#GiveEthanNakamuraAWhip2023

[m4gp13]

I wish demigods got to use/make weapons that had more to do with their godly parents whether it be a weapon they were known for, a symbol of theirs or something to do with their powers

we've all seen art of Percy with a trident made of water but like, imagine a child of Demeter running around with a knife made of thorns or some thorny vine wrapped around their hand like spiked brass knuckles, or a child of Hephaestus making some ungodly weapon never before seen, possibly infused with fire magic (I hate to bring such stuff into my well-catered space, but if you've read it think of Aelin infusing her sword with fire magic in Kingdom of Ash), or Thalia making a lightning spear that looks similar to the lightning bolt/javelin in the movie, or (something I've seen floating around before) children of aphrodite mixing powdered celestial bronze into acrylic to make claw-nails or even just using celestial bronze claws as acrylic nails.

Or, another thing that would be really cool, demigods using spoils of war from monster they've killed or parts from their parent's sacred animal as a weapon. Imagine if Percy got his minotaur horn made into a knife that he used throughout the series. It could have a been a good signifier of his growth, made his rematch with the minotaur more impactful by having Percy kill it with the horn he got from killing it the first time and he could have given it to Annabeth when she lost her knife in Tartarus.

Also, imagine something like the Athena kids using owl talons as something like a bagh nakh, or Ares kids using boar tusks as spear tips, or characters using fangs/claws from hellhounds for a similar purpose, or characters (i.e. Ethan) using poison from creatures like the gorgons or drakons to coat their blades or even characters like Ethan using the venomous fangs from a hydra or a drakon as a weapon, or people using scales from drakons or dracaena as armour or maybe on a shield, or Percy keeping and actually using his impenetrable nymean lion hide after it did fuck all in TTC.

I feel like the pen-sword and invisibility hat in TLT set up the idea of creative and unconventional weapons in the series but that thread was dropped as the books went on and the creative weapons that did show up were kind of lacklustre (see: Jason's coin-toss spear/sword that showed up like three times in TLH before getting broken and replaced with a regular ass sword) so it would have been nice to see a bit more out-of-the-box thinking when it comes to materials that were used as weapons. There was a hint of it coming back with Annabeth's drakon bone sword that she got in Tartarus and barely used after that.