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So, some of you think that leo needed to be more ANGRY? And FERAL? And needed to go berserk AND needed to vent out on his crew mates for them being in a relationships and stuff? You know what I think? NO. A big fat NO. here's why? Leo had to see his mother DIE at the age of 8(which is why he had every right to kill Gaea and he did) had to run away from foster homes like a zillion times because, he had abandonment issues, had no friends, slept in sewers. And when he finally has a reliable group of friends, a FAMILY? you think he'd go and destroy that? Just because he doesn't have a "love interest"? NON of us would do that don't lie to me. We live on crumbs of love thrown at us and whoever says otherwise is a wretched liar. Yes, I agree most of the times he feels left out and after what nemeisis told him he started feeling even more insecure and started overthinking about pretty much everything. No life is perfect. BUT Just so you pipsqueaks know and I cannot stress this enough NOT EVERY FREAKING ONE HAS SAME REACTION TO TRAUMA sure, some of us go through anger issues, some of us turn apathetic and some of us? SOME OF US TURN INTO THIS LARGE BALL OF ANXIETY AND INSECURITY THAT HAS FORGOTTEN HOW VERBAL COMMUNICATION WORKS, HAS SELF ESTEEM RESEMBLING THE BOTTOM OF A FINISHED JUICE BOTTLE AND GETS OVERWHELMED BY SMALL THINGS. And for Hades's sake STOP fucking glorifying things like trauma makes you more "distant" or "thick skinned" blah blah blah.
So, imagine leo arriving in a black toga on halloween and setting his hair on fire(somehow managing not to burn it because, he knows his powers pretty well at this point)and turning the fire blue and tailing nico around calling him his delicate and fragile son.
Until Nico just goes feral and Reyna has to hold him back because...LET ME GO REYNA! I'M GONNA MURDER THAT ELF DEVIL! AND SEND HIM STRAIGHT TO THE FIELDS ASPHODEL!
Do you know why Leo Valdez deserved every right to kill Gaea with his bare hands? (and I'm glad that he got the chance). BECAUSE, BITCH MURDERED ESPERANZA VALDEZ!! And made AN EIGHT YEAR OLD feel guilty for what he didn't do!