thinking of percy jackson who is a natural leader even though he doesn't want to be which makes him an even better leader who commands the skies and brings down storms that blot out the sun and make the ground tremble with it's force being mistaken for a son of Zeus
thinking of percy jackson whose fatal flaw is loyalty who is completely and utterly devoted to his wife annabeth and who protects his family above all other's, honoring Hera almost like a devotee
thinking of percy jackson who commands the seas and shakes the earth, who wrestles sea monsters and helps mermaids with their hangnails, freeing sea creatures from pollution before dragging it from the depths like the son of Poseidon that he is
thinking of percy jackson who recognizes cabin 4 as his cousins where everyone else underestimates them as gardeners but percy sees kronos and rhea's daughter, a powerful ancient goddess’s children who command the earth itself, training with them and watching them grow the plants of the earth and subconsciously mimicking the motions of their hands and accidentally latching onto the water in the plants and making them move like a son of Demeter
thinking of percy jackson who spars with clarisse as one of the only other campers who can keep up with him in a one v one, fighting ruthlessly with constant simmering rage under his skin like a son of Ares
thinking of percy jackson spending years at annabeth's side and being one of the only people who can keep up with her and catch onto her plans and understand her mind inside and out, percy making his own plans, his battle iq severely overlooked until the war itself comes to his door and he has to voice his plans to his comrades and his mind shines like a son of Athena
thinking of percy jackson who dreams of the past, present, and future, who has feelings and premonitions and is more in tune with fate and prophecies like a son of Apollo
thinking of percy jackson who never goes easy on an opponent because they're a woman, percy jackson who respects the hunters and is never condescending to them, percy jackson who achieves the approval of not just artemis herself but also zoë nightshade, a hurt girl who held a grudge for millennia, one of the only boys to earn the approval and respect of Artemis
thinking of percy jackson who worked in the forges with beckendorf then down in the forges with tyson and his other cyclops brothers, percy who blows up mt st helens and impresses the god himself despite the destruction of his forge, his own (limited) immunity to fire like a son of Hephaestus
thinking of percy jackson who doesn't buy into the idea of cabin 10 being full of shallow kids of a vapid love goddess, but instead sees children of one of the oldest gods born of the sea and ouranos, the sky itself, one of the only gods percy genuinely fears. percy spending time with cabin 10 almost as if they're his own siblings, all descendants of the sea, being taught by drew how to use his looks to his advantage even if he can't recognize his own beauty, using the tactics in california to charm free food from restaurant workers or to distract cashiers as he steals from the store, being so heartachingly beautiful that he's mistaken as a son of Aphrodite
thinking of percy jackson who spent a few weeks as an unclaimed kid, training with a demigod he looked up to, luke, son of hermes, knowing how to run and steal and gamble and how to use his words to get in and out of trouble, cunning and mischievous like a son of Hermes
thinking of percy jackson who knows madness intimately, who toed the line of falling too far as he choked and poisoned a goddess and reveled in it, who can control the vines of grapes, whose blood is too watery to get properly drunk (even if he never drinks) seeming like a more wild and chaotic son of Dionysus
thinking of percy jackson who commands the rivers of the underworld, rivers that aren't even water, but that he controls as if they are, percy who has swam in three of them but never succumbs to death while in them, always reaching the other shore. percy who takes death seriously and tries not to kill enemy demigods even in the midst of war when it slows him down, but he refuses. percy who was a commander in war time and time again and knows the weight of death intimately and treats it with the respect it deserves, handing the dagger to luke because he knows that sometimes you can't avoid it, you have to just let go. percy who welcomes death time and time again and doesn't fear it, almost longs for it as release. percy who commands the earth, shaking and splitting it as son of the earthshaker being mistaken for a son of Hades
thinking of percy jackson who values his family above all others, who opens the hearth to welcome all, not just children of the twelve olympians but even the children of the minor gods, treating them as family rather than lesser. percy who plays the sacrificial lamb time and time again to protect his loved ones, percy jackson who seems like a follower and devotee of Hestia
thinking of percy jackson, son of the sea, whose nature is water - adaptable and easy to change, water as the basis of life and encompasses all things from animals to humans to plants, percy who values all not on some system of glory and kleos and power, but off of one's own character, their own choices not their parents. percy jackson who is a son of poseidon but who is a child of olympus, a child of all, a hero who all the young demigods can look up to because they can all see themselves in him on some level, percy who learns from all and finds strength in each demigod and their domain that he protects and wields as his own
