#Things that have happened in my pjo dr

[reythenerdypisces]

things that I overlooked in PJO the first time / small, funny things I noticed during my reread

Part 3: The Titan's Curse

The truth was I was kind of disappointed to hear that she liked her new school so much. It was the first time she'd gone to school in New York. I'd been hoping to see her more often.

I tried to concentrate on little things, like the crepe-paper streamers and the punch bowl - anything but that fact that Annabeth was taller than me, and my hands were sweaty and probably gross, and I kept stepping on her toes.

"The General?" I asked. Then I realised I'd said it in a French accent. "I mean... who's the General?" I want this part to be in the show

"Sweet! Let's go! [to CHB]" said Nico. this breaks my heart. he was so excited in this book

Tyson thought Annabeth was just about the coolest thing since peanut butter (and he seriously loved peanut butter).

"How would you kidnap an immortal goddess? Is that even possible?" "Well, yeah. I mean, it happened to Persephone." "But she was like, the goddess of flowers." Grover looked offended. "Springtime." you tell him grover

"That's some serious danger you're facing." Connor Stoll said. (I liked how he said you and not we.) I'm just imagining the rest of the campers not bothering to go on quests cause it's always the same few demigods and they don't care, they're just chilling safe at CHB while Percy and Annabeth do their things

The creature looked at me sadly. "Moooo!" But I couldn't understand his thoughts. I only speak horse. Percy Jackson speaks two languages: English and Horse

With a shiver, I realised that five hundred or a thousand years from now, Bianca di Angelo would look exactly the same as she did today. She might be having a conversation like this with some other half blood long after I was dead but Bianca would still look twelve years old. ouch

"It wants to kill us!" Thalia said. "Of course." Grover said. "It's wild!" "So how is that a blessing?" Bianca asked.

"That's us," he said. "Those five nuts right there." "Which one is me?" I asked. "The little deformed one," Zoe suggested.

When she smiled at me, just for a moment she looked a little like Annabeth. I know everyone talks about this part but I can't help but bring it up again, they are so cute

"Woah, first of all, I never said anything about love. And second, what's up with tragic!" little does he know. also, Percy is so incredibly insightful in this book but he's also so jealous of Annabeth and Luke and so upset about the idea of her joining the hunters yet still can't figure out that he likes her

"Seven hundred feet tall," I said. "Built in the 1930s." "Five million cubic acres of water," Thalia said. Grover sighed. "Largest construction project in the United States." Zoe stared at us. "How do you know all that?" "Annabeth," I said. "She liked architecture." I cannot explain how much this little bit means to me.

The girl I'd just tried to slice in half yelped and dropped her Kleenex. "Oh my god." she shouted. "Do you always kill people when they blow their nose?" Rachel's here!!! I love her

Five minutes later, Zoe had me outfitted in a ragged flannel shirt and jeans three sizes too big, bright red sneakers, and a floppy rainbow hat. someone draw this and tag me. what an outfit

Suddenly it occurred to me: this had happened to her before. She had been cornered on Half-Blood Hill. She'd willingly given her life for her friends. But this time, she couldn't save us. How could I let that happen to her? he is the most empathetic, wholesome guy, I love Percy

"Can't this go any faster?" Thalia demanded. Zoe glared at her. "I cannot control traffic." You both sound like my mother." I said. "Shut up!" they said in unison. I kind of wish we got more Thalia and Zoe interactions... they would've made such a great enemies to lovers dynamic, if Zoe didn't die

"Get away from my daughter!" Dr Chase called down, and his machine gun burst to life, peppering the ground with bullet holes and startling the whole group of monsters into scattering. "Dad?" yelled Annabeth in disbelief.

Grover went off with his satyr friends to spread the word about our strange encounter with the magic of Pan. Within an hour, the satyrs were all running around agitated, asking where the nearest espresso bar was.

"No," I said. "I choose the prophecy. It will be about me." "Why are you saying that?" she cried. "You want to be responsible for the whole world?" It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger." I said. might I remind you this boy is 13/14 and has the whole world on his shoulders (both literally at some point and figuratively)

I feel like these are just getting longer and longer but again, I will be back for part 4!

[ironicallypissedoff]

Drew Tanaka was done dirty imo.

When I was reading the lost hero, I expected her to get some sort of redemption ark, because she was such a stereotypical mean girl.

Like she should have had an ark of some sort, but no. She was just there to,

A. Be mean to Piper

B. Flirt with Jason

and C. Replace Selena.

She barely even shows up for the rest of the series! And she's not even mentioned in PJO? If not redeem her, then keep her as an antagonist in the series? She also would have been interesting as a side antagonist, so there was conflict happening during the CHB scenes.

Also, give the girl a backstory! Maybe she feels pressured by the responsibility of replacing selena, maybe she feels like she has to live up to her mother, maybe she was just brought up in a way that made her think it was okay to be a bully. Just something pleaseee.

I really wanted Piper and Drew to become friends, so that Piper could stop her cringy "not like other girls" thing, and Drew would become a nicer person. (Also there needs to be more female friendships in the riordanverse!)

AND! Just because she likes makeup and cares how she looks does not automatically make her a bad person! I'm tired of the popular pretty mean girl stereotype.

So basically, Drew deserved better, and in my mind, she has a backstory for why she's mean to Piper.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk. I normally don't post that much, but I just had a strong opinion on this.

tl;dr I think Drew Tanaka was a criminally underdeveloped, underused, and stereotyped character.

[pinkmarmalade1]

Things to script for your PJO Drs!

1. That you either don't get attacked by a monster on the way to camp or you for sure defeat it

I feel like some people don't realize how many Demigods don't even get to camp due to this

2. That you have some sort of flashy ability that you were born with

I say this because then it kinda forces your Godly parent to claim you. Also, it's freaking cool to just be able to show up to camp and be like, "Hey, I just got here and I can do this!"

An example would be like, if you are a child of Lady Demeter, you can make plants grow

Or if your a child of Lady Iris, you are like abnormally fast

3. You were born an abnormal way

Kinda like how Lady Athena's kids are born from her thoughts mixing with a mortal's thoughts. This would be very good if you just so happen to be the child of a maiden Goddess. I feel like there are many creative ways to go about this

4. Your protected from being cursed

For obvious reasons, *cough* Lady Juno *cough* Frank

5. You know your way around camp

It will shock you how big camp is

6. You have a relationship with your Godly parent

Or maybe that your just their favorite Demigod child. Perks of being a minor God's child is that there aren't many of you, so you naturally have a close connection to your parent 😉

7. Your somehow protected from monsters when you leave camp

Because you gotta stay safe! Here are some ideas I can think of...

If your a child of Lady Hecate, obviously you can just hide yourself from monsters using the mist or a spell or something

If your a child of Lady Aphrodite, perhaps she gifted you with magic perfume that throws off your scent

If your a child of Lord Hypnos, maybe you tend to make monsters fall asleep mid attack or make them feel so lazy they no longer want to attack you

If your a child of Lord Hades or Lord Thanatos(Like me!), you could just have a very intense aura that makes monsters less likely to want to attack you. Since both Deities have ties with death, that could just cause monsters to become hesitant or intimidated

Okay! That's all for this one, I have some other things on my script aswell so I might make a part two! Happy shifting!

