#pjo worldbuilding

[freddie-77-ao3]

Some More Random Worldbuilding for PJO, this time, Mythic Metals

*Note: this refers specifically to metals that Greek and Roman demigods can use. I'm not including other pantheons*

*Most common in this sense refers to most commonly used by demigods*

So we, of course, have the canon Stygian Iron, Celestial Bronze, and Imperial Gold, but in addition, we also get Adamantine, Orichalum, Artemisian Silver, and Apolloin Gold.

Starting off with more facts about the basic metals (ones known in the series):

Celestial Bronze: most common mythical metal. Primarily used by Greek demigods, however anyone within the two pantheons can use a celestial bronze weapon. Can't kill mortals.

Imperial Gold: equally as common as Celestial Bronze, only "rarer" among demigods because Roman Gods are the ones who control the mining and usage of the metal, and these gods are stricter regarding privledge to use the metal. Primarily used by Romans, however anyone within the two pantheons can use a imperial gold weapon. Can't kill mortals.

Stygian Iron: third most common mythical metal. However, stygian iron can only be used by chthonic demigods, gods, and other underworldly creatures. If stygian iron is used by non-chthonic demigods, it weakens their life source and can take years from them. If used by a non-chthonic god, their powers are weakened for many years. Stygian iron cannot be used by mortals-- it kills them near instantaneously. Stygian iron can kill mortals.

Now into my own ideas:

Orichalum: tied with Stygian iron for third most common mythical metal. Mined in Atlantis, orichalum, like stygian iron, cannot be used by all beings. Instead, orichalum can only be used by aquatic gods, demigods, and creatures. In this sense, aquatic refers to both the ocean (Poseidon, Oceanus, the Nereids, etc), but also all other bodies of waters like lakes and rivers (river gods, nymphs, Naiads). Riptide is not actually made of celestial bronze, it is made of orichalum. It's effects on non-aquatics are similar to that of stygian iron. Orichalum cannot kill mortals. Sort of bronze-ish looking.

Apolloin Gold: the fifth most common metal. This can only come directly from Apollo or Helios, as the metal is quite literally ored from the sun. Technically Eos and Hemera can also give it out, but they have many fewer connections with mortals. As such, should it be one of the rarer metals? Yes. It's more common than it's parallel, however, because Apollo used to hand the metal out quite frequently-- to mortals who impressed him, his lovers, his children, and the metal just made it's way into other people's hands. Can be used by anyone. Cannot kill mortals.

Artemisian Silver: the sixth most common element-- or second rarest. Artemisian Silver can only come from Artemis, Selene, or Hecate. As Artemis is the main goddess of the moon at this point, artemisian silver most closely represents her other domains, and as such can only be used by girls and women, *except in cases of Hecate's boy children or those blessed by Artemis*. Artemisian silver can harm werewolves, which is where the silver werewolf stereotype came from, and why Reyna's pocket knife, although silver, did not work. Cannot kill mortals.

Adamantine: rarest of all. This metal is most closely guarded by the gods, and only a few known weapons remain in demigod weaponries. Bright, almost blinding white, the metal looks like a cross between diamonds and silver. Completely unbreakable, and cannot be bent or harmed in any way after being forged. The only demigods who can use adamantine are children of the Kronides and Aphrodite (eldest gods), although even many of these demigods have to dilute it to use the metal. It burns through other demigods and mortals until their hands are ash if they touch it. The full olympian council must decide to give any demigod an adamantine weapon. It can hurt mortals.

There's also, of course, Drakon bone, although that's not technically a metal. Drakon bone is the only well known bone weapon in the series, however, divine bone from any being can be forged into a weapon that can kill monsters. Has to come from a spoil of war, as the being will dissolved if killed, and as such, is never seen outside of Tartarus, with the exception of Annabeth's sword.

The titans also had their own metal, similar to adamantine. Some call the metal Everlasting. Rarely known, never wielded anymore.

