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The fact that the pjo books are all about given family being awful and found family being the thing that can change your life for the better and those who let their given family take up too much space in their mind are doomed to never be free of the cycle which can only be broken by letting go of their given family and focusing on what’s best for them; with each book focusing on someone who was abused or somehow let down by their given family, the ways that affects them and how this is resolved, sometimes happily and sometimes tragically. In this essay i will

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Luke in a crop top 👉👈

#luke castellan #pjo #art #not my art

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Peepee poopoo

#luke castellan #pjo #art #not my art

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i know there's a ton of Good Character Development reasons for percy to keep the curse of achilles but consider, the bullshit reasons

the hephaestus cabin used to make automatons for archery classes to fire at to get practice with moving targets, but it became a game for the apollo cabin and the ares cabin to see who could destroy the most automatons, and the hephaestus cabin went on strike. lee fletcher, head counselor at the time and also the resident archery instructor, went to chiron and started begging for a solution. chiron wants to be the person who says, "fix it yourself," but it's his job to train heroes, which is how chiron ends up digging out his old horse armor and spraypaints a red bullseye over the hindquarter piece and runs around getting fired at by teenagers and tweens. do you know how many times a pisses off kid "accidentally" missed the armor? and then percy takes on the curse of achilles, and now percy and chiron take shifts getting fired at by teenagers and tweens because percy doesn't know how to say no. they give percy chest/back armor spraypainted with a bullseye, as is tradition. this sometimes devolves into percy going, "hey will? can you shoot me in the eye with an arrow. i'm invulnerable but like, how invulnerable," and then will does it and percy falls over like I WASN'T PREPARED FOR IT TO NOT HURT I WASN'T PREPARED FOR HOW WEIRD THAT WAS GOING TO FEEL, WILL CAN YOU DO THAT AGAIN

he's banned from capture the flag because having percy on your team is emphatically unfair. percy doesn't like being banned from capture the flag, so he makes his own job for capture the flag, which is that he sneaks in and fucks with the teams while they play. absolutely no fighting, just pure "i wonder how necessary the stream is to the team's battle strategy. what if it moved" or "would suck, if the hephaestus cabin's war machines stopped working." he can't win but he can make it really hard for everyone else to. the camp counselor meeting over this particular issue is a shitshow, and it ends when katie gardiner throws a can of cheese whiz at annabeth for implying that the demeter kids couldn't beat her cabin at anything, up to and including dance dance revolution. chiron wakes up the next day to an official petition nailed to the big house door, demanding rights to dance dance revolution. this post is not about DDR, but for the sake of being right, i am telling you that nico would win DDR in an absolute landslide. my reasoning: the lotus casino had to have gotten DDR at some point, and nico, under full sway of the spell, did not realize there was anything weird about this game. he's had a fuckton of practice. he's basically unbeatable.

percy would lose round one of DDR, but again, this post is not about DDR. maybe it should be, considering i have weirdly intense opinions about demigod dance dance revolution. DDDR.

clarisse goes, "your face can't break most swords, can it," and percy's like, "what the fuck do you mean, my face can't break most swords? it's the curse of achilles. the point is that my face can break most swords. maybe even all swords," and that's how clarisse pisses off the hephaestus cabin permanently by breaking seven swords on percy's face before jake mason interrupts, screaming, "WHO DO YOU THINK MAKES THE SWORDS, LA RUE?" and once again the hephaestus kids go on strike. to smooth things over with jake, percy chills at the forges for a while doing menial tasks because he can't be burned while doing them. it becomes a game for campers to ask percy to hold boiling hot metal. they're teenagers, superpowers are cool. percy's just relieved he can't set himself on fire anymore, because getting burned alive in a volcano sucked.

percy can eat his mom's cookies directly out of the oven and it can't hurt him, and no mere mortal knows the joy of burning hot cookies. they taste better when they would scald anyone else's mouth.

thalia practicing lightning summoning with percy, or rather on percy, and guess what, that shit tickles? it tickles, but in your internal organs, it tickles. it's the weirdest fucking feeling. thalia's like WHY ARE YOU LAUGHING and percy's like I JUST NEED A SECOND...... I JUST NEED A SECOND

i think it should be a thing that when someone pisses off their biggest rival at camp and gets chased around with a weapon, they hide behind percy. not just because he has the curse of achilles, he also happens to be kind of a cool dude. he makes good conversation, while standing between you and a six foot spear being wielded by the person you dumped a can of paint on.

everyone kind of forgets to tell the new campers and one new kid who is a little bit of a pissant tries to attack percy while his back is turned, after a swordfighting class where percy tells him he can't just be a dick. the sword breaks on percy's shoulder. percy pretends not to notice, because percy can have a little fun, as a treat. the new kid lives in Fear

percy sleeps through the boring camp counselor meetings because Curse Of Achilles Naps, so chiron learns that if he frames an idea in the most boring fashion possible and then asks a half-asleep percy if he agrees, percy will just say yes automatically. he'll have at least one instant vote of support, even if the rest of the counselors are dicks about it.

i think annabeth would spend a lot of time practicing dance dance revolution, as someone who is naturally competitive and hates being beaten. i just had to get that out there.

