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I’m rereading The Lost Hero and you know what, Leo and Piper should’ve absolutely figured out there was a Roman camp way before Jason told them.

They basically got there like halfway through the book. Leo was like “Jason might be a bridge between TWO PLACES” wonder what that could be hmmmmmmm

(also Hephaestus legit told Leo soooooooooooo)

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Hey, anyone else remember that one time where Leo legit asked Hephaestus “why is Zeus being such a jerk?”

just full on calls Zeus a jerk IN FRONT OF A GOD’S FACE. With zero regret

cause I do, and I think it’s the perfect example of how Leo treats ALL the gods. with zero consideration of what will probably get him killed.

(also I could be wrong but has any other demigod just straight up said that, out loud, with out any vagueness or implications)

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I have fully watched season 7 of The Dragon Prince and uh, I know it’s far fetched and like a bit too soon but was anyone and I mean ANYONE else getting Terry/Corvus/Soren vibes in those last two episodes? Cause like that’s what me and my friend were getting

THEY WERE STANDING NEXT TO EACH OTHER TOO MUCH!!!! And like they be all supportive of each other and I know it can be platonic but like it’s also super cute and like way healthier than Claudia and Terry at this point.

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I’ve become wicked (bum dump bump ch🥁)

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could Carter and Sadie Kane beat Conner and Alex Bailey in Monoply?

No, Alex and Conner would probably win

Conner and Sadie would cheat, hands down, they’re gonna be sneakily snatching all the money from the bank.

Alex would also cheat but it would be loophole cheats or like using magic to make sure she gets lucky roles or sm.

Carter would try to strategize, but he would fail so hard. He the type of guy that would keep getting trapped in jail or keep landing on boardwalk, though it doesn’t belong to him.

So basically Conner and Alex would win because they’re both cheats and only one the Kane siblings is a cheater.

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Hyvää päivää!!!!! It means good day. Do you like the KC and especially Zia Rashid? She is one of my favourites from that book trilogy. Just look at her iconic introduction:

“My name is Zia Rashid.” She tilted her head as if listening.

Right on cue, the entire building rumbled. Dust sprinkled from the ceiling, and the slithering sounds of scorpion doubled in volume behind us.

“And right now,” Zia continued, sounding a bit disappointed, “I must save your miserable lives.”

What do you think?

I absolutely love the KC. It’s my favorite book series in the riordanverse, actually.

Now personally my favorite character is Carter, but I do really like Zia too.She’s such an interesting character and, as you said, her introduction was iconic.

(I also like Zia/carter cause they’re super adorable)

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Yeah my friend made this point to, but by “birthdays” I just mean getting a year older and by that account none of them age.

like Sokka’s fifteen at the beginning of the show and fifteen at the end. Zuko’s 16 at the beginning, 16 at the end. And that’s the same for all the major characters from the first seasons.

Like maybe they don’t celebrate the birthday due to a number of reasons, but the change of age isn’t mentioned either. Not even by Aang, who has to explain he’s 112 not 12 every few episodes. Not even off screen by writers or the voice actors.

I can’t even use the idea that they don’t know what day it is as an excuse, because there’s to many auspicious days and the GAang does constantly come across areas where they could probably find the date.

They might just no have the same calendar as us, I guess, but the writer’s said the show took place over one calendar year, so we can probably believe they have a similar year to us.

So is anyone else bothered by the fact that no one ages in atla. Like it has a (somewhat) coherent timeline and supposedly it takes around an entire calendar year, maybe minus two months.

like I figure the first episode is sometime in November cause The solstice is in December and that’s the seventh episode and the end is sometime in August or September based on the end of summer remark Roku makes (and I’m assuming they base seasons around the solstices and equinoxes)

so like around two months of unaccounted for time and no one ages and I refuse to belief that they all have birthdays in the same two/three months that’s like unrealistic in the actual world.(Rick Riordan can take his fifty summer birthdays out of this)

so anyway, not counting characters that show up in the second season (or third season I guess) some of them should’ve aged.

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Actually Sadie’s thirteen for most of the series. She’s 12 and Carters 14 in the first book, but she has her birthday in the second which is when she turn 13 and Carter turns 15 sometime between books 2 and 3.

so if we go with Rick age for Walt being 16 it’s actually a three year age gap, which isn’t really big deal except that it’s a 16 year old dating a 13 year old.

