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It is misogynistic to label Annabeth an abuser for calling Percy “seaweed brain” but to not criticize Luke for manipulating people on behalf of Kronos. It shows that you hold girls to a higher standard than men.
What Luke did is much worse than anything Annabeth ever did. Dozens of children died because of him (Bianca, Beckendorf, Silena, etc). In comparison, Annabeth teasing Percy is nothing. So why are you so vocal about Annabeth being problematic, but not about Luke? Why do you consider Luke’s actions justifiable by his traumatic childhood, but not Annabeth’s?
The bottom line: don’t criticize a female character for one thing and let male characters get away with far worse
Disclaimer: this is not saying you should never criticize Annabeth’s character. It’s saying that you should hold every other character to the same standard you hold her to
Oh honey I do - and honestly, expecting me not to criticize Annabeth is holding girls to a higher standard.
Because what Annabeth and Luke do? It's not the same at all. Luke betrays CHB, gets possibly hundreds of demigods killed, and essentially tries to destroy the world. Annabeth regularly insults the boyfriend she can live without, claims he'd be nothing without her, judo flips him in the middle of a tense diplomatic situation for daring to be kidnapped by a goddess, and undermines him to the point that Annabeth's best friend thinks Annabeth's boyfriend is nothing more than a troublemaker less than a year after he defeated Kronos.
So yes, Annabeth is an abuser. Calling her such is not misogynic, even if I were somehow to ignore how awful Luke is - like she does. But saying "you can't be mad at Annabeth for this when Luke is so much worse" is whataboutism. It's a logical fallacy.
(I would also argue that no one is arguing that Luke's actions are justifiable based on his traumatic childhood, but they are understandable. I could also argue that the only trauma Annabeth had in her childhood was choosing to run away from home and then seeing Thalia turned into a tree. But that's beside the point.)
So, yes, in comparison to trying to end the world, Annabeth teasing Percy is nothing. But that doesn't change the fact that her teasing is constantly putting down the one and only friend she's ever shown as having in PJO by insulting the one and only thing she's ever shown as caring about - brains. And trying to argue that Annabeth's actions are okay in light of other atrocities is... well, not the ideal argument to be making. In fact, given the way that male abuse by females is almost always played for laughs in media, I'd argue that the least misogynic thing you could do is tall her out on it.
You don’t have to like annabeth but I will preface this by saying she’s not an abuser
You know who is an abuser, Luke and all annabeth antis ignore this. Luke gaslights and manipulates children. He takes advantage of kids who are in desperate situations. The most common example is of this is his interactions with annabeth from sea of monsters we see Luke gaslighting her making her believe everything that he’s done is her fault and she believes it we have that conversation in tlo where she tells Percy she thinks the war is entirely her fault (also he had romantic feelings for a 16 year old when he was 24)
Luke had a bad childhood. He was neglected and he felt used but that doesn’t make his actions good or fair.
Annabeth also had a bad childhood. She was emotionally abused by her father her stepmother and Luke. She ran away from home when she was seven because she believed nobody cared about her, she believed that her family was better off without her. Annabeth anti’s always ignore her trauma and I’m fucking sick of it.
On the topic of Annabeth being abusive. Abuse is about power imbalance, with Annabeth and Percy there isn’t a power imbalance. Also plenty of male characters do the exact same things as Annabeth and it’s either ignored or even praised so yes it is misogynistic to call Annabeth an abuser especially when your defending Luke and his abuse.
Annabeth has not once claimed Percy would be nothing without her, there are jokes between the two of them because they are best friends and have been since they were twelve. Whilst I do have issues with the judo flip judo is literally designed so that no one is hurt in a fight they’re both trained Annabeth knows what she’s doing and the judo flip is designed to pin down your opponent without causing them harm. “Annabeth’s best friend thinks he’s nothing more than a trouble maker” piper at that point known Percy for about a day at most and that is everyone’s general first impression of Percy, we get that description from Annabeth, Clarrise, Chiron, Rachel, Athena, Artemis, Apollo, Ares, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus, and so many other characters.
It is misogynistic to call Annabeth Chase an abuser when you choose to ignore her childhood trauma, Luke’s abuse towards her, and defend male characters acting in the same ways that she does. Stop ignoring her trauma to make it fit your narrative.
I believe you've taken what I was saying out of context. I'm not denying that Luke did bad things. I am merely saying that Luke's actions are different than Annabeth's, and that comparing them does everyone a disservice. Luke was a bad guy in the traditional sympathetic villain mould. Annabeth is abusive towards her boyfriend. Both things can exist at once.
Luke did terrible things yes, but at no point do we have any evidence that he's any more manipulative of Annabeth than anyone else. Nor do we have evidence that he ever had romantic feelings for her - "The Diary of Luke Castellan" distinctively calls his feelings fatherly, and considering Annabeth's longstanding crush on him, if he had had feelings for her, he would have used them to get her on his side. But he didn't. (He does, in fact, try to protect her when ordering the deaths of her friends, so it could even be argued that he was least evil towards her.)
