#interaction chain: athena

[one-patient-soul]

[* Eventually, Athena tracks down Amara, spotting them being questioned by a larger bird monster - a Hawk in specific - clearly a guard, basing on the armor,] [* She couldn't hear much, but would eventually chime in.] "Hey, leave my kid alone, will you? Whatever you're accusing her of doing, it's probably fake." [* She snapped at the guard - who gave her one look, sighed, and trudged off.]

W-Wait what are you-

[Almost immediately catching onto Athena’s plan, she turns to the guard.]

W-Well would you look at that! There’s my mom!

[one-patient-soul]

[*She’s taken by complete surprise. The knowledge that she’s not the only one who’s gotten revived is certainly a shocking piece of news for her.]

Y-Yeah! I’m up for the disguise plan! But…where do we get the disguise?

Hey Athena, I finished my soup!

…Is something wrong?

"... Well, kid.. Guards're after some other human who was brought back." [* She'd sigh, tense and gritting her teeth.] "I ain't givin' you in, but.. that disguise plan is advanced to now, 'case they come knocking. we're in the capital, after all." [* She gives the young human a look, nodding, and muttering.] ".. You're 'bout the same size she was.. worth a shot.." [* She then clears her throat, nodding.] "How would you feel 'bout lookin' like a monster for a bit?"

[mask131]

I want to briefly adress another BIG misconception about Greek gods that has (quite recently) been going on around the Internet. And it is again part due to the Percy Jackson TV show. I insist on the "TV show", because as we now know, the TV show made some changes to the book's original plotline when it came to the gods interacting with their children (like Athena's move with Echidna *cough cough*), and as a result here is what I have been hearing here and there.

"Yeah, well the Greek gods were all assholes, right, but what PJ REALLY got right was that they were especially assholes to their own children and the worst abusive parents ever".

... No?

In fact this is almost a counter-interpretation of Greek mythology, because in Greek myths and legends, the whole point was that, when a god was being an "asshole" as you say, they were an asshole to everybody... except their children. One of the reasons the Greek gods can look "bad" by modern standards is precisely because they had an habit of favorizing their own children, and taking care about them more than about other beings.

The most famous of these myths is of course Demeter's immense love and hyper-protection of Persephone - just look at the trials she went through to find her back after she disappeared.

Another famous example is how Poseidon turned on Odysseus and plagued him with curses and monsters for blinding his son - Polyphemus the cyclop (and the whole point here is that Poseidon favorized his son, despite his son being the actual criminal and monster in the case)

Ares, who was not one of the best gods, still went on an avenging mode every time his children were attacked, from the dragon slain by Cadmos to the rape of Alcippe.

There's how Apollo went berserk after the death of Asclepios. There's how Herakles had planned to be favorized by Fate since his birth thanks to Zeus, and how the entire reason Zeus inflicted on his wife the atrocious torture of hanging chained up by the sky was because he had enough of her constantly tormenting Herakles in the worst ways possible. Even Athena ended up taking care of Erichthonius as her own child despite her not being his true mother - showing that even the virgin, sexless, childless goddess has a mothering side to her.

It all goes back to Gaia, and how she keeps turning against Zeus for each time vanquishing her children - from the Titans, to the Giants, to Typhon - despite these children being again, bad news and even hurting Gaia herself. Another example of "primordial motherhood": Nyx shelters Hypnos from Zeus' wrath in the Iliad, and not even Zeus would dare anger such an elderly mother-goddess. And if we push beyond the boundaries of Greek mythology and into the very late Roman literature, we see this trend continues with Aphrodite's smothering-mothering of Eros during the Psyche legend.

A good lot of conflicts and feuds and problems in Greek mythology was precisely due to how much the gods loved their children, and how protective they were of them - with the problem that the god had the tendency to be blind to whether their children were good or evil, victims or criminals.

This is why, for example, Zeus and Hera's relationships to their children were especially important and unique in Greek myths, in the light of this god's tendency to favorize and spoil and protect their own children.

On Hera's case, her action of, for example, throwing Hephaistos into the sea at birth just because he is "ugly" is meant to come off as massively shocking. Remember that in a good bunch of Greek myths, Hera had a negative, evil, dangerous side to her, that popped up in various ways - from her jealous, vain, angry personality to how in some versions she literaly gave birth to Typhon... Unlike Zeus, who was the "ultimate father", Hera wasn't (in myths, I insist) seen as a postive mother, and was more of a mother-of-monsters avatar (after all, she did command a lot of Greek monsters), or an anti-mother (she was the one who prevented Leto from giving birth, a powerful symbol).

On the other side, Zeus was also seen regularly punishing or being very harsh to his children, but there was the secret to his character: Zeus had to act both as a father, and as a king. He embodied the all loving ancestor and the all powerful father, but he also had to act as the embodiment of law and of justice, and those two aspects of his personality clashed a lot. We see him punish his divine children regularly, but almost always because his role as the enforcer of the law primed over his role as a father - for example when he wanted to throw Apollo into Tartarus because he had caused a Cyclop genocide out of anger. But he still had this same "over-parenting" side as the other gods. Again, Herakles was one of his favorite children and he tried to arrange everything so that he could have the greatest life ever - but his official side as the "political" and "civilization" god caught up to him when Hera tricked him into swearing away the gifts he had intended for Herakles. Despite Zeus' immense love for his son, his oath and the law he embodies took over and prevented him from sheltering Herakles from Hera's hatred. The most revealing case of this "father vs king" aspect of Zeus' personality comes from the Iliad: it is the death of Saperdon.

When Zeus looks upon the Trojan War and sees that his son will soon die, he is very heavily tempted from interfering. He explicitely wishes to save him, and to change the scales of fate to avoid his impending death (because remember in the Iliad Zeus was still the god of fate who literaly weighed humans' destinities in his scale). That's his "father" side showing up. But then Hera, who is by his side, who is his queen and thus his "political" side, reminds him of his duty as a king and of his role as ultimate judge of the world and ruler of the gods. She points out he would break the very own law he imposed of not interfering with the mortal conflict. She reminds him that, as the setter of examples, if he saved Sarpedon, he would create a precedent and other gods could also start saving their own children from the war. She reminds him that he has a role as the god of law and fate, and that he can't allow his personal feelings to interfere in the matter, else he would be unfair and unjust. And thus, Zeus resignates himself to let his son die before his eyes - but he still shows his immense love for him by both sending a shower of blood as a sign of his grief, and then ordering Apollo, Hypnos and Thanatos in person to carry Sarpedon's corpse away (predating future legends about great kings and heroes taken into the afterlife by supernatural figures, like Arthur collected by Morgan and the ladies of Avalon).

In conclusion: having the gods act as if they were all bad, abusive, absent parents not getting involved in their children's life or not caring about them is actually going against what the mythology originally said in terms of characterization. The untold rule of Greek mythology was that, if gods were bad parents, it would be because they were too loving, too protective, too smothering, too spoiling, interfering too much. Not the other way around - unless you were Hera, of course. Meanwhile, having the gods act as "assholes" and bullies towards OTHER GODS' children, now that would be accurate to Greek mythology (this is the very basis of Hera's cycle of legends as a persecuting goddess). But the gods usually stuck by the side of their own children - a bit like how in a school's football or soccer game the parents end up fighting each other because of what their children did or did not do in the game.

