#EPIC Apollo

[nothing-impt]

Saw an Ask (I saw it a while back, I must have accidentally deleted it cause I can't find it now???) asking for Apollo's reaction to Athena's inability to know how babies are made

[weirdcore1984]

FUCK LORE OLYMPUS

THIS APOLLO DESIGN IS A BLESSING TO MY EYES WHAT

Has been a while since I drew my redesing for Lore Olympus’ Apollo, so here’s the icon!

I designed him around 2022, and back then I had a whole rewrite of the comic in mind. But at this point I’m so over H/P retellings that I can’t even bother to think of a way of making it good lol. I first thought of him as an academic rival to Persephone, but I don’t think that’s very interesting now. Overall, he’s still an antagonist. Not a r*pist, just a slightly evil twink. And I like drawing him because he’s cunty

[saixria]

I like the idea of Apollo and Artemis being Creepy Twins as kids, Apollo freaking people out with his foresight and Artemis freaking people out with her feralness (Apollo was not, in fact, born with his tattoos)

[alexwasbored]

The crow’s named George

[baambastic]

I see your “Apollo agreed so easily because he doesn’t care about Odysseus” and raise you “the god of prophecy knows that Odysseus is going to make it home, so he’s not going to make much of an effort to stop him.”

[bloodmoon24]

I just watched an Epic: The Musical animatic movie, and I just cried in the end

[orange-artist]

I just wanna say that ur Apollo and Hermes gives off the song Tongue Tied by GROUPLOVE. They have that vibe /pos

I thought I didn't know the song until I searched it up and yeah. Yeah that checks. The vibe is very good.

Doodle of them while I was listening to the song :3

[weirdcore1984]

NEW UPDATED APOLLO DESIGN

yayyya I drew him in my friends white board and suddenly escalated from there

I just wanted to draw his head and i slowly gave him more limbs...

I love him

YAYYY FULL BODY

What if I give him bows

This all took me 30 mins ish my fingers hurt

anything for my fav god

Live laugh love Apollo

[tenoart]

Hycanith and Apollo sillys

[englandsgirl18181234]

More facts about this AU!

Apollo is the Fate's Chosen, they send him visions and Prophecy's because they like him.

They also occasionally possess him, as a way to directly influence their weavings in a way they wouldn't normally be able to.

Lachesis uses his voice to speak for them. Atropos uses his body as their conduit to the world. And Clotho carefully wraps herself around his soul to keep it from burning away under the stress of their power. Like Luke's would have if Kronos has succeeded, but entirely on accident.

Hades is the first, besides Athena, to learn this. It happens after Apollo passes out in the infirmary after healing Percy and Annabeth when they arrived on Olympus.

Athena uses the opportunity to tell Hades about how badly his curse on the Oracle affected Apollo.

Hades was going to try and remove the curse, because he didn't intend for it to affect Apollo, only the Oracle.

The Fates stop him using Apollo's body because Rachel won't be ready to take over as the Oracle for several years.

The possession, particularly after the curse, knocks Apollo on his ass for days every time.

He vomits up burnt ichor for the first day or two. After that he's basically bed bound for a couple days with vision migraines because alternate timelines are visible out of the corner of his eye. He can almost hear them too, like whispers that are just barely too quiet. He can make out a word here and there, but that's about it.

The Fates possessing him basically overloads all of his prophecy related powers and it really takes it out of him when it happens.

Athena still has brain damage in this AU!

Annabeth notices very quickly that something is different about her mother once she and Percy are medically cleared to leave the infirmary.

Athena stares at her with a longing in her eyes that Annabeth had never noticed before, the kind she was used to seeing in Percy when he wanted to hug and comfort her and couldn't for whatever reason.

She's also much closer to Apollo than Annabeth had previously thought, which no one else seems to notice.

Percy's the one that points out how she seems to get tired more quickly than the other gods, and how Apollo is basically glued to her hip when the other gods aren't around, constantly checking on her. Like he was afraid something was going to happen.

The two eventually decide to ask him about it, but they do it in front of the other gods so he denies everything.

Everyone on Olympus, other than Athena, thinks Apollo is a shitty liar because he's the God of Truth, so when he says he doesn't know what they're talking about with a completely straight face and none of the usual theatrics, they assume he's telling the truth and that Percy and Annabeth are wrong.

Apollo later, like the next day so none of the others get suspicious, takes them aside and lightly threatens them into never doing that again.

He's not mean about it, but he does make very clear that they almost blew a secret he and Athena had been keeping from the other gods for millennia and that if they try again he will not only lie and tell everyone they're wrong but he will also ensure they cannot speak of it to anyone.

