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Sooo, anyone made the fic already????
YOU WANT A RARE SHIP ILL GOVE YOU THE RAREST AND DUMBEST SHIP YOUVE EVER HEARD OF
Ethan x Jason
Jathan, Ethson, vengeful lightning.
Please. Hear me out. HEAR ME OUT.
Two dudes destined to be nothing more then plot continuation to be drives for the in characters but never main characters themselves even though they had ALL the potential to be. Dying so the main character can't get that sweet sweet goal/character development. Just wanting tk make things right for their people and Godly beings. Fighting for what they believe is right even if the line between good and evil seems blurred.
They kiss.
Percy is having a demigod dream.
Luke: pours coffee into his cereal, tells Ethan to fuck a trash can, and goes and sulks in his room.
Percy looks into the camera like he’s on the office.
Percy, shaking fist at the sky: If you’re gonna give me weird ass dreams, at least make them useful!
ETHAN NAKAMURA WAS RIGHT. UNLIKE LUKEAND PERCY, HE KNEW THE BALANCE. AND HE NEVER GOT TO SEE THE CHANGE THAT HE CAUSED. HE DIED BY HIS OWN BLADE SHATTERING AGAINST HIM. HE DIED HELPING SOMEONE ELSE. HE DIED BEING COMPLETELY SELFLESS, LIKE HIS ENTIRE LIFE.
Ethan probably didn't have the energy to move or do anything for days after losing his eye. It probably hurt a lot and he didn't have any help through it.
Ethan's left (I believe so) eye was his dominate eye so for the longest while he would keep running into things or walls and it was REALLY annoying.
Ethan Nakamura | This is the way that it is / This is the way that it always will be
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And the way she'll say hello - Ethan Nakamura x Cutesy! Reader
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The perfect pair - Ethan Nakamura x Loser! Reader
Ethan Nakamura x Cutesy! Reader
warning; none author's notes; this is incredibly self indulgent bc 1. i LOVEEE ethan so bad idc if he got such a small amount of page time !!! 2. im a die hard opposites attract lover and me and him would literally be the best set up for that trope👎🏾👎🏾 was writing this b4 i got a req so posting this first to feed the ppl😞
half the camp is wondering how y'all even got together
like you're bubbly and sweet, you're probably everybody's friends to some degree
and then there's Ethan.
needless to say, not the most expected couple around Camp Half-Blood..
but you guys love each other dearly and that's all that matters !
very grateful that your around to be honest
he's given up a lot in his life (ie; his eye-) so he's happy to know you decided to stick with him
you LOVE putting those cute little sanrio hair clips on him :3
he doesn't even take them out afterwards, he'll just death glare anyone who asks about them
he has a whole little container of your hair ties and clips too ! says it's for "safe keeping" but he just likes messing with them when he misses you
which leads me to my next headcanon🥁🥁🥁
MATCHING STUFFED ANIMALS !!!!!
more specifically those cute plague doctor ones ?
^^ those guys !
he has the softer colored one bc it's literally you and of course, you have the black one bc it's literally him
(again totally not projecting like i did with the connor thing bc i have that one !!)
you probably leave most of your stuffed animals in his cabin bc y'all have shared custody over them
HE LOVESSS ALL THE STRAWBERRY/VANILLA SCENTED STUFF YOU HAVE !!!
he's literally attached to you by the hip because of how good it smells
sometimes he steals your body wash bc it smells that good(doesn't even use it, just likes the smell)
either you made it for him or you bought it for him, but he now has this eye patch bc of you :3c
i saw it and thought it was perfect for this🙏🏾
he actually wears it all the time too !!!
mm probably calls you super soft pet names like bunny or angel
y'all know the saying 'the way you say hello' ??(aka my favorite song ever)
THAT'S LITERALLY YOU GUYS !!!
more specifically the line 'He said he loved her more than words / so instead of words he gave her flowers to observe'
HE ALWAYS GIVES YOU DANDELIONS OR WHATEVER PINK FLOWERS HE CAN FIND(much to the Aphrodite cabin's dismay-)
i could write about him all day to be completely honest but i have things to write and i ran out of ideas bc i wanted to post this immediately🙁🙁
Ethan Nakamura x Loser! Reader
warning; scraped knees and other small injuries ! author's notes; I'M SOSOSOOSOS SORRY THIS TOOK FOREVER TO GET OUT :(( i honestly had to keep rewriting it bc it didn't feel right until i got it a certain way ! hope this was good bc i not the best one shot writer, trust me i've tried. decided to go more down the clutz route for this
He thought it was cute how you managed to trip over the air or not notice the very apparent social queues in the room, but he’d never let you know that. He was the kind of person who always had his guard up, and could probably catch a fly with the amount of grace he had. You were the opposite. But maybe that's what made him like you so much... You were sitting in the infirmary, and Will was practically tallying how many times you had been in there that week alone. Nine times, not counting the time you accidentally fell into the infirmary while chasing your cabin’s pet. Ethan was sitting on the chair next to you, a fond look io his face as he watched you stand up from the bed. “So.. I’m assuming you won’t be running after any more rabbits, right ?” He teased, when wasn’t he teasing ? You rolled your eyes, almost falling while you stumbled down the steps. “It wasn’t my fault I didn’t see that rock ! It just showed up out of nowhere, honest !” Truth was; that was the biggest, most obvious, rock there was on Camp Half-Blood property. But were you going to admit to that ? Absolutely not. Ethan, knowing exactly the kind of person you were, was very aware of that but he kept his mouth shut about it. It wasn't like he minded the complete unawareness you seemed to have about your surroundings, quite the opposite. But gods did he wish you would take a little more time to pay attention... "Whatever you say, angel. I'll hold you to that." "I'm serious, Ethan." "And I believe you." The bickering continued for a bit before Ethan caught you from falling over a rock, ironically, the same rock you had tripped over that same day. "See ? I told you I'd believe that it came out of nowhere." He smirked, pulling you closer to his side so you wouldn't get hurt again. Balance was what he fought for and you were absolutely his perfect balance.
