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accioangelo:
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Friendly reminder that -
- Percy’s neutral expression is a natural brooding look that he gets from Poseidon
- That when he does smile it’s crooked and makes him look like a trouble maker
- When he talks it’s usually very sarcastic and/or impertinent
- His inner monologue is actually very negative and while we, as the readers, take it as a joke he’s usually pretty pessimistic for a good portion of the time
- That when he’s fighting his expression is fierce and is hard to tell whether he is the good guy or not
- That Leo Valdez equated Percy’s angry expression to the feeling he gets when Jason is about to shoot lightning. Let me repeat - just the look on Percy’s face when he’s angry was considered on par to Jason controlling flipping lightning
- That he’s very very vindictive and loyal only to those he considers his friends and once you lose his trust it is nearly impossible to earn back
- That while he had the curse of achilles, he laughed crazily while he was single handedly destroying hordes of monsters
- He made an entire volcano erupt, awakened a giant, and almost wiped out the northwest of the united states
- He tortured a godess just so she would feel his misery
- That he’s actually very manipulative and it made Annabeth step back for a moment and reevaluate her perception of him
- That while his dark side came to it’s peak in house of hades and wasn’t mentioned in blood of olympus, there was no confirmation that it suddenly and completely disappeared after they left Tartarus.
- Has been the child of the prophecy twice.
- He manipulated Bob to kill his own brother by simply convincing him that they were friends and that is what friends did for each other
- He was physically abused by his step father
- That with absolutely no training at all he killed the minotaur with it’s own horn at the mere age of twelve
- He wins a good majority of his fights by simply outsmarting his opponent
- He has scared not only Annabeth but his friends and peers on more than one occasion with his attitude and powers
- That he’s considered extremely powerful for a demigod and for a child of the big three and makes the gods slightly nervous
- That when he’s upset his powers act to mimic his emotions without him even trying
- Has been offered immortality
- That he is actually really sorta intimidating without trying
- That we need to stop reducing Percy’s character to a happy-go-lucky comic relief goofball that doesn’t know his left foot from right because he is so much more than that
Everyone looks at Percy like the stereotypical hero that loves everything and puppies and rainbows but he’s actually very dark and quite scary and that’s why all the Dark!Percy AU’s aren’t really that far from the real Percy, he’s just on a different team.
Also, anyone who places Percy into anything but Slytherin is very wrong. #7 on this list is practically proclaiming his belonging to the house of the snakes.
Marry me
If anyone ever tells me that they just ‘don’t see’ Percy being like that (i.e. dark and scary), I just ask them one thing: “What do you think Percy would’ve done if Annabeth was taken instead of him, by Hera?”
Answers range from “Tear Olympus to the ground with his bare hands.”, “Snap Zeus’ neck and yell a lot.”, “Find where she is in a matter of days and never help the gods again, ever.”, and “Probably torture Hera in his basement until she tells him what she did to his Wise Girl.”
You can almost see the burning realization in their eyes that they finally recognize that he’s a terrifying soldier who’ll brutally murder people, gods, and monsters, if need be.
I 100% believe that monsters are somewhat, if not extremely, scared of Perseus Jackson. They probably tell ghost stories about him at night. The more intelligent ones probably decide not to attack him if they sense his aura in the area, because they want to live. He’s probably known to them as the new Hercules or whatever, known for never losing a fight against a monster, and defeating Kronos (they probably aren’t aware of Luke’s sacrifice I think).
And if you don’t think that part of the reason Zeus hates/hated Percy, was because he didn’t like how powerful this son of Poseidon was, then I recommend you go reread the series. If you haven’t noticed that the gods render Percy in just a little higher light than other demigods (he’s allowed to say pretty much whatever he wants, like stuff that would make them try to murder anyone else within seconds), you should know, that they know he’s dangerous.
I firmly believe that the gods call him their ‘weapon’ at strategy meetings (especially Athena, who doesn’t want to personify the sea scum dating her favorite daughter), the wild card pick. They have to value him, and I’d bet you anything that Poseidon’s ‘check-ins’ had an underlying tone of making sure that Percy wasn’t resentful towards the gods ever again, after having the whole Luke fiasco.
I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if some minor gods were stationed to randomly make sure that Annabeth wasn’t going to get hurt too badly, or kidnapped, when she was out on her own, because nobody wanted Percy to destroy a few countries over her.
There has to be a darkness in any human being who’s gone through what Percy has, and the fact that he can still joke around, and laugh and kiss his girlfriend at the end of the day, makes him all that much more scarier. I’d appreciate it if the fandom would start to realize these things, and I would’ve really appreciated it if Rick Riordan had but it’s too late for that now.
(Sorry for the long post anyone not in the HoO or PJO fandom.)
