anyways i don't think we talk enough about the fact that percy was like. genuinely Supposed to Die. like the titan war Great Prophecy was pretty damn clear. "hero's soul cursed blade shall reap. see the world in endless sleep. a single choice shall end his days." etc etc etc. i swear to god death was implied every other word and that boy just??? skirted past it??? he saw a blue string (blue has always been his lucky color, it's an inside joke) get cut by the Fates when he was twelve (they were looking right at him, gee i wonder why). apollo (god of literal prophecy) took one look at him when he was fourteen and the blood drained out of his face. Luke said he'd die at sixteen. Poseidon said he'd probably die at sixteen. Chiron said he'd likely die at sixteen because the prophecy was literally so crazy specific like come on impending death is referenced at least four separate times.
so percy was DEFINITELY intended to die and he DEFINITELY knew that and he was also definitely resigned to it. and to be honest he might have actually died because he had already made his peace with it, he wasn't really looking for a solution at that point, he lowk was going to take the easy way out and just do his best to bring kronos with him
and. i say was going to because. then annabeth chase went "aw hell no", stepped in at the last five seconds, exploited the 1% chance-of-success loophole in the prophecy, saved his life and Olympus and did it all without telling anyone what she was planning and goddamnit everyone bow down to the Queen of Loopholes. convinced her future boyfriend to pull a Leo Valdez in his Death Prophecy of the Year and he didn't even realize it














