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You know, in Percabeth, Annabeth is usually the one harming Percy, but there are two interesting moments where the tables are turned.
Let me explain
When Percy tells Annabeth that her mortal parents aren't so bad in TTC on the flight home and that she should stay in touch with them.
Percy.........what? Rick...........WHAT?
I..........I can't say how horribly written this was.
Annabeth was a child. Her stepmother signed up to raise her when she married Frederick. She literally had night terrors which isn't uncommon in children-
And what did her stepmother do? Did she stay and try to comfort her? Did she take Annabeth to her room so that Annabeth wouldn't be alone? Did she check the room for spiders?
No. No, she did none of this. She just told Annabeth that it was a figment of her imagination and told her to stop scaring her baby brothers.
That's not what you do to a scared child. Her stepmother fucked up with that one. Her stepmother was bad for that.
Mrs Chase also called Annabeth a big girl when she was seven.
SEVEN years old is NOT a big girl. Mrs Chase knowingly did what I listed above and that makes her a terrible person. She's not entirely bad, but she's pretty morally black when it comes to Annabeth.
And Frederick is also horrible. He neglected Annabeth and let Mrs Chase not call him home for his daughter when she needed him. Granted, he was working, but he couldn't have called Annabeth and tried to comfort her?
Percy shouldn't have said that and Rick shouldn't have written that. End of discussion, period.
2. Now, here, Percy isn't even there in the scene and he's not trying to actively harm Annabeth, but I still wanted to include it because I do think that it was still harmful in a way.
'Annabeth shook her head. Percy would hate her getting so philosophical.'
I don't remember which book this is from-I think it's from the Mark of Athena.
Annabeth doesn't want to get philosophical because Percy hates it?
All right, there are certain habits that you might have to change because your partner doesn't like it. Smoking, drinking, watching porn, all harmful activities.
But getting philosophical? There's nothing wrong that. And if Percy doesn't like it, well, that's just too bad. There's nothing wrong with a little compromise there.
Annabeth is allowed to have her own thoughts without her thinking about how Percy would like them. Annabeth doesn't always have to get philosophical with Percy-she can do it on her own or with her other friends. This applies to relationships in general.
It's frustrating to see how Percy and Annabeth always cater to each other first and never even think about their own selves or relationships outside of each other.
I ultimately blame Rick Riordan for making them obsessed with each other.