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I didn't know I needed Genesis by Daylight until I read it; it made me really think about Luke's character in the books. Love your characterization of him, by the way. His voice in the story feels pretty distinct from the other characters.

Also, I think it's really interesting how Hermes' grief had such an impact on his domain. I was wondering, like, if Luke died in the story after he started a relationship with Apollo, how would Apollo show his grief through his domains?

Thank you!🥰 I tend to think quite a lot about my portrayal of characters and how they come across as I write them, so I'm really glad you liked Luke's characterisation♥️

I imagine Apollo as a being of extremes, so if we focus on the sun god aspect of him, he would either let loose devestating solar flares — or he'll simply choose not to drive his chariot, plunging the earth into darkness.

Another domain of his that I imagine would come into play is his domain of disease/plague. This would be paired with the "solar flare" option above — a pandemic would spread quickly, exacerbated by the extreme heat. In short, chaos!

All of this sounds pretty apocalyptic lol, but it's worth mentioning that the other Olympians won't let it reach that point. They'd probably let Apollo torch a few cities, but after a certain point they'd probably turn to Zeus and be like "yo can you rein your son in", and then Zeus will step in.

(The only reason why Zeus didn't do that for Hermes when AU Luke died, was because Hermes didn't give him a reason to — he stopped the communication/transportation blackout in "only" a few days, whereas Apollo would probably take much longer get ahold of himself. (In the context of Genesis) Hermes, in my opinion, has a tighter hold over his emotions than Apollo.

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Kronide mama Luke au

"Mama," Zeus warbles, pink-cheeked and red-lipped, tears welling in his blue eyes. "Mama..."

He reaches out blindly, still making those small sobbing hiccups, and Luke scowls. He scoops the child in his arms in a practiced motion, holding Zeus to his chest and rocking him slowly.

It's not because he wants to. It's only because Zeus will keep crying if he doesn't hold him, and Luke doesn't want to deal with the noise. If he has to suffer through yet another sleepless night because of Zeus' crying fits, he's going to smother the damned kid with his pillow.

"Why are you crying again," he snaps, annoyed. He irritatedly eyes the tufts of dark hair sticking haphazardly from Zeus' head; frowning, he smoothes down the offending tufts with his fingers. There, better. "Aren't you supposed to be the king of gods? Why are you such a crybaby?"

Zeus hiccups again. He sniffles wetly into Luke's shirt in lieu of a reply, and Luke looks heavenwards for patience.

For the umpteenth time, he regrets that he didn't throw Zeus off a cliff when he had the chance.

"You're too soft on him," Amalthea says placidly. She watches them from afar, her yellow eyes liquid in the dim light. "Even when you shouldn't. Especially when you shouldn't."

"I do nothing of the sort," Luke replies blandly. "And you're welcome to take him from me any time, you know."

Amalthea's eyes narrow.

"He is to be the one who slays the Titan King," she says, ignoring the latter half of his sentence. "To overthrow his father and claim his rightful throne. It is his destiny."

Her words hang in the air like an accusation.

For a moment, Luke says nothing.

"Mama?" Zeus mumbles quietly. He looks up at Luke, blue eyes — blue like Thalias's — wide and teary. His lower lip trembles.

Luke looks back down at him, expression unreadable.

This child will grow up to become the king of Olympus. He will grow up to be a selfish, tyrannical king, a king only barely better than his predecessor. A bad king and a worse father, so occupied with his own ego and paranoia that he would rather condemn his own daughter to die than admit he was wrong.

Zeus reaches out clumsily, wrapping his small hand around Luke's finger. He blinks rapidly, meeting Luke's gaze.

Then, he smiles — a wide, toothy thing, wholly adoring in the way only children know how.

Luke turns away. He cannot bear to look at his face.

"He's a child," he tells Amalthea. "Destiny or not, it will have to wait."

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Funny head cannon-

Luke probably starved a lot as a kid- ya know, living with a crazy lady, being on the road with two other kids, probably didn’t eat much himself

So now all I can imagine is that- Luke can go months, without eating. And it’s all fun and games until one day at camp Luke suddenly collapses from the lack of water, sleep, and food

Not because he wants to no- it’s just that he forgets to eat some times🤷‍♀️ he also can’t handle having a full stomach- it’s not something he’s used to!

