kicks him when she learns about what happened to Coronis. Not that I don't love soft Apollo or that what Reyna did was wrong. I would have done the same thing but it's still dumb. Percy behaved as he always did, refreshingly. He didn't want to go on the quest, and this time no one could force him.
The goddess Hecate faced her. “You should go now, Hazel Levesque. Lead
your friends out of this place.”
Hazel gritted her teeth, trying to hold in her anger. “Just like that? No
‘thank you’? No ‘good work’?”
I love Hazel. This isn't even that big of a deal but Percy would be treated very differently for asking the same thing.
Jason telling Zeus it's unwise to punish Apollo. Yay for Jason but it's Zeus. Telling any god they're unwise will not end well but it's Zeus. Percy is said to look like he'll fight beside Jason which is very Percy of him but no one says how stupid it was. Would Percy have done the same thing? Yes. Was Jason right? Obviously. Was it stupid to tell the king of the Gods it's unwise to use Apollo as a scapegoat? Definitely but you don't see Piper trying to save him from his stupidity. If it was Percy, they'll begrudgingly agree that it was brave but absolutely stupid.
And yeah, Percy is definitely the one that gets away the most after talking to Gods like that but that's because he gets the most interactions with them. The amount of fics where everyone saves Percy from his own stupidity and being blasted by Gods is criminal. It's not because I don't think Percy will get in trouble one day when he snarks the wrong God or because I think his friends won't help him if they think he's going to get in trouble. It's because he is the only one who gets blamed.
Annabeth throwing a party at Hecate's house?
Fun? Yes. Daring? Yes. Very teenage girl who didn't get a normal life? Yes.
Stupid? Also, yes. That's all I'm saying.
They all did it. I'm not saying that it's all Annabeth's fault or anything. She just won't ever be called out for her stupid ideas.
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