Notes On Luke Castellan,

Notes on Luke Castellan,

I would like to say first,

Map is almost done!!!! I just have to finish some like very fine-tuned layout stuff when the weekend roles around.

But! This is in part mostly, on Luke’s last name,

Castellan is a governor of a castle/warden of a prison

It works with Luke’s whole thing a little, with the whole Kronos’s right hand man/puppet/vessel or whatever,

What I wanted to talk about were these, Castellanus cloud formations,

These guys right here, specifically what Castellanus clouds are those towers of clouds that are ‘reaching’ up higher into the sky.

Reaching up to the heavens, clawing their ways up.

I just thought that it was interesting that it matched up so well that Luke Castellan clawed and reached up to Olympus, to the heavens, to tear it all down and these clouds that have similar names are the ones that reach up and appear to also be reaching up for the sky.

Probably not intentional but I thought it was cool and interesting over the correlation and this is 100% just a tide over until I do have the whole ‘As historically accurate as I’m willing to research Camp Jupiter map’

Anyway have a good night :]

I just got home no braincells left. After the wild time I’m not risking it.

“But if you forget to reblog Madame Zeroni, you and your family will be cursed for always and eternity.”

Brief Michael Kahale questions,

In SoN I we’re told that Centurions have to serve at least 5 years as a legionnaire before becoming a Centurion

And we Know that Michael Kahale was a linebacker in highschool, meaning more importantly that he went to highschool. But, like-

Michael is strongly implied to also be a teenager- I don’t like the idea of a like 23 year old Michael running around with a lot of 16 year olds and being close friends with 18 year old Octavian; and it strongly is implied that he is of similar age of Octavian.

But he went to highschool. And like- it at least feels like he had a year or two of highschool, enough to be recognizable in his linebacker situation and as a demigod to be scouted by Octavian’s father,

Which like, if we go 18 year old Michael kahale- or even 19 year old Michael Kahale at the oldest (though I always like making him 17, this is my own hc and I will not be including it) Anyway- if we go 19 Michael, he’d have to join the legion at 14; which, not impossible, some kids will be entering freshman year as 14 year olds, but- like- WHAT??

It feels, wrong to say it was fresh faced little baby Michael; Reyna makes it feel like he is newer to the legion, and that most of his bulk was Linebacker stuff.

But that implies that he ALSO broke the 5 year rule, that were told is super duper important and is rare to be broken- but really it feels like a lot of people broke it.

Frank obviously did, it’s an improtant plot point. I don’t think we get confirmation that Praetor’s also have this rule, but I feel like they do- and in that case then Percy and maybe Reyna both break that, then now Michael Kahale. Really it feels like no one really cares about this rule if we have this many examples of named characters that don’t follow this rule- not including any side characters were given that would make sense (very thankful that they did not hand over Dakota’s tattoo details so we could reasonably say that he got to the legion at 11 like Octavian, and actually properly followed the explicitly said rules about ranks) Also Hazel! She was at least at the camp for a year before HoO I think, and then only what, another year passes for ToA, she, at the most- could have around 3 years of service and I am only going off of memory here-

Literally no one cares about this 5 year rule unless we imply that 23 year old Kahale is running around and that makes me uncomfortable!

Anyway I’m gonna go to sleep now because I have to go to school tomorrow, good night- if anyone has any actual good explanation for this other than the continuous lack of characterization and attention paid to Camp Jupiter and the concepts presented in Camp Jupiter; I’d love to hear it

I’ve been drawing for around 2-3 hours straight. I was gonna draw some runaway Luke, Thalia, and Annabeth stuff- since I had been drawing a lot, then I look to my hand, and the most egregious like writer’s bump or whatever is engraved into my finger like a mouse just shoved its nose there and my finger forgot to snap back into place, I decided to draw my artist rendition of what I saw,

I would like to note that I am left-handed but that face seemed to have eluded me while drawing this.

