Nothing aside from the fact that once he figured out that Bessie was terrified of swords, he immediately put riptide away, sat down next to him and untangled the net he was captured in section by section, which took at least an hour, all the while talking to Bessie in a calm and soothing voice to make him feel safe.

percy is not an unreliable narrator, he just hates himself.

thats it. thats literally the only thing that makes him unreliable. youre calling him 'slow' or 'oblivious' because he didnt realize nico, annabeth, rachel etc. were in love with him? no he just didnt realize that anyone could loev him. because he sure didnt.

percy also always underplayed his own abilities, because he hates himself. he has shitty self esteem, of course hes going to mention only the basics, he thinks hes fucking sucks at everything.

When he gets home to the apartment he shares with Percy, it’s over. Percy becomes completely obsessed. He’s always got his hands in Nico’s hair—absentmindedly twirling strands, brushing it back from his face, tucking it behind his ear.

When they shower together, Percy takes his time shampooing and conditioning, working through the knots with ridiculous care. Afterwards, he blow-dries it until it’s perfectly soft and fluffy.

(It starts as affection, but it becomes something quieter. Percy knows what it means for Nico to let someone touch him like this—to lean into care without flinching, to let himself be soft. So every time his fingers move through that hair, it feels like a promise: you’re safe, you’re home, you don’t have to fight anymore.)

Evenings are their favorite. Nico sits between Percy’s legs on the couch while they watch The Great British Baking Show, because that’s exactly the level of stress either of them can handle at home. Percy runs his fingers through Nico’s hair, giving slow, gentle scalp massages that make Nico hum and lean back against him until he drifts off.

When Nico falls asleep, Percy scoops him up and carries him to bed. He lays Nico down, then slides in beside him, pulling him close until they’re pressed chest to chest. Nico buries his face in Percy’s neck, breathing steady and deep. Percy wraps one arm around Nico’s waist, slides the other under his head, and tangles his fingers back into that soft dark hair.

annabeth forever grieving luke and who he was insisting you can’t speak ill of the dead, being the biggest advocate that he died a hero while also feeling resentment that she couldn’t save him just never letting the version she has of him go

percy becoming so jaded and disillusioned with the gods wondering what the point of everything even is, not necessarily wanting to overthrow olympus but understanding luke’s bitterness and absolutely hating that he can relate and that him and luke are so similar

the awkward 11 year old kid on financial aid at his fancy private school, with blue candy wrappers in his pocket and a blue eraser so he won't fail the test. blue marker doodles on his arm that he drew in the lobby of the principal's office so he won't get expelled (again.) blue t-shirt on the first day of summer, so maybe his stepdad won't take notice of him when he comes back from boarding school. blue birthday cake so the next year will be lucky and blue pancakes because him and his mom made them together and blue backpack so maybe this school will be the one where people will treat him like he's Normal.

he's wearing a red jacket when the Minotaur attacks him and his mom on Half-blood Hill and he'll never wear that color again. when it's time to pick roommates in sixth grade at Yancy Academy and he doesn't have any friends to reach for immediately, he picks the boy with the blue shoes. this boy's name is grover underwood and he's a good roommate choice because later he'll turn out be a great satyr and one of the best friends this kid's ever had. percy wraps blue paper tape on his sword's hilt when the leather grip is falling apart and the walls of his mom's boyfriend's apartment (the jerk stepdad died) are dark blue so maybe this new guy will be cool. sally and paul's wedding ring is a blue diamond so yeah, he's cool. fuck.

they can think he's weird. superstitions mean nothing in greek mythology. but he's just scared. Luke Castellan's eyes were blue but when Kronos possessed him, they turned gold. nine year old in his fourth boarding school in four years, walking home wondering if his mom still cares because he doesn't know she's sending him away to make the monsters lose track, he just thinks she's sending him as far as possible from her. being reassured by the fact that she remembered to bring blue candy from her job at Sweet on America to greet him home for Christmas break and his stepdad will call them weird but he won't take notice.

he'll redo the blue paper tape on the sword's hilt for the entire month after the battle of manhattan so nothing else goes wrong, kronos won't come back, it'll really be over. and when that goes doesn't work and the giants rise on August 1st he'll wear blue instead of his CHB t-shirt so Gaea will fall.

because can you imagine being a regular ol' new yorker

and turning the corner one fine summer day

Percy is always seen with Riptide so everyone knows who the account is about

Students submit photos and videos of him, most of which are given no context at all

One picture shows Percy covered in gold dust and it’s captioned mr. sand man

The most popular post is a video of Percy swinging a “baseball bat” at the “janitor”

Students also send in conspiracy theories about him

Someone suggests he’s in the mafia

Someone else says he’s an alien

Another person thinks he’s the second coming of Christ

AHS goes through a brief period where they only refer to Percy as Jesus and give him offerings so they don’t go to hell

Percy is confused by it all

A student sends in a picture of Percy hanging out with Piper at Central Park

Everyone goes batshit insane because how the hell does Percy know Piper McLean???

Eventually Rachel finds the account and she thinks it’s hilarious

For some reason the account isn’t private so a bunch of people that don’t go to AHS follow it

Rachel convinces Percy to make an Instagram account so he can mess with ahs_ballpoint_pen and boy does he deliver

He gets his friends to take increasingly cryptic photos and videos of him

Annabeth finds an old news covering of him falling out of the St. Louis Arch and Percy sends it in

Once again his school thinks he’s the second coming of Christ because how the hell do you survive a fall that high up???

Through his finsta, Percy tells them that he aided in the presumed death of his ex-stepfather

The mafia theory comes back after that

There’s a video of Percy talking to a horse in the middle of the street right out front of AHS

The horse is actually Blackjack

By the end of the school year, the account has about 1 million followers

It blew up around December when someone finds CCTV footage of Percy stealing a police cruiser back when he had amnesia and posted it to the account

The best part of the footage is the police running after their stolen car and the person they had pulled over slowly driving away

ahs_bullpoint_pen accidentally starts a cult in Percy’s name