#pjo Apollo

[yikesy]

you know what?? no, i can't get over it

how did the entire fandom become convinced the guy who pulled this on his introduction

is actually really vapid and stupid and incompetent and not clearly the kind of person who'd write essays for fun

"I just can't see apollo as a teacher lol" DO YOU HAVE EYES!!!??????!

"lmao can you believe apollo is the god of knowledge" I'm exploding you with my laser eyes

[deliajackson]

"Another fic of Percy being a reincarnation of Apollo's past lover? As I havent read this over and over again?"

"So... You wont read it?"

"... Give it to me."

She read the entire thing in an hour, re-read it three times, and now is happily expecting an update.

[cabin-seven-kid]

Apollo is an ally and a card-carrying member and we love them for it

Toa Apollo, I've decided, is trans-coded.

Hell, Apollo period, is trans-coded.

He's a god for the trans. That is my truth 😌

[m00nbuggies]

this is so stupid

[starsarekind]

Happy Solar Eclipse Day!

Artemis and Apollo seemed rather fitting :)

[cuppa-noodle]

Mirror selfie

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Prophetrio in a fun pose i saw on pinterest feat. Lesterpollo, wolfcut Octavian & frog hat Rachel. When Apollo is with them and the gods can’t know he’s there he uses his Lester form.

[pjotwitter]

[ukelele-boy]

Ruins

(feat. the actual apollo temple ruins in Rome)

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

one of the reasons why i love ToA so much is the little bits and pieces of the gods we get to see.

so i guess this is really more of a 'this is why i love the gods so much' rather than my usual 'this is why i love ToA' post lmao

but fr, the gods are just sooooo much more fleshed out in ToA. they're more complex, and have these layers to them that pjo and hoo just Did Not convey (and really, only conveyed those things post publication of ToA, which came with the tools on how to decode the gods and read between the lines).

and i'm not even talking about Apollo here. he is by far the most fleshed out god we have because he's the pov character, but i also mean all 12 of the other olympians - they're just so juicy!!

like okay, sure, in pjo and hoo we get glimpses that Dionysus may care more than he lets on, but ToA CONFIRMS this, but not in an 'in your face' way - but in the 'Dionysus picks at Apollo like a little brother would' way, and in that FIRST interaction between Apollo and Dionysus, we can SEE what their relationship was like!!

Hermes is another VERY layered god, ESPECIALLY with pjo's context. but that context ONLY gains its own importance BECAUSE of the story ToA gives us - we would NOT have 'resigned to fate' Hermes without it. or embittered at his favorite brother Hermes. we love this Hermes eheheheheheheh

Artemis also gains more character, and is no longer just the stoic cool badass #Girlboss she's largely presented as - she's scared, she fears for Apollo, so much so she SPLITS. she comes RUNNING to help him in TTT as soon as she could, giving her a softer side, while simultaneously expands on her previous appearances and allowing us to see how she is unconsciously enabling the abuse Apollo's experienced. LAYERS !! !! !!

DEMETER. OOOHHH DEMETER ILY, IN MYTHOLOGY AND THE RRVERSE. BUT FOR COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REASONS LMAO

we can infer Demeter has basically shot herself in the foot by obsessing so much over Persephone, where she NEGLETS her other kids (ex: Lityerses, Meg). myth Demeter would NEVER but rrverse Demeter is still a fav BECAUSE of how flawed she is.

ARESSSSS do i even need to say anything. we KNOW Ares and Apollo are bros because of how often Apollo takes pot-shots at him in his dialogue LMAO true brother behavior

Hades is a chill uncle with Apollo in particular. i mean. *gestures* he used to purposefully mess up Apollo's aim when shooting for no reason. need i say more?

looking back i'm also a little intrigued by how little Poseidon was mentioned - perhaps lending credence to the idea that he and Apollo grew apart over the centuries?

also Hestia's position as the goddess of the hearth and home calls into question how passive she is on olympus BECAUSE of the shitshow it's become!! she defends it!! what has caused the hearth and home, the FIRSTBORN OF KRONOS, of the ENTIRE PANTHEON to be so stagnant in the face of this toxic cycle? the people want to know and so do i.

