Seaweed Brain

My name is Percy. Percy Jackson. I'm a son of Poseidon and counsellor of Cabin 3. I'm 22 years old and this is my tenth summer in camp. What more do you want to know? [ RP blog for amongushq ]

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poppy stood waiting eagerly, ready to jump out at the first person who walked past her. everyone who had passed her so far had made sure to walk very quickly and avoid eye-contact as soon as they saw the stand behind her. sure, some may call what she was doing showing her opinions down other peoples throats, and some have even gone so far as to call it propaganda. but the brunette refused to listen, no, she was just informing and educating people. “hey! do you have a minute?” she asked with a bright smile, quickly stepping in front of the person who was just trying to walk past her. “i was just wondering if you would be willing to sign my petition?”

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Raising an eyebrow gently, Percy shrugged. He liked petitions. Calm, ordered and organised they weren’t really his thing. But he had realised long ago that petitions couldn’t get him in trouble. “Well, I guess that depends on what you want me to be signing for. Sell it to me.”

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The Cartographers || Donna and Percy

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itstheblondeamazon:

Donna’s eyes burst open in shock at what she saw. At minimum a dozen manticore’s stampeded toward them. Trying to think on her feet, Donna knew she had her sword, a shield, some seeds in her pocket and then … . Donna looked down to the ground and knelt. She put a hand on the Earth and quickly tried to feel for anything living. They were in luck! Donna, in a way of using her powers, screamed out loud, and coming up from the ground burst three thick tendrils of vines. They’d be powerful but gone quickly. The three tendrils wrapped around the bodies of three monsters and squished them until they were choking on their own monster’y blood. After they were killed, the vines rotted and went back into the earth. The other monsters slowed down to assess what had happened but quickly started back up their advance on Donna and Percy.

“If you can hold them off for a moment, I can make a plan.” That didn’t seem to be an option though, as the monsters were just about to collide with them. She decided that improvisation would have to do - So she unsheathed her sword, brought out her shield and struck the first thing that came within five feet of her.

Percy whirled around, Riptide flashing through the darkness as it slashed through a manticore. The monster’s head rolled over the cave floor, leaving a trail of black ichor behind it. Percy jabbed with his blade, darting forward and slicing through another manticore. Dodging left and right he slowly made his way towards the river, fighting alongside Donna as they waded through the tide of monsters that had engulfed their position. He fought like a demon, darting forwards and hacking at a monster, leaning back and blasting water through one of the monsters. However, no matter what he did, it quickly became clear that they were wildly out number. 

“We don’t really have time for a plan,” he said, wrapping the underwater river around them in a tight blanket which he froze into a wall of ice. As the manticores threw themselves at the ice wall, he heard it crack and shudder under the weight of the enemies. “They’ll be through in a moment, make your way towards the exit and I’ll be right with you.”

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A Helping Hand || Maxwell and Percy

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cvtestinpink:

Tilting his head, Max tapped gently at his lower lip, reviewing Percy’s suggestions. “Those sound good, yes. Then again for the fundraising, it depends on what exactly it is that we’d need. Given that this is a large scale operation that concerns most of us, somehow I think people wouldn’t be too difficult about lending us premises, for instance. Chiron would certainly not want us to have to spend money for our welfare, and he did tell me he would support the, ah, it’s not an operation but, the project, you know?” Which had made Maxwell blush with pride. His previous talks with the centaur had been about permanently moving into Camp when he was fourteen, and then about his little escapade in the Underworld. The latter hadn’t been exactly pleasant.

Grinning brightly, he dug inside his backpack and got a notebook out of it, pastel with white seal pups on it. Kawaii subculture was truly a gift and something he would miss having access to, unless somehow New Athens got regular shipments of cutesy stationery. “See, I’ve thought about that! First of all, we have people within the city who studied psychology. Not to say they are professionals, but it’s as close as we get. Maybe older Romans could help us with that, too, but I still need to branch out with those. As for testing, I’ve been thinking of recruiting volunteers. I would be one myself, to be frank, because first hand experience in the system is the best way to improve it.” Not to mention he would do well to face his own demons once and for all. The nightmares were getting out of hand and pretending like he was fine wasn’t working.

