r/camphalfblood

Let me explain here. I see a lot of people talking about how all the female characters either have boyfriends or are Hunters and how they feel disappointed that Rick doesn’t seem to be able to write a female character that just exists. She has to be in a relationship or pledged never to have one ever. I’m not saying that’s not true, but I think it’s not just the women. The men of Percy Jackson are also highly defined by their romantic subplots. Almost all of the men of Percy Jackson have romantic partners. The only main male characters without partners for a large majority of a series are Nico, Leo, and Lester and while Nico doesn’t have a boyfriend for the majority of the series, the only books he’s the main character in are focused solely on him and his eventual boyfriend. Leo is single for the majority of HoO, but one of his defining traits is flirting with every other girl he meets and he does get a girlfriend who he’s barely seen without in ToA. Apollo-as-Lester is also single in his main series, but again, one of his defining traits is his flirtatiousness. Personally, I think the whole thing is just Rick falling into that common pitfall of everyone thinking every character needs romance in order to make a good YA book since this problem becomes more heavily pronounced in HoO and ToA which are geared towards a slightly older demographic.

So the Confederate guy whose name i can't be bothered to remember disappeared because he was sad and couldn't accept the world? That makes no sense. Valhalla is a place where you go for being a warrior. You are destined by wyrd [ literal fate] to die on ragnrok. Nothing can change that as long as they stay in the hotel. So how do an entire group just vanish by being sad or confused?

Obligatory I don't like the confederacy

In wrath of triple headed goddess, percy mentions Leo quite a bit. But wasn't he "supposed to be dead" for like a year? Percy even mentions that Leo tutors him in Spanish. I'm just wandering as this is right after hoo🥲