[11queensupreme11]

If every ror gods and human is crashing out at the achilles curse, I can't wait to see them lose it when Percy "doomed by the narrative" Jackson gives up immortality lol

IT'LL ACTUALLY BE A 50/50!!!!!!

so some people (humans and some of the more wiser gods like buddha, ra, sun wukong, prometheus, hestia, athena, etc.) would actually see it as a better choice. if percy had chosen to be a god, she would've been under zeus' thumb. not only that, PJO GODS DO NOT HAVE FREEDOM LIKE THE ROR GODS DO. they are heavily restricted. they can't go to each other's territories, cannot steal from each other, cannot interact with their mortal children, they're forbidden from doing this and that; it's why demigods are always used by them -- because their kids can do what they can't.

and amongst them, those who are kinder (like prometheus, hestia, adam, etc.) would see it as a better choice because she did it solely to make peoples' lives better. instead of immortality; she FORCED the gods to make the necessary changes to make sure this would never happen again. her wish/demand would help improve the lives of every demigod AND the lives of minor gods and friendly titans. she chose selflessness over selfishness and that's something they love about her

as for the other 50%....... lmao

they're shocked to the point that some feel like throwing up. they knew she was a good and just person, the epitome of a hero, something even greater than their own heracles.......... but to give up a good and safe life of blessed godhood for the wellbeing of others?????? like PERCY. YOU ARE A WALKING TRAGEDY. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

like yes yes this is very sweet of you honey pie, BUT WHO GIVES A SHIT ABOUT THEM???? YOU'RE GONNA FUCKING DIE HORRIBLY AT LEAST TRY TO SAVE YOURSELF???? 😭😭😭😭

also, this is gonna make them REALLY nervous cuz at this point, aside from wanting to make the world a better place for her loved ones, they're gonna be well aware of her aversion to immortality cuz she already rejected it from artemis back in book 3 and she has never once thought/stated any desires of being immortal (quite the opposite really), plus she's suicidal 💀💀

clearly, she'll never want to be a goddess, but they can change her mind! being a ror god is sooooo much cooler than a pjo god, who are practically in chains, so once they force her to ascend, they'll help her get those silly thoughts out of her head 💖💖💖💖

[typicalopposite]

And so maybe I have been thinking a lot about the clipboard!118 proposal… and looking at it from the other side of things.

Tommy has had the ring a couple months now. He maybe, sorta, kinda impulsively bought it after their last date left him 100% sure Evan was the one. He just hasn’t figured out how to go about popping the question.

Logically he knows he could just casually ask him over a morning coffee, and Evan would be as speechless and emotional as if it were the most extravagant proposal to ever be proposed. But as much as Tommy would prefer a more casual approach, he still wants it to be something special. He wonders what would be most special to Evan.

And then the idea comes so easy.

The 118.

He goes to Eddie, spins the idea of getting everyone to help with the proposal. Eddie thinks it’s an amazing idea and he FaceTimes Hen and Chim to share the idea. Hen is the one to suggest the clipboard. Tommy has questions, but they all just vaguely insist its an inside joke that he will definitely get and Tommy leaves it at that.

He goes to Bobby and Athena’s next. Bobby isn’t Buck’s dad — Tommy has already set aside a day to speak with him and Buck’s mom regardless of the tension in theirs and Buck’s relationship — but he is extremely important to Buck and Tommy (hell anyone who watches their interactions) can see the feeling is mutual. Bobby couldn’t give his blessing fast enough.

The day comes and Eddie is off to start what will be a chain reaction of Buck being bounced around from person to person. After Hen takes him from Maddie and Chim’s, Tommy comes out from the room he’d been hiding in to ride with them to the station.

“You ready?” Chim asks, eyes turning soft as he straightens Tommy’s tie.

“Of course,” Tommy replies. He is, he really is. Maybe more than he has been for anything else in his life, ever.

“You got the ring?”

“Right here.” Tommy pulls the box out of his pocket.

“Is the ring in it?” Chimney asks, face now serious.

“Uhhh… yeah, it should be,” Tommy laughs.

“Have you checked…”

Tommy blinks, but Chim’s eyes are focused on the box. Tommy opens it and reveals the band inside.

Chim’s face softens once again, a big smile spreading across it and he pats Tommy on the shoulder. “Alright then… let’s go get you engaged.”

[indigofeatherfluff]

HoO redo-rodeo

So I've been having a lot of thoughts about HoO characters that I'm never going to get around to Actually Writing, so here we go:

The 7 demigods of prophecy being an uneven mix of Greek and Roman annoyed me, so here we have:

Greek: Percy, Annabeth, Piper

Roman: Jason, Hazel, Frank

Nonhuman: Leo

PERCY

The Ascendant Godling.

His character arc is him unknowingly becoming a god, slowly drifting away from the mortal perspective, burning up his mortality faster and faster, sacrificing the last of it to strike the finishing blow to Gaea.

Keeps the Achilles Curse and we get to see it acting as a curse, how it cripples his stamina outside of active combat with adrenaline to keep him going. Needs so much more sleep and food, but while on the streets takes ambrosia/nectar to keep awake and moving.

Starts ending fights faster becauase he can't afford to draw them out with talking or negotiation, so falls into lethal intensity survival mode very quickly.

Arrives at Camp Jupiter earlier (timelines are messy anyways, but he should spend more time at Camp Jupiter before the Quest). I just want actual description of the bathhouse, the infrastructure, the routines and attitudes. I want to know what makes the Greeks and Romans different!

Goes by Perseus, because that's what monsters and gods know him as. Also for fun omens about being The Destroyer.

Camp Jupiter assumes they're being tested at first, but then assume that he's a god made mortal so Reyna claims his service for the Legion. She sends him on the Quest under Frank as his Task.

Becaue he's Greek, a very powerful unknown demigod older than the usual initiative and unknowingly becoming a god, he's uncomfortable with the crowds of Roman demigods and legacies, so spends a lot of time in the Temples and quiet places talking to naiads and fawns. Maybe he gets offered training as a priest? Builds the understanding of Octavian's huge political power as Augur.

Gains understanding of the difference between Greek and Roman aspects, so while after Thanatos is freed from chains, he deliberately summons Roman form Letus (more warlike) with a tribute of the souls of the Ghost Legion to help kill the Giant Alceonyus.

ANNABETH

The Powerless Demigod, the Strategist.

The only one without a clearly divine power, but she's spent her life training to make up the difference. Athena Cabin pours over battle plans and mythology books, anything to get an edge. She doesn't get magic weaving powers, but they all learn and practise weaving to honour their Mother's domain. Big ephasis in Athena Cabin of Athena always being the best and the wisest and Right and that whould never be questioned (which drove initial conflict with Percy in first series over parent's rivalry). Put a lot of stock in making Athena proud of her.

Character arc: after being disowned, forced onto a suicide quest that's killed countless siblings before her while on a world-saving deadlined Great Prophecy Quest, with her only magic support disenchanted... Annabeth becomes disillusioned with Athena as a goddess and a mother (because love and respect are earned, not entitled by blood... and with the example of Sally during interactions while searcing for Percy...). She disavows herself as a Child of Athena.

After Gaea: maybe she becomes a priestess to Percy after designing him a temple. Joins Jason as architect to his Potifex Maximus duties, eventually made Immortal as Architect of Olympus (because there's no way she finished redesigning Olympus in the months between the Titan War ending and Percy disappearing).

Tartarus: during the fall, she blindly sews together some of Arachne's tapasteries in the pitch blakcness to make them a parachute to halp survive the landing.

PIPER

The Titan Army Traitor.

Maybe she never got taken to Camp, maybe she did and immediately ran away from it that night or the next day rather than stay at the Hermes Distaster Relief Shelter Cabin. Either way, she gets picked up by the Titan Army cause. People who help her, train her, sympathise with feeling abandoned by the gods to the mercy of monsters. They don't have much, but they're fighting for a better world. They're family. Then things start to change; Luke becomes more Kronos and demigods start to go missing, some on Missions, some to shadowy corners and the satisfied grins of the monsters who were also angry at the gods and should be their allies. Maybe she even met Selena a few times fro Charmspeak training and listened to her sister share her worries and doubts about the Cause... then the Princess Andromeda blows up and she realises the other side are aiming to kill opposing demigods just the same as monsters. She runs before the Battle of Manhattan.

In Lost Hero, she doesn't get immediately Claimed at Camp and knows exactly why. While no one is looking, sacrifices something precious to her to Aphrodite, maybe with a vow of loyalty or something? She is very, very afraid of the gods.

