.reef.

Rick Riordan’s switch up on Percy is so funny to me. In older books it’s painfully obvious that Riordan preferred him, with his constant insistence that Percy is the strongest despite severely under-exploring everyone else’s powers, every character speaking highly of him, and his insane feats. In recent books, Percy is both demonised and flanderised. He has been dumbed down to the point of being unable to do anything without Annabeth, he’s being called out and blamed for things he didn’t do, and he’s just being bashed at every opportunity. Literally what happened???

percy all of twelve years old, three apples tall, sitting with the truth that what happened wasn’t a dream. the minotaur was there and it grabbed his mom and…he remembers a shower of gold but he also remembers hearing all about how his mind is wrong from all his teachers and counselors, how it doesn’t work right, not to mention how “normal” human brains function and the way they can overwrite their own memories and force themselves to believe in what didn’t happen rather than what did. percy who spent the last year being gaslit by both grover and chiron about how mrs dodds didn’t exist and that he didn’t kill her. percy trying with all his might to figure out if he really watched his mother became a shower of gold or if it’s his mind tricking himself and she was really a shower of red viscera

thalia and percy having a bond between each other and full trust in the other because they both dealt with alcoholic abusive parental figures, and them being the only people who truly know what beryl and gabe did to them

I needddd more people to acknowledge this

The only reason we didn’t get this is canon is because Thalia never found out about Gabe.

she shouldve found out 😔

and if i said selectively mute percy- [gunshots]

man I sure love that character I wish the writers did too

i love every pixel of you my dear mutual

Just because Bianca didn't want to deal with Nico 24/7 does NOT mean she cared about him any less.

percy constantly says pacifically instead of specifically and it drives annabeth crazy <- three seconds away from throttling him

Percy, no! You'll start a pun war you won't be able to end! She'll replace "I'll" with "owl" and even though it sounds the same, you'll know she's saying "weave" instead of "we've!"