#Hephaestus kids

[thedemigodsguide]

Hey Kally, daughter of Aphrodite here. This might be a little morbid, but has anyone ever fallen in the lava from the climbing wall? Because the thought pops in my head every time I pass it.

Hey!

Sorry for the late reply, but I went to the Hephaestus kids for help answering this!

"Has anyone fallen in the lava?"🤔

Not that I can recall.

See, the whole point of Camp Half-Blood is that we are able to put ourselves in situations that simulate the kinds of danger we will likely encounter in the outside world.

Yes, people will get burns, but we have some safety measures in place.

Here's how the wall works. There are some pumps at the top of the wall that release the lava as an obstacle. In order to maintain that, though, some things need to be going on behind the scenes. Lava is constantly losing heat, which is what allows it to turn into pumice. To keep it from turning into rock, it needs to maintain a temperature minimum of about 1,300ºF or about 700ºC.

Therefore, we have some mechanisms in place to do so. We have pits at the bottom that collect the lava. There are openings at the very bottom of those that feed into tubes that travel up the center of the wall. While it is in those tubes, a mix of Hephaestus kid engineering and Hecate kid magic heats the lava back up so that it doesn't solidify. Then it gets spit back out at the top to complete the cycle again.

Normally, the spot campers would most likely fall into would be the pools at the bottom. However, we have celestial bronze catch nets for the campers well above the highest lava-line.

Basically, people can get burned while climbing, but no one will fall in. We also have at least one Apollo kid on duty at the rock wall at all times and it is strictly forbidden to climb when there isn't.

Hope that answered your question and put your mind at ease!

–Kally

[sweetnnaivete]

athena kids and hephaestus kids would be an unstoppable force

[cryoverlife]

I don’t know how many other people have realized this but Leo Valdez almost died the same day Beckendorf did just one year afterword.

I don’t the exact date for Beckendorf’s death, but Leo’s was on Augest 1st so at most it was a two week difference.

This means that the Hephaestus Cabin lost two head counselors within a year. I think they were all closer to Beckendorf the to Leo but they definitely cared about Leo. It also means that while their grieving the lose of Leo, they’re are also being reminded of Beckendorf’s death.

Not only that, but Leo and Beckendorf both died in almost the exact same way (I’m not even goin into Percy with this).

like gdigfgk, Cabin Nine just doesn’t get a break.

[im-a-creator-im-a-sandwitch]

Leo, Shane, Heloise, and Nyssa in the junk yard every week

[koiyan-hades-kid-with-a-system]

Camp Quotes #3

@cynnaminstyx=Hephaestus kid

Hephaestus kid, who used to like @muscalfoxes, meeting Koiyan for the first time: "Forget Cory, I wanna smash you."

Koiyan, just running the Blood Bank: "Huh?-"

Cory: Would you rather kill Hephaestus kid, or—

Zagreus, just finding out Hephaestus kid has a crush on his sister: Yes, kill them.

Cory: I didn’t say the other thing—

Zagreus: I don’t need to hear it.

Hephaestus kid: …I’m feeling a little unsafe.

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Thanatos, talking about Hephaestus kid: Is this a friend of yours, Koiyan?

Koiyan: Kind of? Not really. They're in my life and there's nothing I can do about it.

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Koiyan: I have one foot in the grave but in a kind of fun flirty way, the way one might slip on a fishnet stocking.

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Zagreus: I want a bf.

Cory: Do you mean best friend, boyfriend or bread feast? Because you’re being really vague here.

Thanatos: Babe I'm right here. We've been together for 20 centuries-

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Koiyan: You need to be more careful!

Zagreus, who was dragged into Koiyan's issue: Careful? CAREFUL?! I'LL CAREFULLY WRAP MY HANDS AROUND YOUR THROAT-

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Thanatos, to Hephaestus kid: You're not Mario. Lets get something fucking straight, you're Luigi at best.

[givemewallywestorgivemedeath]

The funny thing about the PJO cabin system is that everyone's always all 'oh the twelve' this and 'the twelve' that but that's absolutely not even remotely accurate. To start, right off the bat it's thirteen, not twelve, because they don't count Hades. But not really because before Percy, there were no big three kids, so we're down to ten active cabins already but it's actually eight because Artemis and Hera don't make demigods.

And of those eight, Mr. D is stuck at camp (thus not really making new demigods all that often) and his only two kids don't even sleep in a cabin, they sleep in the Big House with him.

