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Made because I reblog stuff a lot and also want to put my stuff in order, since a lot of them fit together in some ways. Feel free to write any of these!! Just let me know pls and maybe let me know so I can read it :3

My overly complicated TMA au (inspired by Occudo's Gertrude is still around series) bc I'm obsessing over it again, featuring:

- Alive Gertrude

- Childhood friends Gerry and Jon

- A lot of other changes that will be explained as I talk, so:

He couldn't kill her. The Beholding didn't want to let go of its Archivist and Jonah couldn't kill her. But she was planning something, of that he was sure, and he had to limit her somehow. Back when she had assistants it was easier, he could manipulate them and-

hm.

He was her boss, wasn't he?

Jon was transferred to the Archives out of the blue. He didn't know why, exactly. He definitely wasn't qualified for the job, and Lord knows he wasn't that bad at his current work to necessitate a demotion or anything.

It's not even that the Archivist would have requested him specifically, for whatever reason. Everyone knew that if she did talk with anyone from Research, it was Sasha James.

But he got moved. And that was a good thing. Because Gerry worked closely with Miss Robinson, and maybe if they were in proximity the guy would finally stop ignoring him.

Or not. Because Miss Robinson apparently hated him because Mr Bouchard forced her to take him as an assistant and Gerry did whatever his lady ordered him to.

Whatever. It was fine. Being left alone in the creepy Archives for weeks when they were 'travelling' is fine. Being berated for both doing anything and nothing without any explicit instructions was fine. The loneliness was fine.

(I imagine Jon's relationship with Gertrude here to be like early Jon and Martin but without her sending him on dangerous follow-ups because she knows better.)

Eventually he starts doing the job of the Archivist by himself. While Miss Robinson was of doing anything but what she was supposed do, he started recording the written Statements, taking the live ones, organising the place.

He learns the Supernatural truly exists when a door that isn't there opens in his office and a being that calls itself Michael appears. It tells him the story of Michael Shelley. It warns him of Gertrude. It calls him 'interesting', whatever that means. It tells him about the Unknowing.

When Miss Robinson comes back, he doesn't bother trying to tell her. He doesn't bother trying to talk to Gerry either.

He just ducks his head and continues pretending the Statements are just stories.

He pretends he doesn't know things he shouldn't, for the most part. He does something with his knowledge only once, during this period. He slips a printed note into Gerry's pocket. He knows the man refuses to speak to him, for whatever reason. But he will be damned if Jon lets his first ever friend die.

During these months, Sasha James starts becoming a-, not exactly a common occurence in the Archives, but when Miss Robinson is present, oftentimes Miss James is as well. He isn't even surprised when she gets transferred officially.

She ignores him, at first. He knows Miss Robinson told her a lot about his bad working habits. Which she definitely knows a ton about, with how often she's there, sure.

He decides to be a bit petty, at first. Oh, she thinks he doesn't do anything? Okay then, he's going to go to the Library and read for half his workday. (He reads the Statements he brings with himself.)

That's when he befriends one of the Librarians, Martin Blackwood. They bond over having no idea what they're doing.

Sasha James, apparently, is more observant than their boss, although he supposes she does spend more time in the Archives than Miss Robinson. She notes how more tapes keep appearing even when she's not the one who records them. She can see the organised part of the Archives grow day by day. She figures out she can ask him for any Statement by number and he'll be able to tell her where it is and what it's about. (Only the latter of those required him to have read it before).

They slowly become friends as well. He keeps his distance though. He isn't sure how much she knows about the Supernatural, and he's got a ritual to stop.

He starts playing a more active role. He starts looking at places involved with the Stranger, looking for clues.

During one of those stake-outs, in a place that clearly hosted them at some point but got abandoned, he meets another person.

Later, he will learn his name, Tim Stoker. He'll learn his story, about the loss of Danny. For now the two laugh, exchange numbers and spend the rest of the evening sharing information and getting drunk.

Sasha, as it turns out, didn't know about the Supernatural at all. He, Martin and Tim are at the Library, cross-referencing a new Statement with a map and some books when they realise that this is not the first time this table has come up. In fact, Martin is pretty sure this particular item is in Artefact Storage.

Him and Tim share a look, and head to take a look at it, followed closely by Martin who decides he's tired of being idle. Which is how they stumble into one panicking Sasha James, running from something that looks like... Sasha. But different, somehow.

Jon isn't sure what happens. This isn't like the times he randomly knows a piece of information that completes a puzzle he's been trying to solve. This is so much more.

"I see you." He will tell the not!Sasha. "I know what you are."

And the thing, born to be everything but known and seen, dies.

Safe to say, they forget about the table entirely, as they have to explain the Paranormal to Sasha (and Tim and Martin, who actually don't know all that much when it comes to things that aren't clowns).

Sometime after this Michael, who for some reason keeps visiting him, starts calling him Archivist. Jon will argue, claiming that that's Miss Robinson. It will point out that he seems to be doing the job better than her, and threatens him into being better to his 'assistants' than her.

Which is why, when he comes into work before Sasha and finds Miss Robinson there, (alone, without Gerry), telling him to get ready to go into the field, he hesitates. He knows this is it, that the Unknowing is near. He knows the friends he's made will come with, if he texts them.

Which is why he doesn't. He won't be another Miss Robinson. He won't let others sacrifice themselves for his sake.

He helps her set up the explosives. He almost doesn't make it out on time. He gets saved by a very angry goth who should not be there at all.

Watching Gerry yell at Miss Robinson will be very amusing. What will be worse though, is Mr Bouchard showing up from nowhere and start to spout bullshit about 'him being a better fit for the job' and offering him the position of the Head Archivist.

And now, Jon is not an idiot. He doesn't trust Miss Robinson with his life. She was already willing to sacrifice him once. But he does not trust Mr Bouchard at all, period. And Lord knows he doesn't trust himself not to get manipulated.

Long story short, he tells the man where to shove it.

Later, he'll have an honest conversation with Gerry. About how he was trying to protect Jon from the Paranormal, and when Jon started working at the Institute, from the active parts of it. They will have a fistfight along the way, but eventually they'll be friends again.

Later, his friends will all yell at him and then at Miss Robinson ("Call me Gertrude, Jesus Christ, literally everybody does that. Why do you insist on being respectful, I've been everything but towards you."). She will be very confused by the man who goes by Tim, very obviously doesn't work at the institute, and seems very upset by the fact he wasn't present for the Unknowing's destruction.

But that will come later.

For now, Jonah Magnus has failed spectacularly yet again.

#tma au #tma podcast #the magnus archives #tma #the magnus archive fanfic #gertrude robinson #tma gertrude #gerry keay #gerry keay lives #gertrude lives #jonathan sims #sasha james lives #sasha james #tim stoker lives #tim stoker #martin blackwood #tma everyone lives #the unknowing #the unknowing au

A while ago while writing my TM9 x PJO post, I thought of a certain Leo au and it hasn't left my mind since.

So, you get to suffer through the horrible, no-good idea with me. What is it, might you ask?

It's a !titan army Leo concept.

I can hear the audience grow silent and concerned, but please read this a chance.

Consider this:

Luke has turned on the gods. Luke is fighting for his child self, for all the unclaimed and ignored demigods, Luke is fighting for a better world.