Character alteration: Mean Girl. She puts on a defensive mask of vanity and sensuality, learned for the cameras and honed under the expectations of the Aphrodite Child stereotype. Runs cons with Leo as the face of the opperation, uses perfuumes to hide demigod scent.

Arc: learning to let down her walls and trust the team to have her back. Also, an earned (on both sides) reconicilliation with Aphrodite.

Embodies Aphrodite Areia, the war aspect of her mother's domain. Uses a spear and wears her cabin's enchanted pink armour. Maybe she also gets Katoptris, but parallels of Selena by training with Clarisse for the spear.

Abilities: Charmspeak, empath & emotional manipulation, voice mimicry and minor visual shapeshifting ability (ie. Mystique) for physical features (semi-involuntary with emotional surges, anger makes her teeth sharpen and nails grow points etc.). Innate sailing affinity as part of Aphrodite's domains, a way to connect with Percy.

JASON

The Olymian Champion.

A messy mix of feral wolf and absolute rule stickler. Was raised by Lupa and then learned how to be in human society through the Legion, through the lense of that being human pack dynamics. Human: polite, controlled, often wearing a small smile with no teeth, opperates by strict rules with Reyna offering the more flexible alernative. More than a bit OCD.

Puts the expectations of others above his personal desires and is pushed to be a puppet of the gods. Hera's Champion, Eagle Child of the God King Jupiter, Wolf Cub of Lupa (claimed as her child like Romulus and Remus, calls her mother). Blesing of Lupa gives him slightly pointed ears and teeth.

Appearance: platinum blonde hair that's almost like white lightning, electric blue eyes that glow when using powers, always carries glasses in a special armoured case and is farsighted (because he focuses too much on the bigger picture to see the immediate),

Arc: learning to live life outside of the rulebook. Letting out more wolfish behaviour and being comfortable in himself.

Conflict with Percy as caught between human knowledge of 'powerful stranger of a foreign pantheon' as a threat to protect the Pack against... and wolf instinct subconsciously recognising Baby God with Roman conditioning to kneel in deference.

HAZEL

The Living Ghost.

She came back to life, but spent decades dead and in Asphodel, so different from two-second deaths of Gwen and Jason. Hazel is a dead soul in a living body.

Physical: cold to the touch and always absolutely silent. Someone next to her hears her take a breath before speaking and is unsettled to realise they heard it because it's almost like he wan't breathing before (she was, but less than a normal human and completely inaudibly). She watches others with an like a owl-like unblinking stillness, a dark form with glowing eyes like an inverse of her father's sacred barn owl. I kind of also want her skin to be cracked through with veins of immortal gold, because her body was remade to return to life, not just resiscitated, so she would have early practice with manipulating the Mist to look normal.

Emotional: Quiet and kind but ruthless, strongly justice-oriented. Visciousness is its own mercy, especially in combat. Makes a judgement and cannot be swayed from her ruling, but is fair in learning all the contextual information before making decisions about people. A step out of rhythm with the rest of the living.

Hazel's Curse: Thanatos' chains are made out of Stygian Iron and Stygian Ice (frozen Styx water), which tries to rip her dead soul from her living body, freezes her hand to the chain. Frank sacrifices some of his life to her (via stick) to melt her hand off the chain, lighting up her gold-veins with blinding light and breaking her Curse (I just want them holding hands and glowing the gold of gods, this couple of a mortal and a ghost).

Abilities: Pluto domains over earth riches, death and agriculture. Cannon abilities, but after SoN wears cuff bracelets inlaid with gem shards that she can pull out and whip around like a deadly ribbon of shrapnel. Being semi/formerly dead, Hazel has a heightened sense for living things, extending to something agricultural (idk, but would be useful against Gaea, yeah?).

Weapon: Scythe, weapon of Proserpina (Persephony) and death connotations. Would just be cool to have her on Arion with a scythe like a golden Grim Reaper and it diversifies the weapons in the 7.

FRANK

The Cursed Legacy.

Frank is a 4th gen Legacy whose paternal Great Grandfather was a demigod son of Mars, but also secretly Legacy of Poseidon by his maternal ancestor Shen Lun.

Frank is essentially mortal.

He can't have any amborsia or nectar, but can carefully use the Roman alternative cures like unicorn draught.

His family has good social standing in the Legion by four generations of service and Frank has been trained since childhood to be able to keep up with first-gen demigods in combat and uphold the honour of Mars to the Legion. Would not be an outcast if he wasn't friends with Hazel, but he chose her over social standing/reputation.

The stick: since Shen Lun (and his dishonourable Legion discharge), every member of his line has been born with one. Using the shapeshifting ability directly correlates to it 'burning' by dissolving in golden light. It also turns strands of hair white like the effect of holding the Sky.

There's not enough divinity in his body to handle the power in his blood, but his family blames the ancestral dishonour. Every use kills him a little bit more, but is it dishonourable to prioritise selfish survival over the safety of his comrades? The survival of the Quest?

LEO

The Fading Spirit, the Healer.

Leo is a daimon (immortal spirit with power varying from satyr to minor god like Thanatos), a rustic fire spirit called a Dactyl (insert dinosaur jokes here). Predate satyrs and oreads, male counterpart to Hekaterides and often conflated with Kouretes. Species has almost entirely Faded into extinction.

Dactyls are ancient smiths and healing magicians, mostly associated with Hephaestus like satyrs are with Dionysus, but some individuals with others (like Paionios with Asclepius) always in a supporting role. Children of Anchiale, titanness of the warming heat of fire.

Pretends to be a demigod, disguised by Piper's perfume from Coach Hedge, after praying to Hephaeustus gets Claimed by him as a patron. Leo is Sammy and knew Hazel, protected her from monsters, left Alaska after her death, still has the diamond she gave him.

Abilities: metalworking, fire, maths, cannon abilities, healing and wild dancing.

Role: support role and essentially non-combatant, as no natural fighting ability/instinct like demigods. Engineer on the Argo II and team healer

Calypso: Leo has a lot of life experience all around the world, remebers Olympus being in different places and can catch her up of the world she's missed. By the end of the Quest, Leo is no longer in danger of Fading, Calypso is still immortal and their being together is a more equal deal.

Epilogue:

List of Immortals by the end of the series:

Percy (god), Annabeth (similar to Ariadne), Leo (daimon, but partnering with Calypso would become more level with minor god than satyr).

Other characters: Calypso, Grover (Lord of the Wild), Thalia (Huntress), Tyson, Bob and Damasen eventually.

Possibly Hazel and Frank, acting as soul guides/ psychopomps, otherwise Elysium. Possibly Jason for services as Pontifex Maximus in reviving belief of minor and/or Fading gods and daimons, but he'd probably prefer going to Elysium than staying with the Gods forever. Piper... I can't think of a significant divine link, so probably to Elysium. The immortal among the 7 would visit the Underworld souls, of course.

[audreyscribes]

Ω PJO MISCELLANEOUS DEMIGOD HEADCANONS: 💀 THANATOS: GOD OF DEATH, PERSONIFICATION OF PEACEFUL DEATH 🦋

A/N: Heeeeeey everyone! Here is {Wave 2.0.} of Miscellaneous Demigod Headcanons. Had the strength to write some more gods and their demigods for the Misc. Demigod Headcanons and I decided to start off with the most requested god and demigod with a bang! (No seriously, I've been getting so many requests to do Thanatos that I caved just so I could free my ask box). Hope you all enjoy it and thanks for reading! MISCELLANEOUS DEMIGOD H/CS MASTERLIST LINK: [TUMBLR] || [AO3]

Welcome to the impossible births club like the Athena kids. Thanatos is considered a virgin god. I think it’s not because of chastity or abstaining, but because Thanatos is the god and personification of Death itself; so his interaction with mortals always ends in their passing. Not to mention, being a lieutenant to Hades, he’s usually very busy.  How you are born is up to theory but there are a few, limited, possible ways: a.) Just like Psyche and Eros where the former didn’t know Eros looked like, you do have a mortal parent that Thanatos fell in love with, but Thanatos remained invisible mostly when his eyes fell upon your mortal parent, keeping most of his deathly potency away. However, the whisper of death clings to you and your mortal parent. A curse of death for life and love. b.) You did the whole rebirth thing where you died as a baby or child, and Thanatos took pity on you. He fed you ambrosia and his godly essence with you, before you were allowed to bring back to life when appealing to Hades and Persephone, who allowed you to go back to the world of the living; however, you are a servant and denizen of the Underworld. C.) you were conceived when Thanatos fell in love with a mortal and when they crossed into the Underworld, they were finally to be seen together. However, when Thanatos was chained and the Doors of Death were forced to be kept open, your ‘mortal’ parent left the underworld searching for your godly father to free him. However, your parent was delayed in reaching Thanatos because with life now flowing, you were allowed to form and thus, you were born into the world of the living.

