I've seen a couple takes on techno being Like That because he went a little insane due to the voices as an embodiment of the blood god and usually we see the blood god as this indifferent if not malicious entity but consider this: BENEVOLENT, KIND, LOVING blood god who saw this feral little kid growing up on his own and decided to make it their conduit because they fell in love head over heels the way parents fall in love when they first hold their new bown baby. BG tried to make a well adjusted adult out of tech but he was never properly socialized before being adopted so he's Just Like That DESPITE the blood god's best efforts
I always love to portray the Blood God in a more possitive light. In mythology, gods related to blood are usually also gods of family, chidbirth, loyalty, victory, wine, fire, or even LIFE. That last one is fun if you contrast it to Phil being the patron of the Goddess of death.
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Apparently there's been a lot of discourse about Nico and Percy on Twitter lately? Idk about here cause I haven't seen much personally, but here are a few facts I think people need to remember, coming from someone who is rereading the series right now:
Nico and Percy do NOT hate each other. They don't even dislike each other
Nico never hated Percy. Nico never really blamed Percy for Bianca's death (he was projecting. This was explained in tbotl).
Nico never wanted Percy dead or to get any revenge on Percy for Bianca's death
Percy never bullied Nico or was even outright mean to him, except for in the Last Olympian
Nico and Percy were on good terms by the end of the Battle of the Labyrinth. They were fine. There was literally no bad blood between them
NICO WAS WRONG TO TAKE PERCY TO HADES WITH NO WARNING. Nico thought Percy wouldn't get hurt because Hades told him he wouldn't hurt him (remember, Nico has no reason not to trust his dad), but Nico still could have at least explained the situation to Percy before taking him to Hades. There was no need to trick him. Percy might have even agreed to go talk to Hades to help Nico in exchange for Nico's help gaining the curse of Achilles, or explained his history with Hades and that Hades was most likely tricking him. Nico probably would have listened! There should have been communication from Nico to Percy
PERCY WAS WRONG FOR THE WAY HE TREATED NICO IN THE LAST OLYMPIAN. Yes, he was stressed. Yes, he was under a lot of pressure. That does not excuse his actions. Him being mad at Nico is 100% understandable. Him holding a sword to Nico's throat and purposely not moving it when he realized Nico was there to get him out is inexcusable, especially when he claimed Silena and Luke were heroes after they got multiple demigods killed and almost killed him/ got him killed multiple times (he called them heroes in the same book, when he was just as stressed, if not more so bc he was literally in the middle of fighting a war and people were dying around him). All three of them took actions to right their wrongs, but only Nico isn't considered a hero to Percy? Why, because he didn't die for him?
Regardless, Nico and Percy DO NOT HAVE BEEF after that. Nico convinced Hades to help and goes and helps in the battle of Manhattan, and Percy appreciates and acknowledges it. No more beef between them
I'm going to stop here because I haven't reread the Heroes of Olympus series yet, and I don't want to misremember anything, but the point is:
Nico and Percy have a complicated relationship. They both have hurt each other, but they've moved past it. They're friends. They're not super duper close, but they do care about each other, and no one can or should deny that.
The faster people accept that they both have done bad things to each other and have moved past those things and don't dislike each other, the faster we can put an end to this ridiculous discourse.
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What happened to Butch that he is uncomfortable with humans so much?
Is it more like he's desensitizing himself to do his job?
he wasn't raised around them that much
i was thinking this is a world where all the monsters have been on the surface for a while, or were never exiled, so there are communities that are exclusively monster without humans present.
he was raised on a commune/farm where families of monsters lived together, and he eventually moved out when he was around 17-19 and moved into another area away from home, one that had a mixed population.
he was wholly unfamiliar with humans at the time he moved. at most he'd only seen them arrive at the farm to buy/sell product.
i'm still trying to figure out why exactly he's so uncomfortable around them, but if u were to live on a sheltered commune and thrusted yourself into crime filled city life, you'd probably obtain Issues
like i said he has his prejudices, so he's more apt to distrust humans than monster kind, simply because of how he grew up.
over the years, he learned how humans worked and thought for the most part, not out of kindness and understanding, but more of just of a way to communicate and deal with them.
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hey hey hi i wanna see you be salty you’re always so lovely!! but 10 and 14 xx
i am blushing while also shouting bc i accidentally deleted lana’s ask like an idiot and as i was bashing my head with a chair repeatedly, i clicked on here and found u two asked the exact same questions!! soulmates i’ll say!
10. Most disliked arc? Why?
remember when j*r tried convincing us snape was a good person? LOLOL fuck that. he can rot in mud for all i care. oh also when harry like? forgave him? and named his fucking SON!!!! after him??!!;:&;$; (AND dumfuckledore ??:&:!) let harry hate ppl i say!! let him hold grudges and never ever forgive the shitty ppl in his life!!
14. Unpopular opinion about your fandom?
hmm honestly, i think this goes more with the ppl on tiktok and/or the younger, more annoying ppl (if you’re a younger follower: hiii! this isn’t about u probably, just a very specific targeted audience xx) but i’ve noticed that they won’t let characters have, like, nuance? with a lot of characters it tends to be very black-and-white and it’s like? people are shitty sometimes, so let them be! let them fuck up and make mistakes! idk. i just think most (if not all) characters in hp are honestly very complex, and by taking away this complexity, putting them on either the Good Side or Bad Side is just. boring?? there’s always a grey area i think everyone should explore. not to say in order to like them, but just to gain a better understanding, in a way, for why they are the way they are!
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