THIS FEELS BAD SO I HOPE YOU LIKE IT ANON...😭 also i love when people have partners that balance them out so this was fun to write :33
Ethan Nakamura x Aphrodite Kid! Reader
warnings; none ! author's notes; SORRY THIA TOOK ME FOREVER ANON :(( family+ school got unbearable and i was spazzing out over it😞 but !! always happy to write for my underrated fav🩷 im not too sure i did good with like.. the actually Aphrodite kid aspect and now im spazzing
as yes, revenge and love
only a true poet could've made this combination !
or in this case, the Fates !
i'd like to think you met during a game of capture the flag or maybe you just ran into him at the docks
whatever it was, he didn't care much for you based on the obvious Aphrodite kid stereotypes
but, once you started rambling about something or another, he actually seemed to be interested in you
or at the very least, what you were saying
so, after months of meeting at the docks on occasion(aka he purposely went there just to see you🩶) he got a crush
a bad crush at that.
he didn't know it was possibly but here he was, collecting seashells to give to you
"It's whatever.. I heard you talking about them the other day"
he's a sap what can i say ?
i don't think he'd do a big confession, but he definitely went on a tad longer of a tangent than he meant to about you
thus the power couple was born !
if we're going based on some of the myths Aphrodite is known for her.. interesting ways
so i think that combined with the ORIGINAL revenge seeker ???
yeah nobody messes with you guys.
ermm.. mayhaps him making the Hepahestus kids make you a sword thats semi similar to his, but the holdy part(idk how to describe swords chat-) has a heart attack the bottom
to this day he's trying to find out how to make something better than that
PUTTING HIS HAIR YP IN THOSE LITTLE PINK BOBBLES !!!
THESE.
he swear he hates it but how can he be mad when you're oh so good at doing hair ?
kiss your nose a lot ? can explain, don't ask
also i think he'd actually be super interested in the gossip in the Aphrodite cabin
like he pretends to be annoyed by it but wdym that couple broke up ??? didn't they just get together ???
he writes it down in a notebook then asks you about it later on down the line just to get updates !
sorry if this wasn't my best work i swear anything after this WILL be better🙏🏾 after i got this req i qas flooded with schoolwork and whatnot so :(
Nemesis Cabin Headcanons
Tyche and Nemesis kids either love or hate each other
Nemesis and Hypnos cabins are partners in crime
Nemesis cabin has a Hephaestus cabin minion. One kid that messed with them too many times and now is so scared they do anything the Nemesis cabin says.
Daughters of Nemesis tend to become hunters of Artemis or they join the Amazons.
Statue of Ethan Nakamura in their cabin.
Their fatal flaw tends to be holding grudges, but some of them equate their worth with their problem solving abilities. If they cannot find a solution that is fair to everyone, they break. Without balance they are nothing but a shell of a person.
Big rule followers as well as enforcers. If everyone is expected to do something, no one is an exception.
They can use someone’s wrongdoings against them; flood their mind with guilt from what they did even if they didn’t think it was wrong. Essentially breaking the worst of their enemies.
The entire cabin working together would absolutely stand a chance against a god. Maybe not Hades, but the worst gods. The rapists and murderers.
Would die for their heroes without a second thought. (Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Leo, Piper, Reyna, Nico, Hazel, Frank, Ethan, Grover. Etc.)
“Is it really blackmail if what they did was worse than blackmail?” “They’re just repaying their debt to society!” “I am the new society”
Chthonic Gods' Cabins Headcanons
Children of Hades, Persephone, Nyx, Hypnos, Nemesis, Hecate, Thanatos, Eris, Geras, Selene, etc. Any God that lives in the underworld or is a child of God that lives in the underworld.
They refer to themselves as Hellspawn endearingly.
They are so much more loyal to each other than to children of other Gods. They're all united by the underworld.
They have sleepover in the Hades Cabin. Chiron doesn't know, and he wouldn't allow it if he did. The Hecate Cabin masks their presence so others can see, hear, or sense them.
They treat children of Hades like royalty. They're all the pretty princesses of the underworld. They put a pink, fuzzy crown on Nico one time. He didn't particularly enjoy it, but he didn't stop them.
They make homemade candles and hold rituals in cemeteries and abandoned playgrounds.
They always make sure Hazel is welcome at camp. She is a queen. She can't be uncomfortable or unhappy at camp half blood.
They held a grand funeral for Bianca. She has a beautiful burial plot. Fresh flowers every week.
Sometimes they go frolicking through the underworld, holding hands and skipping. Purely for the irony.
They kind of consider Will one of them? They're a bit iffy about him because he's a son of Apollo, the sun god, but they appreciate how happy he makes Nico.
The underworld children that can summon spirits (Mostly Hades children. Children of Hypnos can make dead people appear in dreams. Few children of Nemesis can control vengeful spirits. Few children of Ares can call upon dead soldiers who lost their war. Thanatos children.) will gossip about the spirits they spoke to. They'll also work together to try to summon a lost friend or family member, to give one of them some form of closure.
The Hades cabin leads their little clique. Planning outings and meetings.
The Hypnos cabin regulates their dreams, making sure everyone sleeps relatively okay. They keep their dreams not terrible for the most part.
Children of Selene will use their powers to radiate moonlight, effectively making other children of the underworld slightly more powerful.
Children of Nemesis act as their regulators, their judges. If someone wronged one of them, the entire Nemesis cabin will get revenge for them.
Children of Nyx are their guards. All they have to do is look at someone, and they'll think a million times before they even interact with one of them.
Children of Persephone will grow flowers and fruit for them. They keep their lives bright and meaningful. A symbol of peace, even if only in short periods.
Children of Hecate will enchant anything for them. Magical weapons mean more security. And Tarot readings. A small glimpse into the future will calm them down so much.
Children of Geras will give them wisdom. Old age comes with experience. And experience leads to knowledge. An excellent guide for young, inexperienced demigods.
Children of Eris will remind everyone of what someone has done. Never forgetting someone's blatant wrongdoings. They warn everyone when they hear about something someone has done, trying to keep them out of trouble.
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they were heroes in the end
that’s all that matters, isn’t it?
Imagine the heartache of the demigods at Camp Half Blood whose friends left to join Kronos. Did the departed whisper goodbye? Try and convince their friends to join them? Or did those left behind wake up one morning to find the empty bed of another sibling? To see another empty spot on the bench at breakfast? No warning. No note. No need to wonder, because everyone knows where they went. Did the Hermes kids wake up one morning and realize that their cabin, the home of unclaimed demigods, felt spacious for the first time in years?
At the battle of Manhattan, how did it feel to look across enemy lines and see your sibling? A best friend? A crush? A familiar face from across the campfire?
Did Kronos’ army help you feel at home on your first day at camp? Did they carry you to the infirmary after a nasty game of capture the flag? Were they your first kiss? Did they place a steadying hand on your back as you climbed up the rock wall, making sure you were safe?
As demigods on both sides of the war drew their swords, was it like looking in a mirror? How must it have felt, to be prepared to fight and kill someone just like you?
See, this is why I always wanted a sequel or a series of what happened with Alabaster after that first story. Cuz it's so interesting to see his point of view on things and it would have been amazing to see him learn and grow and change. Also it would have been interesting to see how he would have been affected by the war with Gaia, even if it's indirectly. I will go on my knees to beg for a series like that.
