r/camphalfblood • • 20d ago

Megathread "The Wild Zone" Discussion Tread [CHBC]

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Hello Campers!

This is the general discussion thread for "The Wild Zone." Major discussions, personal thoughts/reviews, and chatter around a new book should be posted here for the first week of the books release.

Art and memes are allowed in the main page but must be spoiler tagged and not give away plot details in the main title of the post. Any posts made about this book and series after this period should use the [CHBC] title tag, as the CAMP HALF-BLOOD series is not a part of PJO!

Questions about this book or the Camp Half-Blood series? Check out the Pre-release discussion thread or our subreddits wiki for more information.

The comments will contain unmarked spoiler for the book, so enter at your own risk. Happy Reading!


r/camphalfblood • • 5d ago

Godly Parent Megathread "Who's My Godly Parent?" Megathread

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This is a megathread to figure out what cabin you belong in!

Feel free to list your features, likes, dislikes and personality traits to help other campers decide where you belong, but if you are under 18 please do not give out your age or post your face on a public forum like this one.

Finally, if you would like to get your parent next to your name, you’ll want to follow this tutorial.


r/camphalfblood • • 4h ago

Question Why is Thalia British? [all]

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I was rewatching season 2 and I'm confused why they made Thalia have a British accent. Zeus doesn't have an accent, which wouldn't really explain it but would make slightly more sense. And how would she have been a run away with Luke and eventually find Annabeth if she came all the way from the UK? If anyone has any answers/explanations lemme know!


r/camphalfblood • • 3h ago

Discussion [PJOTV] Percy holding up the sky scene

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What are you guy's opinions on how they are portraying this scene?


r/camphalfblood • • 12h ago

Analysis my ranking[pjo][hoo]

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r/camphalfblood • • 2h ago

Discussion [general] You🫵yes you wake up and find out you're a kid of one of the Gods. BUT there is no Camp to go to. What are you gonna do?

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Camp Half-Blood doesn't exist, the Gods and Chiron simply didn't think of making it, like ever. And you wake up as one of the Demigods/Demigoddesses of the God of your choosing. Finding out you're a Half-Blood gives you only basic info the pantheon and that there are others like you. You don't know how your powers work or if you even have any.

Phones and the like has a much smaller effect on notifying Monsters on your location so you don't need to throw away your phones and go live in the woods. But that doesn't mean staying on your phone doesn't come with danger.

How do you deal with those life changing effects?


r/camphalfblood • • 6h ago

Headcanon Give me your most bizarre [pjo] headcanons I'll go first

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Nico and Austin write emo music together. Will is their top listener but somehow doesn't realize it's them. He likes their music because it reminds him of them without knowing it actually is them

Will: babe, you gotta hear this lead vocalist

Nico, internally: how does he not recognize his own boyfriend's singing voice


r/camphalfblood • • 53m ago

Analysis [PJO] It's not until you're writing fanfic of the series that you realize how much of it is just monster of the week encounters

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And the most impressive part of it is how all those encounters actually mean something. Anyways, it's damn hard to come up with the same quantity of encounters, and I'm annoyed about it. Normally I go much more cause-and-effect in my writing, and this is really throwing wrenches in my plans.


r/camphalfblood • • 11h ago

Discussion Magic rules in Kane Chronicles [kc]

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I have been apart of the Riordanverse for a very long time now (read all the books in elementary school and am now almost finished first year of university)
But very recently I just picked up Kane Chronicles for the first time. I just could never get into it before, I guess Egyptians myths just aren’t my thing.
Anyway, there the whole thing about the path of the gods that Sadie, Carter and their parents are trying to get the other magicians to do in this trilogy. But how so they do magic anyways?
Surely they have to follow some path, or have some specific speciality.
How is that different from the path of gods? Except for acknowledging that you are doing it of course.
Maybe I’ve got it all wrong, I did read this entire series in the span of a month. So could someone explain it to me!!
Thank you!!!


r/camphalfblood • • 27m ago

Fanfiction Broken pantheon au with lester from toa being taken [toa]

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/72125501/chapters/187760041 I read this and I immediately need more fics with the same plot lol (also idk what flair to use)


r/camphalfblood • • 15h ago

Discussion [pjo] 21 here, finished The Lightning Thief 2 days ago and Sea of Monsters today (started 3 days ago), here’s my thoughts (spoilers for the first 2 books) Spoiler

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I was expecting myself to enjoy it. I did not expect to love the books as much as I ended up doing. The books were both hilarious and just very good.