[queen-of-weird-girlboy-nation]

Made some worldbuilding loree

For my pjo au :))

Trying to deep dive into the god lore!?

In the beginning, there were stars. Just a void of space, with the constellations dancing above. The stars were not sentient as god or men are, but they held their wisdom, unknowingly. They were there before the gods, holding the future.

Then, a being sprung up. From where, no one knows, but he came. This being was called Genge. He was smart, wise, and used the stars for guidance. And soon after another being sprung up. And her name was Dawe. And Genge and Dawe roamed the cosmos, seeking wisdom and loving each other, and the world was at peace.

Until one day Genge consulted the stars and was told that he and Dawe should make a child. And they tried. And instead of having one child they had 2. One born of the wisdom of the smaller stars, of the tiny prophetic drops and one born of the searing bold intelligent heat of the suns of the galaxy. And when they were formed, two large bodies sprung up with them. Genge and Dawe named these children Mercury and Venus and all was right in the world.

Mercury and Venus were children whose ‘planets’ did not hold life. But no one knew exactly what life was then. So it didn't matter.

And soon again the stars told the couple to have a child. And they did, but this child was born…strange. They did not seem to be born at all, but were constantly changing and confused. But Genge and Dawe loved it, at first, and they called this child Earth. And with Earth a planet sprung up. A strange place for a strange child. With things that everyone else…lacked.

But Earth seemed not to be suited to the roaming life of the family. And so Genge and Dawe left them on their own planet, alone, with no guidance, for this child seemed too strange. The stars had nothing to say, no warning nor help. So they left their child, confused as to why the stars would want them to have someone who clearly wasn't good enough.

You see, the stars had no wisdom on this, for as it is a sad event which should have been avoided, the Reckoning also would be helpful. No matter what happened, it was suffering and hope and love and life.

And Genge and Dawe had children. More and more. They had Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,

Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. And slowly but surely Earth faded away from everyone's memories.

All of these children had personalities, but nothing to watch or guard over. They simply searched for wisdom, some more than others, but that was in their nature. They were not gods, not yet, just powers.

And Earth was alone, because while her siblings' planets were close enough to hers, they never came to them. And she didn't want to see them much anyway. She changed a lot. She realised it when the things came or when the things melted or when they began to shrink or when things simply happened. And she studied and named these things, and took pride in them. She was a goddess in her own right, of a living earth. She helped humans, pushed them along. But it was too much, too much for one to encompass it all. To be everything of the world, and later humanity. But she did not know that yet.

And it continued like this. Until Earth was taken over.

The Reckoning was the beginning. The reckoning of which the entire world of earth as we know it can be traced back to. As yes, Earth had things, but these things were out of balance. As it was only here. If she had some siblings, some mother or father, some help. Maybe it wouldn't have been such a tragedy. Maybe less would have died and the world not basically restarted. But as it stands, it jas happened. The great evils seized earth,tormenting those who lived there. The civilizations. The ones which mortals will never hear uttered, but were amazing. Earth was vulnerable, and then wiped out. A mass extinction of suffering and pain.

But many would argue a necessary one. That is a debate for another day.

The other 8 planets came to fight off the evil once it started to threaten their planets, as they couldn't care less about their wayward sister. And they killed it, but not before Genge and Dawe were killed. But not by the Reckoned forces, but by Earth.

You see, Earth is no longer a power, as she chose to absorb herself into the very planet she lived on, giving up sentience to become like the stars. She is Earth the planet now. But in her last moments, after she was saved but in great pain, after the reckoning was over and everyone was glaring at her for ‘all the unnecessary stress’ she killed her parents. For abandoning her as a child. Not teaching her ways of which she might have saved herself already. And then she joined the planet she loved so much.

There was much discussion over what to do with Earth. But the stars said they must rule over it, become the gods of the world. So they did. They nudged the world along as it rebuilt itself. They saw creatures and developed aspects as the world grew. They ruled over domains that corresponded with their personality.

