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where is He getting the fucking candy from

I'm shaking this is Serious. i have proposed some theories and evidence for everyone to look at but feel to share your own theories so long as they are pg-13 and rooted in Facts and Logic

THEORY 1. he gets the candy from a supplier who is one of his mortal "friends"

this excerpt is from botl but the illegal candy trade bit js from tlt and it's never mentioned again. percy is a total outcast in tlt and as far as I can remember he doesn't mention befriending a single person at yancy academy besides grover. so while percy may have pulled together a classroom friend or two by the time botl rolls around and he's newly attending goode high (paul's school) it just doesn't seem like percy had friends besides grover in tlt - especially given that he's gone to many different schools by the time tlt starts

grover has no need for mortal money and he eats fuckign. soda cans. he is probably not supplying the candy to percy

this doesn't mean that percy could not have been roped into an illegal candy trade by someone who is more of an acquaintance rather than an actual friend

THEORY 2: percy buys the candy himsef

percy has some cash in tlt. he may have used this cash to buy his candy in bulk for cheap to then sell it back to his peers at a higher rate for profit

we can safely reason that sally just gives percy some cash in case of emergencies or whatever else, so this holds up well enough

if sally told percy to only use the money for emergencies then I think he would feel too guilty to use it for other reasons. but sally is nice and fairly chill so she may have also told him that he can use it for other things he likes, including illegal contraband

THEORY 3: he steals the candy

percy jackson is a lot of things but he is NOT a thief;!!

THEORY 4: SALLY JACKSON is his illegal supplier

sally works at a fucikng candy shop. this is compelling evidence because she would just Give percy the candy for free. he can eat it himself or sell it back to his peers at unethical resale rates.me personally I am choosing tbe latter

is sally complicit in his crimes...? giving him "free samples" that she can grab at work and then encourage her son to sell them back to his schoolmates...? probably not to be honest because doing this could get percy in trouble, and with all the likely expensive private schools sally has to send percy to I don't think she's risking extra reasons that might get him expelled

this doesn't remove the possibility that percy might just keep a few extra gumballs from sally's free samples and sell them to his sugar-starved peers at yancy

Casual racism that is brushed off as “an innocent mistake” or “they didn’t mean it” and then everyone pretending like it didn’t happen and moving on with their day (repeat)

Speaking over fans of color about issues that pertain to them specifically

When fans of color speak out about something that makes them uncomfortable or why that don’t interact with it (usually because of the racial/ethnic bias) they are accused of being anti’s or pro-censorship

Characters of color being used as scapegoats/bashed/plot devices 

Characters of color never getting happy endings/real development

Backlash against characters of color if they do anything other than be a white character’s side kick/best friend

Actors of characters of color being harassed for something their character did or didn’t do

White characters/actors getting all the attention/credit despite the fact that they are a side character to a POC or on the same level as the POC

Fanfic authors patting themselves on the back for writing a “realistic” character of color and it’s just a bunch of stereotypes

Being told that they should be happy they were even included when they call out the above people

White fans crying about persecution/exclusion because their fav character/trope/kink/ship isn’t loved by all 

Fan artists re-imaging characters of color as white/lightening skin tone

Everyone rushing to a white fans defense after a well deserved call out while the fan of color receives hate

Never having a safe fandom space and always having to be on guard with new people/fandoms/chats etc because they’ve been burned before

- (re)writing characters of color as abusive and/or violent to infantilize white characters

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jason being dropped off by his mommy and handed to a wolf when he's 2 and being a toddler soldier. ok what

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piper's dad being incapable of reconciling his worldview and this breaking his mind so badly that she has to parent him and give him a potion to make him forget. she's fifteen.

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leo being groomed by juno into being a hero. being baited by gaea into accidentally causing the death of his own mother. what

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hazel's mother being the daughter of a slave who herself gets enslaved to an evil entity. hazel being exploited by her own mother but perceiving her mother's trauma and being unable to resent her for it, loving her mother still, forgiving her mother, wanting her mother to find peace in the afterlife, sacrificing herself to give her mother peace. she was fourteen

hazel and her mother suffocating by their lungs filling with oil hazel remembering this frank witnessing this hazel and frank then sitting for what feels like an eternity experiencing the afterlife together. what

frank's life being tied to a stick frank giving the stick to hazel hazel keeping it next to her heart

frank's mother sacrificing herself in war like a month before the series starts frank being rocked by the grief and so full of anger at her for leaving him and he apparently needs to come to terms with the sacrifice and accept it and learn to do the same thing with his own life. then his grandmother dies. he's sixteen

quest to free death frank directly putting his life on the line to free Death. hazel knowing the grim reaper is literally coming for her throughout the entire book and just like going and setting him free anyway.

nico being clearly still unable to cope with bianca's death and still in the bargaining phase. like as an introduction to hazel. nico's eyes being like shattered glass after tartarus. nico losing control turning someone into a ghost. getting harassed by eros

reyna's dad becoming a mania her watching this process being terrified of him her having to kill him to save her sister her carrying guilt around from this her being told no demigod is going to heal her heart

frank being afraid of fire leo being afraid of fire but leo controlling fire but sometimes it getting away from him and killing a loved one. ok

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nico letting octavian die despite it being incredibly obvious that octavian does not understand the consequences of his actions

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annabeth admitting that she's scared of percy and what's happening to him and again the narrative just moves on like nothing happened

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