POINT 1: WRITING

What I loved is that the book felt “childish” in a good way. Something I’ve seen happen a lot these days with children’s media is that it treats it’s target audience like stupid idiots (I have seen that done to my favorite franchise, How To Train Your Dragon, with the The Nine Realms show). This felt like just a book aimed at a younger audience instead, and that’s probably why I enjoyed it despite my age. How To Train Your Dragon and Kung Fu Panda are some of my favorite movie seriez of all time, and they are aimed at children mainly, but aren’t afraid of actually being genuine and mature at times. This book gave me the same feeling. Really, it just felt great. The humor also felt more like “intended for younger audiences” than childish, and it made me burst out laughing a few times. Really just… funny AND enjoyable.

POINT 2: CONCEPT AND EXECUTION

It was silly, but in a good way. The idea of Greek gods moving to America because of the spirit of civilization was weird but I didn’t find myself finding anything wrong with it. I had no idea I would have liked Echidna as a fat old lady with a chihuahua that can actually bite to match a normal chihuahua’s bark, or Ares rolling around on a harley with a jacket-shield, or Charon being a Brittish dude obsessed with Italian suits, or Blackbeard being a guinea pig on Circe’s island, or the “savage centaurs” being frat boy dude-bros. All of these things sound between silly to just dumb on concept, but when I read them I just loved it.

POINT 3: CHARACTERS

Noone I hated that I wasn’t supposed to. I really love the cast so far.

- Percy: Great main protagonist, his internal monologues are hilarious at certain times and pretty deep at others. Really interesting character, too, rather than a more basic protagonist he’s actually got depth (which is fitting considering he’s the son of a SEA god… cause sees are deep). I didn’t expect myself to actually cheer when he landed a hit on Ares. Idk why, but I imagined him sounding like HTTYD 1’s version of Hiccup.

- Annabeth: Love her, she’s absolutely an amazing supporting character that actually feels like an equal rather than a sidekick. I love me a dorky badass, and I feel like those two words describe Annabeth perfectly. Her playing with Cerberus and actually feeling sad about having to leave the house-sized demon hound actually made me feel bad for both od them. Probably my second favorite character so far. I imagined her sounding a lot like the movie version of Hermione, even though as a character in terms of writing Annabeth blows both the movie AND book versions of Hermione out of the water. Also I loved how she just called the Laestrygonians Canadians, that made me burst out laughing.

- Grover: I like him well enough. Probably my least favorite character, but that’s only because I don’t like him as much as the others. He’s funny and likeable, and I like his friendship with Percy. Again, I like Grover. I just everyone else more. I don’t know if it was because of how I imagined Percy sounding, but I read Grover’s lines in Fishlegs’ voice

- Chiron: I love a good “wise mentor” character. Chiron was immensely endearing in that way, I haven’t liked a mentor figure this much since Uncle Iroh. He was also funny a lot, which is something I swear so many pieces of media today are afraid of doing, letting the wise mentor have silly moments too instead of just brooding stoicism and wisdom Chiron’s also just fun and allowed to have silly moments. And as I mentioned him earlier, yes, I imagined him sounding like Uncle Iroh.

- Mr. D: I loved him since the “gladitorial fights and Pac-Man” line. The idea of the god of booze being put in charge of a children’s camp to sober up was funny, and Dionysus’ detached misery and apathy were a fun contrast to Chiron. It’s why I liked him less in the Sea of Monsters, I feel like Mr. D works best when he has Chiron to bounce off of. Don’t really have a voice in mind when I read his lines yet.

- Clarisse: My favorite character so far. I love her, she’s both badass and absolutely hilarious while at it. The decision of taking a Civil War ship and shooting it’s guns at Charybdis was the definitive moment she became my favorite character across the first two books. I also love how even though she’s a mean bully she actually cares about people and the camp and is loyal and honourable. Her being the one to call the chariot races out of place and saying there should be more focus on camp security instead of personal glory was also a moment that really endeared her to me. Also both the conversation with Ares on the boat and her collapse at the end when she’s breaking down over her conceived failure really humanized her in a tragic way. Instead of some raging brute who attacked the people she blamed for it, she just slumps down on the sidewalk like she’s struggling not to cry because under all the bluster and anger, she’s just a teenage girl afraid of her abusive, misogynistic father and of letting her entire community down by failing to get the Fleece back, and I really just wanted to give her a hug. I was expecting, from her appearance in the first book, for her to be a fairly boring bully character. But the second book made her my definitive favorite so far. She also gave me major “HTTYD 1 Astrid” vibes in the second book, whose voice I began imagining as I read her lines, and I really liked her chemistry with Percy, I dunno why but a part of me wants them to end up together in the later books, I enjoyed their begrudging-respect/hate relationship probably the most.

