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I think you should draw that Cupid headcannon with Percy as Cupid in Nico's eyes. U^U

This seems like a great opportunity to spill my most shameful secret

I'm sitting on a 50+ page comic with like 150 panels of the ENTIRE Nico di Angelo cupid scene

I thumbnailed out the whole thing in January 2024 and then NEVER touched it again. (because I got super overwhelmed by how much i was going to have to lineart and color LAWLLL

here's some random screencaps

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I have got this headcanon in my mind. Do you think whenever Percy loses control of his powers and accidentally blows up a volcano, rips up a riverbed from its bedrock and causes other mass disasters leaving nothing but destruction in his wake, he feels some semblance of relief immediately after his powers have exploded, if only for a moment?

He always keeps such ridiculously tight leash on himself, on his powers. keeps such high control on his anger. Aside from the few notable moments, which were all completely reasonable and justified flight or fight responses, there's no instance of Percy losing his temper unnecessarily. His sarcasm notwithstanding.

Quite literally because he often says phrases like "something uncoiled in my gut" or "I felt a tugging sensation" or the famous "something snapped/broke inside me" before using his powers.

He keeps them in a coiled leash. And he does the same to his feelings. Suppresses them. Let's other people's injustice and hurt against him just sit there inside him wrapped taut and then something like this happens and it all explodes out and for one glorious moment do you think he feels free, feels some relief?

Since he is incapable of letting it out the natural way, this is how most of his emotions find release. And that he feels so immensely guilty every time he feels that relief. He considers it traitorous and uses it to amplify his self-loathing.

That he is somehow living up to someone unsaid prophecy about his own name. Περσεύς (Perseús) means "to destroy" or "one who destroys." Usually, it is simply shortened to The Destroyer.

And every time he lives up to his name, he hates it more. That's why it's always Percy and never Perseus despite the power associated with the name. Names have power, and his more so than any other. Twice savior of Olympus. The "mortal" who almost killed a Primordial. That shouldn't be within bounds of a demigod. A mortal body should have cracked under the weight of such powers ages ago. Something has to give.

Indeed, names have power, but what if the individual hates his own name? Does that act as a leash on his power? Is that what is singlehandedly keeping his mortality intact? Are his outbursts of uncontrolled power signs of his divine side flaring? A sign of his ascension that he is countering tooth and nail with every fiber of his being.

Because think of it this way, Percy is the only one who has had 3 back to back offers for immortality, and he has denied each one. It's as if he is defying his destined fate by going against it. And, the cosmos is doing everything in its power to balance the scales by repeatedly making it so that eventually Percy will have no other alternative but immortality.

Given the absolutely awful and spirit breaking situations Percy's been through so far, he has maintained beyond exemplary control in most situations. The way it is going, he is shackled by demigods' expectations, obligations he did not ask for, responsibilities that are not his and more. Still, he does his best to keep everything under control despite more or less a lack of support from most of his acquaintances. Nevertheless, even Percy's patience is not eternal.

I know Dark Percy is a popular idea, but Percy is too good and too kind, inherently so to ever walk down that path. But I am all for Percy having some outbursts. My guy deserves a good few crashouts after everything he has been through. No questions asked.

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did anyone else ever find it odd how easily zeus offered percy godhood? and how it almost seemed like he secretly wanted percy to accept? well i did, and after thinking long and hard about it…

i don’t think percy understood what turning down godhood really meant

demigods do tasks for the gods because they don’t have to follow any rules. they aren’t controlled by anyone or anything. demigods are a strange hybrid - not god, not human. they are in between the laws of immortal and mortal. they are not supposed to exist. yet they do, which is what makes them so extraordinary.

percy is crazy powerful. of course, there’s the aspect of raw power. he has domain over air (storms/hurricanes), land (earthquakes and volcanic eruptions), and sea (monster waves, tsunamis, floods, basically anything that involves water.) he can control bodily fluids. he has super strength (with one hand, he held up an unconscious annabeth who was being pulled down by both arachne AND the forces of tartarus). he has super speed (he moves faster than bullets in TTC). no matter how badly you hurt him, he automatically heals and regenerates the second he touches water (an ability no other demigod has). he’s an extraordinary swordsman. very skilled in combat and warfare. he’s smart, and thinks of plans quickly. but he also has a great deal of social/poltcial power… i mean, he’s a leader and hero to both the greek and roman camps. if he says “attack,” all demigods, greek or roman, attack. no question. do you have any idea how threatening that is to the olympians? he’s also best friends and has an empathy link with the lord of the wild, which basically means all of nature is by his side too, including all land creatures. he’s also prince of horses, which means pegasi too (both of which are extremely useful in battle). and of course all sea creatures, including the mythical ones like krakens and leviathans. not to mention many of the gods really like him. hermes, hephaestus, athena, aphrodite, and dionysis have all gone out of their way to help him. artemis holds him in high regard, especially since he saved her. apollo literally considers him his friend! and poseidon - his dad, the god who is the biggest threat to zeus - is fiercely protective of him and cares about him a great deal. many minor gods also like him because he demanded them to be given more respect and for their kids to be welcomed at the camps.