[therainingkiwi]

overall PJO TV show impressions

TL; DR: not a perfect show, but overall that doesn't matter bc they get the important parts right.

Finished watching the PJO show episodes 1 and 2 and I have SO MANY thoughts. General impression is that although there were a handful of wonky moments (mostly related to pacing and editing); overall those didn't bother me because the HEART of the original books is there and that's what really mattered to me most.

I originally loved these books not for the Greek Mythology (although that is what got me initially interested), but for the emotional storyline. Percy Jackson is, at its heart, a book about a bullied kid finding a home, finding confidence, learning that even after all these years, he is GOOD at something. He is WORTH something.

There are tons of things to nitpick about the series. Pacing is weird, and Grover rushing into the conversation about the quest felt almost deus ex machina… but at the end of the day, the reason I adore this adaptation is because it cuts to the heart of what Percy Jackson IS.

It's about kids who have never belonged. It's about the outcasts, the weirdos, the people who have been told by society that they're incompetent and worthless and disruptive and "special." I could also write a whole essay on the show's use of the word "special." Let me tell you, as an early-diagnosed ADHD'er, there are few words as patronizing, as shameful, as painful, as that. "Special" education, my ass. If no one ever calls me that word ever again, it'll be too soon.

The movies were about some children of the gods that went on adventures and had sword fights. There were cool superpowers and monsters and fun action scenes. But the heart? The emotional center? That was gone. It was turned into a fetch quest story with little to no emotional depth.

And, look, pure-action isn't BAD. Sometimes it's fun to watch people battle cool monsters with cool powers. But that's not why Percy Jackson became an international bestseller. It captured the hearts of children everywhere who felt out of place in the world and wanted to belong.

And THAT's what this series gets. I don't care about the missteps that much. The cuts to black, as if this were airing with commercial breaks? Honestly, didn't like it. The fight with Dodds was anticlimactic, we didn't spend NEARLY enough time at camp, and I think the omission of percy and luke's first sword fight was really a mistake. But at the end of the day, it's still about a bullied disabled kid who not only finds a place to belong, but fights to make that place better for those who come after him. It's about a kid who goes from thinking he's broken, to knowing that he's not. It's about a kid who was abandoned by his dad, and decided that he wasn't going to let that happen to anyone else. It's got the emotion and the heart, and for that alone, it's a resounding success in my book.

[hyperactivewhore]

what’s the most unhinged things that’s happened in your dr?

Shifting content 😻

Well, I haven't shifted yet (tho I'm definitely going to) because the only attempt I do at it is go to sleep and hope to wake up in my dr lmao. Which can work btw, but you gotta set the intention to and I don't even do that.

But I'm still gonna take the opportunity to talk about my drs (they're so good even if they're Wattpad coded, I promise 😭) because I love them and I need to get out of this shitty reality as soon as I can.

My main reality (not the one I'm shifting tho rn) is a tvd one, where I'll permashift and I'm basically the daughter of Hecate in that dr aka the reason to make myself as overpowered as possible (yes I made myself more powerful than Hope deal with it, I'm literally a goddess in that reality). Given that is the dr where I'll stay forever, it's the last one I'll shift to. But my s/o is Klaus and I'm having his tribrid child because no child of mine is being born on this rat hole and I literally love Hope. But it's so cool, I created a new family so I don't have to be part of the main families of tvdu and I basically script those siblings in almost every reality.

Btw, if someone shifts to tvd as well, please script Damon doesn't rape Caroline/Andy and that Katherine doesn't rape Stefan either. And script out the racist shit the Mikaelson are always pulling on Marcel as well as Klaus (and any other Mikaelson tbh) treating Marcel like he's family and not making any blood distinction between him and Hope.

My fame dr is practically those siblings I mentioned earlier and characters of the tvdu in a human au. I'm dating Klaus as well in this reality, and I'm basically the most successful actress and singer of the century (I need my main moment leave me alone). Klaus is a successful painter, at the level of Picasso, van Gogh, Dalí, da Vinci etc. Rebekah is the most famous models of Victoria's Secret, Elijah is one of the best lawyers, Kol is a professional magician and Finn and Freya manage a luxurious company. In other ways, they're famous Kardashian level, as well as my family.

Their parents, Dahlia and Henrik are still dead though lmao. Rip

And I scripted out Julie Pl*c, JK R*wling and Rick Riordan as well. And I basically attributed Harry Potter, Percy Jackson and a lot more to a poc woman named Elia Lennox. I changed everything about hp and pjo btw, they're not problematic books in my dr at all and I added a lot of representation, diversity as well as subplots.

And I asked an ai a way to eat meat that doesn't come from animal abuse and scripted it into my dr. Short explanation: scientists grow meat in a controlled environment using animal cells, without the need to raise and slaughter live animals.

But going back to your point, idk. I like to script scenarios I see in tumblr (especially the ones from @klausysworld 🙈), but perhaps is the one where I run over Klaus with my car and throw him off a bridge in my tvd dr. I need that enemies to lovers trope and he's an complete asshole anyway.

Or perhaps the scenario I scripted where the Mikaelson "go poor" for a week and they have to come live at our house and I suddenly have to share my bedroom with Klaus. Dw they get rich again, think about it as if their bank account was suddenly hacked by no reason other than karma. Or perhaps witches, who knows.

Ah, I love my stupid fanfic drs that make absolutely no sense. They're so ❤️💗🌷🌼💛 and ☠️💥💢🕳️💀 at the same time.

[achilleslefttoe]

sibling things in my pjo dr ‼️ (pt 1)

first shifting post?!?!?!??? anyways. it’s 3am and i have school and i can’t sleep

in my pjo dr i’m a kid of poseidon so obviously that means percy and tyson are my brothers so here’s a little list of things between us, some more specific to just us than others

we all have a pair of sneakers with a matching sticker, this is just cause i think it’s cute and i do this in my cr. i love my shoe stickers

in my dr i have this thing where some children of poseidon are good at mimicking (inspired by sirens) so sometimes we’ll hear a sound or iconic voice and say “bet you can’t mimic THAT”

another thing in my script is that children of poseidon’s eyes change color based on the nearest body of water so me and percy have a little scrapbook full of polaroid pictures of us all around with different colored eyes, tyson is included when he’s with us

we watch movie that take place underwater and decide if they could like actually happen based on our interactions with sea creatures, we eat goldfish instead of popcorn while doing this (ex. finding nemo, aquaman, jaws, the meg, etc)

double/triple dates that end with me and percy (and sometimes tyson) getting distracted from our dates to harass each other or engage in some other shenanigans together

building the best sand castles at the beach ‼️

reinacting vines, specifically the guardian of the sand one

baking together (never turns out well)

in my dr i have dyslexia technically but my brain just turns it into greek and i read it like that (cause i like reading a lot) but anyways me reading to percy and tyson

helping each other with homework

thank you for coming to my ted talk (pls ignore grammar/spelling errors if any, i’m very tired)

[brazilian-whalien52]

Fanfic Rec Challenge

1. What is your comfort fic

- Petey and Wade and other being punched in the face things

Fandom: Marvel

Ship: Spiderpool

Following Peter and Wade through their relationship and their absolute failure to communicate literally anything important to people who are not each other. I swear, these guys need to learn to use words

2. What fanfic made you cry the most?

- The Only Moment We Were Alone

Fandom: Merlin

Couple: Merthur

In 1940s England, the son of a wealthy hospital benefactor and his manservant are separated when their love affair is discovered. When Merlin Emrys is committed to an experimental hospital ward to be cured of his deemed mental affliction of homosexuality, Arthur Pendragon will stop at nothing to get him back. Based on the psychological experiments of Dr. William Sargant.

