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itachi86 · 4 months

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isn't percy only supposed to get three pearls?

#pjo #1x06 #plot things #i'm pretty sur eit was three #then one o fhtem had to stay behind #to save percy's mom #also maybe it's just my heterophobic brain #but i don't remember percabeth being pushed this hard already

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counting-stars-gayly · 3 months

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So Luke was what Percy failed to save in the end, right? He was what mattered most? I’m gonna kill myself

#queued #because when they’re walking in the woods he brings up that line and Luke asks if he’s thinking about his mom #but Percy never confirms that. and it actually would make sense if Percy wasn’t worried hades would never return her because Poseidon told #him that he didn’t know WHEN hades would return her.#Percy’s whole speech to Luke was about how he had Figured Him Out and opening with the “fail to save what matters most” line makes it seem #like he was piecing together that that part of the prophecy applied to Luke too.#THIS IS THE BEST CHANGE THEY COULD HAVE POSSIBLY MADE TO THE SERIES IM SCREAMING #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #percy jackson #pjo spoilers #pjo season 1 #pjo ep 8 #pjo 1x08 #the prophecy comes true #pjo adaptation #pjo disney+#pjo tv series #pjo tv show #luke castellan #the lightning thief #charlie bushnell

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uselessnbee · 5 months

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what i wish people would also explore more when it comes to Percy is the other side of his feelings about his mom about family and his childhood but this fandom is too afraid to paint Sally even in the slightest bad light (even if it's not bad just acknowledging her flaws because she's a human being and not perfect) that no one will touch on that subject. like yes Sally is the best mom but she also isn't and that's the thing! She isn't perfect! but she tried her best but her best still got Percy hurt and it isn't her fault at all but that's the tragedy of it. i want Percy's feelings about this explored. how he grew up with a loving mom but an abusive step father. how his step father would humiliate him and call him stupid but then his mom soothed him and told him he's not the things Gabe calls him. how Gabe would hurt him and Sally would be there to make him happy and loved but at the same time she stayed with him. i want Percy's feelings explored about how he knows his mother loves him but her absence still hurt him. she would work so much to have money to raise him she did that for him but at the same time it meant Percy was left alone or with Gabe. Sally gave up so much for him, she sent him away to protect him but at the same time he was sent away from his mom. she's the only parent he has because his father is absent and Gabe is not actually a parental figure at all but she's also often absent in his life too and that must have left him with such mixed feelings because it's not all black and white! Sally's love protected him but also hurt him. Percy loves his mom so so so much but there's also this deep-seated bitterness and hurt and anger he never let himself feel and then the guilt for having those feelings because his mom loves him he knows that and she gave up so much for him and she married a monster that abused her to protect him, he knows that but it doesn't make it hurt any less. the mess his emotions are because he knows his mom suffered for him and did it from her love for him but he still desperately wishes she never married that monster that he wouldn't have to have the childhood he had with him that he wouldn't have to live with the trauma he was left with. this all is exactly what makes their relationship so fascinating and also heartbreaking.

or the idea of Percy having weird mixed feelings after Estelle is born because that's his little sister and he loves her with his whole heart and would do anything for her and wants only the best for her but there's also this little jealous monster deep down that wonders why she gets to have a loving mom and a loving dad and a happy normal life but he never got that. why does she deserve it but not him? why couldn't he have that too? doesn't he deserve that too? he was just a child too so why why why??? and then the guilt of feeling that way too it makes me want to scream. emotions are fucking messy and they can be really ugly and they can make you hate yourself and there's no way Percy's feelings aren't a mess when it comes to this and i want to see it explored so badly!

and with Sally too! her feelings about Percy because she did so much and tried her best but sometimes unfortunately your best isn't good enough and it still got her beloved son hurt and she hates it and feels so guilty but she just has to live with that but she can't help to wish it was different. that their lives would be different. better. normal. she can't help but to wish she didn't have to do the things she's done, didn't have to suffer so much just to protect her child. can't help to wish she didn't have to worry so much, didn't have to be so scared about Percy, didn't have to be terrified that one day he won't come back home to her, that she won't be able to hold her son anymore because he will be gone, she just wishes he didn't have to suffer so much, she just wishes and wishes and wishes

and i just wish people weren't so afraid to explore this because it's so heartwrenching and yes if you want something do it yourself but unfortunately i cannot write nor am i able to handle this topic in a way it deserves so i am left only with rambling about it on here thank you

