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am I the only one who actually found camp Jupiter interesting and wished it were explored more? I wish it served a bigger purpose rather than simply being "an evil strict millitary camp" to rival the Greek camp and wasn't just written to be hated. I mean, the exteriors seem hella cool, they have war games, and the feasts are great, etc. I wish we got a more positive outlook of it, I mean, they have a literal city for demigods to settle down in? That's fucking cool.

I badly need a jason prequel exploring his life at CJ with his roman friends like Reyna, Gwendolyn, Dakota, how jason turned down the first cohort privileges simply to protect the 5th, his battle with trojan and krios, and of course, I NEED Jeyna having childhood beef w octavian and his dumb teddy bear massacres lol. gosh I need it soo bad now. None of y'all are writing fanfics about it either since jason is hated, so I might just do it myself one day, smh.

Jason and Juno

I just want to talk about them. I have so many feelings and I can’t find anyone else that cares about them. But, like, why not?

Because Rick ignored Jason in HoO and I still haven’t got my Roman prequels, that’s why.

I freaking love Jason anyway and I always have. And I admit, reading original PJO, I wasn’t the biggest fan of Hera, but we weren’t really supposed to be I don’t think. But Juno? Nah man, Juno is cool.

Everybody seems to write her off because she’s Hera and we all know Hera sucks, and obviously Percy and Annabeth don’t like Hera so makes sense that we kinda subconsciously take their lead. But Juno is cool - and I will absolutely fight that corner forever. It’s like, Ares was kinda a dick in many regards, but Mars was a good dad to Frank, Mars was cool too.

Juno was one of the only gods interested in actively helping demigods, particularly her favoured ones, sure, but she still tried to help. And she obviously cared about them too. Not just Jason, it was very evident she liked Leo a lot too (and I love that too). And we know - at least from ToA - that she had a soft spot for Frank too (and honestly who can blame her).

But yeah, so I actually dig Juno in HoO. She helped out, she was awesome, she was actively nice at least to Jason.

So that’s the first thing to get over. Hate Hera if you want to - but let me convince you that Juno is better. Re-read the books and look for her being nice and cool. Because it’s there.

On top of that though, the relationship between Juno and Jason just makes me so happy and warm. I love it so much, even though I haven’t seen anyone else that seems to care.

Jupiter was at least as much of a dick as Zeus was - that’s something everyone agrees on I think. And I think a lot of us if not everyone can agree that he was a worse dad to Jason than he was to Thalia. And maybe that’s because he washed his hands of responsibility for him after he gifted Jason to Juno. (Dick move btw.) but either way, he basically ignored Jason his entire life and throughout HoO. He was hands down one of the most distant godly parents of the seven and of a lot of main heroes we’ve followed in the series’. So Jason couldn’t really depend on him for help or guidance an awful lot and basically felt like he didn’t have a father. But at least he had Juno.

Juno was a good patron to him. She helped him where she could. She actively and genuinely cared about him. She tried to make herself available for chats when he needed them as much as she could. Gave him presents (his gladius) and praise when he did well, pep talks for what was ahead. As pseudo foster mothers go, she really wasn’t bad. Closest thing Jason had to a parent, and yeah, he could’ve had worse. He did have worse with his alcoholic slightly off the rails actual mother who gave him away, and had worse in a dad who never spoke to him or saw him or lifted a finger to help him until the very last second and who also gave him away. I kinda gotta figure after that kind of treatment from both your actual parents, getting what he got from his patron was probably very appreciated.

And Juno/Hera is the goddess of marriage and family among other things. Throughout the series it’s pretty much her biggest hang up. And obviously she wasn’t always the best mother (poor Hephaestus) to her actual kids, but she kinda held Olympus together. Stopped them all tearing each other apart. Family was important to her and something she valued. Obviously she hated when her husband cheated on her and had someone else’s kids. Honestly? That’s pretty reasonable to be unhappy about. But she watched the rest of her family, literally forever, having kids willy nilly when they wanted to. Obviously Artemis didn’t, but she didn’t want kids and she had the hunters so that’s fine. For someone that loves family so much, it’s very possible she could’ve been a little envious of everyone else having huge families. She still had her Olympian family, but maybe she would’ve liked to have some demigods of her own, if it didn’t involve cheating which she just won’t do. She favoured original Jason and was his patron too, so she was happy enough to adopt them, but it still wasn’t something she did often. So she didn’t get a lot of mortal kids and might’ve felt like she was missing out. But at least she had Jason.