The Battle of Manhattan didn’t go the way the Fandom thinks it did; we need to address the “massacre” of the Titan Army!
The Battle of Manhattan is the most pivotal event of the first series. And we see the entire thing exclusively from Percy’s point of view. He takes us through the thickest of the fight from one end of Manhattan Island to the next, and shows us a desperate fight of good against evil.
But we have another point of view for the battle, one that comes from the demigods of the Titan army, and one that informs us of a far different, darker side to the conflict. One where an entire army of children is massacred by the victorious Olympians, without a thought or even a care. It’s a shocking, confronting side of the struggle that most fans don’t seem to be aware of.
But it’s also completely inaccurate.
Now I love Alabaster; he’s one of my favorite characters, and I want nothing but the best for him. But he’s a demonstrably unreliable narrator. I don’t even mean that he’s intentionally dishonest; but he’s very badly misinformed about what actually happened. And that gives the fandom three major misconceptions that need to be cleared up.
Alabaster gets the casualty ratio for the battle wrong (the Olympians had more than he thinks).
The Titan army has far fewer demigods than most fans think (not much more than 50 at the most).
Alabaster does say that there was a “massacre” at the end of the battle, but most of the TA demigods had deserted before that!
Part 1) The Olympians Have High Casualties
“It was a massacre. If I remember right, my mother told me that Camp Half-Blood and its allies had sixteen casualties total. We had hundreds.” (pg 219)
This is the only time we get a specific number for Olympian casualties, but it just doesn’t match up with what actually happens in the books. Looking back at all the deaths we do see:
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one [Hellhound] got hold of an Apollo camper and dragged him away. I didn’t see what happened to him next. I didn’t want to know. (pg 182) -1
Michael Yew -1
A young dragon had appeared in Harlem, and a dozen wood nymphs died before the monster was finally defeated. (pg 203) -12
“We lost twenty satyrs against some giants at Fort Washington,” [Grover] said, his voice trembling. (pg 203) -20 Giants smashed through trees, and naiads faded as their life sources were destroyed. (pg 243) -1< Enemy archers returned fire, and a Hunter fell from a high branch. (pg 244) -1 Too many of our friends lay wounded in the streets. Too many were missing. (pg 257) -1< The flagpoles were hung with horrible trophies –helmets and armor pieces from defeated campers. (pg 282) -1< The Drakon lashed out, swallowing three californian centaurs in one gulp before I could even get close. (pg 288) -3 Poison spewed everywhere, melting centaurs into dust along with quite a few monsters, (pg 288) -1< The Drakon snapped up one Ares camper in a gulp. (pg 291) -1
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Leneus -1
a body covered in the golden burial shroud of Apollo’s cabin. I didn’t know who was underneath. I don't want to find out. (pg 303) -1
Oddly enough, we actually miss the moment that was probably the worst for the Olympians, the final push by Kronos that breaks through their line. After Clarisse slays the drakon and the monsters are driven back again, Percy and co. take the opportunity to go up to Olympus. Percy gives Pandora’s Pithos to Hestia, and then contacts Poseidon via his throne. It’s just as he finishes that Thalia comes up and tells them that Kronos is coming again, but they miss the fighting.
By the time we got to the street, it was too late. Campers and Hunters lay wounded on the ground. Clarisse must have lost a fight with a Hyperborean giant, because she and her chariot were frozen in a block of ice. The centaurs were nowhere to be seen. Either they’d panicked and ran, or they’d been disintegrated. (pg 312) -<500
And finally, Kronos does kill some people on Olympus itself.
A few minor gods and nature spirits had tried to stop Kronos. What remained of them was strewn about the road: shattered armor, ripped clothing, swords and spears broken in half. (pg 322) -1<
The specific deaths we have mentioned during the battle amount to 48 at the very least; and that is an extremely conservative estimate that only includes the deaths Percy has the time and presence of mind to witness in all the carnage. Considering how many others must have happened, factoring the sudden disappearance of the 500 centaurs in particular, it was likely in the hundreds. And most of the centaurs probably ran at the end, but even that would have involved heavy casualties.
It’s true that actual demigods were a smaller fraction of Olympian forces, and so would have made up just a fraction of losses. The number 16 might actually make sense if it were just the number of campers lost, but that’s not what Hecate said, she said total.
It might be significant that Hecate is the actual source of this misinformation. Would she have reason to lie to her own son, or might she herself be out of the loop. Right now, we just can’t know.
And she might be underestimating Titan Army losses too. Considering how many times a wave of several hundred monsters tear into Manhattan, and get thrown back by the Olympians only to return later with no discernable drop in numbers, until the army is finally routed entirely, it wouldn’t surprise me if the TA actually took a thousand or more casualties. But those would be overwhelmingly monsters, because:
Part 2) Less Than Fifty Demigods Were Even In The Titan Army
To prove that there could not possibly have been hundreds of TA demigods killed at Manhattan, we need look no farther than Alabaster's own account.
“There was a war between the gods and titans last summer and most half-bloods–demigods like me–fought for the Olympians.” (pg 218)
So the TA could not have had more demigods than the Olympians; and they had about a hundred. There are forty campers to start with, who are quickly joined by the Hunters, who now have thirty members. Then, in the last hours of the fight, they are finally joined by the Ares cabin, which brings another thirty (jeez Ares, you animal!). So Olympus has an even hundred demigods. (The Hunters aren’t necessarily all demigods by birth, but I don’t think Alabaster would make a distinction based on that.)
So the TA has less than a hundred demigods, significantly less. I would argue they probably had no more than fifty because that lines up with the only solid numbers we ever get for them. And every time the TA is described, demigods are a clear minority. First, look at the foes Percy encounters when he infiltrates the Princess Andromeda:
I saw monsters patrolling the upper decks of the ship–dracaenae snake-women, hellhounds, giants, and the humanoid seal-demons known as telkhines . . . . . “I don’t care what your nose says!” snarled a half-human half-dog voice—a telkhine. “The last time you smelled half-blood, it turned out to be a meatloaf sandwich!” “Meatloaf sandwiches are good!” a second voice snarled . . . . . a telkhine was hunched over a console . . . . . a half dozen telkhines were tromping down the stairs . . . . . past another telkhine . . . . . And in the fountain squatted a giant crab . . . . . a couple of dracaenae slithered across my path . . . . . As I was running up the stairwell, a kid charged down . . . . . Laistrygonian giants filed in on either side of the swimming pool . . . . . demigod archers appeared on the roof . . . . . two hellhounds leapt down . . . . . The crowed of monsters parted . . . . . Giants jeered. Dracaenae hissed with laughter . . . . . throwing monsters off their feet . . . . .I knew him, of course: Ethan Nakamura . . . . . two giants lumbered forward . . . . . Panicked monsters surged backward . . . . . one of the dracaenae hissed . . . . . I pushed through a crowd of monsters . . . . . Monsters yelled at me from above.