So now every time Luke sees someone there like “Luke, have you eaten today?” And Luke has to go eat something before he passes out

He also has a lot of Hermes animals reminding him (and his siblings, of course) to eat as well

Oh wow that's kinda sad, but I can definitely see it — being on the run for so long would undoubtedly do something to your perception of food/eating.

But it's also lowkey funny if you imagine Luke acting completely fine most of the time, except for some moments where he just slumps and falls flat on his face out of nowhere😭 like he could be teaching a swordfighting class and while in the middle of demonstrating a move he just goes "ah, crap" and just faints dead away LOL. Cue the kids scrambling to catch him.

I can imagine his friends and the other demigod kids also writing little notes that they paste on everything he owns — just small colourful post-its on his pillow so it's the first thing he sees when he wakes up, or on his clothes, or even on his armour , all containing variants of "remember to eat!!"

Luke grumbles about annoying kids who litter sticky notes everywhere. But if you look around his space in the Hermes cabin hard enough, you can find a small box filled with post-its of all colours and sizes.

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Luke’s official title is:

“Mother of gods, Demi gods, fluffy cows, and other animals”

And I will not be changing the name unless he gets another subspecies of kids

Luke the eternal MILF😌😌👌

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I. Need. More. APOLLO X LUKE

PLEASEEEEE

This is diving more into characterisation/relationship dynamics, so I apologise for the incoming ramble haha!

To start, something that I've always thought interesting is how Apollo is sometimes said to be most Greek of the Greek gods.

He has a lot of domains, and they encapsulate many of the qualities that the Ancient Greeks prided themselves on: music, poetry, healing, truth and reason etc etc. The ideal Greek man, so to speak, which implies that a good number of his domains heavily intersect with humanity. And that's not to say of his other domains that revolve around humans (i.e. disease/plague), plus that one time he got turned into a mortal alongside Poseidon in the myths.

Does this mean that Apollo can be considered the most human of the Greek gods? Not necessarily, but I think it can possibly be said that the involvement of Apollo's numerous domains with humanity might mean that he has more interaction with mortals than the average god. (This will be relevant later, I promise.)

Now as for Luke — we know about his backstory and resentment towards the gods. There's a host of reasons that factor into this resentment, but it boils down to the gods not caring for their kids and not caring to understand them. He wants the gods to understand his pain, to ultimately be seen and have his hurt validated. He'd rather die than willingly enter a relationship with a god who cannot or will not do the above.

Enter Apollo. Remember how I said his domains' intersections with humanity might mean that he interacts more with mortals than the average god? Because of this, I see him as someone who thinks he understands humanity, even more so than the other gods — more importantly (and uniquely), he thinks he understands humanity by getting on their level. But that's not true — even in PJO canon, despite being one of the nicer gods that Percy encounters, we can still see that there's a disconnect between what he thinks of humans, and what they're actually like (before his character development in ToA I mean) .

So put together: a mortal demigod who hates the gods for not caring for and understanding their children, and a god who thinks he understands and cares for humans, but falls short. It's an interesting dynamic imo which is why I wanted to try writing it haha.

Thanks for reading if you've made it this far!

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Hey guys sorry I've thought about it and I've decided I want to make this blog sfw from now on🙏 that means I'm no longer accepting nsfw asks, ty!

Also I promise I'll get around to the other asks in my inbox whenever real life stops being annoying!! I'm just super busy rn so I haven't got time to go through my inbox yet reee

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Since this seems to be what people do around here, here’s a snippet of rock the cradle, my son:

Luke breathed in deep—shaky—eyes tracing his son’s features.

Lykē was small, blinking his blue eyes—blue as Phoebe’s, as Luke’s, as Hermes’—as if getting used to being alive, staring up at him with the confused openness newborns often had.

But—

Luke traced them again, hands flexing lightly, more desperate now to see more of himself.