So, being given another little adopted demigod, hell yeah she probably loved mothering him. He was totally her kid. He didn’t have any parent or family to be there for him, she didn’t have any demigod kids of her own and knew she never will. That’s hella cute that they can adopt each other.

Everyone loves found families lately - well this is basically that. Kinda forced at first but doesn’t mean they wouldn’t grow to love each other. They helped each other, could depend on each other. Juno is literally the patron of Rome as well. So even if Jason hadn’t known from the off that he’d been given to Juno, he’d have still had the sense that she had his back along with the rest of Rome, so he might’ve asked for a little help or guidance before HoO, maybe while he was Praetor too. And Juno being New Rome’s patron would’ve probably kept an eye over Camp Jupiter and especially when Jason rose to Praetor she could’ve been paying more attention to him from then. Watched out for him during the Titan War.

I want to know more about them. Especially if Jason was fully aware that she was his patron the whole time before HoO. I want them to have had some sort of relationship. I want them to like each other at least a little. Nico and Hades got closer eventually. Percy and Poseidon (and honestly a bunch of the gods) got on well. Mars adored Frank. Aphrodite seems pretty cuddly with her kids in general. I don’t think it’d be a terrible stretch for Juno and Jason to have each other’s backs.

I want to know if Jason ever made offerings for her along with Jupiter. Burnt food at CHB for her as well as his dad.

I want to know if Juno ever helped him out on earlier quests at all, whether he knew it or not. If she ever gave him and maybe Reyna too, sort of a Praetor deal, counsel.

I want to see Juno fully lean into having Jason as her favourite, as her chosen hero. I want to see her lend some power to him when he needs it. I want to see Jason with the Blessing of Juno. How many demigods would’ve ever gotten that? That’s unheard of. I want it for him. I want to see him marching on Mount Othrys to take down Krios and topple the throne, not with the blessing of Jupiter (although I would also love to see him with that, that would be so cool!) but with the blessing of Juno, patron of Rome. I wanna see him monologuing Krios into intimidation like he did to the giants: I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I have the blessing of Juno: Patron of Rome. And she also happens to be my stepmom, dick.

I talked about it in another post before, him getting her blessing. Supposedly with her Roman counterpart she’s supposed to be militaristic, strategic, etc. A blessing from his dad would be like an explosion of power, don’t get me wrong. It’d be like Thor in Infinity War. Magnificent. He could totally burst into the palace and fry Krios and destroy the throne. But I think it’d also be pretty damn awesome if he got zapped with her blessing and became like the ultimate military leader (kind of like Frank with Mars’ blessing I suppose, but more strategic instead of hitting the protein shakes), leading the troops in the invasion and being a total Praetor before he even became Praetor.

Side note: It’s probably not possible but can you imagine if he got blessings from both of them?? I doubt you can have two at a time, but that would be spectacular if he did. Especially from Jupiter and Juno. He would be incredibly powerful, no wonder the Legion made a big deal out of him in the early part of the series. Always was a little disappointed we never got to see cool Roman Jason. I love Jason, I do, but he wasn’t exactly what we heard about in The Lost Hero and Son of Neptune. It never felt like we saw his full potential. So I’m just gonna sit in my corner and dream it up instead lol.

Anyway, this was purely for me because I have a lot of feelings about these two and I couldn’t find anything about them at all or not anything positive. But if anyone else likes them or has ideas or there is stuff you can point me to, please do, I want to get involved in it and find people that are into this so bad!

i wish you guys could feel the way i felt when reading HOO and realizing in real time that "oh, riordan clearly does not care about the romans". like the downplay is insane!!! as if the greeks and romans were not two separate cultures!!! you cannot one-to-one the gods!!! jason never gets all his memories back, percy ends up remembering everything. jason struggles to fit in at chb, they make percy praetor in one fucking week! not to mention the very weird addition of saying that camp jupiter was part of the confederacy???? like he very clearly does not care about the romans

changes i would make to hoo

nobody asked but WHATEVER

more jason and reyna drama

less jason passing out + backstory

MORE JASON

more hazel and frank

grover

aging up hazel (like 15 maybe)

franks physical appearance doesn’t change with his blessing of mars

percy pov in boo to see the regret he feels of choking aklyhs

GROVER

leo coming to ogygyia, everything same but leo and calypso being platonic not romantic

leo accepting its okay not to have a romantic partner

more hunters of artemis cameo (not bc i love them or anything)

calypso joining hunters of artemis (can be in toa too)

GROVERRRRRRR!!!!!!

