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I is for Inferior

in·fe·ri·or /inˈfirēər/ lower in rank, status, or quality

"Get away from my friend!"

"Why should I listen to you? You're not important anyway."

Percy had heard over and over his life that he was inferior. Gabe told him, Nancy told him, his teachers told him, and basically anyone else he met told him this. According to others, this was just a fact of life, the truth. As he grew up though, he realized that maybe he wasn't inferior. He also realized that sometimes it was best for others to take the lead. As Hestia had one told him, "Not all powers are spectacular. Sometimes the hardest power to master is the power of yielding."

D is for Dumb

dumb /dəm/ stupid

(stu·pid /st(y)o͞opəd/ lacking intelligence or common sense)

"I-I don't understand. The letters are moving all over the page. I can't read it."

"Or maybe you are just too stupid to understand it kid."

Percy wasn't stupid. He knew that he wasn't even near as smart as any of the Athena children. He knew that he sometimes he rushed into things without speaking. Percy may have been alot of things, but he was not stupid. Percy was intelligent, and he did have common sense.

I is for Inept

in·ept /iˈnept/ having or showing no skill; clumsy.

"Ah!"

"Learn to walk stupid. Tripping over your own shoelaces? Pathetic."

Percy tried. He really did. Percy tried to be perfectly graceful and not to mess up, but nobody's perfect. It really wasn't fair though. When anybody else made a mistake, it was just ignored or laughed of. But when he made a mistake? It was always, "Ah, classic Seaweed Brain. You can't do anything right can you?" or, "Kelp head, even I can do better than that!" What about when he was swordfighting? That had to count for something, right? Apparently not.

O is for Oblivious

ob·liv·i·ous /əˈblivēəs/ not aware of or not concerned about what is happening around one

"I-I don't know if we should be doing this."

"Come on you big baby! We are going to give it back after we are done borrowing it. Besides, it's not like he'll even notice anyway."

Percy must have been a really good actor if people thought that he was oblivious to them. Reality check, he wasn't. Oh yes, he tried to ignore the looks. When he first came to camp, he was a nobody, and if someone saw him, they just scoffed at the 'newbie'. Later though, the looks were different, evaluating. Everyone wanted to see if he was made out to be a hero. Even after he was a hero, they were still watching him. They were probably waiting for him to turn into a stuck up hero or even worse, to betray them.

T is for Thoughtless

thought·less /THôtləs/ not showing consideration for the needs of other people.

"It's okay, I'm sure that he will notice you someday."

"Ya right. He's thoughtless anyway."

Percy noticed little things about others. The way Travis blushed every time Katie came by even though his own brother thought he was just hot from the sun or something or when Piper was shifting nervously when Jason and Reyna met again. Percy even noticed that Annabeth maybe-might-sorta-kinda like him just a teeny bit. Of course, he was too nervous around her to actually ask if his suspicions were correct. Yes, Percy did miss things every so often, but he cared alot for other people, and you couldn't say that he was thoughtless.

IDIOT

id·i·ot /idēət/ a stupid person

"Silly, Seaweed Brain. You are such an idiot sometimes."

"But I'm your idiot."

No matter what anybody said, Percy wasn't an idiot. He had heard it alot over his life. He had from Gabe, bullies at school, and the kids at camp. Percy had heard even random people on the street talk about him as he passed. The teasing got even worse when he got to camp. It was like being a son of Poseidon immediately made him dumber than others. Ya, whenever someone teased him, he would laugh it off like Leo would have done, but that didn't make it hurt even less. So of course when Annabeth joked about him being an idiot, he may have laughed about it, but you really couldn't blame him when an unnoticed tear dripped down his cheek and splattered against the ground.

And others called him oblivious.

A/N Um… hi? Please review maybe?