patrick jane truly is a character of all time. he's arrogant. he's broken. he's haunted. he's funny. he's genuinely delighted by small pleasures. he likes breaking and entering. he's a tea snob. he's tortured frequently on screen. he flinches every time a gun goes off. he hides behind his female colleagues when he gets scared. he's a sociopath. he's a liar. he does magic tricks. he has basically no moral compass and will do anything to catch the guy who killed his wife and child, including lie to and use everyone he cares about. he sleeps on a mattress on the floor in the room his family was murdered in, with the calling card of their killer still on the wall. he loves children. he's very empathetic. he's the reason his family is dead. he loves setting traps and catching people in lies. he hates rich people and doesn't care when they get murdered. he's a card shark. he always knows what everyone is thinking. when people piss him off he makes their lives miserable. he hypnotises people all the time. he's a con man. he's the most honest guy you'll ever meet. like literally where else do you find a freak like that.
luke pulling that bracelet out of a family sized pack of cereal, which isn't that important until thalia tells annabeth they're a family now. luke making up "the goddess kelloggnia's charm" to give little annabeth hope, which isn't that important unless you realize that the gods are the reason annabeth loses her family. little annabeth losing the bracelet and going back to look for it, which she believes caused thalia's death, and then finding it, all those years later, sitting in that sewer, when thalia is dead and luke isn't family anymore and there's another child of the big 3 who is in her life now. annabeth throwing the charm into the ocean because it doesn't mean anything now, which isn't that important until it COMES BACK, just like her guilt and her grief does, over and over again. the OCEAN, bringing back the guilt and fear of the charm. annabeth, finding the charm in the hands of a cyclops, who isn't anything like the ones who tried to hurt her, but she's on a boat with an angry demigod with something to prove and a child of the big 3, so it doesn't matter if the cyclops is good or not. she throws the charm back into the ocean, throwing her old fears in a mixing pot with her new ones, and feeling like she's 7 years old again.
percy telling annabeth that thalia loved her and saw how great she was because he can see it too, he saw it immediately. percy telling annabeth that nothing has gone right for them, so why not try and do the right thing as long as they do it together, and maybe they'll make it out like they have before. annabeth, knowing that it's false hope, listening and nodding yes. the bracelet doesn't come back.
alec lightwood is one of the best characters from that period in the 2010s where you weren't shit without a big brave woke gay arc because usually those arcs were like oh i'm gay but no one knows woe is me so hard to be gay. but alec is the only person in the whole show who thinks he's straight passing/closeted in any way. his siblings are like hey bud do you think you might be gay maybe because we do. this girl he hates is like is the reason you're so bitchy all the time that you're gay. this vampire he also hates is like hey man i think it's really brave that you're gay #lovewins. the guy he's into is like you're gay and that's FINAL. the woman he's in an arranged marriage with is like i know you're gay but that's okay with me because i'm sexually attracted to my work. even his shitty absentee parents are like we know you're gay you're a disappointment to the family name for reasons separate to you being gay. alec lightwood thinks he's DL shadowhunter trade living out a love simon fantasy meanwhile everyone in his life is conspiring to get him on PreP
