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Reasons To Love Jason Grace, in no particular order
- was literally raised by wolves and yet still managed to be The Most Polite Boy In The World
- hadn’t formally met Apollo but knew they were technically brothers so he still stuck his neck out for him
- lost his glasses on the top of his head all the time
- when he was trying to relay information to the group but kept getting distracted by how hot his girlfriend was to the point he had trouble forming sentences
- when he grew his hair out and started tugging at it whenever he got stressed so it was always sticking up in a million directions
- when he was reading that informational pamphlet on Hercules’ island and was so interested in it that he walked straight into a tree
- got stabbed through the gut and the literal first words out of his mouth after were ‘I finally stayed conscious for a whole battle’
- when he was fighting with the werewolves and he knew his sword wasn’t gonna work so he deadass got on all fours and started growling like he was literally about to go head-to-head teeth-to-teeth with those wolves omfg
- when he got caught in that net trap the dwarves set up and he’s hanging upside down and Leo goes forward to cut him out and he was literally like ‘no, Leo, go on with out me, I’m done, do not cut me out of this net, I genuinely want you to leave me here to die, please leave, I really just need a moment alone right now’ asdfghjkl
- when he was too busy having A Moment™ with a batch of brownies and a jar of homemade peach jam to focus on the merpeople’s warning
- when he was getting attacked by his former Camp Jupiter friends and every time he shocked or hit one of them he personally apologized
- “I’m breathing Dylan?!?!”
- when he didn’t remember that he could fly but instinctively threw himself over the railing at the grand canyon to save Piper anyway and as he was falling he was like ‘well at least this is probably noble and cool or whatever’
- his definition of teenage rebellion was stargazing on the roof of his own cabin
- when he got so close to telling Zeus to go fuck himself that even Percy was like ‘w h a t a r e y o u d o i n g’
- he knew Leo so well that by simply looking at what Leo was drinking he was able to figure out the boy was upset about something
- he knew Piper was upset that her memory of their first kiss wasn’t real so he tried to recreate it for her
- when everyone told him not to join his legion bc it was the worst and he was like ‘then I’ll make it the best’
- he and Reyna used to geek out over history together and had a whole future itinerary written up
- when he somehow had enough patience to deal with that wind god for like 2 weeks without once trying to strangle him…icon
- “Thank you, General Eisenhower!” the snark….
- canonically had to hug people whenever he got excited
- the stapler incident™
- the fact that he never really wanted to be a leader but always took the job without complaint because he knew that’s what people wanted from him
- when he made the MOST dramatic entrance of all time in that tower- lightning, flying, winds, yelling, the whole shebang- only to discover Leo had already defeated the dwarves and he was like. oh.
- swore to never drink alcohol after Thalia told him about their mother
- briefly thought turning into a tree was somehow a puberty thing for children of Zeus and was terrified
- the whole scene with Nico and Cupid
- when he made that huge lightning bolt to kill all the guards attacking them and Apollo was like ‘well there goes the element of surprise’ and he was just like ‘sorry I got a little over excited’ asdfgb
- when Percy got out of Tartarus and Jason just yelled out a relieved and emotional ‘DUDE!’ and gave him a bear hug
- he didn’t know when his own birthday was for sixteen years someone please hold me
- the fact that people at Camp Jupiter apparently made ‘Our Saving Grace™’ jokes often enough that he was annoyed by it even when he had amnesia
- when Piper fell asleep on him during their first quest and he just looked at Leo like ‘Are you seeing this??? This is happening???? What do I Do???’
- all the head injuries…..we love a clumsy bitch
- his first appearance in the series he had amnesia and his last words was ‘Remember!’….the absolute drama…..
- didn’t he wear like fucking dress shoes or something into the big battle with all the giants at the Parthenon
- the action figures
- searched for Leo for months before Chiron literally made him stop and enroll in school
- his favorite color was purple
- that little speech he always did when he wanted to intimidate someone like remember he’d use the winds to make him taller than whoever he was fighting and got all ‘I TOPPLED THE BLACK THRONE OF KRONOS AND FUCKED KRIOS UP REAL BAD AND THAT SEA MONSTER WAS A PUNK BITCH-’ like remember
- trusted Nico enough to drink poison
- made Frank praetor
- was so incredibly dedicated to getting recognition for all the gods so history wouldn’t repeat itself
- he made a fucking diorama guys it was so cute
- was completely respectful of Piper’s decision to break up even though he didn’t have any second thoughts in the relationship and a love god literally told him they were soul mates
- when he had an identity crisis over the Roman camp or the Greek camp but decided he could be both™
- listen Jason Grace was the sweetest, most dramatic nerd of a hero out there and I…..miss……him……