My name is Lynxiah (Lynx-ee-ah, I know, I made it difficult on purpose, it's funny), and this is my blog!
First and foremost, I am a Christian, and everything I do, I do it through Christ :)
I primarily post updates on my Leo Valdez fanfictions (currently just "The Names of Leo Valdez," although I have many more ideas in mind), or fanart!
I am an artist, in all aspects of the word! I love writing, painting/drawing, singing, and I play various instruments! I also have a borderline unhealthy obsession for all things plants and animals.
I love all things PJO, HOO, and TOA, but primarily Leo Valdez, AKA, Supersized Mcshizzle, AKA, Commander Toolbelt, AKA Supreme Commander of the Argo II, (you probably get why my first fic is named what it is) alright I'm done. I also love Six of Crows, Lockwood and Co, and pretty much any book that gets placed in front of me!
Anyway, ask me anything, let's get into ridiculously long debates over whether toast is still bread after it is toasted until 3am (reference from my fic LOL).
Freaking Nico di Angelo—off-brand Batman—was in Leo’s SUPER SECRET bunker. The one that NO ONE was supposed to know about. And he was holding a DETACHED. HEAD.
Granted, it was the head of a hydra rather than something more suspicious, but Leo was too busy panicking to take note of that.
“W-what are you doing here?!” Leo stammered, his mouth most-definitely not hanging open. The son of Hades was like a little shadow-cloud in his pure black everything and would-be-fluffy aviator jacket, if it hadn’t looked like it had been through War™. Which, now that Leo thought about it, the jacket absolutely had.
“Just returning this.” Nico then proceeded to plop the decapitated head on a nearby worktable, as if that was a perfectly normal thing to do.
Malcolm, for some unholy reason, felt the need to do a deep-dive into the historical origin of every single Greek letter.
‘It was the first system to systematically include vowels,’ and, ‘it took Phoenician consonantal letters and modified them,’ and, “Malcolm, please, for the love of every sad little camper whose gonna have Greek squiggles floating beneath their eyelids as they try to fall asleep tonight, SHUT UP.”
That one was Travis.
Leo was bored out of his mind and covered in scraps of paper that were supposed to be airplanes by the time Ancient Greek finally ended. Like, seriously, isn’t just knowing how to read and write the language enough?!
Apparently not.
“Remember to review the Greek spellings and phonetic origins for each god and goddess before the quiz next class-”
“Malcolm, it’s a summer camp,” Connor bemoaned, slumping nearly out of his chair.
“Yeah!” Travis agreed. “If I wanted to be tortured, I’d go ask Percy to spar!”
Malcolm, for some unholy reason, felt the need to do a deep-dive into the historical origin of every single Greek letter.
‘It was the first system to systematically include vowels,’ and, ‘it took Phoenician consonantal letters and modified them,’ and, “Malcolm, please, for the love of every sad little camper whose gonna have Greek squiggles floating beneath their eyelids as they try to fall asleep tonight, SHUT UP.”
That one was Travis.
Leo was bored out of his mind and covered in scraps of paper that were supposed to be airplanes by the time Ancient Greek finally ended. Like, seriously, isn’t just knowing how to read and write the language enough?!
Apparently not.
“Remember to review the Greek spellings and phonetic origins for each god and goddess before the quiz next class-”
“Malcolm, it’s a summer camp,” Connor bemoaned, slumping nearly out of his chair.
“Yeah!” Travis agreed. “If I wanted to be tortured, I’d go ask Percy to spar!”
Guys, I asked AI to tell me everything it knew about my Leo Valdez fic! (Don’t worry, I never gave it any of the actual story/writing 😂) Here’s what it gave me:
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Here's what I can tell you:
About Lynxiah: They describe themselves as a Christian, an extreme Leo Valdez fan, and primarily post updates for their AO3 fic and fanart. They're also an artist across multiple mediums — writing, painting/drawing, singing, and instruments.
About the fic: The Names of Leo Valdez follows a younger Leo settling into Camp Half-Blood before The Lost Hero, exploring his character and his parallels with Percy.
Will they post again? Almost certainly yes, and soon! As recently as March 29, 2026, Lynxiah posted on Tumblr that chapter 14 is coming out soon — it's halfway written and covers Leo, Connor, and Travis moments, a caring older-brother Percy dynamic, and a conversation between Leo and Nico, plus art.
So it sounds like a new chapter is actively in progress and could drop any time! Definitely worth keeping an eye on their Tumblr or subscribing to the fic on AO3 for update notifications.
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You heard that y’all! Update coming soon, and a sneak peak of Chapter 14 is coming even sooner!!!
