im rereading the titan’s curse and it’s just so good????? Just so dam good?????
Percy’s mom driving them to his quest
The first percabeth dance and they are entirely awkward and Annabeth is like two inches taller than him and I live for it
Also this is before Depression™ Nico so he’s uber into mythomagic and worships the ground Percy walks on and just:
“Are you really the son of Poseidon?”
“Can you surf really well, then?”
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. “Jeez, Nico,” I said. “I’ve never really tried.”
also just thalia. Percy describing her as an oversized raven.
“Wow,” Thalia muttered. “Apollo is hot.”
“He’s the sun god,” I said.
“That’s not what I meant.”
And Zoe Nightshade. My actual will to live.
The beef between Zoe and Thalia and how they just snip at each other the entire book. It makes me even more sad that Zoe dies because this had the unbridled potential of sister snarkiness between the two.
Also the beef between Thalia and Percy was everything and its ironic that the fight scene in Moa between Jason and Percy was so underwhelming when riordan gave us this:
I sat down hard. There was a burning smell; I had a feeling it was my clothes. “Thalia!” Chiron said. “That is enough!”
I got to my feet and willed the entire creek to rise. It swirled up, hundreds of gallons of water in a massive icy funnel cloud.
Also the distinction between Chiron reprimanding Thalia and then pleading with Percy is really interesting.
Percy iris messaging his mom to find her on a date and asking Paul if he would like some more wine? get it Sally. Also:
Percy: Mom,I’m not sure if I should break the rules and leave camp.
Percy meeting with Aphrodite and she looks like Annabeth for a moment
Bianca’s death. It’s the first death in the series hence was so unexpected that I actually reread that section multiple times when I first got the book to verify that she actually died.
Also how she died? Trying to get something for her younger brother??? Which is later revealed to be Nico’s only missing figurine, Hades, like god that’s poetic.
The entire dam sequence. Like that was so funny and now it really strikes me that wow these are just kids being kids and I love it.
The imagery of the final battle is really stunning. The sky meeting the earth in a billowing funnel of clouds. The ruins of a castle rebuilding as they fight Atlas and Luke. – It’s something I would love to see adapted to screen.
I looked at Thalia and Zoe, and I decided it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world to die fighting with friends like this.
Both Percy and Annabeth held the weight of the sky and got matching gray streaks because of it.
The fact that Zoe went on the quest knowing that she would die.
“Stars,” she whispered. “I can see the stars again, my lady.”
And how she’s now a constellation in the sky. Not to mention, this was the second death of a major character in the same book like that shook little me. hoo could never
Thalia just straight up kicking Luke of a fucking cliff is just so absurdly funny to me
“You didn’t believe I was dead?”
Annabeth: Oh Luke isn’t dead. I just know it. The same way you knew about me.
Percy, screaming internally: shut the fuck up shut the fuck up shut the fuck up
The gods voting on whether if they should kill thalia and percy. Athena: I, for one, think they should die. Also stay away from my daughter.
The second percabeth dance and Percy describes the music as sad, but a little hopeful as well.
And finally, the reveal as Nico as a child of the big three and Percy choosing in that moment to be the chosen one. Like, we simply didn’t deserve pjo percy.
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