#( thread ‣ apollo. )

[literallyjusttoa]

I've had designs for all the other Olympian gods since forever, but I always get distracted or frustrated and can never finish drawing all of them as a group. Today I decided to just sketch em out and not focus too hard on the details, and I finally did all of them in one go! Except for Apollo but like, I'm sure y'all know what my Apollo desgin looks like at this point lol.

[fantastic-nonsense]

im soso curious, i need to know... why is tim a child of apollo? bless u for not going with fanon<3

[referencing how I decided who the Batfam's godly parents were in my PJO AU WIP]

People like to sort him into Athena because DC has spent the last few years emphasizing how smart he is and how he's better at the more “cerebral” and detective aspects of the job. But Tim’s most prominent pre-reboot traits are not actually his detective or tech skills: they’re his reckless, impulsive bravery, his ability to analyze and think very quickly on his feet in dangerous situations, and his "power of friendship" idealism.

He's a people person; it's one of his greatest strengths. Tim is like...physically incapable of going somewhere and not making at least one friend while he's there. Hell, when he ran off to travel the world on his "fuck you, I'll find Bruce on my own" trip he still managed to pick up his own little crew of assassin friends along the way. Making connections and talking to people and relying on others for help is how he successfully navigates being a hero, as he himself notes on multiple occasions:

"Did you think I was going to run all around the city, desperately trying to save everyone all by myself? I'm not Batman. I have friends." -Red Robin #12

Tim loves his family and friends, and losing so many people he's close to within such a small timespan sends him off the deep end in multiple ways (trying to clone Kon, fighting Dick to get the Lazarus water, isolating himself from everyone, fighting with Dick and running off to find proof that Bruce was alive on his own, etc).

At his core, Tim is an idealist who becomes a hero for no other reason than a) a broken man needs help and a broken family needs mending and b) if Dick won't go back to being Robin he might as well do it, because someone has to be Robin. He sees what will happen if Bruce stays on the path he's on and says "no. I'm not going to let that happen." He's a hero because someone has to help, and he's able and available to do so. He doesn't work on cold hard logic and facts. He works off of gut instinct and then uses his big brain to go find facts and logical conclusions that support those instincts.

Tim was never going to be an Athena child.

So I started thinking. At first, I wanted him to be a Hermes child; it seemed right to frame his parentage around being the child of the messenger of the gods given how he became Robin. But that's not really him, either. Apollo, within the scope of both classical mythology and the PJO-verse's depiction of him and his children, fits him better.

While modern culture tends to zero in a lot on Apollo's status as the god of music, poetry, and the arts (for good reason), Apollo in classical Greek mythology was first and foremost known as the god who (for lack of a better term) helps his people. He's the god of the sun, of light, of medicine and healing, of prophecy, of truth.

Tim comes into Bruce's life at a time when Bruce is at his absolute lowest point. Jason is dead. He's estranged from Dick. He's failing in his mission to save Gotham. He's highkey passively suicidal. And Tim takes it upon himself to fix that. And he does it by being a solid, bright, stable presence in Bruce's life and an extremely blunt, truthful messenger of the future he sees: Batman needs a Robin, and if Bruce doesn't have one he's going to die.

And I didn't abandon his intelligence in the calculations: Apollo is also the god of rational thinking, order, and knowledge, contrasting and working in harmony with Dionysus (the god of irrationality, chaos, and passion). He was also known to be the god whose job it was to interpret the will of Zeus to humankind, which I thought was appropriate for a boy who spends quite a lot of his time being the living communication translator between Bruce and everyone around him.

So. Apollo child.

............also I thought it was funny to make the god of youth the father of the boy DC refuses to allow to age.

[dyelwi]

I think in the next ace attorney game we should get a flashback case to sometime around aa4 where we play as Apollo and clay is the weirdgirl assistant. Can anyone hear me

[gingermintpepper]

I would really like to read one piece of writing, amateur or not, that features Apollo and Zeus having a positive relationship. One. Any one. It could be 30 words long for all I care. I just need confirmation that one other writer actively producing content in the Greek Mythology sector doesn't think of Apollo as Zeus' toy, sexual or otherwise, or of Zeus purposefully surpressing Apollo because he doesn't want him to surpass his power, or of Apollo only being obedient to his father over all else because of fear and physical abuse, or of any other reason possibly invented except some sort of mutual understanding and respect.

It should not be this difficult to find content where they do not hate each other.

[aimiesposts]

Let's do a tumblr candy salad

Hi, my name is aimiespost, one time I suffered a whole week with an 105 above fever and didn't go to the doctor until like saturday, and I brought.. THE SOUR PATCH KIDS!!!

(PLEASE CONTINUE THIS 🙏)

[happyk44]

Apollo, sniffing the wine in his glass: What is this, bathwater?

