Everyone's Favorite 2020 Character Are Back!

Everyone's favorite 2020 character are back!

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Here’s the thing about shows like South Park and Family Guy that make their money off of being edgy and offensive. They fundamentally reduce their viewers’ capacity for empathy. If I found a joke funny, and you found it offensive, you’re just too sensitive. This is directly related to the ride of the alt right and the election of trump. In this essay I will

Yeah sex is great and all but have you ever had your OTP be endgame?

I haven’t please tell me what it’s like

Everybody who reads the Harry Potter books knows it’s bad that Snape calls his best friend a slur, but the crazy thing is this isn’t even the worst thing we see a friend do to another friend during that year. Sirius uses Remus to almost kill Snape. What is the real world equivalent of using your friend’s Medical condition where they lose their mind and become dangerous to stage a prank on someone you hate that would turn your friend into a murderer against their will and without their consent?

That is like suffering from violent psychotic breakdowns and in the middle of one, your best friend leaves a loaded gun in the room and sends in some kid you both bully inside for a laugh.

if there was a straightforward real world equivalent for what Sirius does to Remus, Sirius would get trashed by everybody. The abuse of trust and the level of betrayal on the marauders end of the werewolf prank does not get talked about enough.

severus snape apologizes to lily right away. We never see Sirius apologize to Remus. But somehow the fact that Remus forgives Sirius is proof of their strong friendship and true love. No one expects Lily to forgive Sev. Everyone expects Remus to forgive Sirius. Wtf

I don't know if it's just me but I highkey dislike Annabeth. I think it has to be the writing. Rick can't write very compelling characters all together, but his female ones are all "I'm not like other girls. I don't put on makeup". From Annabeth to Thalia to Clarisse, they are all apparently "badasses" because they are not feminine. The only character who is feminine, Silena, is painted as weak and frivolous.

But my problem is with Annabeth especially because she is the lead female character. We are supposed to be rooting for her but it's really difficult because she is acting like a jerk to everyone. I can excuse her behavior in the first couple of books because she was younger but there is zero character development throughout PJO. And childhood trauma can excuse as much. For example, Percy had an even harder childhood but he is not mean to everyone around him. He tries his best to a good guy. Annabeth is just not trying to change herself. She is rewarded for her bad behavior even.

And I know that she is a fan favourite in the Percy Jackson fandom but I believe it has to be that the fanon!Annabeth is nothing like canon!Annabeth. Fans stan the idea they have created of her, not actually her. I say this because I have seen tons of posts that have her be so out of character, that it's basically a whole new person. This isn't something exclusive to the Percy Jackson fandom though (God, fanon Batfam is probably the worst offender) but it's interesting how certain fans refuse to even acknowledge this. But I don't want to be misunderstood so I want to make something clear; I don't think it's bad to have headcanons or even project on characters. That is perfectly fine and eveyone is allowed to do it. The problems start when people are so caught on to their fantasy that they don't want to see problems with the canon material and even go as far as to attack people who give valid critisism.

I do believe that Annabeth had potential as a character but Rick ruined her character. It's even worse when in the following books he made her only interest and character trait be Percy. It's all about Percy and the relationship. There are few moments that are about her and her ambitions, her life, her dreams but in the end everything gets buried under 'Percabeth' because 'Percabeth' is what sells the books and keeps the money coming. I strongly believe it's too late now to even attempt to fix her problematic aspects, especially since the fanon!Annabeth has prevailed and people won't accept a new canon, but it would be interesting to see Rick actually try to give her character development.

I bet the judo flip wouldn’t be so romantic if the roles were reversed with Percy judo flipping Annabeth .