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[justaneedle]

So I'm in the home stretch of The Titan's Curse, wish me luck finally reading this 5 years later.

I swear every time Luke appears I throw my phone away. Why is it so difficult...? 🥺

[justaneedle]

I swear to the gods if I see at least one more person calling Luke a pedo...

It has already been stated on my blog that if you really see in Luke romantic feelings for Annabeth (16yo Annabeth, gods) this is your personal problem.

Don’t shift from your unhealthy mind to unhealthy one, but not so much Luke's.

(And I say this as a person whose characters began dating at the ages of 20 and 28, and he knew her from the age of 7)

[justaneedle]

Goddammit im so hapoy to have found you, a Luke apologist. I jaut got sucked back into the whole fandom bc of the upcoming series and... i read the original books when i was really young, right, 11,12,13. And yea, Luke was the bad guy!!

But now im actually Luke age. And i know how young everyone actually is. If you put me in charge of a bunch of 12-15 year olds and made me watch them die one after the other; i'd probably side with the side that's AGAINST those making this happen too???

Idk his stance is just so so so understandable. I'm studying to become a teacher rn and being responsible for big groups of young kids - it feels a certain way. It's like... motherly instincts, but not really, but kinda, but definetly extreme protectiveness.

Now did he make some bad choices along the way blablabla, sure yea. But holy hell his position is understandable.

ESPECIALLY! Knowing about New Rome and that alternatives are a possibility, actually, the greeks just aren't getting them??? Nah i'd definetly try and murder all the gods. Viciously.

I don't really know where i'm going with this except that i was scrolling through the Luke tag and one of your posts was like a breath of fresh air in between all the, mostly pretty young, fans that hate on him and everything he every did. So thanks, i guess?

Goddamn, I somehow never got an email for this, so I had no idea this was collecting dust in my inbox. Sorry about that.

Also, you left me rambling, so. . .sorry about that.

And yes. I am more or less the same age Luke was during the series, and I can't imagine the number it would do on you to be responsible for prepping a bunch of preteens and teenagers to face their violent deaths, especially after what he went through with his mother and Thalia.

I left it in the tags of the post that went viral against my will, but Luke's living out a different genre from Percy and company, and I—I would lose my shit, too, if in his position. That's torturous, dystopian shit.

They're kids, damn it.

(And I have. . .many headcanons about Luke Castellan and Camp Jupiter and Greek demigod life expectancies. Most of them not good, all of them trying to square the worldbuilding)

And I find it so difficult to believe that it's a bad person—and not simply a very angry and hurt person—who sets out to do really questionable things to try and keep another kids from suffering and dying, to prevent anyone else from becoming himself.

There's a certain despair through it and Luke's choices; I really, really have my doubts over whether Luke genuinely believed that he would survive the war, either way.

Raging against the dying of the light and all that. He knows he will likely fail, he knows he's propping up a monster, and he's doing it anyway in this desperate attempt to create something different.

This makes Percy so important because he still thinks that as family and as people, the gods can change—just look at his conversation with Hermes at the end of TLO.

There's a faith he very understandably keeps (Poseidon is, by godly standards, a good dad who tries and that's important), a faith that Luke, in turn, has understandably lost and we see Hermes's grief and regret over that loss.

Luke's last change in heart, his choice to believe in Percy, in how to break this cycle of violence and abuse that's been eating demigods alive, is beautiful and kills me every time.

(Requisite note that this final choice takes on a different timbre considering the events of HoO)

He's lost everything—his mother, Thalia, Annabeth, any semblance of a home he ever had. Which is how I think he justifies Kronos, ultimately, I think. He's lost any hope he has, for himself or otherwise, and is intent on making the gods pay for what they've done.

Like every other tragic hero, he penned his own tragedy, knowing what was going to happen the whole time, which kills me.

He walks into his own end and, at the end, finds that last thing at the bottom of Pandora's jar—Hope.

[justaneedle]

Who wanted to scream at the moment where they were caught on Princess Andromeda...?

But damn, now I want to read fanfiction about how Luke and the other half-bloods got used to the presence of monsters; 'cause Luke is pretty damn cool with their shit and stuff.

[justaneedle]

I probably wouldn't did that, just like Annabeth. C'mone, she's deeply loves him and hurt by his words, cause it's probably something bout she was thinking as well

But the heck I'd ever forget him that.

“Traveling with a Cyclops,” Luke chided. “Talk about dishonoring Thalia’s memory! I’m surprised at you, Annabeth. You of all people-”

“Stop it!” she shouted.

I didn’t know what Luke was talking about, but Annabeth buried her head in her hands like she was about to cry.

“Leave her alone,” I said.

Annabeth is a lot better than me because if my older brother told me he literally poisoned the only connection to my dead sister and then accused me of being the one in the wrong, I'm pushing him off his damn yacht. No hesitation.  

[justaneedle]

Aww, my sweet baby Tyson too bad he was literally forgotten...

And my sweet Clarisse, she's so good complicated, my love.

