History Fridge / TheHeroesOfOlympus

** Where was that mentioned? Chiron said that most civil wars were covers for wars between the Greek and Roman demigods, but the Cold War wasn't a civil war.
*** In ''The Lost Hero'', Chiron mentions that the Cold War was a "close one".

* Hazel and Nico are both from before 1950. They get along really well, but of all the demigods, Hazel is the most likely one to have a problem with Nico being LGBT. In ''The Mark Of Athena'', when Narcissus said 'I love him, he's so gorgeous', Hazel is specifically stated to have been appalled. Should Nico come out during the fifth book, things might not go so well between them. This is probably also why Nico has issues with being gay. It would also explain his sudden increase in showing physical affection towards Hazel, as noted when Nico gives Hazel peck on the cheek in front of the others. He's trying to soften the impact, should he eventually choose to come out to her, hoping that their bond has improved by that point that she won't turn him away.
* In ancient Greece, homosexuality was heavily codified, and was essentially accepted in the form of an older man teaching to a younger one what love were, so Nico hence has all the reasons to have problems to come to terms with it, being from the greek's side of the gods, feeling attraction for someone who's about his age and being from the '30s. Romans, on the other hand, were definitely more open about it (the only thing that mattered was that romans were on top, and even that wasn't really necessary), that's both why Jason, being roman, has no problem in accepting Nico's sexuality, but also the reason the two gods bringing out homosexuality do it in their roman incarnation.

** Related to this is Sammy's diamond, which he thinks was cursed because he never saw Hazel again after she moved away from New Orleans. Still he lived a long, reasonably happy life by fulfilling his dream of being a mecanic and having a family, so the "curse damage" seems quite contained. That's because he didn't care about the diamond, Hazel ''gifted'' it to him. Since there was no greed behind the act, Sammy was spared from the worse.

* Nyx is shown to be very frustrated with the lack of attention she gets, and Percy tells her that it's because she hasn't done anything noteworthy. Now, given that she tried to kill (and if Koios is to be believed, eat) Percy and Annabeth, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero what kind of attention-grabbing deeds might the one being even Zeus fears come up with?]]

** Reyna and Hylla learned to fight quickly, yes. They weren't the only women from Cerce's spa who got kidnapped, though...

* In "Heroes of Olympus," Mimas mockingly asks what the daughter of the love goddess would know about war. Thing is, some classicists say that Aphrodite's character is derived from the Babylonian myths of Ishtar. Who actually ''was'' both a love and a war goddess!

* Back in TheLastOlympian, when Percy bathed in the River Styx he used his memories of Annabeth to act as his anchor to the world. His love for her is magically hard-coded into him now, so no wonder Hera couldn't completely banish those memories.

* Having demigod children of different ethnicities (something only mildly touched upon in the first series), without any trace of Greek in them, may seem odd at first--- until you remember that the gods ''don't have DNA.'' In that case, of course their children would take from their mortal parent!
** Percy is explicitly stated to have his fathers dark hair and green eyes and Annabeth has her mothers grey eyes.

** Yeah since their enemy is Gaea, the freaking PLANET itself(or at least its personification), the Gods themselves say she can't be defeated only put to sleep, so of course they are going to pull all the aces in their sleeves, its an "all-or-nothing give it everything you got" scenario.
* Jason wasn't directly claimed when he went to the Greek Camp Half Blood. he was ''already'' claimed over at the ''Roman'' camp half blood, and it was ''Hera'' who sent him over there.

*** In The Lost Hero Chiron mentions that the Cold War was a "close one".

** And in terms of the "flame of the West," while most people are more familiar with the Greek names/stories of the gods, they're also familiar with the Roman names of the planets, Father Time (Kronos/Saturn), and so on, sort of a hybridized version of the myths. More evidence of it being stronger combined.

** Someone with a really attractive worst enemy. Or someone who's [[FoeYay attracted to their worst enemy.]]

** Yeah since their enemy is Gaea, the freaking PLANET itself(or at least its personification), the Gods themselves say she can't be defeated only put to sleep, so of course they are going to pull all the aces in their sleeves, its an "all-or-nothing give it everything you got" scenario

* Khione never appeared as an antagonist when Percy was present: attacking when he was tucked away by Hera in Book 1 and while he was in Tartarus in Book 4. This seems like nothing, until one notes that in some myths she had a son by Poseidon, Eumolpus. A son she had to give up when very young. If that myth is in effect, she didn't bother the Argo 2 crew when Percy was present because, as he resembles his father immensely, likely also resembled the son she had to give up, which would be painful for her.
* The return of faded Gorgons to attack Percy comes off as a bit random for Gaea, but with the later reveal that faded entities go into Chaos it gives at least a possible explanation (Gaea or Tartarus influencing their progenitor to release the entities.) It is possible that Medea, being later shown to be able to perform this feat with magic, also performed the task, but was not called upon to do so with additional being.

* Nico's [[SuddenlySexuality crush on Percy]] makes sense when you think about how he was 12 at the time and 14 now, around the time that a person would be discovering their feelings.

