LJ, multifandom fan - especially Spidey! (this has, in reality, turned into a PJO blog) 16, they/them, used to be incorrect quotes, currently mostly hc's, feel free to write these into fics :3 ao3: SunnySeraph
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
Percy Jackson posts:
Marmosis and Marianna AU:
Many of these don't perfectly fit together, but if I ever do write the fic, it will pick and choose elements from the following:
Son of Kymolopeia
Sky scars
Host of Hope Percy
Demigod weapons
Bianca Lives au
Saving Luke
Percy of shadows and the sea
Unclaimed Percy (Son of Sally Jackson)
Psychopomp Luke
Astronaut Percy Jackson
Gaslight trio (Piper, Hazel, Annabeth)
!Romulus Percy
Siren Song Percy
Hazel at CHB au
Vertigo
Free will Percy
Other aus:
Luke's Scar
Luke comes back (Alaska)
Alphabet
Blue-haired Percy ("I'm not Thalia")
'Kia'- Annabeth's nickname
Demigod eyes
Gendefluid/Hunter Percy
Sailor Song 4th verse
Blue haired Percy (fanart)
Valgrace Orpheus/Eurydice
Post Tartarus Percy
Devil Town
Son of Brizo
Luke comes back (What have they done to you?)
Dark Annabeth Chase
Hunter Annabeth Chase
Fae Percy
Prophet Percabeth
Siblings Percy and Leo
Titan Army Leo
PJO Crossovers:
Forbidden children au
Protector of demigods Percy
Batman:
Sick Percy
Percy Wayne (Jason's ressurection)
Perseus Wayne/Bruce gives Percy up
Leo Valdez in Gotham
God Percy in Gotham
Spiderman:
Son of Apollo Peter Parker
Godly catnip Peter
Son of Apollo Miles
Others:
PJO x TMA
PJO x Arcane
PJO x TM9
Spider-man:
MCU:
Amnesiac Peter
Peter can't exist
Blurred lines
Third side/Doesn't participate in CW
Nonbinary Peter name suggestions
Marvel wings au
Information broker Peter (post NWH)
Peter can read people
Nonexistant Spider-sense
Mutate twice over
ex-Information broker Peter (doesn't lie)
Peter's bracelets
Peter in Gotham:
Multiverse traveller Peter in Gotham
Peter back from Gotham
Peter and Miles in Gotham
Peter back in Gotham (Parker Wayne)
Spider-verse:
Anomaly Miles
Miles isn't Spider-man
Harry Potter things:
Morituri Te Salutant is my HP fic, available on ao3 by SunnySeraph. It doesn't have all of these, but check it out anyway.
"Theirs" - Pansy pov
Red haired Harry
The Misfits
Revived Regulus
Animagus Harry
Lily's eyes
Wixen religion, magic theory and death eaters - things I've created for my fic
Others:
Mangkwan Navi
Young Avengers Marauders
Childhood friends - Barty, Marlene, Peter and James
In hindsight I find it super funny how certain concepts in my Harry Potter au escalated from small details into whole-blown sideplots. So I'm gonna talk about it here.
(Check out my fanfic, Morituri Te Salutant by SunnySeraph on ao3)
One of the things I wanted to do was expand on the Death Eaters. I was giving canon names actual abilities and creating OC's when "Girl with one eye" by Florence and the Machine came on.
Suddenly, Ulyssa Doll, a terrifying legilimens is created. She messes with Ron. She's the reason why Bellatrix became a death eater. She appears in the future chapters as well and is a reason why a important plot point happens.
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I played around with the subjects and their lesson plan. I added some subjects, including Magical Theory.
I wanted to expand on that, and ended up creating a few laws of magic. From that and the way magic is canonically presented I de facto turned it into a science.
Cue, Hari. At the start of the fic I rlly wanted to make magic like a tangible thing. Create is in a way that can be felt with your senses. It's a force of nature and it's beautiful.
Now, you can see those two versions don't exactly fit each other, do they?
So Hari ends up breaking the rules of magic. For funsies.
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Another thing is magical religion. I've read a few fics before with the concept of deities like Lady Magic or Lord Death. And I did want to actually utilise that in the future.
I wondered for a bit if I wanted to include that as a belief for dark wixen. I ended up creating a whole ass new deity.
Introducing: Tridea. (Short for the Latin Triplex Dea, the Triple Goddess). She has three faces/aspects.
The first is Lady Magic, Clotho, the Mother, the Sun.
The second is Lady Time, Lachesis, the Crone, the Earth.
The last is Lady Death, Atropos, the Maiden, the Moon.
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Um but yeah, I probably think I forgot about some things (and some are spoilers so i cant talk about them) but what did you think?
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There's a deity, just outside of Camp Halfblood. They haven't been there very long, at least compared to a god's lifespan. But for the campers on Long Island, it's enough to claim them as theirs.
Pearl, they call themselves.
That's what some people say. Those who have met them. Those who have been saved by them, protected from monsters, brought to camp.
Clarisse La Rue, Drew Tanaka, Michael Yew, Chris Rodriguez, Charles Beckendorf and his sister Nyssa and so many others.
Annabeth never met them. She came to camp before whoever 'Pearl' was decided to protect demigods. (Deep down she feels bitter. Maybe if they were here earlier, Thalia would have lived.)
Luke might have met them. After Ladon injured him on his quest, he was mostly out of it. All he remembers between passing out due to the poison and waking up in the infirmary is flashes of blue hair and a siren-like voice.
Annabeth doesn't really believe in them. And even if there is somebody, she doesn't think they're as benevolent of a deity as Camp makes them out to be.
But desperate times call for desperate measures, don't they?
So she heads to Thalia's tree, and then takes a few steps just outside the border. She lays out a few blue cookies on a napkin (the Campers swear they love blue food, for some reason) murmurs his name and takes a lighter to the sacrifice.
The flames haven't even began licking the biscuits properly when she hears footsteps, not from behind her, from Camp, no. From before her.
She looks up to see something appearing as a young boy, seemingly no older than her, with blue, wavy hair and sea green eyes.
"You're lucky I was nearby to hear you, wisdom's daughter. Next time if you insist on an offering try making it near Zeus' Fist, or just Iris Message me." They informed her with a slight laugh and a sweet voice.
"You– You're Pearl?" She asks in disbelief.
"Yep! I haven't caught your name, though?"
Odd. She thought gods always knew the names of mortals through divine knowledge or whatever. Maybe they were just trying to be polite though?
"Sorry, um. I'm Annabeth Chase, daughter of Athena."
Pearl will grin widely, green eyes shimmering.
"Pleasure to meet you, I'm Pearl Pallas Jackson. Can I help you with anything, Annabeth?"
So she takes a deep breath and explains the quest she's gotten, the thievery of the helm of darkness and the master bolt, how both Hades and Zeus accuse each other of having committed the theft and only pretending they've lost their respective symbols of powers while Chiron believes Poseidon is to blame, and that this is revenge after his youngest prince disappeared.
"Missing Prince?" Pearl will ask after her long rant.
"Well, yeah. Apparently Lord Poseidon and Lady Amphitrite have a son other than Triton. His name was Perseus, apparently, and he was next in line to the throne after his older brother, Triton. He disappeared two years ago and no one knows what happened, just that his parents insist he couldn't have faded."