But I did get to draw some Dakota and Gwendolyn artwork, which got me actually thinking about Gwen- I don’t think we ever knew her Godrent, I think making her a child of Fontus (idk if that conflicts with any established lore or any actual mythology I just like the concept of child of obscure god that no one usually bothers to mention being a Centurion and leaving right after the other water-related kid is brought to camp is funny)

Anyway I think I’ll take a break on drawing, and I might want to actually talk about the new trailer because I saw it and ASHFBSINFEJSKAN- I know people are worried and cautious of it, but other then all 4s Minotaur (and Mrs.Dodds but it’s Disney) I think it looks pretty rad, I’m really excited, the split second shot of Medusa also looked sick, and I’m super excited to see them all in a relatively good live action, my bar is that it’s above the 1st Peter Johnson movies- which, opinions, the 2nd is only a little better if you don’t watch the like extra 50 minutes of dragged out runtime and just end it after Luke Luke’s everywhere and says the funny things.

ALSO THE MUSICAL

NOTHING ELSE BUT ITS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD

I HAVE EVERY SONG MEMORIZED THIS MAY BE AN ISSUE

UPDATE-?!?!?

I PINKY PROMISE ILL GET AN UPDATE ON THE MAP OUT BUT IVE FALLEN DOWN A RABBIT HOLE ON THE OUTSIDERS (JUST BOB SHELDON-) AND I CANT GET OUT

BUT WERE ON THE HOME STRETCH!!! JUST WORKING ON PLACING DOWN THE LOCATIONS OF BUILDINGS, WALLS, AND ROADS!!! BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS KINDA GOOD

EVERY COHORT HAS EVERY RIGHT TO HATE THE 5TH COHORT IT IS SO MEAN THAT THEY MADE IT AND ODD NUMBER CAUSE IT MAKES IT LOOK WEIRD AS HELL TRYING TO BALANCE OUT THE BARRACKS WITH EACH OTHER BUT I MIGHT JUST USE THE FOOD STORAGE TO BALANCE WITH THE 5TH’s BARRACKS

OKAY AAAAA-

I have no idea where this energy for all caps came from. But I haven’t really posted any content other than PJO (because that’s one of my main things and I don’t want to try and post anything about Rome because that is begging me to be so wrong about things I said) but the Outsiders is really silly and I need some way to talk about it even though I feel like there is like 0 fans that I’ve seen around

But I wanna talk about my favorite character! Who.. also happens to die suddenly. It’s not very nice when authors do that to the fun characters :[

(Every single time I say that a character is my favorite they end up dying. I’m cursed and it’s not nice, and I am too scared to look up if Dallas Winston dies but if he does I am crying and my English teacher will have to deal with me.)

But BOB! He’s alive in the book for like 3 pages and then is horribly murdered by another character, Johnny Cade. He is a little rich boy who loves his rings and his girlfriend and managed to keep a best friend since kindergarten and I have SO many Hcs for him-

Okay, okay. Important things- 1st draft of map is on its way, sorry I’ve been delaying it but school is just slightly more important than the silly map. 2nd, please. Can we stop killing characters I like :(? Jokingly of course but I almost cried, several times now for various characters in various books. Let’s not.

Okay good night :3

Okay! I’ll be honest, I haven’t taken the actual story itself into account for most of my uh just general thought process lol- more the basic traits were told lol-

But yeah, the Centurion system is actually something that we aren’t told like anything about which is kinda weird lol- and sadly Franks thing is a weird situation we can’t pull anything off of, sadly.

I don’t know what I’m trying to get at at the moment lol, I haven’t been awake for a long time today-

But it is an interesting concept to think about, and it does open up a lot of questions that can be asked that sadly weren’t expanded on in canon, and I think it shows somewhat on the distinction between what we’re told about Octavian, and what is presented for Octavian (if that made sense?)

But yeah, I uh, don’t really have any thoughts to like expand on your points, but the Octavian blackmailing I feel at least (I will note I have not read SoN in months and when I did read it I read it in one day so all of the info is like squished in my head) but the whole Octavian blackmail thing is shown blatantly, though it wasn’t really mentioned in the rest of the series(?) or like it wasn’t really expanded upon? Like we got one scene of Octavian blackmailing Hazel and then like from what I remember that was it.

But yeah, I haven’t really made any formative thoughts this entire time lol but yeah, Octavian really had somewhat conflicting between being described or implied to be a good orator and in text never being shown to be that great at it,

Again I haven’t read the books in a while lol- and I don’t know what I’m trying to get at anymore but like- yeah? There’s probably some actual thoughts here but I don’t know how to like format it outside the brain thoughts l

Okay but if Octavian couldn't see the future then how the hell did he gaslight gatekeep girlboss his way into being not only the camp augur but senior centurion of the best cohort because yes he's got money but money doesn't tell the future!!