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reuben-7991 · 2 months
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Octavian’s treatment is one of my least favorite things about HoO because it isn’t his character, it’s his lack of one.
We COULD’VE had an excellent character who was a look into what could truly go wrong with blind devotion like Octavian’s, drawing an excellent parallel to Luke’s blind hatred in the original series (Percy even says Octavian reminds him of Luke).
We COULD’VE had a fantastic contrast into a follower’s descent into insanity after making empty promises of power whilst under the influence of a massively elder being, thus leading to said follower’s death.
What makes me especially mad is that Octavian has no backstory. This is a problem with a lot of Roman characters, but Octavian especially. He doesn’t even have a last name. All we know is:
- He’s a legacy of Apollo.
- He used to be sane and probably very charismatic, due to Reyna stating she used to have a crush on him in TTT.
That’s it! One of Rick’s gold stars is that his human characters are just that: human. They have motivations and flaws, deeply personal origins and ideals that affect their actions and their outcomes. None of the villains are just plain villains, evil by birth. They have motives to back up their actions (now weither those motives make sense or not, that’s another story, but they’re still there.) There’s Luke, Medea, Lityerses (who is an entire other can of worms), Circe, Loki, Gunilla, Randolph, hell, even Kronos and Gaea. All of them have reasons for the shitty stuff they did. Octavian is a glaring exception. We know he’s power-hungry, but we don’t know why. We know he’s violent, but we don’t know why. We know he hates the Greeks, but we don’t know why. You may argue ‘oh, he’s a minor character, he doesn’t really get a reasoning’ which is just blatantly untrue on both fronts.
1: Octavian is NOT a minor character in the slightest. He has major roles in the plot throughout the books.
2: Him being a ‘minor’ villain wouldn’t have anything to do with his motivation. Chris from the OG series has stated motivation, and he’s way more minor than Octavian.
Another thing is that Octavian’s insanity is played off almost comically. He’s relatively well put together in SoN, only being super dramatic and reportedly blackmailing Hazel and probably other legionnaires, but by BoO he’s absolutely broken. He’s utterly obsessed with being a hero to the Romans, with being Pontifex Maximus, with killing Gaea and almost proving himself to Apollo (who is utterly disgusted by him), but it’s all either framed as ‘hate this guy more plsplspls’ or brushed away to the side.
I’m torn on his death scene, because it’s a good scene overall but too much of it is humorous in my opinion. Between Will calling Octavian an ‘anemic loser’ (which like. what.) and Leo describing his screams as a little girl’s, it seems almost too light for such a pivotal point in the story. Octavian has truly lost himself to madness, ranting and raving and insisting no, HE has to be the one to kill Gaea, HE has to be a hero.
His death is horrific, yet it’s framed as a silly oopsie.
What the fuck.
Overall, Octavian is a shining example of missed character potential. We could have gotten the Riordan special and made to empathize more with our villain, like what happened with Luke or Randolph from MCGA, but all we get is a crazy blond kid, character so shallow he could count as a tide pool. It infuriates me to no end how in a sea of good, properly motivated antagonists, Octavian is the outlier.
It’s a real shame.
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inkmage13 · 2 months
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Do vegans let their babies drink breast milk
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allie-kayy · 3 months
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It is so ridiculously warm in this house right now for some reason, so I opened up the window, but it is stupid cold outside so that sucked too.
I literally do not know what to do right now to solve this
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crowscadence · 1 year
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Flute player on the spectrum? We call that flautism
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amelieiscoolreal · 8 months
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Uhhh beta scorched
So this is how scorched was supposed to look like
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Bruh imagine this is the scorched we got
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bojack just how stupid are you?
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tardistimeladyyeah · 6 months
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May or may not have spent the evening chopping up a block of dry and crumbly clay (virtually useless) to add to another bag of clay that was dry and crumbly, but I put too much clay softener in that bag (also useless clay) so now I have a bag of red translucent cernit and I'm hoping that I don't have to buy another block of this stinking clay to turn into kinetic sand and hope that I don't make the bag of useless clay even more useless.
Dang that was a pointless and boring story I'm so sorry
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etherealbelphie · 2 years
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Obey Me! Incorrect Quotes Part 14
Mammon: I'll give you this limited edition Ruri-chan card for a fraction of its original price!
Levi: Really?
Mammon: Yup! That'll be four thousand grimm!
Levi: Okay— wait. It's listed on Akuzon for two thousand grimm.
Mammon: Two over one is still technically a fraction.
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skelle404 · 9 months
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Just accidentally smshed a plastic lid to thousands of pieces trying to get out what was inside the jar
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kazswift · 8 months
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i desireth for thee to depict me akin to one of thy french ladies
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bichambered-reservoir · 9 months
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very stupid post bur my mind did the thing where it conjured up spooky face right as i am trying to sleep and i couldn't get the feeling of unsafety out of my head/couldn't sleep, so my solution was to imagine myself swallowed by d//jmm because he's d//jmm and therefore whatever creature it was couldn't get me. not like that. they'd have to ask nicely and d//jmm would say no.
But my mind was like "well it's a face. you have no idea how big the WHOLE creature was" but my solution was just imagining d//jmm bigger. and it worked
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didoodlez · 2 years
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real photographs of me after i take only 1 semester of comp sci and i'm not even good at java
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kaykay-io23 · 1 year
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Reminds me of Narnia, even if it’s near a lake✨😌🥲
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crowscadence · 1 year
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Romantic relationship? Platonic relationship? Nah man I’m in a tectonic relationship *shakes violently*
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amelieiscoolreal · 5 months
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comic studio webcomic WIP
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he just woke up in an alternative reality someone help his ass
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dark-falz · 1 year
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*sets 5 minute timers to feed mag*
S A T O
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