Sighing gently, Percy gently bit his lip and tried to best assess the situation and provide a situational answer that would best remedy the situation that they found themselves in. “Well, it would have to depend on what we are going to do I guess. The bigger the operation the more money that we need to find, and despite how willing and generous people may be then there is the potential that we will have to raise a large sum of money and that’s always a extra pressure that we don’t need.” He shrugged gently, sticking his hands in his pockets he leaned back in his chair and ran a slender hand through his messy hair. “So I guess we start out with smaller projects and then move onto tougher ventures.” 

“Open volunteering based on an invitational system seems the best way to go about it, we can always have open sign ups but if we can identify those people who we believe need the most help then they’ll actually get the help that they so desperately need.” Pausing for a second, he ran his teaspoon through his cup of tea, watching the liquid swirl under his pressure. “I’m sure that we’ll all be able to volunteer, I guess the next question is when do you plan to put all of this into effect.”

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ellaofmckinley:

For a moment Ella found herself just staring at the monster and wondering why it was that nearly all mythological creatures seemed to be a hybrid of multiple different animals. Most of the time being animals that had no right to be combined together. A lion seemed scary enough, but combined with hooves and a mans voice? Well, Ella was pretty freaked out by it. In the back of her mind she could swear someone had told her about a creature like this before; but her memory seemed to be blank of all the facts at the moment of need. 

“Okay. Sound plan.” She gave him a short nod and began looking for a way around the monster. Lucky for Ella he didn’t seem to pay much attention her, already distracted by Percy’s shield of water; using that to her advantage and sticking close to the wall the daughter of Hecate moved slowly around to it’s side. She couldn’t see where Percy was, but hoped he’d made it to the water by now. Offensive spells weren’t really her speciality but that didn’t mean Ella couldn’t use them when the situation arose, it just meant she didn’t know that many. Focusing her mind on the spell was easy, creating the fire was hard, throwing a fire ball was even harder. 

The flames flickered blue in her hand and she could feel the heat seeping into her skin – the sign it was time to throw. With a slight huff she sent the first fire ball into the monster’s shoulder, already working on the second as it turned towards her with a roar of pain. Ella was sending her second burst of flames in the same direction – a smouldering spot in it’s coat confirming there was no armour or defense in place on it’s body – when it spoke again, but this time with a different voice. “Ella please!” And the third fireball’s flames began to sputter out in her hand as the voice echoed in her head and she froze. “Lily?” 

Percy had spent a long time thinking about monsters. Most of the time it was trivial thoughts about whether that creepy waiter was a sphinx or a harpy, but sometimes it was about the actual monsters themselves. He had to admit that he had always wondered why the monsters formed in the way that they did, Annabeth had tried to explain it to him once but he had zoned out within ten minutes of her long lecture on why monsters formed the way that they formed, why there were certain animals used and the cultural importance of it all. He was sure that it would’ve been fascinating if he had been listening. 

Percy didn’t hear her reply, he was far too busy focusing on the way whatever the hell it was that they were fighting snapped its jaws greedily and bounded after him. It was almost lazy, they seemed to put almost no effort into following him and yet it remained silent. That was something that Percy was grateful for, he wasn’t sure that he could cope with hearing Gabby’s voice when he was going to have to potentially fight and kill this monster. He managed to parry an attack before the first fire ball flew through the darkness and exploded against the monster’s side. 

He watched a second one sail through the air as the monster took on another voice, it called out just as the second fireball collided with the beast. A third ball sputtered into life before collapsing in on itself, Percy knew that Ella was going to be distracted by the monster, it was only logical. So he would have to cover her. Water arched through the air, slamming into the side of the monster and knocking it over. At least it bought them a little extra time. “Just ignore it!” he called, knowing exactly what was at stake. 