That was a quick summary of all the enemies Percy and Charlie encounter on the Princess Andromeda, I’m not crazy enough to try and write the whole chapter. But it’s pretty clear there are only a few demigods amid dozens of monsters. We hear the same thing from Poseidon later, that “there were only a few demigod warriors aboard that ship”; we might question whether or not Poseidon is a trustworthy source, but the evidence does back him up.
When we finally get to the battle, the disparity of demigod numbers in the TA is again evident:
The bronze image showed Long Island Sound near La Guardia. A fleet of a dozen speed boats raced through the dark water toward Manhattan. Each boat was packed with demigods in full Greek armor. At the back of the lead boat, a purple banner emblazoned with a black scythe flapped in the night wind. I’d never seen that design before, but it wasn’t hard to figure out: the battle flag of Kronos. “Scan the perimeter of the island,” I said. “Quick.” Annabeth shifted the scene south to the harbor. A Staten Island Ferry was plowing through the waves near Ellis Island. The deck was crowded with dracaenae and a whole pack of hellhounds. Swimming in front of the ship was a pod of marine mammals. At first I thought they were dolphins. Then I saw their doglike faces and swords strapped to their waists, and I realized they were telkhines—sea demons. The scene shifted again: the Jersey shore, right at the entrance of the Lincoln Tunnel. A hundred assorted monsters were marching past the lanes of stopped traffic: giants with clubs, rogue Cyclopes, a few fire-spitting dragons, and just to rub it in, a World War II-era Sherman tank, pushing cars out of the way as it rumbled into the tunnel. (pg 167)
Here we see the first wave of the Titan Army as a three pronged attack (which Percy says on the next page collectively numbered at least 300) and only one of the units has demigods. It’s the one that Kronos leads, so it’s probably meant to be a more elite unit, at least at first.
We don’t know for sure how many there are. Speedboats are usually made to carry 4-6 people so a dozen would be possible 48 to 72. Considering Alabaster says there were significantly less demigods in the TA than the Olympians, I would guess it’s on the lower end; and that does match another number we see in a moment.
This fleet never reaches Manhattan, since Percy bribes the East River to swamp their boats. Those who say many TA demigods were killed in the battle might point to this as Percy causing a bunch of kids to drown; but Alabaster never mentions a mass drowning in his narrative of the battle, and he would have been on one of those boats, so it’s safe to say they just went for a swim.
(And Kronos was with them, which means that a very angry titan lord was suddenly pitched into the river and had to swim with the rest of them. That’s not really relevant, I just want everyone to know that.)
Percy is then immediately told that “Another army is marching over the Williamsburg bridge.” This fourth prong of the attack, led by the Minotaur, also has no demigods in it.
An entire phalanx of dracaenae marched in the lead . . . About a hundred more monsters marched behind them. (pg 182) More monsters surged forward —snakes and giants and telkines—but the Minotaur roared at them, and they backed off. (pg 186)
But more monsters keep advancing because by the time Percy kills the minotaur and the demigods charge and rout the whole group, it had grown to 200
Finally, the monsters turned and fled—about twenty left alive out of two hundred. (pg 188)
So the grand total for the first TA attack was 500 soldiers or more, with only 40-70 of them demigods. And after the monsters on the Williamsburg bridge retreat, those demigods show back up.
Then I saw the crowd at the base of the bridge. The retreating monsters were running straight toward their reinforcements. It was a small group, maybe thirty or forty demigods in battle armor, mounted on skeletal horses. One of them held a purple banner with the black scythe design. The lead horseman trotted forward. He took off his helm, and I recognized Kronos himself, his eyes like molten gold. (pg1 188)
This is the only time we get anywhere close to a specific number when TA demigods are concerned. It would have been the same group that was sunk in the East River, who then had to swim for Brooklynn; which is where they are now trying to take the Williamsburg bridge. This reinforces the idea that the number of demigods in the boats was only a little more than forty, since they would not have suffered more than a few injuries in the sinkings.
I’m going to come back to this moment later to demonstrate how Percy refrains from killing other demigods, even in his Achilles state, but the other important thing to note is that this is the last time Kronos organizes his demigods into a unit that he leads personally. After they fail to break through here, Kronos just has them take on a secondary role, and puts his faith in bigger and bigger monsters to lead the charge instead.
The Titan Army units on Long Island then spend the evening marching the long way around Manhattan (for some reason) because they make camp for the night in New Jersey, at Medusa’s old lair. Percy again describes demigods as the small minority.
Hundreds of tents and fires surrounded the property. Mostly I saw monsters, but there were some human mercenaries in combat fatigues and demigods in armor too. A purple-and-black banner hung outside the emporium, guarded by two huge blue Hyperboreans.
And this is only part of the Titan army, because there are more troops north of Manhattan.
“Tell my brother Hyperion to move our main force south into Central Park. The halfbloods will be in such disarray they will not be able to defend themselves.” (pg 237)
The army that marches into central park is bigger than the one camped in New Jersey. And it is made up exclusively of monsters.
At the north end of the reservoir, the enemy vanguard broke through the woods—a warrior in golden armor leading a battalion of Laistrygonian giants with huge bronze axes. Hundreds of other monsters poured out behind them. (pg 243)
There is not a single mention of a demigod. However they’re already joining the fight in other places.
When it flew above the rooftops, I could see fires here and there around the city. It looked like my friends were having a rough time. Kronos was attacking on several fronts. (pg 251)
After Percy kills the Clazmonian Sow, the momentum of the battle shifts. With his main force failing to deliver a knockout punch, Kronos has his remaining armies spread out to put equal pressure on the entire defensive line, and catch it in a massive envelopment.
