#post botl

[decaffeinatedpartymuggoop]

One of the relationships that I always think about in PJO is Percy and Rachel’s. Not on a romantic level, but on how they see each other and what the other represents for themselves and how I think they were a kind of escape from their lives .

Like with Percy, Rachel is normal. She’s mortal. She doesn’t have monsters after her, she’s not trying to raze nor save Olympus. She (at the time) isn’t involved in the war.

But, on the contrary, she CAN see through the mist. She’s seen cyclopses and centaurs and furies and hydras. She’s seen not just the Greek world, but the fantastical AND the horrifying. Just like Percy.

She’s removed enough to where talking to her isn’t hard. She’s not pressuring him about a war. But she’s also close enough to where he CAN talk to her if he wants to. She sees what he sees, sometimes before him, and won’t and doesn’t think he’s crazy.

She’s mortal, but he can still relate to her and talk and be a normal teenage boy. Something he can’t do with a lot of people at that point.

For Rachel, Percy might as well be her manic pixie dream boy. He came crashing into her life swinging a sword and proving to her she’s not crazy. Confirming all her suspicions and confusions.

He’s an escape from her dull reality, he’s got monsters and mythical creatures. He’s the son of a Greek GOD. He’s fun and new and fantastical and so colorful compared to what she goes home to.

But even with all these things, he’s still just a teenager, like her. He’s fantastical but also normal. He slays gorgons but still has to study for algebra. He’s on crazy adventures during the summer but still comes home to summer reading and packets that they both don’t do. She can escape her reality into his but they can still come back to the one they both know.

Percy takes Rachel on fun adventures into labyrinths and Rachel takes Percy on summer vacations. I don’t think they truly liked each other (on a romantic level), i just think they were what they needed at the time.

The look into each others lives with rose colored glasses, a little envious of what the other has. Because they’re both at a point were they’ll take neglectful hardass parents or a war over what they gave going on at home.

#percy jackson #rachel elizabeth dare #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo series #pjo tv show #post botl #pre tlo #pjo hoo toa #summer of tlo #i love their friendship

[skaterbeth]

hermes: do you know what that feels like? to be so close to someone you love, knowing neither of you has any choice but to keep hurting each other?

post botl & pre tlo percabeth:

#LMAOOO #sorry. #i’m pushing my post botl and pre tlo percabeth agenda #hermes #percabeth #percy jackson #annabeth chase #pjo tv #pjo #pjo 1.6 #pjo spoilers #post botl #pre tlo #marisa.txt

[justaz]

4th of july during that summer between botl and tlo, percy takes annabeth to the show but before it starts they run into beckendorf and are just talking before finding a spot. during the convo, percy spots a stoll rolling around in the sand w a blondie and he points them out and laughs. all three of them are immediately creating a plan to get a pic to tease em w it. beckendorf runs to his cabin to get a lil camera and annabeth runs to get her invisibility cap. percy retrieves the items and sneaks up on travis and katie only to find out it’s actually connor and malcolm. he doesn’t take a picture. he slowly backs away and doesn’t explain anything. he distracts them by saying the shows starting and beckendorf is gone and sitting w silena. annabeth is dragging percy to the perfect spot (relatively private w a good view).

#pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #percy jackson #annabeth chase #charles beckendorf #post botl #pre tlo #4th of july #connor x malcolm #malconnor #teens being teens #that’s the theme for tonight boys #chb shenanigans #camp halfblood #percabeth #beckengard #ment tratie #ment silena beauregard #headcanon #head canon #hc #fanfic #fanfiction

[dont-reyna-my-parade]

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan Rating: Not Rated Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Annabeth Chase & Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase/Percy Jackson Characters: Connor Stoll, Rachel Elizabeth Dare Additional Tags: Canon Rewrite, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Pretend Connor has a crush on Annabeth, Post-The Battle of the Labyrinth (Percy Jackson), Book 5: The Last Olympian (Percy Jackson), Developing Relationship, Percy and Annabeth talk about their feelings, Feelings Realization, Percy is emotionally mature AU, Annabeth Chase deserves some validation, Jealous Percy Jackson, Jealous Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), percabeth Summary:

“He doesn’t like you back, Annabeth”

The words cut like a knife dipped in poison, but she couldn’t dignify this with a reaction. Just let it go, and she might’ve, if he didn’t keep digging.

