Thalia forgetting the color of annabeths hair hit me. life will pass you by so fast

I doubt you read reviews here anymore, but I think it's safe to say you're one of the pillars of the riordanverse fandom, thank you for all the fics you've written for us 3 (or cookies to you, as we used to say in 2013 (::)(::)(::) )

I love this. My favorite fanfic.

I love it!

Holy Hera, dude, your A-MAZE-ING I'm not going to bother explaining the pun. The story was so lovely, I'm not even kidding when I say I was crying. keep up the good work and I hope to see you at the top one day!

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EleanorLilyBishop

This... this made me cry. It is the most beautiful fan fiction I’ve ever read. Bravo.

11 years ago this fic was published, and it is still the most beautiful one ever.

Okay, this made me bawl my eyes out.

I just finished re-reading The Titan's Curse for the first time in years, and it's probably my favorite book in PJO, (even if it's also the one that hurts the most). Anyway, everything in that book regarding Thalia and the lead-up to her confrontation with Luke and decision to join the Hunters always kills me, and this fic is a great continuation and answer to a lot of the questions and...sadness I have about how things ended for Thalia. Like, she's happy with the Hunters, and being a Hunter isn't a bad thing, but she never got any kind of closure with Luke, and I can't imagine Thalia ever really being content with that.

Usually stories about reincarnation aren't my jam, but you struck a beautiful balance between capturing the autonomy and individuality of Adam, Jake, and Liam and the undeniable thread that connects them, Luke's soul. But what really made me cry my eyes out while reading this was your take on Thalia and her journey to a place of peace, both concerning Luke and herself.

Like, Thalia grappling with her memories and forgetting and mortality and immortality was really powerful. Her not remembering exactly what Percy and Annabeth look or sound like, or which kid of theirs she was godparent to, or her mother's face—stuff that would've come to her easily a few centuries ago—was so moving and very human, despite her being immortal. (The juxtaposition of that and her never really forgetting about Luke, or what color his eyes were, killed me.) Everyone's experienced that panic of forgetting something about someone that you know was important to you. And it kind of brought up for me how incompatible humans are with immortality—it made a whole lot of sense that after a couple of centuries Artemis would release human Hunters from her service.

But, yeah, it was beautiful and heartbreaking and a whole bunch of other emotions that I can’t name that Thalia remained steadfastly Thalia throughout all the centuries, and not just in her feelings towards Luke. Like you wrote, she’s still a teenager, still just as impulsive with the same bad temper and the same humor and loyalty. Throughout heartbreak and love and a whole lot of years she remained herself—and that’s one of the many reasons why I cried when I read this, (along with Luke finally attaining the happiness with Thalia that was stolen from him when it was only a possibility when he was fourteen).

Anyway, yeah, this is an incredible story—funny and moving and as deeply sad as it is indisputably happy. Thank you so much for writing it and putting it out there.

It was so beautiful, I almost cried my eyes out.

This is incredibly beautiful! Thank you for giving Thaluke the ending they deserved 3

this is like 11 years late I'M SO SORRY but this is one of the thaluke fics i will always remember reading. i may not know the details as much anymore, but i still remember loving each of the three lives because despite everything that luke did in the books, it's a shame that he felt that that was the only path for. i'm sure 13 year old me was just as, if not even more, elated than me over this.

i don't know if you'll ever see this author, but thank you again for writing this! and i wish you're doing okay in the middle of this pandemic. 3

Nice story. I loved it. I think that immortality for the mortals is a bane and we clearly see that. All of Thalia's friends are long gone memories.

still crying, now in happiness

I'm crying even harder

I'm crying