#i am not trying to victim blame or anything i love Sally and she did her best and didn't deserve any of the crap life gave her #but there's just something so tragic about the fact that she married a vile man and suffered abuse to protect her son #just for her decision to hurt him anyways just in a different way but the only other option would probably be Percy ending up dead #so she can't really truly regret it but she just wishes those weren't their only options #that she didn't have to do this just so that her child could stay alive #thinking about it makes me go feral #they had no choice but to suffer there was no way for their lives to be without this much hurt and trauma and it's terrible #and they didn't deserve it but there was so much love too #but the horrible thing is that that love just wasn't enough to save them from all that pain and i need to be sedated bye #percy jackson #sally jackson #pjo #hoo #percy and sally #percy jackon and the olympians #whatever you do don't think about a six years old lonely Percy sitting in a corner waiting for his mom to come back home from work #and he knows she loves him but he misses her so much when she spends so much time in work and that hurts #don't think about a ten years old Percy being sent away to a boarding school and he knows his mom loves him #but what if she's sending him away because he's just too much? or not enough? and what if she doesn't want him anymore?#and he knows that's not true but what if?#i'm thinking it #okay i think that's enough

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hermesmyplatonicbeloved · 4 months

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I've seen a few takes on the scene where Percy suffocates to death while Annabeth pleads with him to not go through with it, and I just wanted to point out that Annabeth has lived this before, with Thalia.

The parallels are literally making me go feral. A child of the big three choosing to sacrifice themself to save Annabeth, while she stands helpless and watches as they're covered with gold/turn into a tree?

The parallels. The flashbacks. Imagine if they were really intense, and blurred with reality - was she seeing Percy dying? Or seeing Thalia dying & getting turned into a tree? Was she seeing both, reliving the trauma again?

Where's the fics lol.

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twinsarekeepers · 4 months

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Percy thinking he’s already failed the quest because the deadline passed and so he’s not worried about that line in the prophecy anymore, and the show doesn’t even give him a moment to question it because Poseidon was actually a good father and ex and gave him four pearls to save Sally.

When that fourth pearl gets lost, it’s going to be so awful for our boy.

#he’s going to be going THROUGH IT #from thinking he’s going to save his mom and his friends and stop the war #to knowing he’s going to have to leave his mother behind #(y’all complaining just cant appreciate good angst lmao)#percy jackson #poseidon #sally jackson #percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #pjo tv show #pjo tv series #pjotv #pjo tv spoilers #pjo tv adaptation #walker scobell #virginia kull #toby stephens

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purpleshadow-star · 11 months

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So... since Hades didn't send the Minotaur after Percy, but he did take Sally... then, technically, that means Hades saved Sally's life. Like, she would have died if Hades hadn't decided to take her to lure Percy to the Underworld.

#tbh hades could have let her die and percy still would have gone to the underworld regardless #im glad he went for the more fool-proof plan of keeping her alive instead #we love hades inadvertently saving percy from the lifelong trauma of watching a parent die #everyone go thank hades for keeping the best living mom in the riordanverse alive #riordanverse #percy jackson #sally jackson #pjo hades #hades #rick riordan #the lightning thief #percy jackon and the olympians

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punkeropercyjackson · 4 months

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Leah is an excellent Annabeth but personally i would've perferred it if she played Percy.I'd say i'm joking but i'd be telling a lie fatter than Hades' cash wads

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bikananjarrus · 4 months

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oh i do NOT like them passing the solstice deadline. like i get they were probably going for “oh percy cares enough to want to stop a war between the gods so he’s going to finish the quest anyway” but why couldn’t we have done that on a really tight deadline, showing him racing to meet the deadline? like this just takes so much of the urgency out of the quest!

