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This whole conversation is amazing, I just love when people dive deep into characters and these two have so much to unpacks.
So, crossover moment. Let's say EPIC: The Musical (since so far its my favorite rendition of the Odyssey) is the accurate history for Percy Jackson. How do you think Poseidon feels about his son loosely following the trail of Odysseus? Specifically the Sea of Monsters. Polypuemus, and Circe's island, but Polyphemus specifically. Poseidon is furious with Odysseus for not killing his cyclops son. "Ruthlessness is mercy upon ourselves." Poseidon targets Odysseus and kills his men because he blinded Polyphemus and left him disabled instead of "finishing the job" and killing him. Odysseus also made the mistake of revealing his name instead of letting him believe he was simply "Nobody" when he lefts the island of the cyclops.
Fast forward to Percy Jackson's dealing with Polyphemus, again the cyclops is being tormented by "Nobody" and is enraged. Obviously I'm leaving out a ton of details, but in the end Percy can't bring himself to kill another cyclops like this after the discovery of his beloved half-brother Tyson. Even with everything that transpires after Tyson throws the rock at Polyphemus that knocks him back into the chasm, they don't kill him. But, the key difference to Percy's story is that he's humble and he doesn't reveal his true name. He lets Polyphemus believe that he's truly drowned "Nobody", and he hopes that it stays that way.
So I guess my train of thought is how do we think Poesidon feels about this? That his (arguably favorite) son follows in the steps of Odysseus, a man that he tried to kill and was outwitted by, by not killing Polyphemus. Granted, the argument could be made that the whole difference between the two is Percy's humility, but at the end of the day he made the same choice as Odysseus. He allowed Polyphemus to live blinded. I just wonder if it makes Poseidon reflect at all, or if it makes him see the past in a new light as Percy's journey continues.
I don't know if this makes sense to anyone else but it's been stuck in my head ALL DAY and I needed to put it somewhere.
My Thought lol
okay so i’m not very good at head canons but this suddenly popped into my mind and i don’t know if someone has done this already. I was scrolling through the dark Percy hashtag and came across one talking about why Percy was the most powerful demigod.
They said it was because he didn’t restrain his powers. Like Nico had someone to teach him how to use his powers and while Jason didn’t i’m assuming his roman training came in hand on how to learn how to control his powers.
Percy didn’t have any training at all and almost always went with a gut feeling, he just explodes kinda and the water mimics his actions like at the volcano.
but i like to think about after tartarus and if rick actually delved into the topic of Percy’s blood bending and becoming hyper aware of things. he can see and feel the liquid flowing through everything but keeps it to himself because he’s terrifying enough why add onto that.
but let’s say Annabeth hadn’t stopped him from killing the goddess of misery then what?? I’m going to assume Annabeth tells everyone about Percy’s new skill and if she didn’t tell them they all find out one way or another.
so going back to Percy just exploding do you think he’d learn how to control this power cause last time he used it someone got hurt because instead of it hurting the intended target it hurts them and everyone around him.
and since it’s such a powerful skill you still have to back up a bit so you’re out of range so you don’t become affected.
another thing i thought of was what happens when he gets angry?? we already know the earth trembles and i can’t remember if rick described it or not but i feel like the air becomes suffocating and the smell of the ocean is extremely strong but would everyone be frozen in place? Percy just gets so angry that everyone’s blood starts to boil or it pumps too fast?? like for some people their blood evaporates and other it feels like the sea is in their veins. as if the blood is rushing through their body and colliding together to the point they feel like their gonna burst??
i did it. i wrote it and i posted it. because i am obsessed, this too has a taylor swift song title, but to be fair: THIS SONG GIVES ME THEIR VIBES OKAY. just. just listen to hate me by nico collins and the albatross by taylor swift but also kind of i can see you by taylor while reading okay? you'll get it.
she's the death you chose, you're in terrible danger
hypothetically, if i may have started yet another perpollo rhea and apollo au -- this time with arranged marriage and sort of one-sided enemies to lovers -- would anyone feel like reading it?
I just wanted to share this masterpiece with all the dark Percy Jackson fans because this book is AMAZING