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something i feel like we don’t talk about nearly enough is the fact that percy is healed by water.

it’s so normal to us because it’s one of the first abilities we discovered he has. and it makes complete sense. but like… he’s the only demigod with that ability. jason doesn’t get healed by a gust of wind. hazel doesn’t get healed if she touches a diamond. nico doesn’t get healed if a skeleton gives him a hug. annabeth doesn’t get healed if she walks into a library.

like percy could be stabbed in the chest multiple times, he could break every bone in his body, he could be slammed in the head resulting in a crushed skull and hemorrhaging, but get him to some water fast enough and not only is he good as new in no time, but he’s stronger and freshly rejuvenated.

it’s insane when you think about it. no one else can do that. do you know how hard it is to kill percy? even if he’s not near the ocean, he can be healed by rivers and lakes and streams and ponds and all sorts of water sources. water recharges him. it makes him immediately stronger.

that’s a huge reason why i argue percy is the most powerful demigod. yes, he’s shown he has incredible super strength and super speed. yes, he’s a legendary sword fighter - arguably the best one alive. yes, he has control over air, land, and sea. (deadly hurricanes with heavy winds and thunder and lighting, huge volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, etc.) yes, he’s capable of mass destruction. yes he can single handlely cause natural disasters and mass casualties. and yes, he’s capable of controlling people’s bodily fluids, including their blood and saliva. he is terrifying

but even if someone manages to beat him, he dips one toe in some water and he’s immediately healed and even stronger than before. whether the injury is internal and external. he’s healed all on his own. no ambrosia or nectar or external remedies necessary.

guys. percy is insane. he’s way overpowered.

and i love it.

oh and I sincerely believe that Poseidon telling Percy "You're my favorite child" was absolutely a manipulation tactic/power play and it worked

it may have even been the truth!! but I also do not think its a coincidence that Poseidon tells Percy this after Percy has blown up an entire mountain, accidentally released Typhon, and its a exactly year out from the Great Prophecy coming to pass... the Gods were terrified and that was a "hey sport you know I love you right <3 😰" moment if I've ever seen one

idk if this is an unpopular opinion or not, because i’ve seen a lot of people say stuff like “percy knows better than to go against annabeth”

but see, most people - anyone with a brain, really - are way too scared to challenge annabeth. because 99% of the time, she’s right. she’s always the most intelligent person in the room. shes not only logical and strategic, but she’s sharp, cunning, and even manipulative if she has to be. (as we’ve seen when she’s faced monsters). no one goes against her. one wants to, no one dares.

expect percy. if there’s one thing he knows how to do, it’s argue with annabeth. it’s like breathing. but unlike when they were kids, they don’t truly fight over stupid things. sure, they bicker and squabble over little things, because that’s who they are as a couple. but percy is the only person who will actually challenge her on something real. something big. he doesn’t do it lightly, because he knows how smart she is. but if he truly believes there’s another angle to something, or that she’s wrong because maybe she doesn’t have all the information, or maybe his heart is just in a different place - he’ll go against her. we see it in mark of athena a couple times. (their face-off kinda puts hazel in a trance). in BotL, there’s an argument between them, and i remember it’s stated that watching them argue is like watching an intense tennis match. its heated and fast paced. people make fun of percy for being dumb, and yet percy is the only one that can keep up with annabeth. he knows her better than anyone. he doesn’t think the same as her, but he knows how she thinks. so yeah, he will call her out. he’ll tell her he disgrees. he’ll even tell her that she’s wrong. and people think he’s crazy when he does it.

but annabeth respects the hell out of him for it. and while she might dismiss anyone else immediately, she won’t with him. because she respects him tremendously, and knows if he’s challenging her, there’s something to it. it doesn’t mean she’s gonna let him win, or that she’s gonna back down, because they are both ridiculously stubborn and determined. but he’ll go head to head with her. he’ll have a screaming match with her. and she loves him for it. she respects him for it. and she finds it ridiculously attractive.

because percy and annabeth are equals.

