Isaac asked Rick Riordan:

Hello! I love your work (even though it's made me cry multiple times) and I can relate to many of the characters so I have three questions 1) How do you make your characters so relatable? 2) Are you going to add another trans person besides Alex? 3) Will there be a second Percy Jackson musical I'm sorry for asking

Rick Riordan Glad you've enjoyed the books! I don't plan ahead of time what sort of characters I will have in the books. Alex, for instance, just made sense as a child of Loki. So basically, I don't know. I'm hoping to write about Irish mythology (if I ever get enough time with the other projects going on!) and gender fluidity is most definitely a concept that appears in the Irish myths, so that is a possible logical place where a trans character might appear. I guess we'll see. As for the musical, I don't know of any plans for a second one. It might be a tough thing to market since it would be a sequel. I can't think of any musicals that have had sequels, but maybe I'm wrong.

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