3. Which fanfic is your guilty pleasure

- Revenge is Sweet

Fandom: HP

(please don't hate me for this)

A teenage Snape plots his revenge on James Potter for making his life hell, but little does he know that James has plans of his own that will send both their lives spiraling irrevocably out of control.

4. What is the funniest fanfic you ever read

- Petey and Wade and other being punched in the face things

Fandom: Marvel

Ship: SpiderPool

Following Peter and Wade through their relationship and their absolute failure to communicate literally anything important to people who are not each other. I swear, these guys need to learn to use words

And...

- Operation Blue banana

Fandom: PJO

Couple: Jasico

If Jason had been using his brain, he would have called it off the second Percy called it 'Operation Blue Bananas'. In fact, if he had had any sense whatsoever, he wouldn't have asked for Percy's help in the first place. However, as certain love gods and goddesses will tell you, love tends to mess with your mind.

Now Jason just has to try to make sure it doesn't make him completely lose it.

(In which Jason is lovesick, Percy is his wingman, and Nico is just plain confusing.)

5. Which fanfic made you obsessed with a random ship

- Highway of Love (Or: How Sam Winchester Learned to Stop Worrying and Relax Already)

Fandom Spn

Couple: Sabriel

AU. Sam noticed a few things weren't quite right after they killed the Trickster. After going back to check things out, his life will never be the same.

And...

- Finding GoM Matching Partners

Fandom: Knb

Fandom: Multi-ship

Compilation of one-shot, two-shots and or multichaptered stories, featuring Kuroko no Basuke characters Generation of Miracles finding their own matching partners after they entered high school.

6. Which is the hottest fanfic you ever read

- Don't Think Twice

Fandom: HP

Couple: Drarry

But do not take my word for it, i hardly save this kinda of fic

7. Which fanfic is totally contrary to your taste but somehow you loved it?

- A Cheap Imitation

Fandom: Drrr!

Couple: Shizaya

“Attached to your neck is a collar that will inject a poison into your jugular vein two days from now. Forcibly removing the device will also trigger the poison. Somewhere on this island is the antidote.”

His hands reached up to his neck and he felt the cool metal of the collar.

“Live or die. Make your choice.”

8. Which fanfic made you impressed with the author ability to compliment canon

- Fly a Little Faster

Fandom: Teen Wolf

Couple: Sterek

Everyone knows when you go back in time, you shouldn't step on an ant, just in case you accidentally kill your own grandparent or something. But what happens when you go back in time and, uh, accidentally interrupt the one event that apparently made the Grumpiest Alpha in Town into a ball of mindless manpain?

Well, if Marty McFly can do it, so can Stiles Stilinski. All he has to do is get Derek and Paige to fall in love before he gets pulled back to his own time. And before he makes anything worse. That's easy as pie, right? Right?

9. A fanfic that come just at the right time you needed it

- The Last Straw

Fandom: One piece

Couple: Zosan

Sanji is a perfectionist. Zeff has told him it's a good thing. It takes a perfectionist to run a restaurant kitchen, or any good kitchen really.

But lately he hasn't been living up to the title of a perfectionist.

10. The fluffiest fanfic you ever read

I don't have any to recommend, like smut I hardly save one that is just pure fluffy 😭

11. Favorite gen fanfic:

Again nothing, sorry guys

12. A fanfic you believe deserve to become a book

- Rivals

Fandom: Yuri on Ice

Couple: Victuuri

An altered universe where a single event changes the course of both Yuuri and Viktor's lives, a rivalry is formed that spans across many years and both of them tell a very different side to the story

13. A fanfic you just want to rec because what the hell

- Turn

Fandom: Harry Potter

Couple: Drarry

One good turn always deserves another. Apparently.

14. A fanfic from your home country

- Noiva em Fuga

País: Brasil

Língua: Português

Fandom: Drrr!

Casal: Shizaya

15. A fanfic you have written

Izaya vai descobrir o quanto é difícil fugir usando um vestido de noiva.

- Mercadinho

Fandom: Marvel

Couple: Spiderpool

Peter só quer comprar sua janta e voltar para sua vida agitada. Porém um encontro inesperado acontece.

* não recomendo a leitura da minha fanfic

I challenge @bangtanger @gloster @babyshouyou @lostwithnointernet @rhomaa2 @pieceomono

[crowcaws]

It's difficult to put into words exactly how I feel because there are some aspects I adore with my whole heart, and others that really don't sit well with me. Thoughts on PJO with spoilers are below the cut, with both positive and negative thoughts. Tl;dr I think the show is fine. Just fine.

The cast of this show is out of this world better than we could have ever hoped for, they really brought their A game and gave a phenomenal performance. I'm genuinely devastated we will never get to see more of Lance's Zeus because he felt born for that role. His quiet power, the danger in his stare that could turn in an INSTANT absolutely fucking ruled. Whoever takes over has big shoes to fill already and he was only in one scene!

The choice to really flesh out Sally as a more important part of the story and Percy's life was so, so special to me. I think this is the one aspect where the show shines above the book. Sally in the books makes a lot of tough choices for Percy's benefit, but we get to see that out of Percy's head and in Sally's for a bit.

Edit: I FORGOT POSEIDON!!! I liked the change with the deadline forcing Poseidon to take an active role and make a choice to protect Percy. I loved the Nereid sent to help Percy. Poseidon is far less passive in the series and I love that so, so much. In the same way we see why Sally would tempt a god, we also see why Percy is worthy of a God like Poseidon putting himself on the line.

But (and I know this will ruffle feathers because Uncle Rick was involved heavily so please understand I love him too, but our heroes are not infallible) think some of the writing choices were questionable. I understand they set out to tell a unique story from the books and I don't mind some of the changes. But my main issues were:

They really toned down Gabe. I don't know why or what the reasoning was, but it kind of feels like they thought "a strong woman like Sally wouldn't put up with abuse" was the way to go, which in itself doesn't sit well with me. But then you end up with her sticking with this kind of shitty husband, and I don't think they ever explained why! So if there is no emotional manipulation and there is no practical reason given, to someone who hasn't read the books it's like.... Sally Jackson went from Poseidon to THIS and stuck around? As far as I can tell Sally is the breadwinner too so what reason does she have, to someone who doesn't know about the smelly thing, for her to be here?????

Also I know that people will say "he figured out Kronos from clues, he figured out Luke from clues, and Hermes *probably* told him about Crusty" but I really think the show doesn't show its working enough. If enough people had the reaction that Percy was figuring out things a little too easily, EVEN IF it can be explained away, there's probably merit in the idea that they were kind of handing things to him to move the plot along. There was a lot of showing without telling happening.

