He magicked them dry. “So — this is happening.”
“No,” she said, mortified, immediately. “No. This was the last time.” She pointed at him. “I hope you enjoyed that, because it’s not happening again.”
In retrospect, (repeatedly) hooking up with her rival — the son of her mom's least favorite god — was not a good idea, especially not when Annabeth's vowed to beat him in the hero rankings or die trying.
[a modern demigod-superhero au; percy/annabeth; enemies to friends w/ benefits to friends to enemies (kinda?) to friends to lovers. strap tf in y'all]
word count: 120,00+
extra content (READ AFTER CHAPTER 2!!!):
wmptmm tag + the nox statement + annabeth's list + the hero doc!
If anyone is looking for a good fic, want Percabeth and don't mind Jiper, and like AUs, I definitely recommend Guess I Misjudged You (Gods, I Loved You). It's rated Teen and it's a completed work
Thank you for the rec!
guess i misjudged you (gods i loved you) by @glove23
In the far off land of Cypress lay of kingdom of lords and ladies, ruled by King Tristan and Princess Piper. But there was a secret, something special about this place. Godly blood flowed through the veins of the Princess, leaving her powerful and vulnerable to attack should anyone find the truth of her parentage.
And when the King receives word of a war on the horizon, targeting people like his daughter specifically, he knew he would do anything to protect her.
King Tristan arranged a betrothal, between the Princess Piper and Prince Perseus of Montauk, a famed war general.
Without the consent of the Princess.
Unhappy with the arrangement, the Princess planned to flee, to leave behind her title and her crown for a life free of forced commitment. Only her sworn knight, Ser Annabeth, could convince her to remain in Cypress, and do her duty for her people.
And when the Prince and his entourage arrive, the Princess may very well find that it was worth the wait.
Having been introduced to "We could walk backwards through hell" by a random IG comment, I need you to know how damn good of a job you did. 600k+ words is absolutely nuts in the best possible way. You absolutely superseded canon at multiple times, especially with Jason's death and your "Percy takes a dip in the Styx" sequence. I actually went back and re-read TLO's Styx scene to re-remember it and man, you absolutely killed it.
"we could walk backwards through hell" made me laugh hahahha but THANK YOU!! to say even some scenes surpassed canon is such high praise that im not sure im worthy of. thank you so so so much!!
(also: im stunned that this fic has made its way to IG now too! if you ever come across that post again pls send it to me, i love seeing my work out in the wild and also it boosts my ego)
every time he gets a co-writer on his new books, they maximize their joint chop and cook up some bullshit you’d have never thought they could, and that isn’t a compliment to his solo writing either. it’s hard to take this pokemon ass title seriously but i feel like he’s making the books more and more juvenile, maybe catering to the new show audience and hooking them in with new content, which i understand from a business perspective. if this allegedly takes place between tlt and som, i wonder if we’ll get younger percy and annabeth cameos/mentions and if their characterization will be far removed from how it was in 2005. as far as i’m concerned, chb forest stories peaked in botl era between annabeth and percy getting stuck in the labyrinth and everyone assuming they were making out and the terrible flirting in the bronze dragon when trying to rescue beckendorf from the myrmekes. bring back peak
anyone who still follows me from the pjo royalty au (gimygily) would u be interested in a sequel? no thots on it yet, but gimygily sequel? maybe they go to Montauk and meet Sally fr fr? give me ur Thots
Gods above, wmptmm was so good in every way, but I keep coming back to this
“He’s chewing on something. Piper asks, Is that the grape she threw, he responds, Yuh, she says, That’s weird, dude.”
It just adds so much IMO to the already established relationship and it’s such a comedic thing that doesn’t detract from the slow burn and Annabeth’s self realisation,,,, this is 10/10 no notes
HAHA thank you!! i try my hardest to make conversations seem realistic and i think piper is definitely the kind of person who is always kinda keeping track of multiple people at once. so of course she'd notice her boyfriend munching on a foreign object :)
ty for loving the little things!!! this is why i love writing them in!
i feel like youve been asked that a thousand times but how did you even plan wcwsthwas? like it’s such a massive story, how did you plan that big a fic, how did you figure out what to include what to change, how did it all come toge? I’d just love to find out what the process was for it all
dw this is a good question!!! i think i was very lucky in the sense that the timing was just right! i had just graduated and covid had just hit so i was stuck in lockdown with not much to do. i really dont remember HOW it all happened but the idea of a pjo/hoo rewrite was always lowkey stewing in my head, y'know? i've been very vocal about my issues with how hoo wrapped and i knew i always wanted to try it myself. ofc i didnt know what a massive undertaking it would be but…oh well
putting the rest under the cut because i do tend to ramble
i really cant be sure of what triggered it, but suddenly i got the idea for the mistranslated prophecy and it felt like such a lightning in a bottle moment that i immediately grabbed a notebook and wrote it down. and truly... what followed after was like possession. i was like a maniac. the broad strokes of everything came together in my notes in a matter of days. i wrote the opening intro and the mirrored conclusion. i figured out who i wanted to kill. i picked and chose plotlines from the books i wanted to keep and i started to outline ways to make it happen.
so all of this was in early 2020 and i told myself i'd start publishing the fic only when i wrote ALL of it since my track record with chaptered fics was...horrendous lol. that didn't quite work out but in the year between coming up with the idea i'd finished writing chapters 1 and 2, most of 3 and 4, and bits of 5. of course, if you remember the years as i was publishing wcwsthwas, i figured out in real time that this fic was a monster i was wholly unprepared for, and i kept having to make room for new ideas. it was super fun tho! i'd never change it for the world.
as for planning out the fic itself, once i figured out my beginning and my ending i just started to draw the path between them. i'd ask myself questions and break them down into sub-questions,
"how are they going to find out about the real prophecy?" well, ella tells them.
which led to "how are they going to find ella?" they need a reason to go looking for her.
which led to "what reason do they have for finding ella?" it makes sense for someone like annabeth to want conclusive proof that the prophecy they'd all known for years was wrong.
which led to "how would annabeth find out the discrepancies in the prophecies in the first place?" obviously percy would blurt it out to someone, and then the ball would roll from there.
not sure if that works for everyone, but it sure did for me!
for my actual writing, i answered a previous ask about the nitty gritty of how i broke down my wcwsthwas chapters here!
i'm not quite sure if i answered your question haha BUUUUT tl;dr: it was an absolute fluke lmao and i can only hope i made the most of it. ty for the thought-provoking question, anon!
