I'm right now thinking of Evan "All my life I've only drifted from one place to other, sometimes almost drowned with no place to call mine" Buckley and Eddie "I want to be your solid ground" Diaz.
i admire the way rick writes percy. from the moment poseidon claims percy, we see that he is destined to be incredibly powerful. and this is further proven as we see percy use his powers to fight and strategize his way out of every battle he's in. yet, it isn't his external struggles that reel us in, but his internal ones. it's his hatred for luke conflicting with his love for annabeth. it's his guilt for killing with ease conflicting with his hunger for more power. it's his drive for keeping everyone he loves alive conflicting with his desire to k*ll himself. percy is so beautifully written that i could cry.
He sees the beautiful painting of Sleeping Beauty and notes how lively the celebration was. He wonders then that if he were living in that moment, would he have been invited as well? Because if he wasn't...
He might just fuck them up real bad by casting clouds of destruction and fly away after a beautiful, beautiful parting gift of curses.
Justin McElroy comes up with the best fucking characters lmao. I know a lot of people stopped listening to taz after balance ended so I need you to know that they're doing a mini arc TAZ: vs. Dracula and Justin's character is a stuffy old society lady who is very prudish. BUT she died and she got frankensteined into the body of a hot tall battle maiden with "luscious curves"
oh yeah and she died bc Dracula hit her with his car so hard her body exploded