Drew Tanaka - Blog Posts

love how the fandom collectively reimagined drew's character. recently had a cousin of mine pick up the lost hero, and she told me, "reese, i don't get how you like drew. she's so mean to piper." and i kind of sat there for a moment trying to reorganize canon from fanon.

EheheheheHEHEHEHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAH

RICK, JESUS CHRIST!

IN THE MOTHERFUCKIN KANE CHRONICLES

FUUUUUUUCK

SHE EVEN CALLS HER A MORTAL CUZ SHE DOESN'T KNOW AND OMG THIS DAMN AUTHOR HAS RIPPED MY HEART OUT TOO MANY TIMES AND NOW I RUN INTO THIS BITCH JESUS CHRIST WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

NOT-SO-FAVOURITE MORTALS

AHHHHHH

UPDATE:

I THINK I'M LEGITIMATELY GOING TO DIE BECAUSE OF THIS AUTHOR

Rom-com day

This is a Bad Boy/Good Girl AU, but Sadie is the Bad Boy and Drew the good girl, because I hate a girl just being the Mean Girl, and Sadie hates her because she is “plastic”, she literally calls her and her friends “plastic bags”.

Sadie just moved to New York, after her mother’s dead she was raised by her grandparents, but they were to old to take good care of her, and Julius regains custody, she is angry, and makes a lot of trouble in the new school, she dyes her hair, wears leather jackets and combat boots, a lot of eyeliner, haves piercings, and sneak out of the house.

Drew is the Queen, the cheerleader, good at school, and everybody just loves her.

Sadie gets in the middle of a fight the first week, punching a guy who was making fun of a girl, she beats the guy and everybody is surprised, in the house Julius grounds her, but she ran away.

In a park near home Sadie meets Drew, she is alone, they talk, and become friends.

In the school Sadie is an asshole with everybody, she is isolated, the school counselor tries to speak to her, but she avoids talking, she haves more fights, some more public than others, in the house everything is a mess.

But she talks a lot with Drew, she is the only friend of Sadie, but every time they are together, both of them end in trouble, when Sadie burns the chemistry lab and they were partners, or the time they start a food fight, or steal Julius’ car, Drew’s parents thinks Sadie is a really bad influence, and forbid their daughter to befriend Sadie.

One day, they are at the park, Sadie had a pretty bad fight with Julius and Carter, she is angry, and steals alcohol from her father, Drew is there, Sadie starts to drink, and Drew follows her, when both are a little bit tipsy Sadie kiss her, the police arrives, because Julius asked Amos, who is a police officer, to find Sadie, and they both are dragged to the police station.

Sadie, Carter and Julius have an emotional moment, when they talk about their emotions, and promise to be a better with each other.

Drew is angry with Sadie, so she makes a big gesture to ask for forgiveness, idk, a big bouquet, chocolates, singing a song, maybe a little bit cringey but sweet and cute.

They date, Sadie works hard to gain the acceptance of Drew’s parents, the end.

@pjofemslashweek

Can someone answer my question because I am so perplexed.

Is the Roman version of Artemis- which is Diana- the same Diana that is Wonder Woman?

I'm writing a crossover fic and I am SUFFERING

Will you ever update Majesty please do it's one of y favorite pics and I just need more

For you pookie of course!

I'm so sorry for the slow updates cuz I kinda hit a creative rut, but know that I'm almost done with the next chapter and will hopefully post it shortly!

I could definitely see someone accidentally calling Drew “Drew Katana” because they all have dyslexia and katana and Tanaka have the same letters and every once in a while when she brings out a really vicious insult, people will say “the katana strikes again” or something

THIS! I FRIKIN HATED THIS!

Rick is an amazing writer but why the fuck didn't he utilize the Aphrodite kids better? Why did we never got to see how the other Aphrodite kids react to Silena's betrayal?

Why did we never get to see how the other kids view the Aphrodite cabin after the war?

