I feel the need to balance out the kpop and non kpop stuff on this blog
Percy
“I suppose I’ll have to add the force of gravity to my list of enemies.”
Annabeth
“They didn’t understand it, but like so many unfortunate events in life, just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it isn’t so.”
Jason
“Miracles are like meatballs, because nobody can exactly agree on what they are made of, where they come from, or how often they should appear.”
Piper
“Strange as it may seem, I still hope for the best, even though the best, like an interesting piece of mail, so rarely arrives, and even when it does it can be lost so easily.”
Leo
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
Hazel
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough. and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.”
Frank
“Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don’t always like.”
Reyna
“I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed this, but first impressions are often entirely wrong.”
Nico
“It is one of life’s bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
Rachel
“Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.”
if all goes as planned, this upcoming weekend I’m gonna be getting a tattoo inspired by a series of unfortunate events
Judging you based on the 10th character you add when talking about The Seven + Nico and Reyna
Will: Solangelo shipper spotted. It’s probably your favorite ship. You will go to the ends of the earth to tell people that Will Solace is actually a good character guys.
Thalia: You probably enjoyed the og series more. Girlboss TM. You either hate or love Luke, no in between.
Rachel:You will defend her with your life. Severely disappointed with he lack of appearances in HoO. Chances are that BoTL or tLO are your favorite book.
Grover:You are cool. I like you. You will go to the ends of the earth to tell people that Grover was Percy’s best friend, not Jason.
Calypso: You ship Caleo, don’t you? You like to mostly take the books at face value.
Magnus and Alex: You are few and far between, but you are very cool. Your favorite riordanverse series is Magnus Chase. You probably don’t even post about the seven a lot.
People who replace Reyna with Will: Why??? Why not just make him the 10th character??? I don’t understand??? Why do so many people do this???
Percy jackson character and their neurodivergence:
Percy: obviously extremely ADHD. this man is the poster child for it.
Annabeth: adhd and she’s autistic. She also was a “gifted kid” but had bad burn out. People think Percy’s the autistic one, but no. It’s Annabeth. Her not masking makes people think she’s a bitch. Also OCD
Jason:deadADHD but like, the kind that was diagnosed late in life and now he’s struggling to catch up. Also he suffers from adhd tics bc of electricity
Piper: she’s autistic. My proof? Hot girls have autism. I will not be taking criticism.
Leo: oh so adhd and autistic. That’s why him and Piper got along. They are very blunt with each other and people think it’s weird. They don’t even need to speak. I’d even say he’s a little ocd but hey.
Hazel: I strongly believe all hades kids are autistic. She gets offended when people say her autism is “acceptable” and has tried to throw hands on more than one occasion when people talked about Nicos autism and how he’s “unliveable” and “creepy”
Frank: idk man. He’s like. Normal? Idk i love him but he might have like ibs? Gotta nerf him some how. He orders for the group when someone’s anxieties too high
Nico: oh man. He is autistic through and through. Same with Annabeth, people think he’s an asshole when he’s not masking. Thanks to Will that’s changing tho. He has adhd, autism, anxiety, homosexuality, depression, Italian, ptsd. This man got nerfed
Rachel: oh she is so autistic. When her and Nico talk, people are scared they’re gonna hurt one another but it’s just vibes. It’s why her and Percy got along but she and Annabeth clashed.
Will: not actually autistic. He thought he might be bc of his friend group but he just has really bad adhd. He hyper focuses and can disappear for hours-days at some points. Lots of the autistic campers go to him bc he’s patient and gentle. Also they think he’s cute. But he can have bad anger issues bc of his dad. Thanks Apollo
Bianca: again, adhd and autism. But she got in trouble a lot so she learned to mask very early on so people would stop calling her weird. She felt bad for Nico but she couldn’t help him with it.
Calypso: she’s a god so,,, I know she doesn’t have autism or her and Leo would have worked out better. Trust me I’m an expert.
Thalia: autism love. And me and girlies know about five people just like her. She also has zero (0) impulse control. Adhd and autism. But her ADHD is stronger.
