#daph rants

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I don't think we were given enough Seaweed Brain and Wise Girl in s2 like,, there was a golden opportunity during ep2:

love this scene because it's so them, BUT JUST IMAGINE IF THEY USED THE NICKNAMES 😭🤲

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I'd like to think that, when it comes to swearing/cursing, Percy is the one who DOESN'T do it. He was raised right by Sally Jackson for goodness sake! She drilled into him early in his life that swearing doesn't lead to anything good, especially in communication and arguments. So when Percy is frustrated? Oh jeez louise. Angry at someone? Back off man!

You know who DOES swear like a sailor? Annabeth Chase. Tell me she wasn't exposed to that kind of language while on the road with Thalia and Luke, continuing on in camp where there's no repercussions for bad behaviour as long as there's no maiming or killing. Her favourite curse? YOU PIECE OF SHIT, MOTHER FUCKING STUPID, IGNORANT, IDIOT, YEAH YOU BETTER RUN COWARD— Yeah... Needless to say, Percy is always scandalised when he hears her go off like that.

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I've always felt connected to Percy Jackson, and it's because of his fatal flaw

The past few episodes of season 2, we've seen more and more how Percy reacts at the thought of his friends being in danger. We see his determination to find Grover, to bring him back to camp and to safety. We see him take care of Tyson, of being broken at believing he's dead. We see him protect Annabeth, time and time again, on Princess Andromeda, on the Ironclad, on Circe's island and the Sirens. Especially when we see him realise what his fatal flaw is, he admits to Annabeth, and to himself, that he would doom camp to save Grover, that he would burn down Olympus for Annabeth's safety.

In the episode 6, we see what happens when one of Percy's friends is truly in danger. His anxiety when Annabeth starts fighting Polyphemus. His frustration for being trapped in a cave and not able to help. His horror at seeing Annabeth in critical condition. His worry when Tyson shows up to fight Polyphemus off, and his alarm when Tyson pushes them both off the cliff. His anger at Luke appearing and panic at the thought of Luke hurting Annabeth more. His resolve at stealing the fleece from Clarisse, despite it meaning he's giving it to the enemy, all for the chance to heal Annabeth.

To go back to my point, Percy's loyalty mirrors my own. I love my friends, my family, my partner, all of them mean the world to me. I protect them from anything that may hurt them; I threaten those who dare to mess with them; I would burn everything to the ground if it means that they're safe.

Many things have happened to my loved ones that made me feel like Percy in ep 6. I have quite literally fought with others, physically and verbally, to protect my best friends. I bit someone once to make them let go of my then partner, which is something I shouldn't take pride in but I do. People have told me that I'm too scary and they don't like it, but I just tell them to not hurt my friends and to just fuck off.

tl;dr Percy is me and I am Percy

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Percy Jackson and his Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

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S2E1

SPOILER FREE

I absolutely love that the show is feels more solid, like they knew what they wanted and were doing for this season, and it really shows through the pacing, writing and acting. Everything from visual effects to the sets and the dialogue is so perfect that I can't imagine how much better the next seasons will be.

SPOILERS

I am so happy with how Daniel Diemer and the writers portrayed Tyson, he instantly became one of my favourite characters in the show (and the books). As well as giving more backstory to Tyson, his time on the streets and how he dealt with it, you can really tell that it wasn't a good time for him and that he's grateful for Sally and Percy. Also the vfx for his eye is AMAZING, I wonder how they managed to make it look so natural. I just love my 8yr old cyclops baby, I love him so much 🥹

Percy and Annabeth's dynamic is so interesting to watch, because before this point, they've always had Grover as a buffer between them, but now that he's gone, it feels like we'll see their relationship evolve and strengthen as we move forward. The way Annabeth wanted to talk to Percy about what happened with the giants and Luke, you can see she wants to catch up with him, to be with him after not being around each other for so long, only to have Tyson interrupt their time together.