- Luke: A twist villain done right. He genuinely fooled me. I thought the “betrayed by a friend” thing would come later in the books. Luke’s heel turn at the end of the first one caught me off guard in a good way. Then, in the second book, while he had little “screen time” I loved every bit of it. I like me a good “fallen hero turned psycho villain” character. Idk why, but I imagined him sounding like a younger version of Lord Shen from KFP2.

- Ares: I LOVED Ares in the first book, I thought he was badass and loved every bit of him while he was there. He was exactly what I imagined the god of war to be like in the modern day (aside from the biker bit), and I really loved the idea with his shield being a biker’s leather jacket. Then the second book reached the moment on the ship with Clarisse, and I was sharply reminded that he was in fact a villain/antagonistic evil asshole. A badass one, but still an asshole. His and Percy’s fight was my favorite part of the first book. I imagined him sounding like Sam Witwer’s Darth Maul.

- Tyson: Amazing. All I can really say, amazing. I loved his parts, and his relationship with both Percy and Annabeth. He was incredibly endearing in a way I didn’t expect from a cyclops. He was funny, badass and adorable. I can’t think of a voice for him atm either.

- Hades: Fun. I loved how he just went into a tirade about how the world sucks because he’s got too much to do. It was a fun take on Hades, and for some reason I imagined him sounding like Jim Carrey’s Dr. Eggman.

- Poseidon: I liked him, he seemed nice in comparison to the other gods besides Hermes so far… which given the gods beside Hermes so far have been Hades, Zeus and Ares doesn’t actually say much given how low the bar is, but oh well. I wanna see more of him. I imagined him for some reason sounding like the Rock, Idk why.

- Zeus: I want more of him, he was a great character for the 3 pages he appeared in, and his constant presence through thunderstorms was a cool idea. I imagined him sounding like WWE superstar Roman Reigns for some reason. Olympus… ACKNOWLEDGE ME!

- Hermes: Just a chill postman, I liked him a lot. Not much more I can really say. Idk why, but I imagined him sounding like Adam Sandler.

OVERALL

Loved the books, some of the best I’ve ever read. Gonna take a short break just so I don’t run through the story too fast, gotta pace myself so I don’t read the entire franchise in 2 weeks lol.


r/camphalfblood • • 6h ago

Fanfiction [pjo] Percabeth fanfiction searching test reader.

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Looking for a test/ beta reader for my fanfiction!

The war against Gaea was over. Annabeth and Percy had started their studies in New Rome. For the first time, life felt calm. But that peace ended when they returned to Camp Half-Blood for their semester break.

One night, Percy was laughing with his friends around the campfire. The next, he stood accused of betrayal and treason. Crimes he never committed. Hunted by those he trusted, he escaped before a verdict could be passed.
Percy vanishes to a place no one would ever think to look, far beyond the reach of Olympus. There, he joins a power greater than the gods themselves and tries to bury the life he lost. But the past does not stay buried. When Percy is told to return to the camp that destroyed him, he must face the people who condemned him—and decide whether he will protect the world that betrayed him or finally turn his back on it for good.

Hi everyone! 😊

I’m looking for a beta/test reader for my Percy Jackson fanfiction. It’s currently around 70k words long, and I’m aiming for a total of approximately 100–130k words.

It’s a Percabeth fic set in a Chaos Army AU. Ideally, I’d love to find someone who knows the fandom and enjoys discussing chapters and plot developments with me. (And if you want to be not only a test- but a beta reader, who would be willing to help me with spelling and grammar. I’m not a native English speaker (I’m around B2 level), but I’m doing my best!)