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Tyler Posey at the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, CA (August 27th)

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wreckommended:

Ugh, there he was, then, the goodie-two-shoes hero. “People love being right, though,” he chimed in, batting his lashes innocently. Not that anyone could ever buy it. He went back to his usual demeanour — aloof, maybe cold, definitely ready to pounce at the first sign of weakness — to share more of his thoughts. “If they say we’re bad their opinion’s done already, and I can’t give two shits what they think. We gotta do what we gotta do for our own safety.” His only response to the murder thing was a shrug, disinterested. “Whatever. I am. I’d do it.”

Frowning gently, Percy wondered if maybe the mortals weren’t wrong about them. After all they were only human, and if they were already considering this sort of action then how long would it be until something happened that would further jeopardize their position in the world. After all, most demigods were at least partially human. “There are other ways of fixing this, let’s focus on those and leave murder as a last resort, besides, you’re too pretty to go to prison.”

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A Helping Hand || Maxwell and Percy

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cvtestinpink: 

Max was furiously scribbling down his notebook at that point, not wanting to forget anything Percy would bring up. Even though so far they were going in the same direction, the son of Poseidon had more detailed thoughts on the matter, and his ideas were seriously good. Maxwell had heard here and there that some people doubted Percy’s intelligence: his sometimes impulsive or brash actions may have been one of the reason, or it could have been that he liked to keep things simple. It was obvious though that he was a lot more than met the eye. Otherwise, how would a daughter of Athena herself want to date him?

“Focused awareness campaign. Should we ask for posters? That may be thinking too far down the road, but we’d need something that sticks with people. We need to get their attention and long-winded posters or messages don’t do the trick.” There had to be demigods around with an eye for that kind of thing, right? And now that laptops and the like were safer to use, they could find someone to work with on that.

“One on one, of course. You can’t get the proper guidance in a group, that would be more like a first step, or an additional support,” he nodded, humming softly. Knowing someone with a degree in psychology was a big plus at times like those, not to mention Maxwell wasn’t too bad at putting himself in various situations in his mind and get good conclusions from that. “What do you think of a sort of buddy system? Like if someone has night terrors they could have someone to sleep over and help them in case it happens.” This he didn’t need to imagine to know how helpful it was: waking up from vivid nightmares to a cup of tea and Rose’s cool hand on his face had taken the edge off his own trauma a lot of times.

People sometimes just thought that he was a thick hero who was only good at fighting monsters. The truth was however that despite his ADHD and Dyslexia which had always been the real struggle. However, he was relatively intelligent, he wasn’t Annabeth of course, but he liked to think that he was smart enough. 

“I think that posters, leaflets, events aimed at raising awareness like talks or even fund raising opportunities would all be good ways, though I’m sure there are plenty of other strategies that would work as well if not better then those.” He was sure that they could find an art or design student from one of the universities that would be willing to help them out and that would be passionate about their cause and hopefully do a good job. 

Biting gently on his lip, Percy gave Maxwell’s suggestion some thought. “If it works then that is an ideal system,” he knew that Annabeth had been there for hi at some of his darkest moments and she had helped him get through a lot of things that he wasn’t sure he could’ve made it through on his own. “The issue is that we can’t do any of this without a bit of trial and error, we need to put things into practice before we know if they’re going to work at all.”

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adelfikos:

     “The true American demigod dream: without the gods or mortals fucking our lives over.”

Huffing in reply, Percy shrugged. “I’m not sure we’re that lucky.”