MORE PIPERR (more of her character)

piper having normal colored eyes (its okay for poc woman to not having insane ass eyes)

jason "my mom abandoned me so i need to earn everyone's love or they'll abandon me too" grace, piper "i need to force my dad to care for me and see me even if it's for the worse" mclean, or leo "my mom died and it's my fault and she was the only one who could love me unconditionally" valdez.

i just saw a head canon that all the fake memories jason has of him and piper are real memories but they were the things he did with reyna and i am not okay—

Can we talk about how badly Rick nerfed Jason when he broke IVLIVS at the end of the book it was introduced in? And by nerfed I don't mean the destruction of it held him back in terms of power in any way, I mean in terms of the narrative and particularly his ability to stand against/alongside Percy.

Percy already had five books of context, backstory and time for the reader to get attached so Jason had to do a lot of heavy lifting to not get completely overshadowed but at every opportunity Rick had to let Jason have something to puff him up, it fell flat. Percy had a cool transforming weapon so Rick gave Jason one but then destroyed it in the first book of the series. It reminds me of Rick giving Jason a flying horse in the form of Tempest so he would have his own Blackjack but then Tempest hardly showed up and didn't have a fraction of the established bond that Percy had with Blackjack (also Tempest definitely should have been a giant eagle especially since it was established that Venti can appear as giant eagles).

The worst part about it is that IVLIVS could have been so cool! First of all, ranged weapons are incredibly underused in Rick's books. Clarisse had her electric spear that was relevant for one book but everyone else just has swords or knives, occasionally bows and arrows. It's especially annoying because in most historical military units, Roman and Greek ones included, swords and knives were mostly kept on person as a last resort. In an ideal fight, they never would have been removed from the sheath. The spears should have been enough and most of the time, they were enough. Jason being a Roman demigod could have made him using a spear much more impactful because it would have emphasised the strict and regimented approach the Romans have towards fighting. It would have contrasted with the way the Greeks fight. Since Rick already had the whole arc of Jason deciding he's as Greek as he is Roman, it would have made the whole thing about IVLIVS being both a spear and a sword may more narratively important. The spear represents his Roman side and the sword represents his Greek side.

Second of all, the functionality of it could have been very well-utilised. It's a coin toss. It's inherently random. It would have been cool to see Jason in a fight where he wanted to use one weapon but the coin gave him the other and we would have seen him improvise on the fly, showcasing his years of military experience and the skills that made him a praetor to adapt an ill-suited weapon for the situation and use it effectively because he knows these weapons very well and knows how to use them even in unfavourable contexts. Or you could have it the other way. He wants weapon A, gets weapon B which is much worse for the fight he's in and does poorly, extra points if it draws attention to the Greek/Roman debate he's having. Maybe he wants to use a spear when he's fighting the ghosts at the start of BOO but gets a sword and because of this, gets stabbed by the ghost guy who emphasises how Roman he is. Jason internalises his failure to be Greek (failure to use his Greek sword and fighting style to protect himself against the Romans) and how it caused him to be in danger of 'dying like a Roman' but does character development stuff and heals his wound with the power of believing in himself and realising he can be both Greek and Roman (*cough cough* because I'm a bi!Jason truther his dual identity could have been a great metaphor and parallel to his sexuality *cough cough*).

Lastly, it would have given him something interesting to help him stand out in a cast full of interesting characters with their own 'flair' to make them memorable. Percy obviously has Riptide, Annabeth had Luke's old knife (which she should have gotten to keep), Piper had Katoptris and later on the Boread's sword (which she should have gotten to use more), Frank was the only significant character with a bow and arrow, Leo had his magic toolbelt and Hazel had her spatha (but should have gotten to use it while on Arion a lot more, it's a cavalry sword). And Jason had a sword. Just a regular ass sword. Even Nico's sword had some intrigue because it was made of Stygian iron and it has its kopis shape (idk if that's canon or fanon because it's shaped like that in virtually all fanart of him but I can't remember it being described like that in the books. I could be misremembering this but I have no idea where that idea came from). Jason's already at a huge disadvantage and loads of readers (particularly when the hoo books were being released) just saw Jason as boring and unnecessary.

