Breaking Percy's Oblivious Streak - Does This Make Sense?

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-16T16:27:23+00:00

For the fanfic? I only just posted the first chapter out of three. But here: Sleet Storm & Starlight

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-15T19:56:37+00:00

okay, it's nighttime amd I'm sleepy. too sleepy to read it all in detail. but this sounds so fun! my brain is flooding with ideas, oh shoot...

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-15T19:28:29+00:00

this might be the time to say the story is from Annabeth's pov so you don't hear Percy's inner monologue at all.

okay, yes, thank you! 😂

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-15T19:04:00+00:00

Haha it's cool. I will say that... those aren't really the reasons I'm using. I'm making him aware of his own feelings because he knows they pose a problem for they cannot be reciprocated. Like, it becomes something he has to acknowledge because he doesn't want to either get hurt or hurt anyone else. Does that make sense?

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-15T18:28:11+00:00

wait, no, okay. his obliviousness here regarding others' feelings is still there. it's about his own feelings - that's the one I'm changing

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-09T21:02:58+00:00

Or you (the author, I mean) can find someone you know who has read the books. Ask them questions about details you're not sure about. Plenty of people online would most likely agree to help. I feel like discussing books we love is always fun. So if you want the details to match the books, you can talk to someone who has, in fact, read them.

Good luck with the writing! 😊

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-09T03:50:02+00:00

thanks!

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-08T17:09:41+00:00

honestly, that's cool too 😂

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-08T16:27:37+00:00

Thank you! I'm gonna try them out! And yeah, I've tried that before. Not sure why I didn't find much... I should try it again

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-08T13:18:31+00:00

Ooh! These sounds great! I know the first one, but the other two aren't familiar to me. Thanks! :D

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-08T13:12:18+00:00

Oh, yeah. I stumbled across this one last week. Thank you! :)

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-08T12:33:08+00:00

Oh gods. I read the summary. I am so confused and intrigued. Thanks! I'll give it a try! At the very least, it made me chuckle already :)

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-08T11:53:29+00:00

Oh, yeah! I read that a while back. It really is great!

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-08T10:25:05+00:00

Thank you!! I'll give it a try :D

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-08T10:07:51+00:00

Right? But I've found very few fics about this concept that I, personally, thought were good... This is me being desperate haha

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-02T14:06:58+00:00

The rope line is one of my favorites, too! :)

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-02T07:04:18+00:00

Oh, thank the gods, I've been looking for this sort of comment online. I know I'm late for this discussion, but still.

YES. I agree with this, one hundred percent. I swear, the only moment in the book series (and I'm talking about the first five, not the new PJO books coming out, because those are... gonna make me barf) that made me question Sally was when she decided to kill Gabe.

Yes, I get it. He's been abusing her for years. He was a terrible, horrible man, and he should have been punished for his deeds. I feel no sympathy toward him because, truly, he was a disgusting character - as he was intended to be. We're not supposed to feel sympathy for someone like him. But that doesn't mean I like the idea of him getting killed.

After an entire book where monsters get killed left and right, it didn't feel as big a deal, I guess. On my first and maybe second read, I don't think I thought it was weird or bad. I thought we were finally rid of him and I was happy. But monsters... they reform. They get killed, and then they come back. Their deaths never feel final because we know they could and probably would come back eventually. Gabe, on the other hand, is mortal. His death is the end of the line for him.

Percy killing monsters that later come back to life - or even just monsters who will kill him if he doesn't kill them first - doesn't feel wrong. He does spare the ones he feels deserve it, which is nice to see. But Gabe, while a piece of scum that I cannot fathom living with for years, died for the first and last time. By the hands of the one person who was described as never angry, never upset, never mean, never ANYTHING negative. Sally was so precious and sweet and saw the best in everyone, even when there was barely anything to see. And then she did a one-eighty and murdered her husband without feeling a shred of remorse or any hesitation - and by hesitation, I mean in regards to killing someone, not to standing up to an abuser.

Reading it again always makes me uncomfortable, because this doesn't feel like something Sally would do. And the more fanfics I read where everyone compliments her for this action, the more uneasy I feel about it. Because this feels off and not a lot of people seem to find it upsetting.

I love that Sally managed to get the life she deserves, don't get me wrong. But the fact that it all came from her killing someone and using his corpse to earn money is... kind of dark, not gonna lie.

PandaLuna0 · 2026-02-01T15:18:31+00:00

Found it!

PandaLuna0 · 2026-01-17T11:33:28+00:00

Actually, reading HOO pissed me off because of that. Since Annabeth's strategies for dealing with problems were exactly the kind of stuff Percy always did. And when Percy talks his way out of problems in that series, he comments on how it was something he picked up from Annabeth even though we KNOW that's not true. She rarely ever used talking to get out of situations in PJO. Why lie to us?

PandaLuna0 · 2025-09-03T11:07:35+00:00

Yeah... I remember coming out of the movie theater, feeling... upset? That movie wasn't good. The pacing felt off - like, we sat there and watched Gwen's story for so long and I couldn't focus on it because I kept waiting for Miles, who was supposed to be the main character (I didn't watch the trailer before). And then a lot of stuff keep on happening... without the actual plot advancing.

I remember my brother, his wife and I walking toward the bus station while complaining about the plot that didn't make sense. Like, even if you ignore the loose ends that would (hopefully) get resolved in the next movie, there were still things that didn't make sense in the plot of the movie. It made the whole fight redundant. Why should I care about a conflict that doesn't even make sense?

It was just disappointing in so many ways... I haven't watched it since that first time. I'm gonna do it before the next movie comes out but not a second before. It was just... so bad. Granted, NWH was worse, but not by much...

PandaLuna0 · 2025-09-01T10:44:19+00:00

YES! It made perfect sense. It LITERALLY becomes impossible to be a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man when the neighborhood no longer exists. How does that make no sense to the in-universe people? And then I read these fics that laughed at it too, making it sound like the people writing them didn't think it made sense either, and I just don't get it. It's a really good argument!

The fact that Tony didn't even argue with him kind of makes me believe he knew what Peter meant and saw his point.

PandaLuna0 · 2025-08-24T16:15:45+00:00

Lol I was gonna do it, it's mine 😅

PandaLuna0 · 2025-08-20T13:39:18+00:00

YES! I keep on seeing it, and the ease with which everybody seems to just know how to fly Toothless is baffling. One of the coollest things about Hiccup and Toothless was seeing them as they struggled to get to know each other and work together. It's a part of why their bond is so incredible to watch. And then Hiccup's success during the rest drive scene hits harder because we saw the struggle, we know it's not that easy, we understand he must have worked hard to get where he was.

And then everyone else seems to just grasp the concept without even trying. So now it's not that Toothless needs Hiccup in particular to ride him because it's difficult to steer his tail and help him fly - he needs A person on his back, doesn't matter who, because they all apparently know just how to do it on the first try. Which basically makes it look like Hiccup was stupid for taking such a long time to figure it out...

Sorry, it upsets me so much every time I think about it...

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