Pearl just hums, looking as if they were somewhere else for a moment. After a few seconds they snap back, but there's something in their eyes...
is it? Mourning?
"Well, I can tell you for sure that none of the brothers are to blame." They shrug.
"So what? Our quest is useless? Also, how do you know?"
"Not at all! You still have to find the bolt and helm, don't you? It's just more complicated since we don't know where to look. "
"We?"
"Of course! You came to ask me for help, didn't you? We'll figure something out."
"You didn't answer the second question. About how you knew."
"I have a habit of knowing more than I should."
And so, the next morning she, Grover and Clarisse (she tried asking Luke, but he earnestly told her he couldn't after his last time) found themselves dropped off at the station by Argus, and as soon as the head of security disappeared from sight, a flash of blue shows up.
"Hi Annabeth Chase!" Pearls chirps and really? This is the god who single-handedly killed five empousa and a pack of hellhounds that were chasing the Stolls?
"Hello." Her answer will be much more wary, but she'll still manage a small smile. "Grover, this is Pearl."
It takes a few minutes for Grover and Clarisse to stop freaking out at their godly companion (Featuring conversations such as "Do we call you Lord or Lady?" "Now why the hell would you do that?" and "Aren't there rules regarding intervening in quests?" "Are there? I don't really keep up with the gossip. In any case I don't care.")
"So, any ideas Pearl?" She'll ask exhausted. "Because I have no idea where to start now that you've ruined our theories."
"I was thinking maybe we go talk to the Dead King? Because I know the Sky sent his children to look for the Master Bolt, so the whole thing is kinda loud, but no one is really doing anything to try n' find the helm, so maybe he knows somethin' that can help us?"
So to the underworld they head. It takes them a bit, as Clarisse immediately rejects Pearl's offer of a short-cut.
("We took the short-cut to Camp." She'll explain and distantly Annabeth remembers that the daughter of Ares was one of the first people bought to Camp by Pearl. "Never again."
"The Maze is just a little confusing–"
"Not a little, dollar-store Hatsune Miku."
"Who the fuck is Hatsune Miku?")
They run into a few distractions too. Pearl manages to get them away from Medusa in time, but they still almost die to Echidna before Pearl sends them down in an and deals with her themself.
(Her own mother let the mother of monsters into her temple. Why? Because they didn't slay Medusa, the woman who turned her back on her patron, on Athena, choosing another God instead.)
"I feel bad about you fighting our battles." Clarisse will complain later when they meet with Pearl back on the ground. She has no idea how they got down.
"Why?"
"Well– first things first, it's our quest? Like, you don't have to be doing everything for us."
"Also, you could get hurt." Grover adds, although it's a bit hesitant.
"Don't try to protect me." Pearl tells them but something in their voice sounds wrong. For a second they aren't the cheerful fearless deity. For a second they sound like the kid they appear as.
"Why?"
"I'll die soon anyway. I've seen it."
(Die, they said. Not fade.)
They meet Ares. He blesses Clarisse's spear, tells Annabeth how useless their quest is, gives them a backpack of supplies, mostly ignores Grover and tries to throw a knife at Pearl.
Pearl catches it midair, makes fun of the literal god of war and the two laugh.
Annabeth is suddenly reminded that despite their friendliness and helpfulness, Pearl is a god.
They get a ride west (although it sucks) and they talk a bit.
"Why is your second name Pallas? That's my mother's name. Are you... related to her?" She'll ask Pearl.
They'll stay quiet for a bit, looking at something that doesn't seem to be there.
Mourning, again. Like they did at the mention of Perseus.
"Do you know who the original Pallas was?" They'll whisper. "She was the daughter of the Sea's eldest prince. She was vaguely the same age as your mother, so the Sky sent Wisdom to train with her under the Sea. Things were well, for a while. Pallas and Wisdom became almost inseparable.
The Eldest Prince too, begun to treat Wisdom as his second daughter. But one day the Sky went down to visit his child, and he found the two sparring. He got worried for his daughter's safety, and he flashed Aegis to distract Pallas, leading to your mother accidentally killing her. Taking Pallas' name was her way of paying respects."
"Why did you take her name?"
"To remember." They paused for a bit. "To remember why I left my home. I was raised by my father and stepmother. My mom, she uh. She didn't want to be trapped in my father's court. And it was too dangerous for me to live with her, so father and stepmother it was.
When I first foresaw my death I was kinda an asshole to my family in my own grief and everything. Then I accepted it and remembered witnessing the Sea Gods' grief over Pallas even millenia later. I figured that if I ran away then they wouldn't even be that upset, they'd assume the distance between us grew too great and wouldn't be that affected when I did pass.
From what I've heard I was mistaken, but at this point if I were to go back they'd only have me for a few weeks, maybe months before they lost me again. It feels less cruel to just stay away."
"That's so much more fucked when it looks like its coming from a ten year old." Clarisse comments.
"Hey! This body is twelve!" Pearl shouts back, seemingly offended and the solemn mood lifts slightly.
She lets the deity begin mock-sparring against the daughter of Ares as she forces herself to think.
Gods don't die, they fade after being forgotten, right? Maybe if she convinces Camp to give Pearl more sacrifices they'll live?
She's grown to like them during these days of travelling together.
The next morning, they stumble into the Lotus Casino, which was a threat even Pearl didn't seen to pick up on beforehand. They do still manage to get them out earlier than they would've managed without the god, though.
On their way out they stumble into Hermes. Annabeth and Grover do their best to emotionally manipulate him into helping then, but it doesn't really work. But they do get a hint that 'his baby brother' should be able to sense the entrance when they got close enough.
"Baby brother?" Annabeth will question when they manage to get out.
"Not biologically. Or however biological you can consider gods, I guess. But they grew to like me since I helped their kids get to Camp and eventually claimed me as their sibling."
Claimed. Something about using this specific word seems particular, but she isn't sure what just yet.
She also learns Pearl uses he/his pronouns after asking about the masculine term. She just sort of picked up on what Camp used and never thought to ask.
They avoid a few more monsters and Pearl and Clarisse manage to kill the ones that get to close. Eventually, they reach the entrance to the Underworld.
They bribe Charon, she's able to get them past Cerberus and the Furies don't spot them. Things almost seem to easy.
She ends up jinxing them, of course. The shoes she's wearing, Luke's shoes, almost pull her into Tartarus.
She lives. They all do. With hammering hearts and shaky limbs they make their way to Hades' palace only to learn that the backpack they've been given by Ares now contains the lightning bolt.
She's pretty sure Hades almost smites them on the spot. Only Clarisse's quick thinking saves them as she swears on the Styx they weren't aware of the trap.
They leave with a promise to bring back his helm and a very upset-looking Pearl and Clarisse.
Which is fair. She doesn't know what she'd do if Luke tricked her like that.
Ares boasts about his plan before announcing he has to kill them. Pearl riles him up with narrowed eyes and bared teeth. But he also to pick up on something they haven't before.
Ares mentions dreams.
Pearl ends up fighting Ares. They actually fight, not like their bickering a few days ago. It's fast and dangerous and there are so many close calls.
For a moment she wonders if this is it. If this is the death Pearl has foreseen.
It isn't, though. Pearl wins and Ares is left bleeding ichor and cursing his brother. They get the helm back, though.
"You've been holding back on me, Jackson." Clarisse seems entirely unbothered with mouthing of to the deity who just won a spar with the god of War.
