Emerald Oracle said:
So, I've been reading the Percy Jackson stuff, I've read most of the first series, I'm on the last book of it. I've read some fanfic for this franchise in the past and I'm somewhat familiar with the myths. My Big question to any fans of the series is this:
Am I the only one that thinks becoming a hunter messed with Thalia every bit as much as Kronos messed with Luke pre-possession? Cause that's what it seems like to me. It looks like becoming a hunter messes with your head from the evidence. Thalia appears much less connected to Luke despite him being her closest, and only, friend for years and probably being love interests at one point, at least to the point where she originally said no to the Hunters because of him.
To draw what may be an invalid comparison, it seems a lot like how people react to being turned in the Dresden Files. Your likes and personality are still roughly the same, but your priorities are different and the way you look at the world is significantly altered. Makes me think that Thalia as she was ceased to exist when she became a Hunter.
Looked it over. Feels like it's more potential than execution.
As for Thalia, no idea. To be honest I just spent a lot of time irate with the Ares girl. Achilles sat out the Trojan War because he was angry, yes. He sat out a war. Over one woman (I know that in reality it probably was more than a bit different but this series says that the myths are true so it was over one woman). She sat out the war for all of western civilization and whether or not it'd be tormented for eternity by a crazy monster god. Bit of a difference in the stakes of the war. The Greeks always could just go home. Not like the Trojans would follow them and slaughter every one of their people.
Anyway, less venting, more Thalia. She just seems a bit less developed. Anabeth had more time on screen, well, page, to go over this. So Thalia was kind of hurried through her development.
And for the Hunters in general, I really just wish that fanfic writers would find some more original purpose for them than "Lesbians!" and "Percy is betrayed by everyone regardless of how OOC it is and of course the girls plus Artemis who spend eternity not with men with fall down before his mighty Wang and this totally isn't just ripping off Harry Potter cliches".
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Reading more 1630s stuff. Michael Stearns is basically a Stu. I'm sorry, but the guy is an undefeated prizefight boxer, excellent politician, natural general and correctly calls pretty much every good or bad major policy in the books I've read so far. I'm honestly outright hoping to see him outgeneraled by someone who just knows more about combat than he does.