Leo: So What Do You Do?

Leo: So what do you do?

Percy: I work in genetic research, and I’m currently trying to eliminate all Cancers.

Leo: Wow, impressive.

Percy: Then I’ll move onto Leos

Leo: Man, I only ever see you awake, do you ever shut down and stop running?

Nico: Oh I’m always running

Nico: The question is from what

and when bianca di angelo dies on my television screen on the percy jackson series. what then.

i’ve seen this assertion and tweets like it several times so let’s actually check the text, shall we! first, what he is referencing is this moment during the war games in son of neptune:

notice how it says he’s fighting in “a completely unorthodox style” unlike how a roman would fight and this is why they aren’t prepared for his assault. it also says the sheer novelty of losing has thrown the defense into chaos. now considering jason is considered a sword master and spent MONTHS with the greeks, it’s safe to assume he’d have trained in their sword fighting methods. yes jason trained in one specific style of combat but so did percy, we just never see a situation where jason has to sword fight all of the greeks. in fact, he even says in house of hades that he struggled with the strict rules of the romans

now let’s get to the meat and potatoes: who would actually win in a fair fight? many people assert percy could and use this quote from mark of athena as evidence:

now if we look at this, we may think this proves anything but it doesn’t. two teenage boys having a pissing contest and each saying they’re better than the other is not evidence that either one actually is. so here’s the relevant parts of the fight that they’re talking about, which happens right before that scene

jason and percy are fighting and jason knocks percy off of his horse with a lightning blast (i would argue that bouncing lightning off of your sword is not predictable). he has his sword six inches from percy’s face when piper distracts him with charmspeak. this gives percy time to recover and he is able to sweep his legs under jason, making him hit his head and fall unconscious. percy almost kills jason until piper is able to charmspeak him. now piper is clearly a variable in this fight seeing as she stopped each of them from killing the other so if you take her out, what happens? easy. jason stabs percy through the face and wins. it is only because piper stopped jason in the first place that percy even had a chance to get that close to killing him at all. sure they are both highly skilled fighters and had he not used lightning, jason might not have won, but he did use the lightning because he has it along with flight and being able to harness air. percy discovered in tartarus that he was able to bend poison to kill akhlys; what happens when jason realizes he can pull the air from peoples’ lungs?

i understand percy is everyone’s favorite but can we please use our brains from time to time? yall hate jason for not being percy and refuse to acknowledge anything that makes him interesting because you base all of your info off of the lost hero in which he spends the majority of the book without a memory so OBVIOUSLY he wouldn’t be super interesting to read. even in his first chapter of the lost hero, he is knocking the socks off of his opponents AND by the end of the book, already learning greek fighting techniques of slashing rather than stabbing

anyway idk how to wrap this up i just want yall to acknowledge that jason is OP

bbg you look gnc (ghastly, nightmarish, creepy) asf today

I just really love how Nikolai is everything Kaz' reputation makes him to be.

Kaz isn't born out of wedlock. Still he refers to hinself as the bastard of the barrel. Nikolai tries to hide the fact that he is a bastard for his reputation.

Kaz is the one called Demjin and treated like an actual demon. Nikolai turns into the demon people feat in Kaz.

Kaz has built rumors around his gloves, about having hands soaked in blood, hands covered in scars and having claws. Meanwhile all of these are true for Nikolai.

And the funny part is, when you talk about a powerful demon boy who is a bastard and hides his claws and scars inside of gloves, you would definitely think Kaz Brekker first. But it actually refers to Nikolai. In this they are direct opposites.