It also felt a little like some of those reveals, particularly Kronos, could and should have gone to Annabeth instead. They sort of piled a lot of character strengths onto Percy and didn't give her as much of a chance to shine where it mattered, beyond a few shallow jokes about her being quicker than Percy. They also didn't really touch on the gravitasse of Luke's betrayal in regards to her feelings!? We got one line. The story is out of Percy's head now, we should have gotten that! It's so important to her character. I feel like the teeth of Annabeth's trauma have been blunted a little bit here in comparison to the books, where you get a better sense of why she acts the way she does. The rivalry with Athena and Poseidon is barely mentioned at all!

Basically, despite the show leaving Percy's inner monologue, I don't feel we gained enough perspective from other characters in return.

Finally, the set choices leave a lot to be desired where it counts. I hate volume stages PASSIONATELY, I always have, and did anyone else notice that it feels like no character in the entire show sees a ray of sunshine or hard light? It's all soft, evenly lit in a greyish scene that makes even Olympus feel really, really flat. The Mandalorian suffered the same volume stage look, I hated it then and I really wish they'd stop or learn to light them or saturate them better.

Basically I did enjoy watching but I also don't feel the thrill of a piece of art from it. Some scene have that magic, but others just feel like they're trying to get from point A to point B. I have said it before but Lockwood and Co isna much better example of how to adapt a middle grade book in a way that is both unique from the source material while keeping the spirit alive and delivering a perfectly fleshed out product. I hate to say it because again, I adore Rick, but I'm not sure that his talents as an author translate into the strongest screenplays.

And I would finally remind everyone that the show being made does not mean the books no longer exist, you can read them! Right now! Nothing is ruined by a less than 5 star venture into the screen! And these are just my personal thoughts, the impressions I got. If you don't agree that's fine, but I hope we can keep aggression out of the PJO tag because I've been seeing people come for anyone who dares say anything not positive about the show as if they're personally campaigning to get it cancelled. just take a step back and remember we're allowed to not think it was a perfect end result.

Edit again because I forgot another big issue: WHY WAS THE ARES FIGHT THE FIRST REALLY GOOD FIGHT WE GOT??? I really loved it, it played EXACTLY how I imagined it in my head (albeit both the guys were browner in my head akshdhshs) but it also dawned on me that it was so much better than everything else we were shown except maybe the Clarisse fight way back in ep 1. In particular the Medusa scene was over far too quickly without enough suspense (dare I say this, the movie actually did the Medusa hunt better for the most part) and the Minotaur was kind of... Idk. Something about it felt a little underwhelming. Th chimera was over in two seconds after a pretty cool shot of it prowling, and the Fury outside Medusa's was so anticlimactic -- why would I want to watch the action from a kitchen window with no music??? In comparison to all the other action, the Ares fight blew it all out of the water. So I both loved that, and didn't like the rest so much.

[luckycheesefoodie321]

UNFILTERED REACTIONS TO PJO SHOW EPISODE 5 (AKA THE PERCABETH EPISODE): yes, spoilers. No, coherence.

Love a classic Percy eavesdropping dream

“Toss it Seaweed Brain” AHHHHHHH

What everyone has been waiting for! The iris message with Luke. The last nail in the coffin that is non-reader’s predictions.

NOT THEM DEBATING WHEN EACH OF TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES THEY HAD HAPPENED IN THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS

ALSO LUKE. LUKE. “When did you turn into an old married couple?” And then turning away awkwardly

“Not to change the subject, but I’m gonna” HAHAHAHAHAHAAH

THE TORTOISE. THE TORTOISE IS KILLING ME

As someone who hasn’t read the Kane Chronicles, (or Magnus) is Dr Horusiris someone??? Horus/Osiris?? Also Mia Mouse??

Grover being like “yeah nah the animals will be safe. People?? What about them??”

Not Annabeth and Percy falling into easy and ever so slightly flirty banter. The kind of flirty banter only thirteen year olds can do

ALSO. Levitating huh? This is how you compensate not putting Poker Face Rick? What is Love was already a delight.

I’m kinda enjoying that they preemptively know what myth they’re stepping into. Doesn’t mean they won’t be affected by it but this is fun.

ALSO FIRST WISE GIRL DROP. HE SAID IT. HE SAID THE THING.

Oh heckin my boi Grover go back!

AHH LIN MANUEL MIRANDA

Why does everything he say sound like he’s gonna slip into a rap

Man one mention of Luke’s name and Hermes looks grief stricken broooo

I’m sorry did Hermes purposefully dredge up Percy’s trauma???? Is this perhaps Smelly Gabe trauma???? And tried to do the same with Annabeth???

What a butthead lil man child. He owes them a trip to Paris.

Hermes. Hmmmm. Hmmmmmmmmm.

Annabeth little klepto Queen

“I’m multitalented”

“Man, Grover got really old. How long have we been here?”

NOT THEM LOOKING TO GROVER BC HE’S 24

Also we love kids driving cars and obvi Hermes knew his pocket got picked

Them being afraid of a curve and the triumphant music when he succeeds only to scrape the side against a wall XD

So there’s the pearls. And there are four. Does this mean one breaks???

CRUSTY THEYRE GONNA DO IT. A LITTLE OFF THE TOP LETS GOOOOO

The Ares fight is next tooooo

[leeiivxy]

⇢ ˗ˏˋ The moon affects the tides ࿐ྂ

— Summary; the events of my pjo dr told like Rick Rordian himself

— Word count; 1.6k

— Warning; This is based on my dr and the people in my dr. They do not act completely according to canon.

______________________________________ ׂׂૢ་༘࿐

I stand up from the cherrywood picnic table; Annabeth has already done her offering, and it’s was time to do mine.

I can feel the concrete warmth from my shoes as I walk over to the hearth and put an end piece of the bread into the fire--my Mother’s favorite.

The last I heard from her, it was her favorite.

I thank her for allowing my sisters to end the school year early and come to Camp Half-Blood to spend time with me before the other campers arrive. I turn around and start to walk back to my table, tripping over my feet a little bit, although it’s largely ignored because there’s only about 10 people in the pavilion.

We’re finally gonna get some kids later in the day, and felt relieved--I’m tired of being the brunt of all of Connor and Travis’ pranks. I was excited to teach classes and see other people again.

I sit back down at my table when Malcolm interrupts, “I heard Chiron saying we might be getting a special camper this summer.”

“All new campers are exciting,” Prim replies, not even looking up from her plate.

No one else looks up from their food or stops what they’re doing at what Malcom said, either--new campers come and go, and we’re all so used to it at this point that we don’t really care anymore. I simply make a mental note of another introduction that I would have to make for the camper and considered what I would do with the tour this year. I was tired of doing the same tour year after year and tried to do something different with each summer.

“The way he was talking about him, he might have something to do with the conflict with the summer solstice.” he says, attempting to focus the conversation back on him. Every single person pavillon raised their heads, except for Val, Clara, and Prim.

We were suddenly very interested in this new camper.

“What is going to happen on the summer solstice?” Val say, confused about our reactions and now curious about the information she lacked.

“This year, we went to visit the Olypumpus, and they were clearly trying to not fight in front of us.” Luke directed at Val, from the table over, Travis nodded his head while Connor had a blank stare like he couldn't quite remember the trip.

“That is enough, finish your food and get started on preparing for the campers' arrival.” Chiron says, walking into the pavilion, wanting to prevent the gossiping from getting worse than it already was, but we all knew our thoughts would be filled with the summer date getting closer and the identity of the new camper.

