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thetimetraveler24 · 3 months
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Sometimes I think about how people rank Jason as their least favorite because he’s “such a bland character with no personality”, but was he even allowed to have one in the first place?
He’s two years old when Lupa guides him to Camp Jupiter. He’s brought up to be the perfect soldier, the perfect Roman, the perfect hero. He doesn’t know life outside the legion. He’s the son of Jupiter, he has to be great. If he’s not, he’s a failure and a disgrace. If he is then he’s still not the best because there so many other heroes who did it better than him so he has to keep trying harder and harder even though no matter what he’s never going to be good enough because the moment he slips up he’s no longer the perfect hero.
The few times he actually tries to do something he wants, he’s only cut down. Changing the 12th legion to the 1st legion? No, you can’t do that. It’s tradition. You’re wrong. That’s stupid. Joining the 5th cohort? Why would you join those losers? You’re only hurting yourself. You could be great if you join the 1st cohort instead like a good Roman boy.
So why would he try to do anything that cultivates his identity? Why would he try to do anything that brings him joy if everyone around him is just going to suck it right out?
He has no best friends at Camp Jupiter. He has acquaintances. He has people he’s friendly with. Say what you want but Reyna was a coworker. Dakota was cool, Gwen was nice. But none of them make Jason want to stay at Camp Jupiter instead of Camp Half-Blood. He thinks of Reyna but only in terms of he doesn’t want to saddle her with the responsibility of picking a new praetor. He thinks about duty. When he is picking between the camps he’s weighing his options between doing his duty as he’s done his whole life or picking himself for the very first time ever and he picks himself.
And it’s honestly so fucking depressing that the first time Jason picks himself and is actually supported in his decision happens when he is sixteen years old. And most of the people supporting him have only known him for a month.
But then he saddles himself with duty and responsibilities because that’s all he’s ever known and Percy is dying and Jason is a good Roman and a good hero and his job is to sacrifice his life for everyone else because of course it is. So he takes on Pontifex Maximus to build shrines and temples to minor gods and goddesses (not that they shouldn’t be honored but… once again he’s sacrificing his identity for the good of everyone around him).
And then, just as he’s finally discovering an identity for himself—he likes physics, he’s learning about the mortal world and living in it, he’s becoming more than just Jupiters son and Juno’s perfect hero—he’s killed.
Jason never got to be Jason. He only got to be Jason Grace, son of Jupiter, Praetor of the 12th Legion, slayer of Krios, one of the Seven, Juno’s Champion, Pontifex Maximus. He always belonged to someone else and never himself.
All this to say, Jason is my favorite of the Seven and although he’s not the eldest nor a daughter, as an eldest daughter I relate so hard and feel very seen in him.
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cheese-water · 10 months
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Generation Loss is a comedic tragedy in every sense of the word. Every character we see exemplifies this fact, but no one other than The Austin Show proves its truth.
We begin at the carousel. Austin, Gay, takes his turn by pleading for himself to live because he has a wife and children back home. The rest of the cast interrogates him about his “wife and kids,” clearly suspicious of his truthfulness without even knowing his dubbed “title.” Everyone in the room treats Austin like a joke.
In turn, so do we.
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Next, we reach the closet and shortly after the failed drag show, Austin remarks, “Look, I uh… I didn’t expect to die here.” It’s a moment of pure honesty, whether we like it or not. It happens again when the Puzzler tries to party with them, and Austin has to angrily remind him that they are his captives and are actively trying to kill them.
Austin: “What are you doing? What are you doing? What are you doing? We're trying to get out of here. I have children and wives— wife. One wife! What is this some sort of game? I’ve been stuck in hear for hours it seems. We’re trying to get out. Why is nobody else freaking out? We’ve got C4 strapped to our neck…”
It isn’t until Ethan’s death, his blood pooling out from underneath the door, Austin screaming at the others, begging them to have a reaction, to care about their circumstances, to care about death, that we finally understand Austin’s role in Generation Loss.
After all, in every great comedy, someone always has to play the straight man.
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spookeart · 6 months
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Currently reading ‘only the brave’ by @solmussa and it’s not doing anything to ease my growing obsession of him
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masterofiodine · 3 months
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sort of binge-watched bbc ghosts and niw i can't stop thinking about them
(tap for better quality)
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inthe-echo · 5 months
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Harry did not, in fact, get enough love
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tearsmdears · 5 months
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You Will Always Be Our Unicorn 🦄
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cosmicstumph · 9 months
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"oh, nostalgia, i dont need you anymore"
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whoisspence · 2 months
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life is all fun and games until you remember that because of an absurd amount of trauma, this happened
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stephstars08 · 15 days
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🥺HE DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER!!🥺
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About where I'm at at this point.
(Also, if you have something stupid to say, please see below:
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Much obliged.)
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chamoemileclown · 4 months
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Having another kid wouldn't have fixed him but I like to think he would've liked Sunny...
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cassianyis · 1 month
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Reference is under the cut
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lexissrosea · 6 months
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pain is when you realize that cazador picked astarion as a spawn for a reason—that his good looks aren't just good looks. that we're supposed to love him at first sight.
just another day of feeling represented by astarion's character and larian's writers doing an amazing job at representing an abuser & victim storyline.
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pr0digal-s0n · 6 months
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“When my mother got drunk she couldn’t handle me and locked me in the study. There’s only so many hours you can cry and bang on the door before you find something to read”
HES GONE THROUGH SO MUCH
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its-minart · 1 year
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I miss him :((
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urdepressedslut · 7 months
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YOU CAN ONLY PICK ONE 👀😭
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i don’t know how to choose without hyperventilating 😀
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