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If Mercury finally proposes to Lue and Luke says yes, how bad do u think Heres would react? He'd definitely tweak out right? But how bad do you think the crash out would be compared to if Luke had died (and was denied Elysium or smth)
Hermes would absolutely blow a fuse; weād witness the first-ever case of a god popping a vessel (assuming they even have a circulatory system).
Honestly, the marriage reaction wouldn't be nearly as bad as Luke actually dying. If Luke dies, itās highly probable he wouldn't even end up in the Greek Underworld. Instead, heād get in the Christian definition of the afterlife, and, as you can imagine, Hermes would not be pleased about losing custody of his son's soul.
Cue a full-on global apocalypse caused by the god of roads and communication having a total meltdown: ships sinking and planes crashing worldwide, gps going dark, the internet malfunctioning, etc.
Meanwhile, the marriage thing would mostly just consist of Hermes camped outside Cabin 11, doing everything in his power to stop the wedding. Atticson when?
hi, I love your broken pantheon au! Itās a really fun idea that all of camp half-blood got transferred to a different universe . Will there be more gods summoned to fight their broken pantheon version?
Well, since the only god summoned so far is Mr. Dāand heās just making BP!Dio crawl up the walls while staying safely behind the barriersāweāll probably have someone else appearing soon.
We have Mercury, but Mercury isn't Hermes, so he doesn't count. Plus, he wouldn't have a BP version anyway, since this takes place back when Mercury was just a collection of minor commerce deities and Rome wasn't even a thing yet.
Iām trying to figure out which god to introduce next. The easy answer would be Hermes, especially with Mercury after Lukeās ass; Hermesās Luke-is-in-danger-from-men senses would absolutely be blaring. But someone else could always show up instead. Maybe Hestia? She hangs around chb sometimes, so... definitely food for thought.
So for the DoF + Bp world, I can't help but wonder about shipping the two versions of Mr.D.
DoF Mr.D is just, such a rage baiting brat
Bp Dionysus is absolutely Feral and 100% wants his counterparts kids. Very literally.
And I always enjoy the idea Mr.D has a much better relationship with Castor and Pollux than other demigods and their parents, and the two would in fact perfer not being separated from their dad.
Also, going after your own alternate doesn't really seem out of the ordinary for the grerk gods.
I subscribe to the headcanon that Mr. D actually has a great relationship with his kids! In delusion of fate, one of them kept scolding Dionysus for trying to make Luke give him alcohol lol.
BP!Dio would probably put 2 and 2 together, somehow get 5, and correctly conclude that:
1. The fat god can have kids.
2. His kids are also his kids.
3. Therefore, they can make more kids!
Meanwhile, Mr. D is hiding behind the camp barriers, keeping a strict distance from the brat who keeps trying to steal his children. He's still committed to the ragebaitingā¦ just from a safe distance away, behind the magical wards, with Peter Johnson left outside as a sacrifice.
Everyone is aware of Luke/Loukas being Ruin including Hermes (ignore him, the poor man is in deep-deep denial) except Luke/Loukas. Heās literally the only one who doesnāt know his Domains.
Poor Hermes, the guy will rampage over the fact that Luke could be considered more Ares by how similar their Domains especially how Luke became Aresās lackey. I can see Apollo poking fun at that in his version of brotherly love, if he isnāt too busy drooling over Luke and trying to seduce him.
Lmao, Hermes is going to have a breakdown over the fact that his sonāwho was literally born from his own ichorāis nothing like him. Okay, maybe "nothing" is a strong word, but Luke definitely isn't his mini-me. At this rate, between the endless suitors and a crazy, overprotective dad, Luke is just going to yeet himself into Tartarus to escape. (Which, honestly, might actually happen when I finally get around to writing that Hermogenes longfic).
I was rereading Kyllenios (yes, i read my own stuff) and I got flash banged by a random memory of a less known myth, where Poseidon is hidden by Rhea instead of being swallowed by Kronos.
So. In a potential Kyllenios AU situation, kiddie Percy meets kiddie Poseidon and he doesnāt even know who his dad is. And Poseidonās dad is Kronos - thatās enough of an explanation. Maybe theyād bond over their daddy issues. Or maybe kiddie Percy would hate Poseidonās guts on sight.