Midtown was a war zone. We flew over little skirmishes everywhere. A giant was ripping up trees in Bryant Park while dryads pelted him with nuts. Outside the Waldorf Astoria, a bronze statue of Benjamin Franklin was whacking a hellhound with a rolled-up newspaper. A trio of Hephaestus campers fought a squad of dracaenae in the middle of Rockefeller Center . . . . . The hunters had set up a defensive line on 37th, just three blocks north of Olympus. To the east on Park Avenue, Jake Mason and some other Hephaestus campers were leading an army of statues against the enemy. To the west, the Demeter cabin and Grover’s nature spirits had turned Sixth Avenue into a jungle that was hampering a squadron of Kronos’s demigods . . . . . I spotted a familiar silver owl banner in the southeast corner of the fight, 33rd at the Park Avenue tunnel. Annabeth and two of her siblings were holding back a Hyperborean giant . . . . . The next hour was a blur. I fought like I’d never fought before—wading into legions of dracaenae, taking out dozens of telkines with every strike, destroying empousai and knocking out enemy demigods . . . . . At one point Grover was next to me, bonking snake women over the head with his cudgel. Then he disappeared in the crowd, and it was Thalia at my side, driving monsters back with the power of her magic shield. Mrs. O’Leary bounded out of nowhere, picked up a Laistrygonian giant in her mouth and flung him like a Frisbee. Annabeth used her invisibility cap to sneak behind enemy lines. Whenever a monster disintegrated for no apparent reason with a surprised look on his face, I knew Annabeth had been there . . . . . Kronos was riding towards us on a golden chariot. A dozen Laistrygonian giants bore torches before him. Two Hyperboreans carried his black-and-purple banners . . .
“THEN THE WINGED HUSSAARSSS AARRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIVVVVVVED” SABATON BLASTS ON ELECTRIC GUITAR
Sorry, sorry, I mean then Chiron and the 500 centaurs arrived!
Kronos’s forces looked as confused as we were. Giants lowered their clubs. Dracaenae hissed. Even Kronos’s honor guard looked uneasy. Then, to our left, a hundred monsters cried out at once. Kronos’s entire northern flank surged forward. I thought we were doomed, but they didn’t attack. They ran straight past us and crashed into their southern allies . . . a shower of arrows arced over our heads and slammed into the enemy, vaporizing hundreds of demons. (pg 258)
This is how the second phase of the battle ends. And during the entire night, out of a sea of monsters (hehe) we only see one unit of TA demigods. And it’s the last time we get any reference to them participating in the battle.
After being driven south, the TA apparently did another long march, because they make camp northeast of Manhattan.
The Titan army had set up camp all around the U.N. complex. The flagpoles were hung with horrible trophies—helmets and armor from defeated campers. All along First Avenue, giants sharpened their axes. Telkines repaired armor at makeshift forges. (pg 282)
Ethan is the only demigod mentioned this time. And he doesn’t appear to take part in the next attack, aside from releasing the drakon. We get less of a description of the enemy army this time, but it’s all monsters.
The rest of the battle wasn’t going well. The centaurs had panicked under the onslaught of giants and demons. An occasional orange camp T-shirt appeared in the sea of fighting, but quickly disappeared. (pg 289)
Of course the Ares cabin arrives, the drakon kills Silena, and Clarisse kills it. It’s another rout for the TA.
The monsters retreated toward 35th Street. (pg 298) There was no answer from the enemy. Slowly, they began to fall back behind a dracaenae shield wall, while Clarisse drove in circles around Fifth Avenue, daring anyone to cross her path. (pg 299)
After that we have the final phase of the battle, when the Titan Army finally breaks through the Olympian lines. But once again, we have no reference to demigods other than Ethan.
The Titan Army ringed the building, standing maybe twenty feet from the doors. Kronos’s vanguard was in the lead: Ethan Nakamura, the dracaenae queen in her green armor, and two Hyperboreans. I didn’t see Prometheus. (pg 312) “ROWWF!” Mrs. O’Leary bounded toward me, ignoring the growling monsters on either side. (pg 315) There were thousands of [skeletan soldiers], and as they emerged, the titan’s monsters got jumpy and started to back up. (pg 315) The armies of the dead clashed with the Titan’s monsters. Fifth Avenue exploded into absolute chaos. Mortals screamed and ran for cover. Demeter waved her hand and an entire column of giants turned into a wheat field. Persephone changed the dracaenae spears into sunflowers. Nico slashed and hacked his way through the enemy, trying to protect pedestrians as best as he could. My parents ran toward me , dodging monsters and zombies, but there was nothing I could do to help them. (pg 318).
The fight continues like this, until Typhon is destroyed, and the defenders are joined by the gods, and Poseidon’s army of cyclopes. It’s then that the Titan army is “massacred.” Most of the fandom thinks that the demigods were killed too, but that’s not the case.
PART 3: The TA Demigods Deserted Before The Final Battle
As Alabaster remembers it:
the war didn’t go our way. I fought on the battlefield against the enemy, but most of our allies ran. Kronos himself marched on Olympus, only to be killed by a son of Poseidon. After Kronos’s death, the Olympian gods smashed any remaining resistance. It was a massacre. “We weren’t all destroyed,” Alabaster said. “Most of the remaining half-bloods fled or were captured. They were so demoralized they joined the enemy. (pg 219)
When you look at this narrative, and compare it to The Last Olympian, it’s actually more complicated than the TA demigods simply getting massacred.
Al says that while he was fighting, most of his allies ran. That’s odd, because we don’t see the relative numbers of monsters go down at any point. What we do see, is the number of demigods go down.
As I illustrated in Part 2, the Battle of Manhattan has four distinct phases. Phase one, that ends when the Williamsburg Bridge is destroyed. The second phase, that starts when Hyperion attacks Central Park, and ends when the Party Ponies arrive. The third phase, which is all about the attack of the drakon. And the final phase, when Kronos breaks through.
We only see TA demigods in the first two phases; they attack the Williamsburg Bridge in the first phase as part of the Kronos’s main force, then in the second phase they’re relegated to a supporting role by hitting the defenders western flank. And that’s the last we see of them. After that, Etahn is the only demigod left standing in the TA. Alabaster must be somewhere in the background, as a retcon, but there’s no one beyond the two of them.
You might think that they’ve just already been killed by this point. After all, Percy blows up the Princess Andromeda, then goes into an Achilles Curse fueled berserker mode several times in the first two phases of the battle. Surely he must have killed hundreds of kids, right?
No, not even close.
Maybe not any at all.
On the Princess Andromeda Percy finds lots of monsters, but the number of demigods he finds could be counted on one hand. And the first one he meets; Percy spares him and tells him to get his friends and evacuate. We can’t prove whether or not any demigods were killed in the blast; we just know that the two we can confirm were still on board, Ethan and Alabaster, both survived. And when Alabaster recounts it, he doesn’t mention any bad losses at this point.
As for the Curse of Achilles, it doesn’t send Percy into anything like the berserker state some people think of it as. It might seem like that when Percy lets loose on the Williamsburg Bridge:
You’re going to ask how the whole “invincible” thing worked: if I magically dodged every weapon, or if the weapon hit me and just didn’t harm me. Honestly, I don’t remember. All I knew was that I wasn’t going to let these monsters invade my hometown. I sliced through armor like it was made of paper. Snake women exploded. Hellhounds melted to shadow. I slashed and stabbed and whirled, and I might have even laughed once or twice—a crazy laugh that scared me as much as it did my enemies. (pg 188)
But when push comes to shove, Percy can control the Curse, and what he does during it. That last moment was when he was fighting nothing but monsters. But when the TA demigods arrived, Percy pulled his punches like he always does.
