#bryce lawrence

[dranktwocoffees]

is this anything

[psychicwavementality]

i dont know if i'll ever finish this so here's 40 seconds of my nanka no pjohoo/那什麼的pjohoo since i can't find one for this fandom

probably also the only time i'll ever drawn some of these people in here lol (luke, ethan, zoe, freaking bryce lawrence........

some stills below the cut

inspired mostly by the original + some from a nanka no idolish7 on bilibili

[nyxdreamweaver]

Things we need to post/talk about/create more in PJO fanart/fanfics:

Gothic!Hazel and viewing her as a 'kid-friendly' gothic heroine

Bianca & Hazel's possible bond if they met

Hazel in general (PLEASE TALK ABOUT HER MORE, I LOVE HER SO MUCH-)

The BG characters from both CJ and CHB (ex: Blanche, Gwendolyn, Pranjal, etc)

More Pjo ocs (YA'LL KEEP SHARING YOUR OCS THEY’RE COOL AS FUCK!!)

Me beating Rick's white ass/jkjk.....unless >:)

Horrifying dark sides of character's powers (Piper and Drew’s charm speak, Hazel's metal manipulation, Jason’s air manipulation, etc)

Fuck it, crazy rare pair ships you made up because free will (Claudia x Sadie, Bryce x Ethan, Octavian x Drew, etc)

[princessofghosts-posts]

Another day another occasion to talk about Nico's powers that got barely acknowledged in the books. Today we feature: the ability to transfer his memories through his darkness.

I know it was a plot device used to make Jason understand him better during their encounter with Cupid,and to make Bryce understand he messed with the wrong people,but that alone is a uniqueness to give to someone.

That some anime-shonen-type-of-power to have. The one you use to make them react to their life like they are in a fanfic and are watching/reading the original material. I don't think I ever saw something like that even in animes,or at least not in this way and not in the ones I watched. And I spent my childhood on those (still do).

And it's also pretty OP because the side effects on Bryce were brutals. He started to bleed because he couldn't handle Tartarus,and Nico had the strength to kill him off even in so much emotional distress. And both Reyna and Hedge felt sick to their stomach too,even tho Nico didn't want to involve them but it's a sign that it's an ability that can cover a bit of ground,and not only the person next to him. He did the same with Cupid and Jason watched (for real) Nico's whole life flashing in front of him in only a couple of seconds. That's sick.

And extremely impressive. Most of it was probably triggered by his anger and negatives emotions (read: do not engage with the son of Hades when he is angry) but it's still part of his power right? So he probably had this ability since the beginning (read: Rick added it only for necessity but for my sanity I'll ignore this) and it's just another one to add to his power list. He just is so versatile.

And if he tries to control it?? Instead of leashing out all of his memories/emotions,what if he can pilot them to make his enemy saw certain things to make them scered? Like with Bryce with Tartarus. But instead of them watching him in Tartarus,is just straight up Tartarus,as if they are there. And if he can exploit it,then maybe he can try to manipulate their own fears against them,making sure they go slowly insane and paranoid.

Mix this with his dream's manipulation ability and Nico can explode someone mind just because he want too. Decorate a bit with skeletons and ghosts popping out while they less they expect it and you got a masterpiece. There is so much potential here to use to terrifying someone that you can create literally everything.

[raccoonmilf]

I've got the Percy Jackson universe is on the brain right now with the release of that new book coming out and I'm thinking about how, technically speaking, Bryce Lawrence is just as much Nico's sibling as Hazel is. Since, you know, in Roman mythology Hades got broken up into Pluto and Orcus.

I don't feel like Rick is ever gonna mention Bryce again, but it would be wild if it did because that was 100% Nico's most iconic kill

[t470n]

I feel like Bryce Lawrence in effect encapsulates what I think is wrong with how the villains in HOO are written because he's so unimaginable flat and cartoonishly evil. And it's not like there isn't anything interesting to work with. Rick accidentally gave him the potential to be pretty fascinating actually! He killed his own centurion and was exiled from the legion but came back as soon as he heard there were pardons being offered. That could be really rich characterisation but Rick does nothing with it. Bryce is designed to be as antagonistic and unlikable as physically possible so everything about him is purely just a reason to dislike him.

What's his deal? he works for Octavian, he's a bad guy! Okay but there are non-bad guys working for Octavian so why is this one really bad? he was exiled from the legion! From the legion the heroes are fighting against? Yeah, but he was exiled because he murdered his centurion! oh wow that sounds important and dramatic and character-defining, care to say a little more? . . . he murdered his centurion! is that all? . . . And he hurts animals! wow, were the animals puppies and was his method of attack kicking them?

Bryce could have actually been a really interesting character because there are so many questions about him that just never get answered. Why did he kill his centurion? When? Was it during the Titan war? How does his family feel about all this considering they got his sentence reduced from execution to exile? How does he feel about his family stepping in like that? What about his and Orcus' feelings towards each other considering that Bryce probably broke an oath with all his antics? What was Bryce doing all that time in exile? How does he feel about being asked to rejoin the legion? Does he hate them and is only joining for survival/protection/to regain his status? Or does he still have some sense of Roman duty and loyalty?

All these questions, and more! are very interesting, but unfortunately rick was only interested in making the single most cartoonishly evil villain so no one feels bad when Nico wipes him from existence. Because characters are allowed to do morally questionable things as long as they're only morally questionable in theory, and in actuality are totally fine because the people these acts are being done to aren't people. If Bryce had layers and complexity, that would make Nico infinitely more complex and morally grey for his decision to kill him (same with letting Octavian die). Nico's grey morality is an optics thing. It's not allowed to be meaningful or have consequences. Characters like Bryce and Octavian (and several other HOO antagonists) need to be as bland and cartoonishly evil as possible so no one needs to feel bad or have any complex emotions about getting rid of these antagonists. They're not characters, they're obstacles for the heroes to overcome, which is such a downgrade from the antagonists of the first series. You feel something with the 'bad guys' there, from the minor antagonists like Clarisse and Claypso (even Quintus/Daedalus to an extent) to the actively villainous antagonists like Luke and Ethan (even Nico for a little bit during TTC). They have layers and character and motives and personality that makes you connect with them and root for them a little bit. This is completely absent with the antagonists in HOO which is why they don't work.

[aroaceleovaldez]

Today on doodles i forgot i drew: Bryce Lawrence scene my beloved. Nico's dumb little dog harness in BoO my beloved.

[hadesisqueer]

do you think octavian ended in the fields of punishment or at elysium

Let's see. This guy

Blackmailed Hazel.

Impaled and literally killed another girl because he was mad he'd lost a game (the only reason Gwen isn't dead is because the Doors of Death were open).

Manipulated the senate.

Actively made the whole Greek/Roman conflict worse.

Went over Reyna, his superior, and named himself "pontifex maximus", something he had no authority doing.

Stupidly allied himself with monsters and wasted a lot of resources because he was blinded by his pride.

Accepted a sadistic murderer like Bryce Lawrence back into the legion.

Sent said murderer after Reyna.

Actively tried to wipe out the Greeks. Like entirely.

Octavian is a fun character for me because he's a straight up asshole and he's fun to hate. He was a narcissist, he was xenophobic, he was likely sociopathic. He fits the Fields of Punishment because he did horrible things. But then again so did Luke, and it is believed that he ended up in Elysium because of how he died. Could be the same for Octavian, maybe, because he "sacrificed himself to help destroy Gaia" at the end. That could count for the judges. Maybe not enough for Elysium, like Luke, but perhaps enough for Asphodels lmao. The one who's in the Fields of Punishment for sure is Bryce Lawrence.