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LEO VALDEZ AND PIPER MCLEAN ARE BEST FRIENDS AND I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP ERASING IT.

PERCY JACKSON WAS EXTREMELY CLOSE FRIENDS WITH CHARLES BECKENDORF AND I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP FORGETTING THAT.

CLARRISE LA RUE CARED ABOUT SILENA BEAUREGARD WITH ALL HER HEART AND I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP FORGETTING THAT.

PERCY JACKSON AND RACHEL ELIZABETH DARE WERE GREAT FRIENDS BEFORE SHE LIKED HIM AND STILL WERE AFTER AND I WISH PEOPLE WOULD STOP ERASING THAT.

I WISH PEOPLE REMEMBERED BIANCA DI ANGELO FOR MORE THAN JUST LEAVING NICO FOR THE HUNTERS. SHE WANTED TO BE FREE.

I WISH PEOPLE REMEMBER ZOË NIGHTSHADE FOR MORE THAN ‘THE DAM SNACK BAR’. SHE FOUGHT BRAVELY FOR ARTEMIS.

I WISH FRANK WAS TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY BY THE FANS AND STOP BEING WRITTEN OFF AS THE AWKWARD ONE.

I WISH LEO WOULD STOP BEING LABELED AS THE FLIRT.

I WISH THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN LEO ANS CALYPSO WASN’T SO CRUSHING TO THE FORMING OF THEIR CHARACTER.

I WISH PERCY WASN’T CALLED A GOOFBALL BUT THEN NOT CONSIDERED FOR HOW SMART HE REALLY IS.

I WISH PEOPLE REMEMBERED THALIA’S PAIN WHEN JASON WAS TAKEN AWAY.

AND THALIA FEELING THAT PAIN AGAIN WHEN LEARNING ABOUT LUKE.

I WISH PEOPLE REMEMBERED THAT LUKE WASNT ALWAYS A BAD GUY AND THAT HE TRULY CARED ABOUT ANNABETH.

I WISH THAT WILL SOLACE WAS TAKEN MORE SERIOUSLY. HE IS NOT JUST NICO’S BOYFRIEND. HE IS A FIERCE, INTELLIGENT DOCTOR WHO HELPED MANY IN THE WAR DURING “THE LAST OLYMPIAN” (HE HELPED ANNABETH!)

REYNA HAD A VALID REASON TO FEEL PAIN WHEN PERCY SAID HE WAS NOT INTERESTED IN HER. IT STINGS.

RACHEL ALSO HAD A VALID REASON.

SO DID CALYPSO.

AND SO DID NICO.

THESE CHARACTERS ARE SO MUCH MORE THAN WHAT THEIR LABELED AS AND WHAT PEOPLE REMEMBER.

In 1943, a team of ingenious Italian doctors invented a deadly, contagious virus called Syndrome K to protect Jews from annihilation. On October 16 of that year, as Nazis closed in to liquidate Rome’s Jewish ghetto, many runaways hid in the 450-year-old Fatebenefratelli Hospital. There, anti-Fascist doctors including Adriano Ossicini, Vittorio Sacerdoti and Giovanni Borromeo created a gruesome, imaginary disease.

“Syndrome K was put on patient papers to indicate that the sick person wasn’t sick at all, but Jewish” and in need of protection, Ossicini told Italian newspaper La Stampa last year. The “K” stood for Albert Kesselring and Herbert Kappler — two ruthless Nazi commanders.

The doctors instructed “patients” to cough very loudly and told Nazis that the disease was extremely dangerous, disfiguring and molto contagioso. Soldiers were so alarmed by the list of symptoms and incessant coughing that they left without inspecting the patients. It’s estimated that a few dozen lives were saved by this brilliant scheme.

The doctors were later honored for their heroic actions, and Fatebenefratelli Hospital was declared a “House of Life” by the International Raoul Wallenberg Foundation.