Pearl doesn't seem to mind, thankfully, just laughing in response.
They split up there, him taking the helm to the Underworld while they take the bolt to Olympus.
"Just... mention the dream part, please. And that you almost got dragged to Tartarus. The Sky would probably prefer to pretend it isn't happening, but it will still probably lessen his punishment."
As they board the plane to get to Olympus she thinks.
Something's happening. Dreams. Tartarus. War.
It clicks.
"The Crooked One is rising." She tells the gods at Olympus.
Zeus doesn't believe her. Her mother does.
For now, that's enough.
They return to Camp, burn their shrouds and return to normalcy. Chores, swordfighting, learning myths, capture the flag and everything in between.
She thinks of Pearl's tale. About him leaving his family to protect them from grieving him. She doesn't sign the form to stay this year.
Instead, she writes to her dad. She's ready to try one last time. Luke looks at her with a strange expression she can't quite decipher and just tells her she's always welcome back here.
For the first time in years, Athena and Ares team up for capture the flag. Annabeth and Clarisse manage to absolutely obliterate the opposing team.
Grover gets his Searcher's License.
Summer comes to an end. Luke invites her for one last trip to the woods and she follows without a second thought.
Why would she, after all? He's been her everything for a while now.
He starts talking about the gods. He sounds so, so bitter. He rants about how they refuse to help them.
Her first thought is about Athena. Her mother guided her to Luke and Thalia, didn't she? And she was given her cap.
(She let Echidna into her temple.)
She thinks of Ares. Who gave them food and water, who blessed their weapons.
(He tricked them, in the end.)
She thinks of Hermes, who didn't help them even though things could've ended in a three-way war.
She thinks of Pearl. Pearl who ensured the safety of dozens of campers. Pearl who saved Luke. Pearl who was with them almost the entire time.
She speaks his name and Luke just scoffs. As if the deity wasn't the only reason she made it back.
"Oh? You mean the god who intervenes only when it's convenient for them?"
She argues. He laughs at her 'naivety'.
"Go on then. If you don't believe me, ask him to save you now."
And then Luke, the boy she's known for years, her older brother, her saviour summons a pit scorpion from the ground.
She can't move. Can't think. Can't comprehend this betrayal.
The thing crawls up her leg and she can barely breathe.
She thinks of praying to her mother. To Dionysus who's already at camp. To Hermes, so he can reason with his son.
She does none of that. (She knows they won't save her.)
"Pearl Pallas Jackson." She stammers out as Luke leaves her behind. "Save me, please."
The scorpion jumps. A webbed hand swats it away and she manages to pin it to the ground with her dagger.
The dagger she was given from Luke.
She doesn't go to grab it again. She can't take it again.
She goes to thank Pearl, expecting... She wasn't sure what she was expecting.
The dark fury he wore when facing Ares. The worried expression he turned on then after a hellhound nearly bit her. The friendly, excited face he seemed to wear most of the time.
Instead his sea green eyes were glazed over and his skin was pale. He was heavily leaning against a tree, half-lying down.
He was staring at his palm. The same palm he had attacked the scorpion with.
The was a wound on it. A small sting mark surrounded by steadily darkening veins. A small sting mark that was bleeding red.
Abruptly she realises she's never seen Pearl bleed before. She's never had any proof he was actually a god. That was just what Camp had assumed.
"Huh, so this is it. Kinda thought there'd be more to my death, but I can't say I mind."
This body is twelve, he had said. Pearl was a twelve year old demigod. The protector of Camp was a twelve year old demigod.
(The grief of Pallas.
His own story.
The sea green eyes, scaled forearms and webbed fingers.
The disappearance of Perseus. )
"Lord Poseidon! Lady Amphitrite! Please, I don't have anything to sacrifice but your son is dying. Please!"
Is it cruel, perhaps? To go against his wishes in what's possibly his last seconds of life?
Maybe. But Annabeth had always had too much faith in the gods. Perhaps this time, they will save her friend.
Perhaps Pearl or Perseus or whatever his name was wouldn't share Thalia's fate.
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I cannot be bothered to write out the rest in this format and also I don't have the time since I leave for Camp tmr and I won't have my phone (since yk. it attracts monsters.) so here's some vague descriptors of the possible future of this:
First things first, I am not entirely opposed to having Pearl/Percy die. It would be a super cool concept. Like, the possibilities. You could have Kronos' and Gaea's rise merge into one as the Titan War doesn't end until Nico turns 16. Or maybe Thalia / Bianca doesn't join the Hunters. Also, you could have 12yo Percy come back with the doors of death and end up being the child of the prophecy regardless. It would a super fun thought experiment. (I'm gonna write something abt this later for sure.)
But if he did survive I see it going like this:
- Poseidon and Amphitrite take Perseus to Atlantis and call Apollo to heal him. Which (if) he does, the second he announces Pearl's stable, he passes out and Pearl starts seizing.
- (The Fates really aren't happy with Pearl's survival).
- After a long discussion, healing process and probably months of being grounded, Pearl reveals he can hear the prayers of campers and demigods who haven't yet made it there asking for help.
- (Camp knows Pearl is a demigod like them. Some don't believe that. Some just don't care and worship him regardless. )
- Poseidon lets him go after that. (Demigods don't just hear prayers directed to them. They need to be in the process of ascending to do that.) Of course, Pearl doesn't know this.
- (Pearl has, in fact, kept in contact with Annabeth, Grover and Clarisse during his time in Atlantis via IM. He told them to just call him Percy now that he wasn't hiding from his godly family.) (He's also kept in contact with his godly 'siblings', but they can just pop in. He extended his grounding by about two months after he got into a physical fight with Ares before being cleared for exercise.)
- Percy shows up perfectly to help fight the bronze bulls. This doesn't help with the whole 'hey-guys-i'm-not-a-godly-protector-of-camp' things.
- (also, Percy had no idea he has being worshipped as a god prior to his 'death')
- anyway, Percy who spent so long bringing demigods here so they'd be safe is pissed when he realises:
a) what happened to the border
b) that Tantalus, of all people, is now replacing the trainer of heroes
- (a lot of the younger demigods flock to Percy for protection from the 'evil man who ate his son', aka Camp mom Percy)
- Percy figures out how to get then a quest, and when Clarisse gets chosen to get the fleece, he gives his own prophecy for Annabeth, so she gets a quest to find Grover. The two girls then have a custody battle over which of them he's meant to go with.
("He gave me a prophecy for my quest!" "Yeah, well he already went on a quest led by you!"
Percy tries to point out it's literally the same quest. They tell him to shut the fuck up. At some point it delves into the two debating which of them can protect him better, which, well– ? he? regularly? spars? with? his? godly 'siblings'?)
- There are once more less monster interactions. The Sea has seen Poseidon and Amphitrite's rage after their youngest son disappeared, they are not risking killing him.
- Ares shows up a few times under the guise of wanting to spar with his baby brother. If he coincidentally gives them guidance, well. He's a god, he forgets they don't already know this stuff.
- Tbf I don't really remember SoM that well, and not a lot happened, so
- Circe lets them go, not about to risk threatening a demigod with so many godly relationships.
- Annabeth still tries to listen to the sirens, but I think Clarisse would think to disarm her
- Percy is there when Thalia wakes up, as he knows she's going to turn back. Percy gains yet another sister-cousin.