Luke will not let what happened to him happen to others.

So he sends patrols across different cities. He searches for demigods without keepers, without homes, without any way to get to safety. He takes them in. He tells them about their world.

He gives them a choice.

Luke wasn't given a choice. He was made to serve the gods. He wasn't going to make these kids serve Kronos, if they didn't want to.

One day, he finds a boy sleeping under the Houston Bridge.

His name is Leo.

And Leo, Leo who hasn't belonged anywhere since his mom's death, Leo who doesn't understand his powers, Leo who hates his dad for the uncontrollable fire in his veins and his silence, Leo who hates the sleeping deity whose name he doesn't yet know and wrongly assumes to be an Olympian, Leo who is given a chance for once in his life -

Leo chooses Luke's side.

He doesn't question it, for a while. He learns to fight. To control his powers. To create. He makes friends. It's fine, for a while. But then, Silena starts talking to him. She tells him about Camp through her eyes. She tells him about her regrets. Ethan tells him about what the Labirynth was like, to be traversed alone.

Doubt starts to settle in his gut.

But Leo has always been a coward.

He watches Silena die.

He watches Ethan die.

He doesn't intervene in either case, frozen.

He doesn't intervene when Luke finally kills himself either.

He watches. He hates himself for that.

Numbly, he will watch Percy Jackson, the hero of the War be approached by the Gods, the Gods he loathes, the Gods who did this -

He will watch Percy be offered immortality. He will watch Percy decline. He will watch Percy ask for all the things his friends have been fighting for instead and more.

Percy asks for all the traitors to be forgiven as well.

Percy asks for Leo to be forgiven. Percy who killed Luke, the first ever person who made him feel safe.

Leo has always been a coward.

And so, he won't face his siblings at Camp Halfblood.

He will run.

Run back to the mortal world, to foster families and the Houston Bridge and everything in between until the law gets fed up with him and decides to send him to Wilderness School.

It sucks, for the most part. Piper is the only saving grace. Piper who is nice and funny and reminds him of Silena.

Silena who is deadeadead because he didn't save her.

Vaguely, in the back of his mind, he registers she's probably a demigod. But he ran away from the godly world for a reason and he wasn't going to think about it.

And then Jason Grace appears. Jason who's more put together than him or Piper but still kind anyway. Jason who protects them from bullies when they're too tired to fight.

Jason who reminds him of Luke.

And then, of course his delusional fantasy of happiness gets ruined. They get attacked. Annabeth Chase shows up, and blames him almost immediately.

Because of course one of Luke's little soldiers has something to do with Percy's disappearance. For Christ's sake, he didn't even know the guy vanished.

They have a screaming match over the Grand Canyon while an amnesiac Jason and not-in-the-know Piper stare confused.

Piper, once she finds out, is pissed at him at first for not mentioning anything, but one comment about trauma and war gets her to shut up.

And then, as if getting stuck at the very place he was running from wasn't enough, they find out their memories of Jason were fake.

(He spends that night crying. He lost Luke. And now he lost Jason too.)

He relishes at the chance to go on a quest and run away from this place, from their suspicious gazes and snide comments and the Gods he still hates.

He and Piper remake their relationship with Jason. He keeps them alive (he saves Luke and Silena, just this once).

They make it out.

And then, the quest of the seven.

He does what he's good at. He builds. He creates the Argo.

Logically, he knows he'll have to see Percy. That doesn't make him ready for it. To see the person that killed Luke again, to see him in power again, to see him-

He swears he's not the one to destroy New Rome. No one believes him. Not even Piper.

That hurts the most, he thinks.

It feels bittersweet when they finally learn of the eidolons.

Seeing Nemesis makes him feel a lot of things. He wants to cry. Wants to scream at her for setting Ethan on his path. Wants to hug her and pretend she's his friend.

(Ethan is dead. You didn't save him.)

He deals. He mostly ignores Percy. Tries to stay in the steering room or wherever. Pretends he's fine.

When Percy falls into Tartarus he doesn't know how to feel. So he pushes it down and keeps working.

And then he ends up on Calypso's island. And looking at the bitter goddess, he'll be faced with the one thing he can't be angry at with Percy.

He'll tell her that Percy did everything he could and she shouldn't be angry.

She'll point out he's clearly mad with the boy.

He'll say it's besides the point and promises to come back for her.

The prophecy says the world will fall to either the storm or fire. He's fire. But a storm could be either Jason or Percy.

He doesn't know how to feel about the latter. But he's not letting Jason die.

Even if it means lying to Piper. What's one more betrayal, right? At least he gets to save Luke.

He won't be a coward this time.

Okay but /srs do you get the Vision??? Like. For starters it would give is way more depth into the Army. Like Alyss or whatever he name is from the PJO show (i haven't watches season2)

But also. Rick tried to set up diff conflicts on the Argo and this would be soo good and less forced than the canon Calypso issue.

What do you think?

#percy jackson #percy jackson au #pjo #pjo hoo toa #pjo au #percy jackon and the olympians #dark leo valdez #leo valdez #titan army #luke castellan au #luke's army #leo valdez angst #hoo au

(Forbidden child) Leo Valdez and (Latino) Percy Jackson as siblings au (with valgrace):

(This goes of the concept that Gods have control over the powers their children inherit.)

Certain children are forbidden, in the Godly world. The newest ruling is in regards to the children of the Big Three, but there have been certain bans years before that.

Children of Apollon don't have control over plagues.

Children of Hermes aren't meant to inherit traits from his 'Psychopomp' epithet.

Children of Dionysus don't take after Dionysus Zagreus nor Dionysus Bro'mius.

Children of Hephaestus don't have control over fire.

They haven't for centuries.

And yet, here stood Hera. Explaining that his son, Esperanza's son, is destined to be a great hero. Convincing him to break the rules.

He does.

Leonidas Valdez is born with fire in his veins.

His mother warns him. Tells him to never use his gift until his father allows him. He disobeys when the sleeping woman threatens her.

His mother dies. Tía Rosa turns the family against him. He stumbles from foster family to foster family, lost, sleeping under the Houston Bridge.

Until he meets a boy with a troublemaker's grin and pockets stuffed with candy.

"I'm Percy." He introduces himself. "I go to the boarding school on East Street."

"Are you meant to be here?"

"Not at all! But I've got clients who want to buy candy and I've got to get the stuff somehow."

That is how Leo Valdez meets Percy Jackson. In a few months, he will be introduced to Sally Jackson. In a few months, he will have a family. But for now, he giggles and offers to help the boy smuggle candy.

Chiron comes to Yancy's having been told about two incredibly powerful boys.

They don't seem like much, at first glance. The Jackson twins aren't identical, but they both carry an air of mischief around them, smuggling in candy and selling it, as well as doing everything to subtly annoy Nancy Wheeler.

It takes a moment for Chiron to get out of this mindset. In fact, he's on the verge of giving up and having to tell Grover he was mistaken, when the Field Trip happens.

Nancy Wheeler makes a comment about Leonidas and when his face falls and Perseus turns to her with fury, the fountain swallows the girl whole.

He doesn't know which one of them does it. Alecto doesn't either, and she doesn't care, so she attacks the both of them.

He isn't sure which of the two slayed her either.

(Both Leo and Percy will see the Fates. The string Leo is shown is sea green. The string Percy is shown is blazing orange.)

