Leah As Annabeth Is Awesome Sauce!!!! - Tumblr Posts

But what the Leah haters just don’t get is that she just plays Annabeth so well 💀 “Oh but she doesn’t have the blonde hair annabeth has grey eyes and blonde hair!!” Okay but you’re deriving from the actual point of Annabeth’s character. Annabeth is a smart girl who has lost so much, that she just needs someone in her life to stick around, help her be at least a little more of a kid than she thinks she needs to be. Yes in the books she talks about how she’s not taken seriously because she’s blonde, and I understand wanting the video content to be close to the books (we all hated the movies for not following that reason), but do you think that a black girl with braids is gonna get much more respect? You could tell from subtle hints from adults in the show like in the train scene, in the gas station scene, that she just wasn’t taken as seriously as Percy or Grover was. Whether black or white, they have the aspect of “ridiculous girl doesn’t know anything” down. Annabeth cares so little about her looks, so why should YOU care about her looks?