And they had demigod children. For gods could only sire demigods, only sleep with mortals as it was written in a sacred code. Only mortals. So there will be demigod heroes.

And they hated it. They hated earth and some hated their parents and some missed earth a bit and some never knew her and some loved their new roles and all hated each other. They were amazingly dysfunctional.

There are some…minor gods. They become gods by achieving a gods special favour. They don't get a cool planet name or anything, just immortality and all that jazz :)

[pjo-planet-au]

Planet au annabeth has a magic gun.

[aroaceleovaldez]

headcanon that CHB actually has a "Cabin Zero" - an extra cabin a little ways from the main ring of cabins and probably somewhat hidden beyond the tree line/in overgrowth. Given it's lack of proper use as a cabin, it's instead usually used for gardening storage, and has largely fallen into disrepair.

It exists as a means to solve the problem of how the dodekotheon isn't actually consistent in who comprises the "12 Olympians" across all of ancient Greece or throughout history. Since the cabins are supposed to be one for each of the 12 olympians, if a demigod child comes along whose godly parent is part of a local iteration of the dodekotheon that varies from what they have at camp they can't just stick that kid in the Hermes cabin without potentially offending that god; They are an Olympian, so they should have a cabin. At the same time though they can't just add on extra cabins, because it's supposed to be the twelve Olympians, so adding them on as Cabin 13 or etc is inherently tacking them on as extra or not part of the 12. So, Cabin 0: An ambiguously catch-all cabin for niche fringe cases. If any demigods show up fitting that category they get to enjoy what is probably, objectively, the shittiest cabin.

Most demigods who fit this category simply opt to leave and never return.

[kitkatperce]

percy redesign (because i cant seem to not redesign him every 2 weeks) and worldbuilding because i love worldbuilding . did i mention i love worldbuilding? because i do

also beckendrof made the ring on percys pinky finger

[reinedeslys-central]

more!! again!! for the nico after blood of olympus fic!! actually I thought of this while writing the last one but I just finished it.

His elbows buckle and he lets himself fall into Will, snorting at his theatrical groan under the weight. They lay there for a second until Will shoves him gently, and Nico lets him manoeuvre them into a more comfortable position.

"Hi," he whispers, moving a curl away from his cheek. The greenish tint of the loft window casts a weird shadow over Will's face.

"Hey yourself," Will murmurs back, winking.

Nico rolls his eyes. "You look like Apollo when you do that. Please stop." Will squawks in protest.

"I do not! Also, since when do you remember what Apollo looks like? Actually, no, don't answer that, you can't bring up my dad while we're in bed, Nico, why would you do this to me?"

Now it's Nico's turn to sputter and whack Will in the chest - getting another dramatic oof and a laugh in return - before turning around to face Hazel's bed. He's not sure when he'll ever be able to sleep facing the wall. Will can't do it either.

As Will's arms curl around his waist and draw him back against him, just like they did back in the infirmary that one day, he thinks maybe he'd be okay trying that with him sometime. One day, in a house with gates, no longer wary of monsters.

Will noses the back of his neck, causing him to twitch. "What is it?"

Will's answering smile presses through the rough cotton of his t-shirt. "Nothing, sunshine."

Nico frowns under the covers. "Hey, what do you think of houses with gates?" He whispers.

"Gates? Well, it'd be safer, I guess, but we'd lose the neighbours coming over -"

"As if you want to see random people at the door anyway. What if they're monsters?"

"Oh, come on, darlin', I'm from Austin. Of course I gotta keep space for the neighbours to come knocking."

"…Fences? Actually, hey, why'd you assume I was talking about us? Obviously - Obviously I was talking about random. Random houses. For architecture reasons."

Will muffles his laugh into the back of his neck, again. "Oh, my bad. And I'm only here because you ripped a stitch on the lava wall yesterday."

Nico feels his ears warm.

"Shut up."

"I didn't say anything."

"..Still."

