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something that i love about the final chapter of season one is luke outright saying that the gods are arrogant loudmouths who hold too much pride to power. who'd much rather have their child die than do something about it. and we don't believe him at first. then we follow percy throughout the series, getting our hopes and watching them crash and burn right alongside his. until we reach a point where we understand what luke meant and how right he was. excellent storytelling.

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So I’ve been thinking.

I would love to have more official Percy and Annabeth stories (I want the fluff, I want the mundane, I want the college struggles, and a large part of me would definitely love to see some build off of the Dark Percy themes from HoH. I mean, how cool would it be to see such a developed hero figure become the villain? And to have a book narrated partially from his perspective and partially from the perspective of new demigods and older campers who knew him? Forced into godhood, maybe? What if he died with Annabeth but was turned away at the gates of Hades because Zeus had re-‘gifted’ godhood with no returns, and now he’s a terrifying, bloodbending, earthshaking deity. . . Some nonsense like that)

But what I really love about the way that we close on Percy and Annabeth is that they took a different path.

Percy’s mom wanted him to have a happy ending, and, as a kid, I always thought that was going to be up to some invisible higher power, like the Fates. —that Percy would just have to survive until his happy ending came, and then it would be alright.

But Annabeth’s response to Percy’s kidnapping and Percy’s response to Lester show us something completely different. They’re fed up. They’re less willing to struggle and wait for the light at the end of the tunnel that might be their happy ending.

They’re learning to say “No”.

How great is it that there’s a book out there that teaches kids (and, gotta be honest, adults . . . Sooooo many adults) that the pathway to a happy ending is Setting Healthy Boundaries and Standing Up To Toxic Authority Figures.

Percy and Annabeth are going to get their happy ending, not because they sat on their asses and hoped for it (because, as we’ve learned from Pandora, hope is hard to keep without an attentive heart) or because they fought to obtain some pre-existing prize that was waiting for them (Percy has weighed your reluctant prizes, Zeus, and he has found them wanting).

Percy and Annabeth will get their happy ending because they Chose it and because they Refused to let Someone Else Force them down a path designed either to hurt them or to discard their personal welfare.

Would you look at that.

We can have our happy endings, too.

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