But he didn’t find it.

Black curly hair. Bronze skin. The shape of his cheekbones.

All of it.

He looked at his son, and Hermes’ face stared back at him.

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Crack AU where Luke doesn't defect to Kronos because the day he was supposed to ask his father for a quest, he takes a trip out of Camp Half-Blood for a quick supply run for the Hermes Cabin — where he gets recruited by a scout for a model agency.

Fast forward a few years later, where Kronos begins to choose which demigods to recruit for his growing army. Except he gets stuck at the "recruiting Luke" part of his plan, because Luke is now a full-fledged model, and between walking the runway for Dolce & Gabbana and flying to Europe for castings, he's got no time for weird faceless dudes who keep trying to convince him to join his rebellion.

Kronos: Son of Hermes —

Luke: I don't care who you are, but you need to stop appearing in my dreams. I need my beauty sleep! People literally pay to see this face!! Are you going to reimburse me if I miss the Prada casting on Friday because of the dark circles you're giving me????

Kronos: ...

Kronos: Perhaps you do not understand your situation. I will reiterate —

Luke: No, it's YOU who doesn't understand. I've got a runway in eight hours in New York City, and then I have to fly to London for a photoshoot. And then I'm flying to France for Paris Fashion Week, and straight after that I'm heading to Milan for a casting.

Luke: I'm BUSY. B-U-S-Y. Fully booked!! Don't call me again unless your name is Anna Wintour.

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Seen in an open field: Luke stroking a big fluffy cow's head as she moos her grievances loudly.

"Ok Susie," he'll say, as Susie tries her utmost best to wiggle her way onto his lap like she's a chihuahua instead of a full grown cow weighing 700 kilos. "What's wrong now? Deborah keeps eating all the grass in your favourite grass patch? Well, what did you tell her?"

Susie gives a short moo.

"Really? She said that?? Well that doesn't sound very nice."

Hermes is the god of herds and flocks so I think it would be cute if Luke had the ability to converse with herd animals lol.

Like I can see him sitting in a field surrounded by fluffy sheep or something, who snuggle near him and butt their heads against his hands, demanding to be petted. And they're just baa-ing at him and he nods his head as he listens, going "uh huh" and "really??" and "oh wow"

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Thinking about mama Luke au again (aka the one where he time travels to the age of Kronos' rule and raises the kronides) and I realised there's a lot of angst potential to this lol.

Consider: even with the time-travelling, Luke is still a mortal. The kronides know this, but they don't think much of it — gods grow up quickly, so it only takes a few years for them to grow into adulthood. Even then, they have other priorities to worry about: namely, overthrowing their father.

Luke is a constant; he was there when they were children, tucking them into bed and soothing their childish hurts. He was there when they launched their first attack against Kronos' army, providing logistics and support and strategising battle plans. He was there for the final battle, when Zeus drove his Master Bolt into Kronos' throat and dragged him into Tartarus. The kronides do not remember a time where Luke wasn't there — so they don't even consider the possibility that one day he might leave them.

So the first Titanomachy comes and goes. The dust settles. The Kronides take their thrones as the new rulers of what would later become the centre of Western civilisation.

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And then Luke starts getting sick.

And he doesn't get better.

Turns out, hosting the titan of time does a lot more damage to your body than you realise. Luke's body had been slowly deteriorating over the course of the last several years — he just never told anyone. And now the kronides have to watch the person who raised them, their father figure and mother figure rolled into one, slowly die.

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AHHH THIS LOOKS AMAZING!!! Athenide/Godling au Luke omgg he looks so good🤩🤩

once again thank you to all the lovely people and anons who sent in the luke prompts 🥰🥰

i ended up combining a few of them since they closely matched each other and to make them fit the six boxes, so hope that's all cool!!

au credits: » @bugwolfsstuff for the priest au!luke » @tealvneu's Athenide/Godling!Luke » last box is a redraw of @bvckbiter's fanarts of Luke

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Omg guys I just found out there's a fic with a similar premise on ao3!! It's Percy-centric but it's also about him time travelling back to the age of Kronos and raising the kronides👀👀 also Zeus calls Percy "mama" too??? I'm sold lol

It's called Accidental Mother of Gods by Sahiko — can't wait to read this later today hehe

Crack AU where after the Battle of Manhattan Luke is thrown backwards into time — except he isn't thrown into Ancient Greece, but rather into the Golden Age of Greek mythology, where Kronos still ruled.

