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do you think that thalia and jason grace are famous in true crime circles? they're the children of an actress who both went missing at some point only to show up again so i'm assuming the tabloids went wild with them.

actress beryl grace has two kids out of wedlock but then all of a sudden beryl doesn't have her two-year-old son anymore and its just her and her older daughter. and then all of a sudden both of beryl grace's children are missing.

did people think that they died? did tabloids think they were kidnapped?

then all of a sudden her oldest daughter reapears and she's seen hanging out with the kid from nyc who blew up the gateway arch??

oh ! and now that two-year-old son of hers is fifteen and has been seen with the same kid from nyc, running around the country and was in a wilderness boarding school with the daughter of actor tristan mclean?? but then after a few months a couple of tabloids hear that he went to an all-boys boarding school only to "die in a surfing accident," even though all of his classmates say they don't remember him ever mentioning anything about surfing? in fact, his classmates don't even know that much about him.

are there blogs about the grace siblings? do people wonder about the trajedy of the grace siblings and their mother?

is there a dateline episode about the disappearances of the grace siblings? have people written books about how both of beryl grace's children have dispeared? how someone saw beryl walk to a park with two kids and then walk away with only one?

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"i dont like jason grace because he's boring" is the most evil statement because a. THATS THE POINT and b. thats EXACTLY what makes him NOT boring.

camp jupiter is BUILT to make children into machines. work as a machine, work with the group to be a machine. or, be spare parts. it is rigid. it is unforgiving. it is built to suppress individuality. the MOST autonomy jason grace got was joining the lower end of the cohorts of the legion, was a failing petition against a traditional board.

jason grace grew up in camp jupiter. not like hazel, frank, percy, nico, etc., who were only there for a year or two at MOST. he grew up there. if i had to guess, i would say age 5 through age 15-- roughly a decade. everything he learned there is going to be DRILLED into him.

yes, he is going to seem boring.

the whole POINT of it is so he can have his character arc of "i dont really want to follow the rules..?" that he doesn't want to be praetor, he just wants to be a normal kid at camp half-blood and live with piper and leo. and thats what MAKES him a character that ISNT boring.

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Saw someone say Percy and Jason lived the opposite lives that they were “supposed” to live in the sense that Jason lived like a Greek, dying before he could reach adulthood and Percy lived like a Roman, living long enough to be able to attend college and I am. So very unwell about it!!

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thinking about how Jason Grace's character development starts in House of Hades when he's forced into a leadership role that he never really signed up for (sure he and Percy fought for head of the table but Jason was just used to being there because Percy hadn't been there before. sure Jason felt threatened by the loss off that place but he'd only been there out of obligation anyway.)

thinking about how he feels responsibility for both camps now that he's no longer leader of the Romans but Percy and Annabeth aren't there to be leaders for the Greeks.

thinking about how Piper calls the bullet line through his hair a literal rebellious streak, right after Jason made the choice (at Auster's behest) to take control of his own destiny.

thinking about how it was another Imperial Gold wound that made him reconsider his place at both camps ("die like a Roman," but at the hands of a Roman, after choosing Greek).

thinking about how Jason couldn't find a taste of home after making that choice, how ambrosia tasted like sawdust and didn't work on his stab wound, not because it was a Roman wound but because Jason himself was no longer Roman, and that core of his identity, that healing center, was gone.

thinking about how Jason only heals that wound after finding a purpose for himself which somehow is both a leadership position and forces him to move between camps.

thinking about how Jason's newfound sense of purpose is based on a promise he made to someone whom he felt had been abandoned.

thinking about how Jason made it his principle never to break a promise (Rick calls it his "grain of sand at the center of a pearl" and I'm. totally normal about that. I swear.)

thinking about how Jason died unable to fulfill his promise, but forcing Apollo to make his own promise to carry it on.

thinking about how every bit of Jason's identity was a responsibility that was forced on him and he never got to see any of his own choices come to fruition because he'd been too stuck trying to take care of all of the obligations he'd bound his literal self to.

thinking about how Jason was inherently tragic from the start because his fatal flaw wasn't actually a part of his identity, it was the fact that he'd been too late to choose his identity at all.

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Jason saying that Beryl’s unkept promises laid the foundation for who he is because he never wanted people to feel the way he did when she left him at the Wolf House (abandoned and lied to) and that he never wanted leadership but got it anyway because everyone expected him to because he’s a child of Jupiter completely rewired my brain and now I’m in shambles about him again

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WHERE IS SHE?

WHERE DID THEY TOOK HER?

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call my bed an ashtray the way there's fags in there

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kinda obsessed with the idea of heroes of olympus but you're jason grace, who leaves voids to be filled. you're jason grace who has fit perfectly into the mold and you never leave that mold because that mold is where you are loved, and that mold is where you are safe. you're jason grace and you are more myth than you are human. you're jason grace and you've done everything they've asked but the defiant boy who is rough around the edges is the real hero, and has made the gods listen. you are jason grace and your sister has grown a new family, your home a new leader, your friend a new companion, your dad a new hero, and your girlfriend a new partner.

you are jason grace and you are a mold and you have never left it. you are jason grace, and every void you have left, has been filled. except your own.

