Rick Riordan

Hey Guys, i kinda want to read the graphic novels, mainly to read the story but with pictures. Maybe some of you could give me theyre opinion. Is it worth to buy the gravic novels or not? Maybe im just to old for a comic book lol. I am 19 btw. What do you think? Thanks for your comments!!

Percy has been in most of Rick's books. With all that page time, he's racked up a lot of abilities. And plenty of them are sidelined and rarely used. In this post, I'll go over a few of them.

Mist Control

"“Hey!” I told him. “Presidential motorcade coming! You guys better clear the streets!” I pointed down Seventh Avenue. Of course there was no motorcade, but I did my best to imagine one. See, some demigods can actually control the Mist. They can make people see what they want them to see. I wasn’t very good at it... figured the cop might buy it. Apparently he did. He glanced toward my imaginary line of limos, made a disgusted face, and said something into his two-way radio. With the wax in my ears, I couldn’t hear what, but all the other cops in the square started herding the crowd toward the side streets." (The Singer of Apollo)

In the short story the Singer of Apollo, Percy makes a cop see a presidential motorcade that doesn't exist, using the mist. As he explains, he's not amazing at it, but he is capable of doing it. This wasn't brought up much in Heroes of Olympus (except for one scene) since Hazel was the mist expert of the Seven.

Water Creation

Percy has demonstrated the ability to control water numerous times.

"I had no choice. I called to the sea. I reached inside myself and remembered the waves and the currents, the endless power of the ocean. And I let it loose in one horrible scream."

In the Battle of the Labyrinth, Percy "reaches inside himself" and summons water while inside a volcano, enough to cause it to erupt. However, this does drain him, as he was severely weakened afterwards.

Percy can also create water using ancient sea urchins and shells. Essentially, he can summon water in any place that was once underwater or has remnants of the sea.

".“Those are shells,” the naiad said. “Petrified seashells. Millions of years ago, even before the time of the gods, when only Gaea and Ouranos reigned, this land was under the water. It was part of the sea.” Suddenly I saw what she meant. There were little pieces of ancient sea urchins in my hand, mollusk shells. Even the limestone rocks had impressions of seashells embedded in them."

"I scooped up another handful of dirt and picked out the shell fossils. I didn’t really know what I was doing, but I ran around the length of the stable, throwing shells into the dung piles. Everywhere a shell hit, a saltwater spring erupted. Stop! The horses cried. Meat is good! Baths are bad! Then I noticed the water wasn’t running out of the stables or flowing downhill like water normally would. It simply bubbled around each spring and sank into the ground, taking the dung with it. The horse poop dissolved in the saltwater, leaving regular old wet dirt. “More!” I yelled. There was a tugging sensation in my gut, and the waterspouts exploded like the world’s largest carwash. Salt water shot twenty feet into the air. The horses went crazy, running back and forth as the geysers sprayed them from all directions. Mountains of poop began to melt like ice."

This wasn't expanded on much, but it's a very powerful ability.

Enhanced Senses

"That's your battlefield reflexes. In a real fight, they'd keep you alive. As for the attention problems, that's because you see too much, Percy, not too little. Your senses are better than a regular mortal"

Even besides his increased speed and strength, Percy's senses are also greater than most humans.

"The wind changed. Percy caught the sour scent of reptile. A hundred yards down the slope, something rustled through the woods—snapping branches, crunching leaves, hissing. Gorgons."

From a hundred yards away, Percy can smell and hear gorgons trying to sneak up on him (though the smell could partially be due to the wind changing)

"Kronos gazed in our direction. He was a quarter mile away, but I swear I could see him smile."

He also seems to have enhanced vision, seeing Kronos smile from a quarter mile away.

Percy has also repeatedly shown the ability to sense evil, fear, powerful beings, and more.

Overall he's much better than a regular human in this regard.

Telekinetic Control Of Ships

Percy can control ships with his mind, in many ways.

"I concentrated on the Queen Anne’s Revenge. I willed it to raise anchor and come to me. After a few anxious minutes, I saw the ship rounding the tip of the island."

He can make ships move and come to him.

