Most soldiers had a “do it for her bored” Homer Simpson style but it said “win it for him”
Imagine if Achilles & Patroclus hadn’t left Pyrrhus with Deimedia and Thetis. Imagine if instead Patroclus had adopted him & they had taken him to the war with them.
And then when they arrive to the war everyone is like: “Great the best Greek soldier is here!” And they look up and it’s this gigantic, intimidating guy cradling a baby in his arms.
And when Achilles goes to the war, Patroclus babysits the kid & Pyrrhus grows up with no idea that he’s not technically related to Patroclus. And everyone is really confused as to where the kid did come from, until Pyrrhus gets his hands on a sword and there’s no doubt it’s Achilles’ son. But even if he’s not Patroclus’ kid, Pyrrhus has his kindness.
Pyrrhus becomes the legion’s mascot and everyone just cheers up when they see him. He’s got a whole army of godfathers who are all desperately trying to win the war because they want this kid to grow up away from the war. He’s got uncle Ajax who likes to take him to the sea & teach him to swim, uncle Odysseus who teaches him about the world that’s out there and uncle Chiron who hasn’t met him yet, but would undoubtedly be delighted to meet him.
And Achilles doesn’t turn bitter anymore, because he’s got a son that he wants to be a great example too. So really, they saved Pyrrhus, but Pyrrhus also saved them because Patroclus never has to go to the war instead of Achilles and Achilles never has to grieve Patroclus.
And truly I just made this up because I can’t deal with the actual ending, so let me have this please
Holy sh*t I did not expect it to blow up
In another separate essay I will explain how Leo is a much better foil to Percy and it’s actually one of the reasons Percy and Leo conflict so much in the books
"jason is a knockoff watered down percy" NO hear me out, jason actually parallels annabeth immensely, sharing SO many similarities with her personality, not percy, in this essay I will-
Please do
lemme spoil you but I just pull out my entire newsies, the outsiders, west side story, & illinoise collection
Love the implication that Medda tops because that’s so true
that one scene in the bowery
Omg thanks 😊
PJO fans are collectively ignoring that the Jason x Percy ship could’ve easily have been Person or Jersey instead of Jercy. We fumbled so hard
Fuck ye
Yep.
I did a whole history presentation on it
we were talking abt strikes and unions today in school.
guess who started thinking about the newsboy strike of 1899
THIS GUY.
Rocks
Mostly PJO, epic the musical, newsies, and Hellenic polytheism. He/him
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