Will reels him in closer until his back hits his chest and he can press a soft peck to Nico's still-red ears. "I think a fence is a great idea, by the way. We could ask Hazel for help with some ward stones too, like you have in the cabin. Gotta make sure we've got at least one window and standing space in every direction, though, or at least in the east, because you know my dad would sulk if he didn't get to scream me awake in the morning."

Nico's blush gets worse.

"Now who's talking about your dad in bed?" He gives up on pretending. Will sees him through every time, anyway. "Also, shrines, obviously, and we need a spot to stargaze."

"Yeah, shrines, obviously. Maybe just yours, mine, and Lady Hestia's though, or else everyone else is gonna get pissy."

Nico barks out a laugh like it's shocked out of him. "Pissy? Don't let them hear you say that."

Will holds him tighter and settles against the pillows. "Sure thing, sunshine. Now can we sleep?"

"Yeah, yeah."

It's not long after that that Will's breath evens out behind him, his muscles untensing. Nico knows he's got a few minutes yet, so he thinks.

Today was…. good.

Today was nice. Normal, even. Just a day of camp schedules, working in the infirmary, an admittedly short campfire, and this. No monsters, and no mistakes. No deaths, but..

Unbidden, the moments in the infirmary come to mind. He thinks of helping Will scrub in for his one surgery of the day, a kid that had gotten parts of an arrow stuck in their leg a week ago and hadn't noticed til yesterday. He thinks of yesterday during capture-the-flag, stepping in and desperately trying to copy what he'd watched Will do, because Lydia was hanging crooked from a tree and there was no one else around but him-

He thinks of Patroclus tying the straps of Achilles' armour, watching his lover sleep peacefully. He thinks of what Connor had told him about at the campfire weeks ago, of Silena Beauregard taking on a drakon when Clarisse declared the Ares Cabin wouldn't be fighting.

He thinks he might understand.

Lydia wasn't the same (thank the gods), but if there was something to be done that only Will could do right, yet couldn't, and the only way Nico could take up his mantle would be to die trying - then, yeah. He'd do whatever it would take for these kids. To do what Will would do. He's gone to Tartarus already, hasn't he? At worst, he'd try his best and greet his father early if he failed to survive. Nico could even give Charon a tip on the way in for the hell of it, why not?

If there is a luxury that comes from being a child of Hades, after all, it is that dying is not the thing that scares him.

There's a brazier still lit outside the window. Its glow falls in slits across their bed.

Will grumbles, pushing his feet forward until their ankles are wound together. The sheets shift.

Nico smiles into the dark, into the chirping of crickets and the soft glow of the fireflies out the window, and falls asleep.

more for this fic:

scene 0 - prologue-ish scene 1 - the library of social awkwardness or here (or in my heart, 'kidney function is not a right, it's a privilege' lol)

general writing directory

also lmk if you want more lore. I am so down to talk about this fic + the worldbuilding ideas I have for it in the notes it is unreal

[malrie]

act i of the piperiad is out :)

[bestriordanpottercrossovers]

I have so many memes but I felt it necessary to share this one to the void as it is important to me in this sub genre.

[chicanedaze]

Good adaptations aren't scene by scene, line by line reenactments of a book. It's a completely different medium, that the creators can use to tell the story a different way. Besides budget issues (just writing a scene where a bunch of crazy stuff happens costs about $0, while portraying it on screen is a different matter), the pacing/flow is different in live action stuff than books.

The SPIRIT of the adaptation is what matters. The original PJO movies weren't bad because Annabeth's hair was brown or they didn't say the dialogue straight from the book or dare I argue, because they mixed in elements from further in the series. Rather, it was bad because the vibe was simply far too edgy. Percy was sassy, it did have humor, monsters were fine, but it fell flat on its face because it didn't understand its characters, its world, or its TONE. THE TONE. It was genuinely awful.

Good adaptations expand on the source material without losing the charm of the original. They understand what makes characters tick and what's at the core of the journey, its not about aesthetics or being faithful to the point of being dull and having nothing new to say.