Guys i'm re-reading the Throne of fire and I think the wiki lied to us, cause Carter just said Walt was fourteen years old.

So either the entire fandom collective read the book wrong or Rick forgot the age of his character and changed it.

(or my book is faulty)

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So is anyone else bothered by the fact that no one ages in atla. Like it has a (somewhat) coherent timeline and supposedly it takes around an entire calendar year, maybe minus two months.

like I figure the first episode is sometime in November cause The solstice is in December and that’s the seventh episode and the end is sometime in August or September based on the end of summer remark Roku makes (and I’m assuming they base seasons around the solstices and equinoxes)

so like around two months of unaccounted for time and no one ages and I refuse to belief that they all have birthdays in the same two/three months that’s like unrealistic in the actual world.(Rick Riordan can take his fifty summer birthdays out of this)

so anyway, not counting characters that show up in the second season (or third season I guess) some of them should’ve aged.

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My friend just came up with the best name for Rick Riordan:

All hail the Rickle Pickle

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@im-probably-playing-genshin

People like you are the reason I created this post.

Do you take joy in our suffering?

to those people who decide to remind us that Jason died.

what is your purpose in life? To cause us pain?

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*sharp inhale* TOP FIVE FAVORITE CHARACTER HEADCANONS GO!

Why thank you for the ask.

*inhales sharply*

ONE: Conner Bailey (tlos) likes wearing dresses and skirts and had a brief obsession with the language of flowers

TWO: Seth Sorensen (fhdw) hate hiding his wings and there for keeps knocking stuff over when he gets emotional cause his wings will puff up.

THREE: Tyler Hernandez (sbg) is the both the best cook and the best at doing people’s hair cause of how often he did it when he was younger.

FOUR: Leo Valdez (hoo) can do parkour and it’s like the only athletic thing he can do that doesn’t involve building stuff ( he mostly uses this skill to annoying and so he can yell “Parkour!” Whenever he wants)

FIVE: Kaz taught Wylan how to read and communicate in morse code and Wylan “forces” Kaz to come over and play chess with him every so often (Jesper misses Kaz and neither of them like making Jesper upset) (soc)

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So I made a brief post talking about Ruby and Julius Kane being bad parents and uh... here's the essay.

(quick side rant, omg this post is going to be long)

honestly I really should make a series about it, because after really thinking about it, the Kane Siblings have a severe lack of any good parental care in their life. This isn't exactly abnormal in the Riordanverse, but compared to the other series, which have minimal adult characters (that aren’t dead or immortal), the Kane Chronicles have many adult characters and many of the important ones were there to take care of Sadie and Carter.

Yeah that didn't work out.

I mean there's a lot of facets to the Kane siblings relationships with parental figures. From the... interesting and like definitely racist environment Sadie had to deal with while living with her grandparents to Carter's mental state and identity(?) while living with his dad. there is so much I could over analysis, and I'm not a fan of these books to sit around and reread all day so uh, I'm gonna over analysis all of it.

Eventually, but this post will be long even talking about the more aspect I want to talk about with out dragging the rest of the things I find interesting into it soooo.

When first reading the Kane Chronicles, Ruby and Julius actually seem like good parents. they certainly made mistakes but they do love their kids. and even now, I don't doubt they love their kids. It's just an incredibly interesting scenario where the parents, no matter how much they love their kids, are capable of putting the well being of the world first.

And that's the crux of the issue. Ruby and Julius are capable of being excellent parents, but in the situation they were in, they decide it was either the world or Carter and Sadie and they didn't hesitate to choose the world.

In fact, I'm pretty sure Bast said something very similar to this.

Anyway, I'm gonna start with Ruby and Julius's deaths. Personally, I think saying they abandoned Carter and Sadie isn't actually wrong here. I'm definitely not saying someone dying is abandoning the people they love, but it's the way Julius and Ruby both die and how both situations are almost planned.

Now there's not a lot of cannon conformation about Ruby's death, but I, personally, inferenced that Ruby and Julius predicted that it was a very likely scenario that freeing Bast would mean Ruby's death. Or at the very least they definitely knew the dangers of it.

