@smartwcter Like wow. How do book purists watch an episode like this and think the show doesn't understand these characters and story being told? It's beyond me.
@smartwcter For the record, I think you articulate your points really well☹️ It's just easy for people to misunderstand when they never had any intention of understanding in the first place! Especially on this fucking app in particular.
Annabeth is very uncomfortable with a lot of the things Percy says/has done for her. It's a bigger part of their dynamic than people realize. She's attracted to how he cares so much because she's never had anyone else care enough, but she still doesn't like how far he would go.
While we're here, we can talk about the Tartarus of it all since people are bringing up House of Hades. The fandom loves to blame Annabeth for supposedly "holding Percy back" when she had every right to react how she did. What Percy did to Akhlys was not simply "self defense".
The good thing about this (and what the writers are working towards) is that Annabeth's concerns do inspire Percy to try to act with more caution and logic than he initially would. She's a grounding force for him, and that aspect of their dynamic is extremely/most important.
But anyway, this scene is SO delicious☺️ I love this plate!!! I loveeee when characters are layered and complex. It's a shame that fandoms try so hard to downplay and make the characters one dimensional instead in an effort to help themselves better comprehend/accept things.
While we're here, we can talk about the Tartarus of it all since people are bringing up House of Hades. The fandom loves to blame Annabeth for supposedly "holding Percy back" when she had every right to react how she did. What Percy did to Akhlys was not simply "self defense".
Annabeth is very uncomfortable with a lot of the things Percy says/has done for her. It's a bigger part of their dynamic than people realize. She's attracted to how he cares so much because she's never had anyone else care enough, but she still doesn't like how far he would go.
She also realizes this is just another thing that Percy is doing for "her sake", and she doesn't like it. The same way she doesn't like the fact he's in Tartarus to begin with. She spends the whole book blaming herself for that, blaming all of Percy's actions there on herself.
Percy the type of dude to impulsively confess how he feels to Annabeth, have her react badly, then try to explain himself with some shit excuse like "actually, I was on drugs when I said that, so let's just pretend it never happened and catch a movie next Saturday together!😝"