Thereās two location options: either Poseidon is hidden in a flock of lambs in Arcadia (which connects to Kyllenios, but eons before tiny Hermes terrorizes/bonds with tiny Luke) or heās raised by Oceanusā daughter Capheria and the Telchines.
Either way, the Titanās era seems fun to play with.
"Dadā¦ Dad," he whispered to the cold floor, his voice warbling. "You were supposed to be here. Why aren't you here?"
Heās face-down on the kitchen floor when he asks the ocean that question. Something answers. Just not from the right place, or the right time, or in the shape he expected.
He wakes up on a beach thousands of years too early, and the first thing that finds him is a boy about his own age with sharp teeth and absolutely no idea what a ānoā is for.
I know you've gone on hiatus, so ignore this if you consider it part of all that(?). I just wanted to ask! Cause it has been driving me crazy and I love how unhinged he is? (Also your writing in general) But like, Percy noticed (and applied foot to mouth) that Hermes acts like Luke's weirdly obsessed Ex.
Please god tell me that others not only get that Vibe but are just standing there going š¬š¬š¬ "this house is a nightmare~ that is your soooon~" like? Yeah. He knows. That's WHY he wants to lock his sweetest of babiest of boys away in a tower on an untraceable island that no one can ever find EVER the end!
(Do not look at my boy. You are NOT ALLOWED TO PERCEIVE-)
He's SO normal about it guys. So normal. Getting a Good Grade at being Daddy(not Father! And perish the thought of Dad! No, no, you should call him Da-) a thing that is both real and possible to achieve! :D
Just? The hilariously horrifying Vibes the two unhinged Gods that love you, one of whom is your Dad, the OTHER who wants to [REDACTED] (jesus, man! He's MORTAL!) You? It has to give people whiplash. It's very.... *everyone checks the mythology books then winces* uuuh, pantheon accurate.
(Which gets EXTRA funny because "How DARE You Suggest-!?" Hermes is also dead ass out here going "but also no one can marry my son but me cause none of you disgusting little cretins should ever touch my baby boy and I don't trust you" like? You are NOT BEATING THE ALIGATIONS, my dude! Control your possessive tendencies for FIVE SECONDS!) (He shan't. And he WILL attic-son his child at the first available opportunity, see if he doesn't!)
God I love him. The orange-blue morality is baked right in and he's SO BAD at pretending to human. A hedonistic pigeon. Favorite~ā”
Iāve officially ended the hiatus, so here is your long-awaited answer lol (Sorry for the late reply, though)
And yeahā¦ Hermes has definitely earned a reputation as the crazy conspiracy guy over the past few years. He is convinced someone is out there coveting his son (and itās that Roman), but since no one believes him, he WILL take matters into his own hands. And little Luke is just the most precious thief! Look at him trying to manipulate Hermes, how adorable. Hermes obviously just has to take him back to his palace to keep him safe. There, heāll have games, books, and meals laced with golden applesāwait, I mean, who said that?
hi i saw you wondering about ascended percy fics and i have one i rlly liked and would like to suggest
ādancing through our house, with the ghost of youā by celestialbella
a quick summary being, percy is forcefully ascended and is bound forcefully to olympus, only allowed to leave three days a year. and another fun part of it, heās cursed so nobody remembers him, not his family, not annabeth, only grover
anyway it was a really enjoyable read and i totally recommend!!! bye
I donāt know if this has been said anywhere else, but I find it interesting that in tlt, Percy is attacked by a Fury right at the beginning. Itās revealed later that it's because of Hades and his helm, which is the canon reason. However, right after that, he meets the Fates.
Personally, I find it worth noting because, in myth, the Furies are the enforcers of the Moirai (the Fates). They act as the punishers of anyone who transgresses fate, with their vengeance being as inevitable as destiny itself. In a way, the Fates allocate the lot from above while the Furies do the same below. I'm sure it was accidental on Rick's part, but it brings up interesting implications: Percy fights a Fury, then immediately sees the Fates cut a thread (which we later find out is Lukeās).