The PJO series is doing that. Having Rick involved probably helped a lot. It has a rocky start, in my opinion. But from the second half of ep. 2 and into ep. 3, I see it gaining its footing.

[pjocharacterdesign]

Hello, I was wondering if I could ask more about the roman demigod with the label [Lifeguard] from your roman cohort post on the blog as well as the demigod on the fourth cohort page with the Camp Jupiter Confidential demigods on it, first in the second row with the brown shoulder length hair, green eyes and glasses? I love your art and your art style, its so beautiful. :) Sorry, if the ask to long.

Of course! [Post anon is referencing here]

These two are from my project to flesh out Camp Jupiter for my askblog, @deadangelos!

The lifeguard one is in 3rd cohort, and is referenced in Camp Jupiter Classified and I fleshed him out a bit - mainly giving him a design, name, and divine ancestor (Venilia - a nymph/goddess of winds and sea, which felt fitting for a lifeguard). His name comes from an Italian form of "Alexander," and is the name of the painter of The Birth Of Venus (There's actually a mountain on Venus named for Venilia, so that's one of the tie-ins there), and the name Morgan means "sea circle" essentially, so again lots of water themes for him for the lifeguard stuff. Cause giving demigod ocs referential names is fun.

Jenifer is a double-legacy in 4th cohort. Palatua is a goddess guardian of Palatine Hill, and Vacuna was a goddess prayed to in favor of absent or missing friends and family. She joined the legion basically right at the end or right after the Titan War. He looks all depressed cause I thought it'd be interesting if, because of the exact combo of his double-legacy, he feels a lot of responsibility for the safety and well-being of Camp Jupiter and the Romans who live there, and they just got out of the Titan War and are still reeling from that and the losses/destruction from that- and because he was either new during the end of the war or joined just after, he couldn't really do much to help. She's just got a lot on her mind.

Design-wise they're both mostly born out of me fiddling, as are most of the bg romans designs I make. I just kind of keep working at them until I like them and then flesh out a character around that - Jenifer was more that, and Sandro was more me trying to work out a design that I was more or less satisfied with that fit for the character briefly referenced in CJC and figuring out what he might be like in more than one sentence. Sometimes I'll have a particular design or concept I wanna mess with and I'll work around that, but usually it's just me messing around until I get something I like.

I have a lot of fun designing background riordanverse characters and fleshing them out like this, so always feel free to ask about them! I tend to talk a bit more about those concepts over on my main pjo sideblog @aroaceleovaldez, but I'll happily chat about the design aspects here as well!

[i-spilled-my-soup]

recently read translation and notes of the homeric hymn to demeter and thinking.... about the chthonic symbolism and characterization of hades., hades as the all-reciever, who never gives and always takes, of the abduction of persephone into hades as death, since she is forced to reside in the land of the dead,

[queen-of-weird-girlboy-nation]

@auroraofthesun1

Ok

Anyways I'll go into what I already have for chb and some more lore

Mercury main: sea, stars, mischief

Venus main: sun, leadership, education

Mars: electricity, fire, mechanics

Jupiter: human brain, joy, mischief

Saturn: healing, kindness, flowers

Uranus: anger, war, protection

Neptune: music, beauty/romance, deception

Pluto: home,love, family, death

They line up with different gods from the PJOverse, but not perfectly at all. Its more so I can sort the children into different groups, but it isn't perfect and a lot of the time it might not ‘make sense’.

Mercury: Children of Poseiden

Venus: Children of Athena and Zeus

Mars: Children of Hephèastus

Jupiter: Children of Diyonous+Hermes

Saturn: Children of Apollo and Demeter

Uranus: Children of ares

Neptune: Children of aphrodite (and sometimes apollo)

Pluto: Children of hades

So that means there's some overlap. For example, thalia and annabeth are siblings here! Also, some people with different attributes get switched around, like an Apollo camper who was more musical would go to Neptune cabin, for example (like austin).

