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does anyone wanna hold hands until we feel a little braver

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[ageofartemis]

Okay I'll put part of this under a cut cuz it got kinda long but like. DC x PJO AU's are so easy to make, right. Because Wonder Woman exists. Greek gods are canon.

Demigod jason tho. i've got so many possible parents for him but imagine its persephone right. She's queen of the underworld, she's got some themes of rebirth going on (spring goddess, also the whole zagreus/dionysus thing). I imagine Catherine would be his other parent in this scenario. They'd meet when Catherine is taking a trip out of Gotham for a few days. Whirlwind romance kinda vibe. Catherine knows who Persephone is but she never tells anyone.

By the time her baby boy is born she's (back?) in a relationship with Willis. And Jason, despite his circumstances, is a happy kid. Monsters probably don't come to Gotham because the smell keeps them away (think Gabe's scent on Percy, I imagine a city with as much crime as Gotham probably leaves it's mark). Jason grows up on myths as bedtime stories, on going to the park and being unfathomably good with plants. Spring is his favorite season and sometimes he sees shades that might just be ghosts. I don't think Catherine ever told him, and so I don't think he ever went to Camp.

But life still happens. Willis goes to jail and dies. Catherine succumbs to her drugs. Jason comes home to a winged man bowed over her, who bows his head respectfully before whisking away.

And so he lives on the streets. And so he steals Batman's tires. And so he gets adopted and becomes Robin.

In the Manor he spends so much time in the gardens. His room is covered in plants. Spring is his favorite season but now that he's not at risk of dying during it, winter holds a special place in his heart. I imagine he gets along well with Ivy, though Bruce doesn't like it.

He still dies, of course. Maybe Sheila is on the birth certificate through some Mist shenanigans to keep Jason safer. Maybe Catherine is secretly still alive. Whichever version of the story you prefer, both have been canon.

And so he dies. And like Hermes is the one to pick him up, because Persephone is his half-sister and that's his nephew and Thanatos is always so busy anyways. And he convinces Charon to let him through and bring the kid across the river. They meet Persephone on the bank of the Styx, not that Jason knows who either of them are. The woman is familiar, though.

And Persephone drops on her knees in front of him, tears in her eyes as she holds his face.

"Seph. He needs to go through judgement."

"No. He'll go to Elysium."

"Persephone-"

"Do not take me for a fool, Hermes. I know how my own realm works. I've spoken to the judges and to my husband. He goes to Elysium. I would not risk him."

(spring is a cold one that year.)

(for weeks after Jason's death, vegetation behaves weird)

(summer has a weird number of cold days, too. And fall comes early)

So Jason has to wrap his head around the fact that he's part god. Because he knew Greek gods were real, of course, Wonder Woman is his favorite hero thanks, but he'd never thought it would have anything to do with him. He helps his mother in her garden some days, he meets his stepfather and his demigod stepbrother. He considers rebirth.

But then, of course, six months lates, late october maybe early november, he gets resurrected.

I imagine it would be hard for his mother to reach him. Communicating with someone who's brain dead is hard enough, especially if you have to do it through dreams he's not really aware of. And the Lazarus Pit is idk maybe something curse-like? Unnatural, at least, and scrambling Jason's head enough Persephone still can't talk to him.

So he trains and he kills and he obsesses over Bruce and Joker and Tim. Until, finally, he starts getting moments his head is clear enough for Persephone to contact him. And they're in a dream, and it's the calmest he's been in, how long has it been? He's still so, so, angry, and he won't regret what he's done, but he's also tired. His mom is right there and she seems so happy to see him and what the fuck is he doing, wasting his efforts on someone who obviously doesn't want him around?

Persephone gifts him a weapon and tells him to go to New York. That help will reach him there. That he needs to go to Dionysus. And he doesn't go immediately. He keeps training for a while, and the green still takes over sometimes. But eventually he calms down a little more. Talia would be hard to escape but New York is close enough to Gotham that, under the guise of wanting to put his plan in motion, he can hang around there a while without seeming too suspicious.