A few months later, the siblings stumble into Camp Half-blood. Perseus looks devastated. Leonidas seems numb. Grover is unconscious, and soon the two of them are too.

The twins become quick friends with the other Campers, especially with Travis and Connor, apparently sharing their penchant for mischief.

Chiron hopes he was mistaken. He hopes that they're children of Hermes.

But it seems less and less likely, especially when the Ares campers try to 'initiate' them, and the pipes in the toilets burst.

As they start participating in Camp activities, the chances continue to plummet. Leo thrives at the forges. Percy keeps winning at canoeing and is great with pegasi.

And then, Capture the Flag.

Both of them get stationed at the creek.

Then, the hellhound appears. It attacks Leo, but Percy jumps in, taking the hit himself. He gets healed by the water.

Technically, only Percy gets claimed that night, but everyone knows.

Percy might be the son of Poseidon Pelagios, the son of the sea, with a siren-like voice, aqua-like eyes and a fluidity that came from the tides, but Leo?

Leo was his other half. The son of Poseidon Ennosigaios, the Earthshaker, the son of the God who sired cyclops who work in forges. Leo had eyes that burned like blazing metal, hands created for handiwork and a connection to the earth that made it shake when he was angry.

Percy, the only official son gets sent on the quest. He goes with Annabeth and Grover. Leo follows anyway.

When they return the bolt, Leo and Percy do it together. Poseidon will look at the two, and assume he was mistaken when he thought he only had one son. That is the day Leonidas Jackson gets claimed by the Earthshaker.

When Luke invited them to the woods, it's Leo who gets poisoned by the scorpion. Percy will have to carry his baby brother with the dawning knowledge that Leo is so much more vulnerable than him, he can't just be dropped into the water to heal.

In this version of events, this is the moment a different power stirs in Percy. By all means, Leo should've died that day. He had no explanation for surviving.

(Percy will know. He will feel something shift in him, that day. He will notice the slight tint of gold to his blood. He will not tell anybody for years, not even his brother.)

(Both of them saw their brother die, before coming to Camp Half-blood. Leo did die, the poison caused his heart to stop before Percy willed it to continue. Percy did die, or at least the mortal part of him did, if only for a moment.)

When they return to Camp next year, Leo will be a major help in taking down the bulls. He joins Percy on this quest, just like last time. He helps save Clarisse's ship from exploding and the two come back home to meet Thalia.

(Leo does NOT get along with Thalia, and because of this Percy won't either. They only act civil for Annabeth's sake.)

When they go to meet the di Angelo's, it's not Annabeth who gets kidnapped. In this world, the manticore threatens Leo, and Percy, loyal Percy, seeing his younger brother panic and set his fingers alight, intervenes immediately.

Percy falls of the cliff. Apollo, the protector of youth will take the sky from him.

Leo will join the hunters to find him.

He will save Bianca from Talos, managing to turn the automaton off before it kills her.

Zoë will die anyway. Thalia will take the sky so Apollo can fight, which will turn over a new page for her relationship with the Jackson siblings.

Thalia becomes a huntress.

In the Labirynth, it's Leo who blows up the forge. He ends up meeting Calypso far earlier and he befriends her. He still leaves, of course. He has to go back to his brother. But he will remember this.

The war starts properly with the Battle at Camp Halfblood. Then, it continues.

Percy and Beckendorf go onto Princess Andromeda. Leo stays back, convinced to do so by the duo.

Charles, one of Leo's closest friends (and brother, not that anybody knew) dies.

He can't even grieve his brother properly.

They defend Manhattan. So many more people die. But they live.

Annabeth and Percy get together. Leo grows more confident. Percy makes the Gods claim their kids. Leo makes them free Calypso and let all the traitor Gods of the hook.

They live. They heal. Leo remains the son of Poseidon.

And then:

Percy Jackson disappears.

And Leo, he tries. Tries to function at Camp Halfblood, at home with Paul and Sally but it's wrong without his brother. Wrong without the boy who gave him a family in the first place.

So he does what he's always been good at. He runs.

He keeps in contact with everyone of course. But he goes from school to school, looking out for demigods he can help. Then one day, he meets Piper McLean.

They become fast friends, as he makes sure she's actually a demigod before taking her to Camp. And as he's ready to tell her the truth, something... switches.

There's... a boy. Piper's boyfriend. Jason. Jason Grace. With blond hair and blue eyes, and that edge to him that Thalia and Nico and Bianca and Percy have that he never quiet learnt to mimic.

Jason looks like Thalia. He sparks like her. Could he be?

How come Leo hasn't noticed this earlier?

(Something is wrong. Like in Manhattan, when Hecate and some of her children used the mist against them. Something is wrong.)

Jason doesn't remember a thing. That's... bad.

Leo has a lot of memories with Jason. Jason... Jason feels safe, in a way similar to Percy. Leo doesn't have to pretend around him like he does around Camp. With him, he's just Leo, with quick fingers and an even quicked mind. Not the son of Poseidon. Not the hero of Olympus.

Not Percy's brother.

(In his memories, when Jason got together with Piper it isn't just worry about being a third-wheel that ails him. It's jealousy.)

He takes then to Camp. Him and Piper have a bit of a falling out, when she realises he knew the entire time, but she forgives him.

He realises his memories are fake. He takes in better than Piper, of course. That doesn't stop him from crying in Cabin 3 later than night. This boy that he remembers, that kwot him sane whilst his brother was gone, does he even exist?

They go on the quest. He's more ready than he is in the original canon. He's been holding a sword since twelve and fighting monsters just as long.

It isn't enough. Piper and Jason still get captured.

They will be the first people outside of his family that he will tell about his actual powers.

The rest of the Seven will follow soon after.

(Percy will have the vaguest memories of two people, while missing his memories. A blond girl with grey eyes, and a boy that looks not unlike him, but with blazing eyes. When he sees Sammy in Hazel's memories he realises their destiny has been interwined for far longer than he thought.)

When Leo ends up on Calypso's island again, he rages. How dare they lie? How dare the gods go back on their promise?

He won't love her, in this world. But she's his friend and she's been stuck here, unfairly.

(Percy's already fragile mortality will shatter even further, in Tartarus. Controlling poison will feel natural.)

When they learn the prophecy, Leo feels the choice is even easier.

To storm or fire.

He is fire.

Storm could be Jason or Percy.

His older brother has been sacrificing himself for Camp for years now. Now, it's his turn. He won't let his brother or the boy he loves die if he can help it.

It will hurt, lying to Piper. But he'll have no choice.

#percy jackson #percy jackson au #pjo #pjo hoo toa #pjo au #percy jackon and the olympians #leo valdez #siblings leo and percy #percy jackson angst #valgrace

vanta-bat

patheticenergy

Peter Parker in Gotham prompt but it is wingfic Gotham. Not Peter Parker wingfic, but everyone else in the universe.

Everyone thinks someone cut some kids wings off, featuring batman trying to find peter, peter thinks batman is mad about him being a meta so hides and sneaking around, hides in an abandoned building away from weird bird people, rarely leaves his chosen "residence" but whenever he does he gets reverse mugged. Lots of concerned citizens, peter giving out heart attacks like candy by jumping off buildings, peter fits in much smaller spaces then everyone else, peter has to sew the backs of shirts closed due to wing holes, peter has no idea why everyone apologizes to him when they see him. Pure chaos every which way.