Apollo is absolutely willing to do so too. He won't like it, because he likes these kids and knows they've been through things no one else has, but if he has to choose between Percy and Annabeth liking him and Athena's life? He'll choose Athena every time without hesitation.

He'd choose Athena over the rest of Olympus if he had to after everything he's been through, Artemis included.

As far as Apollo is concerned, Athena is the only person on the planet he can truly trust. Everyone else on Olympus made it clear that they didn't believe him when it counted after he warned them about Gaia's return, no matter how desperate he got.

I've got more, but I'm tired so I'll end it here for now.

That last PJO/Epic au you mentioned, about Percy and Annabeth crashing a meeting at Olympus. What’s that one about?

So this one actually started as a reading the books fic idea, because I like those, and then took on a life of its own. It's basically a post-apocalypse AU Apollo meeting a time travel AU Percy and Annabeth from much earlier in the same timeline, all taking place on Olympus only a few months after the Lightning Thief

What happens in this one is that, in a universe that branches off from my Chthonic Athena AU a few decades early and quickly grows out of control, as Percy and Annabeth are in the doors of death leaving Tartarus, the Fates decide they need to Rapidly change where the timeline/universe is heading

Gaia waking fully, as they could see would take place in Percy and Annabeth's near future, wasn't supposed to happen. She was intended to be soothed back to sleep before that

But because she was fully woken, and because the interest of Tartarus had been caught by Percy and Annabeth on their way out, the world basically ended only a few millennia later

The sleep Gaia was lulled back into in that future was fitful and light, not the deep sleep it should have been, essentially giving them a few centuries before they're right back where they started. And Zeus does the exact same thing he did the first time, closes off Olympus and sticks his head in the sand.

That gives Gaia a lot of time to undermine all of Olympus's defenses and slowly pick off the demi-gods she knows will be a problem, eventually managing to wake fully before anyone but Apollo realizes what's going on

Apollo had told them all what was happening, the Fates sending him vision after vision to try and change the outcome that they could see coming, but Zeus wouldn't hear anything of it and even struck him with his lightning when he refused to back down

Athena fades before Gaia even stirs again, her soul disintegrating when the damage got to be too much, and leaving Apollo without anyone he can trust to back him up

Zeus and Apollo are eventually the last ones left alive. Zeus as a twisted 'thank you' for letting their plans get so far before doing anything, and Apollo because Gaia and Tartarus think his suffering is funny

From there everything just goes from bad to worse, with Gaia and Tartarus teaming up to pick off the Olympians one by one

So the Fates basically yank Percy and Annabeth from what would have become that timeline and send them to back to Olympus six months post Lightning Thief

But that isn't the only thing they do. The Fates also bring Apollo to them on the summer solstice, only a few hours after Percy returns the Master Bolt

They then 'show' Apollo what happened in that other timeline, so he knows what he has to do when Percy and Annabeth show up

But the Fates don't experience time the same way other beings do, so instead of it being like the visions they send him, like they intended, he essentially lives through that entire timeline

So basically, Percy and Annabeth are traumatized, Apollo is Traumatized™️ at the hands of both Zeus and Tartarus and Gaia, nobody else has any idea what the hell is going on, and they're not sure they Want to know anymore

Apollo isn't giving them that choice this time

I think I'm gonna call this one the Fates Last Chance AU

[elianzis]

epic!Apollo just a little fan art

[shadebloopnik]

I know its obvious, but I love how Apollo and Hephaestus literally seemed like they were pulled out of nowhere and handed a binder of everything Odysseus did up to that point and had to come up with a reason to hate him on the spot.

At least Hephaestus sounded like he gave a bit of effort, skimmed the info and provided a fair argument with what he had.

Apollo was like the kid who started working on his homework while the teacher's collecting papers. Like "Huh? Wha? Odysseus? Oh uh" *flips files to a random page* "Pfpfpfprllflfrrr i dunno, he did something to some sirens and uhhh, they sing and i like singing sooooo...yea not cool"

Athena: But they tried to kill hi-

Apollo, already turning away and pressing the golden button: Yeyeyeyeyeyeaa he's aight he's aight release him or whatever can i go now-

[doppy-enjo]

LOOK WHAT YOU'VE TURNED ME INTO. LOOK WHAT WE'VE BECOME.

[weirdcore1984]

GORGEOUS ART WHAT ILY

“Always. The Sun always comes back.”

ToA you mean so much to me <3

without texts vers.

[kervl-klear]

Considering his job description, I’m surprised he has time to be in love at all. Zeus even addressed this in some poem, saying that Apollo is kinda overworked.

[the-mori-arty]

HERE. IT. IS.

THE. ART.