“I’m sorry but its true! The whole camp knows how you feel about him, If he wanted to do something about it, he would!”

or

Percy and Annabeth are forced to confront their feelings after he overhears another's confession of feelings for her.

Takes place sometime before the war in The Last Olympian.

#My own fic #please be kind lol #percabeth fanfic #percabeth #post botl #pre tlo #pjo fanfiction #percabeth fanfiction #jealous annabeth

[aknosde]

actually never gonna stop thinking abt the botl hug scene. what’s the last line. annabeth what’s the last line. and she just opens her arms!! percy walks right in and hugs her and she’s standing there with tears in her eyes and won’t tell him the last line. and he trusts her so much that he doesn’t ask again. imagine that. imagine being fourteen and knowing that you are doomed to a terrible fate and your best friend in the entire world just received a prophecy and won’t tell you the last line of it. and you just trust her. bc what else do you do. you love her. what else do you do.

#hi going insane #pjo #percy jackson #max.txt #annabeth chase #botl #botl posting

[aroaceleovaldez]

non-exhaustive list of canon powers Nico di Angelo either has shown or is heavily implied to have:

Shadow-travel

Manipulation of shadows/darkness (also possibly use of shadows as a pocket-dimension a la Magicians using the Duat in The Kane Chronicles)

Becoming intangible/shadows

Complete control over skeletons/bones (dead or alive, including summoning, reanimation, and/or changing shape of them) and being able to sense their presence

Summoning, reanimating, commanding, and dispelling the dead/undead (Skeletons, zombies, ghosts, etc & varieties) and being able to sense their presence

Ability to understand/communicate with the dead/undead and potentially other beings of the Underworld

Inherent complete comprehension of Latin

Ability to perceive the usually unperceivable/possibly look upon a deity’s true form without repercussion (at least moreso than the average demigod, though possibly is restricted to chthonic beings) (ex: Tartarus, potentially also interacting with his parents, etc)

Interacting tangibly with ghosts (implied to be a Ghost King thing rather than a Hades/Pluto thing)

Partial or complete immunity to different effects of the Underworld/things within (can consume food/drink of or in the Underworld without repercussions, effects from the Lethe wear off over time instead of being permanent like usual for mortals, etc)

Astral projection/”Walking in dreams”

Dream manipulation and projection (Sending dreams to others, etc.) (presumably includes sharing/projecting dreams with others) alongside inflicting sleep upon others even from a distance.

Illusions

Manipulation of emotions/aura that inflicts specific emotions on others (ex.: radiating fear/death onto enemies)

Projection of emotions and memories onto others (can be so forceful it causes physical damage like a shockwave)

Geokinesis (all forms but also specifically generating black marble) (presumably also specialized control over precious gemstones & non-paper currency)

Temperature manipulation (seemingly only lowering temperature)/creating frost)

Control/manipulation of souls, including living beings (ex: ripping out Bryce Lawrence’s soul)

Perceiving/reading/judging of souls (most likely also a Ghost King thing over Hades/Pluto thing, but possibly both)

Converting living into dead/undead, aka instakill (ex: disintegrating monsters to bone with one touch)

Lowering or manipulation of own vitals (breathing, heart rate, etc)

Death Trance/pseudo-hibernation (possibly also general control over states of consciousness at least for self, in combo with control over vitals & dreams)

Sensing death (impending or when it occurs, sometimes receiving dreams/visions of it occurring)

Able to sense other children of Hades/Pluto (potentially also other chthonic beings in general/able to identify based on sense alone) and also just living beings in general, such as mortals (possibly via souls).