"Mizzenmast!” I yelled. Annabeth looked at me like I was nuts, but in the next second, the air was filled with whistling sounds of ropes being snapped taut, canvases unfurling, and wooden pulleys creaking. Annabeth ducked as a cable flew over her head and wrapped itself around the bowsprit. “Percy, how . . .” I didn’t have an answer, but I could feel the ship responding to me as if it were part of my body. I willed the sails to rise as easily as if I were flexing my arm. I willed the rudder to turn."

He can also move the ropes, canvases, and pulleys telekinetically. And as shown by the bold, the ship is connected to him and will do whatever he orders it to. This ability is incredibly useful when sailing.

Special Vision In Water + GPS Abilities.

"I should've been blind, too, this deep in the water at night, but I could see the heat from living forms, and the cold of the currents. It's hard to describe. It wasn't like regular seeing, but I could tell where everything was"

Seeing the heat from living forms is essentially infrared vision. Seeing in infrared vision is a very powerful ability. It allows you to see heat signatures. Because of this, anything emitting a heat signature higher or lower than the temperature of the water is easily detectable by Percy.

"Oh my gods, how did the Princess Andromeda travel so far overnight? That’s like—” “Five hundred and thirty nautical miles,” I said. She stared at me. “How did you know that?” “I—I’m not sure.” Annabeth thought for a moment. “Percy, what’s our position?” “36 degrees, 44 minutes north, 76 degrees, 2 minutes west,” I said immediately. Then I shook my head. “Whoa. How did I know that?” “Because of your dad,” Annabeth guessed. “When you’re at sea, you have perfect bearings."

Percy also knows the exact coordinates of where he is at sea. Not applicable in combat, but useful for seafaring.

That wraps up this post. Percy has a lot of underrated/barely used abilities, enough that I couldn't fit all of them in this post. Let me know if you want a part 2 or one with a different character. Thanks for reading!

Let me start by saying this: Nico is gay.

Nico is confirmed gay, Nico is gay, Nico is gay.

Okay, let's begin.

I'm not saying that Nico is a bisexual. In case you didn't read the above paragraphs, where I proceeded to state 'Nico is Gay' three times so I wouldn't get sued, I am positive Nico is gay. That has been confirmed several times because of Rick.

However, I AM stating this: I don't think Nico was originally planned to be gay.

Here's a quote below expressing what I mean:

"Nico shifted his weight. 'Juniper, like I tried to tell you . . . even if Grover died, he would reincarnate into something else in nature. I can't sense things like that, only mortal souls.'

'But if you do hear anything?" she pleaded, putting her hand on his arm. 'Anything at all?'

Nico's cheeks got even brighter red. "Uh, you bet. I'll keep my ears open."

-The Last Olympian

Nico is seen blushing as Juniper clings to him. I think that originally, Rick was just planning to make him straight. During HoO, he dramatically changed his mind.

I think that Rick was trying to do representation - but only because of the whole LGBTQIA movement. I'm not saying he's homophobic, I'm just saying he had rather convienent reasons for making him gay. Also, Nico was a test character - he was testing to see how people would take it. And when they took it well.... he made more characters.

Nico is also seen having a crush on Annabeth, something Rick shoves aside as him faking because he really loves Percy. I honestly think Rick originally planned Nico to actually have a crush on Annabeth, but then decided to change him immeadietly brush that aside and change him to gay. Again, not saying Nico is bi, I'm just saying Rick didn't think Nico's sexuality through, he more just shoved him in.

What does this mean for the LGBT+ community? I'll admit the title was a little bit of clickbait, but I do know what it means for the AUTHORS who write about the LGBT + community.

Several people have congratulated Rick on writing Nico's sexuality well. I like Nico's sexuality, but I think in terms of good representation - Apollo is way better. His sexuality is well written in, and it's obvious from day one that he doesn't care what gender he dates - at all.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

James Patterson is familiar with Uncle Rick

If you didn't know, it's been announced that a Solangelo book is coming out. In the book, they'll travel to Tartarus in hopes of rescuing Bob. In this post, I'll share my thoughts and concerns about the novel.