Regardless, you are one of your kind and if ever there are other children of Thanatos, well you’re in the same boat or one of the following listed above.

You have also inherited something from your godly father more than just the normal appearances (i.e. his golden-honey eyes, darker than black hair, his teakwood colour skin), you’ve also inherited his dark wings. Now before you get too excited, these wings do not grow along you in life. Your wings grow alongside you with death.

When you were first born into the world and drew your first breaths, you did not come with fledgling wings sprouting from your back. Your fledging wings sprouted from your back when you experienced death for the first time. Your wings started to sprout and show like tiny buds when you ignorantly crushed ants beneath your feet when you were a child and it was like being stabbed with a needle with your wings breaking through. You cry and the pain only gets worse as your wings grow and grow when you witness and are basked directly from (non-violent) death; whether you experienced death first hand or even hearing your classmate’s relative dying from cancer.

The pain and growth increases depending on the life; from the least to the death of bugs & insects to the worst & most growth with human life. Your wings were inherited from your godly father, the personification of Death. It is only natural that your wings will only grow and be a physical reminder of death itself. Whether your wings, feathered or like a butterfly, are a hue of blue, black, or purple can only be told with time and your journey in life alongside death. The weight of your parentage is constant on your shoulders and back.

 Whether or not you know you are a child of Thanatos from the get-go, you are not exempt from being claimed when you reach Camp. It is a quiet claim but a deafening one. A downturned torch where its glow was dim. Smoke and mist rose around you, and the patch of grass that had once blooming flowers began to wilt and turn brown. If you haven’t had your wings yet or your wings aren’t as prominent, with his claim, your wings grow just slightly, the hue of your wing shining beautifully slightly yet eerie looking.

If you arrived at Camp Half Blood, and whether or not you decide to stay at Camp Half Blood, you are temporarily assigned to the Hypnos Cabin; as much as Thanatos was seen together with his brother Hypnos. While traditionally, you would be assigned to the Hermes cabin, unfortunately you slept like the dead; figuratively and literally which freaked a lot of people. Around the children of Hypnos you fit in a lot better and Clovis advocated your stay with the approval and insistence of his father.

Being the child of Death itself, allows you much of the powers of a child of Hades or something very similar. You can use necromancy, summoning skeletons to your aid in battle and whatnot, but you can’t control death; just because you are the child of Death, doesn’t mean you are exempt from the same laws and limitations as a child of Hades or any mortal at all. You may not be able to shadow-travel, but if you don’t, you can turn yourself invisible much like your godly father. It’s a skill that requires practice, just as much shadow-travel, and how long you can keep it up will depend on you.

Another power of being a child of Death, is you can see someone’s life-essence. Think of it as an aura that radiates how much life they have and what they are. Very useful in telling who is a monster in disguise or seeing someone who is possessing someone who shouldn’t be possessing. On the other hand, there is the inevitable sense of mortality when you see their aura and time dim.

You carry the linger of death you go and those who pass you by, will feel the cold shivering breeze around you. Only a few are not fazed by it, but you mustn’t lose your control,

Being a child of Thanatos is a heavy burden but you must live because what is life without death?

“So that’s how I was born” you finished saying, telling to your present company of how you came to be and how you were a child of Thanatos. The eyes on you were nerve-wracking and your wings fluttered and jittered in unison with your emotions. 

You winced and whispered “sorry” when the tip of your wings almost grazed someone, not that used to having your wings out. It also didn’t help when Thanatos claimed you, they also got bigger so there were things to get used to. You didn’t like having your wings out in public, even around other demigods. Your wings were a constant reminder of your heritage and you wanted to keep it a secret, the truth of the wings where they appear when you’re around death, growing alongside with every life taken. 

“That’s a pretty loaded backstory” blurted out Frank finally and Hazel immediately elbowed him as he winced at his words and pain.

You could help let out a nervous laughter as you responded with,“It sort of is, yeah. In all honesty, I didn’t believe it myself until Hypnos told me in my sleep. Even then, I don’t think I’ll ever wrap my mind around it completely. Not to mention, that there were other demigods like me and there’s a camp of all things.”

“Well, don’t worry about that! We’ll help you get settled in and help you if you have any questions!” said Hazel and you gave a sheepish smile. The daughter of Pluto had arrived with Frank when you all made landfall in Camp Halfblood, Nico expressly relieved that his sister was with him. 

You met Nico first who looked at you and was out of his depth. It wasn’t only after you absorbed the death of a monster, did Nico tell you that Hades had told him about your existence and told him to find you, and in accordance take you to Camp. Which camp he didn’t specify but after some debate, it was better to take you to Camp Halfblood because your presence at Camp Jupiter wouldn’t be taken too well.

“Well…I guess the first thing to do is get you settled in” said Nico, rubbing the back of his neck. “We talked it over with Chiron and Mr. D and they said instead of staying at the Hermes cabin, it was best for you to stay at Cabin 13 with me until we get confirmation from Thanatos about what kind of Cabin he wants.” 

‘It was safer for everyone if you stayed at the Hades cabin just in case’ was left unsaid.

“In all honesty, I really thought I wouldn’t be allowed to stay here since well…” you gestured to yourself with a nervous gulp as Nico scoffed. 

“If they allow a son of Hades to stay, they’ll have to allow you. Besides, you’re a demigod like the rest of us so you have a place at Camp just like the rest of us” said Nico. 

“That’s right! If anyone gives you any trouble, don’t hesitate to let us know and we’ll be there right with you!” agreed Hazel as Frank nodded. 

You felt your chest warm up a bit as you all approached Cabin 13. Despite it’s dark exterior, you felt a certain pull to it as Nico and Hazel opened the door for you. 

“Once again, Welcome [first name, last name], child of Thanatos, servitor of the Underworld, to Cabin 13, the Hades Cabin.” 

[gowerhardcastle]

As When I Wrote a Tumblr Post

I was starting to write a response to an ask about my use of similes, and I was starting to explain how important Spenser, Milton, and especially Homer was to my use of simile in my prose, but then I got caught up in thinking about how I use classical references to make jokes that amuse at least me.

So then I figure I would amass my ten favorite Greek and Roman jokes from my games for you. Then ten became eleven. I can't stop.

Learned jokes about classical and early English literature is at the very heart of this whole gigantic thing I'm writing here, which should be no surprise, because that's what I teach when I'm not writing interactive games.

All I can hope is that the reader either really enjoys a narrative voice that is a little obsessed with such things.

At any rate, much--perhaps even most--of these jokes will be invisible to a character with low Culture. Or, as in several examples below, the joke changes depending on whether you have high or low culture.

Here they are, my top XI classical jokes. Plus, one bonus. Some come from previously published games. Many come from my current game, Tea and Scones.

I:

"Honestly, I think you should just endure."

"You mean like the fellow chained to the rock with the vulture eating his liver out," moans Marmaduke.

*if culture < 35

"I have not seen that film as yet. Sounds a bit gory. But certainly, if that helps you. Like the liver fellow. Just endure."

*if culture >= 35

"Yes. You are a modern-day Prometheus, if that helps you steel your nerves. Just endure."