you know what it feels a little insidious cause when you think about it Hera, quite literally, broke Jason. She plucked her chosen heroes from their respective camps and scrambled their little brains around and then she crafted Jason an entire fake romance that only ended up crashing and burning and leaving him with heartache. he lost his status as Praetor to a dude that was there for like two weeks and even though he did what he had been told to do and saved the world like a good Roman hero, he never got to reclaim the life he must have been living before a god took it from him. and then he isolates himself. and then he dies. what the hell.

I just finished reading The House of Hades and it was a ride to say the least /(°^°)\

I JUST WOKE UP AND RE-READ 'Pretty like the sun' AND I COMPLETELY FORGOT TO LINK THE "sea-life coin" BACK INTO THE STORY.

I WAS SO FUCKING DELIRIOUS FROM NO SLEEP I FORGOT ABOUT IT.

I was going to have Percy give the coin to Aurora as a promise to not die cause that was one of the symbolisms of the coin.

I'M FRR GOING TO DIE, I WROTE OVER 6000 WORDS BUT FORGOT, IT WAS GOING TO BE SO CUTE ASWELL.

😭😭😭😭😭😭

Here me out..

You meet leo in wilderness school. You became quick friends and eventually started hanging out with piper and Jason. one night, you and leo snuck out onto the roof. He opened up to you about running away, and about being scared everyone was gonna leave him. So, you take his pinky in yours and promise to never abandon or leave him when he needed you.

But then... Camp. The prophecy. An oath to keep with final breath. And then you realize.. your pinky promise...one of you is gonna die to save the other.

But you're already in love with him. And you know...that you're gonna protect him no matter what.

I think that would be silly (it's in my drafts give me like a week or two)

Leo taking a test :

Leo : circles (yes)

Test : If yes please explain why Leo : erases answer and circles (no)

What do I do? I look at pictures of myself in cosplay and feel gender euphoria :]

Please I just wish to be the edgy pretty boy with extreme emotional baggage and a heart of gold

Percy Jackson is so sleeping at last coded

LITERALLY LYRICS FROM TWO

“Like a force to be reckoned with A mighty ocean or a gentle kiss I will love you with every single thing I have Like a tidal wave, I'll make a mess Or calm waters, if that serves you best I will love you without any strings attached”

LIKE TELL ME THAT ISNT PERCY

”Pitch black, pale blue These wild oceans shake what's left of me loose Just to hear me cry mercy The strong wind at my back So I'll lift up the only sail that I have This tired white flag (White flag)” - lyrics from Neptune

”You are so much more than your father's son You are so much more than what I've became Long before you were born there was light Hidden deep in these young, unfamiliar eyes A million choices, though little on their own Become the heirloom of the heaviness you've known” - lyrics from Heirloom

LIKE AAAAA THSE ARE SO PERCY AJDHJDHSJ

… also like I love sleeping at last am I rlly do, but I've only like to the Atlas albums… 😭 I need a listen to the rest but ajehdhdhdh I love the Atlas alumbs, theys're o pretty

when you can't look through the pjo tag bc fear of spoilers bc your only on Mark of Athena

:(

Everybody talks about a Percy Jackson film series done right, but what about a TV series? Think about how much content we would get! The giffing possibilities, the theorising, the going over of every scene to see symbolism. - 5 Percy Jackson & The Olympians seasons - 5 Heroes of Olympus seasons - Possible Kane Chronicles, Magnus Chase and Trials of Apollo spinoffs with actor cameos from PJO & HOO - Watching lil’ Percabeth being sassy in season one, knowing that they’re gonna be around for years. - Seeing Percy, Annabeth and Grover’s actors all becoming best friends and starting YouTube/Snapchat/Twitter/Instagram chains/accounts with BTS filming - Freaking out about the actors chosen to play the gods - Watching out for little Reyna and Hylla when Percy’s turned back from a guinea pig and praying they keep the same actors - Filming seasons 2 and 3 in direct succession so there’s no noticeable age difference in the characters, but having to wait to watch on hiatus and surviving by looking at the cast’s social media when filming - Meeting Bianca and Nico, trying not to get attached to Bianca’s actress but still crying your eyes out when she dies (but screaming with joy if she returns for flashbacks and/or ghost scenes) - Watching the Nico actor undergo his ~transformation~ and fan casting Will to suit him - Watching Percabeth’s first kiss in the volcano and crying with excitement because it’s been such a long build-up - Organising watching parties for the three- or four-hour long season finale in season 5 and screaming at the Camp Jupiter foreshadowing, Will’s first appearance, Annabeth getting injured, Silena dying, Kronos being defeated, Rachel becoming the oracle, Luke dying, Percy turning down immortality and Percabeth finally becoming canon with an orchestral swell and crying behind the scenes because these kids won’t see each other for a year or more

