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Redraw this as Percy please(but the magnetic hairclip is blue + iydm i'd perfer her hair be just black with the white streak :] )

I always wanted one of those 🙇

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Hmmm feel free to decline this one but how about the Percy design we've been defaulting to in a shirt that says 'Ariel could never'

I didn't see this ask for so long 😭🙏

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Cinderella Perleo🥹?

I did both i think Leo would rock the dress 🎀

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It’s the way that Percy fought Ares and got cursed, the right choice but not a good one, and that directly leads to Zoe having to regain Atlas’s attention to get him away from Percy when Percy’s sword fails him. It’s in part because of Zoe putting herself in the line of fire to get her father away from Percy that she dies, as Atlas deals that death blow to her soon after. And this culminates in Percy taking a burden so heavy, it almost crushes him and physically changes him. Very interesting

exactly!!

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So, while Sally, in general, is pretty beloved by the fandom, she is considered selfish, largely because she calls herself that while they’re fleeing a monster, because she hadn’t already taken her son to Camp. And, I’m not saying that there wasn’t a very selfish aspect to that decision, but it would have also been pretty natural for her to only focus on her mistakes in that moment because she’d have felt that her son and his friend were in danger because of her. The book also doesn’t really explore it further. I just think the situation was more complicated than that.

Now, we do know that Sally was willing to send Percy to camp if he really was in danger. She knew that Grover was watching him and she didn’t tell him and Chiron to buzz off. She was reluctant but prepared for that. We also know, despite the power of Gabe’s scent, that Percy had had previous encounters with monsters, which Sally must have been mostly aware of. So, why hadn’t she sent him earlier? We’re told that the more a half-blood knows, the more monsters they attract, which is the excuse Grover gives for all the lying and gaslighting. So, it makes sense, especially with who Percy’s father is, that she’d think that if Percy knew the truth about what he is, it would become even more unsafe for him to live outside Camp. A lot of the more powerful campers are year rounders for that reason. Poseidon actually helps with that for a while. Tyson’s presence helps keep monsters away from Percy after TLT, though even that wasn’t enough to keep him fully safe, as we see in SOM.

So, there was a strong possibility that if she sent Percy to Camp, she’d have only minimal contact with him for years. And, yeah, of course she wanted to keep him with her for as long as possible, she didn’t want to lose him. But, I also think she must have been afraid of what would happen if she just sent him off alone into a different world, to a life where he wouldn’t have had her either. Maybe it wasn’t the kind of fear she could have articulated very clearly because it’s not her world, and she couldn’t have known exactly what was in store for him, but she’d deliberately named him Perseus, after one of the only heroes who got a happy ending. Camp Half-Blood isn’t just a refuge, it’s also a place designed to train heroes. Percy’s life did not become safer after he found out that he was a half-blood. He literally starts the book telling the reader that he hadn’t wanted to be a half-blood and advises them to believe whatever lies their parent had told them and to try to lead a normal life. Of course, Percy also had the misfortune of having to live through multiple wars, but, before Chiron had banned them, quests must have been fairly common. And, for Percy, a son of Poseidon, it was pretty likely that he’d have ended up involved in a few. And we do see the gods sending Percy on quests not related to the war, like Hermes and Apollo, and the ones who’d popped up on the subway, in math class and when he was taking a shower (as mentioned in The Singer of Apollo). He also helped Clarisse fight her brothers when she had to drive her dad’s chariot. Gabe was terrible, yes, I’m not trivialising that, and it’s understandable that people have massive doubts about Sally’s decision because of him, but Gabe at least wasn’t homicidal, as far as we know, and Sally kept sending Percy to boarding schools, which would have at least kept him away from Gabe for most of the school year. She eventually did have to send him to Camp, where he did become a child soldier, and was a part of many life-threatening quests and battles. This doesn’t sound like a situation where there were any good options available, but this, at least, was the one where Sally had at least some control. Later on, Percy having a life outside Camp did give him some important normalcy and an identity outside of being Poseidon’s son. His life didn’t revolve around quests, and he had a strong relationship with a parent who didn’t just notice him when he was in mortal danger. Sally, in turn, learned to support her son when he had to make dangerous decisions (at the ripe old age of 14) even though she knew she could lose him. And, of course, if Sally had known that Percy was a forbidden child, whose uncles might kill him, that would have also been a pretty important reason for why she’d put off sending him to Camp.

People also hate on Sally for rejecting Poseidon’s offer of a palace under the sea, because they think she should have accepted for Percy’s sake. Because, obviously, she should have given up everything to become the mistress of an Immortal King, who, btw, has an Immortal Queen. Now I’m going to venture into the area of speculation here, but we don’t even know if Poseidon’s offer still applied after she became pregnant. We know Poseidon does try to help his kids when he can, but he also seems to largely adhere to the rules. The only option he ever presented for Percy, in terms of training and shelter, was Camp Half-Blood, where it would only have been a matter of time before his parentage became obvious. In TLT, I get why he couldn’t just take Percy to Atlantis, because he needed him to prove their innocence, but unless he’d seen that conflict happening years in advance, that can’t be why he’d only told Sally to send him to Camp and hadn’t provided any alternative undersea options, where he could have trained in relative anonymity. That’s why I don’t think it would have been that simple for Percy, a half-blood, Great Prophecy candidate, to have grown up in the ocean, unless Poseidon was willing to turn him into a god. Nico survived by training with the dead, and even lived in his father’s palace for a while, but Hades seemed sort of cut off from the other Olympians by then. He didn’t even appear in the Winter Solstice in TTC. Anyway, sorry for delivering a thesis, I had so much to say and decided to do it in the most longwinded way possible. Do you have any thoughts on this? Anything you agree or disagree with?