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hot take but I will always hate the concept of percy getting elected as praetor with having spent so less time in camp jupiter, while jason spent the same amount of time in chb and still wasn't able to fill in the gaps percy left, but percy seemingly did for jason in camp jupiter, and how replaceable jason was shown as, despite the fact that he spent 12 years, and trained as a TODDLER. i swear if I see some "joke" about percy surpassing jason in a week COMPLETELY ignoring that it's a very obvious gary sue moment written by rick I'll get so salty. it's one of the many inconsistencies of hoo.

because not only does it scream main character favouritism from rick (with making percy fit into everything somehow with zero plot holes) people ONLY say "jason was replacing percy" but apparently acting like percy wasn't? they were BOTH sent to replace eachother, temporarily atleast.

it's the fact that romans are showed to be very choosy in selecting praetors, which is why it took jason so long to become one despite his reputation. the camp just randomly hailing percy (a greek, people whom they hate) as their leader with zero hesitation whatsoever DESPITE the presence of octavian is weird. considering how much they opposed frank, a ROMAN going on an important quest, deeming him unworthy, despite hearing mars, literal GOD giving them orders to send frank, they were still very adamant in not sending him. so we can see that romans bend their rules for no one.

yes percy accomplished something GREAT and deserved the position as much as jason did, but if you take into consideration how the romans were written in the books, they were the type of people to ignore efforts people made if it meant the people were going against their "traditional" values. going by that logic, rick made them contradict their own views just for the purpose of elevating percy, and instilling this sense of superiority over jason.

knowing that the target audience wouldn't want jason to be on the same level as percy, which is strange because rick also meant to write jason and percy as foils of eachother, so shouldn't they be given equal amounts of importance? or just don't write them as foils at all if you want percy to have leverage over jason so bad? like pick a side.

if percy can be made a praetor with a week's time and have golden treatment in an enemy camp that accepts no one in easily (as opposed to chb who's more accepting) then why ISN'T jason held up like a hero in chb if percy is? (nah don't bombard me with the "camp half blood is loyal! unlike camp jupiter, rick wrote percy getting held up to point out that difference between the camps loyalty" bs we are just making up excuses and stories to make sense of the bad writing, who knows if rick even thought through all that, considering how inconsistent he is in books after pjo)

how come chb, whos main trait was written as loyalty to the campers never changed when it came to jason being there? jason got good friends, sure. but the camp NEVER saw him as a replacement to percy and there was some tension with him popping out of nowhere right when percy disappeared. jason was accepted in camp, but he wasn't hailed like a hero there the way percy was.

but camp jupiter, who's traits were extremely traditional values and rules that was never changed or messed with in the past was randomly tailored to percy's advantage? jason was hailed as the pinnacle of the true image of rome, and them replacing him with an unconventional greek hero within a WEEK seems so contradictory and just screams bad writing. why is the fandom giving this portion of the bad writing a pass when it clearly wastes the potential of the characters who aren't percy or annabeth? also this is NOT a percy hate post before y'all flood my inbox with threats, just pointing out one of the many inconsistencies of heroes of olympus.

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when in doubt about whether or not to make a thing, do it for your 3 hardcore fans.

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Concept:

Jason gets possessed by an Eidolon but it doesn’t act the same way as the one that possessed Percy or Leo.

There’s a cruelty to it of course but it still felt like them in a way that this one doesn’t. And none of his friends can’t recognise this being as Jason at all.

Everyone that is but Hazel because she is the only one of them who knew Jason before all of this.

The one who survived the Wolf House at 2 years old. The one who defeated Krios. The one who once bore the title of Praetor.

When Eidolons possess people they can access their memories and learn everything about them. It is acting differently because it’s using the memories that Jason has.

But can’t access himself.

That’s why there’s an expertise to his fighting that didn’t exist prior. A newfound power that marks him as his father’s son.

It’s way he carries himself is tall and self-assured. Why he examines the battlefield with a trained and strategic mind.

For the first time they are seeing Jason as he was. All that he lost and never knew he did. With the knowledge that the only time Jason is truly himself is when he’s not himself at all.

And how once this fight ends he’ll lose it all over again.

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sobbing and crying at the woman who stole a meth addicted kitten from her dealer and then she and the kitten got clean together

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doomed by the narrative but not to death. doomed to survive. doomed to stay alive inside the story. doomed to never escape the narrative, not even through death. you are allowed no exit. there is no way out for you and there never was. you couldn’t die if you wanted to. the narrative has a hold on you and it won’t let go. death is too sweet a doom for you. the story has something much worse in mind. there is no way out.

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sooo like are we not going to talk about how jason looks exactly like luke ... are we not going to talk about how thalia replaced luke as jason for a brother ... are we not going to talk about that

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i am a tragedy enjoyer before i am human

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I do think it was a little messed up for RR to use Jason as emotional fodder in Trials of Apollo and then kill off the poor kid in a series he wasn't even a main character of... but also I can't lie. Jason's story ending with months of self-isolation, suffering, and then death, does make his character infinitely more interesting to me unfortunately