I find it hilarious whenever Percabeth stans say they see the ship as bi4bi. They erase Perachel while forcing Percy to put out for literally every man ever and play Pipabeth as a joke. Internalized biphobia mayhaps
It barely even seems internalized at times tbh. Like at some point you have to realize that you’re just Ebony Dark’Ness Dementia Raven Way-ing with your “Bi guys r so hut and sensitive!!!1!1” ass posts that flatten both their characters in an attempt to ‘subvert’ gender roles.
Because the thing is, in canon, Percabeth isn’t so much a subversion of gender roles as it is creating a Strong Female Character who still isn’t afforded much internality outside of her relationship with others (part of it is also because the books are in first-person, to be completely fair, though). The thing is, this type of character, if in an m/f pairing, is always paired up with a bumbling idiot whom she likes because he’s a goofy simpleton.
Percy Jackson is anything but. However, Percy has some feminine qualities and can be read as repressing femininity for a variety of reasons (an aspect that gets expanded upon and unravelled in transfem readings of the character). So through a weird amalgamation of 2010s pseudo-feminism, equating gender non-conformity with queerness while refusing to engage with deeper queer subtext than, like, a Finding Nemo-themed drag persona, and a shit ton of projection on one or both characters that renders them unable to see them outside of, for lack of a better term, coercively-assigned codependency in both canon and fanon, leads to them going “They’re bi4bi” and calling it a day without engaging with this reading of the characters that’s supposedly so personal to them.
Rating ships in the rrverse lmao what am I doing with my life:
percabeth: meh. i give it a 6/10 just bc I feel like it’s overrated and I HATED that dumb judo flip scene like why rick. why
solangelo: -17/10 BC DOCTOR PATIENT RELATIONSHIPS ARE DISGUSTING ISTG!! they‘re cute but it would have been cooler to see nico heal with ✨friends and family✨ rather than pair him up immediately cuz god forbid that a teenager ISN’T in a relationship🙄
fr*zel: 0/10 why
jasper: -4/10 that speech piper gave about how jason was her’s felt super clingy and ngl kinda creepy😕
caleo: -9473773/10 she’s like 6000 and he's 15 what the fuck rick
Note: If you like Percabeth and get aggressive and hurtful when someone disagrees with you then this isn’t something you’re interested in, I’m going to have to ask you to move along :D I’m entitled to my opinions as you are yours. Any aggression targeted at me because I don’t ship what you ship will be treated with demeaning responses
You have been warned
Side Note: I have nothing but love for Rick Riordan, these are solely my opinions, which I’m entitled to have.
If you have anything to include, feel free to add your own thoughts.
I’m putting this under a Read More so people who don’t want to see this doesn’t have to.
1. It’s mostly fanservice. We’ve went through the entire first series of Percy wishing for normalcy. Annabeth can’t give him that. If anything she’s dragging him into more shit. See ending of Magnus Chase: The Hammer of Thor.
2. Annabeth loved Luke and barely took any time grieving before she decided to become a co-dependent thing with Percy. Let’s be real, Percy’s suppose to be a rebound for her but because fanservice, it’s not getting to that.
3. Percy’s “normalcy” ship would have been Rachel as Rachel wasn’t pulling him into shit, she was helping him. She was rather understanding about it, too. But it was claimed that her interest in him was purely because of the oraclecy... Or whatever and to ensure that poor girl will probably never know romantic love which you can’t totally tell me is fine and dandy because the girl is clearly at least a little interested in dating since she asked Apollo about it.
4. Starting a life in New Rome. It’s clearly stated that Percy feels home in New York and he doesn’t want to leave his mom. But he’s willing to some day pick up his whole life and go to New Rome with Annabeth... Okay. Camp Halfblood has been the only true home (debatable, I suppose) that Annabeth has ever known. Yes, there’s a lot of painful memories there, but there’s a lot of good ones, too. She’d have to travel across America just to go back and visit with no guarantee she’d survive the trip. Basically, every “visit” to Camp Halfblood would be a quest in it’s own right. It doesn’t make sense.
5. Rival parents. If we learned anything from Romeo and Juliet. That. Shit. Don’t. Work. Spoiler: They die (tragically) at the end. Honestly, that rivalry isn’t just going to go away otherwise the other rivalries wouldn’t have been inherited by demigods. P. S. Romeo and Juliet weren’t in love, they barely knew each other. It was a teenage infatuation that went way too far.
6. Opposites attract need not apply. There’s “opposites” and then there’s “polar opposites”. Percy and Annabeth can work amazingly as friends. As a couple, they’re too different. It’s a matter of personalities that will later cause clashing when “starting a life together”
7. Percy’s a seventeen year old boy (give or take) talking about settling down and starting a family. Settling down and getting married, I get. Starting a family seems... just a lot. And I get that he’s a demigod meaning he has a low survival rate, but still. He’s a seventeen year old boy. I get him being like kids one day, but he’s kind of like “This will be great for our kids” one day not included seems like it’s trying to rush into a relationship.
and 8. Rushed relationship never work out. Ask someone who’s dated a narcissist. Hell, I dated a guy that tried to rush our relationship and, honestly, it ended with me wanting to punch him in the face.
9. If you think that Annabeth wouldn’t punch Percy in the face because a rushed trainwreck of a relationship, she judo flipped him for worrying her (and that wasn’t even his fault).
10. She straight up got mad at him for scaring her. This just pisses me off for a few reasons, but my main one happens to be that the boy was freaked the fuck out, too, and while I understand she was focused on herself, she acts like he did it on purpose. Like... are you fucking kidding me? Whatever.
11. Annabeth being the reason he survived the dip in Styx when it realistically should have been his mom. That was just shipper nonsense because for some reason when it comes to relationships you’re suppose to love that person more than anything and they’re suppose to keep you grounded or whatever but that’s not real romantic love unless you have no one but shitty people in your life but it should have been his mom.
12. Percy should have remembered his mom and not Annabeth when Hera erased his memory, considering how fucking important Sally Jackson is to that boy. Like seriously, after that I was so irritated that while I fucking ate up PJO (finished the whole series in like 3-5 day) it took me forever to get through HoO (like the course of several months). But of course, that wasn’t the only thing about HoO that irritated me and made me take so long.
13. Annabeth doesn’t seem to be acknowledging that Percy needs a goddamn break. See #1.
14. Honestly, I feel like their scenes are forced on me and I don’t find them cute. I get a scene with them and it feels like I’m getting a ulcer... This is a personal thing, but it’s my thing so I’m putting it here and no one can tell me not to. THIS IS MY BLOG AND PERCABETH MAKES ME PSYCHICALLY SICK SO SUCK IT.
15. The way Annabeth treated Rachel out of jealousy. Just because you’re jealous doesn’t mean you need to be bitchy and catty. Maybe if you fucking said something about your feelings, this wouldn’t be a fucking issue, but whatever.
16. They have more chemistry with other people than they do with each other. Annabeth has more chemistry with Piper (and that was a rushed friendship in itself), so on and so forth.
Percy remembered Nico in Son and admitted she wishes Annabeth was more like Rachel Tlo. 'Annabeth is Percy's type' and 'Annabeth means something to Percy no one else does' my ass. Percabeth shippers log on every day just to lie
(Not Perc*co ofc)
Anon you are SO right.
Also “Percy has a thing for blondes” is not canon or substantial in any way, shape, or form.