It might as well be Fate forcing the narrative they want, using the Furies to drive Percy into his role as a child of the Big Three. It also connects him to Luke and the future Battle of Manhattan. Plus, the Furies usually punish crimes against blood relatives. While Percy is accused of acting against his uncle, Zeus, it also foreshadows the generational war: Titans vs Gods, Gods vs their demigod children, and the demigods against each other.
So, as much as Fate wove the Great Prophecy, it is Consequence (the Furies) that truly sets it all into motion.
Itās that same old song: the path had already been traced long before Percy set foot on it.
** may is manoia; her mask is cracked to symbolize her eyes opened aka acquired wisdom / knowledge / consciousness
** the others are ocs minus Hypsos (and Kion), who is Thalia - she is thrice-born in this au - and Khreistos, who is Chris
more of the Reversed Olympus AU:
I. THE FIRST WOUND AND THE FALL
But afterwards, from the last and deepest dream of Phuein, the Winged Mother, arose Manoia, the First-Minded, she of the wily-counsel and Foreseer of Intention; she who alone walked the quiet of the unformed world while the deathless ones slept in their heavy silence. In that stillness, she sensed a forbidden prizeāa spark of wild fire that had no name.
And Himeros, the Hunger, grew within her, for to conceive of a prize is to crave its possession; and thus she committed the First Folly. While the foundations of the world lay in their ancient sleep, Manoia struck; with the sharp edge of her intent, she pierced the heart of the Winged Mother, and so began the First Wound.
In that moment of blood, the All died. The singular dream of the beginning was shattered, and Phuein became blind and nameless, moving the heavy wheels of the world without sight.
And Hypsos, the Shimmering Sky, fell from her lofty heights, for the breath that held her was gone. As she fell, the spirit of the air perished, and the firmament was no longer a living presence but became a Soma, a high and freezing corpse of stagnant, flayed flesh, stripped of its ancient glory.
Hypsos struck the stone-flesh of Stereos and became the Pesonma, the Fallen One. In the shattering of her descent, her white spine turned to rigid wood, and from her broken bones and retreating spirit arose the Kion, the Great-Oak. She is the bone-tree who stands with a tireless heart to hold the weight of the dead sky off the earth, lest the corpse of the heavens crush the foundations of the world forever.
II. THE PRICE OF BLOOD
Then did the Protogenoi awake to the shriek of the dying Sky, and a shuddering seized the wide-pathed earth to its very roots. First among the woke was Stereos, the Deep Rooted and Stony Hearted, who rose in a grim fury. With hands of unyielding rock, he seized Manoia of the wily-counsel, she who first brought Intent into the world; he dragged her by the tresses of her hair to the sunless halls of his brother, Amystis, the Silent Swallower. And the earth beneath his bulk groaned with a sound of grinding cliffs, as he bellowed:
āBehold! Our sister of the High-Heights has fallen! The Thief has shattered the All and broken the Order of the Dreaming Mother!ā
Then Amystis, he who dwells in the blackness of the pit where no bird flies, opened a cavern in the lightless roots of the world, down beneath the ceiling of bone where the spine of the Sky-Pillar was set. There, the Gray became the Black, and the air was thick with the dust of the beginning. They bound Manoia with chains of Adamant, the unconquerable iron of the deep dark, so that her sight might fail her and her proud, revealing intent be swallowed by the gloom.
Yet Stereos was not sated. He strode through the ruins of the Fall, and the dry dust of his body met the golden ichor of his shattered sister. From that grim and blood-stained union arose a dark lineage of wonders: the Oreides, nymphs of the high peaks, who with tender hands grow the moss upon the jagged crags of Akris; and the winged Poneides, the Scourges, who rose from the earthās deep groaning, carrying whips of shadow to ensure that every theft is paid in full; and the terrible, many-coiled Drakons, whose scales are like the iron of the earth. Greatest among them was Ophion, the Eternal Watcher, who wound his cold length thrice around the trunk of the Bone-Tree to guard the splendor of the Pesonmaās new form.