Improved navigation underground/in the Underworld and ability to traverse restricted or normally unnavigable parts of the Underworld

Enhanced strength/abilities when in the Underworld

Inherently unnaturally quiet (possibly able to silence sound on a designated target)

Hiding/shielding self from being perceived (seemingly related to shadows/silence)

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #long post // #MY BOY IS OP AS FUCK and i love this about him #so many of these are so underutilized #when will Nico get to use his geokinesis again #we only see him make marble once in BoTL and then never again #based on that he should theoretically be able to do everything Hazel can do. which also implies Hazel can do everything he can do #let Hazel summon a skeleton for once and Nico hits somebody with a rock cmon #also i still firmly believe Nico should get to turn invisible #we've seen him become intangible. his dad's notable item is a helm that makes you invisible. let him turn invisible. #but yeah big 3 kids are op. look at nico go. and this is just physical abilities not including stuff like Annabeth being smart #or cabin 7 kids being good at music or whatever #presumably for Nico/Hazel it'd be like a penchant for diplomacy and legality-related things presumably #and i like to hc he has a personal inherent knowledge bank of everyone who has ever died in his lifetime - just details about their deaths #mostly anyways and then like basic facts about who they were/next of kin/etc #so they can tap into that at any time and be like ''hold on lemme look this person/their relatives up real quick'' #i usually like to write that as how Nico confirmed what was up with Jason when they first met #he just kind of squinted at Jason and went ''okay. hm. who are you next of kin of? Beryl - OH YOU'RE THALIA'S BROTHER''

[ruegarding]

some of percy's thoughts abt the gods in tlt

and one bonus som

#perseus “fuck them gods” jackson #otherwise known as: percy understood luke's feelings this entire time his problem w luke was always personal #luke betrayed HIM luke hurt HIS friends etc #will never forgive rick for acting like percy only understood luke in hoo like it's been here this whole time smh #(if rick wanted to talk abt luke then percy should've been considering joining gaea my official opinion) #the whole scene w calypso in botl...well i could say a few things abt that honestly...part of it has to do w ethan :3 #anyway yes percy does have some positive thoughts but i'm not including them bc that's not the point of this post #i also left out some stuff bc it was repetitive and vague and fifteen quotes seemed like enough to get the point across #perseus jackson #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #the lightning thief #pjo hoo toa #pjo books #percy #min talks pjo

[posallys]

okay so i'm in the process of rereading pjo and i just got to botl and i want to talk about my girl annabeth. i feel like a good majority of the fandom mischaracterization of annabeth comes from botl, specifically because she was rude to rachel throughout the book, and then everyone just assumed that because she wasn't nice to rachel she must be a bitch inherently, on top of being this fucking emotionless shell of a person, which is wild to me because i don't know how her being rude to one (1) girl automatically discredits everything she's done in the past three books. i feel like it stems from a complete misunderstanding of why she was rude to rachel. let's make this clear: she wasn't rude to rachel because rachel was a potential love interest; she was rude to rachel because she was scared.

everyone she's ever loved has been taken from her in some way: her mom being absent because she's a goddess and not really wanting anything to do with annabeth; her feeling like her dad and stepmom didn't want her around (losing her real family); thalia, her found sister, sacrificing her life to save annabeth, and then leaving her again to join the hunters; luke betraying the camp, but more importantly betraying annabeth on a much deeper level because he was her only family. he promised her that he would be there for her, no matter what, and then he leaves her, just like everyone else. even grover left her, in a way, because he went out to search for pan and wasn't around. the only close person who hasn't left her at the point of botl? percy.

