‘louder than gods revolver and twice as shiny’

her father canonically has consistently undermined rachel. i’m going to be paraphrasing and speaking off memory but:

in the opening lines of the last olympian, before rachel even mentions the situation revolving clarion’s, percy asks her if her father is “giving you a hard time again”.

rachel states her father doing nice things to her is rare and it feels “almost worse” and thinks he only does this to make her feel bad (which she does, and percy immediately tells and fears for her about)

when rachel tells her father he only cares about their reputation, percy notes that he looks unsurprised, as if her father has heard rachel say this before.

when rachel hugs her father and says she’ll make him proud, percy states that her father was 1. clearly surprised by the hug, as if it weren’t a common occurrence, and 2. his features made it obvious that he was being manipulative.

in ToA, when she comes to camp after an increased influence by the mortal world, apollo states she looks nothing like herself. she’s straightened her hair, she’s thinner, her outfit makes her look like an “ancient farmer’s wife”. apollo says in his internal monologue she looks nothing like herself. she only starts to look more like herself when her oracle powers return.

neglect is inherently harmful as well and something rachel’s parents do so severely that rachel believes no one would even notice if she went missing (mentioned in BoTL)

these manipulative behaviours don’t just switch off overnight. he doesn’t only do this once. rachel hasn’t only made these conclusions about her father after a singular experience. rachel has noticed a pattern in her father’s behaviour, one percy has also noticed and fears for her for and one apollo has noticed the clear influence of.

translations by me

“You look hungry.

Yellowjackets 2x04 “Old Wounds”