percy unknowingly has more power, both physical and social/political, than anyone should ever have. he may have absolutely no idea, but it must scare the living daylights out of zeus. by accepting zeus’s offer to become a god, percy would have submitted himself to the control of zeus. zeus would be his king and ruler. zeus would then have complete control over him.

but percy said no. therefore, percy remains out of zeus’s control.

percy had no idea what he was doing. but thank the gods he made that choice. thank the gods he’s an incredible person. thank the gods percy jackson has no desire for power, because he has more of it than anyone should ever be able to have.

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Like all things, made me think of Apollo and how he and the other gods are all stuck in the cycle of succession permeating throughout mythology and the cycle of abuse in the RRverse.

Athena plays the Golden Child act to fly under Zeus's radar. She supports and backs him up at every opportunity to appeal to him, to appease him. She meticulously plans out each move before she makes it, taking every factor into consideration to determine if it is beneficial (mostly to herself, but to Olympus as a whole).

Yet, she also takes chances. She is the only one to bet on Apollo's survival, on his success. She has unwavering faith in him, and in their father's gregarious mistake to swing in her favor.

She has been waiting for this moment. For the revolution to begin.

All that's left is to tip that domino and watch it fall even if it means loosing a few pawns along the way.

Ares has given up entirely on being anything but the bloodlusted bully of a disappointment in the family. He has been the failure since day one, and if the majority treat him like one, then why not be what they want? Easier to not care when others don't either.

Easier to be the bad guy and create steel-covered armor than to let the hurtful words lodge into your head. But they still do, anyway. The armor's only covered in steel. The inside is not.

Hephaestus has closed himself off from Olympus, hiding away in his forges and attempting to create companions that will fill the void in his heart left by Zeus and the ragged one left by Hera. He doesn't know how humans, let alone gods, work, and he's too afraid to reach out, too afraid to try.

He wants things to change. He cares. But Hephaestus has never been one to sound the horn, let alone stir the pot.

Aphrodite has been reduced to a caricature of herself and what she stands for. Her war domain has long since been left behind in Sparta and Cythera, but the power that remains is often forgotten, derided and mocked.

Rule #1 of love gods: Never underestimate them. One day, Olympus will find and remember what they have forgotten about Aphrodite, one thing that should never be disregarded at risk of your own life.

Aphrodite is a force of nature. She cannot be controlled, tamed, or played. She is a hurricane of power that will defend what she sees as hers. If you are hers, you will be afraid. But if you are not...you should be even more so.

Artemis is arguably the most sheltered of the Olympians, despite her presence in the mortal world. Then again, is she even that knowledgeable on it when she only sticks to her group of girls, who she has swear eternal loyalty to her? She is also arguably the most spoiled by Zeus, since she is the only Olympian with essentially an army under her command - and Zeus lets her have it. And can easily take it away.

And it's because of this sheltered/spoiled experience, Artemis is blind to the toxicity of Olympus. She helps girls escape abusive homes, but has no idea she's in one herself.

She has no idea her brother is on the receiving end of it the majority of the time. Even after Trials of Apollo...she's happy Apollo's back, but she also believes it means he's on Zeus's good side again.

When...that's not true.

Apollo...oh, Apollo, you sweet, summer child. He puts on a facade, an act, a mask to protect himself and others from the reality he lives in. He becomes airheaded, arrogant, and vain to convince his father he is still his 'perfect' son, that he has nothing to worry about when it comes to him. He makes himself young in the presence of Zeus as if to say I'm nothing but an innocent child, totally loyal to you and you alone.

And yet...this does nothing to quell Zeus's paranoia - a paranoia with roots in the actual mythology, for Apollo is widely regarded to be the son who could overthrow Zeus and continue the cycle of succession.

But the things is...would that continue the cycle of abuse, as well? Or would it finally end, with Apollo breaking from the cycle as he did in ToA, when he finally acknowledges the truth that Zeus won't change and doesn't want to.

it will because Apollo is a changed god and brings change wherever he goes

Hermes has been run ragged throughout the centuries as modern media exploded. He totally has Middle Child Syndrome, which contributes to his status as Zeus's lapdog, his guy who gets his hands dirty is the hopes of being given a scrap of attention/conditional affection Apollo does.

He has lost any hope of free will, of change. He thinks Fate is set in stone like Zeus and that there's nothing he can do about it.