Some of us quickly finished our plates, and some barely ate anything else before getting up, I just sat there, thinking about all the things I had to get done.

I took to strawberry off my plate and started to walk towards the medic base, I needed to make a whole lot of lists before noon.

I walked past two dozen beds, a row on each side of me, neatly made and waiting for hurt campers to occupy them, into the storage tent.

I worked for a few hours, so much so that my playlist had looped and played a song I had heard when I first started to work. I put down my clipboard after I finished taking inventory, which took me about ten more minutes.

I grabbed my phone and to-do list and put them in my pocket. I walked into the pavilion, two steps at a time, with ease.

“Do you have everything you need?” Luke asked, catching up to me.

“Yeah! I hope I don’t get too many campers in the beds on the first day.” I said, remembering the first day of the summer of 2017.

He smiled at me comfortingly and I nodded back at him, he went to go sit at his table, and I went to mine.

Although I wanted to eat somewhere else right now, so I grabbed a plate, filled it up with food, made my offering, and went to go sit on the docks.

I slipped off my shoes and socks, and let my feet hang in the water.

I saw something in the water, so I quickly lifted my feet out, scared it would hurt me. I moved so I was on my knees and was looking over the edge into the water.

Something was floating to the top, and it was a dagger. I plunged my hand into the water to grab it, and I managed to get a hold, but as I touched it, it seemed to sink down, taking my arm with it.

I quickly released the metal and brought my hand up.

Odd.

I put my shoes back on and walked towards the kitchen to return my plate, and started to make my way back to the medic base.

I started to make sure all of the beds were proper and checked my to-do list, I had finished everything on it, so I went to the amphitheater and watched Luke and Calrrise spar with each other.

At some point, I felt myself dozing off and allowed myself to take a quick nap.

I really hope I don't dream.

A cold, salty surge of air swept through me, making me shiver and blow my hair in every direction. I opened my eyes and the sky was dark and loud.

Zeus was angry, the tense electricity in the air was obvious, but why, I didn't know, and for the most part I don’t care.

I don’t Zeus, he had never shown any kindness towards me in particular, but I knew better than to speak out about it.

I raised my head and realized I was on the dock, and something much larger was rising out of the water. I got up and ran onto the beach, why don’t I have shoes on, I wanted to find out but my thoughts were cut off by a large, what felt like a bucket full of water splash on me, turning my attention.

I looked at what had emerged from the water and was surprised to see a god in a Hawaiian shirt.

Poseidon had dark shaggy hair and eyes that looked like the ocean right before a storm.

“RETURN WHAT IS MINE.” a voice raged from the sky, Zeus doesn’t want to make an in-person appearance I guess.

“I HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG” Poseidon retorted.

I didn’t know what they were talking about but I felt like it had something to do with the summer solstice.

I felt a pillar of air knock me onto my back, my head hit a rock. I felt a sharp pain and I was out.

I woke up with a loud voice in my ear and spit on my face.

“WAKE UP!” Clarisse screamed in my face once again, almost like she had been doing it for a few minutes and was having more fun every second that passed. I shot my eyes open, making her rise up.

“Some campers have started to arrive.” Luke said in a much quieter voice.

“Okay, fine gods Clarisse brush your teeth.” I spat at her.

The three of us walked towards the campers, Clasrisse broke off, she had no interest in talking to them.

The rest of the afternoon was the was as it has been every year, talking to campers, introducing myself a hundred times, and giving tours.

At 6, the horn signaled dinner, I told the kids around me what I meant and they ran off to go eat, while I was walking over to Annabeth, who was talking to Malcolm.

She waved and jogged over and said “It never gets old does it?”.

“Oh, I certainly think it does.” I say back to her, surprised at her cheery attitude towards another summer.

We chatted about some of the new campers we met and went to our tables.

Chiron had given a speech that should have been given by Mr. D, but I was just glad I didn’t I have to deal with his misery for the first dinner of the summer.

I walked up to the heart to give my offering, instructing some of the new campers how and why we do it.

Everyone was eating, then 30 minutes later, they made their way to the amphitheater.

I didn’t want to be apart of the festivities, so I went to sit somewhere secluded but still had a view. I wasn’t paying attention to the singing as much as I was watching everyone, as they ate s’mores, sang, and played.

I missed being that happy to be here.

Around 9:30, everyone got up to go to explore on their own, but since I sat closer to the camp boarders I didn’t feel the need to rise from a spot. I simply sat and looked at the stars, making a mental painting of them.

I could hear everything that was happening around me, including the sound of a car running into something in my left ear.

I quickly got up and ran up the hill a little to see a car flipped, and no movement happening around it. I know I couldn’t just leave camp, so I ran down to get some help from Chiron.

“Hey, there was a car crash over the hill and on the road,” I said, looking directly at Chiron for a clue on what to do next.

“You interrupted our game.” Mr. D whined, “The game can wait, show me where it happened Josephine.” Chiron spoke.

We both walked hurriedly over to the board, just as a boy with shaggy black dropped Grover and his sword on the ground and passed out.

I quickly ran over and kneeled down in front of him, as did Chiron. I put my head to his mouth, making sure he was breathing, and noticed that gripped tightly in his hand, even asleep, was a horn.

Horn of the Minotaur.

[shiftereris]

Reality Shifting Ask Game

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[sillyjilly143]

Solangelo

Idk what to call this

Hi, so this was a request from one of my followers on Tumblr,

This is my first time writing fanfiction so if this is bad pls don't hate me.

I don't own the PJO series *cue sad sigh* that goes to Uncle Rick 

Sorry for all the bad grammar!

Summary

Will solace is a pheasant working as a doctor in a kingdom Nico Di Angelo is the prince of that kingdom and Nico runs in to Will and they end up together

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Chapter 1:

Nico pov: 

Nico was having a bad day. That morning when his servant woke him up extra early it was only 11 am! 

Then when he got out of bed he slipped and fell on his bum! 

And to make matters worse, he got called to the courtroom because some guy had accidentally lit his neighbor's house on fire, when he finally got to lunch he had a giant headache and just wanted to be done he wondered what it was like to be just a commoner 

“Father, “  Nico said in a straightforward tone “I am going for a walk, “ he said

 “ok“ king Hades said obviously not caring            

Later

He looked around the town everyone seemed to know what they were doing and how to do it 

They all seemed perfectly at ease with each other like this was normal, well for them it was.

When he got back to the palace he was still in awe; he wished he could be one of them, not a prince he thought as his eyelids began to drift shut.

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Will pov:

 Will was up at the crack of dawn ready to go to work he quickly rushed through the park and up the white steps of the hospital 

"Ah Doctor solace," said Kayla a new nurse "we have a surgery at 3"

"What for? " Will asked

"Appendicitis," 

"Oh ok, what else? "      

"That's the only appointment scheduled for today," Kayla said

Suddenly a person was rushed in with burn marks everywhere 

Will rushed up to him 

"Hello, sir, what's your name, and what happened?" Will asked

"My name is Perseus Jackson and im burned because my insane neighbor lit my house on fire"  

"Ok, I've heard weirder" Will laughed "What's your neighbor's name?" 