- Percy goes to the Labyrinth with Clarisse. Like, I've implied it before, but Percy travelled a lot through the Maze as Pearl, partially because it was a convenient shortcut, partially bc it made the him harder to track. The gods don't know abt this though, so Clarisse still gets told to stake it out and he goes with as he trusts Annabeth, Grover and Thalia to handle themselves.
- They don't. In this world its Thalia who gets kidnapped. He and Clarisse look at each other and decide to fuck this shit.
- Atlas tries to get her to sacrifice the Ophiotaurus but she swears on the Styx she'll never do that, so they use her as bait regardless.
- And Thalia wants to hate Luke, she does. He tried to kill her Annabeth. But seeing him dying under the burden she can't help but try to save him.
- (Annabeth prays for Percy to save Thalia, and he can't do a thing.)
- (One must imagine Thalia praying to Percy to save her when stuck under the sky. She knows he's a demigod but he's saved Annabeth from Luke once already, right? He can save her too.)
(She continues praying even as Artemis takes the burden from her. It's stupid, but she's been the one people rely on for years. She wants to be able to rely on someone.)
- Zoë, Bianca, Annabeth and Grover still go on the quest. It's just him and Clarisse who crash it.
- "Oh, we were just passing by and thought we'd help, isn't that right?"
"Exactly. You won't fight against the help of the patron of demigods, Lord Pearl himself, would you."
"Hey, La Rue? Shut the fuck up, please."
- Bianca lives. Why? Because I love her and also I'm currently rereading A family built of the Weary by DustShattersLikeGlass were she survives. (it's an elite series, you should check it out if you like my au's. it's got a similar vibe. part 1 is called The constriction in breathing air)
- Now I've thought about this, Percy would take Aphrodite's warning more carefully bc of his relationships with the gods, maybe that's how she lives.
- Or perhaps Hephaestus helps them bc that's his baby brother fighting Talos.
- Zoë still dies. Luke still falls of the cliff. Percy still takes the sky from Artemis because his campers need an actual god to save them, not a false one like him (not the one Annabeth believes in, the one Annabeth prayed to when he couldn't do a thing). Besides, Artemis is one of his sisters.
- Thalia still becomes a hunter. The gods still vote to kill Percy, but Zeus and Hera are left alone.
- Percy starts spending more time in the Labyrinth, searching for Kronos' scouts. Those he can convince to switch sides, he takes back to Camp. He doesn't force the ones who refuse, just watches with sad eyes as they go insane and burns the ones who die.
- Summer starts and when Percy realises Luke knows about the entrance near Zeus' Fist, a quest is issued. Annabeth and Clarisse, far closer than in canon (and the latter being less traumatised due to Percy's help) deside to go together. Grover, of course, joins them.
- No one's surprised when Percy goes with them. Quests with his 'divine interferance' are far from rare. It's become the unofficial formula, three demigods + their protector, Percy.
- (Bianca is alive, but Nico still runs away from Camp, wanting to find her and the huntress'.)
- When Janus shows up, he informs Annabeth of a different choice. She wouldn't choose to run away with Luke, not when he tried to kill her all those year ago. Not with how he tried to get rid of her the second her life stopped being convenient.
Instead, he tells her this. "Will you choose to save both of you, damning him or save him, damning the both of you?"
(And despite what she tells the others, she knows perfectly what he's talking about, at least partially. Before her first quest, all Pearl was was whispered prayers and small, hidden offerings, albeit rare. She was the one who turned him into a god at Camp. She holds his ascension, his immortality in her hands. Will she abandon it or grow it further?)
(She has a feeling Percy knows this, too.)
- Hera still shows up to chase Janus away, but she does tell Annabeth she needs to make the choice soon.
"There is... a point of no return with these things. It's a delicate thing that's easy to not notice. And he's always been blinding, even as a child."
- Percy calls on Apollo the second they find out about his cows being farmed for food. They end up not needing to fight or clean the stables as the god takes care of it.
- Hephaestus still sends them in their little side quest. He knows and trusts Percy will be able to handle it.
- (Oh how wrong he is.)
- Clarisse insists on going inside with Percy. Quiet obviously, she isn't nearly as fireproof as he is and she gets badly hurt. This will very much piss Percy off. In the end, he still blows up the volcano, with Clarisse still inside.
- Annabeth is very rudely reminded that despite all his power, Percy is still just a mortal.
- Clarisse survives and both her and Percy are healed by Calypso. (Possibly Clarisse's gay awakening, cough cough).
- Percy would be so much more affected by Pan's passing. I imagine he'd call Hermes to witness his passing. But also, for Percy gods have been a constant in his life forever, so seeing one fade would make him a lot more scared for his godly family.
- And the confronation with Daedalus! I imagine Percy would be a lot more pissed over Perdix and also that the Labirynth which he used to save so many demigods in now being turned against them.
- Percy seeing Luke's body and thinking to when he saved this demigod after Ladon nearly killed him. Percy blaming himself for failing a demigod. He foresaw this and he wasn't able to do a thing.
- And the battle!! Much more godly intererance, I imagine. Also: campers praying to Percy to give them strength whilst he's fighting next to them, unable to do more.
But, on the other hand, campers praying to him when injured and unable to move so he can get them help. Campers using prayers to Percy as a form of communication. Percy being able to fight far more intensely and longer due to sacrifices they keep giving him.
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- Percy spending his free time in Atlantis because that's his home where he grew up and like hell he's not helping them fight.
- Percy and Beckendorf going of Princess Andromeda but Percy manages to save Beck. Nobody exactly knows how. (The Gods do. They felt this not-quite-god put his blessing on his demigod. The same blessing that allowed Clarisse to survive.)
- Amphitrite giving Percy her blessing, understanding this was always his destiny. She's still terrified it will kill him, of course, but she's even more scared he'd die without her knowing where he is and what he's doing.
- Nico still tricks Percy, but this time its something differeng. He can feel Percy's mortality, or the steadily growing lack of it. He knows Percy doesn't want to ascend. Perhaps, if he waits the War over in Hades he won't be given what might he his final push.
- Percy feeling extreme guilt over Typhon bc kill godly siblings are possibly dying trying to defeat the monster he freed.
- Silena asking Percy to help her get out of her situation.
- Just, Campers praying to Percy to help them during the battle of Manhattan too.
- (His hands feel like a graveyard. All of these kids believed in his and he failed them.)
- Silena still pulling her trick out of guilt, even if Percy helped her get out.
- The Gods offering Percy immortality, hoping that their family won't have to die. He declines, much too their upset.
- Percy disappears and in his place is a mortal boy, just like all of the other demigods. Although perhaps, during his sleep, Percy dreamt of the Lost Trio. Perhaps they carry his blessing as well, making the gods they meet more friendly to them.
- Atlantis panicking because this is just like last time, oh gods, is he about to die again??? And when they realise the Lost Trio carry his blessing they have a moment of relief that he's still alive, but then it's panic again bc if he's okay and still helping demigods then why won't he contact them???
- Meanwhile Octavian can feel the divinity on this amnesiac kid who showed up out of the blue. This kid, Perseus, apparently, insists he's not a God, but New Rome is not risking being destroyed for disrespect, especially when Mars and him literally have a 'friendly' spar.
