bro, i need to know your opinion of Jason Grace from Percy Jackson. I mean as a character, I had never understood the hate train that went in and on about him though I do feel like Rick undervalued and underutilized his overwhelming potentiel.
Like it was all laid out man, the backstory, the relationships, the personality all of it, but Rick decided to just insert all of his character development at the worst times and introduce him in a way that set him up for failure. Then TOA came out and the whole population went crazy bc of his little… ‘accident’
Point is that I loved him so much and his sorry really broke my heart, I feel like he never truly got to explore himself, nor live for himself…he was 16.
What Hera took from him is my Roman Empire (pun intended)
I'm so sorry, I am not a huge Jason fan.
I am a little older (stupid to say at 24 but the Avatar fandom are babies), so I had aged out of Percy Jackson (if one can) by the time of Magnus Chase and the Apollo series, so I've actually never read them. I was deep in high school by that point, I read mostly like... Stephen King and books for English class. Idk maybe I'd like him better if I read them??
Personally, I think the "hate train" for Jason stems from The Lost Hero. You cannot fully imagine how pissed we all were at that book unless you were excited and waiting for it for a year and then were slapped in the face with Jason. Like who the fuck are you, leave me alone, where is Percy? It felt like watching Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin instead of Pretty Little Liars. Like, I'm sorry, you will never be the Liars stop trying. Jason and Piper will never be percabeth and that's how we felt reading that book in 2010.
I was much more open to Hazel and Frank by The Son of Neptune, because I was getting answers about Percy. The effect softened with time and more character interactions, but it definitely hurt Jason and also Piper for a chunk of us. There could probably be essays about how Leo escaped that a little bit. That after effect has definitely stuck with me, and with others for sure.
I also personally always found him the most boring, I really think every other character has a cooler story then him. But to each his own! I'm now very interested to see if I like him a ton more rereading them as an adult. I enjoyed rereading the first book so so much, I've got to reread the others.
Honestly i understand how frustrating that probably was for the fandom, idk if he’s my guilty pleasure, I don’t completely understand putting him against Percy though they were not rivals
My thing is that he’s not Percy, him and piper aren’t percabeth and they’re not supposed to be??
I found him interesting mostly bc he could’ve been more but never got to be, he never got a chance to live for himself.
His mom abandons him age 2 and literally leaves him to be wolf (Lupa the goddess) food while she promises him to come back. We’re starting early with this betrayal train, and also learns that he literally can’t show weakness in any way or it’ll be his doom. He somehow survives Lupa’s training which most people go through when they’re idk NOT toddlers, tries to lay low and desperately doesn’t want to be a leader, he wants nothing to do with the position he just wants to live life. That doesn’t work and now he’s surrounded by people but never equals or genuine connections that aren’t one sided.
His memories are manipulated by Hera/Juno forcing him into a mostly loveless relationship. His fatal flaw the temptation to deliberately, he’s scared of deciding who he is and what he wants in fear of disappointing everyone. It’s what stopped him from being so great tbh.
It’s also what probably made him boring, he was too honorable/bland bro never had anything to say and was very apathetic to most thing (in a his reactions were never strong kind of way) he had every reason to wreck shit up (Think Thalia) and just didn’t which is pretty underwhelming.
But he did kill a Titan barehanded and called Zeus out without any remorse so he’s my little guilty pleasure.










