Such a shining wit.
Travis: ...Can we stop the banana talk now?
Will: At least I /have/ a banana...
Malcolm: Yeah. An old squishy one.
Percy: Do bananas make you uncomfortable, Travis? Are you allergic?
Jason: I have a banana too. But mine's better than yours.
Will: Piper must have poor taste in bananas...
Facebook Shenanigans is a Percy Jackson RPG, which follows various canon Percy Jackson characters and their adventures on Facebook. You can follow some of the goings-on here
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This show provides examples of:
- Abhorrent Admirer: Alecto is either in love with Percy or wants to eat him. No one's really sure. Maybe it's both?
- Accidental Marriage: Happened to Kayla and Travis when they went to Las Vegas with Will, Katie and Malcolm. They've decided to try to make it work, though.
- Actor Allusion: Happens sometimes, such as Mr. and Mrs. Dare being played by Adrian Pasdar and Ali Larter, and Chiron asking Kronos if he wants his martini stirred or shaken.
- The Alcoholic: Pollux (son of Dionysus, naturally); there was even an intervention. Miranda is also pretty bad.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Almost anyone who's a parent, at some point or another. Even the ones who are normally not bad tend to get into TMI PDA sometimes.
- Antiquated Linguistics: Zoë Nightshade. Apollo often traverses into this territory to mock someone/thing.
- Ascended Extra: Some of the characters that had the smallest parts in the books are some of the most active participants, such as Kayla, daughter of Apollo, who got one passing mention in The Last Olympian.
- Beta Couple: All over the damn place. Will/Katie is probably the most enduring, though.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Hestia occasionally reminds everyone she's a total BAMF, most prominently when she dueled Pluto.
- Big Brother Instinct: Will. There is nothing he won’t do for his little sister Keyla
- Bilingual Bonus: As some of the roleplayers know foreign languages (and the rest just use Google Translate), this crops up on occasion. Most prominent would be Haruhi's frequent Japanese, although Attic/Koine Greek and Classical Latin are also common.
- Bilingual Dialogue: Has happened at least twice, and sometimes Jason's usage of Latin can turn into one of these.
- Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Possibly Hades and Persephone invented this trope. Carried on with Hades' son Nico and his first girlfriend Haruhi.
- Cannot Dream: Rachel asked Clovis to inhibit the emotions that came through in her nightmares. The result was this trope. However, Apollo, who was (understandably) concerned, invoked the potentially dangerous Real Life implications of the situation, and the mental blocks were removed.
- Catchphrase: Ares and Will know haters gon' hate.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Whose side is Kronos on? His own, duh.
- Dead Pet Sketch: Paul and Sally eating Percy's pet lobster Ned certainly counts.
- Deal with the Devil: Travis, Will, and Butch exchanging their souls for Kayla's, in a way, although Hades isn't technically the devil.
- Did They or Didn't They?: One very memorable (and infuriating, to those not in the know) conversation between Miranda and girl!Jason. Lacy purposefully plays with this trope when talking about her relationship with the mysterious Kevin.
- Does Not Like Men: As a general rule, Artemis (myth canon). Zoë also is not a fan... but Lee hopes to change that.
- Easy Amnesia: Hades got tired of Kronos' crap, especially after he made Hestia cry, so he gave him a dip in the Lethe.
- Embarrassing Nickname: Pervy Jackson, That Will Kid, Thalia Grace: Immortal Girl Scout, Katie the Impertinent Flower Child, Nicole Sugar Plum Rainbow Blossom di Angelo. Any comparisons between Travis and Justin Bieber probably count too.
- Emo Teen: Roman!Apollo. No one understands him and his music!
- Everybody Hates Hades: Totally averted. Everybody loves Hades! (It's Pluto everybody hates.)
- Everything's Cuter with Kittens: Everybody loves cats, except of course for the people (Percy) who think Cats Are Mean.
- Expanded Universe: Pheme's tumblr, of course, as well as her little protege's. And we can't forget Apollo and Artemis' Twitter accounts.
- Fountain of Youth: Hera once had Hebe turn all the second-gen gods (and Hades) into little kids. Also, after the Overnight Age-Up, some people took too much of antidote.
- "Freaky Friday" Flip: Dionysus, Lacy, Jason, and Miranda got all mixed up. And then when they tried to switch back, Butch accidentally bungled into things...
- Fun with Foreign Languages: And lots of it!Athena: Non comprehendere quaestione possum.note
Phobos: What does a possum have to do with it? ...do you have a possum tonuge?
Athena: Δεν καταλαβαίνω την ερώτηση.note
Phobos: "Τώρα που καταλαβαίνω. Δεν κάνω μια ερώτηση, μόνο σχολίασε πως ποτέ δεν ήξερα για πολλά όργανα το στόμα σας. Και πως αν ήμουν χωρίς μια φίλη, θα ήθελα να ζητήσω να δω πώς λειτουργούν. Σεξουαλικά. note- The conversation continues as Athena speaks in at least ten other foreign languages.