We know that the Aphrodite kids weren't respected much at first but did the other cabins start to fear them because they realized what they could do? Or did they start to hate them and began to associate them as the cabin who housed/ are related to a traitor and a spy?

Drew was the only one who showed any kind of reaction to Silena's betrayal and her totally valid anger was portrayed so negatively that it pissed me off

I know that Rick Riordan only used Drew (and to some extent, the rest of the Aphrodite kids) as an accessory to make Piper look better. But what he should have done was use Drew and the other Aphrodite to actually make Piper better.

Piper was clearly a lonely kid who wanted a family, and the Aphrodite cabin could have been that family. Aphrodite is the goddess of love for crying out loud.

Rick could have made Piper be like "These guys are my family". He could have had Piper walk into the Aphrodite cabin and notice that they were a total mess (despite what the other campers say) divided into two groups, the ones who believed that Silena was a hero who gave up her life to save them. And the ones who believed that Silena was a traitor who tricked and lied to them.

Neither side is wrong of course but the Aphrodite kids refuse to believe that.

Since Piper is new, she could have been the fresh perspective they needed who isn't biased because obviously she hasn't met Silena and never will.

She could have asked questions, listen to stories, and offered a shoulder to cry on. Piper could have made them realize that neither side is wrong and that they shouldn't start hating each other because of another person's actions, while she herself realizes that ones own actions could affect others much more then she originally thought. She could have thought back to all the people she caused trouble for as well as her dad. She could have realized her own faults and immaturity, and become someone that represents storge. She could have helped the Aphrodite cabin truly heal.

rick not doing anything with the aphrodite cabin in relation to Silena and her betrayal of them in HOO with Piper as a POV character??? coward or idiot? i wouldn't be surprised if it never accrued to him to explore those emotions because he would have always planned to have them be a budget mean girls

excuse me

drew tanaka week? when and where?

Oct 20-26 😁

There's actually an account that posts all the promts named @drewtanakaweek and they're frikin awesome

excited for drew tanaka week? 😁

HELL YEAH!

More Drew Tanaka content lets go!

I wanna do something for it but don't really know what since I'm always in the slums, maybe I should update a Drew Tanaka fic I haven't updated in a while haha

Anyways

Piper and Drew NEEDED to throw hands with each other in The Lost Hero!!! But let's be honest, if they did then Piper wouldn't have won AND I WILL DIE ON THIS HILL

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It's no longer a head canon as I deem this to be 100% true

Hc that Drew is extremely bad at comforting people

SO TRUE!

Those people are the type of to say that Luke got into Elysium

I made the mistake of going on the r/camphalfblood subreddit and there were people angrily slandering my daughter Drew for the “Silena was a traitor” comment and saying that they hated her and some people were joking about Clarisse/Percy beating her up or even killing her. It makes me so mad because while I can understand being mad at Drew for that statement, a lot of the hatred felt really out of line and like they were just itching for an excuse to hate her and hurl the most vile of insults at her as much as possible. And it’s messed up because it’s clearly the fault of Rick for victim-blaming Silena and putting those words in Drew’s mouth, and I can guarantee you that if Drew was a guy then people would say “oh how dare Rick make him say that? He’s awful but he’s not that awful! Drew deserved so much better rip my boy Rick could have fleshed him out beyond being just a bully but he didn’t” but because she’s a girl all of the culpability falls on her shoulders and she gets treated like the scum of the earth for a line that Rick only gave her to make her look like the worst of the worst because he REFUSES to write her as a person with any depth beyond the Asian Airhead primadonna feminine mean girl trope. It just sucks man Drew deserves so much better she deserves intersectional feminist writers who aren’t racially misogynistic scumbags and will let her get the character development arc that she deserved. This turned out longer than I thought it would but oh well I’m just salty about the hate for my girl Drew again. 😤

Pjo be getting more mad at women for reacting badly to abuse than at men for abusing women💀💀💀💀💀

This sent me into an actual spiral 😭

I love Drew Tanaka so much but going through her tags and seeing stuff like this hurt in the most gut wrenching way possible

