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MADE HESTIA HAVE A KID???!!!!!

good god we really have entered the wattpad era 😭

SURE LET’S MAKE ONE OF THE FEW ARO/ACE CODED AND/OR ACTUAL VIRGIN GODDESSES A MOM FOR NO FUCKING REASON

with Athena it at least makes sense that her kids are brain babies, like she is was, and she has them because that’s how gods are able to act in the mortal world - via mortal heroes, which Athena would have no connection to without her children.

BUT. FUCKING HESTIA. WOULD NOT HAVE KIDS. AT ALL! SHE DOESN’T NEED TO!

IT’S ALSO SUPER DISRESPECTFUL!

and don’t come at me about “well she could have magically made them” yeah I know that, my favorite god is literally Apollo who canonically spawned three girls into existence, but my point still stands — HESTIA. DOESN’T. HAVE. KIDS. FULL STOP. SHE DOESN’T HAVE ANY ROMANCE MYTHS. AT ALL. SHE TURNED DOWN BOTH POSEIDON AND APOLLO. SHE SCREAMED BLOODY MURDER WHEN PRIAPUS TRIED IT ON HER. HESTIA IS QUITE LITERALLY AS REPULSED TO ROMANCE AND SEX AS ARTEMIS IS.

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.