History TearJerker / PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians

[[folder:The Lightning Thief]]

[[folder:The Sea of Monsters]]

[[folder:The Titan's Curse]]

[[folder:The Battle of the Labyrinth]]

[[folder:The Last Olympian]]

[[folder:Percy Jackson's Greek Gods]]

[[folder:Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes]]

** What's more, Percy honors his dying wish by successfully nullifying the big three pact and the gods agreeing to Percy's one wish (Which they swear on the River Styx) that they will claim their Demigod children by the time they turn thirteen and do what they can to ensure they make it to Camp half blood in one piece.

* Percy and Nico's relationship throughout this book. Percy blames himself for loosing Bianca in the Titan's Curse, and Nico claims to hate him because of it, saying that Percy had promised to keep her safe. So when Percy finds Nico, he's desperate to protect him in order to fulfill Bianca's last wish not only out of a sense of duty but also of guilt.
* After Percy celebrates his birthday with his mom, he finds Nico outside his window on the fire-escape and notes that when Nico looked at his cake, he wondered whether or not Nico had a lot of birthday's as a kid.

** While her anger- induced behavior towards Rachel is pretty hurtful, if you dip deeper, there's a lot of sadness behind it in regards to her and Percy: It's pretty clear howe much she loves Percy (This is after she kisses him in Mount St. Helens) and despite Percy having a good, important reason to bring Rachel along, she believes that he likes Rachel and that while she's in the picture, her romantic path to Percy is now blocked. (What makes this hurt more is that Rachel had already deduced that Annabeth loved Percy and had zero intention of standing in their way; which is why she briefly chides Percy for not seeing Annabeth's feelings for him as quickly as Rachel did.)

* Thalia's fate. Here is a 12 year old girl who ran away from home, met two friends and survived despite huge odds against her, then after a guardian satyr finds them, they head for the camp. They are followed by literally every monster Hades can send after them including all three Furies. They make it to the hill on the edge of camp, but are wounded. Thalia stops there, turns around and tells the satry to take her two friends to safety while she keeps the monsters at bay. Having no choice, the satyr does as told, and Thalia dies sacrificing herself. Her father, Zeus, finally takes pity on her and turns her into a pine tree strengthening the boundary around the camp.

* Annabeth's family situation. His father met Athena while working on his doctorate at Harvard, then one day got a golden crib with Baby Annabeth inside. He didn't plan a kid, it threw his plans totally out of whack, and she knows it. He married a normal woman, having two kids who are normal, which is described by Annabeth as him forgetting and turning his back on Athena. Then after a few years, monsters started sensing her. The family fought a lot and everyone was accusing towards Annabeth and saw her as the reason for the troubles... so she decided her father chose and she does not fit into his new life and ran away. She was ''seven'' when she did, meaning that the attacks probably started when she was six or even five. And if she hadn't met Thalia and Luke, she would have ''died'', a fact she is more than aware of. And the kicker? A year or two later she did try to patch things up and go back for the school year. The monsters attacked again and the fights got bad enough she asked Chiron to take her back before the Christmas holidays.

* Percy has to take a moment to prepare himself before being able to start the chapter on Daedalus because it still hits too close to home, and at the end of Daedalus' chapter, he says Mrs. O'Leary is still missing her old master.

** But the other kicker is how Percy takes this revelation. He looked up to Luke as a sort of BigBrotherMentor he never had, teaching him sword-fighting and gave him winged shoes for his journey. But then he learns that Luke was the "friend who would betray him" in his prophecy all along. He plotted with Ares to start the war among the gods, framed Percy for the crime even when he wasn't aware of his demigod nature, and then cursed the winged shoes to pull Percy into Tartarus, along with the Master Bolt (only for Percy to hand the shoes off the Grover). Luke basically had no qualms ending Percy's life and proved it by poisoning him with Pit Scorpion venom. While Percy was lucky to have survived, he took Luke's betrayal ''[[ItsPersonal very]]'' [[ItsPersonal personally]] from then on, considering how his actions got his loved ones hurt and he almost lost his mother.

** But the other kicker is how Percy takes this revelation. He looked up to Luke as a sort of BigBrotherMentor he never had, teaching him sword-fighting and gave him winged shoes for his journey. But then he learns that Luke was the "friend who would betray him" in his prophecy all along. He plotted with Ares to start the war among the gods, framed Percy for the crime even when he wasn't aware of his demigod nature, and then cursed the winged shoes to pull Percy into Tartarus, along with the Master Bolt and Helm of Darkness (only for Percy to hand the shoes off the Grover). Luke basically had no qualms ending Percy's life and proved it by poisoning him with Pit Scorpion venom. While Percy was lucky to have survived, he took Luke's betrayal ''[[ItsPersonal very]]'' [[ItsPersonal personally]] from then on, considering how his actions got his loved ones hurt and he almost lost his mother.

** it doesn't stop there; with his final breaths, Luke pleads to Percy that he finishes his work, in that he will ensure that no more children of the Gods, Big three or otherwise, will be either killed or unclaimed; adding so much emotionality to Luke's true reason for joining Kronos; he couldn't stand watching the gods kill off their children to save their hides or sending monsters to kill them; Part of his reason for wanting to destroy them was to permanently punish them for what he considered an unforgiveable sin.

** While her anger- induced behavior towards Rachel is pretty hurtful, if you dip deeper, there's a lot of sadness behind it in regards to her and Percy: It's pretty clear howe much she loves Percy (This is after she kisses him in Mount St. Helens) and despite Percy having a good, important reason to bring Rachel along, she believes that he likes Rachel and that while she's in the picture, her romantic path to Percy is now blocked.
** And probably the biggest tear jearker of the entire book: Witnessing Luke's body being hosted by Kronos. Thus fulfilling the final line of her prophecy ("Lose a love to worse than death) After they escape him, she has a big emotional breakdown at seeing it all happen. It becomes Harsher in Hindsight in "The Last Olympian"

** But the other kicker is how Percy takes this revelation. He looked up to Luke as a sort of BigBrotherMentor he never had, teaching him sword-fighting and gave him winged shoes for his journey. But then he learns that Luke was the "friend who would betray him" in his prophecy all along. He plotted with Ares to start the war among the gods, framed Percy for the crime even when he wasn't aware of his demigod nature, and then cursed the winged shoes to pull Percy into Tartarus, along with the Master Bolt and Helm of Darkness (only for Percy to hand the shoes off the Grover). Luke basically had no qualms ending Percy's life and proved it by poisoning him with Pit Scorpion venom. While Percy was lucky to have survived, Percy took this Luke's betrayal ''[[ItsPersonal very]]'' [[ItsPersonal personally]] from then on, considering that it was Luke's actions that got his loved ones hurt.

** Heroes of Olympus adds an extra layer of tragedy to it with what happened before that: Jason. Thalia's brother and the only reason she stuck around, was basically sold by Zeus to Hera to calm her down at least a bit, and when Hera took him away, Thalia saw no reason to stay anymore.