- Gender Bender: Connor, Travis, and Jason have all spent time as the fairer sex. Then there was the Gender Flip dimension...
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Bianca and Beckendorf once created an airborne, spore-type version of that cake made out of rainbows and smiles. This happened to anybody who inhaled it.
- Gratuitous Greek: A bit of a given. It's not always correct.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Pretty much all the couples display it at some time or other, though Annabeth is the queen of this trope.
- He Who Must Not Be Seen: Chris was this for a very, very long time. Alecto still is.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Ares and Chiron, Ares and Will. (It's Greek myth though so all uses of the word "heterosexual" should be applied loosely.)
- Hilariously Abusive Childhood: It's been a few thousand years, so even the Olympians are capable of laughing about that time their dad ate them.
- Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Malcolm fell in love with one in Las Vegas, but whether her heart of gold lasted is debatable.
- Jekyll & Hyde: Some (but not all) of the Romans are Hydes to their Greek counterparts' Jekylls, most prominently Pluto to Hades.
- Kick the Dog: Kronos, constantly before his dip in the Lethe. His Crowning Moment of Douchebaggery had to be when he insulted Hestia's tea.
- Kissing Cousins: Probably applies to every demigod couple out there. C'mon, this is the Olympian family tree we're talking about!
- Kissing Under the Influence: How Travis and Kayla first hooked up. There was a bit of it at Rachel's toga party too, though none took it as far as Miranda and Jason.
- Literal-Minded: Artemis at times, especially odd considering Apollo abuses figurative speech like it's going out of style.
- Love Dodecahedron: Everyone has probably hooked up with each other at one point or another, and Malcolm is usually found in the middle of these.
- Mistaken for Cheating: Travis suspected Kayla after Will accidently blurts out about the amount of time she had been spending with Malcolm. It got really bad from there.
- The Matchmaker: Aphrodite loves to pair people together.
- The Mistress: For some reason, Persephone takes exception to Hades moving Maria into the palace.
- Motor Mouth: Some characters do this when nervous, most (in)famously Will. At one time, Miranda and Nico were both cursed to have no verbal filter; the curse was referred to as the "Will Curse."
- My Beloved Smother: Demeter to Persephone, full stop. A little bit to Katie as well. Miranda gets off a bit easier compared to her older sisters.
- My Sister Is Off-Limits: Hades for Hestia, Apollo for Artemis, Jason for Thalia. Of course, all sisters in this case are sworn virgins.
- No Periods, Period: Somewhat averted, although when it does crop up, it tends to be Played for Laughs (see: Jason, when in Miranda's body).
- Overnight Age-Up: Annabeth accidentally unleashed a spell that aged a bunch of people (but not everyone) by about ten years. Some were less thrilled about this than others.
- Polyamory: Hades is married to Persephone but Maria resides with them...
- Precision F-Strike: Hestia saying "damn" and "shit" in the same breath shut everyone up pretty quick. She was a little stressed at the time.
- Precocious Crush: Lacy once had one on Dionysus. It's since gone away, though, which is probably a good thing, what with him being her adoptive father.
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: Largely averted. Tons of characters use the word "like" all the time and conversations are full of random tangents and awkward pauses, "ums," self-corrections, and all of that stuff.
- Retcon: From time to time when a character changes hands retcons happen. Also, as it's an ongoing series, the release of new material can leave people scrambling to fit their character arcs into the most recent canon.
- Romantic False Lead: Butch for Kayla before she married Travis; Haruhi for Nico and a whole mess of people for Rachel; Malcolm for Katie and Rachel for Will; Katie for Malcolm before he got together with Austin.
- Running Gag: Percy's abs (or rather, lack thereof). Leo's inability to ever actually score any ladies.
- Serial Romeo: True, it must be said / Apollo loves the ladies / and also the men
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Athena. She also never uses contractions.
- Shipper on Deck: More or less everyone for Will/Katie and Malcolm/Austin. The Aphrodite kids are also pretty notorious for shipping absolutely everybody.
- Smug Snake: Warren Dare. His most epic fail came when he thought he could manipulate the gods to his own profit. Needless to say, he got smacked back into reality hard.
- Stalker with a Crush: Millenia chained to that flaming wheel and Ixion still hasn't given up on Hera.
- Talk Like a Pirate: Apollo and Artemis, for a whole week when they dressed-up as pirates.
- Time Travel: Percy's come back in time from an alternate dimension before. Or something.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Artemis and Persephone zig zag this. Clarisse and Piper double-subvert it.
- Viva Las Vegas!: Katie, Travis, Will, Kayla and Malcolm went to Vegas. Hilarity ensued.
- Walking the Earth: Has happened a few times, for various reasons: Nico travelled Europe for a while; Will was all over the place on his ~spirit quest~; Bianca travelled North America in search of Maria.
- Wild Teen Party: Percy's birthday party. Rachel's toga party was probably even worse.
