call out post for rick riordan

“From now on, I want to you properly recognize the children of the gods,” I said. “All the children …

of all the gods.”

The Olympians shifted uncomfortably.

“Percy,” my father said, “what exactly do you mean?”

“Kronos couldn’t have risen if it hadn’t been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their parents,” I said. “They felt angry, resentful, and unloved, and they had a good reason.”

Then hoo begins no less than three months later by completely breaking all of the promises that were made. Leo and Piper were claimed much older than they should have been. The gods have cut off contact from the camp, leaving our heroes to stumble around blind trying to figure out what the impending doom is. And the savior of Olympus has been plucked from his world, memory wiped, and thrown back into the ring against his will. The message that becomes so painstakingly clear from this is: the Gods have not changed, and if all of the losses from the war and Percy’s sacrifice could not change them, what else would? Like when I say Percy is three seconds away from snapping, its because I cannot imagine any other trajectory at this point. For Percy to not have reason to go against the gods, it has to assume he’s fine with the current status quo, that he’s okay that the events in the last olympian were practically done in vain, and I genuinely can’t imagine pjo Percy being fine with any of that. Like even hoo Percy literally struggles with that bitter anger towards the gods and it just… never has any resolution? As for — “he wouldn’t be able to justify the unavoidable losses it would bring” — those losses already are happening, regardless of what Percy or the others do. Jason is that loss. Percy’s loved ones are still dying because of the gods and if the series were for an older audience, I could have seen Jason’s death as being the tipping point for Percy. 

SINCERELY I don’t know how ELSE this is not the inevitable outcome. You finish the last olympian feeling that all of the death and loss and hardships of the series actually meant something. That everything they were fighting for was beautifully culminated in the final moment when Percy turned his wish back on the gods to hold them accountable and to better the lives of demigods and you put the book down satisfied and optimistic that while demigods will probably never have easy lives at least you feel that its going to be so much better.

But then hoo comes and Riordan just… undoes it all? So casually? So carelessly? And I know Rick didn’t intend to but structuring hoo the way he did just ruins so much of the weight and the power of the Last Olympian for me. You read hoo like oh so the gods haven’t changed huh? The demigods are still just pawns in their little games. Glad to know everything in pjo was for naught apparently.

And THEN its the funniest thing because then Riordan did characterize Percy all throughout hoo struggling with bitterness and anger at the gods and sympathizing with Luke and like you said Riordan is weaving these “Percy’s gonna lose it” threads left and right and here’s Percy struggling with a darkness then it never. goes. anywhere. Like I said there’s no resolution its basically “life sucks I’m going to Cali with my girlfriend dont contact me” and thats just so not something pjo Percy would do and I just wanna 

#like it’s not even that i’m such a fan of dark percy or characters losing it but there is no other conclusion that makes sense #there is no other ending to his arc that doesn’t sacrifice all of his development or make him seem completely apathetic #percy barely fucking got time to deal with the fact that calypso had been left behind in hoo #the gods betrayals were just piled on and he never got to deal with it!!!!! ( @lucypvnsie​ )

to my fellow white gays please remember just because he gave us semi good rep with his lgbtqia+ rep doesn't mean he's a good person and we shouldn't defend him because we do not understand!!!!!

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