#❛ HE WAS A HERO TO ME ❜ / ⊰ luke. ⊱

[helenofsparta2]

Can we talk about how interesting Percy’s dynamics with the Olympians actually is? Like, both on an individual and on a general level?

He and Ares have a rivalry. A genuine rivalry, based on mutual dislike. Frank described them in Son of Neptune as “two old war buddies talking trash” and Phobos described Percy in “Stolen Chariot” as a “sworn enemy” of Ares. That’s actually insane if you think about it. Those are the immortal god of war, and a sixteen-year-old teenager. Ares would have been fine with Percy becoming a god, because he looked forward to just fight with him or beat him up for eternity.

Percy is the only known male demigod Artemis respects, who won the friendship of not one but two of her lieutenants.

He is the demigod, who challenged Dionysus views on heroes as a whole, and that, as a son of Poseidon, half-brother to Theseus, the hero who betrayed and left Dionysus wife. The hero, who ignited Dionysus hatred of half-bloods in the first place. Still, Dionysus placed his trust in Percy to save both Olympus and Pollux in the Last Olympian.

He and Nico are the only two demigods to ever canonically acknowledge Hestia. Percy even sacrificed hope to her, which was probably the biggest sacrifice and the biggest sign of respect she ever received from a demigod.

Aphrodite takes a special interest in his love life.

Hermes and him are on pretty friendly terms. So far, that Percy even refers to him as a “friend” in the Staff of Hermes. He is also the only demigod to ever completely openly criticize him on how he handled Luke’s situation and doesn’t back down from a rather intense argument. At the end of the last Olympian, Hermes gives Percy a list of his children outside of Camp half-blood and asks him to personally escort them to safety.  

Despite Hades trying to imprison him and threatening him with death, Percy is, together with Nico, the reason why Hades and his children are accepted at Camp Half-Blood.

While Hera dislikes him, she still acknowledges Percy’s importance for her plans and describes him for one as “constant as a compass needle” when it comes to his friends, and also as someone who inspires loyalty in “Son of Neptune.”

Poseidon, centuries-old god of the ocean, who probably had thousands of children in his life called Percy his favourite son in Battle of the labyrinth. After a conversation about Antaeus, who, for over three thousand years has sacrificed people and monsters in honor of Poseidon. Still, it is Percy, who is his favourite son.

He is the only modern demigod to get offered godhood but chose instead to use their favor to create a better world for all demigods and to request forgiveness for the gods who fought on Kronos’ side, which changes some of the quintessential rules of their world.

Percy is blunt and not afraid to openly challenge them on their views and actions, but because he is probably the most powerful and accomplished hero to ever live, and because he has saved them and the world on numerous occasions, they can’t just ignore him or kill him off, and even have to listen to him on some rare occasions.

None of the other demigods really have that, at least to this scale.

It’s so interesting to me, how Percy’s relationship to the Olympians, both negative and positive, echoes more the relationship they would have to another god, than to a half-blood. 

[ofswordsandpens]

Percy, who had finally accepted to bear the burden of the great prophecy after agonizing over it for years only for everyone to repeatedly tell him in the final book that he's not the hero and its not about him:

[eir-trixa]

Okay, this was probably already said before and I might be slow in this uptake but don't you think that Annabeth's fear of Percy controlling poison in HoH is less because she fears him using that against Akhlys or against her or anyone, but more on that she was getting flashbacks of Luke as Kronos and how the same kind of anger and unlimited power lead him to betray his family and leave her behind?

I think to see that same thing that happened to Luke happen to someone she loved as much as Percy was what triggered her. Cause she's already seen Percy harness so much power before, probably had the front seat to most of his feats. But seeing the same anger as Luke's - which Percy already admitted to having understood in MoA - and having been presented power great enough to allow him to get revenge was probably the combination that threw her off like... that's not Percy. If he continues to that same path she's gonna lose him, like she did her older brother.

