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i genuinely cannot deal with people who get raging mad about every little thing in life, like are u not exhausted?? like oh no there was traffic, should we blow up the highway?? should we tell the mayor?

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you CAN'T tell me that everyone did NOT have a crush on will solace at some point. he has warm blue eyes, golden blond curls. he's tall and athletic, has a bronze tan, and SUPER strong. he has a super sweet personality, and is a HEALER. literally half of the aphrodites cabin swarmed around jason when he arrived. will supposedly have similar features, so HE must have been super popular when he arrived

nico di angelo should have his sword ready...

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i think to start off we need to go back in time for a little bit.

even before nico had fully realized his feelings for percy, he already saw him as a hero. someone who always saves the day, someone who can do no wrong. and we see this expectation tragically go wrong when percy comes back without bianca. this gets even more justified when nico finally developed a crush on him. although nico had not entirely seen percy as a "perfect" person, he explicitly stated that he had always viewed him as someone higher, which is a very flawed perception of him-- which is also why part of nico's character development was dismantling that very perception he had of percy, dismantling the hero worship that nico had desperately clung to over the years.

then we get with will.

see, part of being in a committed relationship with someone is acknowledging and accepting their flaws. seeing them past their good qualities and embracing the ugly parts of themselves that they try to hide. putting will into a box where he is Expected To Be Perfect not only does harm to his character but also to nico as well, because nico himself has to realize that will isn't a perfect person, no matter how much he is attracted to him, no matter how highly he thinks of will. this is something he needs to acknowledge in order to maintain a healthy committed relationship with will

and im not joking when this literally gets addressed in tsats! yes, nico gets irritated and offended that will is being insensitive about the underworld-- in fact it is healthy that he is feeling that discomfort! we are seeing on paper that nico is starting to realize that will isn't always perfect, that they don't always agree on the same things. but that doesnt mean that they should break up, or they are a toxic ship. no! even if nico faces these conflicts and misunderstandings with will, he's still willing to communicate and overcome these issues because-- and just like what ive said in my last posts-- he simply loves will.

understanding that will isnt perfect is crucial to nico's character development and their relationship as a whole. in this essay i will

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hi i just finished exams guys

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the concept and idea of “you can always start trying to be a better person” is extremely important to me both in media and irl and i continue to be deeply deeply disturbed by the trend on this site pushing that these ideas in media are bad writing or even morally reprehensible

because theyd rather someone stay terrible or just straight up die than become a better person 

from a compassionate point of view it’s deeply distressing and from a pragmatic point of view it’s outright frustrating

it’s fucked up. 

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stealing kisses

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stealing kisses

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Not even the gods can help you with that, brother

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The best media ever starts out like “haha silly adventures!” And then suddenly OH GODDDD THE HORRORS

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hi! i came here from 'i'm not leaving your side' (lovely btw) and wanted to pick your brain for anymore hcs you have about the cabin counselors interrelationships? i'm especially curious what you think about their dynamics before luke's betrayal, but whatever you wanna talk about, i would love to hear!

hello my dear!!!

oh i could talk about the counselors' relationships FOREVER actually

i think Travis and Connor were DEFINITELY the ones closest to Percy during this time, the two of them + Chris + Luke were probably the first people who ever made Percy feel like he was part of a group/part of a family, so they would hang out a lot, even after Percy was claimed

Katie!!!!! She was hesitant around Percy at first, especially due to the testy relationship between the Hermes and Demeter cabins, but when Percy was claimed by Poseidon, like I said in my fic, she was very adamant on befriending him not because of his power, but because of their parents' relationship with each other. Katie's one of those grounding presences in the Camp for Percy

Silena gets so excited that Percy can translate what the pegasi are saying, and they just sit and have fun with each other for hours at the stables

I think Lee and Percy really became friends post-betrayal, due to Lee being the one who takes care of Percy's injury from the scorpion

Percy and Lee were very close, and Michael and Percy were close as well, so I think Percy has a hard time being friends with Will because he's just so terrified to lose another Apollo kid and doesn't want to go through that heartbreak again

the quest that the Seven go on is so intense and focused that they don't really have any down time to see each other in anything other than fight or flight mode, so post-battle, when they see Percy goofing around with the head counselors, joking with the Stolls, bantering with Clarisse, it's such a sudden shock to them

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Servamp character with the best development?

you'd think i would say mahiru but i'm actually most enamored by iduna's

a princess kept safe in her ivory tower finally comes face to face with the realization that the toys she made are weapons

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let's represent hope and change with mama

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Kind of a question related to the Touma de-aged ask & the Servamp analysis reblog talking about Mahiru as a male protagonist.

How do you think Touma would react if he saw Mahiru? Younger Toru and Mahiru look almost like clones, but Mahiru has calmer energy. I don’t Akira’s personality well, but I don’t think Mahiru has many personality traits from her that teen!Touma would recognize. I think at first Touma would think Mahiru was a people-pleasing doormat. Then a moment comes where Mahiru is in a situation to be decently violet and instead chooses the emotional appeal. Which short-circuits teen!Touma? I bet he’d be able to sense the violence, but couldn’t understand the decision-making process. Mahiru has the First Servamp if he wants something he can get it.

