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Does. This. Mean

Apollo Would Sing Some Sick Beats To The Souls Before Hermes Takes Them Away???

Cause I’m totally here for this!!!!!

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This is not my original post it belongs to @caffeinatedflumadiddlebutpjo who deleted their account but it’s so good and needs to be preserved

I like that there is just... A noticeable gap in the gods' under standing of mortal children. Like, Zeus really accused a TWELVE-YEAR-OLD of stealing his master bolt and the only justification I have for this is "Well, Hermes stole Apollo's cattle right after birth so that tracks".

But now I have a theory that the gods don't rediv understand how mortal

children work and that's why they're so blase about sending them to do ridiculous nonsense?

Like...

Zeus: What do you mean 'first word'? Why would they only speak one word?

Artemis: Humans can only cry when they are born.

Zeus: Nonsense. When vou were born you didn't cry. You delivered your brother and then came to me to ask for a birthday present.

Artemis: Humans aren't the same though. They can't walk or talk for many months. When they do speak it is only in small, short words.

Zeus: …that's not true

Artemis: I'm afraid it is

Zeus, under his breath: What the fuck

Later on...

Zeus: Did you know human babies can't speak when thev're tirst born?

Poseidon: that's so sad. Are demigods like that?

Zeus: I have no idea.

Poseidon: Mavbe we should ask around more. Athena was saying something about brain development.

Zeus: Their... THEIR BRAINS AREN'T DEVELOPED?!?!

Poseidon: I guess

Zeus: THESE HUMANS ARE WALKING AROUND WITHOUT FULLY FORMED BRAINS?!

Poseidon: I mean, so are you and I don't complain.

The quest continues...

Hermes: So... you're telling me that human kids don't know how to fend themselves at all? They need to be taught? I mean, fighting, of course, but outside of that???

Poseidon: Yeah, I thought it was like fish

where you just naturally know what you’re supposed to do. But apparently they have no idea and need to be shown everything

Hermes: I... that's awful. Why?

Poseidon: I don't know.

Suddenly all the gods are very concerned...

Ares: You mean to tell me that my kids are probably traumatized from war??

Hermes: That's what the research shows. Human kids aren't supposed to handle that kind of stuff and demigods are more human than we anticipated.

Ares: But... War?

Hermes: Idk what to tell you, bud. I'm beginning to understand why they hate us tho.

Everyone is naturally panicking

Demeter: YOU SENT MONSTERS AFTER MY BABIES WHEN THEY HAD NO BRAINS AND COULDN'T EVEN READ?!?

Hecate: HOW WAS I SUPPOSED TO KNOW THAT DEMIGODS WEREN'T BORN KNOWING HOW TO READ!?!?!

Athena: Our children all have dyslexia.

Demeter: YOU LET YOUR DAUGHTERRUN AWAY WHEN SHE WAS SEVEN! SILENCE!

Athena:…And? She is very mature and had my protection. I'm not like the rest of you. rhave done my researcn on humans and led her accordingly.

Apollo: Think of it this way, Athena. She would have just started losing baby teeth when she left home.

Athena: What?

Apollo: According to my son, they shed teeth. Like, they fall out and get new, bigger ones when they re old enougn. Didn't you know that?

Hades: That's disgusting. Our children do that?

Athena: I... That's not true! Your son is a liar!

Apollo: I AM THE GOD OF TRUTH!

It's a whole thing on Olympus

Hephaestus: Wait, they NEED to eat?!?! It isn't just for fun???

Hermes: What about water???

Dionysus: How do none ot vou know these things. Maybe you all should be camp directors for awhile-

Hades: Eight hours? They need EIGHT hours of sleep? A Day? There's no way NICO Is getting that much..

Dionysus: Oh, are they? Yeah lol. None of them are getting that much.

Aphrodite: Oh my gods... What happens if they don't get enough? Do they become ugly? ARE YOU GOING TO MAKE MY KIDS UGLY?!

Zeus: They're so fragile. Why are they even allowed out of the camp?! Chiron, explain!

Chiron: You... Uh, ask them to do stuff for you?

All of Olympus: *flips a table*

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Yet think, a day will come, when fate's decree And angry gods shall wreak this wrong on thee; Phoebus and Paris shall avenge my fate, And stretch thee here before the Scaean gate.

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random classmate during a Greek mythology unit: “I wonder what demigods would be up to if they existed in modern times…”

Percy Jackson, just having pulled an all-nighter studying for the SAT: “this.”

