the thing i love about annabeth and that i feel a lot of people get wrong about her is that yes shes a lovergirl but she's also so incredibly self-possessed that we frequently see her refuse to lose or sacrifice herself (in terms of values and personality, not in terms of physical safety if that makes sense) for the sake of someone else. she's nobody's sidekick. and i think thats so neat for a female character, to look at particularly the two most important guys in her life, percy and luke, and refuse to be subsumed by their burdens. like yeah she'll call percy a coward and refuse to run away with luke. and that doesnt take away from the fact that she believes so deeply in them that it pulls them out of the generational cycles they've all been trapped in, one way or another