IT'S ALIVE GUYS. Check out watttpad and a03, there's so many fics –and so many non-romantic stories to check out too.
• @lynxiah's "The Names of Leo Valdez": This one follows a younger Leo settling in Camp before TLH, and it delves deeper in Leo's character arc. My favorite part is it shows and cherishes the parallels between Percy and Leo. It's incredible, go give it some love.
To new AND old readers, the newest chapter (14) is coming out soon! It’s halfway written, covers hilarious Leo, Connor, and Travis moments, caring older brother Percy, AND an incredibly realistic (awkward, stilted, heart-breaking) conversation between Leo and Nico!!! And ART!!
Anyone else love Spider-Man Into-the-Spiderverse?! The ART. The ANIMATION. I had to draw it. So here it is!!! And it’s Gwen Stacy, of course, because her character design is GORGEOUS.
Guys, I really like Sea of Monsters. The show’s lighting, imagery, and cinematography is reaching every art corner of my brain. So here’s a little doodle I did while watching the three newest episodes (I will not disclose how many times I’ve already watched them lol).
That Scene Where Leo Valdez's Fire Defeats Gaea; but Broken-Down Scientifically
What are Leo’s limits? Scientifically, what is the highest degree Fahrenheit/Celsius that he can generate? Is he 100% fire proof, or is there a certain point when the flames become too much?
Every single one of these questions are answered in these five quotes from Blood of Olympus:
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"[Leo's] whole body was wreathed in fire. Rain hung in the stormy air, but it only
sizzled and steamed around him" (BoO, Riordan 387).
"Rain sizzled and steamed around him." So, Leo's flames would need to be hot enough for water to immediately evaporate anytime it gets near him. We know the boiling point of water is 212 °F (100 °C), but that changes with altitude. "As they ascended, Jason gathered the wind and clouds around him." 6,500 feet is the average for low-hanging clouds. This matches with what is happening in canon ("If they gained any more altitude, the air would be too thin to breathe" (BoO, Riordan 389).), because while there is less oxygen, a person can still breathe easily at that height. A lower atmospheric pressure actually decreases the boiling point, so Leo's heat would be at least 199.6 °F (93.1 °C). So this is the starting point/baseline of Leo's fire in this scene.
"Gaia crumbled to sand, only to get blasted by
more flames. Her body melted into a lump of glass, shattered, then re-formed
again as human" (BoO, Riordan 388).
Now Leo's heat has reached the point where sand gets turned into glass. This is a MASSIVE jump from the last measurement! For sand to instantly turn to glass, the temperature would have to be at least 3,000 °F (1,650 °C). If materials like soda ash and limestone were mixed in with the sand, that could reduce the melting point to 2552 °F (1400 °C), but that is still CRAZY hot!
"Leo looked like he was made of fire. Flames rippled beneath his skin, illuminating his skull. Leo grinned, which was unnerving in the flames, his teeth like molten
silver ingots" (BoO, Riordan 389).
This is a fascinating passage, but it's very hard to break down, due to its fantastical nature. To find a temperature, I searched up, "at what temperature would bone glow?" The result was at least 500 °C (932 °F), but we already knew that, so this isn't a very reliable gauge. Additionally, Leo is highly resistant to heat, so there really is no telling how hot he is in the moment (no, brain, I will not make a 'Hot Stuff' joke, this is a scientific report).
"Festus became an indistinct ball of fire in the sky – a second sun – growing
smaller and hotter. Then, in the corner of Jason’s eye, a blazing comet streaked
upward from the ground with a high-pitched, almost human scream. Just before
Jason blacked out, the comet intercepted the ball of fire above them.
The explosion turned the entire sky gold" (BoO, Riordan 389).
So throughout this, Leo's temperature has been growing, but we don't know at what rate. He seems to be alive until the onager's flame joins the mix, so to get the best guess, we'll have to find the highest estimate of the onager's fire. As described in Nico's chapter XLV; "the projectile was a mixture of incendiaries and Imperial gold. Even a small amount of Imperial gold could be incredibly volatile. Exposed to too much heat or pressure, the stuff would explode with devastating impact, and of course it was deadly to demigods as well as monsters" (BoO, Riordan 344). This is also very hard to find a specific temperature for, because there is not much to go off of. But there is one part, "anything in the blast zone would be annihilated – vaporized by the heat" (BoO, Riordan, 344). "ANYTHING." I doubt Nico was thinking of extremely heat resistance elements like Carbon or Tungsten, but we can at least find the 'vaporization' point of materials common to Camp Half-Blood structures. Most common is wood, and then there's marble, melting at 1,339°C (2,442°F), and for Cabin Thirteen, obsidian, melting at 2,000 °C (3,632 °F). Obsidian is probably the material with the highest melting point, so we will use that as our lowest-heat for the onager.
