the percy jackson books, the original ones, do the same thing

when percy meets Diyonisus.
"you're saying God's real?"
"Don't get metaphysical, Peter."
"Percy."
"Whatever."

the author wants to stay as far as he can from bringing modern popular religions in, if possible

so the most you get is people who believe in the abramic gods, but such a being is by nature so fucking abstract that he can get away with ther ebeing no confirmation

Makes sense

http://rickriordan.com/content/uploads/2016/04/samirahmoredetail-299x416.jpg here's some of the official art of Samirah

the hijab doubles as a fucking invisibility cloak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYaKGhIAoUE

Nazi furries exist

And they need rights

I wish they all doubled as invisibility cloaks

#NaziFurriesMatter

But yeah liket

the original 5 percy books are by far the best though

part of the reason you see diverse characters in more of his later series is because at some point someone looked to him and said something akin to

you realize that the only black character with a name in your original series gets blown up right

and everyone else is white or ginger

and the author was like "....Huh. You're right."

so his later series as (mostly natural and decently written) diversity of background

>ginger is a race
<:think_woke:378717098681171988>

could be

but you get my point

series 2, while not written as well for reasons that have nothing to do with the chacters, had some diversity

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/olympians/images/a/a4/Heroes_of_olympus.png/revision/latest?cb=20131228145353

the only ones here that were in series one were percy (sword, middle) annabeth (laptop) and the two on the far right

I FUCKING HATE FURRIES

but were not talking about furries

link upward. Idc about Peter Jackson and his fantasy elf fetish

@HungBunny

I think my favourite additional character is Frank Zhang.

Chinese canadian who's told after his mom dies that OH BY THE WAY YEAH YOUR DAD'S A GOD GO FOLLOW THESE PEOPLE TO TRAIN BYE

but he's a chubby fuck who's got like, zero real ability beyond archery

he gets more competent

but his inner narrative is funny shit

Nice

I like the idea of a chubby fuck who's half god

https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/olympians/images/1/11/Frank_Zhang.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170220201022

he gets some muscle as the series goes on

"I have perfect genes but I'm still a fat pile of shit"

basically ye