Title suggestion: I'm just gonna wing it

lurafita

yeah, I'm kinda stuck on this now.

There could still be a "Dick is Pete's dad" thing in there, right? (because even though I generally prefer adult Peter Parker, I can't say I'm not enjoying all the family feels with the DC crossovers)

Also, there would be basically no chance for Peter to keep a secret identity with his clearly missing wings, right? And I'm not gonna lie, that would be such an interesting twist that to my knowledge has not been done before. Civilian hero Peter. He could still make himself a suit (it's better for aerodynamics and all), but yeah, basically everyone would know since his abilities and non-abilities would stand out so much.

And he would probably have so many questions for the others. "Are your bones hollow? Like a bird's? Are you really light? Do you need to clean your feathers regularly? Do you lay eggs?Can you still fly if your wings get too wet? Do you have bird like instincts? And on that note, do you eat spiders????" - possibly asked while slowly backing away 🤣

lurafita

ALSO, would Peter's body "adapt" to the new universe after a while?

Grow wings himself (or *other* appendeges) (like extra spider legs????)?

lurafita

ALSO ALSO, do the wings that people have differ from each other?

Does everyone have the same kind of wings, or are we using all kinds of wings?

Would Dick/Nightwing have owl wings? (silent flight and further connection to that owl cult that's after him)

Batman with batwings? (Would Batwings be rare, causing Bruce to don some kind of disguise wings in his civilian get up, or would batwings be just as common as other birds?)

Then Damian's wings could be like a Fruitbat/Flying Fox. (Also vegetarian, and has a slight canine resemblence, linking up with his later alias as Wolfbat)

Pretty sure the others could get linked to different bird species as well. (If I knew lots about birds anyway.)

IF Peter's body adapted to the new universe by popping some extra spider legs, he could do a flying spider move and use some webs between the extra legs to glide some distance. (After he is done freaking out about the new legs and all that I guess)

Of course, he doesn't have to get new appendages, either wings or legs. Him just being unique in that universe would be really interesting too. (also I'm still also headcanoning that Dick is his dad there and at one point he wraps Peter in his big wings and that image is just really wholesome to me right now, okay?)

awhoreintheory

Peter ends up in DC (not in gotham omg) exactly where he was in his universe. It takes him a two full days to realize hes not in his universe bc he chalked a lot of the strangeness to the spell Strange casted

But nope. Hes in a new universe that has completely different heroes, and more importantly, completely different memes (what the hell is "do the butts match"??) And this place has a distinct lack of one Tony Stark

So Peter basically starts up Stark Enterprises in NY again bc he poor and its what Tony (probably) wouldve wanted. He had to pay for this metabolism somehow

But obviously peter needed an investor or twenty, but who needs more than one when Brucie Wayne exists?? Hes like a hunkier yet still bimbo Tony, and practically throws his money at any sad looking teen

But Brucie wayne ends up taking him under his wing, bc hes like. An 18/19 year old CEO and he is Very Concerned abt how this kid not only invented a new time of metal (vibranium) and a very powerful form of energy in the arc reactors, so he pays extra attention bc he does NOT need a villain running around with that kind of power and intelligence to back it

(yet another) !Prophet Percy au, this time explicitly percabeth bc I actually haven't read any of those and haven't written any prompts with it either.

So.

Percy Jackson has seen a lot of things. He hasn't quiet experienced them just yet, but he's seen them.

He's seen a blue-eyed boy turn into a golden-eyed monster. He's seen the world fight itself. He's seen two siblings be separated, a story that keeps repeating itself.

(Jason and Thalia as kids, Bianca and Nico, Castor and Pollux, Artemis and Apollo when the later is turned mortal, Jason and Thalia when he dies-)

Point is, he's seen a lot. He knows a lot, about most of the people at Camp Halfblood.

(It hurts. It hurts so, so much. He has to look at these people and smile, pretending he hasn't seen them die, pretend he hasn't burned their shrouds, pretend, pretend, pretend.)

He knows his mom is alive. He knows who his dad is. He knows where the bolt actually is.

He knows these people should stop insulting Hades, the god who will receive them when they die. Hades, who is one of the Kronides.

When they return from the quest and Lee Fletcher looks him over for any injuries he almost breaks down there and then.

(His body is mangled, unrecognisable, his shroud golden and beautiful-)

He leaves after the summer ends. He can't bear to look at these children, already convicted by the Fates.

He comes back, of course. There's things to be done. It hurts just as much.

He never gets used to it.

He isolates himself, just slightly. Keep your circle small. Grover is fine. So are Annabeth and Tyson. Later, Nico, Thalia, Clarisse and Rachel.

Keep the others at a distance. Don't let them see you. Let them think you're just slightly asocial.

It's better than getting close to them.

Even with his friends, he keeps them slightly further than normal. Especially Annabeth.

He could learn to love her. He knows that.

But he can see her mourning him, after the Titan War. He can see the two of them on the verge of death.

No, it's better for her if they remain friends. He's destined to be yet another tragedy, but she can continue with her life.

The war storms, and then ends. Annabeth and Percy never kiss.

Percy disappears. Annabeth nearly goes mad searching for him anyway.

When Percy wakes up, with no memories except the vage image of a blonde girl, he assumes she's his girlfriend in this world too.

They reunite. They split up. They reconverge in Rome. Percy cuts the web holding Annabeth before it has the chance to pull her down, but in doing so, he falls himself, the earth crumbling beneath his feet.

Annabeth dives after him.

In one world, Percy falls so Annabeth isn't down there alone.

In this world, it's the other way round.

"Why would you do that?" Percy will ask, despite knowing the answer. In a way, he did it for her as well.

"Because I love you. I have for a while now."

Down there in hell, as they're dying, Percy will talk about the things he sees for the first time since his mom told him he saw too much.

In turn, Annabeth will explain, exactly how her mind works. That 'Athena always has a plan' is literal. She's constantly working through dozens of hypotheticals, planning for every variant of events, sometimes years in the future.

Annabeth might not know what will happen in the future, exactly, but she sure knows what to do with it.

This is the moment they get together :3

[The reason why my prophet Percy aus (most of my PJO prompts actually, at least those from Marmosis and Marianna, bc that definitely includes prophet Percy) don't really have any ships, is because I think it creates a weird power imbalance. Like, he knows their Fate and can actively try to change it. Idk it's a bit weird for me. But in this au, I fixed that!! (I think). ]

#percy jackson #percy jackson au #pjo #pjo hoo toa #percy jackson headcanon #pjo hcs #pjo au #percy jackon and the olympians #percabeth #prophet percy

justaz

percy looking like pallas and orion send tweet

aaaaalice

Percy reminding every god of a different person from their past.

- Athena and Triton seeing a Pallas who lived

- Artemis seeing a kinder Orion

- Poseidon seeing a Bellerophon who actually deserved to be a god but turned it down anyway

- There's a lot of heroes Ares could see in Percy but my personal favorite for this is Diomedes

- Aphrodite and Hera seeing him and Annabeth as Odysseus and Penelope

- Zeus seeing the original Perseus and wondering if he will be this one’s Cetus

- Dionysus seeing himself if he hadn't ascended

- Hermes seeing a Luke who can forgive

hauntedwizardtree

I’ve got a small idea, just a flicker of one, of an Athenide AU—but in my Theseus and Hippolytus!Percy reincarnation AU.

