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The idea of any of the four people that used Daedalus' wings just threw them away feels so horrendously against their characters and I will not stand for this.
For starters, Annabeth fucking Chase and Rachel Elizabeth Dare??? I'm gonna Rachel Elizabeth Dare YOU, to tell ME, that those two art loving fucklucks are going to be perfectly okay with throwing out something like that.
Percy Jackson, best and biggest male-wife and mother's boy of the millennia, would have at the very least kept them for his Mum or Tyson or Annabeth. Fuck, even for Beckendorf, because we all see that man-crush. If not for anyone else, he'd keep it for the hell of it! Because it's fun! He can live out his dreams of pissing Zeus off even more now!
Honestly, of all of them, Nico would have the least reason to keep them but STILL. HE COULD HAVE WORN THEM INTO BATTLE WITH 'Angel Of Darkness' BLARING ON FUCKING REPEAT SO HELP ME IF THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN
This offended me more than was probably warranted, BUT as a person who likes Shiny Things tm, it almost hurts to read this part of the book. Why are the Traumatized Neurodivergent Teenagers not collecting a shiny thing