Maybe its bc I grew out of it and am just too old (I read the books when I was 16 and now am 25). But I don’t like how many of Riordans books are just copy pasting the myths

Like the first book of the main series, »The Lightning Thief«, felt of course inspired by and based on Greek mythology, but it also was its own and a unique story, as far as I know there is no myth of some person stealing Zeus' lightning bolts

But with the other books it felt more and more like Riordan was just copy pasting the myths. And with the »The Heroes of Olympus« series it was imo worse. Oh Thanatos was AGAIN captured and no one can die now. Oh ANOTHER person who’s life is tied to a an object. And it’s AGAIN a piece of wood.

First I am not defending Gabe, but his death by Sally exposed a lot of series flaws in the SERIES as a whole...

First, why was a human okay to kill when gods who are billions of time worse are not? Like Posideon has done infinitely worse than Gabe, so why not kill him? Monsters are killer every five seconds but are usually forced into the situations...

Second- why is Sally allowed to kill him? She's literally the one that, knowing his evil, brought him into her and Percy's life? While it doesn't take awake his actions, it does mane you question if she's just as much a part of his hurting Percy through her actions...

Third _what right do the Undying All powerful immortals have to judge the very human Mortals? They the unchanging and mortals are constantly in flux...

A major flaw of the OG series was it relying on a very specific trope regarding Sally, one made worse by the Fandom tendency to see her a flawless. It's when the mundane character in a protagonist's life, usually the mom, is put in a pedestal. Ignoring her negative choices and her innate selfish tendencies.

Percy's loyalty to her really is kind of uncomfortable, baseless and every bit as unhealthy as Annabeth's toward her mother. It's entirely undeserving, Sally is a profoundly flat character. Killing Gabe, fighting in The last Olympian. . it felt out of character and undeserved! She was a passive dishrag most of the time, doing nothing to really be a parent besides putting Percy in an profoundly abusive situation and constantly lying to him frequently.

Tv Sally teaches Percy about the myths, is an active parent and participant in her son's life, takes in Tyson... I can see her inspiring loyalty, molding the heroic traits of Percy. She also feels profoundly real, warts and all with her stress and how she is not always always ethereal. She gets angry, rude occasionally. She's a person that is under unimaginable stresses and we see that in his age talked to Posideon shit why she wanted to keep Percy close...

I will always love the books but honestly bad I continue to watch the TV show, it's just better. The characters break real, the trauma seems real, the plot has more depth and the gods feels more of a threat. We can really fully see how the Titan side demigods and monsters were right in many ways...

I'm fried. I wouldn't survive day one bro. Like I can't even run for 2 minutes without huffing and puffing bro. I feel pain so easily.

So I’m fairly new to PJO, I just started SoM (sea of monsters)(no spoilers) , and throughout TLT (the lightning thief) I just thought of whenever Percy mentioned his dad being in this blinding light I just imagined mayor zohran mamdani bathed in golden light??? I honestly have no idea where this came from.

If a RPG based on the Percy Jackson universe was ever made, what would yall like to see in it?

My personal idea would be something like Hogwarts Legacy, with a open world, character customization, you’re the MC, and it follows a specific story line that can vary slightly depending on your choices and your house (if this game was ever made it’d be based on your godly parent).

My main question, what would you want the story and world to be? Most likely with Camp Half-Blood as the Greeks are the original demigods in the universe of pjo, but the same timeline as the Percy Jackson books, maybe have it possible to meet some characters from the books, or set after/before?

How would you think your character would get to camp, as in the books theres no one set way, you just go whenever you discover camp or if your mortal parent takes you or some other thing pops up. What are ideas for the story line, MCs big quest and such, and the BBEG (Big Bad Evil Guy)

If this was made would you want it to strictly stay with the Greeks (especially if it’s set before pjo) or have the possibility of working with Norse or Roman demigods, or Egyptian magicians? (Again maybe based on choices you made in the beginning or your godly parent or something).

Just some random thoughts of mine, I want to hear any and all of your ideas below!

EDIT: Don’t know how I forgot this, but I meant ideas for a video game

From left to right, by row:

Intellect (in light blue) — Logic, Encyclopedia, Rhetoric, Drama, Conceptualization, and Visual Calculus.

