Percy Jackson Changed The Rules Of The Demigod World - Blog Posts

Percy has always been more godly than mortal. From Book 1, his powers have been exponentially expanding, and we can literally see Percy keeping a tight leash on his powers. As evidenced by how words like something tightened in my gut/something uncoiled in my gut precede Percy's power usage.

Then there are times of physical, emotional, and mental duress where he instinctively loosens his hold on his powers, and it always transcends the limits of a demigod.

Water bursts and floods, storms/hurricane, volcano erupting, uprooting an entire river along with it's riverbed, summoning an independent water reservoir, controlling Rivers of Underworld(Hades/Tartarus domain), controlling the water in the Sea of Monsters (Chardybis's domain), glacier manipulation (outside of the land of gods) and so on.

But until Tartarus, there was some sort of phantom line. At least he had convinced himself of one, but Tartarus erased all his pretenses. Those he kept around for others and those he kept around even to himself. When he chokes Akhyls, he feels something inside him break. Either that's his mortality breaking or it's the threshold of his power breaking. I like the second idea. That Percy Jackson has in overpowering a primordial in their own domain done something so singular, neither a demigod shell nor a godly one can keep his power contained.

Another thing that's almost just as often theorized is that when Percy was offered godhood, his fate was sealed. No one, probably not even the fates, had seen the denial coming. This implies that Percy was already mid process to his transition into a deity, and he has been singlehandedly holding himself back from his own fate all the way until Tartarus. And that becoming a God/deity is inevitable for him. And do we not talk enough about this. Percy Jackson saying no to godhood was the most groundbreaking thing to happen in Olympus in this millenia, only to be followed up by Percy making the gods swear multiple oaths that upend the very roots of how Olympus has functioned until that moment.

So yeah, All hail Perseus Jackson, no one is doing it like him.

Obsessed with these parallels.

Ares in tlt after Percy stabs him in the ankle:

Percy in cotg, breaking free of the river god trying to kill/torture him:

Percy Jackson is a god (and he doesn't know it yet) theory has been born yall.

The poetic accuracy of Percy being the god who almost was is that he embodies what a god should be. Power vast enough to topple all existing preconceptions of his world, a will strong enough to persevere despite all the tragedies he suffered and mind so adaptive, he beat all odds stacked against him. An individual so DIVINE in all his traits that he CHOSE to be human.

The one demigod who looked at absolute power and felt no temptation. Instead, he had the audacity to leverage the offer against the other gods and win. Percy Jackson will go down in history as one of the best main characters ever made.

Inspired by this post.