#pjo chris

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I can't believe Percy recognizes Clarisse and Chris's slow burn but not his own💔

[calypso-the-nymph]

Sherman: Clarisse! Your love's calling! Clarisse: ah! Silena? 🥺 Sherman: Ellis: Mark: Sherman: n-no..? Clarisse: fuck- sorry! C-CHRIS! Yeah, Chris!

[owlleahbeth]

Clarisse, Annabeth and Chris in S2 of Percy Jackson & the Olympians 🔱

[imollapaska]

So there's these issues with continuity about Chris going insane and wandering in the desert and being brought to Camp Half-Blood since in BotL it's said that he was found wandering in the desert last summer which means the summer of SoM. So here's my headcanony timeline of that! And everything after that...

Clarisse is a year rounder but she has a relationship with her mother and visits her occasionally in Phoenix, Arizona. I think that she is a year rounder because of monster attacks, problems in school and neglectful home life.

Clarisse turns 15 years old in September and that's why Ares tells her to take his chariot for a ride.

When Annabeth says that Chris was found "last summer", it wasn't actually summer but it felt like summer because Clarisse was in Phoenix, there was so warm and nice in the camp too! Chris was found in September, so before TTC. Silly Annabeth, you made everyone confused!

So for her birthday, Clarisse goes to visit her mother in Phoenix for a couple of weeks.

It's Clarisse who goes to hiking and finds Chris there in the desert, wandering and babbling about the string.

Clarisse takes him to her mother's house and it's okay to Clarisse's mom, she knows this boy (I have headcanon that Clarisse and Chris are both from Arizona and have been occasionally in the same class at various schools).

Clarisse and Clarisse's mom try to nurse him back to health at first by themselves. Chris is not as mad, it feels like he had just got a bad concussion and maybe a sun poisoning.

But in couple of days Clarisse calls Chiron and Chiron comes to interview Chris (and Clarisse gives him ice tea and tour in her Arizona home, how sweet!)

Chiron stays in Arizona for a few days, he tries to heal Chris and talk with him. He realizes that Luke is investigating the labyrinth and trying to get to camp that way. He goes with Clarisse to the desert near by where Chris was found and they together find the entrance to the labyrinth.

Clarisse, Chiron and Annabeth start to brainstorm about ideas and theories about how to distroy the entrance they found (it's near Clarisse's home, it's dangerous and explains why she gets attacked so much more than her siblings!)

Clarisse's stepfather lends them a wrecking ball and Clarisse practises first with a building (so much fun, Clarisse and her stepfather grew to like each other more during this activity!!)

Clarisse tries to distroy the entrance with wrecking ball but it really does nothing.

Chiron and Clarisse come to the decision that Clarisse needs to go explore the labyrinth. Chiron takes Clarisse back to camp to prepare herself, they leave Chris at Clarisse's mom, because he is insane but he eats, drinks, is manageable. Chiron tries to hide his scent with mist so the monsters would leave him alone. Manipulating mist like this is very hard and tiring for him, but it buys him more time to think what to do with Chris.

This is all during like late September to middle/late October.

In camp Clarisse and Annabeth study labyrinth together for a couple of weeks and Clarisse trains with Chiron for her solo mission. This is during late October to start November and then Clarisse leaves for her mission.

At first she seeks the entrances. She always goes a little way to the tunnels but Chiron told her not to go too far because it's so dangerous. Only to get an idea of her whereabouts and then she reports to Chiron what she saw. Chiron and Annabeth gather this information and try to make something out of it.

After about two weeks she goes missing, as the labyrinth swallows her. She stuck and forced to go deeper. She almost dies a few times. Chiron tries to contact her but labyrinth doesn't allow it. To her she's only in there for a few days but when she comes back it's been a month, it's late December. She contacts Chiron and Argus drives her back to camp. Sherman is relieved when his sister comes back, looking ragged but alive and well!

Clarisse spends Christmas in camp as she's too weak to go back home but she goes to spend new year with her mother and at the same time Chiron picks Chris to camp, arriving at night. At camp Chris goes wild and flees to basement, becoming more insane and depressed. Too bad Mr.D just went to for his mission...

