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his ability to consume more ambrosia than the average demigod vs

the fact that as a mortal he still has a limited amount he can consume without dying vs

the idea of his hunger getting bigger and bigger until the amount he has to consume not to feel the effects of starvation is genuinely dangerous even for him

In Chalice of the Gods we learn that the nectar demigods consume is diluted, bc consuming it pure would kill them immediately

So in this au, the fact that he only has access to diluted nectar might be contributing to his feelings of insatiability.

Now imagine a scene where he unknowingly drinks the unblended nectar from a god and not only does he not die, but also, this is the best he has felt in weeks.

And the god in question is just looking at him like 🫪🫪🫪🫪🫪🫪🫪🫪🫪🫪 bc they low-key thought they were about to see him die but now they've been hit with the knowledge that this kids is low-key on the brink of becoming a god all by himself...

It's literally the same moniker, and Calypso even starts adding the 'my' right after a conversation involving Zoë– before that, she just says 'brave one', not 'my brave one'.

The Titan's curse might actually be my favorite (or at least second favorite) book in the pjo series, bc the more I think about it, the more stuff I find to think about

For instance, I find that there is a connection between the scene in which Thalia drives the sun chariot and the arc she goes through in this book, which concludes with her choosing not to be the child of the prophecy.

In the first scene, Thalia is pushed into doing something she doesn't want to do and isn't really suitable for doing despite being the right age for it (almost 16, as Apollo says). She tries to force herself to do it anyway while essentially having a panic attack, and almost gets everyone killed and many cities burned to the ground bc of it

Then, at the end of the book, she joins the Hunt and chooses not to be the child of the prophecy, not letting Zeus convince her otherwise like Apollo did in the chariot scene, bc she fears she might be manipulated by Kronos and doesn't think she's the right hero to fulfill the prophecy, even tho she's about to be the right age for it.

There's also some foreshadowing to the fact that Percy is going to be the child of the prophecy in the fact that while Thalia didn't really want to drive the chariot, Percy did.

They even have a discussion about it, where Zoë explicitly is the one who drives instead of Zoë:

Even on the way up to Mt. Tam, it's Zoë who drives, not Thalia.

Simultaneously, though, Zoë is also the one who is willingly going to her death, embracing the prophecy even though she knows it refers to her specifically.