Feb 21
Look, just say you like Walker as Percy and keep it pushing. Send him all the love and support you want (because he deserves it), but can some of y'all stop diving into rhetoric that's inching close to romanticizing Eurocentric features, or placing them on such a high pedestal? Whenever I see these "Oh but the blonde-haired, blue-eyed aesthetic fits the surfer boy image so well!" takes, I cringe so bad because...y'all know that there's more than one image for surfers to look like, right? Y'all do know that that aesthetic isn't all Percy is, nor does it even fully relate to his character? Like who are y'all talking about most of the time? It certainly isn't Percy Jackson, I'll say that much.
#like ive seen multiple tiktoks and twitter post putting so much emphasis on these particular yte attributes and it reads really weird#especially when the same people doing this get really huffy when someone even dares mention the possibility of poc percy#i've talked about this in another post#but like okay I'll bite if percy having blonde hair & blue eyes is so integral to his connection to the sea why can't the same be said for#other characters? book wise both jason & luke are described in similar ways emphasis on luke so does that discredit their parentage#connections?#the gods change forms almost all the time and their kids look different from one another with some having a shared feature relating to#their godly parent but not enough to where they all look the same (bc gods don't have dna)#and again there's nothing wrong with liking walker as percy that's fine. my issue is just how a lot of y'all talk about it that gets very#uncomfortable very quickly#bc when you frame “yte” percy as the standard u really need to look into the deeper implications behind that bc why is that your mindset?#especially given that even with the possibility of him being yte the “mediterranean” look (tho still vague in a way) still opened room for#poc percy especially when factoring in his struggles that many poc book fans could relate to#there's more weight behind it then the arbitrary “oh blue eyes & blonde hair for the sea” bc the same could be said for the sky atp#like yes rick did put some emphasis on eye color especially early in the books regarding the big three kids#but to take that and then turn it into your own version of the sydney sweeney “good genes” take by overly emphasizing the blue eyes & blond#hair aspect makes it sound like you're dabbling into a certain rhetoric whether u mean too or not#(to add to this even with the description of the “mediterranean tan” thing for percy poc fans were still able to attribute poc headcanons t#him especially when you factor in the history behind this description in literature so let's not act obtuse & say it was never possible)#pjo show crit#but specifically the fans#percy jackson
