summary: percy finds a new favorite song
word count: 415 words
a/n: "hey juliet" by tufts beelzebubs has been on my percabeth playlist and lives rent free in my mind, so i decided to write a tiny little thing about percy with this song, set probably somewhere in between the second and fourth book. ideally, you could even listen to the song while you read the fic.
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Hey Juliet
Percy didn't usually listen to this kind of music, but this song in particular caught his attention.
That's a huge deal, actually, at least for Percy. Not a lot of things could reliably catch or hold his attention. Usually he'd start listening to a song, and then his mind would wander, and then he'd find himself seven tracks ahead of where he was without having even noticed a thing about the songs he missed.
But Hey Juliet by Tufts Beelzebubs was apparently an exception.
He wouldn't go telling any of his friends that he liked a capella music now. At that point, just tell your friends you sing Broadway hits with your mom and watch opera on the weekends; you'll spare yourself some embarrassment.
But this a capella song was a bit different. It was fast. It had a good beat. The audio had multiple parts to listen to— several people singing or making background noises at once, and the fact that there were multiple things to focus on held Percy's attention. He'd often throw it into the background on loop when he was doing his homework, giving him something to occupy the back of his brain while the front of his brain focused on his studies.
But every now and then, he'd stop his work and listen to the words.
"I just want you to know, I wanna be your Romeo. Hey, Juliet…"
"I never got the big deal with Romeo and Juliet anyways," Percy mumbled, "some guy wrote a hard-to-read-play about two people who love each other so much that they die? What's the point?"
But he knew there was a little more to it than that. Something about Romeo and Juliet's parents hating each other, but that those two main characters loved each other anyways, which apparently was interesting to most people.
Percy Jackson, however, was not like most people.
"That's actually ridiculous," Percy thought, "that would be like if I fell in love with the kid of one of my dad's rivals, like... like one of Athena's kids… like… oh shoot."
He winced as one of Athena's kids came to mind: Annabeth Chase.
"Yeah," he thought, "it would be as ridiculous as me falling in love with Annabeth."
But ever since that moment, every time Hey Juliet came on, he found himself with another thing to focus on— the thought of Annabeth smiling at him, and the idea that maybe having a Juliet wouldn't be such a bad thing after all.
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Random romeo and juliet fact about me:
I learned about Romeo and Juliet way early than everyone else. Like super early, like before 3rd grade early? How you may ask? I watched an episode of Hey Arnold
I also learned about the opera Carmen that way too(both from Hey Arnold and Pbs Arthur). Like I knew the bare bones of it. But I knew about it. So when my teacher in 3rd grade was reading us this book, and mentioned if anyone knew about romeo and juliet. I was like the only one who raised their hand. The teacher asked really? and told me to explain what it is. And I did and I was right. The teacher was happily surprised I was right. Because I knew about the bare bones about it, I would quote the lines that were said in the cartoon episode whenever I played with my dolls. The bare bones I knew was the balcony scene. I just thought it was really cute and pretty to say.
I was always curious to actually read the play. Than one day when I was in 6th grade I think I borrowed a book that had both romeo and juliet and west side story from the library and read that. I loved both. So when we read Romeo and Juliet in high school I was way a head pf everyone else because I loved and read the play already. Heck by high school I saw the movies. Had the 1996 version on dvd and owned the book. Now I own several copies of romeo and juliet. So what do you learn from all of this? Cartoons can teach you things too. Not just school and books.
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Sorry for Romeo & Juliet posting on not main but just hold on for a second, I promise this relates to & Juliet it's genuinely insane how Prince Escalus just fucking. Lost like all of his (named) relatives.
Motherfucker gave both the Capulets and the Montagues at least a million chances and both families just abused it.
His cousin was killed while visiting the grave of his dead fiancée and his nephew was killed in a fight that he had no reason to be in. The first one was by a Montague, the second one was by a Capulet. The first one was on behalf of a Capulet, the second one was on behalf of a Montague.
That's fucking insane, man. I wouldn't be surprised if, in & Juliet, while the Capulets were busy in Paris with Juliet and Frankie, the Montagues were being stripped of their status, titles, and land. And then when the Capulets returned to Verona, I wouldn't be surprised if they were also stripped of their status, titles, and land. And the worst part is, that is literally the least he could do as a punishment to them yet I don't doubt even for a second that that was the punishment he went with because HE STILL FUCKING CARED ABOUT THEM.
And the slap in the face of both Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet being alive meanwhile Paris and Mercutio both still lay dead is unimaginable. What would you do in that situation? Genuinely, what would you do? Because I can't imagine it'd be anything good.
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You know if there’s any character to start hating for Romeo and Juliet it’s Friar Lawrence. What the fuck was he doing
literally what the fuck was this man on about. let me marry these two thirteen-year-olds to each other to solve the feud instead of talking to their parents who more or less run the feud. let me not tell anyone about this just in case i get yelled at for it. sure juliet you can have death poison [peeling off the "do not give to children under 16" sticker]
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Watching Leonardo DiCaprio’s Romeo kneel in the field and scream Juliet’s name after news of her death, I am brought to mind Todd running through the snow and screaming Neil’s name.
I am unwell! 🥲
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