II:

You ponder Buck's words, rolling them round and round in your mind, turning like

*if culture > 45

            Ixion upon his wheel, to bring a classical simile into things.

*if culture <= 45

            a pinwheel, or a merry-go-round, or, let us say, some sort of carnival tilt-a-whirl.  But it is no use.  If he were trying to communicate something specific, the project was a failure.

III:

There is a moment in The Iliad at which the great Greek hero, Diomedes, filled with valor by the might of Athena, flings his bronze spear at the Trojan hero Phegeus.

The spear streaks across the battlefield as Diomedes emanates fire from his head, and strikes true, puncturing his armor, transfixing his foe, and sending him on a one-way trip to the underworld.

Back at university, you did not give much thought to this moment, but now, you think you have a better sense of what that Homer fellow was all about.

True, fire does not literally emanate from your head, but in all other ways, you emulate the feat of Diomedes, as the walking stick you throw flies true, across the opera house.

IV:

"But you haven't heard what I have to tell you.  You will realize why I need you when you hear the details.  It will be a simple matter for you to solve, whereas I am wholly helpless."

"As I say, you must fend for yourself.  I wish it were otherwise, but there we are.  Would you kindly remove yourself from my leg?"                                  

"No, I shan't.  Like Lykaon before Achilles, I supplicate you!  Mercy!  Mercy!"                

"If you recall, Achilles slew Lykaon, not heeding the supplication in question.  You ought to reread your Iliad."                                     

"Did he?"                                           

"Yes.  The supplication in question was not a wise idea."                                         

"Oh."  Marmaduke loosens his grasp and stands up.  "You certainly know your classical mythology."

V:

#"What's in the violin case?"

"I'll bet you'd like to know," he says.  "You know the story of Aolus and the bag?  It's like that."

"That's Homer," says Vyv.  "The bag of winds or something.  You have to open the bag to let the winds out.  No, wait a moment.  It's the other way."

"That is familiar," you say.  "The bag of winds is too tempting to open and then they open it, and there's wind inside, which frankly they should have figured out because it is called the 'bag of winds.'"

VI:

The tactical choice here is not a complex one.  You strike him as hard as you can with your fist.  It is a tried-and-true approach.  The thought bypasses your brain entirely, and comes entirely out of a conversation between your spine and your hand, as you sock him as hard as you can.

Scores of great authors have groped for the way to describe, say, Achilles spearing some unfortunate Trojan, or Macbeth slicing his way through some or other thane with his broadsword.  But this particular blow, if a Homer or a Shakespeare had been present, could only have been described by the bards in question with a single syllable:  "Wow."--or its equivalent in Ancient Greek.

VII:

“And then I shall defeat you properly."

"Oh," you say.  "Really?"

"Quite," he says, "There shall be songs sung about the things I do.  You may have heard of Achilles dragging the body of Hector around the walls of Troy.  That will be an idle picnic at the park compared to what I do to you."  He walks away from you slowly and furiously, fists clenched.

VIII:

The two of you approach a small, vine-covered restaurant, one of those new novelty eateries.  It is named "Polytropos," serving Greek feasts "Fit for Odysseus Himself Upon His Return" as the sign proclaims.  The whole place is themed after The Odyssey, and the walls and ceiling are festooned with grapevines and garishly painted plaster gods and goddesses….

Your waiter, dressed like a cyclops, places a basket of complimentary lotus root crisps on the table.  Before anyone can speak, Aunt Matilda orders the Octopus Supreme Platter for everyone to share.

IX:

"Yes, of course," you say.  "Really, you should be thanking me.  Imagine--a brutish ruffian is after you, hoping to treat you in a most unmerciful manner.  You have insulted his pride, heedless of the consequences.  You shall defend yourself against him, come what may.  How bold!  How unyielding.  Your name shall live forever."

“Gosh!” says Marmaduke.

*if (((culture >= 47) or ((persuade + culture) >= 75)))          

You are like Theseus braving the minotaur, or Heracles wrestling the lion, or Pompey the Great.  You are, or will be, Marmaduke the Great, in the eyes of many.”

*else

            "You are like that Roman fellow holding the bridge in the face of opposition," you say.  "The name eludes me at the moment.  Horace Sublicius?  Horatio Sulla Decimus?  Something like that.  Roman sounding."      

            "And this is your argument that my name will live forever?" Marmaduke says.

X:

You hesitate, just for a moment. *if culture >= 40 Like Aeneas, his sword lifted high above the prostrate Turnus, or Pyrrhus standing like a painted tyrant above the frail and helpless Priam. That's the way you hesitate. But then, like those warriors of old, the moment of indecision passes away, and you act. *if culture < 40 You hesitate, as when Duddles, having eaten eight already, holding his hand above the plate with the very last berry scone, looks about the room, his will poised between "take it" and "I probably shouldn't." But then, like Duddles, the moment of indecision passes swiftly away, and you act.

XI:

The corridor is decorated with classical scenes of service, like Ganymede being abducted by Jupiter to eventually be made the cupbearer of the gods, the messenger goddess Iris pointedly and respectfully not partaking of the sacrificial meat of the major gods, and Hebe spilling the divine nectar and being given a dressing-down and a lecture on the subject of carelessness by Juno.

As always, your nostrils flare as you recognize the frankly gauche mixing of Greek and Roman figures in the same scene.

Bonus:

"I love you," you say to the the mirror.  "It doesn't matter what anyone else says.  I love you."

"Thank you," you say to yourself, hugging your arms around yourself.  "That means a lot, coming from you."

"I appreciate you, and I see you, and I know how hard things can be.  You've got an ally in me."

"This gives me the strength to go on."

"Ignore the brickbats of society.  Be true to yourself.  γνῶθι σεαυτόν, in the words of the ancient Greeks."

"Right, right.  Well put."

"Thank you."

Perhaps Shakespeare is more your cup of tea? I've written up a similar discussion of my use of Shakespeare in my games here (albeit for patrons).

If the precise nexus where great literature and interactive fiction is where you live, might I tempt you to visit The Noble Gases Club? Become a member, read what I would call a panoply of mini-essays on game design and matters of literary interest, and play an absurdly long demo of Jolly Good: Tea and Scones.

[weepingflowerbonkcop]

Here's another post regarding the Linked Universe created by jojo. I'll try and finish all the rest some time. Enjoy!

What the Chain thinks about a Modern! Reader using slang/meme references:

Time

• I believe that Time being the oldest of the Links is old school/traditional when talking.

• He's using real medieval talk, things like saying "Salutations/greetings, my friend." Instead of just saying a simple, "Hi/ Hey, how you doing bud?"

• He's the type of guy to not use too many abbreviations when he talks. Things like saying, "cannot" instead of "can't." He just radiates that energy.

• So, him meeting a Modern! Reader would be ... quite the interaction. The first time meeting reader would've startled him as they use slang and just throwing him for a loop.

• He's kind of like the cat with the buffering wheel on its forehead, but that's only whenever reader speaks or opens their mouth.

• He gets one of the younger incarnations to translate to him as reader joins the group on their adventure.

• He'll try his best to understand the terms the more he grows on the reader.

• As for memes tho - no. Just straight up no. He doesn't understand them or the readers broken humour. Gremlin humour he gets but the idea that reader bursts out laughing while looking at something remotely close or similar to meme just makes him worry.

• He will however try and use some of the terms when he talks, but he just ends up butchering them or using them incorrectly. He sounds like the hip dad trying to stay in touch with the kids.

• 6.5/10 He tries to understand/learn readers slang and that's just sweet. He would've scored higher if he wasn't that dad.

Twilight

• Twilight - similar to Time - is more old school when talking. He's not as uptight as Time and does use abbreviations when talking and he slurs some of his words sometimes.

• The fandom has established that he's got an accent and it makes it harder to understand him when he talks sometimes.

• Poor guy thought it was the same for you when he first heard you use slang. He genuinely thought it was just an accent.