Which makes an interesting dynamic with Apollo returning a changed god.

Dionysus is away from Olympus, yet still under its thumb. He's banned from his creation, from what gives him power, and forced to watch as again and again, demigods die over and over again - and he is not allowed to interfere, as per the Ancient Laws.

Despite this, he still finds a way to rebel. He takes on the form of a drunkard, an alcoholic, the most ungodly form the god of wine can imagine as a form of protest, a You don't own me, you don't get to decide who I am.

They've all adapted and adjusted to survive in the cutthroat world of Olympus. Sometimes, they do the cut-throating.

But even if the perpetuate the cycle...they are still victims of it themselves. All's that's needed is for someone to open that door, extend a empathetic hand and go I know. I get it. I was there to.

Good thing Apollo's here, then. Because that's one way to light the spark of a revolution.

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Babe, wake up- I remembered my dear boys 🙏💕

edains

Rick Riordan constantly trashing the movies for not sticking to his books then releasing a show in which he rewrites everything and loses the spirit of the books entirely

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thunderbottle

they proceed to not talk about the walk back to the diner for 5 years

forgthetheaterkid

Can’t wait to see people post the blurriest screenshots you’ve ever seen of black haired people in the lotus hotel episode

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12 year olds when they go on a mission to defeat god

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we all love to talk about how Percy, Annabeth, and Nico would suffer more trauma from Tartarus than we're shown, and that's not wrong, but what about trauma from the first war? these kids have ADHD, and they fought the Lord of Time.

give me Annabeth focusing on her architecture from the moment she wakes up, putting painstaking detail into every draft, only to look up, and the sun's gone. give me the panic of where'd the day go? i've only been sitting here for a few hours—

give me Percy getting bored in class and drifting off into his own mind, only to wake up in a different class with no memory of how he got there. the panic when he realizes he lost a whole chunk of time—not uncommon with dissociation—but how can he be sure it wasn't Kronos?

give me Nico knowing he has to move, to get up and do something, but frozen in place. he's screaming at himself in his mind to just move, but he can't know if it's executive dysfunction or if he's been frozen in place.

give me demigods' minds becoming their enemies. give me common symptoms of ADHD and hyperfocusing terrifying the children who fought Time. and on the flip side, give me these demigods realizing that these are symptoms of their ADHD, and reclaiming them. i want demigods giving the finger to Kronos as they figure out how to move forward with executive dysfunction and their trauma, and becoming better off for it.

chironshorseass

no no no it’s ANNABETH that represents hope and humanity during pjo, actually. no no no she was never an emotionless robot and it wasn’t percy that anchored her to her humanity. i’m sorry??? it was the other way around??

chironshorseass

like just the fact that annabeth never once looses hope. she never once looses love and compassion and the ability to forgive. she makes amends with percy right away she sees cerberus as not a monster but someone who is hurting she is willing to sacrifice herself to hades so that her newest friend can have his mom back. she gives percy her camp necklace to fight ares, for luck. for hope. it’s as if saying that she will be with him….SHE is humanity SHE is a constant even if others leave. and just….the fact that she gives her father a second chance. SHE gives second chances bc that’s just who she is!!! i’m sobbing and this is only the first book.

chironshorseass

when chiron said that heroes represent the two realms: the mortal and the divine. that percy is of both worlds but he is drawn to humanity bc he already feels so alienated bc he doesn’t FEEL all that juman like ofc not he isn’t normal even by demigod standards….meanwhile annabeth recognizes she isn’t normal but she doesn’t feel alienated by that like percy does. the real world is where the monsters are. she wants to go where she’s needed as much as she wants to prove herself. that’s why she doesn’t leave camp like percy does when they’re about to go to war that’s why she doesn’t give up on luke bc she sees that he needs her. yeah ok when percy and luke saw her in the river styx YEAH she represents hope and humanity bc of that but also. ALSO percy runs from camp bc he wants to feel mortal. he has this idea that rachel can give him that and rachel wants him bc she wants the opposite and they’re both mere ideas….but rly….the one who connects everything, the one who truly matters is annabeth!!!! when percy sees how SHE grounds him in the end. he goes to her in the end. he is offered immortality and he looks at her bc he sees humanity and hope in her….and decides to stay bc that’s what he loves. that’s what he wants.

chironshorseass

actually so sick. throwing up. bc the themes abt hope and pandora’s jar in tlo. the power of yielding. yeah. all comes down to annabeth bc she never gave that up. she was injured and dying in olympus but, “family, luke. you promised.” it is his promise and it is her hope that mattered!!! SCREAMKNG bc againnnn she never. gave. up on love and family and HOPE bc she was the most human of all the characters in pjo thx for coming to my red talk