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My take about percabeth is that yes it is "girl with abandonment issues"/"boy with loyalty as a fatal flaw" but I also think it's "boy that has never thought of anything for himself"/"girl who is ready with a powerpoint presentation of their future together"

Like, percy does not have any ambition. One of the first things he says about himself in tlt is that his life is "short and miserable". He has very low self steem and view of himself, and even though he has his mom, and friends, is not until he falls in love with annabeth that he gets an idea of what a future for himself would look like. The only times he imagines it is when thinking of annabeth. When rejecting inmortality, when in new rome and in the lete, when annabeth asks him what he wants to study. In tartarus, imagining marrying her and having children.

It might sound far fetched, but for most of the books he seems to be living his life as if just trying to survive day to day. He doesn't mind dying for the prophecy very much. Is only her voice that brings him out of the styx. Is only her that makes him want to look beyond what he is and makes him think of what he could be.

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absolutely begging for the show to take a different direction about informing percy of the great prophecy. instead of instilling in him early on that's something going to happen at sixteen. instill it in the audience. let us see chiron eye percy from across camp with an earie mourning. let us see annabeth and grover exchange knowing looks when percy talks about his future. let us see thalia's worry for annabeth when she realizes her sister has fallen for a boy she's fated to lose. and let us witness percy quiet anger and disappointment amid their betrayl. because he had a sword dangling above his head. and no one told him.

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No but like what if Poseidon triton amphitrite the undersea fam basically slowly also become protective over Annabeth? Like them not liking her bc child of Athena but not only seeing how much she loves Percy but also how cool she is and stuff

Oh, absolutely! Annabeth slowly melds into the family and gains a stable support system!

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Do you ever read crossover fics? What fandoms do you think would pair well with PJO?

I don't read crossover fics! I find it frustrating when other characters don't realize how awesome the PJO characters are. But I do love watching skits of Percy Jackson and Peter Parker interacting lol

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year 2!

Hi, you can call me Demi! I’ve been a fan of Rick Riordan for years, and since May of 2023, I’ve been running a blog dedicated to the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series/universe. Alongside running this blog, I also enjoy writing fictional stories about the characters in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series/universe. For future reference, you can find my work on AO3 here!

Additionally, I genuinely love interacting with you guys. I’m pretty active on here, so feel free to blow up my inbox with questions and messages if you feel comfortable. Finally, if you wish to repost my work on other sites, please credit me using my Tumblr Handle. Thank you for reading, and have a wonderful time scrolling :)

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What’s a pjo fic idea you want to get written the most?

Which post of yours are you the most proud of?

If you read fanfics, what’s your favorite pjo fic?

Which pjo character do you think is the most criminally underrated?

If you were to resurrect any of the characters that died in pjo (not hoo or toa), which one would you resurrect?

1. A 12-part, slow burn polyamorous love story about Percy, Annabeth, and Rachel. I've been working on it since 2022 (I think), and it's gonna be awesome!

2. There was a post I made about why Percy and Annabeth are compatible in battle that I'm proud of. If I can find it, I'll link it!

3. Such a difficult question! Stars on the Water and Star Light, Star Bright by liketolaugh on ao3 are both two fanfics that I deeply enjoy. Strongly reccomend!

4. Grover. I feel his shy-like nature overpowers his capabilities and social status in the books. He is more than just comedic affect to me, and I'd love to see more moments that showcase why and how!

5. Beckendorf and Silena. They both deserved to make it out, and it's a shame they didn't.

@splosh-crime thank you for these amazing questions!

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saw a tiktok about annabeth breaking the rules to sit next percy and him being giddy about it for three pages. and that perspective is so funny to me. because all i'm imagining is annabeth just sitting there, completely stoned-faced. and percy is wide-eyed and beet red, very evidently holding back a scream of delight.

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the gods have spoken 🤷🏾‍♀️

pjo culture is getting at notification for an intern position at a company called 'olympus property' and getting suspicious.