Unlike Julius, Ruby didn't choose to die, but she did put herself in a situation where it was likely. Did she do it with the best intentions? sure. But I find the whole "we had no other choice" thing dumb. Diviner doesn't seem like an incredibly reliable source of information, and unlike the greek pantheon I'm not aware of any being in Egyptian Mythology that specifically controls fate (feel free to prove me wrong here). The idea that they couldn't have done anything else, is kind of absurd.

I mean they convinced Iskander that banning gods was wrong so like? maybe they should have leaned more into that angle.

Also like, they freed Bast, which good for Bast, but doing that sped up the process that allowed Apophis to get free. Ruby had a couple of visions and the two of them spent the rest of they're lives deciding to not just prevent the apocalypse, but to put that burden on their children's shoulders.

Personally, I think Ruby's death was while unfortunate not a surprise to either of them, considering she didn't really seem to try to survive, denying both Isis's and Bast's help. Maybe she wouldn't have been able to handle the power, but like, she could have tried.

Now the bigger Issue I have is Julius's death, cause Ruby's is mostly speculation on my part, I could be wrong, but uh, Julius planned his death. He brought to kids into what was going to be an incredibly dangerous situation. And yes, he did ask them to stay out of the room, but the idea that he used them to help him accomplish this which would leave them without their one living parent while also implicating them of any potential crimes the mortals might decide had happened (which is canon) is horrible.

Arguably, We have no idea weather or not Julius planned on releasing Set, and having Carter and Sadie host Horus and Isis (though those amulet are suspicious). Personally I believe that he had some idea what was going to happen, he's not stupid, but similarly to Ruby's death he decide to take that chance anyway.

Was it for the good of the world? sure. Was it for the good of Sadie and Carter? no, absolutely not.

Even if the situation hadn't thrown Sadie and Carter head first into a deadly quest it would've have severely traumatized them. They could feel guilt for helping their dad commit a crime (especially if they had no idea what was going on) or get himself killed. It doesn't help that Sadie already had abandonment issues due to him.

But more importantly, (not to say his relationship with Sadie isn't important, but his death has a far larger impact on Carter), he left Carter with no one. Besides for maybe Amos, but not only are the two of them estranged but I can't really think that Julius would've thought Amos would take Carter in. And honestly living with the Uncle you barely remember isn't much better than living with stranger, there no one for Carter to go to.

Julius was Carter's single guardian and his only form of stability and familiarity for six years. Do I think he was a good support system of Carter during those six year? not really, but the fact that Julius was willing to throw Carter to the wolves (the government and the foster system) isn't a good sign.

so yeah, the fact that both Julius and Ruby basically went willingly and knowingly to their deaths is kind of abandoning their kids.

I wish I could say (that's a bad way to phrase this) that Julius had planned the quest to defeat Set but I kinda think that would be speculating a bit to much.

Luckily, it's basically canon that they expected Sadie and Carter to save the world so anything I might say about that isn't at all a stretch.

My biggest problem with them though is that neither of them even mentioned the idea of being magicians to Carter or Sadie. And it;'s not because they're to young, because many magicians learn what they are at a very young age.

It could've been to protect them from The House of Life, but considering how violent and uncontrolled they're magic can get with zero knowledge of it it's seems weird that they wouldn't try to teach them how to control it.

(also It was denying Carter and Sadie a large amount of knowledge about their family and even culture to some extent)

Both of the parents fully understood that Sadie and Carter would have to save the world, and yet despite that both of them died without even hinting at Sadie and Carter's abilities.

And there's a big difference between this and what many of the better parents in the Riordanverse did by trying to avoid telling their kids about their heritage. People like Sally and Natalie Chase did it with the intention of trying to protect their kids as long as possible. Sure, it didn't help but they either weren't given a chance to fully explain when the kids were old enough or tried to but it came a bit late (for reasons they couldn't control), Ruby and Julius fully understood that Carter and Sadie would be put in a lot of danger and didn't even inform them of that the gods existed.

Yeah technically most of the Riordanverse parents did that, but there is a big difference in the lives of demigods vs magicians. Telling a demigod about the greek god would also mean having to explain the fact that they being hunted down by monster, which is not something you should tell your seven year old, especially if the real danger is going to come a bit later. Magicians don't actually have a lot of danger associated with them, Carter and Sadie are sort of an exception to that. Like sure, don't tell them about the saving the world part until they're older (Not that Julius even tried) but like tell them about the magic part, my goodness.

