As long as we're together..

But he can also play the piano, taking it over from Julie during Bright:

And the banjo...

He is literally an author that give Tumblr diversity in popular books and yet it go mostly ignored. He has featured:

-Interracial couples

-Bisexual characters

-Gay characters

-Gay POC

-Pansexual characters

-Gender fluid characters

-Characters with disabilities (mental and physical)

-Asexual characters

-Children from abusive homes

-Characters with PTSD

-Characters with depression

-Representation of different cultures and religions

-Homeless teens

-Talks about racism 

-Talks about the horrible nature of parents kicking out their non-hetero-normative children

-Talks about abusive parents in general

-Talks about the importance of religion to someone’s beliefs

-Talks about how family is important

-Talks about how you are not your family

-Talks about how you can make your own family from the friends that support you

That is probably not every single one but thost are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Rick Riordan makes these concepts important in his books and honestly makes the more complicated ones easy to understand. I know some may consider his books a bit more childish but it’s important to show young readers the different types of people in the world. It’s important to show them that heroes can come in every type of person. 

He has such a cute laugh!

And his smile is just the cutest!

I mean, look at it

Its just plain adorable!

And, who can forget the fact that he is a little Beast just like his father.

Just look at his little roar!

He’s is absolutely precious!

Ben snatching the microphone away from the announcer

Ben genuinely looks like he has no idea what he’s doing at the beginning

literally no one but Audrey is surprised by Ben spelling Mal’s name and half the audience awww’s because they think it’s adorable

Evie participates in spelling Mal’s name

Doug counting in Spanish

Evie being hyped, while Mal’s just traumatized

Mal’s “I brought this on myself” reaction faces

Ben literally falling to his knees and rolling around on the ground like the adorable puppy he is

Carlos just shrugging after he and Jay have to pull Ben back to his feet

Evie grabbing Mal’s arm and sings in her face

a third of the choreography is just the entire tourney team pelvic thrusting

Ben blowing a kiss to Mal

Mal’s little gasp after the team throws Ben in the air

Ben wolf-howling throughout the song

Ben starts stripping and the entire team just points at Mal in the bleachers like this is no big deal

the fact that other girls actually try to catch Ben’s jersey

Mal’s smile after she catches Ben’s jersey

Jane is the knight mascot

Ben jumping onto two people in a horse costume

the team catching Ben after he slides off the horse mascot

the cheer squad boys throwing their future king into the stands

Ben crowd-surfing over to Mal

Mal attempting to run away the second she realizes what he’s doing

Evie physically stopping her from leaving and turning her around to face the mess she has created

Mal using Ben’s jersey as a shield when he tries to kiss her

Ben immediately pulling her into a one-armed hug after she doesn’t let him kiss her

“I love you, Mal! Did I mention that?” Yes, Ben, yes you did

Mal clinging to Ben’s jersey for dear life

the abrupt cheerfulness of “Chad’s my boyfriend now!”

Audrey and Chad sharing the only actual kiss in the entire movie

Ben snatching the mic out of Audrey’s hand

Ben loudly yelling “Mal! Will you go to the coronation with me!?" even though Mal is literally standing right next to him

Mal shouting "Yes!” just as loudly into the microphone

Ben excitedly shouting “She said yes!” even though everyone obviously heard her

Lonnie being super excited for them

Ben still tries to hold onto Mal’s hand as he walks away

Mal holding Ben’s jersey up to her chest after Ben leaves

howls like a wolf

middle name is “Florian”

gives the biggest and bestest hugs

has no chill

owns swim trucks with his family crest on them

shakes like a dog after getting out of the lake

automatically jumped in front of Mal when Jane stole the wand

was about to attack Maleficent before he was frozen

is at least six inches taller than his little pixie dragon girlfriend

has literally no chill

roars like a lion

is smooth as hell

is so tactile it’s hilarious

can’t turn down a challenge

snatched a cookie out of Mal’s hands and ate it to prove he trusted her

is a precious cinnamon roll