Rick Riordan says that Percy Jackson’s last spin-off changes how readers will see the thief of lightning

The authors Rick Riordan and Mark Oshiro have a new book in their Nico by Angelo Adventures series, and they talked to Screen Before the release of the book. The Court of Dead: an adventure Nico di Angelo,, the second book in the series and the rest of The sun and the star, Find half-gods Nico Di Angelo and comfort the forces of Nico’s half-sister in Hazel Levesque at Camp Jupiter on the west coast.

The book is linked to the broader universe of Percy Jackson, but Riordan and Oshiro revealed that it widens the world in a way that helps to recontextualize Percy Jackson and the lightning thief. Namely, it adds nuances to the representation of monsters and transforms them from the handsworthy men to black and white to the sympathetic characters. This time, they are the ones who protect the monsters:

Screen Rant: The theme that we seem to circulate is re -evaluating the characters of this book. In particular with the monsters, we wonder if all the monsters are heroes or if all the heroes could have tendencies of monsters. There is a line of the old monster: “ We were forced to serve Kronos and after this Gaea, we did not have much choice in their terrible wars. “Do you feel like you both gave a little more color to what the henchmen are probably a little differently after reading this book?

Mark Oshiro: First of all, did you write this Rick? Did I write that? I remember it.

Rick Riordan: As with a large part, I have no idea. Yeah, the pros, I mean, is so much a hybrid of the two of us that it is so difficult to remember that has written how much of each line. But to your question, I mean that I certainly hope that it is. I mean, I don’t think I could go back and read the thief of lightning without thinking of the dead of the dead and the poor Minotaur without anyone commenting on how much he did the sewing work on his [underwear]I mean, come on. We didn’t even ask the guy if he could speak.

What it means for the biggest universe Percy Jackson

As with so many fantastic books for children, the morality of the Percy Jackson universe has always been something of a black and white binary. But as the original public of books has grown and modern children are more able to engage with nuanced scenarios, the Nico by Angelo Adventures has a chance to add more depth and wealth in the world. As Mark Oshiro informed him, it is the disorder between the two that makes him so much more engaging:

Mark Oshiro: “Yeah, I know where it came from is also an element that was really funny The sun and the star. I think it was, for both of us, this chance to take off the curtain on monsters anyway, because you have the people who work, in case people have not read it, for the big bad – I will not say who it is – and even to explore them.

I remember that there was an early moment which – again, I do not really remember who found it – where Nico or compliment one of the demons and is like: “You have done a very good job”. And the simple fact of being treated as a person at that time is what affected them later as “in fact I support them in a way”. And I think it was somehow this grain that we unconsciously put in the series, hey, even if they are in this very frightening situation, and the half-god solution is that you kill monsters, they did not do it. They found a solution that had nothing to do with that.

What if this book is on a larger scale? And if the solution is not this, and how will we rethink punishment? What does justice mean for these characters? Some of them have been injured by creatures, some of them are creatures that never harmed anyone. I don’t know. It’s a bit like the disorderly, I was going to say a disorderly disorder student, but it’s also just Camp Jupiter in general. But it is like a new level to that of going, well, let’s bring this in a place that we have not seen before in this series and see what is happening. “”

Our point of view of the recontextualization of Percy Jackson monsters

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Although the fantasy of children is a great escape and wonderful for imagination, it does not always leave much room for empathy. There are good heroes and there are bad bad guys, and there is not much between the two. The bad guys are always bad, from start to finish, with little or no buying qualities. And the henchmen are just disposable shirts which are rarely expanded and have given their own agency and dimension.

He appears with the new series, these henchmen will finally have their own voice. It is a more precise reflection of real life: few people are all good or evil. Most of us have variable nuances, and these nuances can differ depending on the objective of the perspective that we are seen. At one point in each of our lives, we will all appear as the villain, or at least minor antagonistic, in the story of another person.

The reminder of Oshiro that some of these monsters have never injured anyone is a good basis for anchoring the new series. The Court of Dead: an adventure Nico di Angelo This new dynamic will continue and make the universe increasingly rich.

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