Okay so like when are we gonna talk about how brutal some of the deaths in PJO/HOO/TOA are? Because….dam. (Spoilers ahead)
Leo legit got exploded.
Hazel and her mother were crushed(?) when the cave collapsed in on itself
Bianca was crushed as well (If I had a nickel…)
Commodus was screamed to death by Apollo
Luke literally killed himself???? Like??
Ethan got SUCKED THROUGH A HOLE IN OLYMPUS AFTER GETTING STRUCK IN THE STOMACH WITH A SHARD OF HIS OWN SWORD AND FELL FROM OLYMPUS, AKA THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING.
Selina was attacked by the drakon (Struck by its acid, I believe? Metal helmet literally melting into her skin)
Charlie was also exploded (IF I HAD A FUCKING N I C K E L)
Maria Di Angelo was killed when Zeus struck the hotel with lightning
Chester the Pandos was slowly stabbed to death by Maeda, I think????
Whatever the actual FUCK NUGGETS happened to Damasen and Bob when helping Percabeth escape Tartarus
Jason was struck with arrows in each limb, and then staBBED THROUGH THE BACK
Octavian getting shot out of a trebuchet and also exploded
The poisonous cows that Frank fucking steamrolled in Venice, Italy??? Didn’t he tear some apart as a lion or something??????
Frank dropping in for part 2 electric boogaloo, when Caligula’s forces attacked CJ the first time (before Apollo arrived). He just. Took on an army. Himself. As a massive snake.
FUCKING FRANK ONCE MORE, crushing Caligula’s windpipe and—if that didn’t kill the slimy bastard—leaving him to burn in the oil fires FRANK STARTED in the tunnel!!!!
Okay, why is Frank so fucking brutal sometimes wtf…. 😭
Nico: this is my friend Bob. He's a titan. Don't worry he's friendly now
Zagreus who was DISMEMBERED BY TITANS AS A BABY: oh is he now?
The fun thing is that the myth doesn't specify which titans were the one to kill baby Zagreus so there is a none zero chance that Iapetus could have been one of them.
Out of everything Hades could've done to Iapetus, he just... hired him? To sweep palace floors? While Nico, Hades' teenage son, feels free and comfy to casually chat with him about Percy being such a good friend?
I guess Iapetus didn't make much of an impression on his enemies in the first Titanomachy and didn't hurt anyone valuable then.
Yeah yeah Iapetus redemption is fun and all, but honestly, he should be rightfully angry at Zeus for the fates of his sons.
Menoetius was stuck in Tartarus with him.
Atlas has been carrying the sky since the 1st titan war.
Prometheus was getting his liver eaten out daily for giving humans fire.
Epimetheus's wife was deliberately made to screw over humanity (who Prometheus invented and loved) because Zeus didn't feel like Prometheus's punishment was enough and had to mess with his brother too.
And sure, Iapetus's sons aren't perfect, some of them in fact are not good at all, but he's still a father and those are still his little boys. And they suffered a lot.
Omg this edit makes me cry so here have a duck to make you feel better
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Percy should have been the one to go back to save Bob. (I dont think Bob should have been saved at all. I think it takes away from his original sacrifice, but if he had to be saved) Narrative wise, it just would have made more sense. Bob saved Percy and Annabeth multiple times throughout HoH, and it would've been more thematically interesting to see Percy finally return the favor. But Rick wanted to cash in on the gay people and threw in some blond guy Nico was dating instead.
everytime i see things where ppl are like, upset at percy and blaming him for calypso still being on that island or like, forgetting abt bob im like....okay but when was he supposed to do smth abt either of them. and why is it supposed to be on him to do smth?
cause like, if we're talking calypso, he did what he could. he made the gods promise, he made zeus swear on the styx how was he supposed to know whether or not zeus actually followed through. and then he had what, a few months at best, recovering from a war, trying to focus on his mortal life, yk, pretty much all he wanted, before he was kidnapped by hera and the gods closed down communications. and then hes homeless and amnesiac and then hes going on quest after quest, like. he doesnt even have time to breathe, forgive the boy for not thinking of calypso in this time.
and bob/iapetus like. ive seen many percy is so "manipulative" and "toxic" takes in regards to him and like?? do ya'll even remember when percy and iapetus met? cause when they met iapetus was an enemy doing his damndest to kill thalia, percy, and nico. percy thinking fast and telling him they were "friends" was percy being smart and saving their lives. and he very clearly did have regrets in House of Hades abt how he left things off with bob too, like, that isnt the action of a self-absorbed hero at all.
Like yes, Percy can be manipulative, and he fascinates me for it, but in that one instance where he names Bob and says they’re friends, like. Can you rlly blame him??
