#Visual Silence

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[hooned]

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[theactualsunshinechild]

If Castorice is cursed to kill whoever she touches and Mydei is cursed to be immortal, do you think Mydei ever goes to Castorice on a really bad day and is like, hey can you put me down for a bit please? I'm having these phantom pains from fatal wounds and injuries that don't exist anymore and they're keeping me up, I want a nap.

And obviously at first Castorice is like "L-lord Mydei, please rethink this, death is not something to be trifled with! Even with your condition, I cannot guarantee your safe return..." and Mydei takes the time to reassure her that, no, he's sure about this, and yes he is willing to bear the risks, no he doesn't care if it will hurt, please euthanize him. It takes a bit of convincing but eventually she agrees to risk it, and, fear in her heart, gently places a hand on his shoulder.

Mydei wobbles and collapses dead on the spot. Castorice lets go and starts fretting internally, stepping back and circling around, frantically searching for any sign of life. How long does it usually take for Mydei to come back? Will he come back at all? Her own curse is clearly effective on him after all... To her relief, it only takes a few seconds for Mydei's eyes to flutter open again to find himself supine, with limbs bent at various awkward angles from the way he ragdolled.

It was a very peaceful few seconds, no pain, no blood, just an pleasant floating sensation as the familiar dark waves of the Styx rocked him side to side gently, before a bright guiding light forcibly pulled him right back. If not for the uncomfortable position he came to in, he'd even say the experience did some old aches a lot of good. The slight relieved smile that comes across her face as he explains this belies how many years of uncertainty and grief she's experienced over the many deaths she had enacted prior. She must have had no way of knowing for sure, until now, whether or not the deaths she delivered were as gentle as she hoped, Mydei realized.

It takes slightly less convincing to have Castorice try again. This time, they arrange more comfortably, Mydei sitting down against a wall, Castorice taking his offered hand in hers. As his hand goes limp in hers, his skin slowly cooling, she draws comforting circles on it with her thumb, more for herself than for his unfeeling body. After several minutes this time, each feeling longer than the last, she lets go and backs away once more, waiting with bated breath for the moment he shudders back to life, taking air back into empty lungs, eyes bright again, fierce, lively and visibly well-rested.

They agree to never exceed 15 minutes, Castorice explaining he would likely not enjoy coming back to the discomfort of gravity having caused all of his stilled blood to pool and settle inside of his body, let alone his body having cooled. Mydei agrees easily and assures her that he will keep his requests for deathly repose infrequent.

Castorice often passes the time Mydei spends dead trying to occupy her hands, the nerves never quite leaving her alone. Knowing logically that Mydei will come back and fearing that maybe he won't come back this time are two separate things after all. She tries many things, from bringing a scroll to read, to embroidery, shoulder pressed to his, trying to ignore how much bolder the red tattoos look against the pallor of a dead man. When Mydei wakes to Castorice's fingers pricked and bleeding for the third time, he frowns and offers for her to braid his hair next time if she wishes.

The next time, a month later, they arrange slightly differently, Castorice sitting on a bench, Mydei lowering his head into her lap, his hair an offering she wills herself to accept. Having assisted with many a funeral rite, Castorice is able to lose herself in the process of carefully weaving the messy soft locks into shape. The texture is strangely soothing, despite how unnaturally still Mydei remains, and Castorice imagines that this must be similar to what it feels like to pet a lion's fluffy mane. When the sand stops flowing, Castorice moves Mydei's head out of her lap to walk five places away once more. He comes to, gasping for breath as usual, and reaches up to feel at the new braids he sensed in his hair. A ghost of a smile graces his face when he finds them to be satisfactory, and he wears them for the rest of the day as a sign of appreciation. Castorice fiddling with his hair while he is dead quickly becomes the standard for their little meetings. Sometimes he wakes up with no new braids, but he doesn't question it so long as Castorice doesn't appear to be in any distress.

The first time Phainon spotted Mydei with his head in Castorice's lap, Castorice gently running her fingers through his hair as if he were a very large cat, Phainon almost passed them by with how peaceful they looked...

Then did a double take and panicked.

Anyway, that's my headcanon at least for how Castorice can say that the death she brings with her touch is peaceful. I think discovering that killing Mydei with her touch grants him what is essentially a banger nap from his perspective, probably helped her find an amount of peace in those early years. Truly putting the rest in "putting to rest"with this one.

Obviously she'd still prefer to be able to touch people and creatures without having them die, but at least she has learned that it isn't painful when she kills this way.

Additionally I like to imagine that while being killed by Castorice feels soothing, getting killed normal ways feels like shit, painful the whole way through, and then you get dunked violently into the Styx. And for Mydei specifically, it's more like he gets dunked into the Styx only to get yoinked right out, soul still sopping wet and cold, and forced back into a body that is fully repaired but it's happened so fast to him that his nerves have him feeling the aftershocks of the injuries that are already gone.

[sandstworm]

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[aroaceleovaldez]

I know your acc is more book-focused, but I’ve been thinking about the tv show and how much I wish they’d leant into the mid2000-ness of the original books when adapting it. I feel like they went with a gen-z sort of approach (like with some music and references like Percy doing the floss) to pander to newer fans/viewers, but there is currently a lot of y2k nostalgia in fashion and music, so I think they easily could have gone with the original time period and kept the new fan gen appeal (as well as giving a nice throwback for the OG readers). Something I really love about the original series is how it’s very clearly tied to a certain time period without being tooooo bogged down in pop culture references (something TSATS and COTG suffer from), and I just think it would have been super fun if the haircuts, costume, set, and some slang reflected the original energy of the series, since it’s actually super endearing upon my current reread. I know I’m not the only one who found the show to be visually and stylistically incredibly bland, and while there are so many ways they could have approached it to add more flair, this is just something that i was reminded of during my current book reread that I think was a missed opportunity

I totally get what you mean - Three out of five of the series were published between 2005 and 2015, and MCGA started in 2015. Not to mention all the companion books in that time frame and the fact that a lot of the fandom never actually read anything beyond Blood of Olympus. As a result the franchise has a tendency to feel very time-locked in that 2000s/early 2010s era, even though there's actually pretty limited dated pop culture references in the first series.

I think part of what feels weird about the show is they couldn't decide if their target audience was older existing fans of the franchise or new younger fans, so they functionally split the difference in the worst way possible; The show itself leans heavily on modern trends and pop culture and such, but the narrative structure presumes you already know everything about the franchise and don't need anything explained to you and just want to skip around to the good/new bits. So it functionally isolates itself from both demographics - the new fans have difficulty understanding what's going on without context and the older fans feel ostracized by the heavy gen z/alpha emphasis.

Honestly I think it would have been a lot easier for them and less isolating to just keep it ambiguously pre-2016 (which is how I usually handle PJO stuff. I have a playlist for it and everything). Full y2k might feel too old for younger viewers (oh god i'm old) and definitely feel dated, but like mid 2010s would theoretically hit a sweet spot for nostalgia, particularly nostalgia with the series because that's when HoO ended. And it'd be familiar enough for younger fans without feeling too heavy-handed or actively trying to be "trendy."

My biggest joke about handling pop culture references with the show though is that instead of Percy flossing he should have been doing Gangnam Style.

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Through fractured tongues and fallen stone, Over ashes, we etch new lines skyward. We remember silence louder than collapse. Every echo steadies the scaffolding. Rising is a language we never forgot. Structures hold, because we make them stand. DIGITAL ARCHIVE