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i did all the math for nico's pjo timeline for rick and he should pay me. rick apparently said that nico's birthdate is (undecidedly) january 28th of 1924, but in house of hades, nico states that he, bianca and maria visited diocletian's private estate when he was 6 years old, around 1938, putting his birth year around 1932 rather than 1924. the oath of the big three was formed after the end of world war 2, in 1945, which hades agreed to despite having two underage children left alive. zeus attempted to kill bianca and nico in response, which resulted in the death of maria, and hades then hid bianca and nico in the lotus hotel and casino. if nico was born in 1932, he would have been 13 in 1945, and if he'd been born in 1924, he would have been 21. the titans curse takes place in 2007, 2 years before the 2009 battle of manhatten, meaning nico and bianca were in the lotus hotel and casino for roughly 60 years, not 70 years, and for nico to have been 10 years old in the titan's curse, his birthdate would have had to have been january 28th of 1935. in conclusion, rick riordan doesn't fact check or reference his own work, and he very much so can't do math.

I know we all have to pick and choose what we consider canon from pjo/hoo at times because of the inconsistencies in riordan’s writing between the two, but for me, I will never ever ever ever let go of the “children of the big three are so disproportionally powerful in comparison to other demigods that Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades vowed to never sire anymore of them because they could very well bring about the end of the world should they desire it” aspect from pjo. Its so essential to the set up and foundation of pjo and the consequent treatment Percy, Thalia, and Nico receive because of it. The way they become outcasts to a camp of people who are already outcasts. The way the gods debate at the end of nearly every book in pjo on whether they should let them live. I still think about just how quickly the fight between Percy and Thalia got so messy that campers were visibly scared of them (or Percy, at least), and you think about how they’re only young teens at this point in time and get this inkling of “oh, so this is what the gods are afraid of.” And sure, hoo doesn’t outright dissuade this notion of big three kids being scarily powerful, but it does undermine it by having other demigod children of non-big three gods suddenly have power that puts them on the same playing board of big three children. And to be clear, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with other characters having powers, but the level of power shouldn’t be, nor ever get, to the same level that big three children have and hoo really suffers from these sorts of powerscaling issues.

im so much more interested in a hoo that lets Percy keep the status and power he'd left off with in the Last Olympian and explores how he grapples with that instead of immediately forcing him back into the role of the underdog at the expanse of his prior development. Let the fact that he alone has the title the "Savior of Olympus" mean something. Let the fact that he is the sole survivor of the great prophecy mean something. Let the Curse of Achilles mean something. Let us see how it's a curse and how it could warp his sense of self. Let Percy be on a completely different playing field than the rest of the seven (or even the other children of the big three at this point) and show us how it alienates him.

like call me crazy but I just think Percy being offered godship should have irrevocably altered his standing within the demigod and godly worlds even though he ultimately refused it !!

and maybe this is cheesy of me but idc idc just imagine a SON where monsters and gods alike refer to Percy as "Savior of Olympus" or "the god that wasn't" or "the god that almost was" or anything within that vein and think about how unsettling that would have been for an amnesiac Percy. How unsettling that would have been for Frank and Hazel.

and its unsettling for them in different ways because for Frank and Hazel they're quickly piecing together that the stranger they're traveling with is not just extremely powerful, but he is inexplicably known in the godly world. Monsters and deities recognize him. Title him as something that's inconceivable, impossible really (The Savior of Olympus? The god that almost was?) and then for Percy it's unsettling because even though he doesn't have his memories, these titles resonate with him. They feel right even though he doesn't have any of the context for it because Names have power. Titles have power.

Percy with a cap that says women and men want me, fish respect me

hoo really should’ve capitalized on percy’s loyalty bc in pjo it’s built up to be a dangerous thing except it ended up that the narrative needed percy *because* of his fatal flaw, not in spite of it. so it gives a false sense of security like “oh well we heard this speech before and it didn’t matter.” the payoff would’ve been huge

I know percy and thalia and nico are no more or less related than any other demigod but in my heart they are cousins in the most literal sense like that's a family right there

wtf does "she looked surprised—me comforting her, kind of switching things up" mean. sorry did u read pjo percy is constantly comforting annabeth. does botl mean nothing to you.