Tantalus one of those little scoundrels who attract more hatred than the main villains. Kronos is at the very least a manipulative, treacherous bastard with huge plans. Luke is well-motivated, easy to understand, and his emotional swings are fun to watch, but Tantalus... is an annoying little asshole.

[justaneedle]

...yeah, I will continue to shitpost bout Percy Jackson– cough– Luke– cough– cause I decided to give myself a marathon in order to finally get through the third book (the death of Bianca. I just don’t want to read it)...

Here we are, Luke is vengeful and ambitious, clearly with bias towards the first. The phrase bout “drive humanity back to their caves. All except the strongest— the ones who serve him” just does not seem at all originally his own. Rather, it is a consequence of the fact that he really wants to be needed and recognized. It's kind of... doesn't feel real, but something that only comes into his head in rage and despair, like when children scream at their parents that they hate them when in fact they don't.

...I already mentioned that everyone need a fucking psychotherapist, huh...?

[justaneedle]

I dunno bro, you might have to take that up with Greek Mythology and not pjo lolol that's just what the afterlife is like for them

Oh, I know, yeah, you right.

But I'm rereading PJO, so it's just something that hit me in the personal way, so I tagged it's as PJO

[justaneedle]

...I hate the idea of Fields of Asphodel.

That you need did something ✨special✨ in your fucking life only for not being lost and sad all fucking eternity...

Like... people who most of their life tortured from sicknesses, bein' unloved, lonely and etc... who might did all what they can do to raise their children, support their loved ones, but they just normal people...

And they getting that kind of eternity...?

[justaneedle]

I decided here should be it's own post.

Okay, can we talk how desperate, furious and hateful Luke was for the gods and his father in particular?

Kronos is literally the worst asshole ever from the fucking start, but Castellan followed him anyway...

...boy, he's the fucking worst bad influence on you...

[justaneedle]

Okay, can we talk how desperate, furious and hateful Luke was for the gods and his father in particular?

Kronos is literally the worst asshole ever from the fucking start, but Castellan followed him anyway...

...boy, he's the fucking worst bad influence on you...

Who decided to re-read the first 5 books? That's right, I wanted to make sure of some things.

But what I've always admired about the fandom is how you guys took Luke's question that seriously:

Me~

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~seeing how everyone takes this for something... that-that, when I never took this question to Annabeth seriously... and it’s unlikely that I ever will...

(even if Rick Riordan confirmed/will confirm, I don't give a fuck)

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[justaneedle]

not now baby, mommy is once again thinking about how much Luke shaped Percy as the person we know today, how much of a mirror they are to each other, Luke is everything Percy could become and Percy is everything Luke could have been.

[justaneedle]

not now baby, mommy is once again thinking about how much Luke shaped Percy as the person we know today, how much of a mirror they are to each other, Luke is everything Percy could become and Percy is everything Luke could have been.

[justaneedle]

So, someone read The Lightning Thief and want to cry...

But one of the main reasons why I love so much how exactly Luke turned out to be a traitor... his identity with Percy n' everybody else wasn't fake. Yes, he was no longer the same himself as he once was, but... it still wasn't something made up.

(Yes, hello to you, Hans from Frozen and why such villains are bad).

Who decided to re-read the first 5 books? That's right, I wanted to make sure of some things.

But what I've always admired about the fandom is how you guys took Luke's question that seriously:

Me~

(⁠・⁠●⁠・⁠)

~seeing how everyone takes this for something... that-that, when I never took this question to Annabeth seriously... and it’s unlikely that I ever will...

(even if Rick Riordan confirmed/will confirm, I don't give a fuck)

(⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

[justaneedle]

Who decided to re-read the first 5 books? That's right, I wanted to make sure of some things.

But what I've always admired about the fandom is how you guys took Luke's question that seriously:

Me~

(⁠・⁠●⁠・⁠)

~seeing how everyone takes this for something... that-that, when I never took this question to Annabeth seriously... and it’s unlikely that I ever will...

(even if Rick Riordan confirmed/will confirm, I don't give a fuck)

(⁠ ⁠╹⁠▽⁠╹⁠ ⁠)

[justaneedle]

Thanks someone said that. Luke always was hot. And this was even emphasized when he looked sick, because it felt weird. Thought Draco never was named directly none attractive, just... Draco.

Okay so I've seen people say that luke will get the Draco Malfoy effect meaning an attractive actor and a lot of sympathy because of that. But I'm rereading the books and Luke was always described as handsome. Blond hair blue eyes. The first description of Luke was a sandy haired surfer. Annabeth had a crush on him for a long time. Slienna had a thing for him before she dated Beckendorf. Even Thaila felt something for Luke. He was handsome and used his looks to sway people where Malfoy used his name. Malfoy was never described as attractive. Pale skin pale blond hair a sneer on his face all the time.

[justaneedle]

But... people loved Luke even before... for example me... and he's hot and cool in canon anyway...

People starting to love Luke cause his actor is hot is pure Draco Malfoy effect