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Friendly reminder that Percy regaining his memories means he learnt about smelly Gabe all over again.

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well someone sure is in possession of the gift of prophecy here

Gabe in the fields of punishment complaining to Nico: AND THEN SHE KILLED ME! AND TURNED ME INTO STONE!

Nico not looking up from his book: Good for her.

tbh I don't care what happened to Gabe I've just always wanted to see him come back as a minor antagonist solely bc of angst potential

like kill him or let him live but whatever happened it happened wayy too soon he needed more time to fuck around with the Jacksons

please tell me im not the only one who can't stop thinking about their trauma. about Gabe showing up at the apartment or just some random place. about Sally trying to keep Paul from noticing how much this man affected her. about Percy's heroic, "I'm undefeatable" facade crumbling once he sees his abuser. about him immediately stepping between his mother and the threat he thought was gone. about-

I made a post where I said Gabe doesn't deserve to have been turned to stone. I stand by that post now, but I also get why it offended people. Gabe is a horrible person and a scummy human being. He's an abuser who deserves nothing but the worst. That being said, petrification feels like the wrong answer. It's like the death penalty. Sure it solves the problem, but aren't there much better ways of bringing someone to justice?

Imagine for a moment of Gabe had not been turned to stone. Instead, imagine he had instead lost his job, Sally divorces him, he loses everything. Doesn't that sound like a much more satisfying punishment for someone like him? And if they had gone that route, they could have brought him back as a minor antagonist later in book 5 or something!

I'm actually beginning to sell myself on this whole idea now! I feel like it was a wasted opportunity. Who knew this would all start because I had a moral objection to the idea of petrification?