but she knows about the prophecy at that point, so she's spent the better part of three years resigning herself to the fact that her best friend is going to die when he turns sixteen and there's absolutely nothing she can do to stop that. she's spent the better part of three years trying not to fall in love with him because it would only hurt worse when the time comes. if i had to bet on it, the reason she was thinking about joining the hunters in ttc is because if she isn't around him (and also can't because she's a hunter), she won't become more attached to him than she already is. if she separated herself from him, it would hurt less. except here's the thing: by that point, she couldn't make herself do that. she couldn't make herself willingly give up percy yet, because it might not have been him. if i had to guess, when thalia came back, annabeth stopped worrying about percy dying---just for a little while---because she thought that thalia was going to be the child of the prophecy after all. so when thalia became a hunter, she was mentally prepared to lose thalia again. but that means that every fear she had about percy being the prophecy kid before thalia came back to life resurfaced full force, and now suddenly annabeth has a year and a half left with him when she thought that she might have longer. so despite the thought of her joining the hunters to prevent herself from getting too attached, she hadn't metnally come to the point where she was ready to give up the small hope that he would live.

which bring us now to botl. like i said, i'm just now rereading the book (and i'm only on chapter 1 but i started thinking about annabeth and here i am). annabeth is mean to rachel because she's terrified of losing percy too soon. sure, at this point she knows the prophecy is his, she knows come next summer she probably won't have him anymore---but that's just it: next summer. she's preparing herself to lose him in a year, not immediately. so when someone comes along that presents a way for her to lose percy, of course she gets scared, and she gets defensive about it. it's not even the fact that rachel was a potential love interest, it's more so the fact that rachel was a mortal, and not part of their world. if percy was with rachel, there's a good chance he'd try to leave the magical world behind, and, more importantly, leave annabeth behind, which she wasn't ready for yet.

hell, that's exactly what ended up happening in the beginning of tlo! annabeth wasn't upset because he was spending time with rachel, she was upset because he was spending time in the mortal world rather than her world and, in her mind because of all of her past experiences being abandoned, that translates to "percy is leaving her," and it was way earlier than she thought, and she wasn't ready. so what does she do? she tries to protect herself. she puts walls up and tries to act cold and distant because she's coming to terms with the fact that she's already lost him. she's already lost him.

and like, was she jealous of the fact that rachel was a love interest? probably, yeah. but i think it's also just important to know that there's something way deeper to it. annabeth isn't being a bitch for the sake of being a bitch, and she's not just jealous of rachel because she was a girl that liked percy. she was upset because he was getting further and further away right in front of her. he was leaving way quicker than she was prepared for, so a lot of the stuff she said to rachel came from a place of fear of losing percy, and anger at rachel for trying to pull him into the mortal world, effectively leaving her behind and adding another person to the list of people she loves that have left her.

#anyway i'm just thinking about my girl #annabeth chase #maybe as i read i'll update this post lol #like i said i'm on chapter 1 of botl so i haven't even gotten to what i talked about yet #but one of my biggest pet peeves is when people think annabeth is just a flaming bitch #like NO girl she was literally terrified #pjo reread

[dam-bluecookies]

One of the sweetest underrated pjo moments is when Percy invites Nico in to have his blue birthday cake and ice cream :'))

#he loved that kid so much ugh hoo ruined that a bit #pjo #percy jackson #nico di angelo #the battle of the labyrinth #botl #blorbos #THIS IS NOT A SHIPPING POST BTW

[tending-the-hearth]

i believe in clariguez supremacy 🙏🏻

#andrew ty for the clariguez content #his post is very much chris boasting abt his girlfriend #‘my girl’ is SO clariguez andrew is a genius #they’re going to be the tragic couple in botl i can’t wait #percy jackson and the olympians #clarisse la rue #chris rodriguez #clariguez

[curseofdelos]

Battle of the Labyrinth, ch 16 & 20 | House of Hades, ch LXVII | Blood of Olympus, ch LIV, LV, & LVI | Tower of Nero, ch 16 | The Sun & the Star, ch 47 | Battle of the Labyrinth, ch 19

Bonus screenshots that didn't make it into the main post:

Son of Neptune, ch XVII

House of Hades, ch LXVI

Blood of Olympus, ch V

Blood of Olympus, ch LVI

The Hidden Oracle, ch 11

Tower of Nero, ch 16

The Sun & The Star, ch 1

#nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #tsats #solangelo #underworld siblings #big three kids #sorry if this has been done before but I was re-reading BotL last night #and I just really needed to juxtapose Nico in that book against everything that comes after #also im sorry this post is so long LMAO #nico #mine

