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What a rat
Octavian doodles because I can't believe I kinda technically exist in a world with this freak of nature
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my shower thoughts are the fact that percy was able to charm camp jupiter, and literally was able to become an honorable leader, while simultaneously having camp half blood search day and night for him tirelessly. somehow, percy jackson just fit in both camps and was welcome in both camps.
but jason grace? in the process of trying to fit into camp half blood, he had had lost camp jupiter's loyalty and his friendships there, and never managed to properly fit into camp half blood either. I'm not saying chb wasn't welcoming, but would chb choose him over percy jackson? of course not. percy could spend a decade in camp jupiter and camp half blood would still hail him as a hero and would pick him over jason, because they were loyal.
camp jupiter chose percy over jason, chb chose percy over jason. he did not belong there, the way percy could belong in camp jupiter.
personal new rome hc is that they are chill with their legionaries being any religion, as long as you agree to honour the gods, EXCEPT catholic. other forms of christianity are on thin ice. you cannot convince me that they are not still pissy about being replaced as the dominant religion in rome. any mention of the popes name puts you on thin ice. truly deranged group of people
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Bro why tf is New Rome being run by teenagers?! Like, you have fully grown adults who can and should be politics-ing. Also, why is the army entirely child soldiers?! Jason Grace fucking joined when he was like 2 or 3, is there no bottom age limit on this thing?! You'd think they'd maybe make the youngest age to join be like 14 or 16, being able to get a degree and whatnot alongside being in the army like how it works in real life, and then finish up your service when your in your mid twenties and just live a regular life.
But no they're getting fucking 3 year olds to enlist.
Objectively the funniest thing in a really horrific child soldiery way
this is my favourite part ofnthe books ngl i wpuldnt have it any other way its so ABSURD. from a narritove standpoijt it maies sense (we need kids for the kids book) but also none at all since...yknow kids dont go to war. tjere are adults right down the road. this cannot be at all profitable for the romans they are CHILDREN. makes no no no sense i love it so much. i kinda relate to rick here: putting a really absurd thing in a book and praying that no one noticices or points it out, or by the time people notice i have an established fanbase
personal hc theres a revolution every like 2 weeks
my roman empire is new rome bc what a wild concept. our government is based of the roman empire which we all venerate. do you want to live in our city we are sooo culty about it. we give our children weird tatoos. you wanna lvie here forever? also do the military. also run the govermnent. you. child. run the government. do we have a school? who knows? will we toss you in The Punishment Weasel Bag? probably yeah! do any of the adults have jobs? shut up! we children with the Wolf Lady Who Might Kill Them. speaking of things that Might Kill Your Child oh my god theres a lot. send you child to war. do not kill your dad. we can and will exucute you, we being the high schoolers. our government is on the brink of collapse at all times probably and the drama is probably insane because its just two high schoolers. probably with a lot of mental illnesses to be honest but we move. we are 1 (one) charismatic leader away from ending it all. it sucks BALLS here if ppl find you even slightly weird. join the child army please. please. whooaaa pretty building. we hate the nation of greece. do not cross this line with a weapon. like we consider cj to be the organised one THEY ARE NOT they are sooo chaotic with the very thin veneer of respectability. that camp is not a well oiled machine it is a machine that will kill you if you move a single thing.
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Hazel is an Ao3 girly despite what every single piece of canon has ever said. She ships characters, gets all excited talking about them on tumbler, would possibly even cosplay if given the chance, introduces her boyfriend to new media he doesn't understand. Ships crack ships with absolute PASSION. Will get into online discourse about it. Will accidentally send a death threat once or twice (wasn't an accident). Her friends think she just reads fluff but my queen is eating the dead dove whole. Really tragic stuff. She's a dedicated writer with a whole list of characters that she associates with every piece of music. Levesque is the type to have probably one of the WORST writing curses of all. Can you imagine, just for a second, being an old man, coming back to check on a fic that's, what? Gone (was it fifty or sixty) years without continuation? BOOM. It's done. And there's more. Notes at the top. "Sorry for the long wait, I was in a cave haha." Or something of the sort. "Got snuck into a military camp" OP??? "I was lost in the fields of asphodel." WHATTT "Stuck underground somewhere in Rome." HUHHHHH??? "Somewhere in Artic" EXCUSE YOU "Flying Warship" THAT'S NOT AN EXPLANATION?? "Best friend's funeral." :((((
And then kudos, kudos all around. She deserves it.
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No, but the fact that New Rome has adults, like...1 mile away and is ACTIVELY MAKING THE DECISION to have a child army is WILD to me? It's immoral either way, but it's way less so if you aren't going out to war with someone who just learned long division
The CHB structure works to provide halfbloods with training so that they can go out into the world and be functional members of society that won’t get eaten by monsters.
New Rome has a pack of wolves that find kids, take them to California and then have them join an actual military force. Then once they complete their service they get to live in the same society.
While this isn’t quite an immediate red flag situation, the fact that this society is actually just the Roman Empire 2: Electric Boogaloo is quite concerning. Like, for example, the fact that their highest governmental positions, because Rome was quite a militant government to say the least, are held by teenagers is fucking wild.
Like, sure you can get into a bunch of stuff about what makes someone fit to lead and how one’s godly parentage can lead to a certain kind of behavior or whatnot, but you would never catch CHB letting their campers have that much power. Chiron is there for a reason, Mr. D was there for probation because the gods are petty.
All this to say, maybe the summer camp is a better place for at risk teens than the military government based on the foundation of literal fascism.
New Rome as a concept is so funny to me its student government butvehat if that overachieving nerd kid and kid who only got voted in bc they promised free cookies and one mean popular kid ran the ACTUAL government. What if petty kid drama was political upheaval. What if when Laura from Chemistry gossips about you, there is a threat of getting executed for realises. Deeply unserious concept 10/10
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Whenever I think of Camp Jupiter.. I just get so.. mad. Knowing that even after 11 years of Jason's sheer service, even after the fact that he dedicated his whole life to Rome at the age of 2, a ripe CHILD, a BABY, nobody even cared to look for him even 6 months after his disappearance..??
Nobody went "I miss Jason!" Like everyone did in Camp half blood for Percy, even the hunters of Artemis went out of their way to look for him. Jason's "friends" Dakota or Gwendolyn never spared a glance at his direction, his friendship with Reyna was fractured because of communication issues, etc.
Camp Jupiter was, realistically NOTHING without Jason (and Reyna duh) yet they have the audacity to neglect him.
And then they cheaply "made up" for it by giving him some grand state funeral. What's the point? His body was wrapped in an expensive silk, but his soul left that world feeling useless and unwanted. An expensive fancy funeral isnt going to change that.
His funeral was dark and empty, because not a single one of his Greek friends could make it.
Jason Grace was doomed to be chained to the clutches of the soulless camp of Rome till the very end. Like Michael Varus said "born a roman, die a roman"
Camp Jupiter was more or less a dystopian society covered up with beautiful architecture. Like shiny fake gold that wears off its glow.
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Yes to all of this, Jason Grace was just as Greek as he was Roman and the fact that weren't get this acknowledgement makes me sick. Jason DEVOTED his entire being to that Camp and the fact that his fellow legion members refused to even remember his service and sacrifice is disappointing
On a lighter note if anyone is looking for a fic where things go a little differently at Jason's funeral here's one
I AM A CAMP JUPITER HATER ABOVE ALL ELSE HOW COULD YOU DO THAT TOCMY BOI