When people ship Percy with the gods, I know they're projecting on to/using him (or her for you <3) as a self insert bc they don't want to admit to wanting to fuck a deadbeat parent so they use the character who famously despises the gods bc he *is* the product of a deadbeat as a cover
Godsshipping is one of those pairings where on premise alone,you have to heavily favor one side of it while neglecting and lying to yourself about the other half of it so it'll look in-character for both of them and not you reducing 1/2 down to arm candy.Wanting even strictly platonic/familial validation from shitty older men is innately ooc from Percy and we READ her ON-PAGE demanding Paul prove HIMSELF to HER,which he did and that's why he's her real dad and she gives even less shits about Poseidon after they officially became father and daughter.You can't 'Oh,daddy issues explanation' on a character who dosen't have 'daddy issues' and canonically copes with their fatherly trauma through parental behavior and looking out for others with abusive dads/abusive older male figures in their lives,especially younger survivors.The irony is almost all Godsshipping stans insist they want Percy to stop not getting credit for his feats throught canon,as if a top feat of his isn't his never ending unfolding to the gods' wills and they also claim it shouldn't matter the show is fixing Percabeth's problematic elements because it dosen't change the books yet they believe the logic of canon not mattering to transformative works should still apply to them.They're so disrespectful in the worst ways possible both to the series and fans who actually engage with canon and good faith divergences from it and they get soooooo butthurt when you point out their content isn't accurate to anything really except how badly they want yet can't get a man.I've yet to hear points in favor of any Godsshipping variation applicable to anything Percy'd desire or benefit from and that's sort of the point in their actual relathionship,isn't it?That the gods are everything Percy dosen't want to put up with,be around or emulate?Never have been,never will or would be?Their story is about victimhood and them owning it and you can't remove/ignore that without landing at an entirely different character.You also can't get pissy over Walker!Percy under the reasoning he's blonde and blue eyed when your stupid shallow ass ships Perpollo and probably Lukercy and fanon Jercy too and you start stomping your foot and throwing racist schoolyard bully tantrums every time Leahbeth breaths