- Finally seeing teasers for HOO and gathering together to watch the pilot - Watching them cast a Mexican actor for Leo and a Native American actress for Piper - Seeing them cast Jason and comparing him to Thalia’s actress with FaceSwap - The theories and rumours about Piper and Jason’s actors being together (which they neither confirm nor deny as Leo’s actor giggles in interviews) - Annabeth’s return in the first scene of the pilot and people screaming crying when Butch says, “Percy Jackson” and the Heroes of Olympus opening credits play - Over-analysis of every scene to make up for the hiatus since PJO ended - Watching the start of the Gaia storyline and crying excitedly at the mention of Nico’s name - Meeting Festus and realising that his beeps, whirs, and whatnot actually do represent letters and/or words - like Morse code - and learning to speak it - Shrieking when Jasiper kiss - Watching Leo start to build the Argo II - Screaming when Percy returns in Son of Neptune only remembering “Annabeth” and getting super excited to meet Hazel and Frank - Watching Nico introduce himself and crying at Percy’s vacant expression - Getting way too excited when Leo’s actor appears as Sammy (in a hat that always hides his face a little) because he looks amazingly dashing - Fangirling over Reyna because she’s changed so much but she still looks like the island girl she was way back when - Giffing the Percy/Jason amnesia parallels - The cast filming seasons 3-5 all at once and being done years before the series finale because it’s all set in a couple months - Crying at Percabeth’s reunion bc the actors haven’t worked together in years and they really did miss each other. - Crying some more at Reyna’s expression seeing Jasiper together - Revelling in the awkward chemistry between Leo, Hazel, and Frank because the actors are super close and friendly irl - Hearts everywhere skipping a beat when “you dropped this” happens - Shipping overloads when Leo and Calypso meet - Screaming from every viewer when Percabeth fall into Tartarus (like the internet breaks, percabeth, tartarus, and hoo are trending on tumblr for two weeks) - So many tears when they get out - Even more tears when Nico’s crush comes out because his actor is so good he looks heartbroken - The internet breaking again when Season 5 of HOO airs - Nico-Reyna friendship omzgzz - The final showdown between the gods, the Seven, the giants and Gaia being basically unbearable and many hours long - When Solangelo meet people start to cry and/or scream bc THe cHemIStrY - The big final battle taking seven hours and airing one hour every day for a week - Two weeks later, when the dust has settled, we get a one-and-a-half hour ep with the aftermath. - Two and a half months afterwards, everyone wants Leo’s ending and it airs with only one trailer (ten seconds) - After the end of Leo’s epilogue, every cast, crew, production, publisher, and helper is thanked with their most fitting godly parent following their name (i.e. John Appleseed, Son of Demeter)

Just a Percy Jackson TV series, is all.

Reyna: Hey, are you free on Friday? Like, around 7 pm on Friday?

Will:  Yes?

Reyna:  What about you?

Nico:  Yes, I am.

Reyna:  Great! Because I’m not. You two go on without me. Enjoy your date.

Nico:  Did she just-

piper: leo are you okay?

leo: i'm fine, why?

piper: you just smashed your hand through glass...

leo, looks at bloody hand: huh

Heroes of Olympus HeadCanon

One time during the winter solstice Lady Heatia and Nico team up to get the other gods to watch Disney’s ‘Hercules’ movie.

piper !! mclean !! is !! not !! white !!

frank zhang !! is !! not !! white !!

hazel !! levesque !! is !! not !! white !!

nico !! di !! angelo !! is !! not !! straight !!

alex !! fierro !! is !! not !! cisgender !!

representation matters !! don’t erase these identities !!