And so he goes. And he trudges around the city for a while. Nature spirits stare and whisper. Jason does his best to keep from lashing out.

Eventually he runs into Nico, who's in New York with idk Percy probably or maybe on a date with Will, and it's basically the Spider-Man point meme because no one exactly told Nico what the hell actually happened to that kid and Jason sure as fuck wasn't expecting to see him.

Anyway nico takes him to camp. Dionysus helps jason out bc Madness and that whole thing, and it clears most of the lazarus influence but he's still so fucking angry. But he's also tired. And he feels more connected to his mother here than he ever had back in gotham. And the kids at camp are as much child soldiers as he is. Persephone doesn't have her own cabin yet, and there's a bit of a debate if he's going to be put in the Demeter or Hermes cabin for the time being before they settle on Hades because only Nico really uses it. And he genuinely enjoys camp. He's got a better basis for sword fighting than most of the new kids so he gets put into the more advanced class. Learning a new style is fun. The climbing wall is a nice challenge. He picks strawberries with the Demeter cabin. He's decent enough at archery, but definitely a better marksman with guns. He finds out Bat-disappear-into-the-shadows-training works as well in a forest as on rooftops.

But then, a few months in, Wonder Woman visits. She'd never heard of Camp, before the wars, that'd been kept from her. She'd been furious when she'd found out the gods had used children to fight their wars. Tales of it are legendary, around camp.

All the little kids swarm her, of course, and everyone else follows. Jason doesn't. they make eye contact, briefly, and disbelief floods her face. Jason flees.

And at some point they do probably talk. Diana asks why he isn't home, jason says he isn't ready and when she pushes he spits out why (joker, tim, the usual). Diana explains some things (bruce being near suicidal, what shes gathered about how tim became robin). Jason isnt ready to let go of the anger yet, but when diana tells him he cant expect her not to tell bruce his son is alive he tells her to do what she wants.

Idk I just think it's neat. I've got ideas for him as 'son' of hestia kind of (look…. I know alright…. I just think it's near for the son of the goddess of hearth and home and family to feel like he doesn’t have a home or a family anymore alright. The angst). But also son of ares jason,,,, maybe son of mars theres some evidence apparently that he was worshipped in a protector of boys capacity, like with apollo. On one hand, son of dionysus (again rebirth but also madness), but then I like the headcanon of 'jason doesn’t go anywhere near addictive substances bc family history' a little too much. Also apollo, again protector of boys thing but also marksmanship to some extent. Could probably fly athena. Could definitely fly hermes. So many ideas.

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Posted a new chapter of won't be alone again !

For those unfamilia, it's a Jason centric, platonic batfam soulmate AU I have posted on AO3. The basis is that if you touch blood, you live through the times your soulmate(s) need you most as a sort of ghost, able only to interact with your soulmates.

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It's tiring, arguing with foreign dignitaries. Even after replacing the Fire Nation ones to people loyal to him meaning he at least doesn't have to argue with them as well, it's difficult. Chief Hakoda tries to work with him, at least, and the Northern Water Tribe delegation isn't usually actively working against him, but the various Earth Kingdom ambassadors are hell to deal with.

"At least our Kingdoms aren't ruled by insane, child abusing tyrants," one of the more temperamental Earth Kingdom men hisses at the Fire Nation woman he's arguing with. The entire room falls silent. Zuko's head snaps towards the man, gaze intense. Hakoda is already half out of his seat, ready for a possible fight. The servants have frozen. Once the shock wears off, the Fire Nation people look furious. They're proud and loyal people, after all.

Zuko, after taking a few measured breaths, asks, "Are you implying something?"

He doesn't understand how the conversation devolved like this. All he'd done was tell one of the scribes to make a note that he'll need to talk with his ministers about changing something else to the mandatory coursework for the schools. The man had muttered something about the Fire Nation not caring about its children and the woman had taken offence.