TA! Drew Tanaka

-Growing up never being taken seriously by anyone because of her looks

-Finally having people truly listen to her at camp

-Trying to figure out her godly parent

-Ares, maybe? The campers wonder, seeing her yell with the anger of war

-Not getting claimed, slowly accepting it

-Charmspeaking someone during Capture the Flag

-Silena realizing and telling everyone what it was

-Drew becoming the unclaimed daughter of Aphrodite everyone knows about

-Slowly being ignored and getting less and less training

-Befriending Alabaster Torrington, someone who, like her, knows their godly parent while being unclaimed

-Alabaster joking the Army and holding his hand out to Drew, to bring her with

-Her reaching out to take it, only to stop when she hears Silena calling her name, looking for her

-Saying goodbye to her best friend to stay with her sister

-Starting to date Lee Fletcher, hating the idea of the Rite of Passage

-Before the Battle, Lee making her promise that, above all, to protect Will, his little brother

-Lee dying

-Drew grieving, taking Will and running, deeper and deeper into the Labyrinth

-Alabaster and Ethan finding them, bringing them to the Princess Andromeda

-Drew not knowing Silena is the spy

-Drew learning about the Cabin Ten curse, Nemesis laughing as she recounts the story

-Drew working her way to the top and becoming one of Luke’s generals

-Drew breaking the heart of a random mortal boy, who looks all too much like Lee

-Silena dying, known as the traitor

-Zeus letting Drew go free, because of the dumb Aphrodite stereotype she had tried so hard to fight, had joined the Titans for

-Getting claimed right as she sees Silena’s body

-Drew becoming head counselor the day of her 14th birthday

-Having Aphrodite’s blessing for months, as an apology for not being claimed earlier, still having it at the start of TLH

-Piper coming along, too much like Silena, refusing the Rite of Passage

-Drew looking at Jason, knowing what will happen to him

-The war against Gaea.

-Drew Tanaka, seen as a shallow, self-absorbed Aphrodite girl by most of camp

-Drew Tanaka, survivor of two wars, outliving most of her friends and family

-Drew Tanaka, who became exactly what she hated in the first place

I saw this on Pinterest and it's the best fucking thing ever.

THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT I'VE BEEN SAYING! THANK YOU FOR LAYING IT OUT!!

Hey hey hey, remember how Drew (and Lacy) was mentioned as going to the same school as Sadie in The Serpent's Shadow? So it's like. Implied the two of them are a similar age, especially since they clearly interact plenty, with Sadie knowing her full name and such? I dunno about you, but I never interacted much with kids out of my age range at school, so it's basically implied they're close in age — when Sadie is thirteen (Lacy being said to be a year younger than her).

So, like. What if Drew's. Younger than Piper, actually? By like. A year or so, so she'd be fourteen, rather than the popularly accepted 16/17. I know The Lost Hero tries to say the oldest demigod at the cabin automatically becomes counselor unless challenged by someone who's been on more quests, but Annabeth was counselor at twelve, so I call bullshit and accept the demigod-that's-been-at-camp-the-longest rule as the one automatically takes the role when needed (also, there's nothing saying fourteen wouldn't be the oldest in the cabin post-war, anyways). So Drew could easily not be the oldest in the cabin, and still have to deal with suddenly being head of her family, on top of her older sister being revealed as a traitor, the grief of losing several siblings and friends, and the PTSD that comes with being a soldier.

I just think that'd be very fun for her <3

(And then just. Imagine Piper realizing that maybe she's the oldest, and her younger siblings took part in a war (that was arguably worse than the Giant War Piper was a part of), and maybe that's why Drew's a bit too much of a bitch sometimes, rather than just Girly Girls being automatically evil.)

*Drew and Malcolm eating gummy worms together while watching a movie on an illegal website*

Connor: Are you two fucking serious?!

Malcom: What?

Connor: SHE WAS CHASING YOU WITH A KNIFE JUST NOW!!

