#the way it plays of his fatal flaw??? delicious scrumptious

[ofswordsandpens]

I am going to have to reread to double check this but another aspect of Percy losing control in cotg that's so worrying is his fear that he could have inadvertently hurt (or killed) Annabeth, cause like, he's never thought that before, has he? Not even at his worst in Tartarus. So again, Riordan has not just characterized Percy as someone who's angry and spiraling and losing control, but now has added the aspect where Percy is afraid of hurting or even killing his loved ones on accident. But then in the book its just like haha that's our Percy what a guy!!!! like???? hello??? the kid's not alright???

#seriously is there another part in canon where he's worried about like accidentally KILLING his friends? #there's Michael yew I guess but he never actively worried about killing him and the destruction percy caused there was not #born from a loss of control #like even in the height of my /dark percy/ days I NEVER considered percy would snap to the point of hurting his loved ones #and Riordan just throws in the line so casually!! #and like... again.. if this level of spiraling was written intentionally as a fallen hero arc I would be HOOKED #the way it plays of his fatal flaw??? delicious scrumptious #EXCEPT ITS NOT INTENTIONAL #literally lmao #pjo #percy jackson #mine