Then teen!Touma would see personality similarities between him & Mahiru, and maybe not like it at first. tldr: I think Mahiru has Touma’s personality. In the alternate universe Touma seems to be a decent father and functional adult, so why not?

for Teen!Touma to see Mahiru as a people-pleasing doormat I think it's actually because he sees Tooru in Mahiru, especially because of this scene

Touma hates Tooru for being a good guy (derogatory) which he sees as condescending because of his own insecurities. Mahiru will awkwardly treat Teen!Touma with politeness at first, but it won't take long for him to drop the pretenses because just like his adult self, Teen!Touma pisses Mahiru the fuck off.

that's when Mahiru pulls this

completely taking Teen!Touma off-guards because whenever he treats Teen!Tooru with disdain hes usually met with a kicked puppy look instead of violence.

for me I think Mahiru is more like his mother, based entirely on this Single Panel where Akira confronted Touma for "making Tooru cry"

as for his similarity to Touma

this is the original scanlation but i changed the wording a bit

but I don't think Teen!Touma (or even Adult!Touma) will see the similarity because he is adamant that he's Not Like Any Other Girls (fighting to protect the ones he love)

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do you have favorite appearance headcanons for will and nico? always super fun to see how other people imagine them

i do a lot of imagining everything @cometjuice and @skysmadness draw. however im going to start typing and see what my subconscious says:

WILL SOLACE

he's tall. altho he grew up short as shit so he's humble. except when bothering cecil but that is unrelated. short jokes made at cecil don't count.

forearms and neck are Covered in burn scars as a result of his harnessing the power of the sun to heal. they are unfixable and obvious (consequences of divine power in a mortal body). they expand and thicken every time he heals. he wraps them with bandages as often as he can. he is ashamed of them.

(none of his other siblings were so weak as to be burned by the gifts their father gave them.)

blue eyes that are the exact color of the sky at all times.

big hands.

freckles on freckles.

doesn't resemble his mother much which bothers him. but he has her hair exactly -- NOT apollo's. it is curly as fuck and frizzy and a little bit sentient?? once he was forced into a haircut bc he wouldnt brush his hair (hates it) and no matter how much silena cut off it just didn't get shorter. he has not been forced into a haircut since lol.

likes to wear his hair in pigtail braids when possible. it's very cute. he uses those little charm elastics to tie them back. his favorites are skull charm elastics nico bought him as a joke.

he is his mother's mirror tho. copies her mannerisms EXACTLY and has no fucking clue. (everyone else is well aware)

he is red green colorblind and it does indeed impact his ability to dress. (well theoretically. seeing color might not help with that battle LOL)

long long LONG and strong legs.

front teeth are just a littttttttttle bit endearingly big.

can't wink. (THINKS he can wink. cannot.)

athletic and hot.

it is news to him that he's hot. because his experience has been 1) cecil (dumb & ridiculous) 2) drew (disaster & for the ritual) and 3) nico (burning the torch since age 10 & no one agrees with him)

strong arms. perfect hug pressure

air hands but massive.

always smells like sunshine, even if it's been raining for a week. he's one of those people who always smells like they've just been outside. he also smells like lavender, which is intentional, because he uses lavender soap knowing it can have calming qualities. he smells like peppermint, sometimes, but if he smells strongly of peppermint it means he's in the throes of a nasty nasty migraine and hurting.

(his totally plain skin smells like strawberries on the wrong side of overripe. he is aware of this. he despises this. he spends a lot of time making sure he smells like anything else instead, including antiseptic.)

(nico likes the smell.)

NICO DI ANGELO

short. unfortunately. and NOT humble

fine hair but a lot of it. kind of a wave to it also.

hairy generally kind of u should See his eyebrows.

greek nose.

three distinct scars across his face and also in many other places. he doodles on them. badly. like little stick figures use the scars as spears or swords or whatever lol

committed to the punk loser aesthetic. never brushes his hair band shirts exclusively disgusting combat boots aviator jacket swaggers everywhere etc etc

fire hands

very strong but not a lot of muscle definition. will kind of limp into the ampitheater to get the ares kids snickering then BAM hell's fury. he kicks their ass. and the pathetic wet dog look works for him every time. it doesn't matter how many times he destroys his enemies. he walks into a fight looking like he was just drowned in a bucket of milk and he is underestimated. and then he does insane unprecedented things. it's great.

(it scares normal people. luckily for him his freakazoid boyfriend thinks it's hot. lol)

calluses on calluses on calluses. from cooking from his sword for his general vibes. rough ass hands fighter hands.

just The brownest eyes you'll ever see. dark dark dark dark. almost black. STUNNING in sunlight. they go golden brown when will looks at him, too.

wears his hair in a stubby ponytail whenever possible. (for 'fighting'. and not at all bc will gets swoony or anything. obviously. nico would never do that to his boyfriend of course not)

slightly crooked inscisors.

weird weird accent when you listen closely. because there's a little tinge of stretched vowels from his childhood but he almost has like. a transatlantic drawl?? from the casino?? and of course he spent so long on the streets and in the underworld that his vocabulary is unhinged and insane.

got bullied by hazel into actually taking care of his hair. it's really nice now. shiny and everything. he tries to now bully will but that is useless will is a 3-in-1 shampoo truther until he dies ("It's efficient! Hair is mostly dead cells! I am not wasting money on dead cells!" "William I am going to shear the fuckin dead cells off your scalp how about that.")

since he is a menace he frequently smells like sword polishing grease and dirt from the amount of time he spends Dragging percy and jason and any other person who challenges him across the amphitheater floor. but when he cleans up he smells like woodsmoke, a little bit, and leather from his jacket.

(his plain skin smells like dirt. grave dirt, if he's feeling sullen, but will insists it's more like the soil right when you're weeding your garden. like the soil right before plants grow, when it is most full of life and water and waiting. nico shoves him and calls him a sap. but it's nice to hear.)

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medical malpractice hours

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