#OMG BYE IM LAUGHING MY ASS OFF #FUCKING GEM #pjo #percy jackson #pissant i cant

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I fully believe that if Haley Riordan outlives his father we'll see a published story where Alabaster Torrington kills Percy Jackson.

#pjo #alabaster torrington

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yeah but if alabaster was in other books, he would solve everything too fast

True but if he was in the other books his hatred for Percy and the gods would override any common sense and he’d just spend the entire time smugly dangling the solution on a thread while the world falls apart around him.

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I shouldn't find it so funny that Howard *Clay*more named his kid after a rock-

[cont. of ask] Nvm ignore that Claymore was most certainly not his dad I'm just an idiot-

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH THIS MADE MY DAY SO BAD it’s no wonder that haley riordan has such bad naming sense, he’s a white man. Can’t expect that much from him 😔😔😔

#kai does an Answer #bangchanseonyondan #pjo #alabaster torrington #howard claymore

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Fuck being productive, have a meme.

(that was a joke, but you get what I mean.)

(That rhymes, I'm panicking)

#HSBDHEBCHEJDJSHDJJDDJD #ALABASTER BABYYYYY NOOO HAHAHAHAHAHAH #pjo #alabaster torrington

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I drew Baby Percy 🥳💙

#baby boy i love you #pjo #percy jackson #art #not my art

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#god what a mood

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olympian graces

underworld royalty

#WOW LOOK AT THEM!!! #pjo #thalia grace #jason grace #art #not my art

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ethan only joined at the end of the battle of the labyrinth, and by that time luke had been possessed by kronos :(( idk abt alabaster and ethan tho hmmm 

you know.....as fun as it is to think about a bad boy titan army demigod clique it’s just not realistic....luke ethan and alabaster aren’t really friends

#pjo #ethan nakamura #luke castellan #alabaster torrington #titan army #wow i am in my feelings

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on a slightly related note, rick posted earlier on instagram a picture of haley’s diploma (haley earned his masters in education, i think) so...haley riordan i am on my knees BEGGING... PLEASE...

alabaster is too underappreciated

HE REALLY IS OH MY GOD!!!! I feel like it’s not the fandom’s fault that nobody ever talks about him since he’s not even in like the og series, just a short story collection, which is a SHAME because i LOVE HIM!!!! can you imagine the emotional toll that LEADING an entire demigod unit in the titan army must have taken on him...and the fact that he lost all his siblings and blames himself for it??? like that makes me so upset??? i think it’s refreshing to see a titan army demigod whose loyalties never waned from kronos (unlike ethan & luke) and his relationship w them would have been so interesting...also i wonder what he’d do if he ever found out that percy actually doesn’t like the gods very much either. also him and howard’s relationship is so sweet it really kicked me in the soft spot i have for the found family trope. i remember rick saying that haley had plans for alabaster but “college came first” but now he’s graduated so um. mr haley if you’re reading this what does the c in alabaster c torrington stand for, ive always wondered

#alabaster torrington #pjo

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ok i gotta ask bc i don't think this has ever been addressed, but like. aren't half the gods in the greek pantheon related. like do they explain that in the series?? like does it not count and the demigods can date each other? i'm not tryna sound accusing or anything i've just been stuck thinking abt this for like a Month, i'm not that into the series so idk what the consensus is if anything

so the official canon is that the gods don't have DNA, they just insert god magic where the DNA goes and that's how half-blood children are made. and that makes sense, considering they are pretty much just beings of power, and in the books they have "true forms" that are described as blinding light and being impossible for a mortal to perceive, and, like, i don't think amorphous balls of light know what genetics is. this is also how the gods can bone and sometimes their kids just don't...... sometimes you just bone someone and they give birth to a dragon, and, you know, that's god life. that dragon is your son now. i forget who poseidon went horizontal tango with to make cetus, but i'm certain it was probably not someone who contributed the genes "whale-shark-fish-sea monster" and i think all the god magic just entirely made that up. and yes, i do think it's really amusing that percy's namesake murdered his half-brother, and that sometimes, percy's namesake murders percy's half-brother with the decapitated head of his dad's ex-girlfriend who later tried to murder percy and then percy shipped said head to olympus. who said godly families weren't fun as hell?

