Oh Luke⦠what are you becoming? Do you know what youāve already become.
With every passing episode and season, Lukeās getting worse. The further along we get, the lesser weāll see any emotion from him, itāll be just rage or numbness. Or Kronos.
His fatal flaw really flared up here because now he sees Percy as a part of the problem. As a part of reason that Annabeth isnāt on his side. How could this kid, this son of Poseidon, have any hold over his Annabeth? His sister? But it all changed for him for the worse the second he realised Annabeth lied to him on the boat⦠he realised that he wasnāt who Annabeth trusted, it was Percy.
But in all that, heās just cemented the loss of a potential brother. Someone who really looked up to him, until he realised that Lukeās actions almost cost him his mother. Just like Luke, at some point, realised that the Olympians actions cost him his mother.
And so here we are. With a Percy who thought disarming Luke meant that heād won the fight. And with a Luke who gave into his rage and beat Percy with his fist, because he didnāt care about the bones crushing against his knuckles or the blood across the face of the boy who once looked up to himā¦