It’s such a lost opportunity that Percy never got to meet Neptune. Like actual eldritch horror Neptune who has no attachment to Percy or desire to look human. Neptune who hasn’t been seen in 500 years. Neptune who is the manifestation of every fear you’ve ever had about the ocean. And he understands why the Romans don’t honor him.

I just think that would be neat.

richard making luke's feelings towards annabeth weird was such a fuckup bc it makes people uncomfortable with sympathizing with him when it's imperative to the story that you do

now that we’re on the subject why is Percy always the one being singled out as the one who needs to “know when to take a step back” when no other character is. Why would you have the narrative structure of the Heroes of Olympus literally be about answering the call to adventure (seven halfbloods shall answer the call) and then flip and decide Percy needs to learn a lesson in what? Humility? Not doing what he was built up to do? Pick a message and stick with it babe !

#percy you’re saving the world too efficiently give the other kids a chance (@mcguires)

literally like imagine one of, in not, the most powerful player on your team, that has shown great judgment in pivotal moments in the past, steps up to the plate and says “I want to help” and being like “nooooo you need to learn when to hang back and let others be the hero sweaty aha”

but what if Percy’s mom had really died in the lightning thief?

I would literally give my left arm to know if Riordan actually had an original end goal in mind for “Percy’s big choice” in hoo that was more consistent with the darker build up he wrote or if it was always this desultory “noooo Percy you can’t fight Gaea because for some reason this has been about you needing to learn when to take a step back” resolution because I reread hoo and its just… all of these moments where Percy’s perspective is just full of betrayal and anger towards the gods and this deep seeded resentment is starting to take hold (which I would argue is the natural progression of his characterization if he found out everything he fought for and everyone they lost in the previous war was apparently for nothing). Gaea is dropping these ominous lines left and right  that Percy is going to be a big part of her final plan, and the gods keep interacting with the rest of seven with cryptic statements about Percy that pretty much boil down to “Percy’s dangerous and powerful so pretty please make sure he doesn’t do anything bad (to us).” Then Percy has, to put it kindly, a pretty rough go of it in tartarus that I just feel that the ultimate conclusion to this arc in canon is so underwhelming to what was being set up. It doesn’t feel like the end was the natural conclusion to what was being written, it felt like the threads of Percy’s story were abruptly knotted and cut halfway through the design.

Percy at ease

Percy calm, but a little on edge

Percy when mildly angry

Friendly reminder that Percy jackson - our beloved silly adorable seaweed brain - is absolutely terrifying. When he’s angry, when he’s scared, when he’s on edge - he’s not warm and fuzzy.

No other character gets that reaction from people. Jason (the sweetie) is perceived as calm and in control, nico (our favorite self-outcasted outcast) is perceived as solemn and creepy, reyna (girlboss queen slay) is perceived as confident and assertive, and annabeth (our girl) is perceived as fierce, clever, and formidable. They are all intimidating to an extent.

But not like Percy. No. Becasue even when he’s at ease, he’s described as wild and disobedient. And when he’s not at ease, even if just little bit, he’s perceived as powerful, dangerous, and scary. Someone who NOBODY wants to mess with. Nobody even questions his power. One look from him has literal gangs running the other way. One look from him has Leo so scared that he’s literally shaking, and feeling the same innate fright and alarm that he does when jason summons an ear-piercing, earth-shaking, deadly bolt of lighting.

like… HELLO??? can we all just sit on that for a moment?? good lord

One angry look from percy has people thinking one thing: Run.

Percy is, canonically, the character that people find the most frightening and intimidating.

And unless he’s in a good mood - which you better hope he is - the reality is that most of us would be completely terrified of him if we met him.

PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS | S01E08

Can't wait to see zeus go from "make sure i never see this one again" to offering percy immortality and then getting hit in the face with A Guide To Parenting And Other Family Issues By Perseus Jackson™

itty bitty ghost king 👑💀

it is definitely cannon that everyone at camp calls Percy "Annabeth's boyfriend". They'll be showing a new kid around the place and be like "oh yeah, that's Annabeth's boyfriend, Percy. He's also the hero of olympus, beat the god of war, and a child of poseidon or whatever."

simpler times