Reyna: absolutely nothing. FUCK NO. autism babes. Again, why her and Nico got along so well. Also there’s a high chance of being ace and having autism so I’m not even assuming. It’s now canon.
Rachel is literally one of the richest people in the country…all she had to do was say her full name and that chauffeur in botl immediately cancelled on his client to drive her and her friends around. When you add her wealth and status to the fact that she’s very outspoken about her family’s entire business and organizes and promotes multiple protests and does performance art…like. she’s popular online. no doubt.
Piper’s dad is supposed to be like, the hottest guy in Hollywood, and even though those girls from the wilderness school didn’t recognize her, he doesn’t really strike me as the type of celebrity parent to shield her from the media or events- he wants her to enjoy and take advantage of the privilege she has. I’m sure he’s got her plastered all over his social media and takes her as his date to every red carpet premiere. When you take into account she’s a Troubled Youth™, I’m sure gossip mags and anyone who likes celebrity kids is obsessed with her.
Annabeth, since Magnus is ‘’’’dead’’’’, is legally the sole heir to her family’s entire fortune, and technically owns the building that Blitz and Hearth are running that wonderful homeless youth shelter out of. I’m sure that will get her some media coverage.
And then we’ve got…Percy, the kid everyone remembers blew up the St. Louis Arch and I’m SURE there are still debates about whether he was really a hostage or not years later. Frank, who’s grandmother was a wealthy business woman, who hasn’t been seen since his family’s estate mysteriously exploded. Thalia and Jason, who are literally the missing children of a disgraced Hollywood starlet. Don’t you think this could…get messy?
Like…Percy popping up on Rachel and Annabeth’s instagrams, and people who recognize him are just like ‘hey what the fuck’, and internet sleuths who have been obsessed with that case look further into it, and realize Annabeth was also involved in the mysterious kidnapping/terrorist streak, then looking further into her and realizing…apart from her and her nuclear family, everyone she’s related to has died under very mysterious circumstances? Magnus was pulled out of a river with a hole burned into his abdomen. Randolph’s wife and children drowned at sea, Randolph was thrown down a cavern or something, Magnus’ mother was mauled by wolves in her apartment in the middle of Boston…like hello? Then they realize there’s no record of Annabeth like, existing, between the ages of 7 and 12, and…does this bitch even have a birth certificate? Her father’s a notable professor and author, but there’s no mention of her mother anywhere, not even a single picture, and when pressed his life long friends said he just showed up with a baby one day, without even having ever mentioned he was seeing a woman…so this baby just? appeared? one day, with no warning, and now she’s an heiress who owns a homeless shelter in a city she doesn’t live in? what the fuck? The internet sleuths started out trying to crack the mystery of the Arch Bombing and somehow opened up a whole other can of worms.
Oh, right- the bomber! How does Percy Jackson know Rachel Elizabeth Dare?! The conspiracy theorists are worried about that- maybe it wasn’t a kidnapping, maybe the kid really was on a crime spree, and now maybe Rachel is looking to take her protests up to a new level and is looking at this criminal mastermind for help. Some weirdo who knows how to use a facial recognition program and has too much time on his hands identifies them both as being present at the Hoover Dam Riots from a few years ago- the riot that lead to the destruction of those angel statues! The sleuths are then able to pull up an article tying both of them to an explosion at their high school- but with Rachel’s father’s wealth and Percy’s stepfather being a respected teacher there, it’s no wonder charges were dropped! They then find some other weird, buried reports- Rachel stealing a helicopter and flying it into Manhattan? Rachel appearing to have deranged, mysterious ‘episodes’ in the middle of class? Wait, what the fuck- Percy’s school principal reported him as a missing person, and his mother and stepfather were uncooperative with the police investigation? Then Percy showed up 8 months later and claimed his aunt kidnapped him, but wouldn’t give the police any information past that?
So the sleuths start digging into those 8 months- there’s security camera footage showing Percy, looking haggard and homeless, stealing a cop car? around the area of that huge explosion in Rome? spotted all around Greece in the days before the bombing at the Parthenon? What the fuck?