Sadie and Carter learned all of this on a really dangerous quest, while trying to save their dad who had planned his death, and in the end they were forced to make a decision between their dad and the world. A decision they didn't really get to make because of the situation and Julius's plan had already made it for them.

Sadie and Carter were shoved into a dangerous world with arguably less help than any other Riordanverse character (excluding the MC series, cause they all died to find out about Norse gods). Like at least the demigods had a camp to go to, Carter and Sadie had a world wide society on their heels, a possessed uncle, a clay person having an identity crisis (which wasn't even over the fact she wasn't real) and a single cat goddess who was forced to ditch like half-way through the book.

Julius legit went "Hey sorry I planned on dying, why don't you almost die to try and save me even though it's useless and than find out me and your mother planned out the worst way to give you the burden of saving the world along with a bunch of responsibilities you don't want *cough* Carter wanting nothing to do with being in charge *cough*.”

I could complain that they also encouraged and helped Sadie and Carter do dangerous stuff (give them a dangerous criminal while knowing he would escape) but unfortunately that’s a common thing parents in fantasy books do.

Like, if they’re kid is already in a dangerous situation and they can’t get them out of it or the kid has to much of a guilt/ hero complex, then better they try to help their kid as much as possible to try to protect them, then forbid them from doing anything which will lead to the kid trying to do everything themselves and getting into more danger.

course the reason Carter and Sadie are in so much danger is because of their parents.

actually Ruby and Julius have a lot of similarities with the gods when it comes to parenting. Cause problems, help your kid a minimal amount after forcing them to fix the problems you caused for you.

Are Julius and Ruby bad people? No. In the end they’re doing what they think is best for the world, which no one can really blame them for that.

they simply faced the love one vs world challenge and had to choose the world.

The thing is being a bad or good person doesn’t usually have anything to do with being by a good or bad parent.

a bad person is capable of being a good parent and a good person is capable of being a bad one.

Trying to save the world does make Ruby and Julius good people, but at the expense of their kids mental, emotional, and physical health. And no matter what the reason, anyone who willingly chooses to put their kids in that type of situation, isn’t a good parent.

anyway, that was really long, so any of you that actually read that entire thing, thx for reading my over analysis.

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I’ve seen a lot post about Calypso being with Odysseus so it’s weird that she’s dating Leo because wouldn’t she have been an adult cause like Odysseus was like at least 40 something then (and that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense but they’re basically trying to find evidence that she’s pedophile)

(edit: my friend pointed out that it probably has more to do with her mental age, which is a good point)

and I’d like to argue that Calypso’s a goddess, she can change her appearance at will.

not that I’m like debating whether or not Leo/Calypso is toxic. I don’t care.

but I do think it would be interesting for calypso to change her appearance based on what she thinks would appeal to the hero’s the appear on her island. The reason that her appearance didn’t change for Leo was because she didn’t want to impress him.

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Guys, one of my favorite TV shows is releasing another season, on my birthday!!!!!!!!!

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Guys i'm re-reading the Throne of fire and I think the wiki lied to us, cause Carter just said Walt was fourteen years old.

So either the entire fandom collective read the book wrong or Rick forgot the age of his character and changed it.

(or my book is faulty)

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I go love the last book of TLOS but the prologue and epilogue were lacking.

Like it had so many thing that didn't make sense. Like you're (Chris colfer) saying Conner's kids wouldn't vacation to the land of stories? You're saying Alex didn't regularly visit her niece sand nephews and entertain them with magic? you're saying none of them had any interest in learning magic?

anyway I don't like it, so I came up with my own idea. (I'm not actually writing a whole prologue and epilogue, these are just ideas)

and these do go with the theme of them being Conner centric like most of the last book.

prologue: Conner getting his first book published. It would be such an important moment for him especially considering how dedicated he into it. When he finds out (or however that works, ive never published a book before) he immediately tell Alex and Bree and then surprises everyone else.

epilogue: conner's first book signing. cause like in canon it was sorta like that, but his first one would be a much bigger moment. Just him being surrounded by the people he cares about supporting him and getting compliments and smiles from total strangers complimenting his work. It would be such big step for him. (Also awkward blushy Conner is so great)

and he'd be a lot younger, so while a few things about his life would be confirmed the fans could also have a chance to come up with their own idea about how his (and Alex's) life would go, sainted of learning about everything immediately.

oh and bree wouldn't be freaking dead.