- Perseus hearing prayers from people who he doesn't know and he doesn't know how to help them or where/who they are.
- Perseus insists on going with Frank and Hazel so they get more support as they are not about to piss of the god, nope.
- Mmm I JUST reread a retelling of SoN how do I remember so little from it?
- idk Gaea wanting Perseus a LOT more bc of his divinity
- Percy getting his memory back and being like 'did I get mistaken for a God AGAIN?'
- Perseus killing Polybotes by himself, playing as both a demigod and a god
- New Rome praying to Perseus while they're literal miles away, unable to help.
- Nico refusing to pray to Percy even as he's dying in the jar. If he's going to die, so be it. But he refuses to help Percy ascend, not when he knows how much the other doesn't want it.
- The Lost Trio being super awkward on the Argo cuz... that's... Camp Halfblood's patron God? And... he's... just... a kid? But he somehow managed to convince New Rome he's a God too?
- Maybe possibly Percy/Perseus also struggling between a Roman and Greek version?
- Annabeth most definitely does NOT judo flip him in this vers
- Once again less monster attacks cuz ppl are not risking the wrath of Atlantis
- When the eidolons make Percy and Jason attack themselves and Piper is unable to make them stop, she stupidly prays to Percy for help. To give her strength. It's stupid, Percy IS the one she's trying to stop, but...
it works. A blessing settles around her shoulders and her voice is like a siren's.
- Dionysus/Bacchus is much friendlier, ofc
- So are Keto and Phorcys!! This little pearl grew up in Atlantis' courts, they know and love him!!
- Hercules. Oh, Hercules. Percy would hate the guy. He's been doing the God-of-demigod's job this entire fucking time. I don't really remember how the canon interaction went, but here Percy would probably pick a fight with him.
- Pretty sure I'm widely messing up the timeline whilst writing this but oh well.
- I've been trying to finish this for three fucking weeks now. It's torture. It's Sisyphus all over again. Remember what I said about leaving for Camp? Yeah, I've since come back and I still haven't gotten to the end of this bs.
- They save Nico! Yay! And then Percy falls into Tartarus. Alone :) He didn't manage to save so many of his friends but at least he managed to do so this once.
- He's stuck in Tartarus, surviving only thanks to the prayers his people send him. Oh hail Percy, Long Island's Pearl, New Rome's Perseus, protector of demigods stuck in a domain without yours.
- Percy. Ascending. In. Tartarus :))
- Specifically whilst fighting the Arai, I imagine. For every curse he's inflicted with there's a prayer of a demigod thanking him for saving them. It tears his mortal body apart.
- Tartarus lets him go, curious as to what this little godling will do.
- In this world, the gods don't make it in time to help the seven fight the giants. Instead it's Percy who has to help them, all of them.
- Can't be bothered writing out the rest so just know Percy blesses Leo before the boy kills Gaea and everyone lives happily ever after. Sorry for the shortening.
Forbidden children Percy Jackson au!! (Ft: me giving the characters a mythological second name for funsies, !Prophet Percy bc that's my darling and the wild fuckery featuring Free Will and messing with Fate which (this time) isn't centered around Percy :)).)
The Gods can control what powers their children inherit. That's a fact.
Certain powers, they've agreed, are too dangerous to be put in the hands of mortal demigods, with their limited worldview and short, chaotic lives.
The ban on big three kids as a whole is just the newest in a long line of regulations, banning certain gods or their aspects from siring demigods.
Before that came to be, the God of the Dead sired three children.
Hazel, the daughter of Pluto, of riches.
Nico, the son of Hades Adesius, of the dead.
And Bianca. The daughter of Hades Moiragetes, Hades Pasiánax, Hades Orkus, of the guider of fate, of the universal king, of oaths.
Everyday he mourns for his third child, the one who will be forced to hide herself to survive, who was born from a part of him that was forbidden to have children for centuries now. But he can feel his power waning, his control over the earth lessen, and he knows that soon, his grandmother shall rise, and with her, Thoon.
Zeus and Apollon won't heed his and Demeter's warnings, their pleas. So Hades will make sure the Fates have a chance regardless. And then, he'll spend the rest of his life making it up to Bianca.
But for now, they are children, and Gaea has been delayed from Hazel's sacrifice. (Oh, now he mourns her. So focused was he on the daughter he gave power to, that he forgot about the one he had cursed.) And so, he'll let them be children until the time comes.
Luke Icarus Castellan has always known too much. He could tell when somebody was at death's door. He knew how certain people would die. He was able to tell who would fall to the speeding car on the road and who wouldn't.
For a long while he assumed the power came from his mother. That one day too, he would fall mad from all the things he wasn't meant to know.
Until one day, she looked at him, with that look in her eyes that promised another story of his cursed fate, and she let it slip.
His father wasn't just Hermes, the traveller, the thief, the merchant.
He was the son of Hermes Psychopomp. The son of the reaper.
"Children of death have been forsaken for long now," she said in a voice made of thousands of other spirits, "for someone who knows death with power over that which has passed, is far scarier than a being that shall never die ruling over such. But you, my darling little reaper, can change things."
He ran away soon after and met a young girl on the streets.
(Soon. She would die soon. She will never grow up.)
Her skin crackled with electricity and her bright blue eyes sparkled with lightning. Her name was Thalia Alcestis, and as for her last name, it changed every time he asked.
Not like he was much better, which led to them calling themselves 'Skywalker' and 'al Ghul' for a long while.
They met two others.
The first was an Annabeth Ulyssa. She was younger than either of them when they ran away, and a lot smarter too. Thalia got attached to her almost immediately. One evening, when Annabeth was asleep and the night was late, she told him about Jason.
After that, Luke started orbiting closer to her as well. Even if she sometimes looked at them in a similar way to his mother. Even if it seemed like she knew what they were going to say before they did so.
Thalia could literally untie any knot and let out bolts of lightning. He could steal practically anything. They were all a bit weird.
Then Grover Underwood showed up.
To say he freaked the hell out when he saw Thalia fight for the first time was an understatement. He told them about the rules.
Or, the rule, at first. About the big three being forbidden from siring children. But Luke pressed further, until he spilled everything. All the variants of the gods created by various epithets whose children were too powerful to be kept alive.
Thalia, still pale with the shock of her realisation won't say anything. He will remain silent himself, terrified of revealing himself. It will be Annabeth who will speak up.
"What powers are children of Athena forbidden to have?" She asks, as if she any choice in what she was given by her mother.
"Extreme foresight that comes from Athena Pronaia, I believe."
She'll say something about being safe, but later, in the dark, when Grover is asleep, she'll tell him about the tapestry she can see when she closes her eyes. About the fact that she knows, that if she reached out, she could change what was woven by the three.
But she doesn't dare. She can't see what the tapestry presents, just the weaves. She doesn't know what she'd be changing.
Thalia murmurs about her mother's boasts after Jason's birth. That she was chosen to birth both the daughter Zeus and his son, years later. The tells them of the price paid for that, one child for the other.
In turn, he tells them about the people who's deaths he senses. He doesn't mention the fact he knows Thalia is close to it. He has a feeling they both know anyway.
Thalia Alcestis dies sacrificing herself for the ones she loved.
The irony is bitter on his tongue. He can see Annabeth thinking, the next few days. Considering the risks.
She doesn't interfere with the tapestry. This time. But Luke has a horrible feeling that she might not have the self-control to stop herself, next time.
