The Trials of Apollo

So this is like a guess the character game. But this is not yout typical guess the character.

The rules are:

• You have to describe a character in only 5 words

• Those 5 words should not give out who they are, they also should not include family members or who they are/were dating. They also can't include what species are they (eg: demigod, einherji, magician, weapon, god/goddess, etc..)

• These 5 words can be in a sentence or just plain words.

• Whoever guesses correctly can continue the chain.

• It can anyone or anything from the R-verse or RRP (pls do mention if it's RRP)

I'll go first:

Selena • Gomez • Sing • Summer • Pendant

Well I finished and... I'm just shook. I think it was 99.9% satisfying. Now, I just don't know what to do with my life anymore. I don't know whether to cry, laugh, kick and punch everything I see, or to just... idk keep living life. I'll just say that Rick Riordan did an awesome job to keep me busy for a decade.

Is APOLLO the father of Georgina????

Seriously guys!!!!!!!!!

Uncle Rick hasn't confirmed the possibility of Apollo being Georgina's father....

He may confirm this theory in the upcoming standalones

I guess.....

I just realized what the picture on Lester’s shirt is

Most of, I'm going to say all series except the Trials of Apollo was either good or not bad. But seriously, Trials of Apollo, I don't get it. I think Riordan doesn't have enough creativity to create more series. If you like the Trials of Apollo or hate it, please leave a comment.

Why do so many authors let a lot of characters die?

Use series:

Ex.

PJO

Book 3

Bianca di angelo

Zoe Nightshade

(did I miss anything?)

Book 4

......

HOO

Book....

Did anyone else imagine peaches as a cute furry little thing? Or anything besides.. um... this.

Is is just me? Or do you guys think so?

So, we all know that ToN is coming today and all of us are super hyped about it.

Don't get me wrong, even I am really excited about the release of ToN but...

IT'S THE END OF CAMP HALF-BLOOD CHRONICLES!!!

Yeah I know I know it has to end someday but that someday has arrived today.

So...

What has your journey be like..

When and how were you introduced to the world of Percy Jackson..

What did it mean to you..

What did all of the fandom mean to you..

Hey guys! It’s me, Samirah! Been a while since I posted. Anyway, I was lucky enough to be able to sign up to go to one of Uncle Rick’s Tower of Nero events. (Like I did last year with the Tour of Doom) One of the things we get to do is send in questions that then Uncle Rick’s staff will hand pick though and give some to him to answer. While I have some questions, I feel like I’m going to forget to ask some obvious question that needs an answer. So I thought why don’t I see if you guys have any questions for Uncle Rick as well? If you guys comment your questions, I’ll choose some of my favorites to pass on to his staff. While I can’t promise your questions will be picked and answered, you never know!

For anyone that wants details, I will be attending the event on October 13th, and if you see a girl on your screen dressed as Juniper, that would be me! (I’m not entirely sure how they will work the event with Zoom, but I guess I’ll find out 😝)

So, if you've read the books (I hope you have), you know that in the Greek Mythology books, only Percy and Apollo/Lester narrate it. Well, actually a lot of the demigods do, but not in first person. But I was thinking that that would be pretty cool! What if we could see how Annabeth saw things, and how she calculated her plans. And what about Leo, who knows every bit of mechanics there are? Wouldn't that be cool?

Yes, it is forshadowed.

I think mine is You've got to be kid–/ Well, crud, what just happened there?/ I ran out of syl–

Hidden Oracle

Dark Prophecy

Burning Maze

Tyrant's Tomb

So what if after ToA, there was a sort of final series with ALL the major characters from PJO, KC, HoO, MC, and ToA? even if it's only 3 books I think i would be absolutely amazing! we could see what Carter, Sadie, and Magnus are up to now, I think there could be some fun character interactions between Walt and Nico, or Sadie, Alex, and Meg, or Jack and the arrow! let me know your ideas in the comments ^^

To explain to Percy Jackson fans that Jason Grace did NOT EXIST to be in constant competition and comparison with Percy Jackson.

