#darren knowles

[princessofghosts-posts]

It's strange how Apollo's kids take both after Apollo and their parents talents,but not Will.

Austin's mom is a music teacher,she and Apollo meet during one of her theoretical lessons,and Austin powers focus more on music than anything else. Same with Kayla. Her dad is an archery instructor,he and Apollo meet because of his skills,and Kayla's abilities are focused more on archery. Both her and Austin are show multiple times in their own elements (the music room and the archery targets) and both of them are connected to their parents's jobs and,of course,to Apollo's domains.

And then we have Will. Naomi is an alt-country singer but canonically Will isn't that good at singing (and he also doesn't excell in archery),he is an healer. The only scenes where Will and Apollo interact are when someone is hurt and Will is healing them,nothing related to singing or songs or even music. Right now he is the only expection to this pattern.

Is there a reason for that or am I just pointing out something stupid and irrelevant-?

[mrsoftthoughts]

We need to discuss all the implications of being a pregnant mortal in the Riordanverse when the baby you're carryingn is a greecoroman demigod

Because you can't look me dead in the eyes and tell me that that thing would be a normal pregnancy down any standards

I mean, there's a good chance that this it's only Rick forgetting about the math once again, but Sally's pregnancy should haven been either 3 months or between 11-14 months, and i feel like baby Percy would have wanted to stay there the longest possible because idk, just being comfy in his momma belly full of liquid

And i don't even want to think about being esperanza Valdez with a fetus capable of fuckin combust at any moment, beryl grace getting electroshocks everytime that Thalia kicked or anything that could happen with Maria di Angelo and her Two kids of the lord of the death

And Also exist the possibility that the mortal body isn't taking well having a interspecies fetus that maybe has a chance to act like ambrosia or nectar making that you feel like if you were burning from your insides because way too much Divinity too handle

And no, i'm not done yet, there's more.

A Demigod can be born troug a C-section without the Doctors seeing something that a mortal definitely shouldn't? Who knows how a Demigod looks when they still in the uterus, there's even a chance of them having a minor scale "real" form as their parents, a now the doctor is fuckin blind

And how many times some of the mortal parents being really freaked out about this and knowing that they can't keep the baby have tried to get an abortion, in the best case it would work and now everything is ok... But you can even abort a Demigod?? At least through mortal methods, because i feel like there's a pretty big chance that this doesn't work

There's also a chance of this doesn't looking like a pregnancy at all, being honest this born from my headcanon of the Apollo kids gestations being unnoticeable ( since that apollos reaction towards sally pregnancy was really weird) and that i already mentioned in a previous post, but what if there's also the chance of you being completely oblivious towards this and then BOOM !! Baby

And then we have that the possibilities are low but never zero for a "pregnancy" like the ones of Castor and Pollux and Helen and Clytemnestra happening nowadays ( If your don't know of what I'm talking about, I just have one thing to say: Eggs)

And ofc... That we shouldn't look away for the possibilities of Mpreg with mortals being the ones carrying the baby, the limit with weird things here is inexistent to this point ( I'm not talking about Darren Knowles here btw, unless that you pull out the trans!Darren headcanon it's obvious that the one that give birth to kayla was Apollo, not for being a god, but because this man is such a bottom)

As a summary: Don't get pregnant from a god. I think there's a chance of it being terrifying.

[apollosothertwin]

I can imagine Apollo seeing someone and talking to them and the just thinking in his head

“Ilovethemsomuchilovethemsomuchilovethemsomuch I want to have a kid with them”

But at the same time I think it takes a bit longer than you would expect for him to really get that strongly attached to someone. Unlike Athena, I think Apollo would probably ask his lover if they wanted a kid before just leaving them with one. Like, I think Darren Knowles wanted a kid so Apollo gave him one, but he would not have forced that on him.

[cabin7quotesandtweets]

additional profile: Darren Knowles—Canadian Archery Instructor and mortal father of Kayla Knowles

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

I saw a couple of posts here and on ao3 where you talked about how TOA Apollo has a stilted view of romantic relationships. Would you be comfortable explaining that, it got me really interested!

OKAY

SO

gonna be putting this under a cut for length

Apollo and relationships. Specifically, ToA Apollo and relationships.

let's see if I can formulate the thoughts into words.

Right off the bat, Apollo does have a hard time avoiding those red flags (hello, Commodus), so much so that he can see them...he just ignores them.

This already tells us that he doesn't have the healthiest view on relationships, or what specifically a healthy partner would be like.