Clarisse comes back to camp after a couple days with her mom. She is worried about Chris, visits him often in the basement and tells Annabeth and Chiron more about her time in labyrinth. She and Annabeth try to make sense about what she saw there.

Then Chiron comes to Clarisse with a bunch of books in his hands, looking serious. "You need to go back to your schoolwork! You've missed almost all of first semester. At this rate you'll miss all the summer fun."

Clarisse is so tired during BotL. She's had her own quest. Her driving test. Her scouting mission, getting lost in the labyrinth. She's traumatized about the labyrinth, had nightmares about it. She's been taking care of Chris. Worrying about Chris. Training hard, so hard that Percy notices. Training others. Being head councellor. Studying 10th grade in just a couple of months. Trying to be better person when her first instinct is still violence so she could make friends.

She can feel the upcoming war but she's not excited. She's exhausted. She's supposed to train campers and follow her own schedule too, but she just stays with Chris. Chiron can see her pain but he can't take it away. All he can do is order her back to her regular schedule, order her back to normal summer camp life, to move her body, to get something else to think about.

(And that exhaustion and disappoinment is the reason why she's so petty in TLO. It's not really about the chariot it's about respect and validation she - or her cabin - truely doesn't get. Clarisse is still 17 year old ADHD girl who doesn't have the words to express her feelings - her instinct is still to go for her knife and choose violence and hate. Yes, she's a better person but she is still flawed. She doesn't know how to say "I need to feel validated and that you all care for me and my siblings, that our actions and sacrifices for this camp are seen and valued, that WE are valued and loved in this camp, that we are not just some toy soldiers to sacrifice to this war".

And I'm pretty sure it takes to her twenties even to realize it's what she needs and even longer to know how to say it. And that's why Chris is so good to her, he knows this all without saying - but he doesn't have the words for it either, he just knows what she needs and gives it to her).

[fandomluver-101]

It is so hard to feel sympathy for PJO Hermes that every time my friend talks about him, I get very annoyed. Hermes was not a good parent, he wasn't even decent. And I'm not even talking about how badly he failed Luke, I'm talking about how he failed Chris.

Luke gets to camp and he's claimed. Travis and Connor get to camp and they're claimed. Chris gets to camp and is never claimed. He spent years in his father's cabin sleeping on the floor, never claimed. The bare minimum!

And I don't care about Hermes being "too busy with his domains," he wasn't too busy to visit May, he wasn't too busy to during Percy's quest, he wasn't too busy ever. Don't come with this "Hermes can't be a good dad because of the ancient laws," he can't be a good dad because he doesn't want to be.

The bare fucking minimum of claiming your kid and he couldn't even do that. Hermes had multiple children that he claimed, some of whom likely came after Chris. And Riordan made it worse because, guess what? Chris is Hispanic - the claimed Hermes children are White (ignoring Alice, who didn't exist until TOA). What the actual fuck, Riordan.

Hermes never was a good parent and never had the potential to be one, laws or not. Bare. Minimum.

[pain-is-too-tired]

I remember seeing someone mention that instead of having abilities related to Hermes being good of roads/travelers Chris got more of the psychopomp part instead. So he didn't have a kind of internal GPS or whatever and mainly could better interact with ghosting the Labyrinth (I forgot the full post about it but it was kinda like that?)

But, I offer that Chris has a kinda internal GPS with his psychopomp type abilities, but they specifically only to lead him to entrances to the underworld.

For those who don't know btw psychopomp refers to a god who guides souls to the afterlife. Hermes was often depicted as one.

And honestly, the idea of Chris having those abilities is so interesting to me. Especially with his interactions with Minos.

I wanna write that so bad-

[bugwolfsstuff]

Pjo spoilers for the books below the cut

Do you think Luke was sad over Chris?

Like thats his brother! Did he not mourn him when he realized that Chris didnt come back from the labyrinth?

Did he not feel guilty when/if Silena told him that Chris has returned with his mind in pieces?

How did he feel seeing Chris on the opposite side with his mind fixed?

Show! Chris and Show! Luke's relationship is fucking hurting my soul cus i know what happens.

[calypso-the-nymph]

Guys, they're dating, trust