i always thought poseidon suddenly being besties with percy had a large part in the fact that percy had just a seething anger towards poseidon in the first book and once the gods realised what was happening with luke they were like “oh shit” bc you have a hermes kid turn to the dark side ehhh that can maybe be dealt with
but a child of the big 3?? nah it’s over
so they kinda sent poseidon to curve that whole thing but percy took that shit and RAN with it
he saw that poseidon could do it and said “ok so if you can everyone else can too! cool so where’s the reparations🤨” and in the end he’s solidly grown himself in like a weed with the gods like he’s this little whispering voice in the back of the gods heads and it’s so funny