The gods here are not formed by what people believe of them, as no one knows they exist except select mortals or heroes, but as their previous personalities, meaningbthey can represent things that seem contradictory (like home and love and death for Pluto)

Minor gods?

In Percy Jackson, there are the olympians and also the minor gods. Like iris or nemesis. But here we sort of have those, but also not really.

Minor gods are chosen by the main pantheon, usually as mortals/ (occasionally) demigod lovers (however the demigod and god cannot have children. And gods and minor gods cant have children either) who the gods wanted to keep forever. They get immortality, and small powers, but not much of a domain. Everything usually gets assimilated under main gods, meaning there are really only eight real ‘gods’.

Other situations that lead to godhead

mortal/demigod does something world changing for the gods or is a hero

Demigod is a favoured child and their parent loves them so much (very, very rare, usually comes with being a hero also)

Semigods vs Demigods

Both falling under the umbrella of godchild, there are differences between demigods and semigods technically.

Semigods:

Demigods are the children of minor gods and mortals. Since most minor gods are the main gods' lovers, the planetary pantheon can get incredibly jealous if they try to seek out another lover. (It's a very toxic cycle, ngl). However, things like minor gods who used to be heroes or favoured godchild children can, and they do it a lot. But demigods don't need chb. They can basically live mostly normal lives since they don't attract Reckoned Forces (basically monsters) as they're only the children of minor gods. Mostly, some being ir spirit will come to explain that you are a tiny bit magic, but it doesn't affect you much. They are partially god. But not enough to be half bloods, a demigod exclusive term.

Demigods/Half Bloods

Children of one of the 8 members of the planetary pantheon. Children of Mercury and Venus are held in especially high regard since Mercury and Venus are the leaders of the pantheon. They are demi, half gods. Half Bloods who are not diluted by being minor gods. So they attend camp half blood, CHB. They have to do this because the Reckoned Forces are so attracted to them and will kill them if they don't have protection, just like pjo. They have more powers and are in more danger.

Camp half blood:

Haven't got much on it rn but I do know some things:

The camp director is called Rhys. Worked for Venus in the middle ages and soon became her lover. She made him immortal, but she's not a very good lover (mainly bc she's possessive and also mean). Basically, he's trapped in a very toxic relationship with a goddess, and if he disobeys her, he dies and has an awful afterlife. He does talk crap about her a lot, just not to her face. She made him Camp director as an act of love, and while they aren't really together much anymore, he is still stuck as camp director as it was her order. So his life kind of sucks, meaning he's pretty much like Mr d from PJO, except sadder, even more pathetic and nicer. He sometimes just kinda makes the kids do their own thing while he drinks a lot of alcohol. He's sad :(

Also, there are 8 cabins for campers, which are kinda similar to Casita in encanto in the fact that they are kind of semi sentient and expand to fit many people. But they always look the same from the outside. Each camper gets a bunk and a trunk to put their stuff (the trunk being also smaller than it appears).

@lemonsandsadness

[megamindsupremacy]

Heyyyy so about that pjo/batfam au.... I love it.

I wonder if any of the bat kids are legacies or half bloods? Like, they'd be ripe for urgent adoption and training, given the inherent risk of monsters! Not to mention the specially bred deep rooted battle/hero instincts. Would only some be half bloods? Any? How would that affect the dynamics, to have some (or just B) be aware of and able to interact with this whole secret world complete with monsters hidden in plain sight?? There's got to be tons of secret pjo resource stashes like different metals, foods, weapons, armour hidden everywhere hehe.