"Leo Valdez and please call me Percy" Percy smiled 

"Ok we're going to get you to a room Percy, you'll be well cared for. " Will said in a gentle tone  

Later

"Ok so now that Mr. Grace's appendix is taken care of I'm going home I'vebeen here for a week and need sleep,I haven't been getting enough lately"  Will said in a tired voice 

"Ok " Kayla said Simply " good night Dr. Solace"

"Good night Kayla" he said while picking up his things.

Ok so thats the end of chapeter 1 also about halfway through I realized that i couldent make this a one shot so hopefully the next chapter will be posted tonight maybe

Happy holidays!

-SillyJilly

[riddlerosehearts]

🐍 oh my god i had no clue there was a way around the character limit, thanks tumblr for being inconsistent across platforms 💀

Nico was my fave when reading the original series as well! Though I did end up latching onto Leo more when HoO came out, I still always have a soft spot for Nico.

Funny you say that about Jamil, I just saw some super awful takes abt him recently (again) that just made me feel like people are reading a completely different story, though part of that can be blamed on how the EN translation changed some stuff that kind of completely change the context of his situation.. honestly, given what you wrote abt Annabeth I think Jamil would also fit in Athena cabin - he's smart, capable, cunning and a strategist, plus he already has the gray eyes. He'd likely be the head of the cabin too.

I agree! Lots of people have pointed out there's a lack of Leo & Nico interaction in canon despite their similarities and I think that's such a shame, while I don't ship it romantically I really wish there could've been a friendship between them. I wish there was more emphasis on platonic relationships in general in HoO, so many things could've been explored further but we didn't get to :(

Nico being allergic to cats despite liking them is actually so adorable, I'm totally accepting that headcanon now. He tries to hold Grim then starts sneezing uncontrollably.

Me too! I'm usually reluctant to share my thoughts in case anyone reads it and thinks "there's no way you actually think that/that's stupid", but I'm really glad I can share with you and chat about ideas because it's so nice hearing what someone else thinks. Along with that I have made PJO OCs that I have been faaar too shy about showing people, but I they're precious to me and maybe I will post them one day...

Leo just using latest shows as bg noise would fit so well and be so funny lol, he'll know a few things here and there about whatever's going on but be completely wrong about some things that die-hard fans get mad at and give him a long lecture about the series that he barely retains because he didn't expect it. And Leo having fire hair can be uh, just a terrible accident where he lit his own hair on fire, for my "i just want to see it one time" convenience.

Now for a fun question, how do you think Leo & Nico would wear the NRC uniforms or dorm uniforms? Like how Idia never wears the blazer, Jamil wears a hoodie etc - how would they prefer to dress?

tumblr is such an inconsistent, buggy mess it's ridiculous sometimes. recently i discovered that i had blocked someone whose url i recognized but who i didn't ever remember blocking and don't know why i would've, so i unblocked them immediately but i was just like?? how did that even happen?? could've been a mistake on my part but i also wouldn't be surprised if it was a glitch 😭

i latched on so hard to nico as a kid because i was an edgy emo kid who really related to him ADKJGHDK. so of course as an edgy emo bisexual teenager i started loving him even more when house of hades came out. but like i said before, leo is easily my favorite of all the new characters from HoO! i have some criticisms of HoO as a whole but i like leo so much that i used to want to be a hephaestus kid mainly so he'd be my brother (and before that, i wanted to be a hades kid for reasons that are probably pretty obvious LOL).

oof, yeah, i do play twst EN and... okay, i was going to go off on a whole tangent here about jamil and kalim and how the localization watered down their entire fascinatingly tragic dynamic but it got so long that i realized it could practically be its own post. so i removed it and expanded it into its own post. it's here if you'd like to read it, but tl;dr is i agree with you completely lol. jamil is one of the most misunderstood and mischaracterized boys in the fandom and i think the changes EN made definitely have something to do with that, which frustrates me immensely because outside of certain choices made with both scarabia and pomefiore i tend to really enjoy the localization. the way they translate idia's dialogue is comedic gold.

anyway, though, i was also thinking athena might make sense for him! and i know i previously said riddle could be head counselor of the athena cabin, but i can totally see it for jamil too. although, i wonder, how would it affect things if kalim was also present at CHB? would jamil still need to keep his head down, make sure not to outdo him at anything, and reject any sort of position of authority so kalim wouldn't look bad? would he give the head counselor position to someone else (not kalim, i don't think they'd be in the same cabin) if it was offered to him? which reminds me, another idea i had is that i think it could be interesting if jamil was the son of a minor god while kalim was the son of an olympian, possibly giving jamil even more reason to resent him. or it could even be the other way around (say kalim's parent is a minor god and jamil's is an olympian, so jamil is more powerful than kalim but has to act like he isn't) too.

personally i do think romantic leo/nico is cute and it's a ship that i have a lot of nostalgia for since i read a ton of fics for it way back in the day lol, but i'm not shipping them in this twst AU! i'm a multishipper who loves nico and will together too and i really just wish leo and nico had gotten to be friends in canon. i strongly agree with you that HoO should've focused more on platonic relationships, and i actually basically said all of this recently in a post here!

okay, it would actually be hilarious if nico was still allergic to grim despite grim's constant insistence that he isn't a cat. and nico being like, well, i'm allergic to cats and i don't think it's the ghosts that are making me sneeze, sooo. and now i'm also thinking about nico coming at grim like idia in his labwear groovy askjdghd.

i feel like in general i'm so bad at explaining my ideas and i get worried about not making any sense lol! but at some point in the last few years i just sort of started saying fuck it, if i have something that i really wanna post on my blog i'll go ahead and post it and if someone thinks it's stupid then they don't have to follow me. i bet your PJO OCs are great, and you shouldn't be afraid to share them!

HMMM oh man, i'm nowhere near as creative as i wish i was when it comes to fashion because i'm bad at visualizing how things go together lol. but my first thought is that nico canonically insists on wearing his worn out old aviator jacket everywhere up until it literally gets torn to shreds. and then in TOA he buys a black leather bomber jacket and starts wearing that everywhere instead. so i think he'd insist on wearing his bomber jacket over his school uniform like idia does with his hoodie! he'd wear a black shirt instead of a white one, like vil does, and i could see him wearing the vest but i don't think he'd bother with the tie, blazer, or gloves. he'd also wear black converse and maybe he could add some more of his Emo Kid flair by wearing a cool studded belt or attaching chains to his pants or something, i think that'd be fun.

for leo, i would love to hear if you have a different idea than what i say because i'm not as sure about how i think he dresses! but i get the vibe that his main consideration is comfort and how well he'll be able to work in something, like he doesn't necessarily dress badly but he's very casual and doesn't wanna put a ton of time or thought into his clothing. so i could see him maybe wearing the gloves and blazer, but not bothering to put on the vest or tie or button his shirt up at the top, and just grabbing a pair of work boots for shoes.

[starlit-bawka]

20 Questions For Fanfic Writers!

No way I got tagged by the really awesome @h4mm132l1c3, and ill tag a couple of other people too probably

1: How many works do you have on Ao3?

Currently I've got 59 things on AO3!! There are a couple more on my long-defunct wattpad though, and I've got a bunch of December whump I need to catch up on too so there will be more

2: What's your total Ao3 word count?

72,774!! Wow!!! And like...90% of that is oneshots! Go me!