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pjo culture is getting at notification for an intern position at a company called 'olympus property' and getting suspicious.

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Just go play the piano, I'll make you some waffles

*sniffles* okay 🥺

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percy who refuses to let his anger into his home. percy who refuses to hug or kiss annabeth when he's angry because he doesn't want his interactions with her to be poisoned by his rage. percy who sits outside or goes for a drive or a walk until he calms down before reentering his home because he refuses to be the angry man that haunts a home, he refuses to become like gabe. if annabeth catches him off guard when he's angry, he tries to keep a distance as he trembles with rage that he tries so hard to quell because he doesn't want to scare her (again) or somehow hurt her. annabeth who reaches out to help him and assure him that it's fine. percy's hands that shake with anger and fear all tied in one, his touch feather light and barely there because he's afraid if he gives himself an inch with her, his wrath will explode from within him and he'll become the monster of his nightmares, the monster of his mother's nightmares.

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what is your opinion on the whole thing with akhlys? cuz i really like the way you address(?? talk about??) percabeth scenes that some of the fandom might find 'abusive'

i'm talking, more specifically, about annabeth telling percy not to use his (for lack of a better word) bloodbending ever again?

cuz i feel like that was sooo ooc for her!

especially cuz of the fact that she's known she was a demigod for like forever and managed to survive a year out in the wild with thalia and luke. so she definitely knows that anything that demigods can use to tip the scales in their favour is free game, so i don't understand why she reacted the way she did

(sorry if i was rambling)

I think this is one of those scenes where there are just too many factors involved for us to be totally objective. Both Percy and Annabeth were completely valid in how they acted and what they said. They were in horrible mental and physical states. Percy even said he felt like something inside him snapped when it happened—so clearly, he wasn’t acting like his usual self. Annabeth saw that, and it scared her.

Personally, I think Percy was fully within his rights to do what he did. (And yeah, I also think it was cool as hell.) That goddess was going to kill them and make them suffer. The gods have already messed with his life so much, and he was done. They’d hit his last nerve. In my opinion, Akhlys deserved it. So yeah—what he did was totally justifiable.

That said, Annabeth was already completely terrified and worn down by Tartarus. Seeing Percy—her safe person, the sweetest guy she knows—do something like that was understandably upsetting. It probably reminded her of Luke, too. And I really don’t think it was the act of turning Akhlys’ poison back on her that bothered Annabeth. Percy does something similar in Wrath of the Triple Goddess, when he reverses the paralyzing potion Phaedra throws at Annabeth and paralyzes Phaedra instead—and Annabeth doesn’t seem bothered at all. If anything, it’s kind of implied she’s impressed. He also manipulates his and Grover's bodily fluids to save them from poison (and accidentally dehydrates them lol) and again, it's not a problem. So no—it wasn’t the turn-poison-back-on-the-posioner action itself. It was the fact that Percy was enjoying it. Akhlys was shrieking and wailing and choking... and Percy looked like he was getting satisfaction out of it. That’s what scared Annabeth. Especially in the nightmare environment of Tartarus, when her anxiety was already through the roof.

Also, earlier in Tartarus, after he kills Arachne, Percy says “she died too easily” and “she deserved worse.” Annabeth internally notes that his tone unsettled her and that she was glad Arachne died quickly. Arachne—who was her own personal nightmare... So yeah, Percy was already being affected by Tartarus (which he later admits), and Annabeth saw that happening. She loves Percy exactly the way he is. She doesn’t want him going dark like Luke did.

I genuinely don’t understand how people are calling her abusive for being scared. Like… god forbid a 17-year-old girl in the toxic depths of hell shows fear because her sweet boyfriend is suddenly smiling as he tortures someone?? Yeah, it was Percy—someone she knows and loves—but he wasn’t acting like himself. And there’s nothing scarier than seeing someone you love become unrecognizable, even for a moment.