Ooh, would a bat kid ever have accidentally eaten ambrosia/nectar (or gotten close) without knowing what it is? Is Alfred a legacy?? A satyr?!! That'd be so so cool. (and it'd be an explanation for how long lived he is lmao)

If the batkids were all legacies/half bloods, who would be who? Would there be a mix of greek/roman? Is Bruce aware of the Egyptians or Norse lot?? I'm so curioussssss

ooo okay so the batkids! i explained it like... a year ago (jeez) in this post but here's the basic rundown:

Bruce: Athena (three parents, complicated situation)

Dick: Hermes (three parents, uncomplicated situation)

Babs: mortal, clearsighted, not The Oracle but calls herself Oracle

Jason: Nemesis (still working this one out)

Cass: Shiva/Nike, raised by David Cain

Tim: Bellona/Janet (who is a legacy of zeus)

Steph: Apollo

Damian: Legacy Athena/Hades

Duke: normal ("normal") meta but everyone up to and including Apollo thinks he's Apollo's kid

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There are definitely stashes of demigod resources! most of the stock is in the Batcave, but they definitely have stashes in all the safehouses. They're basically like any other resource- medical supplies, celestial bronze dagger, batarangs, smoke pellets, ambrosia, etc. Considering that celestial bronze and nectar/ambrosia are pretty rare, i doubt they're using them daily, but everyone definitely has emergency demigod equipment on them. I'm also making Gotham a Land Beyond Gods, a la Alaska in SoN, so there's less of a monster problem than other cities. Gotham kinda like the trash dump of the demigod world- all the weird fucked up stuff ends up there for our intrepid heroes to get chased by.

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Most of the Batkids are aware of who they are, eventually! Bruce, Cass, and Damian always know, Dick and Jason figure it out pretty quickly after living with Bruce, Tim figures it out himself before becoming Robin, and Steph only figures it out after she "dies" (poor guy). Bruce isn't very good with the Mist, and monsters aren't like, a huge problem in Gotham, so it's not really a big deal to them if they are/aren't demigods. Babs kept up just fine as a mortal, after all. Like i said earlier, ambrosia/nectar are in short supply in Gotham (bruce doesn't really have a consistent way of getting more besides through diana, who also doesnt really have a consistent way of getting more), so nobody's eating any by accident.

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I have literally no idea what's going on with Alfred. I joked a while back that he's a minor god, which I'm not opposed to, I'd just have to work that one out a bit more. The satyr idea is fun and works really well, except imagining Alfred with goat legs and eating aluminum cans freaks me out and I don't know what to do about that. He could also just be a mortal blessed by [insert god here] to have a longer lifespan, or someone who made a deal with [insert god here] to be alive as long as Bruce/the Wayne family needs him. It'll be interesting to figure out, whenever I end up doing that!

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Bruce and Co. are NOT aware of the other pantheons! As in, they are so unaware of the other pantheons that nobody can figure out who the fuck Tim's godly parent is. Bellona is on nobody's radar, everyone is split between Ares/Dionysus/Athena/????. They also haven't figured out he's a Zeus legacy, because his ancestor fled to Gotham during WW2 and then did their best to hide their heritage for their and their kids' safety. Poor guy doesn't know what the fuck is going on, basically. Bruce is actually pretty cut off from CHB, so he's not super up-to-date about the demigod world. He tends to focus more on the superhero side of things. His kids have varying levels of interest/affiliation with the demigods, but they're definitely not on the "first to know" end of news whenever things happen. It takes a hot minute for anyone to figure out the Romans exist, and considering that Percy and Annabeth try pretty hard to conceal the Egyptian and presumably Norse pantheons, we can assume the Batfam isn't aware of those guys for quite a bit after the Greeks learn about them.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i think a lot about how early-series, demigods are referred to pretty equally as "demigods," "half-bloods," and "godlings," - the last used particularly by gods at demigods - but after that "godlings" is almost exclusively used to refer to minor gods.

something something i am literally always chewing on the concept of the line between immortals/demigods/monsters/etc being thinner than it appears

[insomniaruler]

I’m thinking about Percy Jackson again…

I wonder how many demigods in the past were sent to asylums for the monsters they saw? How many others were hunted for witch craft? How many of the gods children were killed not by monsters but by their differences?