Then Stereos cried out with a voice like the crashing of two mountains:
āAkris, thou Jagged One of the World, son of the Earth! Behold! The Thief, the wretched world-breaker, lies in the cave of the deepest end! Go thou, and sit upon her!ā
And Akris, the Star-Piercing-Giant, heard, and he sat upon the mountain above the prisoner, so that the mass of the broad-breasted earth pressed upon the chest of Manoia, stealing her breath through the eons.
But the punishment was twice-born, for even as the mountain crushed her from without, a second jailer arose from with the First Wound. From the jagged wounding of the Winged Mother was born Khreistos, the Shadow-Bringer; he came forth slick with the blood of the first folly, wailing with a hollow voice for the twin-light he had never touched. To him was given the charge of the Jailer by the decree of the First Born, for who better to guard a thief than he who is the shape of loss?
Because Manoia held the Spark which he lacked, he loathed her with a cold and unending hate. While the mountain crushed her ribs, the Horizon Eater crawled into the very hollows of her soul. He breathed his cold vapor into her marrow, turning her blood into splinters of glass, so that to move was to shatter.
And so did the ages pass, while the Revealer lay crushed under the weight of the world, and the Shadow whispered his cold grief into her ear, guarding the light that he, the Lacking One, could never hope to hold.
Hey! I'm a long-time reader/fan of your DoF series on AO3. Just went to reread it and got a notification that it's now part of the collection "Test/private area" as a mystery work. The collection is closed, moderated, and unrevealed. I just wanted to make sure that you knew of this.
helloo
no worries! The collection is mine. I privated it bc dof was genuinely distressing me. My style changed a lot throughout the years and I no longer feel like it holds up. So Iām doing some editing to make it tighter and more coherent, like scene breaks, adding other povs, etc. And since this takes time - and the changes are structural - making it private avoids mixing a newly edited part with an old one that isnāt structurally sound.
working on a lil something for my Hermogenes!Luke/Mercury WIP. Maybe it'll come out of my drafts one day, after I finish my Perseia fic...
Modelled off the Homeric Hymn to Ares:
Loukas, rallier of men, unyielding, Saviour of Cities, ally of Themis, Elpiphoros, turner of the ploughshare, son of Hermes with the golden sword; hear me, you who turn away calamity from the cities of men! Illuminate the doubts that cloud my heart, that I might overcome them with courage and good reason. O blessed one, grant me the courage to pass on the fire within me, that it may flourish anew!
Some notes:
Saviour of Cities is a title shared by Athena and Ares, probably in reference to them saving cities from being sacked by imbuing warriors with strength.
rallier of men = Laossos, an epithet shared with Ares
ally of Themis is also used in the Homeric Hymn to Ares in reference to his status as a god of justice
Elpiphoros = he who carries hope
turner of the ploughshare - specifically referring to his aspect of renewal after destruction
son of Hermes = Hermogenes, I just didn't write it exactly because it didn't match the vibes. Pretend Homer wrote this literally and the translator just chose not to include it idk
"overcome them with courage and good reason" ā included this for two major reasons:
1) ties into that destruction and renewal theme he's got going on,
2) unfortunately he's got to show his heritage from Hermes somehow, and Homer probably would not do this by bringing up his cunning schemes and brutality in battle. People generally do not like inviting bloodshed, which is probably why Ares's Homeric Hymn also does not reference his more brutal aspects.
Mr. D's gonna crash out and square up with Hermes on a scale hitherto undreamnt of when he finds out that Luke's not coming back to chb bc of him lololololol
Uncle D vs Hermes round 2
Who will win this time tho? Uncle D got beaten up pretty badly last time lol
When Hermes calls Luke little Luke, it sounds so patronizing, especially in english, while May, in chapter 1 of Dof, says her goodbyes to him, and she calls him little Luke to in portuguese. So I have a question: Does it sound as arrogant in portuguese? Is Luke just biased to his mom ? Is it a term of endearment because Luke did announce himself towards his grandmother using Luquinha or is Hermes being his usual Hermes self. Sorry I don't speak portuguese
Itās okay!
In Brazil (I don't know about other Portuguese speaking countries), we use the diminutive a lot. Just look at our soccer players' names, for example, the World Cup roster right now features Raphinha (his actual name is Raphael). Itās a term of endearment, but it can be used for irony or mockery as well - it depends entirely on the speakerās tone.