In RRverse canon, these are all of his confirmed, canon relationships/love interests;

Hyacinthus

Commodus

Naomi

Darren

Latricia

Cyrene

Daphne

Sibyl

(I probably missed some asdfhjk)

Anyway, I've noticed that in canon, Apollo's relationships tend to fall into two categories; Sweet or Sour, we'll call them.

Now the majority on the list are Sweet! They are fulfilling relationships with no indication of any bitter feelings- Apollo is not shy about telling us about his love life, and certainly doesn't keep it from us when a relationship went south.

What I find interesting is that all three of the Sours can help pinpoint Apollo's more jaded/stilted view on romance.

Let's kick off with Daphne.

First things first, Apollo is quite literally forced to fall in love with her. Like. That has GOT to screw with a guy. What's more, is that when Apollo explains to us how Eros's arrows work;

What people do not understand: Eros’s arrows can’t summon emotion from nothing. They can only cultivate potential that is already there. Daphne and I could have been a perfect pair. She was my true love. She could have loved me back. Yet thanks to Eros, my love-o-meter was cranked to one hundred percent, while Daphne’s feelings turned to pure hate (which is, of course, only the flip side of love). Nothing is more tragic than loving someone to the depths of your soul and knowing they cannot and will not ever love you back. The stories say I chased her on a whim, that she was just another pretty dress. The stories are wrong. - The Hidden Oracle

There's an implication that he and Daphne may have actually been...friends. Or at the very least acquaintances.

It's never stated in canon when Daphne happened, and the mythology itself is weird about the timeline, but it certainly happened earlier in Apollo's life.

Imagine being forced to fall madly in love with someone you know and they are made to despise you.

The self-confidence definitely took a blow here.

What's more...

When she begged Gaea to turn her into a laurel tree in order to escape me, part of my heart hardened into bark as well.

Apollo tells us plainly that what happened with Daphne shook his views on romantic endeavors. Though, it didn't keep him from engaging in romance, either.

Now, back to Commodus real quick. We already covered the No Red Flag Bell with him, and honestly, I won't spend too much time here because I got a whole meta list waiting to dissect these two XD

But Sibyl reveals something else about Apollo and romance- sometimes, he sees it as transactional.

The story of Apollo and Sibyl does differ from the mythology of them- in mythology, Sibyl tricks Apollo into granting her a long life, and he kinda just shrugs and says 'okay, but you didn't ask for eternal youth either so...whoops?'

In ToA, Rick switches it up a bit by having Apollo grant Sibyl a long life after she jokes about it, and when she further rebuffs him, he curses her with no eternal youth.

Alas, I knew what I’d been thinking—that she was a pretty young woman I wanted to get with, despite the fact that she was my Sibyl. Then she’d outsmarted me, and being the bad loser that I was, I had cursed her. - The Tyrant's Tomb

I promised you life, not youth. You can have your centuries of existence. You will remain my Sibyl. I cannot take those things away, once given. But you will grow old. You will wither. You will not be able to die.

Yeah, it sounds like Apollo more or less curses her with no eternal youth here.

(Daily disclaimer that mythology Apollo's love life is actually very good and you should read up on it :3)

Back to the transactional thing-

"You cannot refuse payment." “Payment?” She balled her hands into fists. “You dare think of me as a transaction?” “I didn’t mean—Obviously, I wasn’t—”

Now, do I think Apollo sees all relationships as transactional? No. But let's consider the Olympian influence for a moment here.

Olympus in the RRverse is rather fucked, no doubt about it. The gods do not help without first being given something, and that permeates through their whole lifestyles.

Apollo's not being transactional because ✨misogyny✨. He's being transactional because that's what he's been raised to believe. If he gives something, he gets something back. That goes for all the gods, male and female and everything in between.

Bacchus helps the demigods in Mark of Athena because they paid tribute to him. Whenever a god extends aid, burnt offerings are made in thanks- which is probably part of the reason why Hera got angry with Annabeth when she refused to give her burnt offerings in The Battle of the Labyrinth after she helped her on her quest.

Apollo doesn't seem to be as picky as some (ie, The Titan's Curse, where he helps out to help out. You can argue he got his sister back in exchange but that's not really typical godly exchange lol), but it's clear that mindset has somewhat transferred over into relationships.

Now, I also want to talk about how Hyacinthus affected him- because let's be real, he was the one that affected him the most without outside interference (looking at you, Eros).