3: What fandoms do you write for?

Currently writing for DSMP and QSMP the most atm :O I also write for the PJO fandom, Homestuck, and DR on occasion, too. I get very tempted to write for Stardew Valley and Scott Pilgrim, and I have been. More than tempted to write CareBears stuff too. I'm in deep chat

4: Top five fics by kudos?

(Un)Lifetime Achievement Award, Take Your Secret Son to Work Day, Las Nevadas and the Frozen Fox, Alone I Began, and Of Lost Gods!

5: Do you respond to comments? Why/Why not?

For the most part yeah! I don't get too too much interaction and I just get!! So excited when I get comments! I love seeing what people say and I love to respond! But sometimes I don't, often cause I don't know what to say lol

6: What's the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending?

hmmm,,,good question! Probably Why Do I Cry? or maybe Famous Last Words? Gone are the Joys I Knew? I don't really know! I write a lot of sort of mopey sad fics ig LMAO

7: What's the fic you've written with the happiest ending?

mmmmmmm,,,,not sure for this, either! My Fundy Fluff Week stuff is all supposed to be sorta fluffy which is probably happy

8: Do you get hate on fics?

Not hate, per say, but comments on the accuracy of my characters, which kinda stabbed my ego a bit lol. It was a nice comment! But the way it was worded was so ouchie!

9: Do you write smut?

I've. Been tempted. As of right now I haven't, though!

10: Do you write crossovers?

Another one of me being tempted!! I haven't yet but I LOOOOVE to read them and so I'd love to write one sometime. (We aren't counting my old VLD Steven Universe au.)

11: Have you ever had a fic stolen?

I don't think so! Fingers crossed it hasn't happened lol I doubt it would

12: Have you ever had a fic translated?

Nope! But if someone were to want to, I would say go ahead! Just send it to me so I can see :D sounds so cool!

13: Have you ever co-written a fic before?

Very recently was my first time doing a proper co-write/collab, which I did with my lovely friend Seven! I would love to do more they're so fun (and probably one of the only ways I'll easily end up writing a multichap KEKW)

14: What's your all-time favorite ship?

ouuuuu ive got a lot of pairings I really really cherish. Jercy my beloved, uhhh Valgrace is so silly, I like to consider myself one of The Kamuegi writers ever, and Pumpkinduo kind of holds an insanely special place in my heart

15: What's the WIP you hope to finish but doubt you ever will?

(Un)Lifetime Achievement Award as sad as it sounds. I love it so much and I'm so insanely proud of it and I love the story but there's soooo much planned and the person I was planning it with hasn't spoken to me in a while. I have hope that I'll finish it someday! Or at least get another two chapters out!

16: What are your writing strengths?

Uhhhhhhh,,,,I don't. actually know! I do a lot of flowery sentences ig? and I think I'm pretty good at angst and similar things

17: What are your writing weaknesses?

Making (and completing) multichap fics, getting ideas to write, finding the motivation to write, and I am definitely bad at planning things out in advance

18: Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language for a fic?

I've done it pretty sparingly in the past, because I want to incorporate other languages and loooove language, but don't know any of them very well aside from English. But I try to do a lot of research before I add something in, and am 100% open and insistent that someone correct me if I messed up, or if there's another way to go about saying what I'm trying to say, or just to tell me more!

19: First fandom you wrote for?

Never published because I was a kid and it was. So Bad but !!! It was actually for the Minecraft Roleplay series Mary and Dad's Minecraft Adventure (MADMA) back around 2011-2013. I've been in mcrp hell for. a LONG time jesus christ

20: Favorite fic you've ever written?

ohhhh good question. Fullbury Records is very special to me and I'm ALWAYS thinking of what to add to that series, and (Un)Lifetime Achievement Award ofc is also very special to me. I think Heart to Heart is going places once I get back to writing the next chapter, too But I'm also veeeerrry proud of Famous Last Words, and it's very special to me as a projection piece LMAO

Tag time!!

@dyke420-69 @sparrowsong07 and anyone else who sees this and wants to do it lolol be sure to tag me so I can see :D

[samhenderson1986]

Where are you shifting to?

What’s something you look forward to in your DR?

What’s something from one of your scripts (if you make them)?

Do you have a streamer DR?

Fame DR?

If you have a My Hero Academia DR, what’s your quirk (if you have one)?

PJO DR: godly parent?

How do you deal with lack of motivation?

Do you use methods?

How many realities are you shifting to?

Something funny that happened?

Favorite thing in your script?

How was your day?

[depressedacadamia]

Drunken Dares

Prompt + paring: Tattoo Parlour au, ‘night’ + Solangelo 

A/N:  Hellooo- i had the choice between a tattoo parlour au or a flowershop au but I'm already writing a pjo flowershop au so I thought I'd spice it up with a tattoo parlour au! I kinda wanted there to be a part two becuase I wanted a bit of bonding between the two so maybe if i remember, that may happen? Anyway- enjoy  <3 from phi phi!

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“Do I really have to do this?” Will groaned slightly. It was late at night and here Meg was, pushing him in a tattoo parlour.

“Yep!” She hummed as she pushed him forward.He tripped over his own foot as he flung through the double doors. He was about to continue reluctantly before realising the short minion who had forced him here was no longer by his side.

He turned around and frowned. “ Meg? Why aren’t you coming in?”

“I’m underage,” She hummed.

“You know you can just stand to the side?” Will asked, a slightly desperate undettone to his statement which Meg noticed. He was begging her not to leave him in the scary dark tattoo parlour which was full of buff, scary people.

“Sorry- but I must not break the law!”

“Last week you happily started trying to drive my car!” Will yelled at the glass doors. Alas, his yells were ignored as Meg blissfully ignored him as she continued her walk home, leaving William Andrew Solace in a tattoo parlour.

What was he meant to do?Walk up to the guy at the counter and tell him that he wanted a tattoo? He should have never gotten drunk and played truth or dare- he should have known that the first thing Leo would dare him would be to taint his beautiful freckled skin. The worst part ultimately was the fact that he had to get it on his chest.

Perhaps the gods above saw Will’s freak out or perhaps Leo was simply being extra nice when he saw Will in the middle of the parlour looking so out of place it was painful but either way, the next thing Will knew, he was being taken by the wrist towards the counter by none other than Leonidas Valdez; the very bastard who had gotten him into this mess.

“I’m surprised you actually came,” Leo commented.

“Meg forced me,” Will grunted.

“So,” Leo sighed as he tapped at the cigarette in between his fingers, “ Do you know what you’re getting?”

“Uhh… no, not really., How does this work? You tell them what you want and then they stab at your body with a needle?”

Leo let out a small scoff which had smoke billowing out of his lips and nose as if he was a chimney. “ No, darling- they shave, sanitise and then they stab at your body with a needle.”

“That made me feel so much better.”

Ignoring the evident sarcasm, Leo simply smiled. “ You’re welcome, blondie.”

Wil, ruffling at his hair, mumbled, “Shut up.”

Leo, who was significantly enjoying teasing Will, was cut off by Piper- one of the last people Will expected to see at the tattoo parlor. But on a second look, the tattoos on her abdomen spiraling up to her breasts and arms made Will wonder why he never noticed them.

“Oh Will- you’re actually here?” Piper's surprised voice rang out.