Tartarus, again? If you didn't know, this book is going to be about Nico and Will's journey into Tartarus. My only problem with this is that it's already been done. Couple in Tartarus? Couple did that already. Heck, this is Nico's second time there. I'm concerned as to how they're going to make it interesting, and avoid doing the same thing Percabeth did.

How would Will survive? Who have we seen gone through Tartarus so far? Percy, a monster in his own right. Annabeth, a highly skilled warrior, one of the most physically powerful in the series. And Nico, a versatile and powerful son of Hades. But what about Will? He hasn't shown any particularly powerful physical traits. His sonic whistle and glowing will just attract the attention of monsters. Only his healing will be useful, and that's mainly a support ability. So there's a few ways this could go. 1

1. Will relies on Nico to fight monsters the whole time. I don't like the idea of this, cause then Will would be dead if forced to fight alone

2. Will gets a sudden huge power boost or insane plot armor. I don't like the idea of this either.

So I guess it's hard to imagine Will surviving there without less than favorable means.

It's being co-written: I'm not sure how to feel about this. It's not good or bad, just mildly concerning. Rick is co-writing it with Mark Oshiro. This website says they wrote the synopsis and manuscript together, but Mark said they're already 30 k into the book. It raises the question. Is Rick writing or is he mainly just editing and approving? I also haven't read anything by Mark, so I can't comment on their writing. I will say something good about this later though.

I listed some of my concerns about it, so now I'll list what I'm excited about

More Riordanverse books: I'm not mentally prepared for the Riordanverse to come to an end, and likely never will be, lol. So any Rick books is good.

Mark Oshiro might be the right pick for a Solangelo novel: As I've said, I'm not sure how good they are as a writer. However, they are non-binary. So it'll be cool seeing an lgbt+ ship written by an lgbt+ person.

Overall I'm pretty excited. It's coming out in 2023, so I'm trying not to get too hyped, but overall I'm hoping for a great book.

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It seems that more than half of the posts here on Riordan wiki are about criticizing his decisions on his books.

I mean like i bet none of u guys could write something better.

Sorry if i offend u but i think that everybody is criticizing Rick and personally i agree with everything that he has done and if u don't then u shouldn't be on this fandom.

Prove me wrong or give ur opinions in the comments.

TW: Mentions of mental illness.

I was thinking. Rick Riordan has certainly tried to put a lot of representation in his books (and he did, buuuuuut he didn't always do his research...), anyways, my main question was I was wondering if there is any representation of mental illness? I've always thought it would be great to have some positive role models (especially on things like eating disorders, phobias, ocd, etc., disorders that are heavily stereotyped), but I'm also worried they would be... not so positive. Of course, it's a children's book so it's pretty lowkey in the grand scheme of things, but some writers still manage to fit it in respectfully in a while children can learn about it healthily.

Anyways, thanks for your time!

Luke Castellan is an...interesting character in the Riordan series. If not the most interesting character. I can stay up all night arguing with myself over whether he is a good guy or a bad guy. I can look at people in disgust who ship luke with Annabeth or even Thalia. Then at the same time think they have a point Luke castellan is one of the most controversial book characters of all time (in my opinion). Today we will take a look into the pro-Luke and anti-Luke sides of the fandom.

Hello demigods and mortals,

As you read above we will be deep diving into Luke's character starting off with the way that uncle Rick "handled" him. What I mean by that is the majority of stories have a good guy v. bad guy. If uncle rick wanted to write a good story (which he did and exceeded expectations on) he had to have a bad guy. Now I can question the fact of Luke being a bad guy, but I'll get into that later. Rick wrote us the sort of bad guy. By sort of I mean that luke is right smack dab in the middle of being a good guy and a bad guy. While some people are probably screaming at me from the other sides of their screens, Luke did not do wrong, Kronus did. What is the worst thing that Luke ever did? Kill 1000s of demigods? Almost start a war? But, he didn't do that, did he? No, Kronos did. Luke was in the wrong dream at the wrong time that pulled on the wrong heartstrings. When he killed himself he knew that it would not just free the world from him, but he would be free from Kronos. He had Kronos's spirit inside of him since the day he had a nightmare with Kronos's spirit. Luke was still bitter from when Thalia was turned into a tree. Since then he had always had a hatred for the gods. That's why Kronos chose him because he had such a strong amount of hatred in his soul.