Annabeth, Theseus and Percy fall into the Fountain from Athens somehow, but it is a bit tricky for the Fates to thread them back into the weaving and one of the threads pushes away from it’s proper place when it came time to be weaved back in together:

Annabeth and Theseus are “born” at the Contest of Athens to Poseidon and Athena, and Percy is “born” to Artemis shortly after, when she nicks herself in a pool sacred to her and a drop of ichor hits the waters, creating a son who was born of Artemis alone.

j-a-n-e--d-o-e

Oh but Hippolytus would adore beimg reborn as his goddess baby and having no connection to theseus

hauntedwizardtree

Yes he will! I’m thinking that it would end up with Theseus and Annabeth being “born” teenagers/young adults, but Percy/Perseus/Hippolytus (I’ve not settled on what his name would in that AU) is “born” as an infant because his body had to be completely changed as he no longer has direct ties to Poseidon unlike Theseus and Annabeth’s ties to Poseidon and Athena

j-a-n-e--d-o-e

Im cackling

Percy living a slice of life fantasy/thinking he's reached elysium

Meanwhile annabeth and Theseus arw going through the horrors whilst trying to find a way back to their time.

The other 2 probably don't even know Percy was dragged along for a good while as I can 100% Artemis just not informing anyone save Apollo until well after her baby is grow and capable of defending himself

hauntedwizardtree

Now I’m cackling!

Percy at first is a little weirded out by being so tiny and uncoordinated and everything is massive, but Lady Artemis is here, so it’s probably fine! There is a tiny hiccup when his patron goddess goes to feed him, but hunger eventually forces him to do as she wishes—even if a corner of his mind is extremely embarrassed by the situation.

he thinks it’s a very odd dream for a while. And when he realizes that it’s real? Well, he had been wishing to return to the Hunt for years but Poseidon and Theseus would have killed him (again) if he tried. Perhaps the Fates have finally taken mercy upon him.

Theseus and Annabeth are not coping as well as Percy is (especially Theseus as his first incarnation will be born sooner than later), but at least they aren’t literal infants and are given some autonomy, though having Athena and Poseidon act like involved parents to them both is new and unsettling.

Neither of them knows what happened to Percy—though they both remember he fell in with them, and hope that he got out of the fountain before they were dropped into this surreal twilight zone universe they’re trapped in.

and then one day Artemis comes to Olympus with her young son—an infant still in godly terms, who was born of her ichor with no father, around the same time the Athenides were born, a boy who looks at Aphrodite and immediately screams and hides behind Artemis.

(Zeus is so unnerved he promises the boy anything he wants if he will just stop crying—Percy, like his mother before him, asks that he never be forced to wed and be allowed to remain chaste, and remain with his mother’s hunt for eternity. He doesn’t need to ask for weapons because Apollo is a very exuberant uncle and has been spoiling his sister’s son since the day Hippolytus/Perseus was born)

Percy Jackson as a deity of free will.

(I'm reading Descendants of Olympus by CaffeinatedFlumadiddle on ao3 (part 2 of Son of Sea Foam) and I am obsessed with the concept of free will. So. Heavily inspired.)

Sally Jackson was a demigod. The daughter of the Roman Libertas, goddess of freedom. She's a minor goddess. Sally deals with the occasional monster but she manages by herself just fine. She never integrates into the godly world and as such never uses her power.

Sally Jackson is safe.

Perseus Silas Jackson is not.

He inherits power from his mother. And this boy, the Fates know, will not remain complacent, unlike Sally. His father's genes will not allow him to be so.

This boy can change things.

So they start sending him visions. Of the future, of Halcyon Green and all the other cursed prophets, of Oedipus and all those who tried outrunning their fate. They teach him what the future is meant to look like, and hope the threats are enough for him to allow it.

They are not.

It starts when he sees the Minotaur kill Sally. He knows the price he might face for this, but isn't it worth trying? He can deal with being punished if it saves her.

He runs away at seven and stumbles into the Labyrinth. A place that doesn't make sense, designed to make people go insane. But Perseus Jackson is used to a world that doesn't make sense. To living in two times at once. To silent rules of the adult world that he doesn't comprehend just yet.

Childrens' mind have a unique ability to adapt. And so, young Perseus doesn't just survive. He thrives.

He learns how to not just react to the changes of the Labirynth but control them, recognise them, use them. He learns to navigate and use this breathing, malicious thing.

He learns the different aspects of his powers. Poseidon is said to have built the gates of Tartarus and helped make the impenetrable walls of Troy. Poseidon is the Earthshaker. Perseus might be his son, not that he knows it, but he does not belong to the see.

He makes the Labirynth into more than a trap and prison, he makes it his home.

Of course, he leaves it on occasion. To steal food, to see sunlight, to outrun some particularly dangerous monster.

He's ten, when he stumbles into the wolf's den.

Jason Grace is nine.

Two boys raised by danger. They fight, at first, and when they're both too injured to continue they will laugh, covered in blood and become brothers.

One will become the hero of New Rome. The other, his silent shadow. Percival Jackson, as he will introduce himself, to keep his two worlds separate (he might only be part of one, for now, but he knows it will not remain that way) doesn't stay at Camp Jupiter. He knows he doesn't completely belong there.

Poseison's children, the cyclops, are good at forgery. Who's to say his mortal children aren't either? Jason is the first who is given a bracelet by young Percy, but he is far from the last.

But Percival Jackson will be known and recognise by these people regardless. The Legacy of Libertas, who fought like a son of Mars. The green-eyed brother of Lupa's wolf. Later, the closest advisor of both their Praetors and the Augur.

The second time Perseus intervenes with the Fates' plan is after Luke steals the bolt. He had seen this coming, but he wanted to see this play out in reality, not just in his visions. Which is how he finds himself in the Lotus Casino, watching a son of Hermes, a daughter of Athena and a satyr.

He looks like Jason.

And Percy will be damned if he doesn't try to save him.

Luke wakes up to the voice of his dead best friend coming from a kid who looks almost exactly like her. A kid who looks him in the eyes and forces him to understand what exactly he's doing wrong.

Luke doesn't walk away with any love for the gods. He'll never get that back. But he does gain understanding. He learns to hate Kronos more than his father.

That is the day Perseus Silas is introduced to the other side of his world.

From that day on, the world changes.

Perseus returns to the Lotus Casino and emerges with two children. He tells them about the Great Prophecy, their father and gives them choices.

Nico di Angelo chooses safety. Percival makes him the son of Pluto and joins Jason Grace in the 5th cohort.

Bianca di Angelo chooses freedom. Perseus gets her a place at a school he knows Grover will get stationed at soon. She stays there, waiting. One day she'll become a hunter.

Percival sneaks into the Underworld. There are many entrances within the Labirynth, not that anyone really knows. He leaves with yet another sister. She stays in the Labirynth for the most part, as neither Percival nor her want to risk the Fates' wrath for speeding up her revival.

Reyna and Hylla will escape Circe's island before its destroyed, forewarned by a boy whose name the first will only learn after arriving at Camp Jupiter.