Content notes:
Contains spoilers for The Mark of Athena, The House of Hades, The Sun and the Star and The Court of the Dead
- Swearing
- Betrayal of trust
- Percy being a seaweed brain

If you’re interested in beta reading this fic, feel free to DM me! I’d love to find someone to share ideas with along the way. 😊


r/camphalfblood • • 7h ago

Fanfiction Death of Percy Jackson [pjo]

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r/camphalfblood • • 23h ago

Analysis Theory abot the first prophecy [pjo]

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When the oracle says "you will fail to save what matters most in the end" he instantly thinks his mom he won't save but he does so what if it ment Luke what if it ment you won't save Luke from his fate so he is able to bring back Kronos.


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Miscellaneous I finally got the books! [HOO]

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r/camphalfblood • • 21h ago

Discussion [PJOTV] Read the books as a kid and preteen watching the show!

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I started watching the show at it has released on Netflix for a limited time.

Context:
Just some context, I first started reading Percy Jackson back in Grade 3 when I bought the first book from the scholastic book catalogue my school had and then the rest of series from the next catalogue.

I was one of the first kids to have the entire series and finished it by grade 4. I loved it and it really felt like I was transported to a whole different world, when I didn’t really fit in with my classmates.

After that Rick released The Lost Hero and I bought each book one by one as he released HOO. Read the Kane Chronicles through his release as well.

I believe I stopped when I read Magnus Chase as even though I loved the series, I was a grown adult and felt that it was time to move on.

My favorite books are The Lightning Thief, The Last Olympian, Mark of Athena and The House of Hades

What I Think So Far:

Since it’s been a while since I’ve read the books, I want to say I really enjoy the show a lot. It gives me the vibes of the books and I feel that it feels magical like Harry Potter. I know a lot of people don’t agree but as a fan since I was a kid and coming back to it I really feel the show did a good job of capturing what I felt when reading the books as a kid!


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Theory Theories about the cover of Rite of Aphrodite [chbc] Spoiler! Spoiler

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I absolutely love the idea that Aphrodite is going to be substitite for Mr. D in the next book. The staff of the camp is mainly men, I mean we've got Chiron, Mr. D, Argus, Tantalos, Quintus, most of the satyrs are men... It's going to be so different to see A WOMAN run the camp, even better a very feminine woman.

And I mean, Aphrodite is perfect for the role. I've always had this image of her that she likes to intervene in demigods' lives? A few days in camp seems like a fun little activity she would enjoy.

But about the cover. The chariot they're riding looks like Ares' war chariot? You know, the true form of his Harley-Davidson?

Are we going to get ARES in camp too, visiting his lover? I've always had this image that Ares likes to intervene in demigods' lives, too and somewhat enjoys "family time". I mean we see him a LOT in PJO. We saw Ares in TLT, SOM, TTC and TLO. In TLT he knows that Percy broke Clarisse's spear. In SOM we see him yelling at Clarisse. In the Stolen Chariot he told Clarisse to drive his chariot and they meet after Percy leaves. He regularly tests his sons. In TTC both Aphrodite and Ares meet Percy.

Other theory is that it's Ares' chariot but it's Phobos and Deimos who come to camp to meet their mom and harass the lucky demigods and somehow the Wild Omada steal that chariot for their own purposes? Or maybe Phobos and Deimos are going to bully Harper like they bullied Clarisse?

One thing that I always found interrsting in the Stolen Chariot short story is that Clarisse seems to know Phobos and Deimos pretty well. It's not their first encounter and she's able to tell Percy their differences and that Phobos is so proud that phobias are named after him. They got almost like a real disturbing sibling relationship. So is this also the first time Clarisse gets to meet the two?

My funny theory - well, it's more like a silly headcanon - is that Aphrodite wants to play a family dinner with Ares, Phobos, Deimos and their demigod children. You know, Harper, Silena, Katie, Clarisse etc.


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Analysis Why is Reyna always being wronged by men? [hoo]

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Her father, the pirates, Jason, Percy, Leo, Octavian, etc. Life just hates her.

Edit: People, I'm not saying what they did was wrong (Jason, Percy, Leo), it's what they didn't do, which just acknowledge her and have a small conversation with her or send her message. They literally just left her with her city in chaos. Also this has nothing to do with her romantic relationships!!!


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Discussion [ALL] What if Ben 10 Alien Force Highbreed team Replaces Camp Half-Blood: Can They Survive the Battle of Manhattan?Last olympion.