• He doesn't always understand, but he's quicker than Time to learn what you mean. He's the one to sometimes translate what you say to Time after Wild explains it to him first  and half the time it's incorrect though does Wild do it on purpose? Maybe.

• He's the one to ask Wild in his spare time about some of the terms and how to use them when talking to try and impress you.

• With memes though ... he also buffers. Modern! Reader would make even the slightest reference to a meme and he'll sit and buffer for a bit before asking. Its funnier when he's Wolfie.

• He finds certain memes to be funny though. Cowboy memes or any farm memes would tickle his funny bone.

• He's a 7.5 or 8/10 because he's a sweetheart and uses his free time to try and get closer to Modern! Reader even if it's just by using some slang.

Warriors

• I'd imagine him having a bit of a higher education since he's a knight and having travelled with Athena to other kingdoms. He would use the military lingo and the more posh Hylian/upper class Hylian.

• He talks proper and sometimes pronounces words a little different. Almost like he's got a fancy British accent.

• He's taken back by the loose words reader uses some confuse him leading to him asking questions.

• He's actually one of the Links that's more interested in learning slang and memes from readers world.

• He's a bit more open to readers world and the quirks that come with it other than just the slang.

• He tries to figure out the slang by taking in the entire sentence and trying to figure it out. He's definitely the cool uncle when he uses slang and correctly.

• He's Time's other translator when Twilight isn't around.

• Warriors actively stays quiet whenever reader talks because he does like how well slang rolls off readers tongue.

• He wouldn't fancy the meme references all that much, but he tries and keeps an open mind.

• Warriors does make bets with Legend about some of the terms and what they mean or how Time will react to reader using more slang/meme references through the day. He'll sometimes egg reader on with any military memes especially the Area 51 memes.

• Overall he's a solid 8/10.

[sleepdeprivedsimp234]

@the-phoenix-heart ‘s Spirit!States AU reminded me that at some point in January of 2024, I had also written down ideas for a Spirit!States AU in my notes app-

And so now thinking about that I came up with potential deaths for the states and them being spirits that haunt Gov (he’s one of the only people that can see them all the time). And like my Centaur!AU, I don’t have a lot of this thought out so pls bear with me :’)

So uh-

Here are some hc’s! (⚠️TRIGGER WARNING⚠️: death, abuse, suicide, fires, and just a whole lotta stuff that could potentially be triggering. You have been warned.)

California:

died in a house fire started by a toxic ex that failed to build a bridge and get over it.

when he’s invisible, you can tell he’s there by the sent of smoke, ichor, and burning wood.

when visible, he is seen with his usual flannel and jeans, but they’re all burnt in many places, and so is his body.

One of the states that interacts Gov the most

Has pretty much the same personality as he does in normal WTTT

Texas:

died by Mexico’s hand after the battle of the Alamo after Mexico took him prisoner. He didn’t go down without a fight, but he was struck down by the one person that could actually end his life (countries can strike down their territories/colonies EPIC!Zeus to EPIC!Athena style)

when he’s invisible, tell tale signs that he’s around include: the smell of smoke and copper (injuries that are actual threats to a personification bleed golden ichor, which I imagine smells like copper), and random adrenaline rushes

When visible, he is seen usually bloodied by whip scars and a star shaped cluster of golden stab wounds (from Mexico) on his side, usually wearing a cowboy hat and a poncho of his current flag.

He’s always just kinda. There. Whether he interacts with people or not.

yeah no their personalities don’t change much in this AU ;-;

Louisiana:

died by both France and his own hands. France had gotten EXTREMELY drunk and angry one night and started hurting Louisiana in any way he could, not listening to Louisiana’s pleas for mercy.

^In fear, Louisiana ran to the Mississippi River to kill himself to ‘save’ himself from France’s constant abuse. Even if France had gotten to him before Louisiana drowned himself, the injuries that France inflicted on him were fatal and severe so he would’ve tragically died that night either way.

When invisible, the signs that make it so you can tell he’s there are: the scent of magnolias, strawberries and ichor, and just an overwhelming sense of a somber peace.

When visible, Louisiana is seen in a bloodied/ichored white chemise and ripped up black pants. appears to have chains magnolias and vines draped over his body, and seems wet but nothing around him is affected by it.

His personality is about the same as the normal AU, but only if he’s close enough with someone (like Florida). Otherwise, he’s very skittish and afraid of others.

Florida:

alligator and drowning. he got to cocky about wrestling an alligator and his ass got got. he managed to escape the gator at first, but eventually bled out and drowned before he could get to safety.

when invisible, you can tell he’s there by: an earthy smell blended with ichor, along with a general feeling of chaos and adrenaline in the air

when visible, he looks fairly normal except his legs are mangled and bloody and don’t work due to the alligator attack, so he just kinda floats around.

interacts with others the most of any state.

Georgia:

caffeine overdose induced coma is his cause of death

his death is one of the reasons he’s so tired all the time

When invisible, you can tell he’s there by: a general feeling of tiredness and the smell of peach blossoms and coffee.

When visible, he just looks REALLY tired, but also calm and friendly.

New York:

died via Great Britain during his time as a prisoner under British Marshall Law in NYC during the Revolutionary War.

when invisible, you can tell he’s there by the scent of apples and roses, and a random sense of despair and fear and anxiety out of nowhere.

when visible, he’s shirtless and covered in whip markings, burns, stab wounds, dirty bandages, as well as chains and roses. And his hair is incredibly tousled and messy.

acts aggressive towards others out of fear (this goes for both this AU and the original AU tbh-)

interacts with others more than one would think (especially California. Cuz. CaliYork.)

Massachusetts:

died in WW2 due to an explosion, alongside Pennsylvania (you can pry MassPenn out of my cold dead hands :3)

when invisible, you can tell he’s there by the scent of smoke and the fact that every book you own will be everywhere EXCEPT the place they’re supposed to be in.

when visible: in his usual attire that we most commonly see him in (the spirits can change what they wear), but burnt and one side of his body is mangled and burnt.

Doesn’t interact with others too much, mostly with the OG13

RANDOM HEADCANONS:

Louisiana is ALWAYS with either Florida, Texas, Mass, New York, California, or Georgia. Those are the spirit states that he 100% has full trust in (he trusts Gov to an extent as well). If you need him, he is usually hiding behind either of the states mentioned (most commonly Florida)

Gov often mourns the dead states, so they all collectively make sure he’s not hurting or overworking himself or blaming himself for not being able to save them.

^examples: Georgia appearing so that Gov gets all tired and falls asleep, California appearing so that Gov has someone to talk to, Louisiana and Florida appearing to distract Gov from his work, New York appearing with California to aggressively motivate Gov to do something other than work and drink coffee.

Sometimes Georgia appears and takes away Gov’s coffee because he doesn’t want Gov to meet the same fate he did.

I firmly believe that when Gov first met Louisiana’s spirit, France 100000% got punched at the next international meeting. And Loui got hugs.

^Same goes with Great Britain (before he also died in 1801 when UK became a thing.)

IF ANYONE WANTS TO WRITE ANY OF THESE PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DO SO MY LIFE WILL BE YOURS /silly

[one-patient-soul]

[*Amara is now peacefully sleeping on the couch, snoring softly as she hugs herself tightly in her slumber.]

[* At some point, one of the monsters going through and passing by the alleyways caught a glimpse of Amara, not realizing its a human - she'd scoff, turning to enter.] "Oi! Kid! You alright?" [* She muttered something, the only words audible are 'parents' and 'disgraceful'.] "I won't hurt'cha or anything."

-@ferret-of-wisdom

[*Taking one look at the monster, she immediately starts scrambling for an exit…and fails miserably because she still can’t move correctly. Being dead for an unspecified amount of time will do that to you.]

…ow…

[the-sky-doge]

Fable SMP au of present day head cannons!!

Rae and Icarus are definitely from money but it's hard to tell just on appearance but both own a house outright.