Polyphemus never dies. The demigods sent on the quest are to scared to risk Poseidon's wrath. It took Odysseus ten years to get home after blinding him, what would happen to them?

Thalia comes back to life gasping on air, greeted by a kid who looked like her. He tells her about the Great Prophecy, why her father chose to turn her into a tree instead of actually saving her. He tells her about her options.

Thalia chooses freedom as well.

Perseus isn't actually there, when Thalia, Luke and Annabeth go get Bianca. He's in the Labirynth, trying to keep Clarisse alive and from running into Hazel.

During this time, when out to get food, Hazel runs into a girl with red hair and poisonous green eyes.

"You're not meant to be alive." She will say, not understanding the things she sees yet, not understanding who's voice she's talking with.

"No. And you're not meant to know that."

The moment Zöe first meets Perseus is in the Junkyard. The new huntress, Bianca, took something despite being warned not to. As the girl goes to sacrifice herself, she's pushed out of the way by another figure.

They move fast, and Zöe is unsure where they came from. One second they weren't there, then, Bianca was saved, then, Talos was falling and they were shrugging of a shock of electricity that should've killed them.

(Jason Grace is not always capable of controlling his powers during fights. Percival has learnt to roll with it.)

She sees Bianca hand Perseus, as she will learn his name is, a figurine. Telling him to pass it on to 'him'. As she does so, Zöe will see the bracelet on her arm.

A bracelet made with copper wire and faux pearls. The same bracelet Thalia, the daughter of Zeus, wears.

Perseus never meets Rachel in the dam, as she's with Hazel in the Labirynth.

Zöe still dies. Some deaths, even Percy is unable to stop. Not yet, at least, not with how undiscovered his power is.

Annabeth falls into the Labirynth with Luke, next summer, and in this world neither had ever known there was an entrance to it at Camp before. Coincidentally, they stumble into an injured Perseus, who had ran into Kronos' army.

"They're escalating." He'll tell them later, voice cracking. "They're turning my home into a weapon."

Four questers enture down below. They have far less trouble navigating it, with Perseus there.

They still fail to get the string from Daedalus.

The Hunters join them for the battle, and its Bianca who kills Daedalus. However, the Labirynth doesn't crumble. Its ownership falls to Percy.

Neither Perseus nor Luke ever bathe in the Styx. The former is too Roman to do so, the latter simply doesn't have a reason to.

Kronos' army is far smaller in this version of events. Still, the demigods and hunters have trouble holding back, especially since no gods come to help them, despite not having to deal with Typhon.

Still, they hold out by themselves. They have Perseus, who has foreseen large parts of the war. They have Bianca di Angelo who inherited enormous amounts of power from her father. They have Thalia, who is a brilliant leader and a nuisance in her own right. They have so many others.

Kronos loses. He's killed by Luke, who sacrifices himself in the end.

Kronos dies on Percy's 16 birthday. No one knows that fact, and the Great Prophecy is assumed to be in regards to a different conflict.

The Campers aren't happy with their gods. They had to fight Kronos by themselves. This is a wrong that will never quiet be righted.

Rebellion slowly builds throughout Camp Half-blood during the next few months.

And then.

Something shifts.

Three demigods stumble into Camp. A son of Hephaestus. A daughter of Aphrodite. A son of... Zeus?

Jason, he introduces himself, Jason Grace. That's one of the only two things he can remember. The other is the face of a young boy with dark hair and dark eyes.

Jason Grace has blond hair, blue eyes and a scar on his lip. Jason Grace carries himself like a leader.

Jason Grace is their chance at revenge against the Gods.

Jason Grace might not fight like Luke Castellan did, not controlled and practiced but untamable and furious, but that's just for the better.

The hunters are anxious. Their Lady is stuck on Olympus after it was locked down. And now this.

Their Lieutenant, Thalia, was missing. They still had her right hand, Bianca, but something was very, very wrong.

Then one day, they stumble into a hurt girl with dark curls and golden eyes.

"I think it was Hazel." She'll say when asked her name. "I don't- I don't remember anything but her face."

"Whose face?"

"I don't know. But she had red hair and poisonous eyes."

Hazel has a bracelet made of copper and pearls on her wrist.

Hazel might not be good at archery, but she can do so many other things. The earth responds to her in the way Bianca has seen it respond to Percy. She creates intricate illusions, more than that, she changed the universe to trick monsters.

Bianca can't help but wonder if Hazel was Perseus' biological half-sister.

Camp Jupiter is missing their praetor. Nico di Angelo has been running himself ragged, trying to control Octavian, figuring out why nothing quiet stays dead, finding his brother and dealing with the pressure Camp was putting on his shoulders.

Somehow being Jason and Percival's younger brother meant that they expected him to lead alongside Reyna when the two were gone.

He missed Jason. He missed Percival, but he understood that he had other responsibilities as well. Most of all, he missed Bianca.

And then, yet another variable.

A girl with electric blue eyes like Jason's and a face that looked like his, like Percival's.

She said her name was Thalia. That was one of the two things she remembered.

The other?

A face of a girl with dark hair in two braids and dark eyes.

Thalia, as she had introduced herself, was wearing a bracelet made of copper and pearls.

Something in Nico wondered. He had found a sibling outside of Bianca when they were separated. Could it be that Thalia was his sister's?

He didn't have a lot of time to wonder. Free Death first. Convince Octavian that no, this isn't a sign from the gods that you should usurp power, Percival will not be happy with you if you do. Prepare. Something is clearly happening and it might just mean another war.

Thalia doesn't fight like him, or Jason or Percival. She doesn't fight like a wild thing, desperate to survive. (He knows he doesn't exactly fight like that either. He wasn't raised by danger the way these two were. But they were the ones who taught him to fight, and that will make its impact.)

Instead, she fights... She fights like she's constantly expecting someone to be there, to aid here. Like she's long since forgotten what it's like to be alone. She fights well though, shooting arrows laced with lightning, twirling with a sword elegantly like the wind.

She becomes praetor. Nico isn't even surprised, just relieved.

Everything is fine, until another girl appears. She has furiously red hair and poisonous green eyes like Octavian's.

"Where," she'll demand to know. "the fuck is Hazel?"

That is the moment Nico realises this is far more complicated than he expected.

It's only months later, when the two Camps and Hunters manage to resolve this. Bianca and Nico manage to reunite after years, as do Thalia and Jason. It's only then, when they all talk, do they realise the following:

they had all thought Percy was busy with one of the other groups.

No one has heard from their brother since then.

Meanwhile, the Fates have finally punished the boy who broke their plans.

A boy stumbles through hell alone. On the upside, he had many names. Down here, he has none.

A boy stumbles through hell, with only one thought on his mind.

The copper and pearl bracelet on his wrist.

#percy jackson #percy jackson au #pjo #pjo hoo toa #percy jackson headcanon #pjo hcs #pjo au #percy jackon and the olympians #percy jackson angst #percy jackson fanfiction

curlupandread

First Part of "The Kid's Alive, But Something's Off" is Complete!

The 10 chapters long first part of "The Kid's Alive, But Something's Off" is completed and posted on AO3. There are several more parts planned for the series that should be coming soon!

