#Magnus Chase and The Gods of Asgard

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Fav character in the pjo show : grover

In hoo : leo

In toa for now (im at book 2) : meg

In mcga : magnuuuus ma boï

Over all : MAGNUS CHASE

[gay-disabled-characters-showdown]

LGBTQ+ Disabled Characters Showdown Round 2, Wave 2, Poll 12

A character being totally canon LGBTQ+ and disabled was not required to be in this competition. Please check qualifications and propaganda before asking why a character is included.

Check out the other polls in this wave and prior here.

Hearthstone-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard

Qualifications:

He's canonically deaf and also in love with Blitzen!

Propaganda:

He's a badass deaf elf magician whose partner is a dwarf who loves fashion. What's not to like?

Yang Xiao Long-RWBY

Qualifications:

She is canonically wlw (has been for years but specifically kissed and got together with her now girlfriend in the latest season) and uses a prosthetic arm and has been shown to struggle with PTSD due to the traumatic nature of losing it during the show.

Canonically had her right arm chopped off, uses a prosthetic. Has PTSD. Is canonically in a WLW relationship.

She has a canon girlfriend and canonically has a prosthetic arm and PTSD

She's canonically sapphic (part of a recently canonised wlw slowburn relationship) and is an amputee (due to events from the 3rd season finale) who wears a robotic prosthetic. She also suffers from PTSD which is explored in the show

Propaganda:

I will keep on submitting Yang to relevant brackets until I die. RWBY has plenty of strengths and weaknesses with writing, especially Yang's recovery arc, but instead of forcing her to push past her trauma and enter the battlefield immediately, we see her struggle with it, take time to process, and not be pushed into repression and when she chooses to wear her prosthetic, chooses to train to ready herself, and chooses to seek out her family and save lives, she isn't perfectly healed, as no one is. The show depicts her having flashbacks due to sudden loud noise, shaking hand the first few times she has to fight for her safety instead of training with her dad, and snapping at friends when they bring up Blake, the person she lost her arm trying to save (who, near immediately after ran away due to feeling she was endangering those she loved, furthering Yang's already present abandonment issues.) It isn't done perfectly but the intentions and general message sent are extremely positive and honest. She struggles less as the show progresses, and there are opportunities to consider herself less for being disabled or "become whole again" but she explicitly refutes these ideas and says that's she's better because of her failures and losses, and isn't any less whole. Her becoming disabled is also extremely tied to her being LGBT, because, as previously mentioned, she lost her arm protecting her then friend and partner, now girlfriend, directly after the villain who cut her arm off told her love interest that he would "destroy everything [she] love[s]. (Camera pans to Yang, he looks at her.) Starting with her." LIKE. He attacked her BECAUSE Blake cared for her so much and Yang ran to her defense blindly BECAUSE she loved Blake so much. When they reunite, they struggle with communication because Yang feels Blake is seeing her as weak, and through several things, mostly a climatic battle against the man who severed Yang's arm, they affirm each other as equals. I can go on but this is already too long. YANG SWEEP!!!!!

Yang lost her arm while protecting her best friend and future girlfriend from said girlfriend's abusive ex. Had a whole arc about learning to live with that loss and dealing with PTSD. Is totally devoted to and in love with Blake Belladonna and is just the sweetest but most badass character in the show.

She's one of the main characters, and just finished a 10 year slow burn romance. Plus, she has both physical and mental disabilities, but is never treated as lesser or incomplete.

Yang Xiao Long was one of the first examples of a sapphic character I ever saw in animated media with her character journey in the show being an iconic part of my teenage years and current young adulthood. The loss of her arm after a traumatic event in the show's 3rd volume was one of the big shockers of the show that nobody saw coming. Since then the show has done an amazing job in exploring both the mental and physical effects of her losing a limb, gaining a prosthetic arm and the recovery journey. Her character also has a major arc regarding handling her PTSD from both this and her past most notably in the 5th and 6th volume. Her character also has a slow-burn romance with her teammate and fellow main character Blake Belladonna which is one of my fave romances ever (it has everything: canon soulmates, friends to lovers, sunshine x grump,battle couple etc..) that has recently became CANON BABIEE!!! There are MULTIPLE characters in RWBY with various disabilities that are handled well in the narrative but i would say Yangs definitely the top FAVE!

[starshower1215]

Possibly Unpopular Blitzstone Opinion/Theory

In previous posts, it has been made quite clear on this account that Blitzen and Hearthstone as a queerplatonic relationship, are just really cool. But as I give this duo more and more thought, I find myself in increasingly deep gratitude that Rick Riordan did not disclose the nature of their relationship, especially that he did not specify it to be romantic.