Then, holy shit- they find footage of him and missing teen Frank Zhang getting onto a private plane less than 20 minutes after the Zhang estate was blown up?? These conspiracy theorists aren’t even barely ready for this rabbit hole. The Zhang kid isn’t very active on social media, but combing through Percy Jackson’s pages they’re able to find a few images of him. Recent, post-estate bombing ones. Most of them appear to be goofy selfies with Percy and an unidentified girl that was also spotted on the security footage with them, but there’s one group shot that catches everyone’s eyes- because apart from featuring the weird Chase girl, what the fuck is that Tristan McLean’s daughter????
So they start combing through Piper’s pages- she’s more active than the Zhang kid, but apart from posting her mugshots with goofy captions, going on rants about meat-eaters, and posting videos of her dad being weird, she doesn’t have a lot of information. Except…one internet sleuth that joined this internet search party swears she recognizes a boy that pops up in a lot of pics on her instagram. Some more digging and they got it- it’s Leo Valdez, the kid who was accused of killing his mother! He’s got some cousins that have been trying to clear his name for years now, but they haven’t been able to find him because he keeps running from foster homes, they have a whole page dedicated to people trying to track him down! They contact the Valdez family members, and they’re elated to find out he’s alive and safe- but then it becomes a question of how does he know Piper McLean and what was he doing with her, Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase, and Frank Zhang in Greece around the time of the Parthenon bombing???
They start looking into the other two teenagers pictured with the group in Greece- they can’t find anything on the young girl, other than the Jackson kid referring to her as ‘Hazel’ in some of his posts, but the other boy…
He’s not very active online- just some aesthetic coffee shop pics, a few blurry selfies, and designs for what appears to be an architecture project at his school. But his username is ‘*disgraced*’, he’s called ‘Jay’ and ‘Jason’ in posts by his friends, he’s got blond hair, striking blue eyes, and a very specific scar on his lip…
THE TRUE CRIME COMMUNITY IS FLIPPING THEIR FUCKING SHIT. DID THEY JUST FIND BERYL GRACE’S MISSING SON AFTER 15 FUCKING YEARS?!?!?!
Sleuths completely drop the bomb plot at this fucking point, and put all their energy in finding out if this is The Jason Grace, and- they literally can’t find a record of this person before he suddenly started appearing on Piper McLean’s and Leo Valdez’ media profiles. It looks like all his social accounts were started in August of the year he would’ve turned sixteen. But he’s the right age, he looks close to the computer generated age-up pictures made for the case, and- holy shit someone found a picture on Percy Jackson’s instagram of Jason and a girl called Thalia!
People are losing their minds- this girl looks a lot younger than the 20-something Thalia should be, but Beryl Grace was known for her innocent baby-faced look, so that can explain the difference between her and the aged-up picture. Same striking blue eyes as the boy next to her, same freckle pattern splashed across her nose, same raven hair and sharp smile that made her one of Hollywood’s biggest beauties before she could even talk properly.
She doesn’t seem to have any social media herself, but pops up in quite a few of Jackson’s and the Chase girl’s pictures. Once Beryl Grace’s old friends, who have been searching for her children for years, see the picture of the smiling siblings together, it’s nothing but tears. They’re insistent that these are absolutely the Grace siblings, and are begging the police in charge of their case to track them down. They want to know they’re safe! And the rest of the world wants answers! Where have they been for all these years!
And how are they connected to what appears to be an ongoing bombing/murder/money grabbing plot????
what is going on here?!?!?!
All this information gets dragged up in less than a month. People are going full Pepe Silvia level crazy trying to piece everything together. Netflix has already announced a conspiracy documentary about the hunt for the truth about this band of kids and what their end goal is.