This is gonna be a bit of a long read, but PLEASE take the time to do so...especially if you’re one of the “fans” that think Jason is a “useless” character.

Contains spoilers for Heroes of Olympus and Trials of Apollo

1. Leadership Styles

• Percy and Jason have different leadership styles reflective of their different personality traits/characteristics:

• Percy is the loveable goofball that we know him to be, but he’s also good at making tactical decisions

• Percy is the type of leader to insert himself with the crowd/masses; in the beginning, no one at Camp Half Blood really sought him out for guidance or specifically wanted him on their team for Capture the Flag. He was arguably just a “regular old demigod” before his parentage was revealed

• Jason, on the other hand, has more of a direct, “Roman” personality, one that was well exemplified by the fandom’s reactions to his POV in The Lost Hero. Many fans criticize Jason for being bland or boring, but that’s just his thought process and how he was raised by Lupa and at Camp Jupiter. Just because he doesn’t think and act as sarcastically or as forthright as Percy or Leo doesn’t mean he’s lesser.

• One of the most important changes, however, comes in the form of the difference of treatment after their parentage was revealed

• Percy is more or less treated the same after everyone found out he was a son of Poseidon; if anything, he was ostracized even more and felt like he’d lost all the friendships he’d started making

• Eventually, as he grew into his own through his powers and personality, he was able to make those connections and strengthen them—he might not have known everyone at camp but he was familiar with them, and they were with him. Everyone later came to look up to him and depend on him as a strength to Camp Half Blood and a leader not because of his parentage, although his strength was respected, but because he placed himself at that spot at the table.

• Now, this isn’t to say that Jason is some kind of free loader that got his leadership position because his father was important—I’m not trying to insinuate that at all. One must realize, however, that Camp Jupiter places a lot more emphasis on one’s parentage than Camp Half Blood does. Even when Jason was claimed by Zeus at camp, they just kinda led him to Cabin One and left him by himself, to make do. No one was rolling out the red carpet.

• At Camp Jupiter, when Jason finished his training with Lupa, he entered as the son of the god who the entire camp was named for...and as the only one. There were no other “Big 3” kids there for him to be compared to or held to some standard.

• Jason joined the Fifth Cohort, even though people warned him not to. This leads to me assuming that Jason could have potentially had his shot at some of the best cohorts, like the First or Second. Instead, he voluntarily chose the “worst” cohort because he “felt like he should” bring honor back to it

• Which he did, by participating in the Second Titan War. When the Greek demigods were fighting for their lives against Kronos and his army, Jason and his friends and campmates were fighting Krios.

• It was because of this battle that Jason’s peers placed him as praetor.

2. Expectations

• For me, their leadership styles leads directly into what was (or what they thought was) expected of them

• Percy probably didn’t have to feel the incredible burden that Jason felt when he thought about leadership, because he had never thought about it that way

• Jason was raised as a son of Jupiter in a Roman camp, bringing prestige back to a disgraced cohort.

• I feel like it’s fair for one to assume there’s some sort of hierarchy when it comes to Camp Jupiter—both camps, actually. It’s just that Camp Half Blood’s hierarchy is more subtle (and now, more subtle than before because they actually recognize more children of more gods and goddesses).

• (CJ is finally working on recognizing more gods and goddesses now because of Jason and his promise, so in that way their situations are similar)

• Both camps and pantheons had some role to play in the...not erasure? but ignorance of certain gods and goddesses (or leaving their shrines dirty with murky water because they’re a deity that doesn’t offer land/war protection @CJ @ Neptune)

• With this hierarchy in mind, it’s easy to see why Jason felt so burdened, especially in the Mark of Athena.