"If I may, Your Highness?" the servant next to him, a young girl not much older than him, asks quietly. Zuko nods his consent. "The Fire Nation regards children as gifts from Agni himself. They are to be nourished, loved and protected at all cost. What Ozai did would have led to a civil war, had the greater public ever found out."

"Do not speak on issues you have no knowledge of," the woman who'd originally been arguing added viciously. "Ozai was a cruel and despicable man as were Azulon and Sozin. As were most of the high ranking officers in our military. But they were chosen specifically for their ruthlessness and lack of soul, and do not represent our nation at its core. We are proud and sometimes angry people, but we are also kind and warm."

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A snippet of the newest chapter of Won't Be Alone Again! Finally working on it again :)

For those (likely most) that don't know, it's a Jason centric, platonic batfam soulmate AU I have posted on AO3. The basis is that if you touch blood, you live through the times your soulmate(s) need you most as a sort of ghost, able only to interact with your soulmates. Read it here

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The next few weeks are pretty calm. He busts a human trafficing ring with Stephanie and Tim, visits Barbara for tea before patrol once (Awkward, a little, but it's a start), laughs at Duke with Cass when he misjudges the slipperiness of a wet railing and falls on his face.

It's still April, though, and April sucks. It's rain showers and wild swings in temperature- with vigilantes, it's a recepy for old injuries acting up.

He spots Batman for the first time in... months, he's pretty sure. They stare at each other for a tense few seconds before Bruce leaves. Jason has the odd suspicion that his soulmates have something to do with it.

When he asks Steph about it (when she comes begging for food again), she laughs.

"Yeah, Tim threatened him ages ago. Should've seen the fallout of the whole Arkham situation after we got you out, it was a shitshow," she says. "Duke yelled at him recently, too. After he bonded with you. Or that's what Cass said, anyway, I wasn't there."

"What the fuck," Jason says.

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Jason's doing a very good job of ignoring the huge ass elephant in the month, thank you very much. His idiot soulmates, less so. So he's a little jumpy, and he flinches if someone laughs a little too loud. He's fine, thanks, he'd appreciate it if they left him the fuck alone. But noo, these idiots and their souls won't stop bothering him. He's being dragged into shenanigans and team ups and hang outs left and right. There's constantly a soul hanging around or pressing close.

It's annoying.

Robin, especially, hovers. He flits in and out of Jason's days, never coming close but always at the edge of Jason's awareness. When he does touch, it's to say sorry. Again. Again. And again.

Nightwing hangs around Gotham, too. The others try to keep him away, and even Oracle seems to help in redirecting Jason, but they spot each other in the distance a lot.

Then, a little over a week before The Elephant In The Month, they run into each other properly.

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I'm trying to get back into/be more consistent in writing things and getting more confident in posting them. Feel free to send me asks!

My AO3 is mostly batfam/Jason Todd fics, but I have snippets from a bunch of other fandoms. I'm not really picky about ships and I've got a bunch of little original stories going on, so chances are I'll post some of that.

Fandoms I'll write for:

- DC (Batfam especially)

- 9-1-1

- ATLA (&ALOK)

- PJO

- Tarot sequence

- All for the Game

I'm not very good at being active and engaging on social media (suppose this blog is a bit for practicing that as well) so if I ignore something, sorry :)

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For a few seconds, it's deathly silent in the Cave. There's the flutter of bat wings. The rythmic plinking of water dripping off stalactites to the ground below. There is Dick's shuddering breath, Bruce's quiet, pained getting, Jason's angry, heavy panting.

Alfred, shockingly out of character, drops a tray. Tim takes a step towards Damian, in case interference is needed. Cassandra watches, frozen in disbelieved horror.

Jason's eyes glow a vibrant, toxic kind of green. His body is tense as a wire, standing protectively between Nightwing, holding his jaw gingerly, and Batman, sprawled against an upturned desk.

"You don't fucking touch them," Jason warns. His voice is eery, like multiple people speak with him, like they're hissing out a dangerous promise, furious but calm