One more thing I want to add. People act like Annabeth treated him like a monster afterward, but here’s what actually happened:

Annabeth stumbled toward him. She looked like a corpse wreathed in smoke, but she felt solid enough when she gripped his arms.

"Percy, please don’t ever…” Her voice broke in a sob. “Some things aren’t meant to be controlled. Please.”

His whole body tingled with power, but the anger was subsiding. The broken glass inside him was beginning to smooth at the edges.

Then… they move on. It comes up a few more times individually, but not between the two of them.

She was obviously scared, heartbroken, incredibly anxious and traumatized—from everything—but she wasn’t trying to hurt him or call him a bad person. She just wanted him to come back to her. And he wasn’t himself—he says that. You have to remember: this was right after it happened. Annabeth didn’t know he was going to stop. She didn’t know he was going to come back. For all she knew, that could’ve been his breaking point. He might’ve gone full dark mode, never to be himself again. Like Luke.

She wasn’t yelling or lashing out—she used logic, touch, and a gentle voice to reach him. And it worked. He came back. But she had no way of knowing he would. So how else was she supposed to react in that moment? Calmly? Gracefully? Tell him “nice torturing skills!”?? It doesn’t matter that he saved them. It still scared her. She’s allowed to feel that way. Just like he was allowed to lash out and turn some of his pain back on the goddess. They were both shaken up by it. It was a terrible situation they were forced into.

They may be half-god, but the half-human parts of them are still allowed to feel and react like humans. They are also still kids, in some ways. Neither of them is the villain here.

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Stop shaming people for their body count

Who cares how many people she's killed so long as you love her and she looks pretty with blood on her face.

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*percy coming out of the bathroom in a towel, grinning, with a freshly shaved mustache*

percy: what do you think? i’m gonna be a firefighter, should i look the part too?

annabeth (sitting in their bed): you know… i actually kinda dig it

percy: *stops smiling*

percy: what?

annabeth: i usually hate mustaches, but you actually pull it off, seaweed brain

percy: wise girl, this looks ridiculous. i’m not keeping it. i was joking

annabeth: well i’m not! and why are you shaving your beard in the first place?

percy: the fire department said i have to shave off the facial hair

annabeth: *makes sad face*

percy: really? you have no issues with me running into burning buildings, but the beard being shaved is where you draw the line?

annabeth: i like the stubble

percy: oh i know you do, but it’s gotta go. plus, don’t you think it makes me look way too much like my dad?

annabeth: posedion is a very handsome god

percy:

annabeth: *starts giggling*

percy: i can’t even look at you right now

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every post of yours i read on firefighter!percy just convinces me more and more

Hey, so, I was thinking about firefighter Percy Jackson, and then thought about the OG timeline (2005-2009). That got me thinking: do you think that Percy’s fascination with firefighters got started by 9/11? He saw those individuals that looked at the world crumbling around and decided to go and fight it anyways? And it felt so familiar, even though he was 10 and didn’t know why?

(You can answer privately if that’s a better way to tackle this)

Oh I absolutely think 9/11 had an effect on Percy. No doubt about it. When I posted that little one shot I wrote forever ago of percy telling Sally that he wants to be a firefighter (should I dig that up and reblog it? 🤔), I wrote about her being all freaked out cause she just has this memory of seeing all of the firefighters run into the World Trade Center and never come out.

Percy’s heart beats for New York. He lives in Manhattan, where the twin towers were. That’s always been his home. So 9/11 would definitely have had a big affect on him, even if he was young. So in addition to him being burn resistant, having control over water, being strong and fast, and wanting to feel good about what he’s doing and help people, I think it’s just another huge reason that firefighting is so fitting for him

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love that you got confirmation in wottg lmao forgot to tell you that i literally thought of you when i read that haha

You guys are making me realize that I haven’t actually talked about firefighter Percy in a while. Idk what to say though, so here’s a collage 🫴