#like the greek demigods felt so unncessary. obvi the romans were gonna all be new

[higuchisora]

Can I say that I didn't really like the Seven of prophecy as a group and felt like their only value as characters from a writing standpoint is to add diversity to the PJO series and that they don't really feel necessary without the rep they add and some of them feel purely constructed to fill archetypal roles/tropes instead of being constructed as whole characters with an actual function in the narrative that no other character could fill or will I be sacrificed at the stake for it

#like dont get me wrong i fucking LOVE pjo and hoo #but also... you cant tell me rick didnt just go “we need a funny guy” and then made leo #theres also just WAY too damn many of them #some of whom couldve easily been replaced by preestablished characters and wouldve made more sense? #pjo #hoo #percy jackson #like the greek demigods felt so unncessary. obvi the romans were gonna all be new #but why did we need new greeks? #the only familiar characters ended up being percy and annabeth #and percy was gone for the entire first book #suddenly i just had a bunch of randoms thrown at me and i was expected to care and like them? #i eventually did but GOD it was an uphill battle. didnt help they had no familiar demigods on the quest in the first book #and i still didnt like them enough to want them to be tHe pROpHEcY kids by the time the prophecy was made #felt like rick realized everyone was str8 and white in his books and panicked tbh #id rather have had him utilize characters that already existed. some of which were ALREADY OF COLOR or not previously specified #rather than make up a bunch of newbies just to say he had them #idk im glad he tried but it felt really sloppy imo