I tried to wound his men, not kill. That slowed me down, but these weren’t monsters. They were demigods who’d fallen under Kronos’s spell. I couldn’t see faces under their helmets, but some of them had probably been my friends. I slashed the legs off their horses and made the skeletal mounts disintegrate. After the first few demigods took a spill, the rest figured out they’d better dismount and fight me on foot. (pg 189)
Percy is still in complete control of what he’s doing; even when the worst happens.
“Annabeth!” I turned in time to see her fall, clutching her arm. A demigod with a bloody knife stood over her . . . . . I locked eyes with the enemy demigod. He wore an eye patch under his helmet: Ethan Nakamura, the son of Nemesis. Somehow he’d survived the explosion on the Princess Andromeda. I slammed him in the face with my sword hilt so hard I dented his helm. (pg 190)
Percy really has all the reason to hate Ethan at this point; after Percy spared his life in Antaeus’ arena, Ethan still joined the side that had been ready to write off his death, and deliberately helped Kronos achieve his physical resurrection. Because of that Percy’s friends and even-Riordan-doesn’t-know how many mortals are going to die in the next few days; and on top of all that, Ethan just stabbed the love of his life.
And all Percy does is knock him out, maybe a little harder than necessary. He makes no effort to kill him. Those aren’t the actions of a berserker with no control.
In fact, the knife turns out to be poisonsed. And Ethan now has an idea where Percy’s Achilles Spot is, and might tell Kronos. And even after all of that, Percy doesn’t seriously think about killing him as an option.
“I’ll bonk him on the head harder next time.” (pg 241)
But more on topic, there is no reason to think the TA demigods have particularly high casualties in this phase of the battle, though they have a few:
Our archers shot a volley, bringing down several of the enemy, but they just kept riding. (pg 189)
Though it’s vague if they are hitting the riders or the horses. In fact, it might actually be Kronos who’s responsible for more of their losses.
[Kronos] struck the bridge with the butt of his scythe, and a wave of pure force blasted me backward. Cars went careening. Demigods—even Luke’s own men—were blown off the edge of the bridge. (pg 192)
I will die on the hill that between this, Ethan, and other implied moments, Kronos killed more of his own demigods than Percy did.
In the second phase of the battle, when we see the TA demigods attack again, they’re in a very different situation.
To the west, the Demeter cabin and Grover’s nature spirits had turned Sixth Avenue into a jungle that was hampering a squadron of Kronos’s demigods. (pg 255)
This is the only thing we see the TA demigods do as a group in this phase; and they’re fighting people who are using very defensive tactics, more hampering than harmful. They’re not likely to lose many fighters. A few of them do cross Percy’s path in the chaos, but even at his most Achilles fueled chaos he never loses control.
The next hour was a blur. I fought like I’d never fought before—wading into legions of dracaenae, taking out dozens of telkines with every strike, destroying empousai and knocking out enemy demigods. (pg 257)
He talks about killing monsters, but always “knocking out” demigods. Finally, that phase of the battle ends when the centaurs show up. Did the centaurs kill any demigods? After all, Percy said they “trampled everything in their path.”
Well the only report we get on the TA demigods puts them to the west. When the centaurs attack, they come out of the north east and drive the enemy south, and start off a wave of panic that ripples down the enemy lines ahead of them. The demigods were probably running before any centaur reached them, and might have had better chances of being trampled by their own monsters.
So if the TA demigods aren’t taking many losses, where do they all go in the third and fourth phases, when we don’t see any except Ethan?
They desert.
Alabaster: “I fought on the battlefield against the enemy, but most of our allies ran.”
I think the demigods of the TA signed up with no real idea of what would happen when they fought the Olympians. They thought they were going to have a sure victory.
Chris Rodriguez said it in SOM:
“I hear they got two more [drakon] coming,” [Chris] said. “They keep arriving at this rate, oh, man—no contest!” (pg 122)
Alabaster C. Torrington said it in SOM:
“Kronos wasn’t supposed to lose! You said the odds of winning were in the Titan’s favor! You told me Camp Half-Blood would be destroyed!” (pg 196)
And they probably weren’t well prepared for the war either. At one point Luke says they will fight well because he has been training the army. But most of them join because they are the children of minor gods who swear for Kronos, and that doesn’t happen until the end of BOTL, after Luke has been possessed. Most of the TA demigods never got training from him; including their two highest ranking members, Ethan and Alabaster. It’s no wonder most of them weren’t prepared.
As I was running up the stairwell, a kid charged down. He looked like he had just woken up from a nap. His armor was half on. He drew his sword and yelled, “Kronos!” but he sounded more scared than angry . . . . No way was I going to hurt him. I didn’t need a weapon for this. I stepped inside his strike and grabbed his wrist, slamming it against the wall. His sword clattered out of his hand. (pg 18)
And the demigods might not hold much loyalty to Kronos, a violent and temperamental eldritch horror!
Ethan moistened his lips. “He’s still fighting you, isn’t he? Luke—” “Nonesense,” Kronos spat. “Repeat that lie, and I will cut out your tongue. The boy’s soul has been crushed.” (pg 236) “But, my lord,” Ethan said. “Your regeneration.” Kronos pointed at Ethan, and the demigod froze. “Does it seem,” Kronos hissed. “that I need to regenerate?” Ethan didn’t respond. Kind of hard to do when you’re immobilized in time. Kronos snapped his fingers and Ethan collapsed. (pg 284)
And the demigods might have witnessed a darker side to his army that we didn’t.
Back on my first visit to the Princess Andromeda, my old enemy Luke had kept dazed tourists on board for show, shrouded in Mist so they didn’t realize they were on a monster infested ship. Now i didn’t see any sign of tourists. I hated to think what had happened to them, but I kind of doubted they’d been allowed to go home with their bingo winnings. (pg 15)
So, the demigods deserted. After the second phase of the battle we don’t see any at the Titan camp at the U.N., or taking any part in the last phases of the battle. They had been fed false promises, were treated badly, and were being sent against enemies out of their league.
“Most of the remaining half-bloods fled or were captured. They were so demoralized they joined the enemy.”
All except two, Alabaster and Ethan. The son of Nemesis, who has already given so much and is so desperate to see something good and fair come out of it; and the son of Hecate, who was promised victory, and is desperate to avenge the death of his siblings. Ironically, the two demigods who stayed loyal to Kronos the longest, did so because they had faith in their godly parents.
So if there was no “massacre” of TA demigods at the end of the Battle of Manhattan, why is Alabaster so insistent that there was one?
