alright I sent this out on anon bc I wasn’t sure if anyone else would Feel It but it’s been hours and I’m still thinking about this, and I’ve had wine, SO:
Like first off Percy not even really thinking about doing rebirth anyway but whoops turns out he was on his second life might as well just fucking go for it
Or that was his first life but ghostly Annabeth convinces him they should go for it
There’s just. So many possibilities for him as someone else’s demigod???
Like say he gets a relatively peacefully Olympian parent but Poseidon just keeps fucking popping up like Hermes and Apollo did to Percy in his first life
The Aphrodite kids all have different eye colors so like what if??? Poseidon gets his first glimpse at the reborn Aphrodite life of his son and he still has those bright sea green eyes why am I crying?
O R Percy gets reborn as a fucking son of Zeus or Hades and them and Poseidon just have to. Begrudgingly get along for a few freaking decades. Could you imagine???
No matter what life he’s in Percy’s always gonna piss off some immortals and he’s honestly surprised he’s still alive right now? His godly parent isn’t that much of a force on the council? He only gets more confused when someone waves him off with “Poseidon would start a war if someone smites you” Could you imagine like a freaking son of Hermes or Demeter or whatever trying to figure out why Poseidon needs him alive??
asdfghasfdgh Mr. D got punished AGAIN so he’s back at camp and keeps calling the kid “Percy Jackson” no matter what he insists his name is. All the other campers are wide eyed acting like Dionysus calling the scrawny new kid the name of one of history’s greatest demigods is akin to sacrilege and Dionysus just waving them off like “Listen, Peter Johnson was an unimpressive, annoying little pest and I’m sure Mr. Jackson over here won’t be any better!”
(Once the campers leave him alone, he sends a message to Poseidon letting him know the kid arrived safely at camp. He ends the message with “Are you sure you don’t want me to just turn the brat into a dolphin and dump him back in your realm?” lmao)
The kid always looks a little freaked out when he attends the camp’s field trips to the Solstice Meetings, and he can’t figure out why lord Poseidon not only always notices, let alone shoots him reassuring smiles or winks and eye rolls at him whenever Zeus goes on a tangent. He’s almost 100% sure the god has him mistaken for some other mortal he apparently has inside jokes with
Why Does The God Of The Seas Specifically Keep Requesting Me When He Needs Demigods To Go On A Quest: An Autobiography by this poor kid
One time he and some friends get sent on a big quest with a few reluctant hunters. The campers are wasting time arguing about the best way to ask Poseidon for safe sea travel, before the lead huntress cuts them off and says she’s absolutely certain Poseidon won’t give them any problems and they should be fine. Reborn!Percy can’t figure out why the moody and mysterious Thalia Grace had stared at him when she said that.
One time he was on a boat that got attacked by some fucking myth pirates or whatever, and the kid gets saved by some merpeople. The rest of the camp freaks out when he tells them how he survived, and he spends the rest of the night wondering how the merpeople knew to help him when they supposedly never travel up past the midnight zone of the ocean.
I’ve decided Grover’s ‘lord of the wild’ status gives him similar perks as the hunters, so imagine the old goat struggling to find new helpers to help him protect the environment, when he gets a slightly cryptic message from Poseidon about a camper who might be interested in joining the cause. Grover gets to camp, and while passing the Demeter cabin he sees a boy he’d recognize anywhere who somehow always knows the exact amount of water a plant needs, down to single droplets, and the satyr almost has a stroke.
A son of Zeus who‘s been taught his entire life to fear the water, but somehow he can’t help but consider the gentle feeling of the waves very comforting and relaxing. He can be found floating out in the lake at any given time and invests in a water bed
History repeats itself to an extent and we get another ‘You can’t give up on your family’-esque speech, only it’s delivered by Poseidon to a boy who doesn’t even really get why the god is so invested in this war, he doesn’t have any demigod children at camp? COULD YOU I M A G I N E
asdfghhjk since Percy’s not actually his kid in this life he can interfere SLIGHTLY more than he used to be able to, and he keeps lowkey trying to set the kid up with Annabeth’s reborn self to make sure he’s happy I’m
Like they’ll be at a solstice party on Olympus and Poseidon fucking accosts him at the buffet table like ‘Why aren’t you asking that cute little friend of yours to dance??’ and the kids like ‘What? You mean Annaliese? Why should you care if I dance with her?’ and Poseidon’s just like ‘I’m a god I can ORDER you to do this’ so the kid just slinks off wondering if Aphrodite’s messing with the councils’ heads
(He does ask her to dance and they’re barely separated for the rest of the night)
(Is he crazy or did he see lady Athena slip Poseidon some drachmas before glaring at the couple?)
Every so often he’ll take a walk on the beach and the tide will come in stronger than usual and wash sea dollars up right at his feet. He always takes some home but he’s not sure why
By ‘every so often’, I mean every August 18th, but the kid hasn’t put that one together because the date doesn’t mean anything to him
Demigods telling horror stories about being attacked by cyclopes, sea monsters, those weird fire breathing and flesh eating horses, and the kid is just like…Um. Can’t relate? Because he’s never had an issue with any of those monsters
CHEESY AS FUCK BUT SO AM I he has a faint birthmark on his forearm, it gets a bit smaller every year, but his mortal parent swears it used to look perfectly like a trident
(his tattoo getitgetitgetit)
Sometimes he feels watched but not in a monster way, and he doesn’t know any monsters that smell like sea breeze so he doesn’t worry about it
A child of Apollo or Hypnos having crazy vivid dreams about feeling battle torn and shaken in the Olympus throne room when Poseidon pulls him into a tight hug and trying to figure out What The Fuck That Means
One time he gets terribly screwed over on a quest and finds himself lost and alone, begging for literally any entity to throw him a bone here. It’s not long before a pitch black horse moseys up to him out of seemingly nowhere and starts nudging him with it’s snout. He eventually takes the hint and hops on, and gets where he needs to go in record time
Maybe he’s born a Roman demigod, and maybe they never truly got over their fear of Neptune. No one in the camp would trust that god with anything, except the one boy who can’t bring himself to believe Neptune’s bad, because something about the god’s smile the few times they’ve met feels so familiar. Something just out of his reach, but almost like a warm glow…
A demigod talking to friends during a break in the council meeting, complaining he can’t find any interesting books to read. Frowning in confusion when Poseidon, who had been listening in, gives a smile and recommends he look into some novels by the author Sally Jackson
I can’t keep going right now someone add on (or kill me) I BEG OF YOU