Dionysus: Might as well be, it's rosé. Burn notice, France.

[taviokapudding]

My dad and I were chatting before bed when he said "damn shame Republicans hate Democrats too much because you almost saved the United Healthcare ceo"

And I stared at him in confusion until I remembered I convinced Democrats to write the active shooter alert system bill in 2022 & Republicans said no. Since my Twitter is gone, the thread of me @ everyone is gone. And when Trump got re-elected, I removed the video discussing the bill concept for public comments. It fully slipped my mind because I went from pulling teeth & being reluctantly patient to full on cussing, cursing, and hexing the government by the end of 2023.

I hope that Twitter DC staffer is having a good laugh- I bet their bosses are pissed wwwwww

I don't remember the exact wording I wrote to the White House when I cussed out Biden for funding war crimes (2023) & the bill itself (2022) but I did list consequences I foresaw that are happening now, so suck to suck if nobody listened & are on the receiving end of massive hexes

I guess my dad is right, the GOP technically killed Brian Thompson in 2022

[youllalwaysbemyporcelain]

@coreofgold

Apollo walks into Taka's shop, smiling when he sees him. "Hey there. How have things been going today? Can I put in an order?"

[ofthe-sunand-moon]

cont. @lituusapollinis

"All it takes is one moment of foolishness to turn ceremony into war, Octavian." Apollo watches his grandson with a look of concern, the nonchalant approach to the blade being more of a bother to the Sun god than the apparent disrespect.

"All weapons are real...the only thing standing between a ceremonial blade and one meant for violence is simply intent and care." He sighed softly, shaking his head a bit. "But, I did not come to lecture you about how to properly handle a blade...I came to check on things here at Camp Jupiter...see how my family is faring."

[theinfinitedivides]

y'all i think something touched down behind my house........................ i don't like that

[bubonic-plant]

>[ Shivering, Apollo weaves through the trees, hugging himself as he searches, presumably, for his friend. ]

@wires-for-veins UH UH RUNS AWAY))

In Apollo's searching, he can probably spot... A big, white thing?- Oh, that's GRIEFER holding a big white thing. For... Some reason. He doesn't seem to have spotted star, though, so...

[its-hai-time]

Anything new for the hypothetical Apollo Justice 2?

good lord have I really not posted abt the AU since JANUARY?????

I can offer you some structure changes, the backstory on the case surrounding Turnabout Light, and some little moments I've written over the years (going on like. Three years of this au????)

I've been weirdly cagey abt details of this au because it's been a project I really REALLY wanted to realize but it's literally so not feasible. Glad someone's asking about it because I was probably never going to post these details without prompting (I mostly talk abt my insanity with my friend group).

I'm gonna write up a few separate "official-ish" posts on each individual topic before I post this response so I can just knock em out and have everything nice and organized in the tag.

[here-comes-the-sun-king]

@arrowsnsarcasm | arsenal

Apollo didn't give much weight to what others thought of him outside of the few who mattered. He read newspaper and magazine articles for the information of how people viewed him and those he cared about so he knew what to expect, not because their thoughts and opinions would upset him.

Have they upset him before? On the basis of sheer goddamn audacity, never hurt feelings.

Kind wasn't the first word he'd think of using to describe himself, in a neutral way of thinking. He knew who he was and what he does can make him be considered a god or a monster.

Thick eyelashes fluttered closed at the question, his hand pulled off the other's shoulder in a peace and quiet only the light breeze could fill.

"Yes", was the only word Apollo replied with.

Silence resumed as memories both clear and fuzzy played out in his mind, echoes of errors and imprints of inevitabilities a familiar specter.

The Sun King had seven graves he could never visit again. Seven graves he made up for by creating a seven candle memorial in one of his apartment balcony's corners. Seven candles with a name painted on each for seven people who would never return from any change in the multiverse.

Amaze's candle dripped crimson wax, akin to the blood of his sins that has stained his invulnerable hands permanently.

Out in the vastness of the multiverse, his old Earth was abandoned of all humanoid life. Whether it was reclaimed by the flora and fauna or destroyed by those who sought to invade it, he cannot answer.

Apollo's previous planet had mountains of people he killed or failed to save before those who remained of his world came here, the inconceivable amount of ichor leaving an invisible trail behind him.

He broke the uncommunicative atmosphere once more to utter, "This is a nice spot to be buried."

[m4fios0]

local stabbing in your area

;; “ Again ? Who is it this time? ”

> [ Take a guess. ]

[apollo-phoebus]

You urgently need to review the employment contracts of your subordinates.

@cloak-of-ares

what did they DO

[youllalwaysbemyporcelain]

@coreofgold

Apollo held hands with Taka as they left the dance floor. "Thank you for dancing with me. I love dancing with you."