Hephaestus is trickier to pin down for me because he has little mention, but there's one SPECIFIC one that has stuck in my brain and its the "apollo missed an entire decade watching Hephaestus's newton's cradle INSIDE HIS OFFICE"

what was apollo doing in his office. and why did hephaestus - notorious introvert - let him stay in there. these are the questions we are all dying to know.

ATHENAAAAAAA !! !! !! !! !! that nod she gives apollo at the end. her bet on his SUCCESS. need i say more? she's bros with him trust <3 add in the mythology and it gets SPICY

Aphrodite is arguably a tricky one to pin down too, and honestly we as a fandom have probably taken more from the mythos to pin down her character than with the others, but she's sooooo interesting too!! the eldest olympian. powerful goddess. extremely cunning and ruthless. and yet she's seen as airheaded and vain by practically everyone.

makes you wonder who else is like that. *quick glance at our favorite god* i dunno who that could be. *whistles innocently*

and do i need to say anything about Zeus? about the tragedy of him falling into the cycle he was meant to break? ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF HOW HE DEF WANTED TO BE A FATHER BUT HIS PARANOIA GOT THE BETTER OF HIM UNTIL HE NO LONGER WAS ONE??

*seizes you by the shoulders* HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS. HOW.

and ofc. one of my FAVORITE gods...Hera. oh, ho ho Hera. you do NOT deserve the hate you get <3 okay maybe a bit of irritation is warranted because you do pull off risky things in hoo but we stan a goddess who takes charge in this house.

YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME SHE'S GONNA BE - well, nicer? is that the right word? - BETTER WITH APOLLO POST-TOA. AFTER SEEING EVERYTHING HE SUFFERED? AFTER SEEING HIM SHED THE MASK? AFTER JASON GRACE?

*pounds mercilessly on the table* I WILL NEVER NOT BE ANNOYING ABOUT THEM I LOVE THEM ALL INCLUDING THE BITS OF CHARACTER FROM THE MINOR GODS WE GET TOO!!

[localfandomenjoyer]

Apollo: Hey sis, you won't believe me, but I found Hermes down in Tartarus! Turns out he got captured by giants a few days back.

Artemis: Why in father's name did he go down there?

Apollo: He though he'd have a better chance with Perse Kronide if he got her father's blessing.

Artemis: ...and why were you in Tartarus?

Apollo: *spluttering* THAT ISN'T THE POINT, ARTEMIS!

[guardianspirits13]

Trials of Apollo au in which everything is the same but Apollo has braces and has to find a new orthodontist every month since he’s always on the move.

And also because Zeus wants him to suffer.

Bonus (America edition):

[yikesy]

when I'm reading toa fics and someone tells apollo that he's changed: a aaaaaaaaahhh

because I know, I know it's in character

but does the writer believe it?? and in which way???

because the thing about apollo i think, is that he did change in the trials but it was not in becoming a better person (it was about trusting and letting others in and finally giving up on zeus)

because he already was a good person when we meet him

and that's the thing

when we meet him

because he's already changed before

all these things people think his arc was about, all the lessons he supposedly speedran

oh he had that arc alright, he learned those lessons

long long before we ever meet him

like do you really think a god that supposedly narcissistic and shallow (NOT that I think those were ever his vices but that's the narrative they're trying to sell us) would ever act as he did??? change so much in just a year?? change so positively???? (because contrary to popular belief extreme pain and trauma do not generally make you a better person, especially not to a person with such a supposedly negative baseline personality)

he never struggles with or even LEARNS any lessons on morality, the ideas always magically spring fully formed because he already knew them he already has his own ideologies

what he does struggle with and has to learn is SINCERITY because THAT'S WHAT HIS ARC IS SECRETLY ALL ABOUT

and of course he has to vocalize his apologies since, well he never did say them

but make no mistake the apollo of at the very least the past century would have never done the things he's currently apologizing for

[live-laugh-ukotoa]

apollo honey you can't manwhore your way out of more trauma

[maelstromic]

Apollo: * breathes

Artemis : WHORE

Apollo :............

Apollo: Fair enough.

[the-primordial-archivist]

Is Lester even ugly or was Apollo just being a bitch about it?????

[bugwolfsstuff]

Connor is convinced that Will can teleport because everytime he calls Apollo hot, Will seems to manifest behind him out of sheer rage to yell at him to stay the fuck away from his dad