[drberfarious]

when you're an emotionless teenager who's never experienced love but you know exactly how to describe a relationship in terms of percabeth

#percabeth #I'm not projecting #was hypothetically just observing two “friends” #and was hypothetically just like #that's pre-botl percabeth right there. hope they don't go through a post-botl-pre-tlo phase and get their shit together #hypothetically ofc #because I'm not projecting

[bestiedionysus]

In the BoTL Hephaestus says that, "Only a clear sighted mortal can lead you though the Labyrinth. Like Ariadne."

But Ariadne wasn't mortal, she was a legacy. Her mother Pasiphaë was the daugher of Helios and a ocean nymph, Perse.

Which leads me to my theory:

Rachel is a legacy of Ariadne. It's why she got through the Labyrinth so easy. Something in her said that this place was made for her.

It would also create a parallel to the myth of Theseus once again with Percy.

Percy represents Theseus, the son of Poseidon who killed the Minotaur being led through a maze and escaping a murder attempt from King Minos, then only to choose to not choose the girl who led him through the Labyrinth.

Rachel represents Ariadne, a legacy with uncaring parents leads a boy through the Labyrinth and eventually sees him choose another destiny.

Annabeth (loosely) represents Athena, the woman telling the son of Poseidon to leave the legacy girl behind and choose her way.

But the person who represents Dionysus is Rachel herself.

Instead of being saved by a god when she was 'left' by the son of Poseidon. She made her own choice and chose to become the Oracle. She's saving herself. She's not waiting for a god to forge her crown of stars, she's ripping them down herself.

#posting about the ways rr failed in writing #couldn't be me #anyways ariadne should've been in botl and i'm SO pissed that she isn't #pjo meta #pjo crit #pjo #percy jackson #dionysus pjo #ariadne #ariadne pjo #rachel elizabeth dare #annabeth chase #rr crit #theseus pjo #theseus #hoo #heroes of olympus #percy jackon and the olympians #pjo hoo toa

[hailperseusjackson]

i’m still thinking about toby stephens poseidon….

#genuinely i am still shaken down to my core #when i say i NEED to see his take on the percy poseidon end of botl post mt st helens scene………. #pjo

[screenshotsonpinterest]

Thinking about connabeth and how, canonically, it's Connor who calls for Percy and Annabeth to get thrown into the lake. that he more then likely helped plan the little interruption. that he had to have let her go before that night. did she go with the relief of being surviving the war? what does conner think happened in the throne room? would he have turned to annabeth before turning down godhood? does he know what he would have done? does he think about it? do you think they talked earlier that day? they must have. her arm still green from defending a boy who wasn't him and her eyes still wet because of his brother. the way that he knew he was her second choice but he wouldn't just be another loved one that left her. and they hurt each other but its okay because they're alive. idk you know what I mean anyway Im fine how are you

#connabeth #percabeth #pjo spoilers #percy jackson #annabeth chase #connor stoll #post botl connabeth is canon as far as I'm concerned #bitch i love connabeth and what it does for both characters #pjo #the last olympian #the battle of the labyrinth #pjo headcanon #percy jackson and the olympians

[aroaceleovaldez]

I actually have a very specific headcanon for how Will Solace ended up at CHB that I don’t really talk about much in-depth (besides some little inklings of it on Deadangelos here and there) because of how he’s only introduced in TLO, so I figured i’d get into it.

Because we know Will isn’t a camper in BoTL but is in TLO (and was made counselor because he literally only had two siblings left), I headcanon that he joined camp in the off-season the winter after BoTL.