It's about Tony reversing the snap, but Peter was living in Gotham for those 5 years. Of course he gained some creepy habits and skills! Inspired by this Tumblr post by @sunnyseraphh. They gave me permission to use the prompt and I credit them at the beginning of the work.

If you want to check it out here is the link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/83943671/chapters/221301746, or you can search for "The Kid's Alive, But Something's Off" by Curl_Up_And_Read on AO3.

sunnyseraphh

Check it out!! It's an amazing fic!!!

#ao3 #fanfic #crack fic #batman fanfiction #spiderman fanfiction #scary Peter #peter in gotham #spiderman in gotham #mcu x batfam #spiderman x dc

papayafromtv

dark comedy au where dick is suicidal and depressed after jason’s death to the point where he eventually decides to just put out an ad so he can hire a merc to assassinate him, fully open on the ad that this is dick grayson hiring to kill dick grayson, except tim finds the ad before anybody else takes it and figures out it’s dick’s suicide attempt, and as much as this is a clear cry for help that tim does intend to address at some point—he’s kinda got his hands full trying to make sure an equally grief-stricken bruce makes it to the end of the week without sticking a gun in his mouth. so, like a responsible teenager, tim decides to not put too much on his own plate, and he temporarily delegates by putting out his own ad looking for a highly trained criminal for hire to protect somebody from being assassinated. he keeps the identity of the potential victim anonymous until after hiring somebody, because he doesn’t want dick to notice the ad and realise somebody’s trying to stop his attempt for fear he abandons the idea and does something even worse. both dick and tim are using bruce’s card to fund their ventures.

meanwhile, fresh outta the league and looking to make some quick freelance cash on the side while he builds up his crime lord business, a slightly confused jason has somehow managed to pick up both contracts, and now has to put his whole revenge plan on hold because he’s stuck trying to figure out if he even wants dick dead or not, because after meeting with his severely broken-inside client as the red hood-former league of assassins member for hire, it becomes very clear that things within the batfamily are not as he thought they were after he’d ‘left’.

and to make things entirely more difficult, he has to figure this out while trying to regularly fake both assassination attempts on dick’s life, and protection of dick from said attempts on his life; and he has to do all of this while not tipping off either tim or dick as to what he’s doing because if either of them realise that jason isn’t just straightforward doing his job then they’ll just hire somebody else and then the situation will be out of jason’s hands, which jason does not want because he’s still on the fence about whether or not he wants his family dead.

there’s one singular occasion where jason decides to ask for advice from his most current family, except when he calls damian back at the league all damian says is ‘just let me put a hit out on drake, even it all out.’ and jason has to hang up on him.

Seeing as I am currently obsessed with the Mighty Nein, it's time to cross it over with my long-term hyperfixation, Percy Jackson.

Note; this is written in such a way that you should be able to read it even if you don't know the Mighty Nein. Maybe. Idk for sure :3

(I am only on ep15 from the campaign, so my knowledge heavily comes from the show, TikTok/Tumblr, the Webtoon, wikis, and ao3)

So. First order of matter: Gaea as Trent Ikithon. Just so you know :)

Sammy knows power. For as long as he can remember he's been reading, learning, casting. He'd help his father with the mending fences, his mother with cooking. He was learning.

And then:

Gaea. The woman dripped gold like she did power. He was given a palm, an opportunity, to grow, to serve, to matter. He took it, of course.

He met two others, like him, a girl called Calypso and a boy named Apollo. (Canonically, Caleb, Astrid and Eadwulf are romantic. Here, it's definitely not. I just didn't know who else to put. So. ToA trio.)

They thrive.

Where their peers fail, they excell. They pass further. They impress Gaea, where others disappoint. They get chosen.

Being infused with Styx' water hurts, but the three of them bear it, eager to please, to serve, to grow.

The fire in him is raging, able to react at a moment's thought, it's so, so powerful.

And then, the final test.

They've been taught to be ruthless towards traitors. Any who serve the old gods are to be slain.

Calypso and Apollo don't hesitate. He doesn't either. Only once it happens, once Hephaestus and Esperanza and his pet, Festus, all burn, does he break.

Sammy dies with his parents.

He has many names, after that. They don't mean anything, for a while.

Not until Leo Valdez is born.

Not until he meets Nott the Brave in a prison cell for petty theft. (I have no idea for a fake name for her, okay?? I struggled with Sammy enough)

Hazel had a life.

Had, past tense.

She had a mother, Marie. She had a mentor who taught her magic, Hecate. And she was okay. Sure, the other kids bullied her. But she was okay. With her small family, she was happy.

And then, their village is attacked.

"Please." She begs their captors, after days spent in a cage. "My mother. She's old and sick and frail. Please let us go."

Eventually, it works. Their saviour pretends that they're not that. They drop the key, seemingly by accident, and she's left to save them herself.

The alarm gets raised as they're in the woods.

"Take her!" She tells Hecate. "Get my mother to safety!"

She takes a knife and buys them time. In that moment, she's ready to die.

And she does. Hazel Levesque dies.

What's born from that is an ugly, monstrous thing. She drows and awakes cursed by Alcynoeus.

Nott the Brave, a faun, spends far too long as complacent, serving the clan, repeating that which had been done to her.

When she's finally brave enough and runs, she spends her days wandering between villages, stealing, doing odd jobs and getting drunk.

Until one day, in a dingy prison cell, she finds a purpose again. She finds hope. She finds a chance.

"Hello, Leo Valdez. I'm Nott the Brave."

Annabeth Chase would like to think she's smart. She sees a lot of things she doesn't think most notice. She could help the Chase business thrive.

But no. Because some hag told her mother (in this case I'm thinking specifically of Annabeth's stepmother) that one day she would humble her, whatever that meant.

So now, she had an absent mother who wouldn't listen to her.

And maybe she wasn't as smart as she thought. Stealing from her mother and reselling things illegally probably wasn't the best move, but she was just so angry. Maybe, she had hoped this would make her finally see her.

It didn't matter much, anyway. Because she moved from stealing to far worse crimes, and it felt freeing. For a moment she wasn't Annabeth Chase. She was just Annie.

She met Rachel, and for the first time in a while she felt seen. Until she and Rachel were actually seen, and caught doing criminal activity. They got arrested. She knew that her mother tried to bribe Rachel into abandoning her. She knows the girl refused. She never found out what happened to her after that, just that her own bail was paid and Rachel's was not.

Her mother had the Order of Prometheus train her, she regularly got into arguments with her trainers who were incompetent, you know, life.

Until she found some weird substance. Until she discovered the corruption. Until the Order, or specifically a section called Camp Halfblood turned from a place of books to one of action.

She was given a mission. She was given a purpose.

She would not fail Expositor Athena.

Frank was a lonely child. The other kids at the Orphanage never really accepted him, throwing cruel words and hits. The Headmaster never stopped them, either.

The first time he felt he had someone, was when the ship arrived in Port Damali. When the Captain looked at him.

He didn't hesitate to join, even when Octavian, the worst of the kids also chose to work on the ship.

He worked hard. Slowly, he earned respect, moving up, doing more, proving himself worthy.

And the Captain saw him. She mentored him herself, teaching him how to fight, believing in him even when he didn't believe in himself.

Life was good. Even Octavian mostly ignored him, except for the occasional jab.

And then.

Then he caught Octavian holding a fuse to the ship's cargo. He tried. He tried so damn hard to save everyone.

