#liperpiper

“Since when were memes not romantic?” is such an...

This is a somewhat old ask I found in my drafts, but heck yeah.

In no particular order:

Leo making Piper vegetarian food.

Piper trusting Leo enough to tell him about her father

Leo reminding Piper she can trust him. “Piper, you’re the strongest, most powerful beauty queen I’ve ever met. You can trust yourself. For what it’s worth, you can trust me too.”

Piper kissing Leo on the cheek? Adorable

Leo saying Piper would love Emmie’s enchiladas in the Hidden Oracle :’)

Piper: Leo, do you like your marshmellows burnt, or no?

Leo: Burnt, what else?

Piper: figures, you’re pretty much a burnt marshmellow yourself

Percy: *opens a soda can*

Piper: We’re having a moment

We’re regaining lots of fans for this ship, so I just wanna share two of the most popular theories among Liper shippers in case some of you haven’t heard them!

1. The Wilderness Theory

(This is probably the most popular Liper theory, even among non-romantic Liper shippers)

Theory: The memories Hera faked between Jason and Piper actually happened between Leo and Piper.

In TLH, Couch Hedge and Dylan subtly implied that Leo and Piper were friends at the wilderness school even before Hera stepped in and inserted Jason into their friendship, right? The theory here is that the memories Hera faked between Piper and Jason actually happened between Leo and Piper instead; they were the ones who sat on the roof under the stars and kissed.

Other fans’ on this thoery: Cedarleaf, your-demigod-diaries, gh0ulpunk, ruby-sliper-of-iowa, possiibility

2. The Parallel/Forge and Dove Theory

Theory: That Beckendorf and Silena are a parallel to Leo and Piper.

(First of all, Liper and Charlena are both Hephaestus/Aphrodite pairings)

A few ways Leo is contrasted with Beckendorf:

He was given Beckendorf’s bunk to sleep in

He tames Festus, something the Hephaestus kids said only Beckendorf had previously been able to do.

Beckendorf sacrificed himself in a fiery explosion to help end a war. And what did Leo do? The exact same thing.

A few ways Piper is contrasted with Silena:

(first of all, some Aphrodite kids compared Piper to Silena a lot in TLH, funnily enough)

Piper became Head Counselor like Silena, and was compared to Silena because she didn’t believe in the Aphrodite cabin’s breaking hearts tradition

In TLH, Piper was manipulated into betraying her friends, just as Silena was (though Piper fessed up to Leo and Jason before it came down to that)

Beckendorf and Silena were lovers, and it still bothers me that these correlations were set up and never addressed?? It was weirdly obvious that Leo and Piper were being compared and contrasted with their cabins’ previous Head Counselors.

My behavior was unacceptable, and I especially want to apologize to the person who tried to explain to me how Rick was racist before I attempted to justify Piper’s eye color, even though I doubt that person will see this. I’ve learned since then why it’s an issue, and though that doesn’t erase my past actions, I hope those of you who’re reading this can at least forgive me for being ignorant.

As a white person, I’m always going to be unlearning the racism society has ingrained into our culture, and while I’m glad I’ve been able to learn more about racism, poc issues, and intersectional feminism since then, I’m sorry for any people of color who were affected by my actions. None of you deserve that.