Basically, I figure Will got into a fight with some bullies at school, not necessarily because they were bullying him (because people tend to just kind of generally like him) but because he’s the kind of person who calls people out on their BS, and he got so mad that he accidentally caused some kind of minor plague. Either a plague of rats or locusts or just plain old weird case of like The Black Death. Whatever happened, obviously nobody assumed it was him because that seems physically impossible, but his school ends up closed down for a bit so Will has to find a new school. And cause he’s twelve and his powers are starting to ramp up more and he has to find a new school anyways (and maybe Naomi is about to go on tour and isn’t able to help Will find a new school at that moment) they decide it’s time for him to go to CHB and that he’ll be a year-round camper unless he gets sick of it and really wants to come home in the off-season. So Will goes to CHB in the middle of winter and immediately it sucks. It’s that kind of sleet weather where all the snow is grey and wet and keeps freezing and unfreezing. It’s annoyingly cold but not really cold enough for a heavy jacket and it’s cloudy and dark and the sun sets by like 4. And Will’s from Texas and an Apollo kid (never seen snow before and solar-powered) so he’s immediately miserable and Argus has to basically drag him from the airport to camp.

And then when he actually gets to camp it turns out he’s the only Apollo kid there. Because year-round Apollo kids are basically unheard of (given their powers are generally mellow enough that they’re fine going home for the off-season and Apollo kids are notorious snowbirds anyways) (and canonically there were no year-round Apollo kids pre-TLO). And it’s the dead of winter between BoTL and TLO so camp is particularly empty with like probably a dozen or so campers total. So Will is stuck in an empty cabin feeling miserable and there’s barely any other campers to make friends with (and even fewer his own age, since he’s at that point one of if not the youngest kid in camp). He tries to make friends regardless and Drew immediately adopts him as her best friend (and he doesn’t really get a choice in the matter) and Chiron ends up taking Will under his wing as a medic apprentice, which Will enjoys and it helps brighten his spirits a bit, which makes everyone else in camp feel a little bit better in turn because seeing a little happy sunny twelve year old Apollo kid running around healing people really helps takes their minds off their impending doom, especially while camp is the most barren it’s been in decades.

Then the other Apollo kids start trickling back when the weather turns and it’s a little awkward because Will has to get used to having siblings and not being in an empty cabin and the other Apollo kids have to get used to having a new sibling right after they all just lost Lee Fletcher (which Will is very mortified to learn about). And it’s even more awkward because they’re not used to siblings arriving to CHB while nobody’s there, so Will’s already used to camp and knows everybody except the summer-only kids so they don’t have to show him the ropes or anything, but also Will’s been doing everything by himself so it’s odd for him to adjust to having to listen to his older siblings. Weird feelings all around. (And extra bonus points if we’re also going with the headcanon that plague children of Apollo are considered bad luck, so Will feels extra bad about showing up right after the old cabin counselor died and right before the major battle of the war, and so refuses to tell anyone about his plague powers.)

It gets better for a bit when Kayla and Austin join camp a little before the Battle For Manhattan, cause Will isn’t the youngest in the cabin anymore and they’re both also year-rounders, but then it immediately turns sour when after the war suddenly those three are the only ones in the cabin. So now Will is traumatized and has to be in charge of his also traumatized barely-younger-than-him siblings, and he’s in an (almost) empty cabin again, and he’s only been at camp for less than a year and is still one of the youngest kids at camp. And he still doesn’t like winters in New York and he misses his mom.

Things turn up for him a bit after the war when there's the sudden huge influx of new campers, so he’s not the youngest anymore and he has something to busy himself with and camp is bustling even in the off-season. But for that first year Will just has an absolutely cruddy time, because man it must have sucked to be a campers joining in the middle of the Titan War.

#pjo #riordanverse #will solace #headcanon #headcanons #long post #long post // #might edit to be under a read-more later who knows #this is one of my weird posts that's long enough to warrant the long post tag #but not really long enought to warrant a read-more? liminal post length #anyways i think a lot about titan war era chb and how empty it was #especially in the winters #and how we KNOW that Will cant have joined earlier than BoTL so he has to have joined at like. the worst time possible #and we know from TTC that there were no year-round cabin 7 kids #so Will joining between books being one of the youngest kids and alone in his cabin in an empty camp must have SUCKED #and then on top of it all. he's also from texas and stuck in his first NY winter