I've read so many fanfics where Drew Tanaka's character is explored, where she is given depth and backstory, where she interacts with other characters, where her feelings and experiences are described.... now I want to cry and hug her.

SAME! It's such a shame that we don't get to see much of her. That's definitely a mistake on Uncle Rick's part, I mean- our girl has very little appearances yet there are so many people that find her character to be genuinely interesting to the point where there are plenty of deep character discussions about her and fics that gives her her own backstory on why she is the way she is.

She's such an interesting character and has so much potential to bring a lot on the table that its so disappointing that her main purpose on the series was to bully Piper and be a bitch so that Piper can show how "different" she is.

It would have been great if Uncle Rick went into more depth and explored her character, or at least given us something more! Like how the war and Silena's betrayal affected her, not to mention suddenly having to be responsible for a cabin full of kids. But instead we were shown a one dimensional bitch!

It's such a waste it's frustrating!

Malcom : *Sitting in the corner rocking back and fort contemplating his whole life*

Annabeth : What happened to him?

Connor : Drew told him that he was built like an improper fraction

Annabeth : Dam-

THIS! BECAUSE IT'S SO TRUE!!!

sorry but people who forgive Luke Castellan but not Drew Tanaka are severely fucked up to me

clearly there's some sort of internalised misogyny and trauma from bullies in you, because if you honestly think a teen girl who is mean to people* is worse than someone who literally tried to murder a twelve year old (percy), and lead to the deaths of several other teenagers (manhattan) you have another thing coming

*i should add that from what we see, Drew Tanaka is mean to people from what we see of her. We see her three days after the unofficial camp leader has been kidnapped from the one place everyone thought was safe and less than a year after she fought in at least one battle against her former friends and family, likely watched her sister die, and is probably dealing with PTSD from that.

Let's not forget she's Sadie Kane's age, which means at most we're seeing her when she's 13-14. 14, and in charge of at least 4 siblings. Also, the fact she's counselor means she's been at camp the longest. that means, that at the age of (likely) thirteen (possibly twelve) she was made counselor after being at camp the longest. that means she likely also fought in the battle of the labyrinth, which meant she participated in the minor skirmishes preceding manhattan that percy mentions, which means that this 14 year old is a war veteran by the time we see her for the first time.

Drew is frequently put down in Piper's mind, not only for being mean, but for being girly, for liking pink and perfume and caring about her appearance. that isn't feminism, that's internalized misogyny. That's piper in a 'not like other girls' phase. piper is an unreliable narrator but we aren't talking about that.

also, drew isn't wrong that piper knew nothing about silena. like, piper was thinking about betraying them the entire time she was at camp for her dad.

and silena was a traitor. i don't deny she was probably groomed but honestly what a slap in the face it must have been to be thirteen, returning to home, a room you share with six-ten other kids, and to know that some of your best friends are dead, in no small part to your sister who sold them out.

but nobody is talking about that, because Annabeth Chase and Percy Jackson, the heroes who are barely there, say Silena's a hero, and that means it's true, right?

It doesn't matter that her friends are dead, doesn't matter that mothers will never see their daughters again. That drew will never forget how her sister's blood felt on her skin. because if they say it, it must be true, right?

the fact luke castellan (mostly forgiven for being hot) (and angry, but drew tanaka is angry and none of you forgive her) is a goddamn tragedy and honestly she deserves a retcon or at the very least for people to understand that HOO is not black and white, and for you to look at characters that way is a detriment to analysis.

so much love for characters who are desperately unsure whether they’re a good person, a redeemable person, a person worth saving, but are absolutely certain that they’re a grade a hottie

I've always loved these two as characters but now you made me love them as a pair 😂

malcolm: 'You'll never find the body' is such a boring threat. A better threat would be; 'You'll never stop finding the body.' drew, bored: Or just say, 'They'll be finding parts of you for at least four months...and you'll still be alive for three of them.' malcolm: Now that's a threat! connor, covering their own ears: *horrified silence*

I wrote a crossover between HOO and Batfam Wayne family adventures centering Drew Tanaka and I think she would thrive in Adopt me. Thought she'd probably be a scammer Lmao

The last character you drew/wrote about is now stuck in the last game you played. How screwed are they?