Again, he did terrible things, but saying "Luke did worse things" in no way excuses Annabeth for her own actions.
Objectively, Annabeth didn't have a bad childhood. We don't actually have any evidence of emotional abuse in the Chase household - we have a distracted father who, admittedly, probably wasn't the best parent; we have a mortal stepmother who can't see monsters and therefore tried to parent in the best way how. This in no way denies what Annabeth may have felt at 7 years old, unable to understand what was happening, but if it was a truly awful household they would have been glad to get rid of her - instead they beg her to come back, multiple times. So let's be honest. She and her family may not have understood each other, but there was love there.
But, yes, Annabeth is abusive. She acts a certain way with Percy that is, at the very least, emotionally abusive and, on occasion, physically so.
1) There is no reason to judo flip anyone outside of battle or judo practice. There is especially no reason to do so in the middle of a sensitive diplomatic mission where the guy in question is clearly dressed as a leader. Had Percy done this to Annabeth, people would be calling it out as abuse. The fact that Annabeth did it to Percy doesn't change what it is. (Also, having met Jason and heard his story, she knows that Hera is the one at fault here, but continues to blame Percy for disappearing, which is unfair to say the least.)
2) I could argue that we're never actually shown any evidence of Annabeth liking Percy as a person, and therefore they are not friends - but operating on the assumption that we are, we know as late as "The Bronze Dragon" that Percy hates to be called this and doesn't mention this to Annabeth because he knows that if he does, she'll call him that more. There is teasing and then there is verbally bullying someone.
3) At least twice Annabeth has put Percy in physical danger with her capture the flag plans without letting Percy know. This is definitely true in TLT and plausibly true in "The Bronze Dragon".
4) In Demigod Files, Annabeth does say, "Normally, as long as I'm telling him what do do, he wins in a fight," which is revisionist to say the least.
5) There's a scene in MoA where Percy's eating pancakes and she's telling him not to put so much syrup on them. Could be read as "old couple bickering," but like so much of their supposedly bickering it always struck me as controlling.
6) So too is telling your boyfriend what powers he can and cannot use to keep you both alive. Whatever you think of his poison-bending, it is his power. Until and unless he asks Annabeth for a morality check, it's his to use as he will.
7) Considering Jason couldn't go five feet at CHB without hearing what a great hero Percy was, the fact that Piper, Annabeth's new BFF, seems to consider him a troublemaker first has always concerned me. So, okay, maybe Annabeth didn't set out to intentionally undermine her boyfriend - but it does tell you a lot about what she must think of him.
8) Also, the number of times Percy says somewhere in one of the books, "Annabeth would kill me if I did X," is enough to make anyone concerned. Even if it's meant playfully - which, WTF - nobody should be threatening their SO with death that often. No matter how jokingly.
But look. Think whatever you want. Luke is a bad guy, but because it's so obvious you don't see anyone having to sit down and make the argument all these years later. But Annabeth, from an adult perspective, is a bully at best and abusive at worst - but since their romance is made out to be epic this does still have to be argued.
I didn’t take anything you said out of context, you never said Luke wasn’t a villain. However you defended his bad childhood and ignored annabeths so here are my points to match yours
1) I do have issues with the judo flip, I agree that it should’ve happened and your right that if Percy did it to Annabeth it would be labeled as abuse
2) Percy being called “seaweed brain” isn’t abuse. If we’re using that as op stated “wise girl” would also fall into that category, but it doesn’t my best guess is it’s because you Annabeth anti’s just love to ignore when Percy does the exact same thing. As for “evidence that Annabeth likes Percy” just read the books it’s not that hard.
3) they are demigods, in a demigod camp, playing demigod games. The situation would’ve happened whether annabeth set it up or not.
4) you do have a point annabeth is however a 15 year old girl who has been raised as a warrior. Her fatal flaw is pride, she needs to make sure everything goes the way she plans it. This behaviour goes across the board to anyone. And yes again it’s problematic but also a realistic flaw that so many people have.
5) The sene your referring to is in Boo and realistically it is just couple bickering but I can see why it could be seen as controlling
6) anyone would’ve told him to stop. The reason it was such a big deal to annabeth was it reminded her of Luke. She’d already seen someone she loved get drunk on power and get lost onto a dark path. Percy is the one person in her life who has always been there, she was terrified that she would lose him the same way she lost Luke
7) Annabeth does see Percy as a trouble maker, really he is, but she also sees him as a hero, as her best friend, as the bravest person she’s ever met, as the one person she fully believes loves her and won’t leave her like everyone else in her life has. She sees all of him including the trouble maker side of him which she says in Moa is something she loves about him.
8) I still see it as very much a joke, they’re teenagers and as a teen myself this is how we joke around, again valid concerns though.