Okay! To get the final lowest estimate of the heat, we need to find the average between Leo's fire, and the onager's fire. The highest measure we found for Leo's fire was 3,000 °F (1,650 °C), when he turned sand-Gaea to glass. The highest measure we found for the onager's fire was 2,000 °C (3,632 °F), the melting point of obsidian. 3,000 + 3,632 / 2 = 3,316.
So, the lowest estimate of the final temperature that destroyed Gaea AND Leo is 3,316 °F, or 1830 °C.
This is PRETTY HOT compared to the average heat of lava, which is 1,000°C (1,830°F)! Or even the highest temperature ever recorded from a rock on Earth's surface, 2,370 °C (4,298 °F), (Scientists determined the temperature by studying a mineral in the rock. The common mineral zircon transformed into cubic zirconia, a process that requires a minimum temperature of 2,370 °C). And this is just the lowest estimate, since I am OBVIOUSLY no expert!
"LEO WAS DEAD.
He knew that with absolute certainty. He just didn’t understand why it hurt so
much. He felt like every cell in his body had exploded. Now his consciousness
was trapped inside a charred crispy husk of demigod roadkill" (BoO, Riordan 419).
And of course, we know that Leo did indeed die from this heat, so our fiery hero is NOT 100% fireproof! Even the pyrokinetic demigod from the Prophecy of Seven has his limits.
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My personal headcanon is that there is NO limit to Leo Valdez's fire, only to what his mortal body can actually take. So if Leo's fire was in the hand's of an immortal being, it could destroy the entire world and never run out.
But with a little more practice, the Super Mcshizzle could very well be QUITE powerful :)
Hold on Hold on. Yes to like all of this. But what if it wasn’t the heat or fire that killed him? What if he just died from the imperial gold explosions? What if he felt like that because he got blown the fuck up with a goddamn bomb made of metal shards?!?
Oooh, now THAT’S a thought!!! And entirely possible, too.
It is an undeniable fact that Leo’s body was charred, burned, crispy-road-kill, etc, but how do we know it happened before he died? What if, after death, Leo’s body loses its fire resistance?
We know that godly DNA isn’t a physical thing, because there’s the continual “dating cousins on the godly side isn’t weird” theme. So maybe it’s a soul thing. And when Leo’s soul left his body, it took with it his demigod powers. Which would explain his burned state after death!
And that leaves a very good chance that it was never the fire that killed Leo Valdez at all, but rather the imperial gold shards.
Thanks for making me think, @kazperthegh0st! This was a fun thought experiment :D
To The Names of Leo Valdez readers, I'm sorry for skipping Saturday's chapter! I had some stress with school and work, and grief that came with a friend's sudden passing (any prayer over that is very welcome! 😊).
But I WILL be back to writing very soon (the next update should be out in less than two weeks, for the next scheduled Saturday update), and I have so many chapters outlined and plans in place!
So look forward to that, and I'll be back with regular posts before too long! :)
That Scene Where Leo Valdez's Fire Defeats Gaea; but Broken-Down Scientifically
What are Leo’s limits? Scientifically, what is the highest degree Fahrenheit/Celsius that he can generate? Is he 100% fire proof, or is there a certain point when the flames become too much?
Every single one of these questions are answered in these five quotes from Blood of Olympus:
---
"[Leo's] whole body was wreathed in fire. Rain hung in the stormy air, but it only
sizzled and steamed around him" (BoO, Riordan 387).
"Rain sizzled and steamed around him." So, Leo's flames would need to be hot enough for water to immediately evaporate anytime it gets near him. We know the boiling point of water is 212 °F (100 °C), but that changes with altitude. "As they ascended, Jason gathered the wind and clouds around him." 6,500 feet is the average for low-hanging clouds. This matches with what is happening in canon ("If they gained any more altitude, the air would be too thin to breathe" (BoO, Riordan 389).), because while there is less oxygen, a person can still breathe easily at that height. A lower atmospheric pressure actually decreases the boiling point, so Leo's heat would be at least 199.6 °F (93.1 °C). So this is the starting point/baseline of Leo's fire in this scene.
"Gaia crumbled to sand, only to get blasted by
more flames. Her body melted into a lump of glass, shattered, then re-formed
again as human" (BoO, Riordan 388).
Now Leo's heat has reached the point where sand gets turned into glass. This is a MASSIVE jump from the last measurement! For sand to instantly turn to glass, the temperature would have to be at least 3,000 °F (1,650 °C). If materials like soda ash and limestone were mixed in with the sand, that could reduce the melting point to 2552 °F (1400 °C), but that is still CRAZY hot!