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touokeanou:

     The demi-titan couldn’t help but to scoff at the implication the situation in the outside world. ❝Mortals will be mortals. They’ll rain absolute hell on something — or someone — they couldn’t understand. At least with monsters, we know how we’re going to deal with them. With mortals? Tough luck.❞ the woman smiled just as warmly as the other. ❝No problem. I mean it. Plus I think despite all of our differences, I think we could all agree on that one.❞

Nodding gently, Percy shifted on the balls of his feet. “I don’t think I could have out that better myself,” Percy couldn’t help but remember the intolerance that so many mortals faced at the hands of their own kind, he knew that it would only be worse when it came to demigods. “I like it, we all have to stick together. Especially in this.”

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sonofmagic:

           he shook his head. “no, it’s just a minor sprain. you might want to avoid any strenuous physical activity until then. avoid training if you can.”

Nodding, Percy smiled. A few soaks in salt water and a few days off of his feet wouldn’t kill him. “Sure, I can do that.” He smiled and shifted towards the edge of the bed, ready to go. “Thanks for the help Al.” 

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ellaofmckinley:

“I’m sure there’s some who would say it’s still a living hell.” Ella mumbled, not everyone she had met was a positive thinking as Percy on their current situation. “You’re right though, knowing we have two places where we can be relatively safe is always nice to know.” 

As she ran after him, Ella found herself questioning what kind of monster could possibly mimic voices or would know who’s voice to use in order to create a reaction. Monsters who used brute force had always been her prefered to fight, they never had the sense to taunt of tease like the smarter ones did. The ones who managed to get into your head and trick you into seeing or thinking about things you didn’t want to – those where the worst. In her nineteen years Ella had kept a lot of parts of herself hidden even to herself, she didn’t need a monster to draw those secrets out of her. 

She spotted the monster straight away; he was hard to miss. The next thing she noticed was Percy making his way back towards the entrance where she still stood; his shield of water holding the beast back for the moment. Ella’s first instinct was to bring the cave’s roof down on the monster, but she didn’t fancy being buried under the rock along with it. At least for the moment it had stopped talking; Ella wasn’t sure she was ready for what it would say next. Or what voice it might pull from their heads to use. “Any ideas?” She asked as Percy got closer, not daring to take her eyes away from it. 

Sighing, Percy couldn’t help but agree with Ella. “I get it, I don’t particularly relish the idea of potentially spending the rest of my adult life confined to two cities, but I guess the thought of the alternative is worse, I remember how things were when there was just camp, believe me, two demigod cities is heaven in contrast to that.” He still loved camp, he just didn’t love being confined to camp. 

Now that the trick, the ruse, had been revealed, Percy found himself wondering how the monster had known to use Gabby’s voice. Hell, how had it known what Gabby’s voice sounded like. Though he was sure there was some explanation, right now he didn’t really have the time to spare much thought on it. It was one of those darn life or death situations again and Percy was ever so attached to remaining breathing. 

Frowning gently, Percy took in their environment as he felt the beast slam into the wall of water that separated them. he shuddered as energy leaked out of him from the exertion of maintaining the shield. “I’m strongest in and around water,” he said nodding towards the underground stream. “I’ll run towards the water, draw it’s attention as best I can, distract it while you flank it and kill it or at least put it out of action. I’m not fussy.”

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The Cartographers || Donna and Percy

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itstheblondeamazon:

“Well that’s just sad. Can Annabeth and I still hang out or is she off limits too?” Donna smiled at him and winked. “And working with the Amazons has given me some business experience. I’ll need to look more into it, but I’m hopeful that I can add a little color to the city while I’m here.” Donna raised an eyebrow. “You know, I think you and her need a vacation. Somewhere like, Disney Land!”

Donna’s eyes widened in alarm at the same sight Percy saw. Being demigods, it took a lot less time for their eyes to adjust in the darkness than for mortals. This gave them a slight advantage. Whatever was moving about on the wall, it was big and had many appendages. Donna pulled something out of her pocket, still staring at the creature. It looked like a small capsule with a metal band around the middle. “Close and cover your eyes, Percy, now.” She threw the pill across the room and shielded her eyes with her arm. When the pill hit the ground, it released a bit of gas, but the main effect was a powerful explosion of light that would blind anything that didn’t have coverage. Even with what she was doing, Donna still felt the blaring light bomb in effect. She pulled Percy by the arm and moved about a dozen feet further away from the monster. Upon getting blinded the monster released a blaring screech that made Donna’s body shiver.