Chiron’s just sitting at Camp Halfblood watching all this shit go down like:
Annabeth’s little brothers Bobby and Matthew are going Full Feral Gen Z online to fan the flames of conspiracy, “oh yeah the first time we met Percy Jackson and Thalia Grace they stole our dad’s car and drove it off a mountain”, “one time Annie stabbed a man in front of us”, they post a tik tok of what appears to be Annabeth and Percy drenched in blood and dust cleaning off weapons??? They set an ABBA song over it??? Everyone’s losing their minds but then one day on a live stream people start asking if they know Why their sister and her friends are like this and they just dead pan, ‘oh, they’re all demigods. the ancient gods are all real and it just gets messy for their kids sometimes, Annie’s mom is Athena-” and everyone is like ah. they’re just assholes feeding us false information. (they still post tik toks like ‘put a finger down if one time your sister took you out for ice cream but then this weird man who would later hold the titan kronos in his body showed up and begged her to run away with him so he could avoid the kronos thing even though she was like 15 and he was an adult and then she pulled out a knife and told him she should slit his throat after all he’s put her through but then he called her out on her bluff but still accepted the rejection and left and then she offered to get you a second helping of ice cream if you didn’t tell your parents about that whole thing and then later the ice cream parlor was attacked by a snake woman’ lmao)
Anyway, desktop detectives keep pressuring the police and the fbi and whoever the fuck to look into this whole thing deeper and make some arrests, but they can’t, because while everything that’s been surfaced is suspicious, it’s all circumstantial. The only ones that actually have arrest records are Piper and Leo( and Leo’s was without evidence, as his cousins are still fighting to get the case reopened!), all charges on Percy and Rachel have already been dropped or overturned, there’s absolutely nothing physically connecting Annabeth and her father to their family’s deaths, Frank was never actually a suspect in his family’s fire and while the footage with Percy was suspicious it wasn’t illegal, and they still haven’t been able to physically produce the Grace Siblings or even get a phone number for either of them, so like….all that plus the occasional intervention of the Mist, even though it absolutely looks like this is a whole criminal master plot…they can’t prove it! Just taking a group picture on a boat in Greece isn’t enough to legally claim they bombed the Parthenon!
This all comes to a head when the Netflix docuseries premieres, full of the online theorists who pieced this whole puzzle together but where unable to find the last piece that would connect the whole plot and make it make sense….
Percy Jackson films a video of him and all his friends who are fingered in the docuseries watching and reacting to it. They think it’s completely hilarious. He posts the video to his youtube channel (which Sally later Murders him for) and it’s the top trending video for like…half a fucking year.
like…the drama. the mess. the conspiracy. I want it.
So I’m done Tower of Nero. I may have cried. Spoilers ahead!
Let me repeat that
TOWER OF NERO SPOILERS AHEAD
- there are a lot of Nico things I have to post about and rest assured I will.
- Solangelo
- I cannot believe Rick took the “Will lights up like a glowsitck” head canon and ran with it
- Rick really said Apollo created the honey he gay meme. Iconic? Iconic.
- Piper is a queer icon wbk
- but on that note I’m seriously so happy Rick gave her a girlfriend. I’ve never seen so many queer characters in a children’s book, and it’s amazing that he’s doing this for people.
- RACHEL IS AN ABSOLUTE QUEEN
- everyone who hated her for no reason had better be eating their words, she’s awesome.
- the character development in this series is impeccable
- Meg is also a queen and I love her
- I actually really liked the book and the series, and I know a lot of people didn’t and that’s fine, but yeah.
- if you’re still reading this thank you for caring about my opinions, I hope they’re mildly entertaining for you.
- I’m really going to miss this series but we have a lot to look forward to and I can’t wait to see it
- If anyone wants to talk about any of the books with me I am always down.
“Rachel Elizabeth Dare is a ginger!!!!!!” I scream passionately into the mic. The crowd boos and I begin to violently sob as I walk off the stage. Snot and tears streaming down my face. “They’re right.” A voice says. I turn to see the person who spoke. There she stands in the 7th row. Rachel Elizabeth Dare herself.
Some of ya’ll have never had to stay overnight in a dangerous labyrinth with three people who have a crush on you, but you’re too dense to understand it and lemme tell you it shows.