So I was scrolling through Pinterest trying to find an image to put on a C. ai bot WHEN I STUMBLED UPON THIS!

TELL ME THIS ISN'T DREW TANAKA!! This is exactly how she would look like! Especially the hair and eyeliner!

Now I don't know the origin of this pic, whether it's ai generated, a fan art of some sort, someone's OC, a random aesthetic or whatever BUT I LOVE IT!

Here's some more that I downloaded because they remined me of Drew.

Will: Being a good person doesn't cost a peny

Drew: Being a bitch also doesn't cost a peny, what's your point?

Will: Nyssa, make Drew shut the fuck up

Nyssa: Not possible

Here's the fan fic I've been talking about, only one chapter so far but I'll try to update frequently

Here it is! So far it only has one chapter but I'll try to update this regularly

So there's this WebToon called "Batman: Wayne Family adventures" and I absolutely love it, I loved it so much that I sorta wanna write a crossover fanfic about it about Drew Tanaka becoming a Robin after the battle of Manhattan. I also wanna add some Drew x Leo in there if you know what I mean, not just because I like the ship but also because I wanna give my boy Leo a better life

Yes it will extend this fic to the events of TLH and I'll make Drew go on the mission instead of Piper

I already finished writing the first chapter but I'm posting this to ask if anyone would be interested in reading it because I need validation, so tell me if you wanna read it.

So there's this WebToon called "Batman: Wayne Family adventures" and I absolutely love it, I loved it so much that I sorta wanna write a crossover fanfic about it about Drew Tanaka becoming a Robin after the battle of Manhattan. I also wanna add some Drew x Leo in there if you know what I mean, not just because I like the ship but also because I wanna give my boy Leo a better life

Yes it will extend this fic to the events of TLH and I'll make Drew go on the mission instead of Piper

I already finished writing the first chapter but I'm posting this to ask if anyone would be interested in reading it because I need validation, so tell me if you wanna read it.

I am a Drew Tanaka Stan account, but this does not mean that I hate Piper, that also doesn't mean that I like her either, say what you want but hear me out.

I liked Piper, I thought that she was pretty cool at first but by the end of TLH when Piper "defended" Silena is when my opinion on her started to go down hill. Piper had no right to defend Silena because she did not know her, at that time the only thing that Piper knew about Silena was her name and the fact that she was the Aphrodite cabin head Councilor before she died, Piper has never met Silena and she's bearly even heard of her deeds. Now, to those who say--

"Well, Annabeth told Piper about Silena"

No, no she did not, at least not really. If you can remember, when Annabeth was touring Piper around the camp, she did mention Silena and told her how she was the previous Cabin 10 head Councilor, and that she was kinder and more caring compared to the other Aphrodite kids (Rick I hate you for this) but then stopped herself from saying anymore because it was obviously a sensitive topic to her.

Plus, Piper becoming the head Councilor only after spending two days at CHB ticks me off because she bearly did shit.

"Oh she went on a quest"

So? The other Aphrodite kids went to War! Among her siblings Drew had been at camp the longest so I'm guessing that she was there for both The Battle Of The Labyrinth and The Battle Of Manhattan. Even if Drew was just one of the medics and not one of the fighters (which you will never convince me into believing, you cannot tell me that this girl- Drew Tanaka- is an absolute menace) she still helped and survived, Piper should not have been the one with the leverage!

I get that Uncle Rick wanted his main characters to be the Head Councilors so that they could be the ones to attend the meetings and all that, but he could have gone about Piper becoming the head in a much better way!

And to those who say--

"What about Leo, he became head Councilor the same time as Piper, you're just placing double standards"

No I am not! Because Leo did a lot for his cabin even just that one day when they arrived at CHB (1) he discovered bunker 9-- something that none of the other current Hephaestus kids even knew about and (2) He fixed Festus and even found/ re-attached his wings-- something that the other Hephaestus kids thought was impossible. I mean look at what happened to Jake Mason when he tried to get that dragon at bay! Bro ended up in a full body cast.

