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I really believe some Annabeth antis take their hatred of her way too far.

I think Rick wrote her as an awful girlfriend with abusive tendencies, but she's not a total monster that deserves to be tortured by the gods or given a fate worse than death. I can't see her cheating Percy or acting like some kind of horny "slut" either.

Whenever I read fics where Annabeth suffers as payback for Percabeth, I feel very uncomfortable afterwards and disturbed. Why I keep reading these fics, I don't know - maybe because I like the authors.

IMO, taking it too far is harassing real people or the author, which I don't see many do. Not writing brutal fics or making her ooc.

I think it's cringeworthy if they don't get it right. They should criticize Annabeth for things she can control and how she chooses to treat Percy. Overall, I think fanfic is supposed to explore her faults and how far they can go, and I think that's good. For any character, not just Beth. I don't think she'd cheat on Percy, but I think she'd call him a dumb fuck or push him off a staircase, like how she pushed him off a cliff.

Yes, I do think she should suffer to some extent. I don't see how that's a bad thing. I don't think she should be graped or any of that extreme stuff, but calling her out and, yes, having her face humiliation or have things she cares about revoked, I think that's a good punishment. Then again, people can write whatever they want; I just won't read them if I get uncomfortable.

Overall, I believe she is a self-centered, mean girl, and Rick did not help her grow. He went easy on her, and some of these fanfic writers are going easy on her, too. She's not Umbridge, but she's certainly not Percy, and I'm tired of stans acting like she's a nice person or downplaying her terrible behavior. Not saying you, but it's happening within the fandom that's critical of her, especially when it comes to fanfics.

Just like with the marauders from HP, I plan to stop reading these Annabeth torture porn fics.

I was just super emotional last night because I read two Annabeth bashing fics back to back by an author I really like which featured Annabeth being eaten by the sirens as a SoM au. The stories were great and her being eaten wasn't glorified by the author or anything (Percy certainly wasn't doing so in the fic, poor guy was rightfully horrified) but people in the comments cheering how satisfying it was to see young Annabeth tortured to death made me ill. I have a huge phobia of being eaten alive as well so that wasn't the best thing to read right before bed 😅

Like I love fics where Annabeth grows and/or faces justice but I certainly don't get off on her being brutalized like that.

But people are free to write whatever fanfic. I just think the hate far outweighs her crimes sometimes. I also think sometimes people accuse her of things that are not fair such as being a traitor by her taking the sky from Luke etc.

We gotta talk about the un-ignorables that were written into the PJO books. As much as I love the first series.

Starting with Rick making his protagonist disabled, and that protagonist's love interest a "she's just being mean because she likes you" bully who regularly and consistently insults his intelligence and picks on him for symptoms of that disability.

And we all just.... ignored this, for years.

I've lived my whole life, up until like 3 years ago, not knowing I was ADHD, and the amount of bullying, gaslighting, and skepticism I've faced and continue to face for "faking it" or not trying hard enough or being too difficult---never in my life would I fall in love with someone who is all of those things wrapped up in one person, who publically and privately insults my intelligence, and who everyone else in our lives does nothing to stop.

And this is Percabeth. She's bullied him, shown us her insecurities when he does anything better than her in her POV, isolated him from his non-demigod friends because of her raging jealousy that was never atoned for, and drags him around through her idealized adult life while Percy is written to be moon-struck and wholly complicit and happy in being taken advantage of.

I really believe some Annabeth antis take their hatred of her way too far.

I think Rick wrote her as an awful girlfriend with abusive tendencies, but she's not a total monster that deserves to be tortured by the gods or given a fate worse than death. I can't see her cheating Percy or acting like some kind of horny "slut" either.

Whenever I read fics where Annabeth suffers as payback for Percabeth, I feel very uncomfortable afterwards and disturbed. Why I keep reading these fics, I don't know - maybe because I like the authors.

IMO, taking it too far is harassing real people or the author, which I don't see many do. Not writing brutal fics or making her ooc.

I think it's cringeworthy if they don't get it right. They should criticize Annabeth for things she can control and how she chooses to treat Percy. Overall, I think fanfic is supposed to explore her faults and how far they can go, and I think that's good. For any character, not just Beth. I don't think she'd cheat on Percy, but I think she'd call him a dumb fuck or push him off a staircase, like how she pushed him off a cliff.

Yes, I do think she should suffer to some extent. I don't see how that's a bad thing. I don't think she should be graped or any of that extreme stuff, but calling her out and, yes, having her face humiliation or have things she cares about revoked, I think that's a good punishment. Then again, people can write whatever they want; I just won't read them if I get uncomfortable.

Overall, I believe she is a self-centered, mean girl, and Rick did not help her grow. He went easy on her, and some of these fanfic writers are going easy on her, too. She's not Umbridge, but she's certainly not Percy, and I'm tired of stans acting like she's a nice person or downplaying her terrible behavior. Not saying you, but it's happening within the fandom that's critical of her, especially when it comes to fanfics.

The only reason why Percy is currently doing three more quests for the gods, while already being burnt out from finishing high school, is because he wants to enter the university of New Rome. A place where the monster who he watched kill his mom when he was twelve, the monster, who wore the necklaces of his dead friends around its axe as spoils of war, the monster he canonically still has nightmares about, lives peacefully alongside him and gets offended when he gets called a monster.

He does not want to go to that university, because he has a passion for a specific subject, or because he has a good time and flourishes in an academic environment. We know that Rick Riordan didn't really bother to think about what Percy wants to study, and as already stated, he is already burnt out from academics. But he wants to go there solely because his girlfriend and maybe some of his other friends live there.

All the while, he could technically go to a different university altogether, because, appearantly, monsters stop bothering demigods once they reach a certain age, which completely robs New Rome of the initial appeal it had to Percy in Son of Neptune, and of the sole reason why he wanted to live there in the first place.

On top of that, his trauma gets completely ignored, his accomplishments don't matter at all, and his relationship to other characters get either ignored/ brushed to the side, like in the case of Clarisse, Hazel, Frank, Rachel, Thalia etc. or get washed down so much that they are unrecognizable, frankly completely one dimensional, and require a bunch of mischaracterization, like in the case of Annabeth, Grover or Nico.