mmavverickk

[mmavverickk]

count dracula? um, okay. 1. now what

[mmavverickk]

hello, my fellow boop war veteran. o7

Percy Jackson. character analysis, common tropes, fanon interpretations, all of it. could go on for days.

snakes. specifically mine, but all snakes are awesome. chill little noodles happy to chill around your neck while you walk around or nap or whatever. i Love them. in fact, upgrade to All Reptiles. have you ever gone swimming with an alligator? i have it was epic.

words. word games. i collect fun words. unlockable, with its two slightly contradictory definitions. miasma, which just sounds fun. hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, which is ironically the fear of long words. god i love words.

i’ve suddenly forgotten every interest i’ve ever had uhhhh books in general. walk over to my bookshelf and take one out and i can go on and on about what was good about it and what could have been done better and what was surprising etc.

obscure facts. “useless” knowledge. is the norwegian butter crisis relevant to any part of my life? no. do i enjoy bringing it up to hear the “how do you know that?”s anyway? absolutely.

tags. uhh @captin-owl i’ve suddenly forgotten every blog i’ve ever interacted with uhhh @tiredpjofan anyone else who wants to!

I saw this meme going around on twitter and I think it'll be perfect for this account.

List 5 topics you can talk on for an hour without preparing any material.

#mav.reply

[mmavverickk]

how do you think Jason felt knowing he looked like Luke Kronos? how do you think this kid, this child who’d been raised to be a soldier, who is so fundamentally good and tries so hard, felt when he realized why the greek campers were uneasy around him.

not because he was roman. the greeks didn’t care about that. but because he was tall. lean. blond hair, blue eyes. facial scar. brotherly disposition.

someone who’d looked just like Jason had been a leader at this Camp. someone who’d looked just like Jason had been a brother here. someone who’d looked just like Jason had taken their trust and shredded it, had turned their siblings against them, had sabotaged their home, had caused so many deaths in his war to destroy Olympus, to be noticed by his father. (something Jason also desperately wants.)

Hera had sent Jason to replace Percy—the leader, the hero. but how was he meant to do that when all any of them could think when they looked at him was traitor?

[mmavverickk]

@mothmanavenue you ate this one little thing

[mmavverickk]

"their precious 'western civilization' is a disease, percy. it's killing the world" insane bar disney literally never stood a chance

[mmavverickk]

percy and grover swapping sandwich toppings without having to ask each other is actually something that can be so personal

[mmavverickk]

how do you think Jason felt knowing he looked like Luke Kronos? how do you think this kid, this child who’d been raised to be a soldier, who is so fundamentally good and tries so hard, felt when he realized why the greek campers were uneasy around him.

not because he was roman. the greeks didn’t care about that. but because he was tall. lean. blond hair, blue eyes. facial scar. brotherly disposition.

someone who’d looked just like Jason had been a leader at this Camp. someone who’d looked just like Jason had been a brother here. someone who’d looked just like Jason had taken their trust and shredded it, had turned their siblings against them, had sabotaged their home, had caused so many deaths in his war to destroy Olympus, to be noticed by his father. (something Jason also desperately wants.)

Hera had sent Jason to replace Percy—the leader, the hero. but how was he meant to do that when all any of them could think when they looked at him was traitor?

[mmavverickk]

theoretically, i understand the appeal of having percy, annabeth, and grover go to college. annabeth wants to be an architect, percy wants to be with annabeth, and grover's gonna need some kind of degree backing his environmental preservation efforts. but like, i just can't see it happening.

annabeth was tasked with redesigning olympus after the destruction of the second titan war. that project is her child. she eats, sleeps, and breathes her designs for the palace. as soon as she graduates high school, that is her number one priority. this is her monument that will last forever, this is what her hubris is driving her to accomplish. college and mortal qualifications can wait until she's finished, until olympus is perfect, until her designs are real and tangible and ready to last a thousand ages, until she's made her mother proud and her father regret pushing her aside. and if she's building a family on the side, one strong enough to withstand two wars, one who will never leave her, never let her fall alone? that will last, too.

percy never had a childhood. he can barely remember a life before his abusive stepfather gabe, before he had to grow up too fast to protect himself and his mom. he never got to celebrate getting rid of the bastard, because by then he'd been thrown headfirst into the mythological world, into the expectations that come with being a child of the big three. he's twelve years old and already the fate of the world is in his hands, and he won't fail. he's fourteen, and the weight of the world rests on his shoulders, turns his hair grey. he's sixteen, and he has to make a choice, to trust someone who had betrayed him time and time again, but he doesn't know if the outcome of that choice will be the end of the world or its only hope. he graduates high school, having lived longer than he'd ever dreamed, and does not immediately throw himself into college. it's time to experience the world that he's sacrificed so much for.

grover is the lord of the wild. he spent his whole life searching for the one being who could save the planet, could keep it whole and healthy and alive. he found him, found pan, and had his hopes crushed. pan was dying. he was giving up on the planet and the people who'd believed in him for millennia. pan put all of their hopes on grover's shoulders, made it his responsibility. he stepped up to the challege, used his passion for searching and made it passion for fixing. he started immediately, despite how dire the situation was, despite all the others telling him he was wrong, that pan was still out there, that he needed to believe in a dead god. yes, he needs to find a way to get the mortals to see the effect they're having on the wild, on the environment, on the planet, but first he needs to find out how bad things truly are. he's traveled north america, he's gathered nymphs and dryads and spirits for war against the titans, but north america isn't the only place in danger. the world is his domain, and grover will rise to the challenge.

