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Percy and Leo are the duo that the teacher separate in the class seating plan and you can not change my mind
Read PJO and HOO they said, it will be fun they said. Why are you on the floor crying at 3am they said (just now)
Rick Riordan is my favorite author and I love his books but I will never hesitate to call him Dick Diordan
When Percy had amnesia, was homeless and at the same time fighting for his life against two gorgons sister, he was worried abt how his mom and Annabeth are gonna react when they learn he stole a police car
When I think of the most common sense and level headed couple in PJO I think of a tree spirit and a half goat
Jason: I fought this vicious, dangerous, scary opponent when I was young which left me with this battle scar.
Piper: What he meant is he tried eating a staple when he was two
Annabeth: *see Percy and the pegasi talking* What are you doing?
Percy: Just teaching them a song
The song: Shawty's like a melody in my head that I can't keep out got me singin' like
Thalia: Everybody has a gay cousin
Nico: I don’t
Thalia: ...
Nico: Oh I’m the gay cousin
Piper: How long do you think it’s gonna take for a god to curse Percy?
Leo: a week
Nico: a day
Jason: Never cause Annabeth with Percy.
I've seen that a part of the fandom seems to think Percy treated Nico horribly or something, but I don't remember anything like that at all. I thought Percy was better to Nico than most people. I thought you'd be able to clarify, where did the whole Percy treated Nico badly thing come from? Is there something I'm forgetting? Thoughts?
Probably came from the part of the fandom that’s just whack. Like, from the antis who hate Nico/Percy and scramble for any “reason” to hate it, because they can’t just say “hey, this isn’t my taste! That’s okay! I’ll be over there, with the thing I like instead, you have fun with yours!”, they need ““valid”“ reasons to hate a ship so they’ll overexaggerate things. There are also, weirdly enough, people in this fandom who dislike Percy - and yes, yes, in a fandom that bears said character’s name and tells five whole books from said character’s perspective it is fundamentally weird if you ARE in this fandom and dislike the titular protagonist why are you even here - so, yeah, I’m sure a lot of it is also just bullshit to hate on Percy and, potentially, to prop certain other things; characters or *cough* ships, up. So, I’m sure that about 85% of those complaints root from those three things.
The other 15% are somewhat based in reality.
Like, Percy being kinda dismissive and annoyed by overly excitable kid Nico when they first met. When. Uh. Percy was a whole kid himself back then and yeah you can get annoyed? Some people also think Percy should have done “more” for Nico in PJO and be nicer to him. More than... spend literally over a year searching everywhere for Nico, trying to find him and bring him back to camp?
I’ll give them one thing; Percy’s reaction in Mark of Athena wasn’t stellar, when Nico had just been kidnapped and tortured and nearly died and Percy was like “I wanna wring his neck for lying to me” - but, deadass, that was less Percy and more Riordan; he wrote real shit in that book, because this was also the book that brought us Annabeth judo-flipping Percy to punish Percy for getting kidnapped and memory-wiped. Riordan was on a real victim-blaming streak there and on a “this child has just been traumatized? Better add physical violence For Funsies!”.
For some reason, Riordan really laid heavy on “villainizing” Percy in HoO; the forgotten promises part, making it look like Percy was a shit friend to Bob and to Calypso and to Nico and then making his own fucking girlfriend act like she’s afraid of him in Tartarus because even she isn’t sure what he’s capable of. It was like a bizarre mirror world where Riordan tried to play dark!Percy but uh with our regular Percy and no real base...?
So I can somewhat see where people took that awful canon characterization of Percy and just applied it to that.
But you’d have to ask someone who actually believes that shit for their opinion on why they think Percy treated Nico poorly, because seeing as how I don’t subscribe to that warped perception of reality I am truly not of much help on that matter. xD