#(.seven )

[canarhys]

demigods? disasters. nico infiltrates fast food drive-thrus by climbing through the window and grabbing any condiment he can. jason is seen frequently on the ceiling face-first and speaking no words as he floats. piper has an entire garden of lettuce in her backpack along with coke and a kitchen knife covered in ketchup. leo has been on his fourth cup of gasoline and is now ricocheting across the room like a ping-pong ball. hazel has this collection of teeth but she does not mention who she got them from, also she eats pebbles whole. frank is currently a camel and has successfully snuck into a navy base by speaking in mandarin and spitting in a pilot’s face. reyna has been sleep deprived since 2012 and somehow got her hand on all the classified files in washington, so now she’s giving a sixty-eight slide presentation on why 2075 is not a real year. they have not seen the sun is approximately seven months.

[miragefactory]

“  i’ve never been good at emotional stuff. except anger. i’m good at anger.  ” [707 to Mina?]

“... Emotions are difficult to understand, let alone master. But that is okay... you don’t have to be good at every emotion.”

“But there is more to you than anger and resentment. You protect everyone in the RFA- even if it is when you hold people at arm’s length.”

He was always laughing and joking, hiding his ‘dangerous’ secrets behind smiles and copious LOLOLOLs and distractions. He wanted to not be taken seriously- despite his desperate need to be understood. He pushed everyone away because he wanted to protect them.

“You always feel responsible for people’s safety. That sense of responsibility comes from a powerful place inside of you. You are more than just your hacking abilities... you’re a kind person and a good friend. I’ve also never had a friend that would go that far for me, you know?”

@cosmos-of-characters

[canarhys]

how they text.

nico -- his name is probably something edgy like ‘ebony dark’ness dementia raven way.’ leaves you on read and answers at 2:57 a.m. so blunt in his texts that no one knows if he’s joking or not.

jason -- probably the most normal texter. uses proper punctuation and capitalization as if he’s writing a letter. mispells a word once (1) and the entire group chat attacks him on it.

piper -- has a matching name with leo. probably keysmashes, says ‘sksksksks’ a lot. began using the :-) to make everyone in the chat uncomfortable. has a custom keyboard.

leo -- uses all caps, no matter what. has horrible grammar yet no one corrects him because no one can sway him. sends cursed images that get him blocked for several days.

hazel -- uses too many exclamation points. used proper grammar at first but went ‘fuck it,’ and began to just use punctuation for effect. has a photo album of wholesome reaction pics.

frank -- texts while he’s doing other things that ends with him not replying to you for hours. the second-most-likely to get called out for grammatical errors. sends photos of fortnite.

reyna -- second-most normal texter. speaks in proper grammar and never slips, will leave you on read but she’ll never answer. cannot understand sarcasm. has used an emoji exactly once and everyone disliked it.

[canarhys]

hi, im really interested in why you see reyna and nico in the seven and not percy and annabeth. i thought so too but cant put it into words

ooh, my time to shine.

well, percy and annabeth had the entire pjo series to themselves. they were main characters, they had completed character arcs, and they both had amazing potential that was touched upon very well. pjo was such a well-written series that brought them to a happy and secure ending. meanwhile, nico was a minor character. we knew a lot about him and his past, and saw that he got some closure as well — the difference is that he had so much character potential to explore in a later series. he was twelve at the time, so it would have been great to see him grow up gradually like percy in another series!

there’s also reyna, and i swear, i love her so much. she has a fleshed out backstory, good motivations, and do you imagine what things could be touched upon if her narrative extended beyond boo? she would discuss about being the most pure roman out of all the seven, and she would have to deal with the fact that she had become a traitor to the very camp she was praetor of. the emotional impact, the development — she deserved to be a main character.

it’s so sad when i think about what we could’ve had. instead of seeing nico and reyna learning how to let go and allow other people into their lives, we had to see percy and annabeth — two characters with finished arcs — take all the spotlight away from newer characters. i love percy and annabeth but it was bad writing for the two of them to be in the seven. rick should not write for nostalgia but for new experiences. there is still so much to be done with nico and reyna’s characters (especially in toa, jfc) and percy and annabeth should have been allowed to grow up. it’s unlikely for them to be a part of another great prophecy (that happens only six months after the first? bitch?) and there is not much room for more development besides tartarus and the mark of athena. basically, nico and reyna would’ve allowed more characters to have the spotlight and would’ve allowed for the seven to be an actual family.

[canarhys]

the argo ii but it’s actually just

[canarhys]

nico, jason, piper, leo, hazel, frank, & reyna but they’re all homeless/runaway teens who traverse the countryside in a worn-down school bus, steal food rations from drug stores and become a found family.