#am i projecting
I finally figured out what’s so important about my favorite line in the Lightning Thief musical. It’s near the end of “Bring on the Monsters,” at the end of the musical, when he says, “I’ll be back next summer, you’ll see me again, I’ll be back next summer, I’ll survive til then.”
He’s not talking about the actual literal monsters, you know?
This is a kid with ADHD and dyslexia who’s been kicked out of school after school. Anyone who knows anything about what it’s like to be a neurodivergent kid in school knows that Percy must have dreaded the end of every single summer up til now.
I was so thrown off when I graduated college, because for the first time that I could remember, I didn’t experience the onset of severe depression that autumn. Because I wasn’t in school!! It was 2020, and graduating as a new nurse into a fucking pandemic caused less mental and emotional distress than the prospect of starting another school year as a neurodivergent student!!!
THAT is how much school sucks for neurodivergent people.
Hell. Kids with ADHD have a higher risk of suicide and I think a TON of it has to do with school issues, whether it’s academic or social (isolation, bullying etc).
Going to Camp Half-Blood, making/deepening real friendships, and finding out he was a demigod made such a huge difference for Percy that he could face another school year calmly and confidently for the first time. “Bring on the real world… I’ll be back next summer, I’ll survive til then.” He’s talking about surviving school as a neurodivergent kid.
stargirl interlude by the weeknd is such a klapollo and blackmadhi song
Saeyoung:
- I’m so mysterious nobody knows anything about me
Also saeyoung:
- literally has a username titled “Hacker God”
- It is a known fact by the entirety of the RFA that he hacks shit for a living when he could easily pretend he has a regular (((legal))) IT job but noooo
- Claims everything to do w his job is a secret but will constantly drop hints about how dangerous it is and will even go into story tangents about his various adventures whenever he feels like it
- Talks about a hacker group that constantly chases him, making it very clear that he does ILLEGAL SHIT
- Hell even invites them to the party
- Openly only uses cash
- Speaking of cash, makes a shitton of it somehow
- Again, he openly admits he’s a hacker!!! Hackers don’t do that!!! They say they’re a techie for some random firm, or something else entirely!!!! They’re not this open!!! If saeyoung were really so secretive, only V would know mfs a hacker and everyone else would think he works at some start up or something
- Makes it very clear hes not in a normal work environment? Pls it screams “illegal secret agency” omg
- Admitted to running away from home and having a brother the moment someone asked him
- Will tell you his thinly veiled allegorical dreams about his origin story whenever he feels like it (mother cat and brother cat dream, the pirate ship and planet one, etc.)
- “Why didn’t you feed us, mother cat? Oh well, if it weren’t for that, I wouldn’t have gone on so many adventures” pls
- After playing all the routes leading up to his, the only surprise in his backstory would probably be the prime minister thing and his name tbh
Some might say it’s foreshadowing, I say it’s the fact that he needs validation and needs to feel seen so he drops so many ‘hints’ about his life.
i am insufferable sometimes
