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Anonymous asked: I'm surprised with how salty you are, you haven't written a fic about how you think BoO and HoH should've went down
If I had time I would, but do you know how massive an undertaking that is?? It’s literally an entire rewrite of the entire series, because the problems in the last two books started in the first, and while RR has time to write five books the size of bricks I unfortunately do not.
I would need to change so much for me to be happy with this series… Here’s some off the top of my head.
- Have it happen a few years after TLO, like after Percy and Annabeth have graduated high school. It doesn’t really make sense for two great prophecies to happen that close together, but I don’t think a massive gap is necessary either and I do really really love Percy and Annabeth as teenagers. So make them graduated, eighteen, excited to start their ‘adult’ lives together. And then drag them back into a new quest.
- HAVE PEOPLE RESPECT PERCY, THE MOST POWERFUL DEMIGOD WHO IS LITERALLY FEARED BY THE GODS.
- Have some of the quest party be older (*cough*Adult!Jasper*cough*) because it doesn’t really make sense for the seven most powerful demigods to all be teenagers??
- Explore Jason and Percy’s rivalry. Rivalry.
- Have Jason jealous of Percy because everyone knows his reputation and he is literally the most powerful and should be respected.
- I would probably get rid of Frank’s links to Poseidon because I don’t think it really added anything except confusion??
- I would also, I don’t know, ACTUALLY WRAP UP FRANK’S STORYLINE by explaining wtf was going on with his ancestors and making a big deal about that, and also by having the whole ‘life force tied to a stick’ thing actually have consequences!!!
- Not have sixteen year old Frank crushing on thirteen year old Hazel. Just let them be friends ffs that age gap is gross.
- Hence, no useless, poorly written love triangle with Leo. There can be tension there, sure, but it can be a rivalry for best friends with no romance involved.
- No Calypso because blaming Percy and hurting Annabeth for what happened to her is absolute bullshit because it’s not their fault and -
- - Not everyone needs to be paired off so no, no Caleo.
- Keep the Greek Demigods as an elite fighting force who were able to defend Manhattan alone with limited numbers and experience, and not try to pretend that they can’t organise themselves to defend their own camp and aren’t a force of highly skilled, highly trained warriors.
- Basically, don’t disrespect the canon of PJO by trying to make Percy and all Greek demigods into something ‘less than’ their Roman counterparts.
- NOT TURN PERCY INTO A COMIC RELIEF CHARACTER AFTER HE’S LITERALLY CRAWLED THROUGH THE DEPTHS OF TARTARUS????
- Have Percy and Annabeth act more like a typical lovesick teenage couple at the start: just little casual movements and comments that show how long they’ve been working together and how much they love each other and know each other so well. More scenes like the “You dropped this.” one!!!!
- Explore the effects of Tartarus, the PTSD, the horrors of sending children into war.
- Explain wtf is going on with Grover now that he’s Lord of the Wild. (Is he a god?? Is it just a title?? Who knows!!) Maybe even have him come on the quest instead of Coach Hedge because Grover was just completely forgotten and he’s Percy’s best friend and he deserves more than that.
- Not have Leo go from a decent, well rounded character with a sad backstory to a whining, selfish little brat. Keep him relatable.
- Not suddenly add in two extra POVs and a fucking sidequest in the last book????
- NOT UNDO ALL OF NICO’S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT FROM THE END OF TLO and have him revert back to a whiny little “no one loves me” after the whole camp literally thanked him for saving their lives. You don’t get to do that, Rick. You don’t get to have him find acceptance, with his dad and the camp, and then turn him back into a sulking emo with no explanation other than “their love wore off and soon they didn’t want me around anymore” because that is absolute bullshit and the Greeks would never.
- Nico’s crush on Percy hitting him full force again when he’s rescued from the jar, because would you look at that, Percy Jackson rescues him again, but then his heart breaks when he follows Annabeth into tartarus. Like give me Nico absolutely pining over this guy he has idolised for years, simultaneously hating him and loving him. Give me Nico agonising over his promise to lead the others to the House of Hades because he’s bitter about how much Percy loves Annabeth but at the same time of course he’s going to do it because he promised Percy and he couldn’t break that promise even if he really wanted to. Give me nico getting over his crush not because he randomly starts thinking of Percy as immature (?????) but because he finally gets close enough to Percy to see him as a real person, so his hero worship can finally fade. Give me a gradual lessening of his heartache as that crush turns into a genuine friendship.