i agree the situation is more complicated and she's placing blame in a situation outside of her control (zeus/hades are only trying so hard to kill them bc their items were stolen).

after percy's birth, there aren't a lot of good options, and it's unclear how much sally knew prior to percy's conception (wrt the prophecy and such), so it's hard to say how much agency she had in that decision. similarly, it's hard to say how percy would've been treated had he gotten to camp earlier. poseidon thinks it's a good choice (so i doubt they'd kill percy on the spot for being born of a broken oath lol), but percy would still be alone in cabin and poseidon has never lived at camp. i actually think this an underrated theme in pjo [what to do when there are no good choices]*.

secondly, i think chb is largely underdeveloped as a full-time residence in canon. we don't see many outside teachers (quintus and tantalus are the only ones coming to mind...), which begets the question, who is teaching all these kids? chiron? alone? what happens when he decides to go teach at a yancy? are the cabin counselors expected to raise children full-time, year-round? it's hard to see this as a serious option, especially considering all these kids are supposed to be disabled and therefore need accommodations...for example, annabeth is a major character, and yet almost the entire time we know her she doesn't stay year-round, despite being a year-rounder, she goes to a boarding school. in new york. arranged by camp. so like what even is the difference between staying or not lol. even when we see camp during the school year, it's on winter break, and there's no school activities. it feels like regular camp w less ppl.

anyway it's hard to take chb as a serious, full-year option bc it's not explored in canon. gabe and tyson are, objectively, better at protecting percy from monsters than chb appears to be.

altho percy is going to be a child soldier whether or not he attends camp, the only difference is how well-taught he is. this is an explicit plot point in som, where percy says his decision to not stay in camp directly results in luke kicking his ass. percy simply isn't skilled enough in swordplay to keep up bc he hasn't had enough time to practice. the only reason percy gets out of the situation is bc chiron and the party ponies show up.

all of that being said, i do think sally is in part thinking abt this:

she got confirmation what she's doing isn't enough to hide percy anymore and still chose to keep him. i don't doubt that she knows percy is in a special kind of danger bc she takes pretty extreme precautions and already knows who poseidon actually is. obvi she had no way to know abt the lightning bolt, but hindsight is 20-20.

similarly, percy feels like he can't even ask abt the camp or what she means bc it upsets her. bc of this, he's kept almost entirely in the dark.

as a slight tangent, i do like that sally and chiron's decision to keep percy out of the loop of his own life is what backfires. he's not allowed to make (even slightly) informed choices, and then the minotaur catches up bc of that. very fun and cool that a story abt disability has a focus on how well-meaning adults can still remove autonomy from kids. and how hiding disabilities/diagnoses from children doesn't change that they are still affected by them.

back on topic, i think part of the reason poseidon would've offered camp and not the sea is bc percy would be closer to sally. i don't have much to say abt the ppl getting mad at sally for rejecting poseidon's offer bc accepting it is so antithetical to the story that i have no idea what to say. i also think nico was allowed to train in his father's realm without any problem bc percy was (at that point) obviously who the prophecy was abt, if not both [what u were saying abt hades being cut off].

anyway, i think it's more that the reasoning behind the decisions she made was bc she was being selfish, not necessarily that the acts themselves were selfish. percy does have a strong bond w his mother and a different perspective bc of it, but he also suffers from his lack of training. it's not a clear-cut situation bc the reality is the world is not made for demigods.

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Hazel,Drew,Piper and Percy in the Totally Spies girls suits.Percy had Britney's obvs(it's blue)but Hazel has a purple one,Drew has a white one and Piper has a pink one?

(Also Percy with the hair in my most recent req please)

I know almost nothing about Totally Spies I hope this is okay 🙇🙇

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Percy redraw?

EMILY THE STRANGE MENTIONED!!!

I didnt know how to do it 💔

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Miles and Percy playing basketball together since Percy was on Goode High's team :3

them 🎀

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HAZEL‼️‼️ I cant think of a consistent design for her....... ... ..

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like hazel choosing her weapon, a spatha, that is only really useful to a ranking officer is under-utilized. ok, so she likes horses. well, she's walking around camp with the promise that one day she will outrank everyone there.

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“I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own” is one of the rawest lines in the riordanverse and it was said by Hazel Levesque to a goddess, btw.

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hate hate hate when people use horrible character writing written years after a character’s introduction to defend a dog shit take. like yes he did fucking say that but you don’t understand that writing of him was so far from accurate it’s in another time zone

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“I'm not choosing one of your paths. I'm making my own” is one of the rawest lines in the riordanverse and it was said by Hazel Levesque to a goddess, btw.

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percy having trouble breathing post-tartarus is canon???????

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Percy and Hazel!!(Req)

These are so ass i didjt know how to pose them 💔

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@bayetea and @ruegarding always have the best meta/analysis posts! we love book fans who actually read <3

@bayetea & @ruegarding!

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Percethan + 24(the children are Nico and Hazel ofc)

they r having a movie night 🤍