#but people forget that the fanon friendship percy has with thalia is 100% the canon friendship he has with clarisse

[tending-the-hearth]

i can't sleep and all i'm thinking about is how percy and clarisse are best friends but best friends in the most sibling "i hate you more than anything but if anyone so much as looks at you wrong i will kill them in a heartbeat" way

like their quest together where they saw each other's biggest fear, percy overhearing clarisse's conversation with ares, clarisse pleading with percy to understand that silena was a hero????

you cannot tell me that sally jackson didn't take one look at clarisse and not completely want to engulf this broken, hardened teenage girl in the warmest hug possible.

just percy and clarisse being best friends and no one knows the specifics, no one except for annabeth and chris knows exactly what went down.

and god forbid these two have a normal friendship, they will bicker and snap and say the harshest things, but they can also have entire conversations with their eyes and know exactly when the other is being triggered into a bad memory and needs to spar or talk.

like yes they're each other's rival but they're also each other's support system. they're best friends, they're siblings, they're enemies to friends to "i hope you get eaten by a hellhound but if that happened i'd go down to the underworld to get you back because i platonically can't live without you".

these two are trauma bonded to the max and i'm begging people to start talking about their friendship more

#pjo platonic relationships my beloved #like yes i love percy and thalia being bffs #but people forget that the fanon friendship percy has with thalia is 100% the canon friendship he has with clarisse #those two are like feral cats who bond together and can't be adopted alone #sally seeing clarisse and percy bicker: oh???? a new child???? #like clarisse and percy trust each other over almost everyone else #and would die for them in battle #but they'd also shove each other off the lava wall to win a petty race #and stab the other's hand to get the last of sally's cookies #i love them <3 #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #clarisse la rue #also i have a whole set of hcs abt all the manhattan battle head counselors being bonded in a way no one else understands #and being such a tight knit group #so i might make a post about that lmao