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson #percy series #pjo #persassy #heroes of olympus

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Two heartbreaking parralels in the riordanverse:

When Percy bathed in the Styx he saw Annabeth pull him out of the water, out of the pain he felt when he was in the river.She said: "You're not getting away from me that easily".That was the moment when Annabeth became Percy's life-line.

Fast-forward to HoH when Percy was hanging from that ledge when the fall happend he said "You're not getting away from...Never again",in that moment Percy also became Annabeth's life-line but in a more poetical way, but unlike Annabeth in the Styx, Percy couldn't pull Annabeth out of her pain, insted he went through the pain with her.

I'm crying.

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Who wants to hear a conspiracy theory?

You guys know Rick’s favorite unexplained plot device aka the fact that demigods just constantly stumble upon useful info in their dreams, learning stuff that’s specifically pertinent to whatever they need to do, getting premonitions of their own and others’ future? To the point that this is unofficially considered a standard demigod superpower despite the fact that the notion contradicts the established lore, according to which children can only inherit powers related to their godly parents’ domains? 

Well, we were talking about it on discord the other day and @tsarinatorment​​ jokingly declared she was just going to blame it on Apollo because at least that would make more sense. We had a laugh and that was that.

But then I kept thinking. It DOES make more sense. It just does make more sense that the god of knowledge, prophecy and protector of the youth himself, Apollo, who we all know deep down always cared more than he let on, who would therefore have been both able and willing, would give this gift to the children of the gods after the passing of the Ancient Laws made it impossible for the Olympians to intervene in other, more direct ways, to help and guide the kids in the most unobtrusive, hard-to-prove-and-easy-to-deny way possible.

And the kicker is… there is textual evidence of this. Like, a ton of it.

No really. Listen. Listen.

Keep reading

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I’m suffering so y’all will have to suffer with me

There’s a lot to be said about how Apollo chooses to present himself in this scene.

Keep reading

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I am actually obsessed with Percy’s burial shroud and the implications of it in BOTL. There’s just such a stark difference between what it looks like then and what it looks like in TLT. going from an old bedsheet spray painted with a face with exed-out eyes (also Chiron wtf, you allowed that?) to this beautiful sea green silk sheet embroidered with a trident.

It’s such a tiny and simple way to illustrate how much Percy means to the camp now. In TLT Percy was new, barely there even a couple weeks at most, he was clearly lonely, and a lot of the campers were probably angry at him because this child of the big three shows up and may have started a war between the gods. BUT NOW Percy has friends, he has people at this camp who genuinely care for and respect him enough to make him this shroud when he has no siblings there to do it for him.

This brings me to question ‘who made his burial shroud?’, we know that the Ares cabin volunteered in TLT but who made it now? Did a specific cabin volunteer? Or was it a collaboration between all the friends Percy had made from different cabins? Picture that, picture all these campers getting together and pitching ideas for the pattern, arguing over the material, and a different person each day trading off shifts to work on it because Percy’s their friend and if something happens to him he deserves a good burial shroud.

FURTHERMORE was it done by the time Annabeth made it back from Mt. Saint Helens? and if it wasn’t do you think she helped work on it or could she not even bear to look at the shroud she may have to burn for the boy she loves, the shroud for her bravest, closest friend

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“I apologize for the person I'll become when the Percy Jackson show comes out--” WELL I DON'T. I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOR LIKE TEN YEARS NOW. WATCH ME SCREAM

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In other news, Percy Jackson has dethroned the Queen.

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When I first read the Percy Jackson series, I was in third grade. When the series drops, I will have graduated from college. I cried hearing that first line. When I say that this is YEARS of excitement......I will be insufferable when this show drops.

#percy jackson #Percy Jackon and the Olympians #PJO #d23 #percy series #percy jackson series #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #annabeth chase #grover underwood #percy trailer

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No one:

A disembodied voice and the image of a tree in late afternoon: “Look-”

Everyone:

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i can’t even form coherent thoughts now, i’m just screaming and drowning in a sea of tears, but hearing percy say that iconic first line is literally bringing back to all those years ago when i picked up the lighting thief, and to all those years after that when i carried percy, annabeth and grover and the whole camp with me everywhere i went. i can’t believe we get to have this series now and grow with them a little more

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"look, i didn't want to be a half-blood"

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Where are the old, old tumblr posts about how we want a tv show and about how we need the first lines to be said out loud and how we dared to hope they might do this, AND NOW THEY DID IT

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I AM NOT THE RESPONSABLE FOR THE PERSON I'M BECAME WHEN I SAW THIS!!!!!!!

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percy, estelle and annabeth and peter, morgan and mj are two sides of the same coin