#tbotl angst

[demigods-posts]

imagine if thalia visited percy on his fifteen birthday. an apology lodged somewhere in the back of her throat. knocking on the apartment door while holding back tears. sally greeting her with the warm smile of a mother. paul welcoming her inside with the kind tone of a father. imagine thalia surprised to see percy and nico bonding over two slices of blue cake. feeling even more alienated as a big three kid. knowing these two had a relationship without her. imagine thalia meeting percy's eyes from across the room. and for a brief second. she swears his previously gleeful gaze turns cold and bitter. and she's waiting for the anger. for the tide to drown her. and she's prepared to welcome it. but then his gaze turns remorseful. and then apologetic. and he doesn't yell at her. instead. he invites her to sit next to him and nico. and welcomes her to a slice of blue cake. because time will pass anyway. and life's way too short for kids like them to not hold each other through it.

[winters-cursed-king]

oh, 'quenched (like a candle's wick in the breeze)' for the fic thing?

oh fuck this is so poetic. PJO, Nico centric. I’m a sucker for angst so it would probably be centred around Bianca’s death, Nico’s issues around chb and trying to fit in with a century that isn’t his, his fractured relationship with his father, and his crush on Percy. I have two routes; one would go down a very Angsty path and focus on self harm, trauma and suicidal thoughts, and would be set in Tartarus or the jar. The other would be more subtle in it’s discussion of the central topics and would be set while Nico is crashing at Percy’s sometime between tbotl and tlo