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No, but another thing about this show that is so off from the books but we love it is how much Percy actually knows about the Greek stories. Like, yes, our Goddes Sally Jackson taught him, she prepared in the only ways she could. Like, ik in the books he was all like "Huh?" Or "What?" about what had happened (and if he wasn't then the Fandom has rendered my mind usless and I no longer have the ability to differentiate fanfics and canon) but yes.
OK, I KNOW!!! HE DIDN'T TRAIN BECAUSE HE DIDN'T WANT HIS DISAPPOINTMENT TO BE WORSE. LIKE, IF HE HAD AND THEN STILL FAILED THEN IN THE END IT WOULD HAVE PROVEN THAT HE JUST WASN'T CUT OUT FOR IT. HOWEVER IF HE DIDN'T TRAIN, HE COULD KEEP TELLING HIMSELF THAT IT MIGHT HAVE WORKED OUT FOR HIM IF HE HAD TRAINED!!! HE GAVE UP SO HE WOULDN'T BE HURT BY FAILURE. AND NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT HE, AS A PERSON, CHANGED SO MUCH TO BECOME WHO HE IS NOW AND MAYBE THAT LITTLE BABY IZUKU COULDN'T FACE THE FACT THAT HE COULDN'T. AGHHHHHH
Ok but realistically speaking, what the hell was Izuku thinking when he decided he wanted to be a hero? It's not just that he doesn't have a quirk, dude just went on and on fanboying and not even physically training himself to make his body the strongest it could get without a quirk?? He thought he could have gone by just with the knowledge he had of heroes? Like, don't you think that Izuku Midoriya, that hardworking cinnamon roll, didn't think of the fact that maybe if he worked on his physical strength he had higher chances of becoming a hero than he had if he didn't train himself? And if he had, then he would have gotten ready for OFA faster and then would have had time to get used to the quirk and his development overall would have been so different, like, really.