So, pre-Percy, there are seven active cabins at Camp Half-Blood:

Glee club, the Jocks, the Nerds, the Geeks, the Farmers, the 'Sketchy Kids' and the Popular Kids.

Or, in other words, the Apollo, Ares, Athena, Hephaestus, Demeter, Hermes (and the unclaimed kids) and Aphrodite cabins.

What's cool is that you can already see the cabin dynamics in the show. For example, the Athena cabin allies with the Hermes cabin for the numbers. The Hermes kids plus all the unclaimed kids? It's the biggest cabin in the camp by far. It's a battle strategy. Luke and Annabeth's close relationship is just the cherry on top for Annabeth. It'll be really cool to see how the show develops the differences in the cabins during the series.

[ahllohehn]

i do art to do bullshit like this: hephaestus kid mumbo jumbo

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[pant--eater]

binging the Hercules series + the official Hercules comics by Dynamite studios has sure been a blast

[poppitron360]

I LOVE that this is the first ever description of Leo. Rick really said “ADHD Gremlin” right off the bat.

[d4ydream-girl]

as a fan of the books i was not expecting so many gods to just appear in this first season. like obvi Dionysus and Ares show up but now we also got Hephestus and in the next ep Hermes directly interacting with the trio. at first i was like why are they here the whole point is that the gods are supposed to be absent... but in a way that's exactly what their earlier appearance is showing.

Hephaestus has time to fucking wander around his rusty amusement park. Hermes has time to gamble and slowly deliver packages (why was he just fucking walking around like can't bro teleport or something??). Ares and Mr D do whatever they want wbk.

the point of showing them earlier is to show what they ARE doing INSTEAD of visiting their kids. like bro is out here moping around his lonely little amusement park while all the demigods at camp fucking hate their godly parent. they have all the time in the world but they just don't care.. they choose to do other shit instead of seeing their LITERAL CHILDREN. it's so painfully obvi to the viewer why Percy hates them all so quick, but the gods just don't realize.

[aroaceleovaldez]

why is cabin 9 specifically so cursed. what's up with Hephaestus and curses. Beckendorf dies and they get cursed. Fire-power Hephaestus kids are bad luck. Their dad owns the Junkyard of the Gods (everything in it is SUPER cursed). There's random cursed items just left abandoned in Bunker 9. Apparently Hephaestus/Aphrodite/Ares relationships are inherently cursed. who hurt them.

[thedemigodsguide]

Yo, I’m a new Aphrodite Kid. I was walking past the Hephaestus cabin, and I heard an explosion. Should I be concerned?

Hey, welcome to camp! I’m Kalypso Fyre, but everyone calls me Kally. I’m the daughter of Clio, the Muse of History. I don’t know if you’ve met your head counselor, Piper, yet, but she’s totally cool.

Explosions from the Hephaestus and Hermes cabins are pretty typical. Usually it’s testing some product. Ever since Leo showed up, stuff hasn’t really exploded because of malfunctions. It’s a huge relief, because those Hephaestus kid were getting hurt left and right before then.

Every once in a while, someone will poke their head in to make sure no one needs medical attention, but there’s usually no need to worry. Just try to stay away when they’re testing stuff (they usually put up a sign).

It’s the Hermes cabin that you need to watch out for. Usually when an explosion happens there, it’s because they’re testing a new prank or the viability of a prank item (glitter bombs are pretty common). If you see or hear an explosion from the Hermes kids, you better watch your back, because there’s probably gonna be a prank in the next few days.

Anyways, thanks for dropping in! Hope to see you around, kid! If you or any of your friends have a question for anyone, feel free to ask!

–Kally

[britney-rosberg06]

I’m sorry i’m SORRY Chris Rodriguez sat in the Hermes cabin unclaimed for YEARS. In Show canon his been there as long as Luke. In book canon its never mentioned but this kid, this same-age-as-Clarisse-is KID didn’t find out who his father was till AFTER he joined the Titan army, maybe even after he literally went insane trying to escape the Labyrinth and your gonna sit there and tell me the gods care about their kids??

[sarafangirlart]

Hephaestus and Ares as kids

[soulless-bex]

my favorite part about a potential “Bruce Wayne adopts Percy Jackson” type of crossover is that Percy gets to attend galas, and thus potentially meet Rachel and Piper early on

[pain-is-too-tired]

The fast despite have two brothers blow up, having to suddenly take care of a rapidly growing cabin, dealing with the curse then everything going on through hoo.

Having Leo send a message he's alive but never getting any other message after for months.

And still managing to come out between all of that???

The fact that Jake Mason's sanity is in tact is a miracle.