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American Idiot by Professional_DanHengKisser
Fandoms: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types, The Heroes of Olympus - Rick Riordan
06 Oct 2026
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Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano scored a stoppage-time winner to send the United States to the Women's World Cup. Unfortunately, it was such a vital goal that it made her a symbol of American exceptionalism, rather than a soccer player. To the internet, she's everything all at once: the perfect American captain, an ungrateful Puerto Rican immigrant, a political DEI statement, a role model, a fraud, straight, gay, patriotic, Anti-American... Everyone seems to know exactly who she is except for, perhaps, Reyna herself.
Thalia Grace has the opposite problem.
England's dyke, sharp-tongued striker has spent being called cocky, controversial, and impossible to manage (their Red-Card Queen). The headlines never ask whether they're right. They simply assume they are.When an accidental meeting in Lyon turns into a one-night stand, and late-night drunken conversations that neither of them can seem to forget, the line between professionalism and understanding seems to blur. But as the tournament progresses towards an inevitable USA-England semifinal, the media has already decided who the heroes, villains, and lovers are supposed to be.
Too bad nobody asked the women actually living it.
OR: Theyna soccer AU