Percy Jackson/Heroes of Olympus headcanons

Jason Grace🌩

We know that Jason doesn't care much about positions of power and has always felt pressure to be in leadership rolls because of who his father is. However Jupiter is also the god of Justice, which is only referenced to Jason's character like one time and I think. It would've been interesting to explore his desire for justice over power.

From a young age he was highly perceptive if someone (or himself) was being treated unfairly.The reason he joined the 5th court was because the way they were treated made his skin crawl and his face turn red when he first arrived at Camp Jupiter. He used to have a major temper over it and other injustices. I think for his first year or two at camp Jupiter he was actually a bit of a rebel. His moral is basically "respect the rules unless the rules are unfair, then screw the rules."Eventually he learned that all acting out at Camp Jupiter would get him was enemies and shitty chores. He learned how to get what he wanted and defend people more subtly.He absolutely hates the politics of Camp Jupiter. In order to get a rule changed or get someone excepted into the legion you might have to be allied with the right cohort or senator, you might have to exchange favors, you might owe a favor in the future. He hates even more when he inevitably gets involved in the politics and eventually get promoted to Praetor. He finds it exhausting emotionally.I think he vibes with Camp Half Blood better because everyone is kind of on equal footing. Like ya some people are douchebags, there's popular and unpopular people. Everyone gets a voice though, around the ping pong table or camp fire. Everyone gets to play to their own strengths. At Camp Jupiter we see Frank being discouraged to use a bow and arrow, despite being amazing with it, and Hazel being laughed at for using a cavalry sword, even though she's a queen on a horse. Camp Half Blood would be like "oh sick you guys rock at that you should use those skills."However after being raised at Camp Jupiter the disorganization of the Greeks does stress him out a little sometimes. Counselor meetings involve a lot of shouting and talking over each other. He's like damn I love the lack of politics here and the honestly behind everyone's agenda, but can we take turns? Raise hands maybe?

I'm ignoring anything that happened in ToA partly bc I haven't read it and partly bc my boy Jason is happy and alive with his boyfriend and girlfriend.

So I think normal career tracks for children of Jupiter/Zeus are probably like politics, company CEO, etc. Jason never liked positions of power though. He becomes a defense attorney.He finds it hard to operate in a system so clearly corrupt and hates every time he seeing an innocent wrongly convicted or or someone guilty of something awful get off with a slap on the wrist.Like at Camp Jupiter, he ends up in a leadership position despite his desire to avoid them. He leads campaigns to reverse unfair laws or court rulings, and becomes well know in activist circles.One of his clients once got wrongfully convicted of a crime. Jason did his best defending her, but there were a lot of signs pointing to her being guilty. He honestly hadn't been sure whether she was innocent or not until the jury ruled guilty, then he immediately felt ice in his bones and he knew it was wrong. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison. He spent months working every single day until he was able to prove her innocence.Part of me thinks he would eventually become a judge but I can't imagine him in those stupid robes lol

But ya basically Jason Grace only cares about justice and equality but because of his dad he ends up leading either because people naturally see him that way or because he realizes no one else is going to lead the charge.

Imagine the culture shock Jason experienced when he started going to high school in California after HOO. He grew up in Camp Jupiter where everything has a system and teamwork is key, that's pretty much the exact opposite of high school. Not to mention that he may not even know how to read English since most writing in CJ is Latin