• Percy, at Camp Jupiter, was right back where he’d started. No one was giving him special treatment because of his father—they thought of him as even more of a joke for joining the Fifth Cohort and going on a quest by boat (or whatever that dinghy they used was called—idk the difference in boat names)

• He familiarized himself with the masses (the masses being his questmates and the few people he got to meet at CJ before leaving on Frank’s quest)

• While on the quest, he didn’t openly assume the position of leader but just relaxed and they all worked as a team

• And when they came back from Alaska to help out at CJ, they did that as a team too.

• Jason comes back to CJ struggling to familiarize himself with being in that leadership position again—something he never had to feel at CHB

3. Heroes of Olympus Backlash

• In the Mark of Athena, we have Percy and Jason engaging in a couple of awkward moments where they’re like “who’s the leader?”

• But then as we get further into the Heroes of Olympus, we have this issue of Rick Riordan using Jason’s POV as comic relief

• Countless, and I mean COUNTLESS, PJO “fans” will laugh over how Jason was “useless” because he kept passing out when it was time for his part to begin. We honestly only have Uncle Rick to blame for this. The Heroes of Olympus is a stressful series. He probably wanted to give his readers a laugh throughout the switching of the POVs, which was fine but arguably repetitive. So much so that he got referenced to in another Riordanverse series.

• Jason is not useless. Is it a pity that he was mostly demoted to comedic relief? Yes. Does this make him lesser than Percy? No. Does this make Percy lesser? NO.

• What PJO fans need to understand is that this one characteristic trait mentality isn’t cute. It’s quite juvenile, and as an older Percy Jackson fan, can be really annoying and disheartening to see repeatedly.

• Jason is not weak or dumb because he lost consciousness multiple times during this quest. He’s human.

• Just because Jason doesn’t have the same sarcastic sense of humor as Percy doesn’t mean he didn’t have his own sense of humor. He isn’t boring—people are just too busy looking for things in him that aren’t there rather than paying attention to what was there.

• Percy is not some immortal being exempt of all fault, nor is he your simplistic Seaweed Brain who can’t think for himself. He isn’t this all amazing, perfect person who can do no wrong. He’s human.

• They both have traits that the other doesn’t, and it works for them.

• Percy stated himself how if it wasn’t for Jason and his skills with words with Kymopoleia, they probably wouldn’t have made it out of that situation safely.

• People need to stop chastising and making a joke out of Jason.

• Piper’s unimpressive comment? Yeah, I got offended too. But let’s be honest—she didn’t know Percy. Piper was less than half a year into being a demigod and the majority of that time was spent with Jason and Leo. She’d seen him accomplish amazing feats, but had only heard of Percy Jackson by word of ear. Of course she wouldn’t think he was all that, who are we to judge her for it? Many people to this day dislike her over her honest opinion—this cancel culture has got to end.

• The Jason criticism has gotten so bad, and now we’ll never get the chance to see him again. He is being honored as a hero in Elysium (as he should). It breaks my heart that people couldn’t love Jason as much as they love Percy or Annabeth or Leo before he died. Because he was a great person, and yes he wasn’t perfect, but he was HUMAN. So we should expect everything short of perfection from him. And it took him a long time to realize that, and become comfortable with it as well.

4. In Conclusion

• Percy Jackson and Jason Grace are both great, powerful demigods, but just as important, they are human teenagers. Teenage boys, not even legally men yet. They have both been so much, and continued to face danger and tragedy for the sake of the people they cared about.

• Percy and Jason are human, and deserve to be treated as such. They aren’t fancy action figures with certain powers or attack points meant to be compared and ridiculed. Readers and so called fans of Percy Jackson have no right to say they adore the series if not every single demigod is as important as another in their eyes. Especially if they are so bold as to mock the efforts of literal teenagers to brave their fears and save the world.

Who is this? Wrong answers only

I am rereading Heroes of Olympus and I see how much Piper is obsessed with Jason and how much she likes him. Then why did she break up with him in Trials of Apollo If Piper liked Jason so much?