#gaea pjo

[witchhazelevesque]

“Something heavy crashed inside the workshop”

“She can’t hear you”

All that even before Leo tried using his fire as a defense

Wouldn’t surprise me if Gaea just tricked Leo into thinking it was the fire that killed his mother

[nyxdreamweaver]

Okay, I just had a conversation with @dontspillthefrijoles43 where they brought up the idea of Possessed!Leo and how he'd act.

In both of our au's and canon, Possessed Leo would be more irritable, quiet to himself and with others even. And his jokes might come off more harsher than he wanted, which would frustrate the other party.

Then they brought up the fact about Frank v.s. Leo beef they had in MOA and HOH and considering the timeline of the beef and Leo getting possessed, they wondered about how much of Leo's actions towards the son of Mars was truly his? Or if it was really the eidolon causing the divide.

In my opinion and pretty much how canon goes, it's a 50/50 on the whole possession thing.

Of course, many of Leo's jabs and insults towards Frank was because of a) Frank's initial hostility towards Leo cause the 'Sammy' thing and b) Leo's infamous low self esteem.

Since the very beginning of HOO, we've known about Leo having a bad self image about himself, constantly comparing himself to others that fit both his and others ideal of a 'perfect man' (Jason, Percy, etc)

In Leo's eyes, he's not a good enough fighter, he's scrawny and weak. Besides his flames, his powers are lacking. And that all he's good for is jokes and being the sidekick/mechanic of the Seven. Not to mention how he's considered as 'unattractive'

(WHICH IS A GODDAMN LIE, HE'S BEAUTIFUL BUT THROUGH UNCONVENTIONAL BEAUTY STANDARDS AND NOT EUROCENTERIC ONES!! IN THIS ESSAY, I WILL—)

But the idea that the Eidolon who's inhabiting the demigod's mind and that's able to look through his memories, is able to weaponize the previous foster teens inferiority complex in order to cause issues between him and the other Argo 2 members? Pure cinema and I wish I noticed this back when I first read HOO in middle school.

Now, we don't know exactly WHEN Leo got possessed. Judging from the very first chapter in MOA, it had to have happen either the journey to California or before they began their flight to New Rome back at CHB but that also brings up new questions:

Was Leo the only one supposed to be possessed and was this a way for Gaia to isolate him from the others?

Because again in MOA, Jason and Percy only got possessed when the boys and Piper arrives to the wheat field in Kansas so obviously before that, Leo was the only possessed crew member.

AND! And during TLH, Gaia admits that she wants Leo on her side because he's 'the most valuable member of the Seven' but his consent rejection and hostility towards her, the earth goddess chose another way to get the son of Hephaestus on her side of the war, hence the use of the Eidolon.

(Wow, this rant went on longer than I thought but I said what I said)

[wanderingmind867]

For once, I don't think Gaea manipulated Leo and Hazel's connection. She uses it to manipulate them, but she isn't completely responsible for it. When Hazel Levesque left New Orleans on Gaea's orders, I suppose gaea could have implanted an instinct in Sammy Valdez to move to Texas. But I don't think even she could control sammy's daughter or granddaughter (i don't remember which) falling in love with Hephaestus. That was beyond her control to orchestrate, in my opinion.

But still, when Medea told Gaea of Leo Valdez (and Gaea subsequently killed his mom), I bet she put the pieces together then. And as any good villian would do, she promptly realized she had a good manipulation trick, ready and willing to be used. She may not have orchestrated their connection, but she sure can try to spin it to her advantage.

[kyuremking]

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[scarbordoefair]

So my friend got me into Percy Jackson.

[bunkernine]

the fact that ppl draw Gaea (pjo) as black woman makes me upset... why the villain?

🤔 hmm... I don't see too many pjo gaea depictions but there's a mature/mothering archetype for black women that can sometimes play along I guess, but it's not that common. I think it probably came from a comparison of "skin like the earth/dirt". I guess the problem really comes from is all the black people you draw villains? are any of your heroes black? like, personally, black villains are fine, but it depends on the rest of the cast, you feel? if someone drew the seven against gaea, and hazel's looking like annabeth 2.0, while gaea is dark as hell, then yeah, I'd be concerned.... though now that I think about it, if only gaea and hazel are black (the latter being explicitly black, and so it'll be disturbing not to draw her as such), and the rest of the cast is pale, that's strange too

[incorrect-quotes-of-the-pjo-kind]

Gaia: You're too late DemiDorks! You'll never stop me now!

Jason: That's where you're wrong, evil-doer! We will stop you with the powers of:

Percy: Friendship!

Hazel: Harmony!

Annabeth: Incredible violence.

Piper: And love!

[wanderingmind867]

Gaea is horrifying. Hazel's story might serve as the best example of Gaea's pure evil nature. She possesed Hazel's mother, forced Hazel to try and revive Alcyoneus (by almost literally birthing him from the womb of the earth in Alaska), and was then perfectly willing to let Hazel's mom die.

Now that Hazel's returned to Alaska (and I'm at around the 420 page mark in The Son of Neptune as I write this at school), Gaea's trying to suffocate Hazel and Percy to death in Muskeg. Meanwhile, she's offering Hazel a dreamworld where she can grow up in New Orleans with her mother and her childhood crush. Also, she's trying to make her drowsy and weak with enchanted flowers and floral scents. And then she defends all of that with lines like these:

"What is real?" Gaea said. "Is your second life real, Hazel? You're supposed to be dead. Is it real that you're sinking into a bog, suffocating?"

And that, right there, encapsulates the horror of Gaea. She's the very earth we walk on, the beautiful but deadly plants and flowers are her appendages and tendrils on the mortal plain. She was an psychopathic wife (killing ouranous at the first signs of struggle) and an abusive mother and grandmother (convincing her sons, the male titans to kill their father; trying to overthrow and bathe in the blood of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the olympians and demigods). She's a sociopathic monster, and I think she makes me despise the earth.

I already hated characters like Poison Ivy before Gaea, but Gaea makes me hate them even more. I want to imagine that characters like Poison Ivy are her avatars amongst mortals. If she could possess Marie Levesque, why can't she possess Pamela Isley? And that's now a more dark interpretation on Poison Ivy that I desperately want to see: Poison Ivy is a woman whose body has been stolen away from her by Gaea, and now she has to sit and watch as she loses control over her actions. That may be dark, but it might make Poison Ivy more compelling to me.