And to those who are saying--

"Well Piper got rid of all the stereotypes"

No, no she did not, because around this time she was still in her "I'm not like other girls" phase. Now I'm not gonna judge her for this phase because we all went through it (I definitely did) but the way she was so quick to judge and stereotype the other Aphrodite kids as spoiled and vain without even properly conversing with them is not helping her case.

Plus, at the Hephaestus cabin, no one really wanted to be the Head Councilor, and I think that it was the same for the Aphrodite cabin because think about it, Drew is canonically Sadie Kane's age so around 14-15 (maybe even 13 I don't know it just said that she was around Sadie's age) so she was very young when the two wars happened, and we know that the head Councilors are the ones at front, the ones who HAVE to handle things, the ones who lead and die before everyone else (which is greatly shown/represented by the Apollo cabin, RIP Lee Fletcher and Michael Yew) You cannot tell me that my girl wanted in on that.

You cannot tell me that Drew Tanaka wanted the responsibility that came with being head councilor.

"Oh, she wanted power over her siblings, I mean she was a Tyrant! "

The death! You cannot tell me that a 13- 14 year old was thinking about power after she heard that her older sister's face got melted off and that she had to step up and be in charge of a cabin full of kids. Like Drew jumped at the first moment she had to get all the responsibilities off of her shoulders. ESPECIALLY since she KNEW that shit was starting to stir again with the new prophecy (let's not forget the fact that she was one of the first people to put the pieces together and bring it up) MY GIRL RAN THE OTHER WAY AND I DON'T BLAME HER FOR IT.

I think that this is the EXACT reason why Drew didn't fight Piper to keep her position as Head Councilor. She didn't want it, cuz let's be real, Drew would have BODIED Piper. I mean I'm pretty sure that Chiron trained those Demigods like seasoned war soldiers and Piper had zero training.

AND I BETTER NOT see anyone say that--

"Oh no way! Drew could't have been stronger then Piper, Drew probably skipped training because she didn't wanna ruin her nails or get sweaty, that's just how she is blah blah blah"

No! Chiron is responsible, he would NOT let ANY camper miss or skip training, cuz if they did then you know that he's gonna make them clean the stables or wash the dishes, now THAT is something that Drew would not want to do.

Now I'm not here do say that Drew is a completely innocent cutie patootie because she wasn't, she was Sadie's bully and yes she was mean to her siblings, I can't defend that and I won't by saying--

"Oh she's just a young dumb traumatized teenager going through some shit, we all make mistakes"

(even though I think it's true in certain levels although not completely) Cus if I do then I don't think you guys will like/accept that so let's just cut her some slack.

Anyways, I think the reason why I like her so much is because we're kinda similar (I'm not extremely pretty and popular don't get me wrong, I'm actually the kid that sits quietly in the corner, but I too am a 15 year old Asian female who's not a healthy grievier and tend to lash out when I get emotional, I probably would have reacted similarly if I was in her situation. I also don't think that the war had given her (and most of the other Demigods honestly) some maturity (people say that the wars made the Half-Bloods more mature but I honesty don't think that thats true for all of them, Drew included) I think that it just gave them PTSD, trauma and some false beliefs about the world.

In conclusion, I like Piper, but I like Drew 100x more, and I think that HOO would have been more interesting if Drew had been part of the seven instead of Piper, I think Drew would have added more flavor and more emotion, the Media scene definitely would have been more interesting if it was Drew that was there and you all know it, AND how her opinion about Silena would affect her relationship/ create tension in the Argo with Annabeth and Percy.

Yes, and those who don't... Well... 🤷‍♀️

so we all agree drew was underused and was a teen girl suffering from the trauma of her dead older sister being a spy and she and piper made up after hoo/toa right

Drew listens to true crime podcasts in the mornings to start her day off