Smiling brightly, Percy shrugged. “What you and Annabeth do together is none of my business, if you wanna hang out then I hope that you have a wonderful time together.” He wasn’t going to manipulate or control the person who meant the most in the world to him. “I’m sure you could get Amazon to invest in you, start delivering your flowers country wide if your shop takes off, imagine, this could be the beginning of a truly amazing thing.” He laughed and nodded, “You’re right, we do need a vacation, not that we’ll get one with the recall, but it’s nice to dream. 

Percy managed to cover his eyes just in time as whatever the hell Donna threw at the monster exploded with a blinding flash of light and a resounding boom. Skittering across the room to Donna’s side, Percy realised that what he had once thought to be a single monster was actually a mass of them. He could hardly make them out at first, but as they recovered from the initial shock they seemed to regroup before charging towards the intruders to what Percy could only assume was their home. As they charged towards him, Percy recognized the horde of manticores immediately and summoned the water from his camel sack. “Well, it was nice knowing you Donna,” he gulped.

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adelfikos:

     Orlando sighed, nodding at the other’s sentiment. “I agree. If they can just leave us alone for a millennia, that would be really great.” 

“That would be the dream,” Percy replied with a smile.

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touokeanou:

      Jennina cannot help but to wince at the reality that her peers and other younger campers might be facing. ❝That’s true. I wish there some kind of an alternative for our situation so the others won’t have to suffer this much.❞ Listening and nodding to the male’s statement, she replied, ❝You might be out of the game for a while now but I’m pretty sure you’d do just fine when the situation calls for you. Like a muscle memory of some sort.❞

He shrugged. “Me too, I wish that we could fix this all and everyone could go back to how things were, but the cat is out of the proverbial bag and the world knows all about demigods, or at least they think that they do.” He sighed and ran a hand through his short hair. “Thanks,” he said with an appreciative smile. “We’ll all do well I am certain of it.”

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touokeanou:

      ❝The feeling’s mutual. While I don’t mind being back here, I don’t think a lot of campers share the sentiment as I do.❞ Some people do have lives outside the vicinity of their camp, no matter how much of it sucks in the first place due to monsters ( or other possible reasons ). ❝I guess not. Although I’m pretty sure you’re going to be one of those people who will be informed first if the Romans had any progress with their investigation.❞

“I get it though,” he admitted, “so many of them had made lives for themselves and all of that, everything that they must have worked so hard for, it was all ripped away from them.” He shrugged gently and sighed. “I don’t know, I’ve been out of the game for a while, I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what happens.”

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adelfikos:

     “Of course we will.” Orlando assured him, pouring as many confidence in his words as much as possible. “Shitstorm or not, we always have.”

Percy nodded. “I kinda want people to just shut up about it for five minutes so we can all get around to trying to continue our lives.”

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wreckommended:

“You bet your ass we could give it a go,” Eden preened, proud as a peacock. It was his big idea to put an end to the manhunt: minimal damage for maximal result. Yet if there was one thing Eden Reed wasn’t famous for, it had to be his genius ideas: no one would go through with a plan that risky and dangerous, apart from others with as little regard for human life as him. “I mean, murder’s pretty easy, especially an old guy like that. ‘S just getting in that place that would be tricky, or more like near him. But I mean, that’s what shadow travel’s for, right?”

Sighing Percy shook his head. “I think that is something that we should only consider as a very last option. I’m not comfortable taking that sort of power over mortals, then we are just as bad as they say we are.” Sighing he shrugged and shook his head. “I’m definitely not comfortable with murder.”