Rae, Centross and Icarus met in primary school and stuck like glue till adult hood.

Rae accidentally set up Centross and Fenris, Rae planed to introduce his two friends in college but had to stay late and left Fenris and Centross together...

Aax was staying with Ulysses for a while but after a while of getting to know Ulysses lab friend that wasn't an absolute a-hole, he fell really hard for the hot scientist.

Caspian met Rae in college and became close friends because of Atlas, Rae was relaxing at a dog park and Atlas LOVED him and after a few interactions they exchanged number and Ghea happened.

Athena loves her cousins and has funny competitions with them, one person hides the allium the other two have to find it whoever finds it first get a pastry and drink from Starbarks !

Fenris owns his own business still but on a much bigger chain, this dude also got money.

Rae is still a scientist, and Like in fable SMP he nearly dies because of it, and that scared everyone he loved and he quits because of that and instead becomes an author.

Caspian is also an author but it's all about his adventures around the world, something he really enjoys!

When Rae told Caspians he loved him, he asked Caspian to be his boyfriend and surprised him with a trip to his uncles summer home and library.

The little ones, Cari and Veah do exist here and are dearly loved by all!

Icarus doesn't talk to their dad after finding out what he did to their mother and brother, it broke them but having everyone around then saved them alot of pain.

[the-warrior-of-the-mind]

(Hi! This blog im actually really excited to interact with, im a Hephaestus role player and im interested to see how your Athena would react to my version of Hephaestus,no need to reply if you don’t wanna)

Hephaestus starts looking around Ithaca looking for Athena because he has something for her “dammit owl where are you?” He whispers to himself and then goes “oh gods I should check with Prince Telemachus,or Odysseus…”

(If you wanna see what Hephaestus has before replying it’s in my chain with @notesbyaphrodite)

@god-of-smithing-and-cozy-vibes

-Athena is usually is on Circe’s island but today she flew to Ithaca to visit Ody. When she spots Hephaestus she, in her owl form, lands in his shoulder-

[kekaki-cupcakes]

hello, are you still doing requests?

if so, could i have some sibling headcanons of nico with a hades kiddo that's really peppy and into colorful things and people find it hard to believe they're siblings at first because their personalities are polar opposites of each other?

thankyou!

Heya, I'm still doing requests but I have so many so it might take a while to get an answer, feel free to request something else though! This kind of went off track but oh well <3

Don't take it to heart---Nico/opposite aesthetics sibling!reader

»»————-　★　————-««

-The minute you skipped up to the porch of the Hades Cabin with your stripey rainbow leg warmers and a tote bag with a stupid pun about a show with something called ‘carebears’, Nico winced.

-He’d need sunglasses if he had to keep looking at you, but he didn’t really want to borrow the big yellow star ones on the end of your nose, so maybe that was a bad idea. Your first interaction went a bit like this:

You: “Heya, you're the emo kid, right? I’m new! So, where’s our cabin?” 

Nico: “Uh… you're supposed to go that way.”

You: “No, that’s the Iris cabin, at least that’s what Chiron said. I’m your new sibling, by the way. Chiron said we have one in Rome too! 

Nico: I- well, yes, I- we do.

You: Are they as grumpy looking as you?

-Needless to say you got off to a great start. Nico proceeded to dump your bags on one of the beds, which has a zebra print doona matching one of your headbands, and then left immediately. You shrugged it off, obviously, and started stacking your things on the coffin shaped bookshelves. You ignored the candle that was supposed to smell like ‘the souls of the damned’, and put your own flowery one next to it. 

-You found out you loved arts and crafts, where you made friendship bracelets with Lacy, as well as pegasi riding. You saw Nico once, and he waved awkwardly, but went back to the small child he was glaring at quickly. You quickly became attached to a creamy coloured mare called macaroni as well, but Butch wouldn’t let her sleep in your cabin. He did take a friendship bracelet, though. And he let you weave daisy chains into macaroni’s mane and tail, so you liked him. 

-You had brought a musty old record player with you after finding out that there was no wifi, but you had to pause ‘Washing Machine Heart’ [by Mitski, of course] when Nico came trudging into the now bright cabin. You’d opened all the curtains and taken the spiders that fell from them outside, dumping them in the bushes behind the Athena cabin. 

-Nico stared at the squishmellows on your bed and then the dreamcatcher by one of the windows, and the row of brightly coloured converse with striped laces lined up by his three different pairs of black Doc Martens. 

-He shrugged his jacket off and went straight into the bathroom, leaving a little trail of muddy footsteps along the heart shaped rug you’d put down.

-He was just adjusting to a roommate, you told yourself. It wasn’t anything to do with you personally. You hadn’t done anything wrong, maybe you should just give him a bit of space. That was a good idea. Leave him alone for a bit until he was used to you, and don’t take it to heart. 

»»————-　★　————-««

-You took it to heart.

»»————-　★　————-««

-Months had passed, and you were thankful for the Ipad Piper [she was so nice, and she let you borrow her Olivia Rodrigo records] lent you so you could facetime the family and friends you had left behind occasionally. They had seemed to adjust to you not being there anymore, now that you knew you were a child of Hades, the outside world was too dangerous to risk. You tried not to take that to heart either.

-Macaroni was getting used to the beaded bridle you’d made her, but you were still training her to get used to flying around while you used your new weapons.

-Nyssa had helped you make them, able to actually craft a design after glancing at you scribbled drawing with glitter gel pens that you really had worked hard on. Now you had a sparkly belt with three attachments, that you could click in your spray cans too. The cans were filled with different coloured paint, only the base liquid was melted down celestial bronze flakes, so when you fought a monster, which you were still learning to do, it would seep into their eyes and turn them blind, or crack through their skin and dissolve them. You loved the spray cans.

-Drew had warmed up to you as well, and you were even invited to Barbie premier night in Cabin ten. You got to wear your sparkly leg warmers and the cropped leather jacket in a light shade of pink.

-You were making your way to the arts and crafts center with a box of clay and little paint brushes in your arms to run the pottery class [you’d been elected as head of arts and crafts pretty quickly, shared with Elsa, one of the Athena kids who specialize in weaving and sewed the cutest pajama pants] when you bumped into Nico.

-Literally. 

-The box may have been a few heads taller than you, so it wasn’t really your fault, but Nico still snapped at you. 

-You gathered up the little tubs of paint from the grass and apologized quickly, your chest tight with anxiety. You hurried away after that, ignoring your brother as he tried to explain he hadn’t realized it was you when he hissed curse words Drew had started teaching Harley and Lacy. 

-The class went well, the scrunchies Elsa was making her girlfriend for her birthday went along well, and a few more kids than usual showed up, taking lumps of clay from the tray and working it into figures on their tables. You were making beads that you’d string onto a bracelet for Nyssa, because she always broke the plastic ones with hammers and drills accidentally.

-You thought back to your interaction with Nico and regretted it dearly. Maybe if you’d just heard him out or even apologized and blamed yourself, he might’ve come to your class to see your works, or sat with you at dinner, or even just waved from across the infirmary when you went to get panadol for your headaches. 

-You knew you got them from straining your eyes to read and draw in the dim cabin, but whenever you opened the curtains or switched on your blue lamp with a cloudy pattern that you hadn’t got to use yet, Nico cleared out completely. 

-It wasn’t your fault, you reminded yourself, you were just… too different.

-People started filing out after putting their creations to the side, you complimented each of their idea’s even though you felt like getting some Ben and Jerry’s from the camp shop and curling up in bed to watch ‘10 Things I Hate About You’ again. 

-The beads for Nyssa were nearly done, so you went to find a container to pop them in.

-When you got back, they had been ground into the bench until the delicate tracing of different things Nyssa likes were just shapeless brown blobs. An Ares kid, Grey, was standing with their arms crossed and a smirk on their face, which was mostly obscured by a nose that had been broken too many times.

-You stared down at the squashed clay and felt your eyes prickle with tears.