so: no DNA, and the only people considered siblings are people who share a parentage. and it does get a bit weirder for athena kids as far as i recall, because athena is a maiden goddess, so she doesn't have sexual relations with anyone - but she does have kids. she just ends up giving people she's fond of and respects a child in a baby cradle. fandom gives athena a lot of shit for only having blond-haired gray-eyed babies when she isn't blonde herself, but maybe she hasn't mastered child design yet, maybe she only knows how to make blond hair. i don't know. i haven't exactly buffed up my athena mythology knowledge and as i type all of this out i'm realizing that it's super weird lore for a children's series, and i'm doubting whether rick actually put any of this on paper, and if i just made it up somehow. but anyway, i think athena kids either don't have DNA or athena steals a DNA sample from people she's planning to surprise with a baby and - uh. thinks? about it? if athena kids are born the way athena was does this mean athena's just repeatedly chopping her head open, but prematurely, before they can sprout into a fully-grown athena kid? i have to think about this.

but gods still have some say in how demigods appear, case in point: literally everyone says percy looks like poseidon. it's like the second most common comment made about his appearance. pretty sure he walked into his first class with undercover chiron and chiron was like POSEIDON BROKE THE RULES WHAT THE FUCK and no one told percy who his godly parent probably was at first because, well, literally no one in TLT tells percy anything. my theory, my hot take, is that the level of control over a demigod's appearance depends ENTIRELY on the god. athena, obviously, has the most control, because she....... presumably she daydreams about her children intensely and then axes them out of her skull and has some owls run on a baby delivery? god that's so fucking wild. so athena kids bear similarities, being the blond hair and gray eyes clan. but hermes kids, as far as i can recall, are never said to physically resemble hermes in any way - they just have his mannerisms, his personality, his gravitas. it implies that there's no hard-and-fast rule to what demigods inherit. so when it came to percy i think poseidon was like i'm going to let all of you motherfuckers know his lineage! bite me zeus i broke the stupid oath! and just stamps his features down, or maybe it's more of a situation where he thought so highly of sally that he wanted to leave more of himself with her. i will not pretend to know the motives of the Sea Thot. and then there's also another possibility that percy isn't actually a poseidon carbon-copy aside from hair and eye color, but it's the "aura" he gives off that is the exact same. after all, the only people who know that percy looks like poseidon are the people that have also met poseidon. idk, there's room for interpretation, it's Magic Genetics.

i might be a little obsessed with Magic Genetics. i am obsessed with Magic Genetics, okay? wouldn't you be, if you considered the inherent awkwardness in sally saying she's pregnant and the first thing poseidon comes up with is, "don't have a water birth, he'll turn into a horse," wouldn't you be obsessed with that? or maybe it's just me.

but! i can't make a post about Magic Genetics without mentioning the ways that rick writing characters having godly characteristics, specifically eye color, has contributed to some deeply eurocentric ideas about beauty. in the case of hazel, a black girl, she's given gold eyes that are attributed to pluto, and piper, a cherokee girl, is given "kaleidoscope" eyes that change color, attributed to aphrodite. neither of these are physically possible, but especially impossible for their race. it's worth noting that they're the only two women of color in the seven. a lot of fans of color have pointed out that this is a pattern that pushes unnatural beauty standards for people of color. when it comes to percy and annabeth, who are both assumed white, it's not impossible for either of them to have the eye color they do even if it's linked to their godly parentage, but for hazel and piper it's impossible.

#pjo #this is really interesting #ive always personally thought that gods can pick how much of themselves their kids inherit #and i mean it's canon that gods can take on take on pretty much any form #so maybe they just have temporary DNA when assuming a mortal form?? #so technically demigods dating each other don't really commit incest #or risk inbreeding

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Calypso: Are you and Jason a thing?

Leo: N—No?!?!?!? Why would you say that?!!

Calypso: What do bees make?

Leo: ????? Honey????

Jason: Yes, dear?

Calypso: Never lie to me again.

#pjo #valgrace #leo valdez #jason grace #happy birthday leo!! #and belated happy birthday jason ! #pjo incorrect quotes

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Percy: Where are the adult demigods??

Chiron: That’s a really personal question and I don’t feel comfortable answering that :/

#JANDJSJSJDJEJEJEJJE CHIRON OPEN UR PURSW #chiron #percy jackson #pjo

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the stars are beautiful tonight

#AMEN!!! #pjo #zoe nightshade #art #not my art