* Unlike most demigods, Jason doesn't seem to have dyslexia. Why? He's a Roman demigod, and their minds are wired for Latin, not Ancient Greek.
** Another FridgeBrilliance moment happens because Jason wasn't directly claimed when he went to the Greek Camp Half Blood. he was ''already'' claimed over at the ''Roman'' camp half blood, and it was ''Hera'' who sent him over there.

** Except that Greecian homosexuality wasn't that heavily codified at all. Yes, an older man taking a younger one under his wing and teaching him "what love is" as you put it, was one of the ways it was commonly expressed. But it was far from the only way. In paticular, soldiers were encouraged and nearly expected to form sexual and romantic bonds with one another, because you would fight that much harder for the man at your side if you loved him than if he was just your comrade. And Nico and Percy were both soldiers in the Titan War, though they didn't fight side-by-side, Nico DID find out how to make him invulnerable.

* Many comment that the Gigantes come off a smug and stupid. However given the fact that the Giants probably did not have long periods of time between their birth and their defeat and destruction the first, and second, time around they didn't have time to really grow up. They may have the minds of adults, but not the experience.

* The Roman Demigods and Legacies being on the side of the Confederacy in the Civil War makes some sense if one considers the latin slogan "sic sempee tyranis" John Wilkes Booth said. Not sure about Greek and Roman history with slaves but I vaguely recall a much stronger slave culture in Roman society.

** Jason was [[{{Foreshadowing}} hinted at]] since ''Demigod Diaries'' when Percy noted that Thalia seemed to be looking for someone on the Fields of Asphodel.

* The whole set up of the world. The gods are petulant jerks whose petty whims and feuding causes untold suffering in the mortal world. Gods often take their frustrations out on mortals deserved or not. Olympus tends to be on the brink of imploding at least once a year. The gods can get away with nearly anything with mortals almost always in the wrong. Where you go in the underworld is largely determined by how the gods feel about you even if being an enemy of theirs is just. The alternatives to these gods is usually far worse. And Zeus, the one charged with keeping everything together, is the worse of the lot with being an arrogant moron to boot.
** Not much of a fridge, as it's pointed out in ''Percy Jackson's Greek Gods'': "You want scary? Zeus was the god of justice, oaths and promises. Which means the guy who zapped everyone who offended him and couldn't even keep his marriage vows was the one in charge of making sure kings and ambassadors were respected, rules obeyed, and vows kept. That's like making me the god of homework and good grades!"

** Not so much, Piper notes in House of Hades that just laying on the charmspeak and telling people what to do makes it less effective. It works much better if she's telling people to do something they already ''want'' to do.

* So nearly all of the known Seven have special powers respective to their godly parent. [[spoiler: Piper has charmspeak and looks good no matter what, Leo has pyrokinesis, Hazel has geokinesis and can control precious minerals, Frank can shapeshift and apparently is a tactician]]. Percy and Jason are the sons of Poseidon and Jupiter (big important gods) respectively and are simply put, the Heroes. Capital H. I honestly thought that in general, they where all very Mary Sue/Marty Stu-esque. Except Percy, who got character development in the last series. But then I realized that of course they are going to be that way, they were chosen by the gods themselves. The gods aren't going to just pick some random normals! They are going to go for the gold! The very best! The cream of the crop!

* Unlike most demigods, [[spoiler:Jason doesn't seem to have dyslexia. Why? He's a Roman demigod, and their minds are wired for Latin, not Ancient Greek.]]
** Another FridgeBrilliance moment happens because Jason wasn't directly claimed when he went to the Greek Camp Half Blood. [[spoiler:he was ''already'' claimed over at the ''Roman'' camp half blood, and it was ''Hera'' who sent him over there.]]

* Why do they wear purple shirts at [[spoiler:the Roman camp]]? Because [[spoiler:purple was a symbol of power in Ancient Rome]].

* [[spoiler: Nico's [[SuddenlySexuality crush on Percy]]]] makes sense when you think about how he was 12 at the time and 14 now, around the time that a person would be discovering their feelings.
** That and the fact that there's never been a chapter told from [[spoiler:Nico's]] point of view. In fact, all of the first series (when the whole affair started) and many chapters in ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'' are told from [[spoiler:Percy's]] point of view, who at the time thought that [[spoiler:Nico had a crush on Annabeth.]]
* Bob's ability to inspire [[spoiler:Damasen to try to change his fate makes a lot of sense when you realize that Iapetus was The Lord of Mortality and one of the cruelest and most evil of the Titans. Bob's ability to rise above that showed Damasen that change for the better, be it in a being or in one's destiny, is not unattainable.]]
* The scene in Split where Favonius tells Jason and Nico of his crush on Hyacinthus seems a bit unnecessary, but once [[spoiler:Nico's crush on Percy]] is revealed, [[spoiler:it seems that Favonius might have been trying to discreetly protect Nico, by judging Jason's reaction to his own sexuality.]]