[mmavverickk]

Things Percy Jackson remembers in Son of Neptune:

Annabeth exists

I met Annabeth at a camp

Annabeth and I kiss sometimes

Fuck Ares

[mmavverickk]

Golden Child ✨✨✨

[mmavverickk]

"not everyone who looks like a hero is a hero, and not everyone who looks like a monster is a monster"

oh sally jackson you'll always be famous to me

[mmavverickk]

going back to the curse of achilles…i think that in son of neptune there could’ve been so much potential, even if percy inadvertently lost the curse. i always thought that percy remembered annabeth not only because she was such an intrinsic part of his life but also because of what annabeth meant to him in terms of the curse of achilles. annabeth is percy’s mortal tether because she grounds him to his humanity. she is connected to him in more than just memories—hera couldn’t erase that part from him because she couldn’t erase the curse. so. with that said, imagine the heartbreak we’d feel as readers if rick had described percy remembering annabeth only for him to step into the tiber and get rid of the curse, meaning that he’d also forget everything about her in a single moment. that mortal tether would be erased, but we know that he used to remember her, we know that this was a consequence of some sort because of the erasure of his invulnerability. so as readers, we see that this is a huge disadvantage, unlike what happened in son where the loss of the curse was forgotten immediately as if there weren’t consequences. not only would it have been so interesting to explore percy trying to Live without being invulnerable—which should’ve happened without the forgetting annabeth drama—but we’d also have to live with the fact that he’s starting from scratch. it’s also good to note that in son of neptune his character motivation is literally him just wanting to find annabeth after he’s done. he hopes that after succeeding in the quest or whatever, he’d be reconnected with her. but now that piece of him is missing. now he is vulnerable and completely alone and searching for the scraps of his memory that were somehow there before—they were there and now he can’t find them.

and this could be a recurring battle for him throughout hoo, seeing annabeth later in moa and realizing that her face rings a bell, realizing that his memories are slowly coming together but not quite there. i just feel like there would’ve been so much conflict in between the seven if percy was still figuring things out, if the loss of the curse and his memories had taken a bigger toll on him as a leader and just as a member of the quest in general. and do not get me started on the drama that would unfold with him also starting from scratch with annabeth and slowly falling for her all over, or just…anything. imagine annabeth somehow figuring out that percy did actually remember her, but because he stepped into the little tiber, that part of his life was erased. imagine her hating the romans because of this, the shift between the two camps expanding.

i know that rick took the curse away from him so that he wouldn’t overpower the rest of the seven, but. he kind of flopped in that regard, since percy was pretty much the same. he didn’t suffer at all. even when the potential conflict was right under rick’s nose!! but no, i suppose he wasn’t thinking outside the box. as per usual.

[mmavverickk]

[mmavverickk]

Celestial trio running by please make way!!!! They’re on a quest!!! 🔱 🦉 🐐

[mmavverickk]

I keep thinking every time I see a "they knew Percy was going to die at 16" post that actually, they didn't, and it's worse than that. Even if Percy accepts the prophecy as his before he knows exactly what it says, he knows it happens after he turns sixteen--and that's the key.

No one knew Percy was going to die at sixteen because no one knew if he'd make it to sixteen. What they knew was that if he made it to 16, he would die. But honestly (the way they were reading the prophecy) making it to sixteen was the best case scenario for Percy (other than the whole prophecy coming true part). The child of the prophecy is after all supposed to be making it to sixteen "against all odds," so it's unlikely he's actually going to make it at all.

It's not Annabeth befriended a boy she knew would die at sixteen. It's Annabeth befriended a boy who would probably die before he was sixteen. It's not Poseidon came to Percy's birthday because he'd die when he turned sixteen. It's Poseidon came to Percy's birthday because one way or another he wasn't going to make it another year, and he was fucking lucky to have made it so far.

I just feel like everyone says "Percy was going to die at 16 and everyone knew" but actually as soon as they saw him at twelve they knew he wasn't going to make it past 16 but probably that they'd lose him before that. Like I feel like Chiron was probably worried about Percy being a summer-only camper because of the way his power would attract monsters throughout the year, but also feel almost like it was a good idea because it gave him so many more opportunities to die before the prophecy could come true. Maybe that would be kinder, more humane. Like, unlike Harry Potter where the child of the prophecy is raised "like a pig for slaughter," Percy is raised with the expectation that he'll die before he's old enough for the prophecy to apply. They're hoping he's not the pig and they won't have to slaughter him. Idk

[mmavverickk]

percy jackson, mind wiped by a goddess, doesn’t remember a single thing about his life before “annabeth! how can i find annabeth?!”

percy jackson, slowly regaining his memory but facing a potential war “annabeth and i could live here, go to college and make a life together here!”

percy jackson finding out that the greeks are coming to camp jupiter and it could start a war between the two groups “i get to see annabeth!!”

percy jackson, the world could literally be ending “i don’t care, as long as annabeth is safe”

perseus jackson, at the doors of death, literally half dead and about to face another horror, fight another war “i might have kids one day with annabeth!!!!! that is so awesome!!!”

[mmavverickk]

Hey, is anyone gonna talk about this? Percy’s self esteem is literally nonexistent