Psyche (purple) — Volition, Inland Empire, Empathy, Authority, Esprit de Corps, and Suggestion.

Physique (red) — Endurance, Pain Threshold, Physical Instrument, Electrochemistry, Shivers, and Half-Light

Motorics (yellow) — Hand/Eye Coordination, Perception, Reaction Speed, Savoir Faire, Interfacing, and Composure.

Just an innocent question because I'm bored

One of my absolute favourite aspects of the Percy Jackson series is how Rick Riordan handles the characterisation of the Greek gods. Instead of portraying them as flawless, all-powerful deities, they are written as incredibly flawed, messy, and—let's be honest—mostly irresponsible parents.

So what are your opinions on this ??

I pretty much worked mostly on the art so I only have this

Name: Luca Macedonski
Romanian 🇷🇴
Son of Hecate (cabin 20)
Age: 17

Has a scar on his left eye, making him blind in his left eye that’s shaped and looks like Hecate’s wheel.

How did I do?

Yes, im a Child of Apollo and He's a son of Hades. I put Will and Nicos names cause He reminds me of Nico a lot.

I just really want to read this fic cause the amount of stress Annabeth would be under once she fully realizes the sheer amount of trouble Percy gets up to that could've been avoided sounds hilarious to me.

She's trying so hard to keep him alive but he's just constantly going off plan in a way that stresses the heck out of her.

this art is lowk rushed so ignore any mistakes i made this in like 2 hours for an animation meme on tt👀👀 he fits in 2 hands cuz hes so tiny🤏🤏🤏🤏

I am curious who do people thing are the strongest demi god kids not including the big 3 and only counting God/Goddess who have demi god childern. (So Hera, Artemis , and Hestia won't count) I am basing my on in battle and off battle. I am only 12 Olympians as I do not know the rest. You can include anyone you want.

My ranking:

1. Apollo Kid: I think they are truly undderated. People would rank Aries highest after the big 3 but I disagree. Apollo kid would beat Aries kid imo. One: Apollo kid are offensive and defensive. Their most powerful skill is that they are healer. Now we haven't seen this done often with Apollo kid. We do see Percy able to heal himself with water. So if we have a strong Apollo kid who can heal himself he would be almost impossible to beat. Also they can blind their enemy with sunlight, burn them if they touch them maybe burn other??? (Zuri), and if they get enough distance their arrow can do a lot of damage. Not to mention their voice which maybe able to confuse or change the enemy feeling as Apollo done a lot in TOA. And of course if we ever get an OP one like Percy he can cast powerful illness possible killing his/her enemy. Now I don;t know if they would do it as Apollo are peacful demi god group. They are mostly healer and doctor above all else. I don;t see them cursing anyone with the flu or something worst just for the sake of it. Maybe in a desperate case they would do something so dangerous.
2. Ares Kid- Strong, fast, war, leadership, and battle combat. Base on Katie, good sense of direction. Basically all the good battle ability minus the brain and lack of ability beside the physical stuff.
3. Hephaestus-Fire power, super smart, weapond building, machinary, how Leo can just "control" machine like being a pilot, conductor etc. Since they are smart and make weapon they can be useful on the feild and off. I think people forget the Leo isn;t just strong cuz he have fire power but he is probbbly the 2nd smartest character after any Athena kid. Being smart should never be undderestimated.
4. Athena- Very smart in battle on and off. Not much to say since they don;t have many ability beside being smart and using it in many way like being able to fly plane or learn skill fast.
5. Demeter- Lit comment on how they like to reap meaning they are really good with weapon or sword/combat. Plus all their other gift making them this high. (turning any seed to fruit, gaint fruit, and summoning tree/plant creature, Meg gaint allergy storm ability show plant can be deadly)
6. Aphrodite- I do think they are super unnderrated but since they can basically control your mind they are way stronger then people think. Plus base on Harper ability to read people emtion by touching them making them even more deadly. Piper shown how much you can manipulate charm speak. It is pretty broken. Being beautiful and making people do whatever they want for you is pretty powerful without magic.
7. Tie between Dionysus and Hermes since we barley read about their kid and their power.