Now on the topic of annabeth’s childhood. We have a plethora of quotes from her about her childhood and how bad it was so her they are
- annabeth waking up in the night screaming for it to be ignored by mrs Chase and when annabeth asks for support she’s denied it, her stepmother also says that she’ll “wake up her brothers if she keeps screaming” honestly you should be more concerned about the child screaming terrified every night rather than if she’s going to wake up the other kids. And on top of that when she asked to call her dad mrs Chase refused and told her he was too busy for her.
- this quote from tlt: “‘he doesn’t care about me’ she said ‘his wife - my stepmom - treated me like a freak. She wouldn’t let me play with her children. My dad went along with her. Whenever something dangerous happened- you know, something with monsters - they would both look at me like, “how dare you put our family at risk!” Finally, I took the hint. I wasn’t wanted. I ran away.’” Page 201. Her family has no right to put the blame on her. They have the right to be scared, anyone would be, but blaming the seven year old for it is not ok. These are two grown adults blaming a seven year old child for something that she can’t control.
- her family did ask her to come back “‘my dad sent me it folded up in a letter, two summers ago. The ring was, like, his main keepsake from Athena. He wouldn’t have got through his doctoral program at Harvard without her…that’s a long story. Anyway, he said he wanted me to have it. He apologised for being a jerk, said he loved me and missed me. He wanted me to come home and live with him’ ‘that doesn’t sound so bad.’ ‘Yeah, well…the problem was, I believed him, I tried to go home for that school year, but my stepmom was the same as ever. She didn’t want to put her kids in danger by living with a freak. Monsters attacked. We argued. I didn’t even make it through winter break. I called Chiron and came straight back ri Camp Half-Blood.’
As for evidence that Luke used his feelings for her to manipulate her. That’s exactly what he did. He used the fact that she cared and believed in him. That was why she had such a hard time fighting him in tlo. We have plenty of evidence that he used her more than anyone else. As for him having feelings for her, in staff of Hermes we have “A little background: Annabeth used to adventure with Hermès’s son Luke. Over time, Annabeth developed a crush on Luke. As Annabeth got older, Luke developed feelings for her, too.” Even though it’s from Percy’s pov it still weirds me out and it’s very clear that Luke probably did.
Again you have valid points that I agree with but as someone who relates a lot to annabeths situation I feel like I can say what I said. If we could leave this here as I don’t want anything to get disrespectful. I hope you have a wonderful day (or night wherever you are) and I wish you the very best.
Sigh. I will leave the argument here. Though I will say, for sake of completeness, I do not necessarily hate Annabeth. I like seeing intelligent female characters who can hold their own in a fight such as her self portrayed in media. But that does not keep me from seeing that the way she behaves towards Percy is not indicative of a loving, caring relationship.
Calling someone by a nickname they hate is bullying.
Putting an untrained child in a situation where they, in normal circumstances, would have gotten incredibly injured for the sake of letting your crush win a game is bullying.
Frequently calling someone an idiot is bulling.
Taking credit for someone else's actions is, at the very least, problematic, especially when you know your fatal flaw is pride and should be trying to grow past this.
I will argue that Luke never shows any sign of romantic interest in Annabeth. Percy and Annabeth may genuinely think Luke did, but I can't find anything in the text that makes me think, "Yeah, he was into her."
I won't try arguing over Annabeth's childhood, because it's clear that we're looking at the evidence from very different positions. But I will say that millions of people have bad childhoods and most of them do terrible things because of them. You can understand their reasoning, even if that rarely justifies what they do.
So let's agree to disagree. Have a good Thanksgiving if you celebrate it, otherwise, a good day.
Jesus... I've seen people ignore what I've said before, but not to that degree. Sorry you had to go through that.
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Gooseworx should not be immune to criticism, and it’s INSANE to me that I was told I was harassing Goose for an opinion about the writing while, ironically, I was being attacked across multiple platforms for it. And I still think that the main character of a show being debated within a fandom means it’s just badly written. If the fandom is CONFUSED on the main character then there’s some bad writing going on.
It's more about the Fandom and what they decided to believe... Goose made her story pretty alright and clear on "who" the mian characters are, but it's a bit like Ninjago. There's no "real" main character, cause it's a group, but a few (Jax and Pomni for TADC, and Jay+Lloyd+Nya for Ninjago, especially alter on...) are more prominent. Not everyone in the fandom likes that, and that's the main 'backlash', it is pretty clear who the main characters are if you look, but it's also understandable they wanted more for their favourite characters, they just did it in the wrong way.
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Every midnight the world freezes for an hour, all motion and energy stops, and supernatural monsters crawl out to feast on the minds of any humans they find still unfrozen. A group of people band together to fight off the monsters and find the source of the frozen hour, to stop it for good.
Ain't this the plot to Persona 3? Like, literally.
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