He gets sent on a quest at 16. He picks two of his friends, one of his sisters, Yvonne, and a son of Dionysus, Caelan. He senses their incoming death the moment they step past the border, but by then it's too late.
Yvonne dies at 18 having been poisoned by Lagon at the entrance to the garden, her blood staining the blonde highlights in her waves. Caelan is meant to die there, too, as he intervenes when the dragon attacks Luke. But he screams, and the sky splits, a bolt of lightning temporarily scaring the beast. They share a look and flee.
Barely ten metres away, the sky roars again. This time, it's not the son of Dionysus Bromios [thundering, I think] who summoned it, but his grandfather, punishing a boy for the power he didn't choose to have.
Caelan Asclepius dies at fourteen with cuts on his jaw from the first time he tried shaving just a few days ago. (He'll never get to try again.)
His rage simmers.
He smiles though, as he becomes head counsellor, replacing Yvonne. Practically every new kid walks through his cabin, even if for a few days, so he gets the chance to get a feeling for them, talk to them, subtly warn them about what abilities might be dangerous.
Rhianwen is twelve when she arrives at Camp. Every step she takes ends in the grass around her dying. The strawberries ferment and get covered in mold when she gets near. Her skin is pale and always cold.
Rhianwen was the daughter of Demeter Melaina [black], and was struck down for it shortly before her thirteenth birthday. Because her power scared the gods.
That is when the hatred in his veins boils over. And a voice comes with an answer.
He knows how his story ends the second he takes the bolt and helm. He hears his thread being cut. He finds he doesn't care all that much.
Is this what Icarus felt like?
A few months later, Grover brings a boy to camp. He's twelve. (Like Rhianwen was).
He has black hair and sharp features like Thalia. He has a snappy temper and the mouth of a sailor like Thalia. He smiles crookedly and likes blue mnms the most despite them all tasting the same, just like Thalia.
He's protective of those he likes, at first just Grover but slowly it extends to him and some of the younger kids in Cabin 11, the same brotherly instinct that Yvonne had. His hair was wavy in a way reminiscent to the sea and filled with highlights.
He questions the rules, cursing without fear for consequences, jaded in his worldview despite being so young like Caelun. He wears flannels over his Camp shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows like Caelun.
He wears scuffed, blue off-brand Converse held together with bandaids, duck-tape and dreams, covered in signatures, doodles and random quotes like Rhianwen. His laugh is a delicate sound like Rhianwen's when he makes jokes and quips in his nerves.
His name is Percy and his eyes are sea green, his skin tanned and jaw unblemished, the highlights in his hair blue.
He smiles, greets him, and then sneaks him away one night. He tells him about all the rules, about his predecessors. Percy looks at him with fearful eyes and asks what to do.
Luke tells him to run. Percy asks to where, with his mom dead.
So he stays, for now. Luke teaches him how to hide his power in the dead of the night and to protect himself during the day. He can do it, this time. He can save him. (He can save Thalia and Caelun and Yvonne and Rhianwen.)
Percy remains unclaimed. A quest is never issued. Nature turns on itself. Slowly, the Crooked One rises.
Luke throws the bolt into Tartarus and keeps the helm near, to hide himself or Annabeth or Percy or whoever might need it.
One of Percy's friends, a boy called Ethan, an unclaimed kid with anger in his veins and the power of an Ares kid when wronged, disappeared over the months. Luke, who had the same conversation with the kid as he did with Percy, has a theory Ethan's parent wasn't part of the approved pantheon.
Thalia's tree gets poisoned. It's Hades who gets blamed. Foolishly, Luke believes this too. Camp is still in chaos, so it isn't hard to sneak out. He, Percy and Annabeth travel and find the golden fleece.
It's then that Luke finds out what kind of forbidden Percy actually is. A son of Poseidon. Pelagaios [of the sea], to be specific. (Perhaps more. Because whenever Percy wakes up from a particularly bad night, he looks at Luke in the same way his mom did.)
It heals the tree. More than that, it heals Thalia.
And then, its stolen.
Of course it is. Of course this was another of the Crooked One's plan. He had managed to gather his essence and crawl out of the pit but he was still so weak.
That is the moment Luke turns of the Titan Lord. They had a deal, no more hurt forbidden children. And even as a tree, that was still Thalia, still his friend.
Still, even with the war going on, Luke knew they couldn't stay at Camp for long, because one of the Gods would see the forbidden daughter of Zeus alive and get rid of her permanently.
Thalia and Grover leave Camp, setting up the former in some military school, before Luke could figure out an alternative. During those few months, the two end up befriending a certain set of siblings.
Grover looks at them and knows. These are children of death. (Like Luke.)
He also knows about the incoming danger, he can smell that Thorne isn't human.
(He just hopes history won't repeat itself.)
That's when Dionysus looks at Luke and calls him by his real name for the first time in a while. The god tells him about the entrance to the Labirynth at Camp.
"Ariadne has already blessed you and your group of fuck-ups. You'll be safe in the Maze. If you find anyone else who'll need the protection, pray to her, Luke Castellan."
"But why are you helping us?"
"Caelan was my son and Ariadne treated him as her own. He deserved better."
It's snowing when he meets Bianca and Nico di Angelo.
The younger is a young boy with stars in his eyes and dark eyes like Rhianwen's.
The older is Bianca (she's as old as Rhianwen was when she died, as old as Percy was when his mom died and his safety was torn away from him), her hair braided like Yvonne kept hers.
They start moving, him, Grover and Thalia stuck answering Nico's endless babble of enthusiastic questions, whilst Annabeth, Percy and Bianca hang back slightly, talking about something between them.
(They keep looking at them, growing quiet whenever the two groups grow too close. He forces himself to believe it's just gossip.)
Of course, things can't go well. They get attacked by a manticore, and it rushes forward, at the kids, at Nico.
Despite his expectations, Bianca doesn't move towards him. He lurches forward towards the kid, but as her dark eyes turn sky blue, and then sea green, he finds himself frozen.
"That one." She says, and Annabeth reaches forwards with her eyes closed and pulls on a thread only she can see.
It's Percy who pushes Nico out of the way. Percy who is grabbed by the monster and pulled down the cliff as hunters swarm the meadow.
They changed how this story was meant to go. But he could tell no one was going to die this way.
He can't help but be terrified for them. But their threads remain uncut.
"Do you wish to return to Camp, demigods?" Artemis shall ask, as they wind down from the fight.
No one says anything, for a moment, terrified of either option. Saying 'no' would reveal their loyalties, saying 'yes' might put Thalia in danger.
"Do not worry. I am, at the end of the day, Artemis Philomeirax. Forbidden or not, many of you fall under my domain."
"No." Bianca will speak up first. "We don't want to. We have to go after Percy."
The hunt leaves, and they take their bags and set out. Nico and Grover go down into the Labirynth. The rest of them try to follow Percy.
(Nico and Grover, whilst searching for and entrance to the maze, stumbled into Rachel Elizabeth Dare. They told her about the godly world, explaining what she could see, explaining the war. Upon hearing they're friends with other people associated with Fate and prophecy, she decided to join them for the time being.)
Bianca and Annabeth eventually tell him and Thalia what happened. That Bianca was the guider of Fate, and could show her which strings whilst Percy was a prophet who could see the outcomes. That this version they've created was the only one were no one died.