“Unfortunately.”

“Well the artist is ready for you,” Piper ushered him towards the dark room, only illuminated by the UV lights.

Will visibly gulped. Leo and Piper couldn’t help but interlock eyes and snort a little- after all, it was simply adorable at how nervous this newbire was.

Will took small steps and the second he passed the door, it slammed shut.

What the fuck- do the doors here have a mind of their own?

“Come in- take a seat,” A voice commanded. Will, who didn’t really have any choice but to listen to what he was being told, fumbled around, trying to figure out where he was meant to be going. It seemed that Will, in his internal chaos, did not notice the tattoo artist's leg propped up to the side and therefore, when Will finally did notice the leg- it had been the hard way.

He tripped and the next thing he knew, his wrist had made a new best friend. Bruised and swollen, Will’s wrist heavily ached- forcing him to let out a small groan of pain.

“Fuck, are you okay?” the voice rang out. Will heard a relative amount of fumbling and heavy footsteps and suddenly the room was flooded with light.

The face that he was met with was not one he was expecting. The boy had mid length hair- while it wasn’t really long, it was flowing over the nape of his neck slightly and it looked like it really got in the way of his eyes. He watched as the boy seperated the pieces of hair covering his eyes, creating an effortless look.

His face radiated an emotion that Will couldn’t describe- sadness? Or was it simply the face of someone who was content with little?

“Are you okay?” The man asked. Will watched- he had never seen such dynamic expressions and the way this man's face morphed into an expression of concern had him wrapt with all.

Will could only nod stupidly, his hand still clutching at his bruised wrist.

“Dya mind if I have a look at that anyway?” The artist insisted as he grabbed a med kit and sat on his spinning chair before wheeling himself towards Will who now sat on the chair that he was originally appointed.

He gently cradled Will’s wrist between his fingers, turning it round and round. His face contorted between emotion of worry and concern.

“It’s okay,” Will re-assured . “ It’s not sprained or broken, just a bit of bruising and swelling. Should be gone by tomorrow morning.”

“You sure?”

“I’m a doctor.”

“Ah,” He smiled slightly. “ I shouldn’t question you, Dr..?”

“Solace- but Will is fine. How about you?”

“Nico- Now let's have a look at what you want huh?” He closed the notebook he had been creating designs in before Will walked in and pulled out a collection of the most popular designs so far.

“These are the trending ones currently but I can always pull out something else if you want. Or if you have your own design that you wanted, I can try with it,” Nico offered. He pulled out a cigarette and flicked his lighter.- once, twice and a third time before grunting and pulling out a different one. Will watched, hypnotized, as Nico lit the cigarette.

Nico looked up and caught Will staring and shyly asked. “ You don’t mind do you?”

“No… but you should try and refrain from smoking. It’s really, really bad for you and I say this as a doctor.”

“You’re the 4th person today who has said that.”

“I’m alarmed that you managed to smoke that many times today,” Will said with concern.

Ignoring what Will had said, Nico continued. “Anyway, have you chosen anything yet?”

Will let out a heavy breath. “ Ah, no. My friends kinda forced me here but nothing here really matches… me.”

“What about this flower? Or the skull? “

Will shrugged. “ I don't think I’d want those on my skin permanently”

Nico nodded and continued smoking, while Will flipped through the latest designs. Nothing seemed to catch his eye as much as something he could have sworn he saw earlier. It was a stylised sun tatoo- nothing necessarily special but it reminded him of his mum- and his home.

“Excuse me,” Wil started, causing Nico to put his cigarette down in the ashtray, “ I was just wondering if the designs in that were available?”

Will pointed to the notebook That Nico had closed earlier. He watched as Nico hesitated. His face seemed to be stuck between wanting to let Will sneak a peek but it also seemed to want to tell him to stop.

However, his hand simply made up his mind and shoved the book across the table in Will’s direction.

Daintily, with the utmost care, Will opened the first page and his eyes almost watered at the immense detail and beauty poured into these designs. It looked like the heart and soul of the artist had been etched into every little petal, every small ray and eventually after gaping at each page he found the design he had spotted earlier.

The sun wasn’t special but it held Will’s eyes so much that Nico told him, “ Close your mouth. You’re practically drooling.”

“This one,” Will pointed to the stylised sun, “ I want this one.”

Nico scanned his eyes over it before humming and nodding. He put out his cigarette and got up.

“Where d'ya want it?”

“Chest- left side,” Will blurted out. He didn’t know why he wanted it there- perhaps because he wanted the thing that reminded him of his mother to be as close to his heart as possible.

Nico nodded as he prepared everything. Then he turned to Will. “ You realise you’ll need to take off your shirt?”

Will blushed and looked away as he started unbuttoning the top of his shirt. Meg had dragged him out of the hospital as soon as his shift had ended and thrown him into the tattoo parlour and therefore he was still wearing a crisp white shirt.

“Do I need to take off the whole thing?”

Nico took a quick look at Will. The sight that met his eyes was surprising- he used to seeing the chest of his clients but for some reason the sight of a very attractive and intelligent young man before him was very different. He seemed to be looking away as a blush graced his cheeks and ears. His shirt was unbuttoned just enough for Nico to see Will’s muscled chest.

How did a doctor have enough time to work out like that?

“Uh... just a bit more, I don’t want the needle to catch on the side of your shirt.” Nico reiterated, even though he was lying.

“Okay, so now, I'm just going to clean the area and then I’ll trace the sketch before tattooing it on. Do you want red or black?”

“Uh- you can choose,” Will sighed, desperate to get it done and over with.

Nico nodded. He slipped on some gloves and wiped at Will’s chest with an antiseptic. Will flinched at the cold wipe and the soft touch of the artist before him .

“Sorry,” Will murmured, “ It’s cold.”

Nico simply nodded as he began sketching the outline of the tattoo. Will tipped his head back, unable to meet the eyes of Nico ro even look at what was happening. He could feel the tickly touch of the pen on his skin and the soft brush of Nico’s glove on his skin every once in a while.

“All done. Now for the painful part. You may feel like you’re getting stung by a bee a lot,” Nico warned. “Try not move a lot, it will make it harder for me.”

Will, who couldn’t formulate words at this point, simply nodded. “I’d let you squeeze my hand, but unfortunately- I need both,” Nico smiled as reassurance.

He heard the buzzing of the gun and braced himself. The needle poked and prodded as he expected and at times he did wish he had stolen some morphine from the hospital beforehand but all in all, he managed to get the tattoo without bursting into tears and without ruining hids tattoo.

“All done,'' Nico said as he covered the tattoo.

“When do I get to see it?” Will asked, curiously, happier that it was over.

“In a few days- it just needs to sink in.”

Wil sat there, unsure of what to do next. He had paid and was now just sitting in an empty room with his tattoo artist. Was he meant to just say goodbye? Wasn't that kind of harsh?

But Will realised, had this been anybody else or any other appointment- he wouldn't want to be staying for any extra time. Did he want to be friends with this guy? Maybe it was that- yes, it would be that. As someone who was socially awkward, Will knew that he liked hanging out with people; he simply wasn't very good at it

Just as he was going to ask for his number, Nico passed him a slip of paper. “ Here’s my number. Call me when you’re free.”

With that and a wink, Will was left in the empty tattoo room.