He appears right in the middle of this cave where a woman lies on a bed, clearly having just given birth. He has no earthly idea who this woman is, but she stuffs a baby into his arms and tells him to run with a goat called Amalthea (the name sounds familiar but he has no time to dwell on why that is).

Of course he's like "no wtf", but then he senses a familiar presence approaching them quickly — clocking that presence as Kronos, Luke has no idea why the titan is still alive but thankfully has the sense of mind to get the hell out of dodge.

It isn't until later that he looks down at the baby in his arms. The baby's hair is soft and downy, a light wispy blond. He has bright blue eyes — blue like the shell of a robin’s egg, blue like lightning thundering across a clear sky.

A blue that he realises, with horrified dread, is all too familiar.

“Zeus seems to like you,” the dark haired nymph — Adrastreia, she'd introduced herself as — who'd accompanied Luke and the goat in their escape from that cave, says, smiling.

Luke just stares.

"Who?" He forces out, voice shrill.

Anyway, his first instinct is to chuck baby Zeus off the nearest cliff, but then he realises that if he does that, Kronos would almost certainly never fall to the Olympians, which is Not Good™. And Amalthea and Adrastreia, no matter how friendly they seem, are still suspicious of him, so he's stuck being a godly nanny for now.

Joy.

Then Zeus grows up. And then he frees his siblings. So now Luke not only has to deal with babysitting one baby god, but six. Who for some reason clamour for his attention and call him mother.

...Maybe he should have just thrown himself off a cliff when he had the chance.

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Psst just posted the first chapter of this fic!

Writing something for my third favourite blorbo

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Sigh there's just something about Luke that makes me want to see him being passed around like a party favour

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God nanny Luke au we’re after the siblings are free, Zeus is like

Zeus: “okay guys, so I know we have a mom and stuff but this is our new mom” he says while pointing to Luke, who’s make food out of stress

Poseidon: “wait why? Rhea’s our mother?”

Zeus: “he makes good food and hates father.”

The siblings: “…okay! NEW MOMM”

Luke: “fuck!”

I imagine when Zeus makes Kronos cough up his siblings he immediately whisks them away to Luke's cave, because it's the first place he thinks of when he's thinking of a safe place.

The other kronides are confused of course, especially because Zeus is just nattering on about stuff like "I'll bring you to mother. He'll know what to do", "mother is strong but he's also mortal, so you must all be careful not to lose control of your powers around him", and "mother should be making dinner around this time" lmao.

Luke is Very Unimpressed to discover that he now has to nanny 6 godly kids instead of just 1, and is horrified when in the future the other kronides also call him mother.

He's shaking Rhea and being like "your kids are calling me their mother! Do something! Does this not make you angry???", and Rhea's just drinking a glass of nectar and being like "lol you literally raised Zeus from a baby and took care of the others the moment they were expelled into the world for a second time. Did you seriously not expect this to happen?"

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The Apollo cabin is horrified when they found out their father likes Luke/thinks he’s hot

It’s not for the reason they think though.

While most would think it’s because it’s, ya know, there dad saying he’s attracted to someone (not a shock)

There horrified because Apollos attracted to there mother figure- not just there’s either, the entire camps mother figure

The moment Apollo makes any move on Luke he’s having a thousand spears pointed to his throat from every cabin

Apollo's biggest concern isn't the demigods — the person he should really be afraid of is his own father, who would happily turn him to a smear of ash with a well-placed lightning bolt should he discover that his son, notorious for his tragic romances, is lusting after his MOTHER.😂 Oh and also Apollo has to be on guard against the rest of the kronides too, who are all very protective of their shared mother

Good luck Apollo!! Fight for that Lukeussy💪