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Shouldn’t Percy have resistance to magic?
At a baseline level, it’s mentioned that Morpheus’ spell to knock out Manhattan didn’t work on the Demigods because it’s “harder” to knock them out with spell.
(To be more exact, by stretching the range to the entirety of Manhattan, it’s become thin and requires higher concentration to knock out a Demigod. This isn’t a stellar feat, but it’s an outright explicit admission of Demigods having resistance to magic.)
When Carter attempts to use his spell on Percy in the canon crossover, it just doesn’t work.
(In fact, Carter makes mention that it seemed that “it simply didn’t know what to DO WITH Percy.” The best way to put it is he seems to be confusing the Magic being cast on him by Carter.)
Much, much earlier in another story, Percy is caught in magic song and needs help from Grover to free himself. However, when he immediately fights her on the roof moments later, by merely focusing he was able to walk through and tank the spell. Though he does explicitly note this took effort—But it should also be noted this spell can affect thousands of people at once and still caught Percy the first go around, so him doing it alone means this is also debatably a large amount of magic being directed towards him.
Against Setne, he falls to his combo magic spell (Setne was combining Greek and Egyptian Magic to make it and himself vastly more powerful) literally called Fall. However, once being threatened by another Spell that would kill both him and Annabeth, Percy just instinctively got up and broke it to save the two of them.
And lastly, Percy outright has broken Time Magic/Time Spells casted by Kronos to slow all of his movement, though it took a bit of ordinary ocean/sea water. It should be noted that Percy focused his magical resistance to try and break the spell, but it didn’t work until after he had been revitalized by the sea (meaning his Magical Resistance, like all of his other powers, is enhanced by the Sea.)
With all of this in mind, he should be a slam dunk for magic resistance, no?
At a baseline level, it’s mentioned that Morpheus’ spell to knock out Manhattan didn’t work on the Demigods because it’s “harder” to knock them out with spell.
(To be more exact, by stretching the range to the entirety of Manhattan, it’s become thin and requires higher concentration to knock out a Demigod. This isn’t a stellar feat, but it’s an outright explicit admission of Demigods having resistance to magic.)
When Carter attempts to use his spell on Percy in the canon crossover, it just doesn’t work.
(In fact, Carter makes mention that it seemed that “it simply didn’t know what to DO WITH Percy.” The best way to put it is he seems to be confusing the Magic being cast on him by Carter.)
Much, much earlier in another story, Percy is caught in magic song and needs help from Grover to free himself. However, when he immediately fights her on the roof moments later, by merely focusing he was able to walk through and tank the spell. Though he does explicitly note this took effort—But it should also be noted this spell can affect thousands of people at once and still caught Percy the first go around, so him doing it alone means this is also debatably a large amount of magic being directed towards him.
Against Setne, he falls to his combo magic spell (Setne was combining Greek and Egyptian Magic to make it and himself vastly more powerful) literally called Fall. However, once being threatened by another Spell that would kill both him and Annabeth, Percy just instinctively got up and broke it to save the two of them.
And lastly, Percy outright has broken Time Magic/Time Spells casted by Kronos to slow all of his movement, though it took a bit of ordinary ocean/sea water. It should be noted that Percy focused his magical resistance to try and break the spell, but it didn’t work until after he had been revitalized by the sea (meaning his Magical Resistance, like all of his other powers, is enhanced by the Sea.)
With all of this in mind, he should be a slam dunk for magic resistance, no?
