Hobie Brown is a lot more like Percy Jackson than Peter Parker is
Grew up a troubled but good kid breaking cycles
Trans femme with gender fuckery in a way that comes across as masc to normies
Chillaxed and super kind and goofy and loves cute/kiddy shit and people but also has a rbf,the biggest street cred in his whole franchise and is a supreme edgecase
Audhd with no masking game and definitely bptsd too
The oldest and most experienced hero in the main cast so he takes on the Team Dad mantle and believes he's not good enough to be a role model because trauma gave him self-loathing yet cocky ahh combo
The Ramones fan(Hobie's playlist has their songs + Percy gifted Nico a shirt of them)
Blue-coded
Owns a pet supernatural dog(Spidermutt + Mrs O'Leary)
Deadbeat birth dad
Goes by a nickname instead of his full name and has a common black surname
Terrible singing voice
That weird trauma response where you take people giving you sympathy for the extremely horrific circumstances you went through as pity and get mad('Yeah,what of it?' in reaction to being reminded of his Canon Event)
Correctly framed as the coolest ever in-universe(Percy specifically to defy neurodivergent stereotypes)
6'something,guitarist hands and described as so attractive it shocks other characters
Born and raised where punk started(England and New York)
Psychologically incapable of being posers or selling out(Hobie's canonically afropunk personified and Percy's canonically immune to wanting power or authority)
The comics Spiderband is a cooler version of Steve Rogers(Karl/Jason),a snarky black girl genius(Riri/Annabeth),a #relatable /pos gnc brown girl(Kamala/Piper)and a biracial red-coded rowdy tomboy(Mattea/Clarisse)
'I'm not a hero because calling yourself a hero makes you self-mythologizing','I was this cool the whole time','It's a metaphor for capitalism','I don't believe in comedy-just kidding!','Kid's an anarchist,taking a crap on the establishment,i salute you','Oh boy!Humbling reality Spiderman has arrived','Just don't enlist until you know what war you're fighting in' and 'It's propaganda bro'
*Authority figure irritatedly tells him he's not helping defuse the situation* 'Good(Said with a troublemaker smirk)'is Percy's interactions with the gods all the way to The Lightning Thief
Loves the sea enough to live in it(Hobie's houseboat)
Black and darkskin with a multietchnic background(Hobie is jamaican-ugandan-english and Percy is black monoracial but with american,dominican AND greek heritage)
Percy's not a 'bumbling idiot' but a professional insigator
Hobie making reverse racism real on George's ass before forcing him to leave Gwen a comforting note from him and a gift Watch he diy'd/Percy sending The Olympians Medusa's head after slaying her and writing a note to include saying 'with best regards'
These panels
And these caps
Big Percy Energy™️
I KNEW THE WAY THESE TWO TALKED REMINDED ME OF SOMETHING
If you have Spotify reblog this and tag what your number one song on your “on repeat” playlist is.
cartoons were wacky for making us believe this trope
2023 recap!!!
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I've been putting these show off for ages, whichever has the highest results is what I'm watching later tn/tomorrow
”I Would Leave Me If I Could. A Collection of Poetry” - Halsey/Cop Car - Mitski/unknown/unknown/"The Burning" - Venetta Octavia/@6aint/Bite the Hand - Boygenius/unknown/unknown/Bite the Hand - Boygenius/unknown/Places I’ve Taken my Body: Essays - Molly McCully Brown/unknown/Cop Car - Mitski/unknown/Who's Afraid of Little Old Me? - Taylor Swift