Headcanon That Percy Jackson Is Asexual Or Demisexual.

Headcanon that Percy Jackson is asexual or demisexual.

Think about it.

He has never actually described a girl as hot or drop dead gorgeous. (Correct me if I’m wrong…) He’s always seen Annabeth/Rachel/Calypso (all potential love interests,) as beautiful, pretty, generally nice to look at, and never as hot, drop dead gorgeous, etc. I mean… a e s t h e t i c a t t r a c t i o n.

And he’s generally oblivious to other people’s feelings for him until it smacks him in the face (which happens to me, an asexual, a lot actually.)

But it could be argued that he finds Annabeth attractive, especially towards the end of the original series and the heroes of olympus. After they’ve made a strong emotional connection.

D E M I S E X U A L. I tell you.

I will fight for ace Percy.

i just think it’s hilarious how when percy disappears and jason shows up to chb, everyone is like “sorry don’t have time looking for our favourite person in the world bye” but when jason disappears and percy shows up at cj……. they’re like oh. wait can we keep him?

so i think we can all agree that poseidon is generally a great dad to percy compared to the way the other gods treat their kids. i was re-reading tlt and i came across this passage...

i totally forgot this existed, but poseidon literally told percy “i wish you weren’t born” ?? and percy IS hurt by it, but he just brushes it away and tries to leave. imagine being twelve, and the first time you see your biological father he says that to you? percy is TWLEVE. that is so damaging. like honestly poseidon wtf?

the thing that makes this scene sadder is when we consider the fact that up until this point percy lives in an abusive household with gabe. it is canon that gabe is physically and emotionally abusive to percy. that being said, i’m sure there were times that he mocked percy for not having his biological father there for him. overtime percy did grow mad at his dad for leaving him, but at the end of the day we all know he would have wanted to live a normal life with his actual dad and sally. all the kid wants is to be normal. and i can’t even image the pain he felt when poseidon tells him “i’m sorry you were born” ? like excuse me sir what the fuckkity fuck? did percy think “damn maybe gabe was right? my dad does hate me” LIKE HDJKDK i know poseidon backtracks later, but still.

also this makes me upset too...

percy called his dad SIR... like i know that’s common for many people but i just think it goes to show how percy doesn’t really view him as the dad he always wanted and that’s a big let down.

and it’s not until percy has went on numerous quests and brought poseidon glory, that they actually start developing a father-son relationship. consider the birthday scene from botl...

i think it’s great and all that the relationship between poseidon and percy gets better, but it hurts to know that it took that much for them to actually start developing a relationship and it makes me so sad. the gods really do need to do better... all percy wanted was to have a normal little loving family but time and time after again he gets hit with shit. okay i’m done now.

Okay so I’m back to complaining about how Percy is treated because of his intelligence. One thing that never made sense to me was the immediate change to how the other members of the 7 treated Percy (specifically Piper, Leo, and Jason) after they had known him for ~12 hours. 

At first they seem rightfully intimidated by him (Leo’s first POV in MoA). They’ve spent the past 6 months hearing fantastical stories about him. What confuses me is the 180 that they pull. Despite knowing most of Percy’s accomplishments, Piper is unimpressed by him in the flesh. This is to be somewhat expected because a lot of people at camp semi-worship Percy ‘cause he’s their big hero, but she hasn’t actually spent much time with him, just heard stories and seen his physical appearance. This seems pretty hypocritical of Piper, one of the bases of her character is that she doesn’t want to people to make assumptions about her. Whether they stem from her parentage or appearance. Piper makes comments on Percy’s personality, and thinks that its Annabeth that keeps him in check. (Jokes on her, it’s both ways, at least in the first series)

Honestly I don’t remember much from Jasons POV, he respects Percy as a leader in the beginning, but when Percy (and Hazel and Frank) join the others on the Argo II, Percy’s clearly out of his element. (so to speak) He and Jason have both been forced into positions of leadership by their respective camps (both relatively recently, in the past year-ish, but were kind of raised for it) which creates a mild power struggle. (Im mostly thinking of Percy’s self esteem issues, however the entire power struggle thing in MoA was ooc for Percy) However, Jason too, seems to forget Percy’s intelligence. He mentions in BOO how he forgets Percy’s accomplishments, and notes the façade Percy puts on that makes others dismiss him.

Leo doesn’t ignore Percy’s past like Jason and Piper. From his first POV in MoA he compares the look Percy gives him to the feeling of Jason controlling lightning, and comments on being uncomfortable alone with Percy because of the power he has. While Leo seems to keep the most respect in this way, he also dismisses Percy’s thinking frequently. (Odd, because Leo isn’t the most eloquent speaker either, and he and Percy are quite similar, especially with the whole façade thing) Another thing that is weird about this, is that Leo and Percy think quite similarly, despite Leo being “smarter”. (actually just more mechanically adept) An example of this is how Leo sacrifices himself at the end of BOO. He starts developing this plan earlier in the same book, seeing the bigger picture earlier, like how Percy sees battle, and predicted Kronos’s plans before even Annabeth and Chiron.

I don’t really know where I’m going with this, if I had more time I’d pull quotes out of the book, maybe I’ll rewrite later, but for people who haven’t known Percy very long they all seem to make quick judgments on him, and it made me sad.

no one:

me and my wannabe storyboard artist ass:

i finished sea of monsters and also wanted to practice storyboarding, so here you go.

Translation

Rico: Remember to button your shirt next time, ok

Colt: Okey

Rico: And wear more clothes if you are cold

Colt: Yes sir!

tbh at this point i’m gonna start seeing them as dad and adopted son rather than mentor and student

also no hat version cuz his hair is so damn cute