Speaking of Tyson again, his relationship with Percy breaks my heart, because you can see how much he wants to not be alone anymore, to have a big brother to look up to, but Percy isn't/doesn't have the time to process the fact that they're siblings, in fact he's actively ignoring that they're siblings at this point. Tyson is actively protecting Percy from any harm, like when he thought the gray sisters cab was dangerous and when he took that fire ball for him from the giants. I can't wait for their brotherhood to develop throughout the show, because Percy does care about Tyson, we see that even though he acts like it's a bother.

GROVER. I love Grover and his development of being a searcher satyr. The scene when he found the pan flute and he plays it then nature is literally responding to him? The foreshadowing is crazy and I love it so much. I also love how they portrayed his and Percy's empathy link, like in the books I couldn't really visualise it, but they did it so good in the show. When Percy realises the reason why the empathy link exists because they're best friends, his smile was literally so blinding, and when they just started catching up and making jokes together, it's so heartwarming to watch.

Clarisse. Oh my god Clarisse. She's so. I can't even. I love her, so much, I'd follow her into the sea of monsters always. She was one of my faves in the book, especially when she and Percy finally have a frenemies dynamic, and I'm excited to see that portrayal towards the end of the show with the golden fleece. I swear, she gets more beautiful each shot she's in, idc if she's an asshole, she's MY asshole.

I'm saying this knowing that it's awful irl BUT... Annabeth and the rest of the camp being racist towards Tyson is killing me. Like yes, he's technically a monster, but did we not learn from last season that monsters aren't always made (i.e Medusa). In the books, it was especially prevalent with Annabeth's disdain for cyclops, though with good reason. But still it was a lil frustrating and heartbreaking to see Tyson be discriminated like that when he's the sweetest child ever.

Thalia's tree being poisoned and Annabeth's reaction to it 😭 I loved the scene where she went to half-blood hill to visit Thalia at night, it was probably the most vulnerable we've seen Annabeth be in the show so far, and we get a little insight on how her relationship with Thalia impacted her. Like that's her older sister! And the fact that her older brother caused this pain just made everything worse. The way Annabeth cried as she begged Thalia to tell her how to save her? How many times will this show break my heart 😭

Don't even talk to me about Tantalus, I wanna eat a whole buffet in front of just to see him suffer.

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Ngl I just found out a detail I forgot in Last Olympian where Thalia saves Percy n Annabeth from a falling statue of Hera, and said statue traps her legs, but...

What if the statue did some major damage to Thalia's legs that not even the strongest of nectars can fix it? What if she's bound to using mobility aids to help her go on about her day?

Just imagine Thalia rolling into camp in her wheelchair with the rest of the Hunters of Artemis, shades on, popping bubblegum and just being an overall menace to the camp. She always goes up to Chiron and asks to have a race with him and other wheelchair-bound campers just to prove she's gotten better and better at moving with her aid.

Imagine Thalia messing with the newbie campers by asking them to help her train at the arena. These poor kids, seeing a forever baby-face Thalia on a wheelchair, assume that they need to go easy on her because of her condition; only to get a their asses handed to them by a literal moving electric conductor, THE daughter of Zeus, using her god-given electrokinesis to direct it through not only her spear, but also her wheelchair that has hidden spikes in the wheels. She loves teaching the kids to never underestimate the opponent just because they're disabled (and it does wonders for her ego of beating some of the more ableist kids).

BUT BUT BUT

Imagine whenever the phantom pain in Thalia's legs just get too much for her to ignore, she goes to sit near her pine tree, the one that her father turned her into when her death was imminent. She doesn't remember being a tree, but if she did, she would remember not being able to move from her spot, not being able to do the things she used to do, and forced to stay in place, to stay put, because there's nothing else she can do.... She thinks that there are days when being a tree and being in her wheelchair has no difference.

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Something about Luke wearing this fit while poisoning Thalia's tree is so evil bc wdym he's the hottest man alive but is beating kids up cos he's beefing w the gods 😭

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I love how these two have a similar smile, like if I saw them smiling down the street I would think "ah brothers"