But he was too weak. Octavian wounded him and escaped from the ship. He was left trying to get to the Captain, to warn her in time.

He failed. The ship blew up and he was drowning.

And then, something appeared in the water.

Something that told him to learn. To consume.

A thing of blood and violence and war.

He woke up on the shore, alone.

He grieved. He gathered his things. He left.

He didn't know what had happened. He didn't know what to do, now that his life went up in flames.

Not until he met a girl in the city. Until something in him clicked, and he fought like he never did before. Until Tristan McLean begged him to take his girl to safety.

How could he say no?

Piper was a lonely kid. But that was okay! She had her dad, who was an exceptional actor and loved her. She didn't have a mom, but that was okay! Her dad was enough. And sure, she wasn't allowed outside their house, but her dad didn't have to know about her breaking those rules.

He also didn't have to know about Aphrodite, her best friend.

Her... only friend. She was a goddess, wasn't that cool! And sure, maybe she wasn't one of the accepted gods to be worshipped, but she was Piper's goddess, and her friend!

And Aphrodite, she showed Piper the world. She learned what it meant to live.

Maybe, just maybe she got into trouble. But it was fun, and Aphrodite always got her out of it. She learned a lot, too. How to charm people, how to appear as someone else entirely, how to cause mischief.

Until one day, she takes a trick to far.

She pisses of the wrong person.

There isn't a trick that will get her out of this.

Not until she meets Frank.

She has to leave anyway. But maybe with Frank she won't be alone.

But why won't Aphrodite answer her?

Percy doesn't remember a lot. He knows that the circus found him having dug himself out of the dirt, cataconic, repeating "Empty" over and over again.

He doesn't want to think about that.

He's happy, okay?

His name is Perseus Jackson, Percy for short, he's travelling with the circus, he has friends, he has a life.

Fuck whoever lived in his body before. It was his now.

So he travels. He tries to leave every town they visit better than he found it. He reads people and pretends he reads cards. He tries to help the Circus survive.

He owes it to them. He owes it to Chiron, who took him in.

The cards show him death.

He ignores the grey in his hair. He ignores the golden eyes on his body.

His name is Percy Jackson.

It goes to shit.

Of course it does. The girl with blond hair who picked a fight with the boy in suspenders and his friend fucks everything up. (No they didn't. They didn't do anything. You're just so, so angry)

The Clazmonian Sow, which was meant to help the circus survive went batshit and started killing everyone.

Chiron was dead. Percy had killed him with the man's own sword, Riptide.

He doesn't completely understand what happened, but something in him switched, and suddenly the ocean was roaring in his ears.

He killed Chiron.

And these people who caused it won't shut the fuck up. (They didn't do anything. It was you. You killed him.)

But they manage to get out. They kill the fucking pig, and they go on.

Some asshole assassin called Nemesis (Owelia) tries to kill them. Hell, she almost kills Frank, poisoning the guy. Nott turns out to be smarter than they thought, curing him.

Annabeth and Leo have some fun questioning Nemesis, right until Leo crashes out.

It sure is fun learning your new friend was an assassin who killed his parents.

Not that Percy has a problem with that. Gods know what kind of person he was before all this. Everyone deserves a second chance.

So they keep moving. Some weird boy called Ethan calls him Poseidon and then Kronos. They get a job from some Hercules guy. Annabeth and Leo make up. Frank does some weird shit and saves all of them.

They go their separate ways. Annabeth gets paid time off and fails to get a date. Piper and Nott destroy a church. Frank tries to learn what's up with his god and fails. He finds out that whatever Poseidon/Kronos and Ethan were involved in was weird, blood-themed cult shit. Leo almost dies.

You know. Normal everyday things.

So they decide to fuck with Gaea. Why not, honestly?

They don't exactly fail per-se, but the plan definitely goes to shit.

Piper who was meant to go inside and distract Calypso doesn't because of some asshole called Drew. Of all people, Annabeth takes her place.

Some guy called Luke tries to kill him. Percy still has no idea what happened, but he lost control for a second and Luke straight up evaporated.

According to Nott, Leo almost rejoins Gaea. That is before, of course, the weird things in insectoid armour attack them.

And before the blond boy begs them to save him.

Jason doesn't really remember a life outside Rome. He knows his old clan is dead. He knows Rome took him in. He knows Jupiter took him in.

That day he swore to himself he'd become as strong as he could.

Jupiter is the only parent he remembers having. Jason Grace is the only name he remembers having.

He knows there must have been something before that.

It's not important.

He trained. He grew stronger. He grew perfect.

Jupiter had convinced him that he had been chosen by the gods, that he was special, that he had a role to play.

That he was destined.

Everything changed when Rome welcomed a new girl into the tribe. Her name was Reyna.

At first, she was no one. Just someone for him to beat.

And he did so. With ease.

The first time. The Second. The Tenth. The Twentieth.

She kept coming to challenge him. And eventually, she started to win.

Jason didn't know what to think of what he had felt.

He thinks it was love.

And then, they were both chosen to be marked.

It was painful. So, so painful.

But he and Reyna found themselves in the forest. They hunted together. Kept watch whilst the other slept. They survived.

He learned that being a leader meant to rely on others.

Being with Reyna made him stronger.

Jupiter didn't see it that way. He claimed Reyna had a different destiny. She argued.

She didn't know him like Jason did. She wasn't trained into loyalty from youth like he was.

Reyna was killed for her love.

And Jason broke. He didn't know what he did, exactly. He knows there is far too much blood on his hands, though.

For a while, he just wandered the world, empty, without a purpose, drowning in grief.

That was how Lupa found him. She offered an out. She offered to take control over his body so he wouldn't have to keep living.

He agreed.

He's been wandering the world since then. Killing people, serving a deity with a plan. He's commited such atrocities.

At first, he was angry, angry at his loss and wanting the world to feel it too.

Now. Now it's just regret.

It doesn't matter anymore. His body isn't his. He had no choice.

Not until he found himself in the sewers, having killed a soldier and looking at six travellers.

"Please help me." He begged.

Kinda unrelated but Essek is 100% Nico, I just can't be bothered writing that.

Extra points that didn't fit with the narration but I wanna point out:

Hazel is Nott because both of them have their curses. Like the goblin thing vs cursed riches. Also, bc there aren't really goblins in PJO i settled for a faun bc of how they were treated in CJ

Beau and Annabeth are both humans without any cool powers, just their brain and smarts.

Making Molly Percy is hilarious to me, bc [SPOILER!!!! ]

Molly dies pretty early in the campaign. Meanwhile Percy is like THE main character who isn't allowed to die lmao.

Some other concepts I've considered, before settling for this version, for further exploration:

Fjord as Percy, due to their connection to water. Fairly obvious I'd say.

Caleb as Percy. I actually got pretty far with this one, but didn't know who to put as Leo. His Astrid and Eadwulf were Ethan and Silena, and it was Kronos instead of Gaea.

Molly as Jason. Amnesia. No further thoughts (or memories).

Yasha as Frank. This was based purely on the 'strong tank' vibes tbh.

Caleb as Annabeth with Kronos as Trent Ikithon. Bc of Luke.

Beauregard as Percy. Vibes, mostly.

Molly as Leo. Personality and vibes. But the backstory didn't make sense.