They reach a junkyard, and as soon as they entered, something shifted. He heard a distant movement of metal, saw a thread of dark red curling around Bianca's neck like a noose before ending sharply.
He saw parts of the very thread wrap itself around her limbs, as she walked forward to grasp a small figurine in a fluid motion, hiding it in her pocket.
He wouldn't have caught it if he wasn't the son of a thief, he thinks. Or if he couldn't see the outcome of her choice.
Could he do anything? Could he intervene? No, he was too far, she was too close to the border, he wouldn't get to her in time. He could try yelling, but Annabeth might hear and try messing with the tapestry again, and surely she'll get caught this time? He couldn't sacrifice his sister for this stranger, as much as she reminded him of those he lost.
Thalia, of course, noticed his terrified staring at the girl. Her blue eyes narrowed as she rushed forward like the bolts of lightning she'd shoot, knife in hand, and she slashed across the web holding Bianca, the hilt hitting her palm, causing her to drop the figurine.
Bianca will come to with a startle, pain in her hand and a child of thunder in front of her.
"What happened?"
"The Fates had you in their ropes."
"How did you save me?"
"My father is Zeus Eleutherios [the liberator]. I don't take well to people being tied up."
Ladon sees and recognises him, feels the electricity crackle on Thalia's fingertips and backs away, letting then through in fear.
When they find Percy, his hair is halfway to being white, his lips nearly blue like his shoes, but his cheeks are flushed and his eyes bright.
"The sky and the sea were never meant to mix. But the sky has always loved the earth, and my father is Poseidon Ennosigaios [earthshaker]." He'll explain later, when he isn't shackled and hypothermic, curled next to Apollon Kourotrophos [protector of youth], who's stuck holding the sky.
The area bursts into chaos, as they get locked in a battle. Atlas is... an enemy. One Luke doesn't think he can properly fend of with just his sword skills, even with Thalia's lightning, Annabeth's cunning and the unpredictable powers Bianca is still learning to control, and they are locked in battle with the Crooked One's other soldiers.
(One of them, he's pretty sure, is Ethan. Ethan, who, now has a white streak in his hair.)
Even as Percy managed to stand after Thalia breaks of his shackled, managed to fight, they are still missing a lot of power to stand a chance.
But... Apollo is here. And he's much stronger than any of them.
It feels like some sort of joke that the namesake of Icarus took the burden of the Sky from the God of the Sun, but honestly, he's too exhausted as he sways beneath the curse.
The battle rages on, but he only catches flashes. One of those is, what he's pretty sure, is the scene of Percy's sword hitting Ethan's eye. Another is the voice of Apollon telling him to get ready to let go.
They lock Atlas under his burden again, and as Apollo returns to Olympus, they stumble into the Maze, which conveniently has a nearby entrance, to heal their wounds and rest for the night.
They don't expect Apollo and Artemis to come back down just hours later. The Sun God helps them with the worst of their wounds before he looks gravely at Thalia.
He tells them of the prophecy. And Artemis gives them her offer.
What follows is a long conversation. Thalia can feel the Fates pushing her to swear her oaths, and while they're tempted to do the opposite out of spite, they have to analyse the consequences of their choices.
And a consequence of the prophecy is this.
A hero dies.
And like fuck is Luke losing his best friend again.
But if she takes her oath, Percy will become the hero of the prophecy and die.
A dangerous thought curls in his gut, as he shares a look with Annabeth, who seems to have come to a similar conclusion.
"We won't be fullfilling the prophecy." Luke will tell the twins with far too much faux calm for how terrified he is. "But we appreciate your aid."
The gods will smile and warn them to be careful.
After that, they split up again. Thalia, Bianca, Rachel, Annabeth and Nico stay down. Percy, Grover and Luke return to Camp. Dionysus looks at them, nods, and pretends he never saw them leave.
Whilst the gods remain distracted with their disputes between each other and the threat of the Titan King, Camp is left free to talk.
The Campers remember all the tragedies over the years. All the children killed because of their parent's mistakes. They remember Caelan and Rhianwen and dozens of others.
Most of them choose to stay, for now. Too many demigods disappear and the Gods will get suspicious. But a select few follow him down into the Labyrinth.
A daughter of Hecate, Lou Ellen Blackwood.
A son of Apollon Loimios [plague-bringer], Will Solace.
A daughter of Aphrodite Melaina [dark], Silena Beauregard.
When they return, it's Thalia's birthday. Annabeth's hands are covered in burns that only get worse from ambrosia, as she touched divinity, and Bianca and Rachel struggle to see properly for the next few hours from the blinding tapestry, but it's done.
Thalia is alive, sixteen, the world hasn't been put to sleep or whatever and whilst Olympus stands for now, it's not in any way permanent. They did it.
They stay under, create a sorts of headquarters in the Labirynth. They find a serious of rooms, roughly close to Camp and the Hephaestus kids offered to create doors for them so they could sleep safe, and Rhianwen's "normal" and "safe" siblings, Miranda and Katie managed to create them a small garden to grow food, with Will's older siblings created solar lamps so it'd grow better.
The Ares kids put traps in front of the doors because 'For Hades' sake, if we're gonna have war meetings here, the enemy better not be able to sneak in'. The Athena kids came in and actually managed to make the place look like somewhere safe to live, and Luke's own siblings stole everything they needed.
Slowly, the place became home. It became safe. More and more campers trickled down, joining them down there, even if they weren't 'forbidden'.
Eventually, their patrols started finding the scouts.
The scouts were individual demigods, usually already insane, but with Castor and Pollux' help they managed to put together a vague picture of what happened.
The Crooked One wanted to use the Labirynth.
They bought back all the scouts they found, of course. All these demigods wanted was to change things, wanted the cruel gods gone. And the Crooked One was really good at manipulating lost souls.
Luke would know.
They healed them the best they could, and with Rachel's help, eventually, they managed to start finding them before they lost their minds.
Many of the found scouts switched sides, joining them, seeing what they've created.
And then, Percy came back from his patrol with a new one. Except this boy had a patch over one of his eyes and a white streak in his hair.
Thalia's fingers crackled with electricity immediately.
This was the boy who hurt her cousin. This was the boy who almost killed Percy, trapped him under the sky.
"We're equal." Percy shrugged. "He put me under there, I took his eye out. Right now he's just another demigod who needs help."
"We are most definitely not equal." Ethan murmured, exasperated. "I would know. If you called upon my mother to ask for balance, she would punish me much more."
"Details." Percy shrugged again, and that was that.
And if he and Thalia, the unofficial leaders, kept giving him the worst patrols, and Annabeth was rougher when sparring with him, well. Those were details as well, weren't they?
That was the first of the more notable additions to their home. The other was a girl found by Bianca and Rachel, who was caught wandering aimlessly around the corridors. She had golden eyes and dark curly hair.
"I'm not sure." She answered when asked for her name. "I don't really remember anything. I think it was something to do with a colour?"
They settled on Amber, after the sweater she was found wearing. She said it didn't feel quite right but she seemed to like it more with every new memory she made with it.
More monsters started appealing, and he guessed these were scouts as well. These ones, however, they didn't bring back. These were killed on the spot if they got too close to their headquarters, the newly named "Rebel Camp", because "it sounds so cool Luke, please!", and otherwise they were ignored.