Apollo has told us time and again that Hyacinthus was one of, if not his greatest, love. His death really left a mark on him, and I am of the firm belief that it's that mark that made him wary of forming too close of a relationship with others- even when he tries to convince them and himself they are his One True Love™️, it falls flat inside his own head.

Because let's face it- that spot is occupied by Hyacinthus, and the hole he left in Apollo's heart.

This isn't to say Apollo loves his other lovers less- heck no! Love is one of his defining qualities. He has much love in him!

It's just that Hyacinthus had a particular impact on him, and how he views relationships.

*vibrates in Hyapollo multific* I have...my own personal ideas...on what that entails...

And we see how touch-and-go Apollo is with other lovers! As soon as Commodus becomes emperor, he's gone. And only comes back in disguise, never revealing himself until he kills him.

Naomi, Darren, and Latricia are all obviously loving relationships from what we can gather, but it's clear it was never long-term.

Cyrene, really, is where I'd argue he got the closest to a long-term relationship with a mortal-ish person, but even so, they aren't in a permanent long-term relationship either.

Hyacinthus, however? I can see he and Apollo maintaining an everlasting romance.

...Also because that is exactly what happens according to the Spartans and who are we to deny what the Spartans declared about their national hero?

The only other exceptions to this I can see are his relationships with the Muses and (hello, fellow Apricity shippers) Boreas.

But even so...the Muses give off like, 'married co-workers' vibes, if that makes sense, and Boreas is more or less a winter fling (fandom forgive me, you know I am a shipper🫡)

Anyway. Hope this rambling makes sense or at least provides a platform for someone to put coherent thoughts together lmao

In conclusion: sometimes Apollo is transactional in relationships because of the culture he was raised in, and he has commit issues because of just how hard Hyacinthus's death hit him :)

have fun pondering :3

[apollogies-p]

THE POLLEN ICE SKATING AU IS HERE

(i'm so sorry @wrongcaitlyn this is so late and it's like one am over here AHH)

Ok SO I know this is like pretty late... like a couple months late I think BUT I unfortunately had a lot going on 😭 Fell in love with a guy, tried converting religions (in the process of converting religions?? I'm still struggling with that one lowkey), said guy did smth stupid, cried over it, got over it (sort of), IM ALSO GRADUATING AHHH I got accepted to a uni in Rhode Island but it's expensive... ANYWAYS THE PROLOGUE IS HERE :DDD

[iwoulddieforienzo]

I do not like Frederick Chase in the slightest, don’t get me wrong, but I do sympathize with him and other Athena mortal parents. I mean, with the other gods, there’s usually some kind of relationship beforehand - even if it’s just a one-night stand, there’s still some kind of situation that could, feasibly, result in a kid. Dropping single parenthood on someone is an absolute dick move, obviously, with little to no support and a child who will likely die before they hit 25 making the whole deal extra rotten, but there is, if nothing else, the knowledge that what you are doing could result in a kid. Like if you had a one night stand with some lady and a kid shows up on your doorstep then you’re at least aware that this was a possible consequence, even if you don’t know about the god thing.

Athena doesn’t do that. Athena doesn’t date or have sex with anyone. She meets a mortal who she likes the brain of and just… makes them a kid?? With supposedly no prior knowledge or consent from the other party. They have no way of knowing that their 3-hour debate with Some Smart Lady will make them a single parent. What’s crazier is that Annabeth says Athena kids are claimed from BIRTH. Which means they’re attacked by monsters from birth.

So like, imagine you’re a college-aged kid and you meet some lady that you enjoy being around and debating with. You have a nice, solid relationship that sort of resembles a couple but is solidly platonic. She helps you get into University and pass your classes. You have never done anything romantic, and she was very clear on her status as ace/aro (not in those exact words). Then she reveals her status as a God, drops a kid on your front door, tells you that she is yours to deal with and she will NOT be taking her back because she has to be raised by her mortal parent, who is you, by the way, congratulations, (don’t ask how she has half of your genetic material despite never having sex with this woman) oh and also monsters will be attacking her (and by extension, you) literally from the moment she opens her eyes. (They are already open, by the way.) Then she dips, never to be seen again, no child support in sight, and now everyone thinks you knocked up some poor woman who couldn’t handle the pressure. You Did Not. Also the kid is smarter than you and you’re like 23. Like Frederick is an absolute DICK, don’t get me wrong, but I do sympathize with him.

