Message from @King Canuck
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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
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
series 2, while not written as well for reasons that have nothing to do with the chacters, had some diversity
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
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
he gets some muscle as the series goes on
"I have perfect genes but I'm still a fat pile of shit"
basically ye
he becomes more wrestler build than bodybuilder, i'd say