Disillusioned And Done With It Older Children Of Athena Letting A Twelve Year Old Annabeth Be The Head

Disillusioned and “done with it” older children of Athena letting a twelve year old Annabeth be the head conselour of the cabin because she is at the peak of her delusions about the grandeur and glory of greek heroism and they know it will make her happy really is a much better take than like…. an actual child being in charge of a cabin with teenagers in it solely because she’s been at camp the longest.

she takes the position very seriously and drops dramatic lines like “the real world is where the monsters are” with the utmost sincerity and they’re just like “that’s nice, hun”

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You can find the same poll for Annabeth [here]. Please vote there too!

I will be making a very in depth analysis about this for both Percy and Annabeth with citations from the books after my midterms and I will be posting that. When it's up you will be able to find it [here].

Before that though, I want to see what people think. Please reblog this so I can get an accurate poll - most of the users floating around my blog will probably be biased because I've made shorter posts about this before.

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Annabeth's judo flip just upgraded from an abusive action to a murder attempt in the comments of one of my polls, because she forced Percy to land in a way where this achilles spot would've hit the ground. I-

I'm not actually sure if it would've killed Percy if he still had the coa. Luke had to stab himself a few inches into his achilles spot to die, and I don't think there was anything on the ground that was a few inches long. Gravel, while sharp, tends to be an inch in diameter which might not have been enough.

HOWEVER. We do know that the achilles spot is very sensitive. Annabeth rubbed her fingers all over it and Percy felt shocks throughout his entire body (if I remember correctly). So while I don't think it would've killed him, it would've caused him 1. unimaginable pain and 2. revealed his massive weak spot to everyone, including the eidolon possessing Leo, working for Gaea. And you bet Gaea would've told everyone where it was once the time was right to capture/kill Percy.

The thing is. Chiron lowkey forced Annabeth into swearing an oath on the Styx to save Percy's life in SoM. If Annabeth had tried to directly kill him, she would've had to face Styx/Zeus or whoever punishes those who break oaths on the Styx.

But if she went around the oath? By nearly triggering a war between the Greeks and Romans? And exposing Percy's incredibly weak, vulnerable spot in the process - to Gaea and any Romans that might’ve wanted Percy dead for inviting Greeks into their camp? So it wouldn't be her doing the actual killing (hence breaking the oath), instead she just orchestrated it (and therefore might not be punished for breaking her oath)?

So yeah. I guess I agree, it was an attempted murder.

I think the thing that consistently bugs me about Heroes of Olympus is how it ended up sort of..gently demonising Percy?

Like, Percy has already learnt that he can’t always be the hero. That is the whole point of The Last Olympian. Annabeth does her badass thing fighting Kronos, and Luke kills him. Team effort a+ good job everyone. Percy plays his part, but he doesn’t dominate.

Re-hashing this in Heroes of Olympus as though Percy has been strutting around stealing everyone’s moments is disingenuous, and unfair to the character. Like, maybe you could swing him being too protective of his friends or something, but even then I believe @greenconverses pointed out that. That’s what Mark of Athena is there for. Percy puts aside his protective instincts so Annabeth can do her hero shit alone. It’s been addressed. It’s not even a glimmer of a problem anymore, but we’re still supposed to believe that Percy is some glory seeker whose big sacrifice is stepping aside for the others to kill Gaia?

It’s also…not his fault that Calypso remains on the island. He asked the gods to let her go, and there’s no real reason he should think they wouldn’t do that? More than that, it’s not some gross error on his part that he hadn’t thought about her much in the time between getting off the island, and Annabeth getting cursed (and don’t even get me started on the bullshit that is cursing ANNABETH for something that Percy supposedly did).

Percy gets taken by Hera only a few months after TLO. That’s barely enough time to breathe, let alone start to wonder if the gods whose butts they just saved were really serious about keeping their promises. Then his memory is wiped, and then he’s thrown into the middle of saving the world all over again. It might feel like a long time because it took five years for the books to come out, but the actual timeline between the end of PJO and the point where we’re told Percy is some huge asshole for not thinking about Calypso is actually pretty short, and he doesn’t have his memory for. Most of that time.

There’s also this judgment in the narration of Percy not giving a fuck about Bob before they run into him again, which…why would he? Literally I’m so confused, just because Bob is nice now doesn’t mean he wasn’t a Titan who was trying to take over the world. Bob might be nicer than the other Titans even as Iapetus, but he and Percy were still enemies. There is zero in-universe reason why Percy should have somehow tried to be friends with him after his memory was wiped. The fact that Hades and Persephone treated him as a janitor is not Percy’s fault at all, and is tbh probably kinder than what Iapetus would have done to Percy if he hadn’t become Bob.

Also with the whole Bob situation, that happened in a short story that a lot of readers probably wouldn’t have read, so there is an additional reason why it never came up in the main series until Riordan decided he wanted to use it. Like it’s technically canon, but it’s not a canon that a lot of people have read, so having Percy muse on the fate of a memory-wiped Titan would have been super jarring for a large chunk of readers. Which is probably, out-of-universe, why that didn’t occur.

Basically I’m super pressed about Percy being treated like an asshole by his own author, when his author couldn’t even go to the effort to make him act like one.

This is only for those who don't like Annabeth Chase. If you like her, keep scrolling.

Me, every time AO3 is down:

Please I cannot keep going on like this. I need my daily fix of gay fanfiction. I hope they will be able to fix it soon. I cannot stand being alone with my own thoughts for so long 🤣