Rereading The Lightning Thief as an adult was such an odd and gratifying experience. I just finished the book in one day yesterday, and here are the things I made note of to myself:
-Wayyy less of the book than I remember is the quest. So much time is spent building up Percy's character, and his life and backstory.
-Percy is such a little asshole, it's hilarious. He is SO RUDE to everyone, it's my favorite. I want to live with how much more of a dick he is than I remembered. I remember golden boy teen Percy who's good at everything and is effortlessly cool in the perceptions of others in the later books best. Like, we obviously know him better, but I kinda forgot about his snotty little asshole sixth grader origins.
-As someone that works in the school system, he's so accurate to me it hurts. It's so relatable, his one teacher believing in him, him getting frustrated when the material doesn't come to him like it does the other kids. I don't have ADHD and I could just feel all those feelings. It's great.
-Every time Percy thinks about the "betrayal of a friend" line in his prophecy, I swear Luke is mentioned in the next line, or pops up in the next scene. I just appreciate Rick not going out of his way to seem smarter than his audience. He wants his readers, middle schoolers, to have the tools to solve the mystery.
-I can't remember if I knew his dad was Poseidon before the reveal. As an adult, it seems like almost a slap in the face it's so obvious, but I am pissed I can't remember if I was excited and surprised by the reveal.
-Annabeth is also a bitchy child, she's literally so bitchy. We don't focus on it enough.
-I definitely remember when it hit me as a child that Gabe was abusive. It was way after I read this book. I kind of like how casually the domestic violence is sprinkled in. Not only is it a children's book where that is not the focus, but Percy acts like how most kids would, I think. It's pretty fine and normal that Gabe hits him, he only goes ballistic when he finds out he hits Sally. Obsessed with how Rick, by even only barely telling us Gabe is abusive, is still like "-And we should kill him for it."
-Annabeth's crush on Luke was so obvious, she should be embarrassed.
-Totally forgot we have Gabe to thank for Percy for sure being an FBI fugitive and definitely on the no fly list irl as well as from Zeus. He's such a massive asshole.
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You must go down to the office of your local political representative and YOU MUST [CENSORED]
HOLY FIRE [CENSORED]
Until they finally see the power of the [CENSORED]
That'll fucking show them.
That'll show them all.
Bomb the government.
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Lisa you’re going to rush into the Urias boss fight. Lisa slow down. LISA!
Anyway, Lycan stronghold finished! And Robbie finally gets to finish the move he started on that random BSAA agent in the boathouse so good for him lol.
Robbie out here with a perfectly proportional and reasonable reaction to Lisa getting mildly injured. Nothing more to look into that from an infection based standpoint totally normal here (<- me when i lie). Congratulations Lisa your officially integrated as Important Person in Robbies moldy brain. This is alright news for you and bad news for basically everyone else.
Good thing Lisa is.... chill with that. Lisas mostly used to fending for herself so Oh Boy. Killing Mother for her and then mauling some guy to death for getting the jump on her? Swoon worthy lol. Thank you @moosemonstrous for pointing out that whole scene was just this meme because its so fucking accurate:
Gabe gets to fulfill his contractual obligation as a little brother to tease Robbie about his girlfrienddddddd oooOOooohhhhhhh lmao
Also sorry about the case of the disappearing gun I'm trying to figure out something rn that will allow Robbie to carry his ridiculous amount of weapons around i just. fucking forgor sorry.
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Found your tumblr through your fic. Let me just say I am CONSUMING and DEVOURING you are doing God's work./pos
Genuinely though I love the silly experiment found family and the morally horrible scientists and everything about Gabriel
It's so nice reading something like this as opposed to all that × reader thing
Thank you! It makes me happy you’re enjoying it. We gotta be strong in this influx of x reader fics they seem to be everywhere now haha
(Not that it’s a problem just not my cup of tea.)
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