“Yes,” Alabaster said bitterly. “Camp Half-Blood decided that they would accept any children of the minor gods. They would build us cabins at camp and pretend that they didn’t just blindly massacre us for resisting. (pg 220) “But I’ll never bow to the Olympian gods after the atrocities they committed. Their followers are blind. I’d never set foot in their camp, and if I did, it would only be to give that son of Poseidon what he deserves.” (pg 221)
Well, it’s because the children of Hecate suffered the most in the war. She didn’t have as many children as other gods, and Alabaster was the only one to fight in it and survive. He claims he convinced “most” of his siblings to join; but if Hecate does not have many children, and he is the only survivor of the battle, how are there still enough of his siblings to decently fill a cabin, it’s likely “most” was only slightly more than half. The sad irony is that the fact that the smaller group of demigods had more casualties than the larger ones (and it sounds like not just more proportionately, but more in actual numbers), also kind of disproves that there could have been a large massacre that affected them all.
Alabaster was a scared, frustrated, exhausted kid; who convinced his siblings to fight in a destructive war, and was the only one of them to survive. To him, that is probably always going to feel like a brutal massacre.
Percy: LUKE I SWEAR IF YOU DONT SHUT THE FUCK UP I WILL TELL DANNY DEVITO OF YOUR CRIMES!
Ethan: ?????????????????????????????
Luke: *gasp* You wouldn’t!!!
(Inspired by a list of ominous threats)
—(don't) go.
you started doubting your decision to join kronos. emotions were high when you confronted ethan.
pjo ethan nakamura x reader.
CONVICTION WAS A SCARCE THING TO BE HAD, especially in the face of conflict. Neither side desired to yield, admit their wrongs. Both wished to triumph. To those without a side, that level of certainty wavered often, seesawing back and forth until they lost their balance.
A couple of months ago, you boarded Princess Andromeda and swore yourself to Kronos' cause. It wasn't as hard of a choice as you had thought it would be. You were unclaimed, lost, and the thought of belonging somewhere was an oasis in the desert.
An oasis could be a figment of your imagination—a parched hallucination. It could also be an empty promise. The gods might not be amazing role models, but they never did promise you anything. Kronos, Luke and their entourage had promised you everything—everything that was too good to be true.
“Are you not tired?” you asked, absentmindedly twirling a knife in your hand. The blade was celestial bronze and it was made to pierce your peers' skin and shed blood on the battlefield.
Ethan, who seemed as if he hadn't slept in a week, shook his head. He plopped down against a tree to your right, facing you. Closing his eyes, he murmured something about getting some rest. His armour was worn, like yours, and he was clenching and unclenching his fists to stop them from shaking.
“I saw someone die today,” you spoke, feeling the air condensing in your throat. “Not a monster, a half-blood. He was from camp.”
He tensed. “Wars have casualties.”
“I know that. It's just.... I can't imagine willing to die for this cause, you know?”
Ethan's eye narrowed, but he stayed silent.
“The people from camp, they risk their lives to protect something important to them, but what about us? We fight with our lives for a vengeful titan to destroy,” you mused, running your hand over the surface of your shield that lay on your lap.
“Why did you join us, then?”
You didn't like the way he said us, as if he was part of Kronos' inner circle—like he had shared the destructive desire to tear Olympus down brick by brick, without a care of what it would cost. You didn't like the possibility of losing the son of Nemesis to Kronos, the way Luke had lost himself.
“You're here.” You shrugged, downplaying his part in your decision making. “I share your sentiment about being unclaimed and how unfair the treatment towards the minor gods is, but I don't think he shares that with us.”
Your eyes flit to Luke's pacing body. The way he walked and carried himself seemed all wrong. His eyes glowed golden, emphasizing that feeling of looking into an uncanny valley when you look at him. He was once your sparring partner, a friend, someone you looked up to, but what happened in the past couple of years had chipped away parts of himself. No more was the charismatic leader of Hermes' cabin. A husk had taken his place instead.
“Don't.” He looked around. “If any of them hears—”
“It's okay, Ethan. They are too far away to hear us,” you said.
He looked rather unconvinced. Sighing, he crawled his way to your side. He pressed his back against your tree, the proximity brought a welcome warmth inside your chest.
“You shouldn't be saying these things,” he half-whispered, half-yelled. “You're going to get yourself killed.”
“Can't you see how wrong this is? Fearing your leader?”
“A means to an end, __.”
“What's the end, then, Ethan? Olympus falls. New York falls with it. What will happen to us?”
He didn't say anything, studying the camp necklace that you had tied around your wrist as a bracelet. His finger traced the beads—three beads. You had been there for three years, unclaimed, thrown into Hermes' Cabin with so many others. Abandoned, like him. His heart clenched. He didn't know why you were siding with them. Olympians who did not care for you. They used demigods to do things for them, but never bothered to make an effort. They sat on their thrones like kings and queens while the smaller gods faded to the background.
He moved his hand to his eye patch, tracing the edge of it, before letting his hand fall on his lap.
Shaking his head, he said, “Go to them, then.”
You blinked. “What?”
“Go. If you really hate it here, why don't you go to them? Fight a losing cause. I don't—”
“You don't what?” you snapped. You had left the camp behind because Ethan was your closest friend. You had known him since he first arrived at camp, and had stuck by him ever since. You had each other's backs, in and out of battle. Now, he was telling you to go, like all those times held no significance to him.
“I don't care anymore.”
Maybe Ethan needed sleep desperately. Kronos had been grilling him ever since he almost struck Percy with his poisoned dagger. The envoy was making great progress, too, but at the end of the day he was still part human, and he was tired. He wanted to sleep, instead of having this discussion with you. Besides, he was in too deep. Ethan couldn't change his mind now.
“Maybe I will,” you replied curtly. Strapping your knife to your arm, you pushed yourself off of the ground, but Ethan caught your arm and pulled you down before he even thought about it.
“Let go.”
“I didn't mean it,” he sighed, closing his eye and leaning his head against the tree.
“What do you mean, then, Ethan?”
“I don't know!”
“Is there anything you know?”
“What do you think?”
You rolled your eyes. “I'm leaving, Ethan.”
He opened his eye, snapping his head to look at you. His hand tightened around your wrist, pulling you closer to him. A desperate attempt to ground you there. He couldn't see you walk away to join the camp. He still truly believed that the camp was fighting a hopeless war. Fourty campers and decreasing against a whole cavalry of halfbloods, giants, monsters and titans. Fourty campers who sought to protect against an envoy of destruction. The odds weren't in their favour.
“I know that I can't make it through another day without you!”