Of course, it’s possible that she informs her chosen mortals about her status as a god, as well as the children they will be receiving. But considering Frederick is said to have begged her to take Annabeth back, this implies that she either didn’t tell him about Annabeth, OR she DID tell him about her, he said no, and then she made Annabeth anyway and forced him to take her even though he didn’t want her. She definitely told him about being a god eventually, but we have no way of knowing if she was upfront about it or waited for who knows how long. (Considering her rrverse personality, I’d assume she’d tell him - and by extent, the other mortals - early on, but there really isn’t any way to know)

….yes I know about Darren and Apollo. Who knows how that went down, honestly. I like to think Apollo at least told this guy about the kid beforehand. I’m curious why he did that in the first place, honestly?? What is it about this Specific Guy that made him be like “yeah I need to have a kid with this dude.” Does he do this to all his male lovers?? Was Darren Informed?? Mr Riordan I have Questions

[tsarisfanfiction]

Champion

Fandom: Trials of Apollo Rating: Gen Genre: Family Characters: Kayla She always said she was going to make it to the Olympics, and aged eighteen, it finally happened. TOApril day 5 - For the Best, and maybe I twisted that prompt a little bit here but Kayla deserves to be the best so here we go, ft. some background very proud fathers!

It seemed stupid, being so nervous.  There wasn't anything to be nervous of, not really.  Kayla was an amazing archer and she knew it - she couldn't not know it, with her upbringing, with her fathers.

It was just another target to hit.

The fact that it was in a different country, a different continent, and there were more eyes on her than ever before shouldn’t mean anything.  A target was a target was a target, and she’d been able to hit gold every time without fail at far greater distances than this since she was fourteen.  Aged eighteen, with a far more powerful recurve bow than most people expected to look at her, a mere seventy metres was nothing.

Except this was the Olympics.  This was Kayla’s dream, the thing she’d aimed for since the first time she’d held a bow – and Kayla didn’t miss her shots.

This was the world stage, with laurels and medals and broken records waiting for her.  The current women’s world record was 680.  Kayla could beat that.  Kayla had beaten that, training in Camp Half-Blood, where mortals couldn’t see her and would never know.

Part of her thrived on that, the little bit of showmanship flair she’d inherited from her dad.

(It had been one of the things she’d shared with Michael, for the scant few months she’d known him.  The inborn talent to show off, to settle comfortably into the self-assuredness that she could do whatever she set her mind to, and be good at it.

Would Michael be proud of her, for making it to the Olympics?  Would he be proud of her if she won?

She thought he would.  She hoped he would.  He’d been rough, didn’t understand how to be gentle, and she knew she’d only known him while he was grieving and stressed, but he’d been her big brother, and he’d grinned whenever she shot better than she had before.  She couldn’t imagine him not being proud of her.)

These mortals didn’t know her.  Well, some did, because Da had been an Olympic coach for years.  The Canadian team had watched her grow up, aside from the years she disappeared to what they’d always claimed was a boarding school – and she knew they’d feared her skills hadn’t had a chance to bloom away from her coach of a father, because they didn’t know that camp meant archery training as often as she could get away with, that there were days she’d been at the range from dawn til dusk just because she could.

But most of them didn’t.  She was an unknown, to the world stage.  Barely any competitions to her name, and even less of them recent.  By all rights, if she was someone else looking at her, she wouldn’t expect much.  Clearly something got her on the team, and it wasn’t nepotism because Da didn’t do that and Dad wouldn’t belittle her like that, either, but the other archers, the coaches from the other countries, the audience didn’t know that.

They didn’t know where she came from.  There were expectations, of course, because the name Knowles held weight in the world of archery – Da had worked hard for that – but no knowledge.

Kayla shouldn’t be nervous, because this was easy, she had made far harder shots when she was eleven and crying because she didn’t know if her favourite big brother was alive or dead.

But it was the Olympics and there were nerves creeping into her chest that had no right to be there, because this was her dream and how dare something as unnecessary as nerves interrupt it, but of course they were.  She hadn’t expected anything else, not really.

Da was on the sidelines, a distance that felt far further than the target ahead of her even though it was actually closer.  She was pretty certain Dad was somewhere in the crowd, too, and Artemis might be as well.  Not for her – or at least, not exclusively, in the case of Apollo – but because this was their domain and Dad had told her enough stories of Olympic competitions over the years that she knew he always went.

Why wouldn’t he?

That didn’t matter, though.  That couldn’t matter.  What mattered was that Kayla had one arrow left to shoot, and then her Olympic journey was over, one way or another.

Because she wasn’t so unknown to the crowds watching her, really, or the world, because she’d battled her way through all of the stages to this one.  The last one.

