#perisse

(if you dfw with either of these feel free to just ignore this lmao)

Hello! Thanks for asking :)

Mh so this one is hard to answer because I don’t really interact with the fandom anymore, on a “seeking out content” base at least? So I don’t really know what’s... popular or unpopular? Like, it’s been years.

I do think it’s a safe bet that Perc/abeth is still highly overrated in this fandom though. People fawn over it just because it’s the canon endgame. But like... it is literally even in canon overrated? Riordan really went ahead and wrote about Arachne, a villain, making tapestry of two teens kissing like they’re THE all defying romance? Like even the VILLAINS care about this romance? In universe, that’s some high level bullshit even if this was some all odds defying epic romance. That’s the definition of being overrated, honestly. Everybody, literally everybody, ships it, even the villains. C’mon, cool down a bit. And fandom’s adapted that view tht this is like the best ship ever and act like the Pikachu meme when they encounter someone who doesn’t ship it and get even more baffled when you show them instances of where they just Really Do Not Work for you like somehow while reading the text themselves, their eyes temporarily stopped working when those scenes happen? Will never stop amazing me, honestly.

I don’t know about the most underrated ship, but I feel like the majority of non big name ships - meaning, basically all canon ships and a very assorted, selective small number of widely approved non canon ships (like Jason/Percy, or Reyna/Annabeth) - are very underrated. It’s like... stuck? But that’s a problem nearly all modern fandoms have, that experimenting with rarepairs is just not very popular, once there is an assortment of mainstream ships.

I’d say that like... Percy/Clarisse stands out, considering that there is a whole-ass movie about their dynamic, an entire book that centers heavily about their dynamic, and a whole short story that literally is about them. Considering all that canon material, it really does baffle me that it’s not more popular.

wish i could. unfortunately it is entirely vibe based.

either u get it or u don't.

kidding ummmmm. it's the toxicity that draws me in tbh...they are the ship that percabeth antis pretend percabeth is and yknow what? i love it. they are both teenage dirtbags with so much anger and they understand one another sooooooo much bc they see themselves in each other and that's where the anger comes in.

i've talked about it before here and here !!

i think i used the wrong term bc i was distracted when reblogging 😭 but i just mean. they're exes. and they were toxic. but now they're like frenemies. yknow? kind of like their canon dynamic. not necessarily toxic exes