#she also was an extremely powerful demigod enough to have her guardians concerned about monsters

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My hottake is: Annabeth's maternal relationship (and the fact that she was written by a man in the 2000s) has informed every female relationship she's had. And that is why do not believe that her step mother was ever intentional in making Annabeth feel like she unwanted. And I will say that until I die.

Do they have a strained relationship? Yes!

Could her stepmother been more of supportive figure? Hell yeah!

Is Mrs. Chase a villain? No

Do I think Annabeth has projected feelings of being unwanted on to her relationship Mrs. Chase? Absolutely !

Annabeth has a lot to feel unwanted for. And her mother's the root cause.

Gods do not interfere with their children's life. Yes, Athena champions Annabeth and gives her a gift, but that's only for good behavior. At the beginning of PJO Annabeth is vibrating with a need to please her mother and prove herself. Do you know how she would obnoxiously say "Athena always has a strategy" to herself. If that's how she sees herself and is how she's verbalizing her thoughts, Imagine the ways she's trying to align and identify herself as Athena for her mother's approval inside?

Children of Athena are blessings given to mortals that Athena grows fond of and probably is someway patrons. I have no doubt she doesn't consider the mortals life when blessing them. They are not created by sex, also, so Fredrick had literally no way of knowing that he was or could be receiving a child. He was probably fresh out of college and as a demigod Annabeth poses a lot of needs most children on the cookie cutter parenting guides don't. She's neurodivergent and needs to watch for monsters.

I think her father loves her. I think she and stepmom could become friends, but they are unprepared and and weren't smart enough to figure out until the damage was done to her

I also don't believe she had to fight for Thalia's love as much as she thought she had to. Thalia was 14 at the time and had only experienced Beryl Grace's preoccupation with Zeus and addiction so and was actively trekking the country trying to survive... I'm not saying Thalia saw relationships as transactional but I get why if it seemed she did

TL;DR being a child of Fredrick has made Annabeth feel unwanted in a young ND child of a young parent way and being a child of Athena made Annabeth feel unwanted in absentee mommy issues way. Her step mom and Thalia have got very little to do with how Annabeth who has displaced and projected those feelings into every female relationship even if their behaviors of different degrees could have contributed.

#she was written by the guy that thought people thinking blondes are dumb is enough to be taken advantage in a strategic manner #on both sides #she also was an extremely powerful demigod enough to have her guardians concerned about monsters #pjo #annabeth chase #if chiron was a woman i doubt that Annabeth would see him fatherly #Athena #Athena (pjo)