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Rules

1: like the last olympian ben 10 team have full knowledge on Titan army and have as much prep time as camp half blood

2: ben 10 alien force has master control and can use aliens beyond alien force like clockwork atomic gravattack due to master control but note it be like he is using it for the first time

3: no alien x because he is more powerful than even chaos but if the situation becomes toooo much Gwen can use his full power anodite and Kevin can absorb Omnitrix or darkstar goes all out and absorb anything he can

4: typhon is allowed in the fight cause there no percy jackson so Poseidon will not help thus typhon goes to the olympus and ben 10 team will have to stop him lastly even if kronos gets his divine from or even if he destroy all the throne room it won't mean ben 10 team lose they are as powerful if not more powerful than the olympion gods so they will still have to fight


r/camphalfblood • • 7h ago

Fanfiction [Chbc]How would Riordanverse Gods and Demigods react to Project Moon Verse's The Fingers especially Index, E.G.O and Distortion?

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Current am writting a fanfic about Project Moon World Building and Power system merge with Riordanverse, so i want to know you'll Perception about this.

Note: Only Pure Humanity, who had been affection and spread by the Seed of Light can Manifestation E.G.O and Distortion, some Demigod may can but their Maximum can do was Violation E.G.O and Shin, Mang.


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Theory [SYA] WRATH OF THE TRIPLE GODDESS REALIZATION.

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I had a Senior Year Adventures realization. Minor spoilers.

I think I know why Rick made Peter Stuyvesant a son of Hecate. The symbol of the governorship of the colony (and later Mayor of New York City until at least the mid 19th century) was to have two torches placed outside the house. That's how you know if an old house belonged to a former mayor. Now, there's only like one or two left over, and they eventually replaced torches with gas lamps and then electric lamps.

But yeah, they used to use two torches. Just like the symbol of Hecate!


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Question Percy's choice [general]

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So we know that in the Son of Neptune, Gaia called Percy her ideal pawn as well as later a mini buildup on him having to make an important choice in the war against her.

So if such a situation rose and Percy was asked by the goddess to choose between the lives of the rest of the seven (including Annabeth) and his own family (Sally and Paul) what do you think he would choose? This is assuming that even with stretched plot armor he cannot realistically defeat the goddess alone to save both.


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Fanfiction Would you like to add your OC(s) to my [pjo] slow-burn A/B/O AU story?

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Hi. A few weeks ago,I made a poll here asking what my MMC's main weapon should be and you guys surprised me with your eagerness to comment and vote,so thank you for that!

This time, I'm asking you if anyone would like to add their OC(s) to the story. The plot is as follows: Spencer Griffiths is a rather shy and reserved daughter of Athena.

What happens when she realizes her alignment as an Omega ,not wanting to be 'tied down by a bond with gods know which Alpha ' , only to realize that hers is one of the more popular, outgoing boys , Louis Dupont,a son of Apollo?

How will they navigate the bond and the challenges between the two worlds they live in? Will their families find out the truth about their relationship?

You will find the explanation about the 6 alignments in the story along with the forms for the demigod and mortal characters in the comments. :)

106 votes, 5d left
Yes (Greek demigod)
Yes (Roman demigod)
Yes ( mortal)
Yes (more than one of the above)
Maybe
No

r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Fanfiction I might be reading the most cursed fanfic to ever exist [GENERAL]

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I'll start:

To swear on the styx on AO3. A (adult)Percy x Kronos fic. I was looking for angsty percabeth fanfiction where Percy ended up getting captured by the Titans. I stumbled upon it randomly and my curiosity got the better of me. I'm on chapter five, and I hate to admit that it's incredibly well written. It's supposed to be a enemies to lovers slow burn, and so far Kronos is a psychopath who's forcing Percy to marry him.

There might be something wrong with me.


r/camphalfblood • • 1d ago

Question [hoo] How big are the Giants?

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Okay so I just finished Son of Neptune and I’m about to start Mark of Athena and when I was reading the fight between Percy and Polybotes it said Percy stabbed him in the stomach. “He plunged Riptide into the giant’s belly then withdrew it and vaulted away…” (Riordan 487-488). But earlier when we see Polybotes for the first time it says he’s at least 30 feet tall. “He was taller than the siege tower—thirty feet tall at least…” (Riordan 226). So is Percy leaping tens of feet into the air or something?