Whoever scored better here got the gold medal, and Kayla wanted it.

Eyes were on her, the upcoming, unknown archer with the record breaking score (not perfect, because Kayla was holding back.  She couldn’t stand out here too much, had to still seem realistic to all those watching mortals, and no-one scored perfectly in all of their shoots at the Olympics.  That just didn’t happen.  She’d ease that in slowly, next time and the time after, getting better and better until everyone knew her name and she held records that could never be beaten, only matched).  The official Olympic record was 680 for women, although the unofficial record was actually 682, and Kayla was one last arrow away from breaking the men’s record of 700.

She would do it; she knew she would.  This arrow would hit a perfect bullseye and catapult her to 703 – a far cry from the perfect 720 she had done at camp (had done several times at camp), but a broken record that put her name on the map without letting room for cheating allegations to take root.

(There would be some regardless, Da warned her.  Not everyone was gracious in defeat, and she was making waves breaking the records like this.  There was nothing to find, nothing to prove, because the only way Kayla could be considered a cheater was because she was the daughter of Apollo, a demigod born directly of the god of archery himself, and she refused to consider that cheating when it was just who she was.)

It was almost anticlimactic, in the end.

A perfect bullseye, the best arrow she’d shot all Olympics, because she’d been holding back but couldn’t do that to herself completely, if she was going to win, she was going to win, and the world exploded.

The immediate aftermath was a blur.  There was Da, jumping up and down in sheer delight and barely waiting for her to put her bow down before he was swinging her around as though she was still a little girl.  There was handshakes and hugs and congratulations from the other archers, no-one begrudging her score because you could be disappointed in yourself, in archery, but never in others doing well.

There was microphones and flashing cameras and the Canadian flag draped across her shoulders, and so, so, slowly, the realisation that she’d done it, that Kayla Knowles was the Olympic champion, the new World Record holder, and the youngest to do all of that, too.

There was Dad, too, making his way down and seamlessly merging in with the team even though he wasn’t one, and a flash of silver somewhere up in the stands was Artemis, too, although Kayla didn’t expect the goddess to congratulate her anyway, so she wasn’t bothered when it was only her father that came down to give her a massive hug and beam with pride.  Her siblings hadn’t made the journey, not because they didn’t want to but because they had responsibilities and there were so many of them it would’ve been impractical, but she knew they’d been watching from wherever they were and made sure to wave directly at all the cameras for them.

But it was the medal around her neck that finally brought her back to clarity, the Canadian flag high behind her, flanked by the South Korean flags of the silver- and bronze-medallists, and O Canada playing for everyone to hear.

She’d done it.

[iamrizaka]

Naomi hides the meat for Will because she realizes that her son is suffering from hunger and needs to be fed. [Lottie Cleo passes this meat to Will and he, Kayla and Austin secretly roast it in the unused kitchens of Hermes Palace. Will feels like his mom just packed his lunch for school].

Darren has to wear a muzzle when Apollo takes him to the Olympic feasts where Hermes is present, because every time Darren sees the Messenger of the gods, he begins to growl menacingly and violently attacks Hermes, - he feels that this god is a danger to his daughter. [Kayla cried when she realized that her father was still protecting her].

Latitia is physically affectionate with Austin all the time. She licks his nose, rubs her muzzle against his cheeks, wraps her long body around the tiny boy, becoming for a short time a human shield and a refuge of comfort. [She growls and bites when Austin is taken away from her, her puppy is so small and helpless why is he being taken away from her? He still needs his mom. Austin cries into Will's shoulder, he wants his mommy too].

I AM about to cry, okay?!

Naomi feeding Will (and Kayla and Austin, too) is something I needed to hear. These kids are too thin for their own good, I need someone to make sure they are not completely starving.

YEAH DARREN FUCK HIM UP. He's always ready to protect his daughter, no matter who his opponent is!

Latricia😭 Her fur is so soft, and Austin is reminded of the bed in his childhood home and how warm his mother's hugs were. Still are, because she is there, with him, ready to bite anyone who dares to take him away. That can bring to tears everyone.

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

I FOUND IT

I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS

THANK GODS FOR YOUR SIGNITURE ON IT THAT'S HOW I WAS ABLE TO FIND IT

Darren teaching Kayla how to shoot with a bow and Apollo being secretly so proud of them both 🌻

[mrsoftthoughts]

I always need more content of the Mortal parents of pjo, like, this people seriously have to raise childrens that depite their looks, we need to remember aren't human and a lot of them don't even know why their childrens are so "weird" and even if we know some gods that probably were there at least the first years, almost all of them are single parents trying to figure out how to raise this kid that they don't have a fuckin clue of where is their other mother/father.

