Rachel telling Reyna about the homoerotic rivalry she had with Annabeth and how hot she is when she’s mad. Reyna going to Percy with these descriptions and Percy just nodding and going “Yes. Annabeth is very hot when she’s mad. I agree.” And Reyna nods soundly and begins her experiment in ragebaiting Annabeth to see how hot she is. She doesn’t really Get It until they’re sparring one day and Reyna proves to be a Very Good match for Annabeth in strategy and power and so they’re both going at it hard and Reyna sees that flash of aggression in her eyes and she’s just like. Oh. I get it.
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okay yeah sure the gods make a crockpot of all four of them to give pereychabeth a child as a result but consider the hysterical alternative: six kids, each born of a different pairing. there is a child of perachel, a child of reynabeth, a child of percabeth, a child of reychel, a child of rachabeth, and a child of pereyna. even more real and true to me: they’re all daughters. SEND TWEET!!!!!!
I feel like Percy and Reyna would be better at handling money than Rachel and Annabeth but for different reasons. Percy because he grew up at the edge of poverty, and Reyna because she literally had to run the books on an army.
true. like rachel grew up ultra wealthy and even if she is like pretty aware of social issues…she does not know how much a loaf of bread costs. then annabeth also grew up wealthy but spent most of her time in a camp where money wasn’t really a thing. they used drachmas but like she never had to pay for food or anything so 🤷 then once she integrated back into the mortal world a little, it was on her fathers dime who is still very wealthy. i still believe in annabeth living with the jackson’s for their senior year and i think she may be a bit more aware at that point, but not to the degree that percy would be ultra hyperaware of money from growing up in poverty.
i could see reyna being in the same boat as annabeth honestly bc while she did run the books for an army, that’s a thriving city so she was still like. loaded. i think percy would be the odd man out and stressed bc they’re spending like $10 on a burger but reyna gets stressed when they spend like $20 on a burger bc that’s just excessive guys. there are far cheaper options!!! while rachel and annabeth are like ?? we need to eat and we have the money for it. it’s fine. and reyna is like. percy is passed out in the backseat guys please
LMAO i might be projecting a little bc i grew up in a similar financial situation to percy and i’m hyperaware of money and hate spending like. a dime. but i get to watch my siblings growing up in a far more stable financial situation and they do NOT care or stress about money the way i do. so i feel like that dichotomy would exist in their relationship, esp when it comes to percy. but reyna would be next to follow getting stressed when they spend more and more money. idk who would get stressed first between rachel and annabeth bc while rachel grew up richer than annabeth, she is more aware of social issues that annabeth would be so i feel like rachel would notice it first and point it out but i don’t think she’d get stressed about it necessarily.
that said i think reyna would be best suited as the money handler in their relationship bc percy does not want to spend any money whatsoever and is so frugal and hyperaware that they get by on scraps but then rachabeth are over there getting scammed BAD and spending hundreds when it should be like maybe $50. reyna however would be able to handle their money and let them live comfortably without going broke or without hoarding the money and living minimally. she’s the balance between them i think.
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So I love the idea of a Percy and Rachel friendship post TLO but honestly the idea of them almost silently resenting each other because of the lack of interaction for years or months is a tantalizing idea.
Like from both their perspective the other can see like kid of a bad friend, and the absence plays a part in it.
Percy is a guy who is deeply loyal to his friends, and family. He loves Grover, Nico was like a little brother to him, he immediately attached to Frank and Hazel. He loves very easily. So when Rachel said she didn’t like him but liked he was an access point to the Greek world, I imagine it hurt on multiple levels. That I think he could get over, but that she basically ghosted him right after even though they were their closest friends for a year has got to hurt. (We don’t know that they haven’t hung out or interacted but from the way they talked in universe I don’t think they have been.) And it kinda stinks because from Percy’s perspective it’s almost like she did that think where people stop being your friend when they realize they won’t date you. It’s more complicated than that but it would still sting.
Then from Rachel’s perspective she risked alot, and but alot of faith in this guy she doesn’t know well, then develops what she thinks is a crush. She then proceeds to spend the next year making moves on this guy while he completely stone walls her for this other girl he’s pining over. (This is more a head canon thing but Rachel is pretty direct, I don’t think she spent the entire year without trying a couple different time.) Which as a teenage girl must not help with your self esteem to much, even more if other people in school knew and sent you pitying looks.
So I do think some tension makes sense.
And it’s a super interesting concept to write about.
That being said I do want to have a good relationship by the end despite the road blocks.
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. i love fucking up characters and their relationships so bad. like yeah. you should be more sick and twisted and complex.
like rr definitely dropped the ball on their friendship bc he favors romantic pairings over platonic ones but i digress. i just tended to view it as a background thing where they're still friends but their relationship isn't brought to the light in canon text. but like. damn. this hits.
like i do think the whole "percy was rachel's doorway into the godly world" can be so fucked, ESPECIALLY from percy's pov bc homeboy already has these insecurities and fears that he'll never be enough - although those tended to manifest more in hoo with his fear of drowning where he equates it more to drowning in all the expectations people have of him, but even in pjo he had these insecurities like in the circe scene and the whole thing with calypso, rachel, and annabeth (and arguably nico but i don't blame him for that one) where he couldn't pick up on or understand their feelings for him bc, in his own words, "i'm just me." he doesn't view himself as this larger than life phenomenon. hell, he only really gets recognition in the godly world from his friends at camp and even that's...ehhh bc percy was also the underdog at camp and wasn't fully accepted as like leader and "hero" until like botl-tlo. he was NOT recognized at all in the mortal world. he was also looked down on and blamed for everything when it came to just being a normal guy.