-Grey jeered at you, calling you things you’d rather not hear again, because they only made the tears fall. You rubbed your nose and smoothed the front of your tye-dyed camp shirt flat. Grey called after you, something about being a ‘rainbow prissy’. You stumbled out of the center.

-Nico wasn’t in your cabin when you slammed the door behind you, thankfully, and you hopped into bed, kicking your yellow converse off and pulling the doona over your head so you didn’t have to look at the skull filled walls around you.

-It was so dark, it was so dark and shadowy and there were bones you were too scared to ask about their origins lining the mirror in the bathroom you kept seeing things behind you in. Your crocheted blanket that used to sit across the black doona cover had been folded up a while ago and placed back in your suitcase, along with a few of the more multicolored posters and the fruity scented candles that seemed to annoy your half brother. 

-You rubbed your eyes with your sleeves and held your hand over your mouth so Nico wouldn’t hear crying when he would eventually come back a few hours later, late enough that you could pretend to be asleep. 

»»————-　★　————-««

-The infirmary was busy with bleeding and laughing demigods when you wandered in looking for some panadol. Your headache was making it hard to think straight, but whenever you cried too much you got one, so you knew what to do by now. 

-Will waved from over from where he was pulling a ruler, a stapler, and a glue stick out of the stomach of an Iris kid who was giggling the entire time, coughing up glitter. He grimaced when a chunk of glue hit his face. You waved back and turned the corner, heading to the rooms at the back where Austin would be. He usually had the panadol. 

-Someone groaned in the corner, and you spotted Grey. 

-They looked like a soggy bag of a human, their mauled nose the only definable shape. You couldn’t pull your eyes away from the grotesque demigod blob.

-Austin shuffled up behind you with a grimace, passing over a few pills and a glass of water without looking away. You gulped them down quickly as Grey let out another moan and rolled a bit on their hospital bed. Austin told you that he’d been spotted on the floor of the Arts and crafts center. 

-Apparently, every few minutes one of his bones would disappear.

-It was only a few fingers at the start, then most of his ribs couldn’t be found and there was something wrong with his mouth, which Austin found out meant his jaw had decided to not be there. 

-A screechy sound came from the front of the infirmary, and you both looked to the door, which Clarrise was dragging Nico through, holding him up by the back of his jacket. He pummeled at the chunky daughter of Ares, but couldn’t get out of her grip. Clarrise glared around at the staring demigods and snarled, “why is this little shit de-boning Grey?”

-You didn’t know who yelled ‘that’s what she said’ from across the room.

-”Because they deserve it.” Nico hissed a bit like a cat, glaring up at Clarisse with narrowed brown eyes underneath his floppy hair.  

-Will ran up to the pair, brushing glitter off his gloved hands onto his scrubs instead. He folded his arms and stared Clarrise down until she finally let go of Nico, who dropped to the ground and then sprung back up, wrinkling his nose at the daughter of Ares, who just stuck her tongue back out at him. 

-Will pinched his nose, “Clarisse, more people come in here because of you then Nico, so you don’t get to talk. Nico, just fix them, they’re too annoying to be kept in here.”

-”But people deserved to be punched by me,” Clarrise argued with a scoff.

-”And Grey deserves to lose their bones!” Nico shot back, glaring up at Clarisse and balling his fists, “they stepped on my siblings clay stuff!”

»»————-　★　————-««

-You yawned and stretched your arms out above your head, then blinked up at the roof with bleary eyes. The skulls were gone, now it was just black concrete. You rolled over a moment later and stuffed your head back into your pillow, pulling your crocheted blanket back over your head.

-There was a ‘shing’ sound as curtains were yanked open, and you just sunk further into your comfy bed, ignoring the bright beams of early morning sunshine that streamed in and lit up the dark cabin. It made the rainbow rug in the center of the cabin even brighter, and you groaned loudly in protest. “Whaddaya even doing up so early? Go back to bed you vampire!”

-”It’s only six am?”

-”You’re more of a psychopath then I thought before,” you muttered, but made sure you were loud enough that your brother could hear you as he padded round the cabin getting changed and ready for his much too early start to the day. 

-Nico huffed and the bathroom door shut as he completely ignored the hairbrush you’d given him to passive aggressively deal with his scruffy black hair. “Leo forgot the code to the safe in the big house that he changed when he was hiding those icey poles from Piper.”

-”And how are you supposed to help him remember?”

-Nico’s boots were loud on the floorboards as he trotted over. He kissed you on the forehead gently, “oh I’m not, I’m gonna go watch him suffer the consequences with Jason.”

»»————-　★　————-««

[one-patient-soul]

…Food sounds…amazing right now…

[*She sits up on the couch…how long has been since this child last ate?]

…I-I’m…I’m up…

[*Oh hey! The human child is awake.]

[* Athena peeks her head out from a nearby hall, smiling.] "Mornin', kid. I made some easy-to-reheat meals last night while you slept, so that you'd have something when you woke up. If you'd like, I can go get those ready?"

[just-a-mer]

General Info

"Odysseus speaks like this." And actions like this.

Pronouns: He/They/Mer (interchangeable)

Tag: Siren!Odysseus

Out of character will look like this! Marked as ooc.

Pronouns: They/Them

Tag: Mod swims

RULES

While 18, NO NSFW (Suggestive/Innuendos are fine but nothing explicit)

Be respectful and remember that, at the end of the day, we are all just people sharing an interest, and that behind the screen, I am just another person.

I will not respond to any personal questions (unless its something simple like, let's say, favorite colors and whatnot)

Oc Interaction or asks are welcomed and encouraged!

Ship interaction or asks are welcomed and encouraged, too! (Pr0ships are NOT welcomed)

My blog is a safe space for anyone with disabilities (mental/physical), Minorities, LGBTQIA+, etc. DNI with me or this blog if you're going to be hateful or cruel.

Crossovers are fine! (though do be aware that mod may not know most universes)

Have fun!

Other Blogs

Dead!Odysseus RP account -> @leading-with-the-heart

Brief AU Description

In this version of Epic, Odysseus was born as a siren. Much of the story remains the same, yet with added traits to the man? mer? mythical? Nobody? - with quite a fair amount of digging into his past!!

General Tags

Art Tag: A fish!?

Other Worlds / Crossovers: "letter to the king" 🫒

Relations (Odysseus)

° Childhood friend turned love -> @thrpr0phetuseek | Tag: "I miss my family" duo 🩵💙

° A friend -> @totally-penelope-and-not-a-siren | Tag: "Curious melody"💧

° Adopted Son -> @wave-and-chains-bound | Tag: "Webbed hands" 🌧

° Another Adopted Son -> @carousel-anon-aka-alexander | Tag: "Ambitious prince" 🎠

° Child ->

@little-siren-esmy | Tag: "of water and soul" 💠

° Sleepy Interactions -> @sleepy-4n0n | Tag: "Whispering waves" 🪐

° Brother -> @jump-into-my-op3n-arms | Tag: "Brothers of the tide" 🌊

° Platonic Partner -> @notesbyaphrodite | Tag: "beauty believed" 🩷❤️

° Friends if the main feeling was annoyance | Tag: "Friends? No." ⚔️ | @the-great-emperor-commodus

° A child of Zeus / grandson(?) -> @minithunderbitch | Tag: "sparking resentment" 🌩

Relations without @'s

Best friend: Polites | Tag: "Melancholy memory" 🥞

Brother-in-law: Eurylochus of Same | Tag: "Scattered scars" ⚡️

Former Mentor: Athena / Goddess of Wisdom + Master Of War | Tag: "Forgotten thought" 🪶

Wife: Penelope of Ithaca | Tag: "Bloody hands" 🏹

Son: Telemachus of Ithaca | "greatest joy" 🗡

Youngest son/adopted son: Astyanax

Mother: Anticlea

Father: Laertes "old orchard" 👑

Sister: Ctimene

Other Interactions

Alternate Odysseus' | Tag: "man or monster" ⚖️

"Lore" Link (Odysseus)