[lovegrowsart]

it's pretty wild to me that people don't see that aang running off to save katara in CoD is his luke in empire strikes back moment, where he runs headlong into his want and attachment and he's narratively punished for doing so and not learning his lesson - aang runs after katara despite guru pathik's warning, like luke runs after leia and han from yoda on dagobah despite yoda's warning; similarly, as a result, things go to hell in ba sing se like they do on bespin - aang enters the avatar state before he's ready and gets killed, and ba sing se falls to the fire nation, luke fights vader before he's ready, loses a hand, and symbolically commits suicide after vader tells him he's luke's father.

the difference between their character arcs is that george lucas and co. actually went thru with luke's hero's journey and understood the fundamental difference between attachment and love, whereas I don't think bryke understood this difference and then dropped this from aang's arc pretty much completely and replaced it with aang digging in his heels into his want and attachment and he gets rewarded with energy bending from a lion turtle, the avatar state from a random pointy rock, and his forever girl from the self-indulgent white men that couldn't bring themselves to give their hero a compelling character arc that meant he might not have gotten everything he wanted at the end.

[massiveladycat]

[m-for-now]

Does anyone have fun headcanons for some random events that happened at Camp Jupiter during the time of the Titan war? Because we know next to nothing about the Romans but I refuse to believe they didn't have any crazy weird events and quests.

Like, if the Seven were to talk about the time before HoO (or generally any Romans and Greeks) and Percy and Annabeth would go like "Oh and we went through the sea of monsters and ended up on Circe's Island that one time" or "and that's how Percy showed up to his own funeral", sure, that would be a crazy story. But Jason also defeated a Titan on his own and Reyna only ever went to CJ After Percy and Annabeth were at Circe's island, what was the crazy stuff that happened in between?

Also what did the Romans think Caused the Titan War since they obviously couldn't have known it was Luke?

[medusasblindgf]

Okay, so yeah “Not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero.” works for Luke. Perfectly, actually. But have you considered that it also works for Percy?

Heroes soul, cursed blade shall reap.

Luke is the hero. He sacrifices himself at the end of the series.

Percy looks like a hero from his actions, but in the end, Luke is the one who takes that title. Whether you like it or not, the prophecy proves that he becomes the hero of the final story.

“…and not everyone who looks like a villain, is a villain.” Look at it from the POV of after the final war. Percy is not the final hero, and Luke is not the final villain. But it goes both ways. In the lightning thief, it’s different - Luke looks like a hero, and to the Gods (cough ZEUS cough) Percy is a villain.

Either way it can be argued true or false. That’s what I love about this series. The complete morality of the characters. They’re just kids. They’re trying their best.

[yonemurishiroku]

Headcanon in their whole journey of achieving a somewhat friendship, Alabaster did try to stab Nico at some point and the fact that the latter did not retaliate with an equally fetal hit - only looking into his eyes despite blood spilling out, steaming from where pale hands met the Imperial gold sword - is half of the reason why Alabaster has grown to trust him.

[m4gp13]

My sister just started rewatching one of those old serials we used to watch ages ago, namely Class of the Titans, and now that I'm incredibly deep into greek mythology and pjo, it's hitting way harder than it did in 2007

[mydearestpen]

LUKE NEWTON (x)

[i-used-to-be-a-spy]

When they were kids, Nate and Michael snuck out to ride ferries cause their parents were fighting and then the guard called their parents and their father picked them up and took them home. When they got back their bedrooms were trashed and Star Wars and GI Joe figures on the floor, beds over turned, posters ripped down from the walls.

[ayamos]

THIS MAN IS KILLING ME🫠

[massiveladycat]

pjo fandom after meeting lukabeth shippers

[chocolatd]

if i was a demigod at camp half blood and they pulled the “luke is a hero :(” card in front of me i would’ve started another war

[damblackjack]

the fact that the roman camp literally has a town and sanctuary of sorts for older and retired demigods. so many of the kids from camp half blood don’t expect to live into adulthood, yet there are people across the country who get to die simply from old age rather than from being slaughtered or from going on stupid errands for the gods. imagine the greek campers walking into camp jupiter and being amazed to see people like them with graying hairs (not resulting from holding the sky) and kids of their own. imagine them being asked what’s wrong and them replying with ‘i didn’t know we could live that long.’ imagine the romans being horrified to learn that dying so young was a widely accepted norm, expected even. imagine the greeks finally getting that little spark of hope that maybe they can live the lives that they want to live. imagine them living not only for themselves, but also for their lost siblings and friends who never got a chance.

[ghost-of-you]

'Cause you'll always have a place in me...

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