Are you pro or anti luke put it in the comments down below and if you want me to give my opinion on something or give you a shoutout on the next post let me know

Have a great day and don't get eaten whole by a giant turtle

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I just thought it would be interesting to see...

I have just finished The Works of Apollo 5. It is horrible to say that there is no sequel.

Yes I cried.

I cried for all these deaths, especially Jason's and Dodonne's spire.

I cried for Bob who is still at Tartare.

I cried for all the goodbyes in this tome.

I cried for that ending or Lester could have decided to let go of the edge and fall. Fall into Chaos and die.

I cried for all the times Apollo told himself that a world without him might be better.

Its really weird to have followed these people for so long: Percy, Annabeth, Grover, Tyson, Nico, Thalia and many more ... I feel like I grew up with them.

But 2 characters really marked me: Nico and Léo.

Their stories are so beautiful, sad, deep ...

All those times when Nico wanted to give up, thinking he was alone, while he was surrounded by wonderful people. Fortunately he met Will!

And Leo, Leo, this boy who has been through so much, and who, like Nico, has been able to recover from it. I think he's really brave.

Both of them fall, they fall, without ceasing, but they get up every time. And that is magnificent.

That's why I love Rick Riordan. Already because he wrote really well. But also his characters. His characters in whom we recognize. In whom challenges us, inspiration, the strength to take up the challenges that are presented to us.

Rick's books made me travel to a universe so different from ours and at the same time so similar, that I would want him to write more books and be able to read them. All the times I felt sad, upset, happy ... I read his books. Anywhere anytime.

So now I would like to say only one chose: Thanks Rick.

Thank you for being there for me, for us.

I don't speak english so thank you google translate

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Hey guys, if you really like the Magnus Chase books, let me remind you that in one of the books, Rick wrote,’To JRR Tolkien, the man who brought me into Norse Mythology. ‘ Or something like that anyway. So, next time you read the Magnus Chase books, thank Tolkien.

I believe that Rick has two possible favourite characters.

Percy Jackson:

• Rick gave Percy ultimate powers

Percy defeated a whole bunch of titans with a water hurricane, and exploded the toilets on the Argo // without even trying.

• Percy has his own series

The Percy Jackson series started me off on the Rick Riordan books, and he was a very powerful demigod, defeating all monsters in his way.

Apollo (God of archery, music and dance, truth and prophecy, healing and diseases, the Sun and poetry):

• Apollo has a whole series to himself

Apollo is turned onto a mortal by Zeus, and then betrayed many times, but I think Rick did this so there would be drama, and also because he feels Apollo isn’t really in any of his other books.

• Rick gave him lots of funny scenes

There are many funny scenes in ToA, and in the chapters when Apollo is involved in other books, he’s seen as a humorous character. I think Rick favours Apollo, which is why the god is humorous.

Do you think that Rick has another favourite?

We are one of the luckiest fandoms. We have an author who gives us diverse characters, an unique storyline, interesting plot pieces. Yes, he can be a bit troll-ish at times, but when he threw Percabeth in Tartarus, did we refuse to read the book? NO, we picked it up and read it because we wanted to know what happened. And when Jason and Bob and Damasen died, we had grown attached to their characters, so we cried. (At least I did) Only good authors can make you grow attached to a character. Only good authors can make you cry for a character. I think we all need to thank Uncle Rick.

Guys umm so , I wished Uncle Rick a Happy Birthday on Twitter and.... I got noticed by Becky ,,, she liked my tweet , I'm not able to breathe , Literally like , OUT OF THE WORLD FEELING

They know I exist.

WHY!?!? WHY!?!? JUST WHY!?!?! Last night I was reading The Lost Hero, I'm pretty sure it was chapter 31...WHY DID YOU KILL FESTUS!?!? That's the first death I've ever cried about in a book/movie! WHY!?!? I am very sad...

This was I convo I had on Wattpad about one of my Miraculous fanfics