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I've reached that point in life when I read smut in public with a pokerface at day and cry at because of the same two gays in a different setting at 5 AM

Can you tell me more about how you see Lee Luke? It's one of my favorite ships, thank you! 💓

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They are so older brothers to me. Two tired campers who have seen each other at their worst and helped. They had to wrestle their siblings on a daily basis just to get things done.

Luke saw Annabeth and went, "Guess I'm a dad now." Lee has lots of cousins (a hc) and is constantly surrounded by kids. Both are experienced babysitters, share advice on how to keep their kids (aka cabinmates) from killing someone. Definitely ended up taking Will and Annabeth on playdates so they can hang out and keep an eye on these two.

But before that? When they were regular campers and not head counselors? Lee sneaked in his old Game Boy so they could play during sleepovers (no one knows where the sleepovers were held, except for these two). With Lee's conviction and Luke's wet hamster eyes, they were allowed to bimonthly marathon of Disney movies held by head counselors.

They were both pissed off by the conditions Hermes cabin was in and tried to do something about it but got turned down every time. They decided to create their own safe place for demigods when they are older and can leave camp freely. So Luke's betrayal hit Lee hard.

They were this close to fulfilling this promise; and yet, Luke decides to ignore it all and abandon their dream. He decides to hurt, and manipulate, and kill every demigod he'd sworn to protect. And Lee was left to pick up the pieces, wondering if he was never enough.

And this is also a thing I just find very interesting with their dynamic: pretty much in all of Lee's story (again, a hc), he ended being a caretaker. First he was looking after his cousins, who were much younger than him; when he got to camp, he continued to worry about them, especially because him being the baby of the cabin was very unusual to him (soon enough though their cabin got more people, and some of them seemed to be glued to him); then he becomes head of the cabin and officially accepts to take care of his "sunbabies".

Luke was almost the same age as him and never needed a babysitter; they were equal. They were friends, they listened to each other and supported each other; and Lee was able to finally see the future with him, where he can allow himself to not be a parental figure to a bunch of kids. He could see himself grow into his own person.

And then Luke leaves and the war is waged. Lee can't leave. He swore that he'd protect these children and camp till his last breath, and so he does. The moment Luke left with Kronos, Lee's string was cut.

Also, Luke is very oblivious and doesn't realize his feelings until he runs away. The moment he collects himself he's just, "Oh SHIT."

The divorce is strong in this. Lee wants to put an arrow through that guys head, Luke spends half of Kronos' money to buy gifts for Lee. Kronos is homophobic. Michael and everyone else at camp is Lukephobic. One of the reasons why Chris decided to navigate the Labyrinth was to get away from Luke's constant sobbing about "missing his husband."

not all ships are For wanting them to be in a happy healthy relationship together. sometimes shipping two characters means you want them to be erotically obsessed with each other and become entwined in a mutually toxic love affair for a few months and then horrifically break each other's hearts and never speak again. sometimes you want them to be codependent best friends with enough repression to explode a submarine who only make out/have sex when they're at their worst. sometimes you want them to pine after each other for years, never say anything, and then die. sometimes you want them to kill each other. this, too, is shipping

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Kinda just copy and paste something i said on discord but wanna say here too hsgd

But always see people saying "oh as Percy gets older he's gonna be more 'Luke was right'-"

And i just- did we read the same Percy?

Percy always understood the gods had issues. He's most vocal when confronting them, he has no problem calling them out. It's so ingrained in him he does so even without his memories.

He always understood why TA demigods likely joined Luke. He always sympathized with them.

He worried about them when they went to blow up the ship. He avoided hurting or killing any chance he could.

He understood and tried to reason with Ethan,even after what happened with Annabeth.

When he saw Chris he never felt anger towards him for having joined TA. Even in SoM it was mostly confusion. Why in Botl it was sympathy.

Percy's issue with Luke wasn't his anger towards the gods. It was the fact in trying to take the gods down he became just like them.

Sending younger demigods to a deadly quest for his own needs, killing and manipulating them for his goals.

Percy's fatal flaw is loyalty. So seeing Luke, someone claimed to be doing all this for other demigods, use them like he did. That what made it impossible for Percy to feel towards Luke the way he did towards other TA demigods.

If anything, Percy's gonna get older, and he's gonna look at kids that were age he was all that time ago and understand him when less.

He knew why Luke felt the way he did.

But he also knew Luke's morals and ideals no longer were what they use to be when he started.

I honestly argue Percy's decision at the end of Tlo with the gods was hardly influenced as much by Luke as it was by everyone else.

By Ethan, by Silena, by Chris, by all those kids on the TA side he saw.

He already made his decision something had to give after the war was over. Luke's dieing words were a drop compared to everything else.

Anyway gdhf sorry for ramble was just thinking about this gdhdg

Connor: What do you all intend on majoring in? 

Nyssa: Respecting women. 

Malcolm: Minecraft. 

Miranda: Criminal justice and psychology. 

Mitchell: I'm terrified that I’ll lock myself into an interest that I’ll no longer be passionate about in a few years like all the other areas of study I’ve pursued over my life! 

Will: Minecraft as well.

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I was thinking today about how possessive Apollo cabin members can get, Lee, Michael and Will in particular.

Lee doesn't seem very possessive. He's the cabin's mom — the whole camp's, even — and you'd think it's all. This trait shows more in how he talks: he always calls them "my cabin", "my siblings", "my sunbabies". They are his responsibility.

He knows that he can't restrict them: he was looking after his cousins for years, after all. He isn't willing to do so, too. He knows it isn't healthy.

So he suffocates in his feelings alone, always reminded of his older sister's — the previous head counselor's — body, with blood leaking from the spear wound. He doesn't want it to happen again, so he does the most dangerous things himself, always there to get his siblings away from the danger. And that's how he gets killed.

Michael isn't as verbal as Lee was, but he, just like Lee, prefers to get everything done by himself. Sometimes he lets his siblings stay behind, while diving headfirst into battle, be it a battle of swords or words.

His possessiveness blurs with pride at times. He gets possessive over every little thing that belongs to Apollo cabin: their building, infirmary and, of course, the flying chariot. He fights for it and never once regrets his decision. His siblings almost died for it, why should he give it to someone else?

And then, at the bridge, he does the same thing Lee did and dies, never once looking behind.

Will inherited both traits in hopes of keeping his siblings safe. He gives nicknames to his siblings, and his voice carries the same tone as Lee's when he talks about his siblings. Whenever their cabin is given tasks, he gives it to another cabin, explaining it as "it's not that important, they can do it, too" or "you're still in training, it will be better for you to stay here".

He needs to know about all the whereabouts of his siblings and panics when they don't immediately turn up to their practice or before curfew.

Not only that, but he seems possessive of the memory of his dead siblings, too. Younger members have no idea that Apollo cabin is supposed to be big and they are not allowed in the attic.

Later, other campers and his siblings tell him that it's not okay and what he's doing is absolutely unhealthy and toxic. He would try and reason that he's just worried, but he ends up in Mr.D's office for a therapy session. It gets better over time, but it seems that he might throw up from anxiety if he doesn't see his siblings for too long.

I got the idea of Michael and Will's traits from this awesome fic written by nojaemnomin! Go check it out!

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