In this context, writing the short story that hints at a romance between Hearthstone and his friend, Inge, may have been a clever move in order to clarify the non-explicit romantic boundary between Hearth and Blitz, instead of to clarify Hearthstone as heterosexual. By doing so, Riordan redefines their relationship as undefined.

This may all have been an accident, or a coincidence, and I will admit to my own bias when wanting to view Blitzstone in a more platonic lighting. Riordan has shown himself to be very explicit when it comes to LGBTQ+ representation (for example, he does not brush over Alex's past as a transgender teenager in a conservative home - he actively brings it up in the story), so there is no reason for him not to disclose the nature of Hearth and Blitzen's relationship as romantic or as a qpr. We can then assume that they are meant to be close friends only.

With all that context given, the reason for all this yapping and gratitude is that, in a society where a romantic relationship is made out to be the "end goal," and people obsess over their levels of attraction in order to market themselves as a fit partner, the mysterious nature of Blitzstone's very close partnership is refreshing. It is a little reminder, perhaps unintentionally, that we don't have "other halves of our souls" or "The One" out there waiting for us (that is my personal belief, at least), and that we aren't suddenly completed when we reach that woohoo-Instagram-worthy stage of connection.

In conclusion, this is not an insult to people in romantic relationships, nor people interested in them. The concept itself is great, but the decision to leave Blitzstone undefined leaves a whole new world of Something Else to discover for teenagers reading Magnus Chase, and it's just nice to expose them to that concept and to the community at such an important age.

[awesome-shoes-with-wings]

Do any of you ever wonder if Camp Half-Blood accidentally brought in a demigod of a different pantheon before?

This would be especially hilarious if it happens sometime after The Last Olympian/Heroes of Olympus, where the gods are required to claim their kids quickly.

A whole day passes, and the new demigod needs to sleep in the Hermes Cabin and Percy is furious. Meanwhile, the Greek Gods are pointing at each other and shouting, contacting the most obscure of mini gods. Chaos erupts on Olympus as every deity in Greek Mythology is called upon and interrogated. Hermes hasn't run around so much in centuries.

Hecate sits in silence, fully aware of what's happening, but enjoying the show too much to intervene.

[fallen-chances]

I know we're all talking about the D'Angelo's/Di'Angelo tease that was in episode 1 but what about the "You could make an appointment to see Mr Kane," line from Grover.

Rick you asshole throwing in names important to your other books in places they're not meant to be. now all we need is a throw away line about Annabeth's cousin in Boston and the trifecta is complete

(edit: okay. I got it. D'Angelos is a real sandwich place. now go comment that on the five million other posts freaking out about the mention of di'angelo. I've got it. you don't have to comment on mine when someone else already did. read the comments before you comment. Reading Comprehension, Guys.)

[siminiecricketart]

Happy Pride everyone 🫶🏻🌈

[art-of-pluton]

Magnus Chase content in the year 2024? More likely than you think

[green446004]

[oh-hush-its-perfect]

when drawing Alex's wedding dress, a lot of people tend to forget that she was disguised as Samirah, so the dress has to be hijabi-friendly. that means sleeves, a full-length skirt, no plunging necklines, no off-the-shoulder moment, et cetera. with this in mind, please rb this with drawings of Alex in her dress. i think it'd be fun <3

[spookedbees]

wow magnus that’s so embarrassing

[moominvalley-state-of-mind]

'let them say fuck' this 'let them swear' that

let them cry

let them sob in the shower

let them soak their friend's sleeve with tears

let them wake up with red eyes

let them laugh cry with their friends over a forgotten inside joke

let them cry while kissing their partner, finally finished with whatever hell they were going through

[carterthefrog]

sometimes i think a little too hard about how percy jackson started as bedtime stories that rick riordan would tell his son when he was being bullied for his adhd and dyslexia because he wanted to let his kid know that he could also be a hero. and how after his first books were so successful he started to realize that there are lots of kids out there who don't see themselves in any heroes because of various other aspects of themselves, and he doesn't want any kid to feel like how his did, so he started writing heroes that were poc and gay and religious minorities and homeless and genderqueer and physically disabled and from an array of different cultures and he just made it his absolute mission to make sure every single kid could see themselves in his universe. about how the primary purpose of these books is to make kids feel a little bit less alone, and how the percy jackson books are so well loved because they are, themselves, an act of love. percy jackson came into existence as an act of love towards his struggling son and this story grew and expanded into what it is today because so many kids needed that same kind of love, and even those of us that aren't kids anymore still find a home in a story that was made for that exact purpose. and then i cry.

[catcacophony]

made a bunch of these

[kidciitrix]

lives were changed

[mallydraws]

Wise girls