#also FOUR PEARLS???? NO!!!!!! he’s supposed to leave sally behind! that’s the sacrifice! that’s the last line of the prophecy!#like i get they’ll probably lose a pearl and sally will have to stay behind #but then why bother with 4 pearls in the first place??#even with 3 pearls (even without any pearls at all) percy was still going to go try and save his mom in the underworld no matter what #why waste time having us go thru the motions of losing a pearl when it could’ve just been 3 from the beginning #i’m nitpicking but i’m annoyed #pjo #pjo spoilers #pjotv #pjotv spoilers #percy jackson

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wolffoxnation2 · 8 months

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Headcanon:

The day Leo finds out that he can control as well as make fire is a sad one, because that meant:

He could have saved his mother

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#percy jackson heroes of olympus #pjo leo valdez #leo valdez #pjo headcanons #Pjo Esperanza Valdez #im sorry but not really #pjo #heros of olympus #I read a fix it oneshot where Leo saves his mom and brain went burrr #Someone please write this

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jmmoreaux · 4 months

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i say episode 5 is my favorite so far as if i haven't said the same with the others, proof that the show just keeps getting better :')

(but yeah i do think ep 5 is my fave because i ADORED their first interaction with Ares, like their little heads popping up and they be like "no thanks we don't want anything from a stranger"??? So adorable, they're my kids, I want to hug and protect)

#percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson show #percy jackson #annabeth chase #grover #i loved the whole tunnel scene??#and then the shield??#percy once again protecting his friends?#annabeth promising percy to save his mom and him!!!#i love this so much

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alexalessandro · 4 months

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“And you could have shown your father, what it means to stand up for someone you love”

This line feels odd right? With Annabeth, the parallel with her mother is obvious “a daughter of a self-righteous mother, who chose self-righteousness for herself”, Annabeth didn’t have to antagonize Medusa, she didn’t have to defend her mother’s pride when her life was at stake, but she did, too prideful to see Medusa as anything but a monster.

But Percy? Percy didn’t choose anything.

Percy ran.

He couldn’t betray Annabeth, so he ran. If anything he refused to act, how can his inaction be read as him choosing to be like his parent? He’s just trying to survive so what’s Medusa’s angle here?

“The sea god told me that he loved me”

Medusa was not just abandoned by Athena, who punished her for the actions of a man, but she was also abandoned by Poseidon. Poseidon told her he loved her, he broke her silence, he made her feel seen in a way that she had never felt seen before.

Poseidon backed down, he let Athena do what she did to Medusa, he didn’t fight for her, and all his love for her turned into dust after “breaking her silence”. No mercy, no fight, he didn’t stand up for her against Athena, he didn’t retaliate in any way, he did nothing.

“Stand up”

Percy wants to save his mom, and he will go to the underworld for her, but in Medusa’s eyes, that’s not enough. He will go to Hades, and he will face the quest, but he won’t help her teach a lesson to Poseidon.

But that's not fair. Percy isn’t his father.

With Percy, Medusa is her most selfish, she misconstrues his intentions so they fit into her narrative. If Annabeth is a perfect foil to Medusa, if Annabeth allows us to see Medusa as human:

“I wasn’t like you sweetheart, I was you”

“Echidna said my impertinence wounded my mother’s pride”

“Not him, me”

The way she snaps because of Percy is showing us that she is still a monster. She doesn’t see Percy with the same depth she sees Annabeth, Percy is a tool, a tool to direct her anger at Poseidon. If she felt for Annabeth, and only came for her when she called her a liar, Medusa came for Percy the moment he left her alone. Alone, just like she was abandoned before.

Percy doesn’t deserve this, he’s 12, he’s not responsible for his father’s mistakes and it’s certainly not his responsibility to correct them. He just wants his mom, and he doesn’t want to save her any less just because he won’t give up his friends to do it, but it doesn’t matter, percy left her alone to fight her battle against the gods, just like Poseidon left her to Athena’s wrath. So now, Percy needs to become the lesson.

If Medusa’s retaliation can be understood with Annabeth calling her a liar after she came out as a survivor to them, her retaliation against Percy is personal, resentful, unfair, and unjust.

If Medusa holds empathy for Annabeth, it’s her rage and resentment towards Percy/Poseidon that made her snap, because she loved Athena, she was devoted to her, and she would have worshipped her in silence forever.

Poseidon promised her more, Poseidon told her she deserved more, and when she believed him he broke her trust. Medusa isn’t angry at Athena, she is but she’s not as resentful towards her, but Poseidon? Oh, she holds resentment for Poseidon. It’s one thing to be given nothing, to know and to expect silence. it’s one thing to have everything only for it to be torn away unjustified.