"Leo looked like he was made of fire. Flames rippled beneath his skin, illuminating his skull. Leo grinned, which was unnerving in the flames, his teeth like molten
silver ingots" (BoO, Riordan 389).
This is a fascinating passage, but it's very hard to break down, due to its fantastical nature. To find a temperature, I searched up, "at what temperature would bone glow?" The result was at least 500 °C (932 °F), but we already knew that, so this isn't a very reliable gauge. Additionally, Leo is highly resistant to heat, so there really is no telling how hot he is in the moment (no, brain, I will not make a 'Hot Stuff' joke, this is a scientific report).
"Festus became an indistinct ball of fire in the sky – a second sun – growing
smaller and hotter. Then, in the corner of Jason’s eye, a blazing comet streaked
upward from the ground with a high-pitched, almost human scream. Just before
Jason blacked out, the comet intercepted the ball of fire above them.
The explosion turned the entire sky gold" (BoO, Riordan 389).
So throughout this, Leo's temperature has been growing, but we don't know at what rate. He seems to be alive until the onager's flame joins the mix, so to get the best guess, we'll have to find the highest estimate of the onager's fire. As described in Nico's chapter XLV; "the projectile was a mixture of incendiaries and Imperial gold. Even a small amount of Imperial gold could be incredibly volatile. Exposed to too much heat or pressure, the stuff would explode with devastating impact, and of course it was deadly to demigods as well as monsters" (BoO, Riordan 344). This is also very hard to find a specific temperature for, because there is not much to go off of. But there is one part, "anything in the blast zone would be annihilated – vaporized by the heat" (BoO, Riordan, 344). "ANYTHING." I doubt Nico was thinking of extremely heat resistance elements like Carbon or Tungsten, but we can at least find the 'vaporization' point of materials common to Camp Half-Blood structures. Most common is wood, and then there's marble, melting at 1,339°C (2,442°F), and for Cabin Thirteen, obsidian, melting at 2,000 °C (3,632 °F). Obsidian is probably the material with the highest melting point, so we will use that as our lowest-heat for the onager.
Okay! To get the final lowest estimate of the heat, we need to find the average between Leo's fire, and the onager's fire. The highest measure we found for Leo's fire was 3,000 °F (1,650 °C), when he turned sand-Gaea to glass. The highest measure we found for the onager's fire was 2,000 °C (3,632 °F), the melting point of obsidian. 3,000 + 3,632 / 2 = 3,316.
So, the lowest estimate of the final temperature that destroyed Gaea AND Leo is 3,316 °F, or 1830 °C.
This is PRETTY HOT compared to the average heat of lava, which is 1,000°C (1,830°F)! Or even the highest temperature ever recorded from a rock on Earth's surface, 2,370 °C (4,298 °F), (Scientists determined the temperature by studying a mineral in the rock. The common mineral zircon transformed into cubic zirconia, a process that requires a minimum temperature of 2,370 °C). And this is just the lowest estimate, since I am OBVIOUSLY no expert!
"LEO WAS DEAD.
He knew that with absolute certainty. He just didn’t understand why it hurt so
much. He felt like every cell in his body had exploded. Now his consciousness
was trapped inside a charred crispy husk of demigod roadkill" (BoO, Riordan 419).
And of course, we know that Leo did indeed die from this heat, so our fiery hero is NOT 100% fireproof! Even the pyrokinetic demigod from the Prophecy of Seven has his limits.
---
My personal headcanon is that there is NO limit to Leo Valdez's fire, only to what his mortal body can actually take. So if Leo's fire was in the hand's of an immortal being, it could destroy the entire world and never run out.
But with a little more practice, the Super Mcshizzle could very well be QUITE powerful :)
4,409 words filled with hurt/comfort, family dynamics between the Seven, and ridiculously unhinged writing!
Excerpt below:
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For the first time in six years, Leo shared his story. And it had been hard—gods, it had been hard. But he’d done it, and his vulnerability had acted like stitches in a patchwork quilt. He broke the dam, and the rest of the Seven soon followed.
All it took was one honest and open conversation, and the relationships between the quest members shifted from paths forced to intersect, to a family. Leo wasn’t quite sure if he had gained six older siblings, or three sets of parents—the jury was still out on that.
Although right now, he was positive the rest of the Seven would be like ferocious mama bears if they saw the situation he was in.
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AKA: What if the Seven were less emotionally constipated, and actually had a vulnerable conversation for once? How would their friendship dynamic change, especially with Leo? This is a one-shot full of hurt/comfort, sibling dynamics, and fluffy/funny moments between found-family!
