Fan Experience

The fan

experience that I am planning to do is I will partner with the company Nerf to make a fake sword replica of Percy Jackson’s sword Riptide. The sword would be a life like foam replica of his. Nerf already makes foam sword toys, so they will just have to have a new design. The sword is very important to the book The House of Hades because it is his magical sword that when you take the cap off it will turn into a sword. It has been his weapon since the first book and everyone that has read the book knows it. It is the only weapon that he has while in hell. When he is attacked by a monsters it’s his only line of defense. At one point in the story he has to send a letter out of hell and send it to his friends in the mortal world. He uses the pen as its normal intention to write the letter which is important because he had to let his friends know that he and Annabeth where alive. This is the quote where he does this, “He uncapped the open. As usual, it sprang into a full-sized sword. Annabeth had watched him do this hundreds of times. Normally when he fought, Percy simply discarded the cap. It always appeared in his pocket later, as needed. When he touched the cap to the point of the sword, it would turn back into a ballpoint pen. ‘What if you touch the cap to the other end of the sword?’ Annabeth said. ‘Like where you’d put the cap if you were actually going to write with the pen.’ ‘Uhhh…okay.’ He said skeptically. He took the cap of the pen and touched to the hilt of the sword and it shrunk down back to a pen.” Another important scene where he uses the sword is when he is fighting his way out of hell and he has to use it to cut the rope that is holding the doors of death open. “He frantically ran to the massive rope and began to hack. The clash of the battle behind him urged him to work faster. Usually things cut through easily when he used his celestial bronze sword. But this rope seemed to be made of some sort of tough rope.” The next moment from the book is when he first enters hell and he is tired, week and hurt. He comes across a group of monsters and has to fight them off. “Its been a long time since I have seen you Percy Jackson’. She hissed. It had been four years since he had killed this monster. She had pretended to be a cheer leader at his mom’s boyfriend’s school. Which he hadn’t really been at a full day and it was still summer. So he really wasn’t suspended but the fact that he burnt down half the school was probably why they didn’t let him attend. ‘Never thought that I would see you ever again’. He said as she and the rest of the monsters began to inch closer. He let his hand fall down to his pocket where he could feel that his pen had reappeared back into his pocket. Before they could take another step he pulled out Riptide and uncapped it to let it take its more menacing form. ‘Aaaah’! The hag hissed. ‘Remember this’? Percy said as he stepped forward.” I think that this idea will work for many reasons. It’s a very important object to one of the main characters so anyone that has read the book would understand what it is. Many people buy these swords and so people will see other people with them and will ask what it is and they will hear it’s from a book so they will subsequently read the book. Then they will see how it is important to the book. It will help people that have already read the book to stay connected to the book by being a reminder of the book and it’s something they also can you for its intention of being played with which younger kids will want to do. This gets these young kids hooked at a young age and sparks and interest in reading this series so they will read it for a long time.