#she's also autistic and so are thalia and ethan

[punkeropercyjackson]

Hi!!! I was wondering why you headcanoned Percy as being Afro-Latina? When I read the books for some reason when i was a stupid little kid I genuinely thought they was Filipino, I only recently realized that they were never once described that way. And I’m just curious on why you headcanon them that way? I like hearing others opinions and ways of thinking.

(On that point of not being able to read properly, I also completely thought that Annabeth had brown hair and grey eyes. I was also convinced that she was Jewish 😭)

HELPPPP THE WAY IT'S ALMOST A UNIVERSAL EXPERIENCE FOR KIDS OF COLOR TO READ PERCY AS OUR RACE BECAUSE HE'S SO NON WHITE-CODED😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭Filipino Percy is real and true and thanks for this ask,i've actuallybeen meaning to make a post on this!!

From El Barrio,a part in New York with such a high latino population it earned that nickname

In Som,he calls his classmates 'rich white boys' as an insult

Described Sadie who is canonically black biracial as looking like if he had a daughter

Literally gets profield constantly due to his looks in the mortal world(he 'looks like a troublemaker' according to them even though we're given no indication anything about Percy is scary or threatning and he has a rbf because he's autistic and can't mask.I get Rick was tryna make him a bad boy but he failed epically)

Genius but gets called stupid all the time even after saving everybody's asses for years straight

Canonically naturally brownskin without a specified shade(just 'mediterranean complexion')

Not quite concrete but Hazel said he has 'the good looks of a roman god' and i doubt a girl as black as her would describe a white man like that(also epic 'Percy is basically Hazel's dad' momence)

Speaking of which,how protective and loving he is towards her reads as solidarity to me

His main antagonist and direct opposite is Luke,a paragon of white supremacy.He's a white blue eyed blonde cishet physically abled man who's always described as conventionally attractive and grew up sheltered in a fantasy world(Camp Half-Blood)but broke into evil the second that illusion was shattered and created a child army with the kids he used to nurture there,including targeting boys of color but not white boys(Chris and Ethan vs leaving the Stolls alone)and being a misogynistic pedophile(Thalia,Annabeth,Silena and Kelli who passed as a 14 year old Percy's classmate no problem).Pretty self-explanatory but an important note is that Percy is martyrd by the gods the way Luke thinks he was and that Percy is a legit radicalist vs Luke just spewing propaganda

Has a lot more awareness and understanding on gender and it's dynamics than explicitly white characters(blackness tends to give us a complicated relathionship with gender thanks to antiblackness but there's also tons of positives like how i'm bigender and naturally adrogynous so i don't need physical transition!!)

And i tend to read sea-coded characters as afro-caribbean by default but i always thought Poseidon was supposed to be black-greek as a kid,like deadass,white westerner Poseidon NEVER registered.He's the god of the sea blud,ofc he's black-greek!!!Sally loving the sea but because of her childhood instead of Poseidon also feels very black dominicana of her