#percy jackon and the olympians #pjo #pjo spoilers #pjo disney+ spoilers #pjo tv #percy jackson #pjo tv show #pjo disney+#percy jackson and the olympians #I have a lot of feelings about Medusa okay?#she’s been wronged in so many ways #but the way she came for Percy is unacceptable #even with all her hurt #kid just wants to save his mom c’mon ma’m

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kamwashere · 4 months

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i just know that mars needs moms made percy ugly sob

#a movie about a little boy going on an adventure to save his mom #he watched it when he was like 10 and it lived in his mind rent free #percy jackson #sally jackson #pjo #mars needs moms #kamwashere

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minasweep · 5 months

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btw Percy Jackson as a franchise having differences in every retelling is p much how actual myths have so many different variations depending on who's reciting it also how despite it all its the same story with the same ending

#mina mumbles #crumbled to dust thinking abt this twice so far i will think abt it again #percy jackson #i wanted 2 watch it in the living room earlier and had 2 stop bc was literally thinking like omg . hes just a kid trying to save his mom .#every single time . sobbing again .#in the books in the movie in the musical in the tv series hes just a kid #and its gonna end the same every time

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firelise · 4 months

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havent seen anyone talking about "you gimme what you got and I gimme you what I got" tragic

#percy jackson and the olympians #pjo #not them arriving at Hades' place and he was just like hey fellas aw shucks wasnt expecting guests u want some juice? snacks?#let me fix this blanket please sit oh yea thats ur mom over there i saved her for ya im not like other gods im a cool god #huge hot mess divorced dad energy #'i see you'#lmaoo

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livingfandomly · 4 months

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Walker? Sir? Mr. Actor?

Jokes aside. That look? That anger? Percy finally having enough and being pissed off with a God who doesn’t care about his children, insulted his friends, ruined their quest and wants to start an unnecessary war where he has nothing to lose? But most importantly… Percy literally QUAKING with unchecked rage for a God who came in the way of him saving his mom?

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sonseulsoleil · 2 months

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Sally hears about Annabeth long before meeting her—everything from casual “Annabeth emailed me!” to long disjointed explanations of their quest to Hades, how she saved his life, how amazing and smart she is. It’s obvious how much Percy cares about his new friend from how he talks about her. When he prints out the photo Annabeth emailed him and sticks it on his binder, Sally smiles knowingly to herself. Percy's never had a crush before.

When she finally meets Annabeth, the girl in front of her doesn’t match the descriptions Percy gave at all. The Annabeth from his stories is fearless and unstoppable, the smartest person in the room and she knows it. The Annabeth that Sally first meets is quiet and reserved and almost overly polite. She expected Percy was a bit biased, but not this biased.

Later, she needles it out of Percy: how Annabeth’s father and step-mother treated her like a burden, how she ran away when she was 7. Sally decides right then and there that Annabeth is going to be hers. She tells stories of her own brash youth, she extends all the care in the world to this girl. She does everything in her power to hammer into Annabeth's head that she has a home with the Jacksons, that she will always be not just welcome, but wanted here.

Slowly but surely, Annabeth starts to believe it. Of course, Annabeth has always thought Sally was a good mom, has always envied Percy’s relationship with her. But it takes her awhile to realize that Sally’s unconditional love could ever extend to her—she’s never had a parent or parent figure like that before.

But they really bond when Percy goes missing.

Annabeth goes to Sally's apartment to tell her, clearly expecting Sally to get angry, to blame her. Instead, Sally wraps her up in a tight hug, and they cry together, and Sally invites her back again and again the entire time Percy is gone for tea and cookies and comfort. They talk for hours at a time, about Percy, about the search, of course, but also about Annabeth's schoolwork and her parents, about Paul, and Sally's writing career. In truth, Sally needs the comfort and support just as much as Annabeth, if not more. They get through those eight months together.

And one day, years in the future, Annabeth and Percy come over for dinner, all sly smiles and conspiratorial glances, clearly holding back news, until after dinner, when Annabeth beams and shows off the shiny new ring on her left hand.

"Sally--" Annabeth starts to say. Sally cuts her off with a shake of her head, eyes full of happy tears.

"Call me Mom."

#Percy Jackson and the Olympians #Percy Jackson & The Olympians #Heroes of Olympus #Sally Jackson #Annabeth Chase #Percy Jackson #percabeth #Rick Riordan #hc

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