Editing Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson is a series of young adult books by Rick Riorden (Known as Uncle Rick to fans), the series focuses on the titular character Percy Jackson, and his various adventures in America. The series is one of the most popular YA books ever, consistently making the top 15 on various best sellers, the setting is also unique for the time the first book was released (2005, two years before  [[Scion]], in fact Percy Jackson might have inspired it) in that the Greek mythology of old is still in existence, just moving from Greece to wherever Western Civilization is stronger, in the books timeline it's currently in America, and everything from Greek mythology is real, '''ESPECIALLY''' the monsters. The series has lots of [[Grimdark]], with it being stated that most Demigods dying before adulthood, because monsters can smell Demigods, and apparently Demigods smell like an All You Can Eat Buffet, in order to make the series less dated, electronics multiply the smell, HOW that happens is beyond logical understanding.
The first series of books is pretty well beloved, the other series? [[Skub|not so much]], accusations of ghost writing, pandering and all sorts of other skubbiness plague the series, and the fandom doesn't help. The first five books are "The Lightning Thief", "Sea of Monsters", "The Titans Curse", "Battle of the Labyrinth" (not that [[Labyrinth Lord]], nor the one with David Bowie) and "The Last Olympian", later he wrote books that included the Egyptian and Norse Pantheons, [[FAIL|With no explanation given on how these completely different cosmologies coexist]]. Despite all this the books are all mostly good and a damn fine read for any Greek fan.


==The Lighting Thief==
The lighting Thief has Percy start out as a kid with Dyslexia and ADHD with a piece of shit abusive step dad, that is until he kills his math teacher, and discovers he is the son of Poseidon, but this comes at terrible timing, Zues's Master Bolt has been stolen, ancient laws prevent Gods from stealing each others things, but this doesn't apply to their children, so naturally Zues things Percy is to blame, Percy travels to Camp Half Blood, where Demigods train to become heros. With the help of his new pals Annabeth and Grover, they eventually retrieve the lighting bolt, and give it back, uncovering  [[Horus Heresy|a plot to overthrow the gods]]

==Characters==
*Percy Jackson: One of the biggest [[Mary Sue|Mary Sues]] out there, in his first book, he defeats Aries the God of War, he does this days after discovering his heritage, AND he's also twelve when this happens, fortunately he gets better as the books progress, but still a Mary Sue none the less, his Fatal flaw is that he cares more about his friends then the world, the books try to play up how bad this is and [[FAIL|fail]] to mitigate his sue-ishness, he's the son of Poseidon, meaning he can manipulate water to do whatever Ass pull is necessary for the plot, he also can talk to horses, one of whom is a Pegasus named Blackjack, who acts as his personal taxi
*Annabeth, daughter of Athena, before you ask how a virgin goddess has children, in the forth book she says that she's a [[what|mind baby]] or something, nobody knows how that works, probably not even the author, she's Percy's main squeeze, a role she holds despite verbally abusing him like, all the time, sometimes even physically, her fatal flaw Is hubris, but you could fool anyone into thinking otherwise
*Grover Underwood, saytr, unfortunately the fact that Saytr have constant erections is not addressed, the butt of many jokes
*Thalia, daughter of Zues, when she was young, she, Annabeth, Grover and Luke were traveling to camp Half Blood when they were attacked by monsters, she stood by and held off the monsters so the others could escape, before she died, her dad turned her into a tree, she's revived at the end of the second book
*Luke, basically [[Horus]], from the serious daddy issues to the final battle on the last beacon of the good guys base, killed in the last book, he's the antagonistic force in the first five books, later he's taken over by Kronos
There are too many characters to fit in this article, but rest assured, if they appear in Greek mythology, they probably make an appearance in these books, even characters who died in the original tales, like Procrustes and Chiron.

==The Greek Gods==
For some reason Rick decided to alter the Gods in various ways, here are a few:
*Zeus, in mythology he was a jovial God, but piss him off and you would be killed so hard the [Lady of Pain]] whince with pity, here he's a mega douche who only threatens Percy with death for anything he does
*Poseidon, he's a pretty cool guy here, being the only Greek God that apparently gives a shit about being a good dad
*Athena, stuck up cunt like normal
*Artemis, man hater, altered a bit from source
*Hades, NOT a villian per say, but still a dick
*Hestia, despite having the same importance of dirt in Greek mythology, Rick made her a lot more important then she actually was
*Hera, despite being a terrible person in mythology, she's a lot nicer here

==Why is the Series Popular?==
Despite what the last bits of the article would imply, the books are really close the source material, altering a lot of the edgier stuff cause the books were made for kids, this is helped by the fact Rick was a mythology teacher, the books themselves are also pretty good, this article exaggerated a lot for humor, like we said before, it's a damn good read, problems and all, plus the quests they go on make for some easy campaign ideas for <s>lazy people who don't want to put effort into their campaigns</s> GMs looking for a epic feeling campaign without resorting to ripping of Tolkien for the Octilianth time.