so like calypso and annabeth's acknowledgement of his very existence he could tie to the godly world and being the son of poeseidon and going on all these quests and whatnot, but rachel was just a normal mortal girl. and sure she saw the monsters and stuff, but she didn't hang out with him for the quests and glory and whatnot, she hung out with him all summer to drive to the beach and to vacation with her parents and to just be normal kids. like she wasn't grover who made friends with him bc he suspected he was a demigod and needed to protect him and bring him to camp to get his searchers license. she wasn't tyson who was pushed toward him by poseidon bc tyson needed help and wanted a friend/a brother. rachel just genuinely found him interesting and wanted to hang out with him.
THEN she just...becomes the oracle and fucks off????? i was just her doorway into the godly world AGAIN??? the fates tied us together?? she didn't just want to be my friend because she liked me but because of outside interference??? god. i would never recover from that. he took that shit like a champ what???? the one person who i believe likes me for me as just this normal loser guy actually was brought to me by the fates and was kept in my orbit by the fates so that she could become the oracle by the fates. she was never there of her own volition??? god i would've kms icl sorry but its true. and then salt in the wound is that she genuinely just fucks off afterward and we don't really speak again?? so she really truly never really liked me? i really was just a stepping stone, a doorway, a tool. never a person. FUCK. okay i'm moving on.
and like rachel's side is also. kinda fucked. i mean i go my whole life seeing a bunch of nightmarish hellish hallucinations and people treat me like i'm not all there and they pump me full of meds (did they? i feel like she was probably put on meds at some point but i don't think that's canon lmao) and i'm completely ignored and then here comes this shining beacon of light who can make sense of my world and treat me like a normal person and i might get a little too attached but fucking sue me he's the only mother fucker i respect in this bitch and maybe the feelings are real, maybe they aren't, but i believe they are and there's understanding between us and he's hung out with me all school year and all summer like we've barely spent a moment apart and he's my reprieve just as much as i'm his and there's whispers of a war on The Other Side and he's about to leave and i'm worried about him so i kiss him and he fucks off without a word, his friend laughing as they soar into the sky and ow??? it's bad enough i've been rebuffed all year (she may be direct but i think it would take a few times for it to clock with percy bc his esteem is in the shitter) and the people who already give me looks for being "insane" are now giving me these pitying looks and laughing behind my back and god am i imagining this too?
then it finally makes sense. the curse is lifted and this pull leads me to camp, to the big house, to the oracle and i know what it was all leading me to do and this wave of relief and stability washes over me more so than percy provided all year and i'm so caught up in it all that i just...this is what i was meant to do right? this is my destiny? FUCK something about fate and destiny warping the minds makes me soooooo. like yeah this is what you're meant to do but it doesn't erase everything else. he's still your friend but you're meant for greatness and greatness can't waste time on those little meaningless bonds so she tells percy he was her gateway and that he deserves annabeth - the girl who rachel could never reach or touch in his eyes but it's fine, it's fine, i'm meant for greatness - and she watches them get together and there's a chasm between them now so it seems to reaffirm to her that that bond was just a stepping stone to her fate, it wasn't real, missing it is pointless.
but they still both miss each other and want one another back but rachel was so caught up in finally finding her place and her fate and percy was so hurt by said fate and being a tool yet again for someone else that that distance festers and rots a little between them AUGHHH put me down like a mutt jesus christ
like especially for a mortal who has never dipped her toes in the godly world outside of leading them thru the labyrinth and seeing monsters all her life, apollo/the oracle is like her one touch of divinity and i think that should've fucked her up a little. warped her perspective and mind a little. like you know how beryl grace got like...addicted to godly attention? she was over the moon with zeus/jupiter taking a liking to her and having two kids with her and she spiraled when she lost that attention? something similar with rachel where she's touched and chosen by divinity, made and destined to be the oracle of delphi, speaker of the prophecies of phoebus apollo. that's crazy. esp x2 for a teenager. her brushing off her friendship w percy both from a place of "well you want her more" but also "i'm meant to be more" goes crazy.
i just need someone to talk her down a little LMAO i'm thinking either reyna or annabeth just bc that's what pereychabeth is whispering to me but like annabeth who was told by chiron when she was younger that she'd get a quest one day then everything goes to shit and her mom gives her the once in a lifetime solo death quest and it does make her great but also my friends are what's important at the end of the day and what matters,, or she might just be the speaker for percy instead where she sees how he pouts when rachel gets brought up or if she brushes him off or something so she's the one to talk to him about his side of things. going hand in hand with my reychel agenda of rachel healing reyna's heart then reyna heals something in rachel as well of "you are a person outside of your role" type thing where reyna was always the warrior and the leader of camp jupiter but never just reyna and she sees that in rachel too where rachel clings to her role as oracle and reyna is just like "yeah but what about rachel and her wants and likes and hobbies?" and like now rachel is in percy's shoes where reyna makes her feel like a normal girl where rachel once made percy feel like a normal boy. god they make me sick