And Then they need to discover that their kid is half god and probably had the mayor mental breakdown because it doesn't matter if they are atheist or believe in other religions, that goes against to almost anything that they believed

And that's just the surface, theres a lot of other things

I mean, we only ge a close up to Demigods born from concensual relationships in the saga, but looking back at some gods historial, i won't discard the possibility of some of them beig results of 🍇 and how the fuck some mortal parents would have to deal with have a child result of that kind of situation

And We have pretty interesting characters here and we barely know something about them, and all this potential is just wasted-?

I mean, just look at Marie Levesque and Beryl Grace, despite that they aren't the Best people on earth for what we know of them, you can't look me death in the eyes and tell me that they don't have potential for building them a past or Characters study

Or what about the parents of the kids that died?? The mortal parents of Lee Fletcher, Michael yew, Castor and all the diceaced characters must be around somewhere, dueling the lost of their child at the hands of a word that of their kids belonged but they didn't

And ofc whe have the ones of alive campers, i mean, just a few of the campers are year rounders, a lot of them come back with their mortal parents at the end of the summer, most of the campers actually live with their mortal parents and each one must had very different dynamics with their parent

And the parents of year rounders aren't least interesting, like, how they feel about having their kid away of them?? Some of them maybe are one of the reasons why their kid's don't come back at their houses after the summer

And also an Honorable mention to the Man that after dieing and being brought back to life as a mist form is the father of a traumatized 16yo war betteran condemned to ostracism: the Dr, Howard claymore, which remids the fact that there must be at least some other demigod has been adopted by a mortal who probably was even more clueless that the kid bio parent

As a summary: The mortal parents are a really interesting part of the world building of pjo and never get enough recognition

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

ANOTHER VINE VIDEO

[doodlebugdpj]

I can see why 🤣

My designs for mortal parents of Cabin 7 🏹🎤🎶

Bonus: Apollo showing off all the hot people he pulled

[lesbianbanana]

ok but why is no one talking about how all of Apollo's kids get to camp really young despite having available parents??

[iamrizaka]

the mortal parents of Will, Kayla and Austin in the images of wolves. [They almost died, but Apollo saved them by turning them into his sacred animals].

Naomi Solace, - large graceful wolf with silky golden hair, long muzzle and eyes the color of the sky. She has a lush, flexible tail and very sharp fangs.

Latricia Lake, - big one is not as big as Naomi the wolf who moves with the supple grace of an experienced dancer. She has short but soft chocolate fur, a shortish, softly outlined muzzle and strikingly warm brown eyes.

Darren Knowles, - a miniature, smoothly moving wolf with fiery red velvety fur, long pointed muzzle and intelligent gold-amber eyes.

Волки также одни из лучших родителей в мире животных :D

if i could, i'd draw them, they sound so beautiful

[hogoflight]

OH YES!!! ngl I did initially think of it more as painting kore (more like bright colours that slowly faded into the clay) but I LOVE THIS SO SO MUCH!!!! AHSHNA HC THAT KAYLA WAS BORN WITH GREEN HAIR BC POLLO HANDED HIM THEIR CHILD AND WENT “you can do the finishing touches!! ^_^” forgetting to mention that that is their DAUGHTER and he went “you know what would look cool with her green eyes. Green hair.” And while he was painting it green Apollo came over to check in (horrified).

aww Apollo liking hedgehogs is cute!!

TOA APOLLO SCULPTING KAYLA AS A BABY… he accidentally dug his fingers in a little too hard when sculpting her face and now she’s got dimples!! he spent AGES trying to get the polish of her skin to reflect right. he flicked glowing drops of sun onto her skin to give her freckles!!!! he is a bit clumsy and left god fingerprints on her back and forgot to smooth them over!! (“SO THAT’S WHAT THE GIGANTIC WEIRD MARKS ON MY BACK ARE???” “KAYLA MY DARLING CHILD I’M SO SORRY” “NO THAT’S SO COOL?? ALSO OH MY GOD THIS REALLY PUTS IN PERSPECTIVE FOR ME HOW BIG GODS USUALLY ARE. WOAH. THAT’S CRAZY.”) MAYBE SHE’S GOT A BIT OF DISCOLOURING / ODDLY TEXTURED AREA WHERE APOLLO’S TEARS FELL ON HER AND MIXED WHEN HE HAD TO GIVE HER AWAY.