- Change Nico’s coming out to something not so horrifically traumatic maybe?? Also actually use the word gay.
- Not make Jason pass out so often.
- COMPLETELY SCRAP THAT ENTIRE SCENE WHERE PERCY ALMOST LETS HIMSELF DIE UNDERWATER AND HAS TO BE SAVED BY JASON AND WHEN PERCY ADMITS HE’S SUICIDAL ALL JASON SAYS IS “I THINK I KNOW HOW YOU FEEL” BECAUSE WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK KIND OF RESPONSE IS THAT and also I don’t really care what kind of ~symbolism~ you were going for by having Percy almost drown in an underwater battle, you can’t tell me that he would just let himself give up like that, in his element, when he knows that Annabeth is onboard the ship still, in grave danger and waiting for him to return. He wouldn’t.
- Probably not give Hazel mist powers because it seems like a cop out… deus ex help from a goddess who’s never given a shit before, woot.
- Not have the apocolypse triggered by a nose bleed and have Percy and Annabeth actually have an epic battle that shows off their skill and have it come down to the absolute wire of their blood being spilled.
- Have Percy and Annabeth’s POVs in the last book?!?!?!?!?!?!
- Show how much better at fighting Percy, Annabeth and Jason are than literally everyone else on the quest and have the other rely on them more??
- Have the final battles last a lot longer and be a lot better than what we got.
- Seriously, you’re going to tell me three kids lifting the primordial goddess into the air and singing her a lullaby was all it took?? Really???
- Have some meaningful and poignant and heartbreaking deaths, because THIS IS A WAR.
- Make sure everyone’s timelines and ages actually matched up jfc Rick can you stay consistent within your own canon please.
- Explore Piper’s backstory and the effects of growing up with a famous dad??
- Actually show Piper and Jason falling in love, have them discuss their conflicting feelings about the mist and have them fight over what’s real and not real and have them decide to scrap it entirely and start again, slowly, building their relationship up from absolutely nothing so they can be sure it’s real.
- Explain whether Piper and Leo were actually friends beforehand, too, or if that was just the mist as well.
- Have the girls not be afraid to act stereotypically girly.
- Also a mention of how the hell to deal with getting your period while on a quest would be nice.
- Have the blessing of Mars be temporary, like the blessing of Aphrodite was, because what was wrong with Frank being sorta chubby and baby faced?? (this one belongs to @lililibird)
- Resolve Annabeth’s relationship with Athena.
- HAVE PEOPLE SHOW PERCY THE GODSDAMNED RESPECT HE DESERVES.
- Have Frank’s shapeshifting powers have limits: eg. he has to wait a certain amount of time between transformations, he can only do so many transformations a day, the larger the animal the shorter the amount of time he can sustain that form, something.
- Actually resolve everything from the prophecy.
- Either use Percy’s fatal flaw of Loyalty against him or don’t even mention it at all.
- Seriously stop having people underestimate Percy we had a whole series exploring that and you can’t turn around now and try to retroactively make him look not as good just to try and make the newcomers look better, it doesn’t work like that. If anything that just makes me like Jason less. YOUR PLAN BACKFIRED RICK.
- More Annabeth.
- Not have Percy and Annabeth going off to New Rome - Have them build New Athens instead!!!!
- END THE SERIES FROM PERCY’S POV.
So yeah. It’d take me a while if I were to fix all my issues with HoO with a rewrite, sorry.
grover, jammin with the reed pipes: its your birthday so i know you want to ride ah ah ah ah out. even if we only go to my ah ah ah ah house
percy trying to get cake out of his nose: dude my house plants, stop
“I’d love to tell you I had some deep revelation on my way down, that I came to terms with my own mortality, laughed in the face of death, et cetera. The truth? My only thought was: Aaaaggghhhhh!”
You don’t understand I would read 10 books about the three of them going on stupid adventures and grocery shopping for junk food and comforting each other about Albania
It needs to happen
Took part in @pjosecretsanta2k17 this year and first time drawing seaweed brain with wise girl together.
Happy holidays, @seapunkpercy I hope you like your gift. 😊
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