** [[spoiler: He does!]]

** In Portugal, while eating farturas, Nico somewhat dourly notes that if Percy were there he would probably make a fart joke and muses that Percy can often be so "juvenile". [[spoiler: Nico later gets together with Will Solace, who is noticeably more mature. Not least because he is basically Camp Half-Blood's resident physician.]]
* [[spoiler: In House of Hades, Nico's attitude towards his crush on Percy, avoiding everyone because he believes he won't be accepted and going so far as to say he hates Percy, is absolutely heartwrenching in the face of his past. Considering that before his mother moved him and Bianca to America he spent his formative childhood years growing up in fascist Catholic Italy during the holocaust, with gay people being interned just as much as Jews and the global attitude towards non-heterosexuality being absolutely poisonous, it's no wonder he's so scared to admit it. Jason's right; Nico admitting it is the bravest act that any character in the series has ever performed.]]
** Fridge Tearjerker: [[spoiler:Nico would also know that Hazel grew up in the same time period he did, in predominantly Catholic New Orleans. He has every reason to believe she'd be just as horrified by him being homosexual as he is.]].

* So in ''The Son of Neptune'' we find out [[spoiler:Hazel actually died in the 1940's and was offered Elysium, but turned it down as it meant her mother would go to the Fields of Punishment]]. So the judges split the punishment and sent the both to the Fields of Asphodel, a place where everyone forgets everything and just kind of exist in a dream scape...[[spoiler:except Hazel]]. Being a daughter of Pluto, she remembers who she is and why she is there. The fields hold no power over her, except that she can't leave. She was there for 70 years before [[spoiler:Nico busted her out]], but most likely remembers most of it.
** Nico originally [[spoiler:wanted to bust Bianca out, as he sensed back in ''The Titan's Curse'' that she herself had gone to the Fields of Asphodel. Since Bianca was also a daughter of Hades/Pluto, she may have chosen reincarnation because she couldn't handle the stress of remembering everything the way Hazel did]].
* Hazel and Nico are both from before 1950. They get along really well, but [[spoiler: of all the demigods, Hazel is the most likely one to have a problem with Nico being LGBT. In ''The Mark Of Athena'', when Narcissus said 'I love him, he's so gorgeous', Hazel is specifically stated to have been appalled.]] Should Nico [[spoiler: come out]] during the fifth book, things might not go so well between them. This is probably also why Nico [[spoiler: has issues with being gay.]] It would also explain his sudden increase in showing physical affection towards Hazel, as noted when Nico gives Hazel peck on the cheek in front of the others. [[spoiler: He's trying to soften the impact, should he eventually choose to come out to her, hoping that their bond has improved by that point that she won't turn him away.]]
* In ancient Greece, homosexuality was heavily codified, and was essentially accepted in the form of an older man teaching to a younger one what love were, so [[spoiler: Nico hence has all the reasons to have problems to come to terms with it, being from the greek's side of the gods, feeling attraction for someone who's about his age and being from the '30s.]] Romans, on the other hand, were definitely more open about it (the only thing that mattered was that romans were on top, and even that wasn't really necessary), [[spoiler: that's both why Jason, being roman, has no problem in accepting Nico's sexuality, but also the reason the two gods bringing out homosexuality do it in their roman incarnation.]]
** Except that Greecian homosexuality wasn't that heavily codified at all. Yes, an older man taking a younger one under his wing and teaching him "what love is" as you put it, was one of the ways it was commonly expressed. But it was far from the only way. In paticular, soldiers were encouraged and nearly expected to form sexual and romantic bonds with one another, because you would fight that much harder for the man at your side if you loved him than if he was just your comrade. And [[spoiler: Nico and Percy were both soldiers in the Titan War, though they didn't fight side-by-side, Nico DID find out how to make him invulnerable]]

* Nico [[spoiler: being gay]] is perfectly logic when you think about it: he's the son of a ''Death god''. Death is supposed to be sterile, and [[spoiler: a gay relationship]] has no chance to naturally produce offspring.

** Alcyoneus and [[spoiler: Orion]], who had been active for years before the events of the series, had time to gain experience and grow as people (Alcyoneus even having admiration for Percy as a warrior). Of course that still didn't stop the former for building his lair close to the Canadian Border....

* In ''The Son of Neptune'', Reyna mentions that she and [[spoiler: Hylla]] were kidnapped by the pirates Percy released and held prisoner for months. Two young girls held by a bunch of deprived and depraved pirates... [[RapeAsDrama The implications aren't good at all.]]

* [[spoiler:Jason falls in love with Piper while amnesiac, taken away from someone named "Reyna". Now, if Percy's made any "friends" where he is...]]

** FridgeBrilliance: Reyna states that she wasn't involved with Jason, yet. However, Percy and Annabeth were ''very'' involved. In fact, [[spoiler: their involvement lasted for two months before it was abruptly cut short by Hera/Juno]]. It is not unheard of for amnesia victims to remember faces and names of loved ones.

* Aphrodite is the goddess of love, lust, and beauty. Of ''course'' her children look like [[MarySue Mary Sues!]]