You stared at him. He was a hairsbreadth away from your face. This close, his eyes were almost black. You gulped, your eyes flitting for a second to his lips. He saw it, too, and his frown slowly turned to a lopsided smile.
“I know that I like you. I've liked you for a while now.”
You inhaled sharply. Your eyes wandered anywhere but his face, but it was as if you were drawn to him.
“I know that I want to kiss you.”
He leaned in slowly, like he was giving you a chance to pull back and leave, but you didn't. Your eyes fluttered close and your heart skipped a bit when he finally kissed you.
It was brief, innocent, and tentative. He pulled away, blushing furiously, but slipped his hand into yours.
“Anything, uh,” he coughed. “Anything you want me to know?”
You bit back a smile. “I like you, too.”
“Good,” he smiled, self-consciously running his free hand through his hair. “We should get some rest.”
The both of you drifted off to sleep that morning, battle worn from the night, ready to charge off into another when you woke up. The world had felt smaller when he put his arms around you, like there weren't a pack of Laistrygonian giants not so far away from you.
You dreamt—a pleasant one, of getting ice cream and riding bikes around New York with Ethan. No monsters. No gods. No wars.
It was the best sleep you had in years.
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You know what's even more gut wrenching?THERE BEING KIDS AS YOUNG AS SIX YEARS OLD In this war. And the newbies who just entered the camp Ind are months away from war (because not everyone is a percy jackson who can fight the for if war at 12 and win) who think they would be finally recognised by their parents. The trio thalia and nico got rewarded. What about the others? AND THEM HAVING TRAUMA FOR LIFE. Imagine them not knowing what the hell is going on but their brothers sisters and feeends are fighting and them getting hurt too. Imagine a kid. A LITERAL FUCKING KID WHO EAS SUPPOSED TO FRESHLY ENTER/GRADUATE FUCKING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL going to war with weapons twice their size.
Imagine these kids fighting wildly to protect their siblings and their goal of getting recognised, imagine them dying without a say.
This is why I headcanon as gruesome as it is for the Athena cabin to dwindle in numbers. Its original number was around 12 I headcanon them dropping to 9-7 members and most of the fallen are the young ones. The kids who have their whole life ahead of them. The kids whose final years and months were nothing but war. Whose innocence would be stripped away from their body because of said war.
Imagine the heartache of the demigods at Camp Half Blood whose friends left to join Kronos. Did the departed whisper goodbye? Try and convince their friends to join them? Or did those left behind wake up one morning to find the empty bed of another sibling? To see another empty spot on the bench at breakfast? No warning. No note. No need to wonder, because everyone knows where they went. Did the Hermes kids wake up one morning and realize that their cabin, the home of unclaimed demigods, felt spacious for the first time in years?
At the battle of Manhattan, how did it feel to look across enemy lines and see your sibling? A best friend? A crush? A familiar face from across the campfire?
Did Kronos’ army help you feel at home on your first day at camp? Did they carry you to the infirmary after a nasty game of capture the flag? Were they your first kiss? Did they place a steadying hand on your back as you climbed up the rock wall, making sure you were safe?
As demigods on both sides of the war drew their swords, was it like looking in a mirror? How must it have felt, to be prepared to fight and kill someone just like you?
Notes I took while re-reading Percy Jackson, Part 5; The Last Olympian
• Oh, boy, it's time already
• So, as someone who ships Percabeth (although, I am a multi-shipper), this is my opinion on the Perachel kiss. GOOD. FOR. HER. Like, what a queen. I see this as almost the exact same situation as Annabeth kissing Percy in the book beforethis one. He might die, so she took her chance.
• Plus, can you fault her for having a crush on Percy? Coming from someone who's not into boys, I can see why anyone would have feeling for this dude.
• Oh god, I forgot they straight up beat Beckendorf before he died. Jeeze. Smh Ethan, I expected better of you.
• As it is never explained, I personally like the theory that Alabaster was the one who saved the demigods from being blown up on the princess Andromeda. Because I love Alabaster.
• Is it just me or did Tyson get exta adorable in this book?
• Connor Stoll just falls out of a tree after seeing percy come out of the water. I firmly believe he qualifies for the Percy Jackson simp club.
• I forgot how much I enjoy the camp just being a camp. The war council chapter might be one of my favorites in the series. Sure, we got this kind of stuff in The hidden oracle, but it just wasn't the same without the og characters.
• Hi. I love Michael Yew. It may just be because of a really good fanfic I read about him. But I love him.
• I get why Nico "betrayed" Percy. It makes logical sense and he genuinely thought that his dad just wanted to talk. I do think Percy overreacted, like... a lot, but the kid was paranoid.
• Connor Stoll wanting to rob a candy store in the middle of a war is a whole ass mood
• Holy heck, I did not remember Kayla and Austin being mentioned all the way back in this book-
• "Don't I get a kiss for good luck." Smooth move and all, Percy, but of you don't do something soon everyone on the bridge will die.
• He may not have done it intentionally, but Percy Jackson straight up murdererd Michael Yew. Like... I legitimately can't imagine how truly guilty he must feel-
• "I swore to myself I ever found the spy who'd cost her boyfriend his life, I would give him to Mrs O'leary as a chew toy" Dramatic irony at it's finest, folks
• Every conversation between Percy and Ethan is just so passive-aggressive
• I believe without a doubt that Ethan knew exactly where Percy's Achilles heel was and was lying to Kronos's face because he was already questioning his loyalty at this point or because he wanted to repay Percy for that time he spared his life.
• The action it this book is so great. I'm pretty sure I went around a hundred pages before really stopping.
• The weather apparently changed when Hades showed up to show that he was more intimidating. I am sorry, but Demeter did that. He definitely had to talk her into it. "Listen, it would just be so much cooler!"
• Percy acknowledging Paul and Sally as his parents is just so sweet
• The beginning of chapter 19 gave me flashbacks to the ending of MoA
• I still think Thalia should have been a part of the final battle in the throne room. Luke acknowledging her as he's dying would have been nice.
• Ethan's death devastated me on a spiritual level.
• Rachel's telling Percy that he was not the hero is truly what saved them in the end.
• The "Did you love me?" line has always always bothered me to no end. Just Luke having feelings for Annabeth is so dumb in general. It makes it WAY HARDER to sympathize with him. I always just try to convince myself that he meant it in a brotherly way and then try not to think about it.
• Love the passive aggressive back and forth between Posidon and Zeus
• Percy is immediately like "I'm sure this has nothing to do with me!" When Rachel says the prophecy of 7. I only he knew...
• I think this is a good time to mention that I had the Homestuck soundtrack playing in the background throughout all the books (I did this on my first read as well)
Ethan doodle bc a few people requested !! He’s one of those antagonists you can’t hate tbh