The Rebel Camp wanted nothing to do with the war. They were a third side, a neutral party, motherfucking Switzerland, leave them out of it.
They weren't, of course. The Titan King's forces attacked on a simple day in July. They were prepared, of course. Rachel and Percy had managed to forewarn them. But they still weren't ready, not truly.
They would've been done for, had they not been aided by Daedalus, who grew fond of these demigods who managed to survive in his cursed creation. He managed to move the corridors to help them, and when he grew too weak from his curse to do that, Nico killed him, and the power of the maze settled on Amber, for whatever reason.
That didn't change the fact that so many of their people died in the siege. So many children.
Camp Rebel, despite the name, was meant to be a neutral party in this war. But now, as they look at each other in the remaining destruction, they all reach a conclusion.
They would make the Titan King pay. They would avenge Lee and Castor and Yasine and Ilya and —
Too many. They've lost too many.
So they gather and plot. Percy, Rachel and the children of Apollo Phoebus [prophet?] and Niyathi, the daughter of Ourania, and Lou Ellen and her siblings all try to gather what they can see and divine.
In turn, their strategists plan. Not just the Athena kids, but the older children of Ares who've learnt what war actually is and all the children of Hermes (both biological and the ones who have adopted their ways due to years of living at Cabin 11) with their cunning plots and Nike's twins and so many others.
They create scenarios and dozens of plans.
They set up actual, proper leadership. Luke gets chosen as General, and his Lieutenants become Annabeth, Thalia and Bianca.
They gather weapons. They train.
They talk. They start with Dionysus, at Camp Half-blood. Inform him, that, whilst Camp Rebel refuses to work with Zeus, they are going to be working against the Titan King. The God looks at them, with the eyes of an older, darker deity and says that if their willing, he and Ariadne would gladly take their side.
They reach out to Apollo next. His kids decide they need more arrows and he might be able to gift them to them, and Percy kindly reminds them how the Sun God saved him, and he had told them about the prophecy as well.
That conversation led to Artemis finding out because the two have no secrets between them. Which then ended with them suddenly gaining a bunch of huntress roommates.
Nemesis shows up at some point. The conversation goes somewhere like this:
"Didn't you side with grandfather so you could get revenge after we disrespected the minor gods."
"I did. And I will get revenge. Did you really think these demigods have forgotten about what you Olympians have done to them?"
Many more minor gods join them after that.
Then one day, Hades shows up.
Amber looks at his with furrowed brows and a complicated look in her eyes.
"You seem familiar." She murmurs.
"I would, to you." He replies, and leaves it at that. He then tells them that there is another threat rising. That not only Olympus is at war with itself, but both Kronos and Gaea will be trying to bring it down.
Thankfully, the two aren't at risk of joining forces. Gaea still hates her son for killing her lover, and Kronos is bitter that his mother brought back the Giants but not the Titans.
Camp Rebel does what it does best. It readjusts its plans and plots.
They decide to stay dormant, for now. Hope the three sides tire each other out in a three-way war, and they'll be able to intervene once they're weakened.
Which is when Annabeth disappears.
They panic, and those who can, do their best to figure out which of their many enemies could have taken her.
There's nothing. Not even Apollon could see where she was. But at the very least, Hades reassures them she's not dead.
There's nothing. Not until Amber, Rachel and Percy sense someone they need to find in the Maze, and bring three demigods back.
There's a girl with choppy hair, curses on her tongue and bruised knuckles who he'd assume to be a daughter of Ares if it weren't for her kaleidoscope eyes. She introduced herself as Piper Clytemnestra.
There's a boy with a wide smile, calloused hands and insecurity hidden behind jokes, whose eyes burned with fire and who went by Leo.
And the third. Oh the third.
His hair was blond and cut short, his features sharp, his teeth like fangs and fingers covered in gold rings that turned into claws on command. And his eyes were a bright, electric blue.
"I don't know what my name is." He shrugged.
"We found him lost in the woods a bit back while looking for this place." Piper explained. "He doesn't remember anything, so we've been calling him Taran."
That was when Thalia showed up.
Apparently, Taran's real name was Jason. And wasn't that a fun little reveal?
Later, after they've calmed down, he will ask Piper how she knew to come here.
"Oh some Lady told me to. Said we'd be safe here."
(That lady, as they'll later find out, was Artemis.)
Once Jason and his companions, as well as Thalia are out of earshot, Apollo will appear and explain that Jason isn't Zeus' child, but Jupiter's.
At this, Rachel will sit up straighter.
"The other place! With the sick son who yearns for powers he wasn't given and the sorceress daughter of war!"
"The Eaglet." Percy murmured. "The son of Jupiter Elicius. He was meant to die but he defied his own fate."
"We got one of their fate-breakers, and they have ours! That's were Annabeth is!" Rachel will finish.
Of course, it won't be that simple. They're still unable to figure out where, exactly, the 'other-place' is, as their prophets are too Greek to be able to look into a place like that and Jason still doesn't remember anything.
They can't send out more searchers than they already do, not with the War going on. It's too risky and Luke refuses to lose anymore people than they need to.
They struggle. A lot.
One of Camp Rebel's Lietenants is gone, and Clarisse, her second in command, can try her best, but she isn't used to these responsibilities. It doesn't help that Thalia spends most of her time running around with the hunters, trying to find Annabeth, leaving, of all people, Ethan and Jason trying to pick up the slack.
A boy who once hurt one of their own and a boy with no memories who doesn't truly belong here.
The Labyrinth grows more dangerous by the day too. Amber can do only so much to control a place that is quiet literally underground against the primordial goddess of the earth, and that's ignoring the other things.
The other things being the following.
Gaea brought someone back from the dead. They're not sure who, exactly, but its some magician, who can partially control the maze as well.
And two. Gaea seems oddly focused on Amber. Somehow, the primordial can make the girl go unconscious, and then torment her with taunts and blurry memories.
Percy's grown weaker too. He's always been closely connected to his father's Earthshaker epithet, and staying in the Labyrinth, away from the water and close to the earth has only strengthened that. Now, as Gaea rises and wrestles his control away, he's left... drifting.
Percy has always seen more than Rachel or Niyathi or Lou Ellen or any of their other prophets. But now, with nothing to ground him, it seems like he's living in the future more than he is in the present.
Apollo warned them that's dangerous. That even he had to spread his power across many Oracles and he was a God.
But Annabeth was missing, Rachel and Thalia spent most of their time searching for her, Luke and Bianca were busy trying to keep everything running and they might've fucked the matter up a bit.
Luke might be tempted to make a joke about carrying the responsibilities of the world, but while his and Ethan's white streaks have faded, Percy's is as stark as ever.
He can't help but wonder if the boy ever truly let the Sky go.
(He knows he feels like he hasn't, every times his powers warn him of death. Like when Leo made Jason laugh for the first time and a blazing orange thread snapped.)
They learn about Hera's kidnapping. The only person who cares is Jason, and even for him it's a detached thing born from old respect rather than actual worry. It doesn't take make to dissuade him of the motion of sending a quest.
The gods who care can save her themselves.
The day that Camp Rebel and the other-place interact for the first time starts like an ordinary day.
Which is, to say, it's horrible. There are three fights that have to be stopped (between Piper and her 'safe' sister Drew, between Niyathi and a son of Apollon Phoebus, Ciro, over their interpretations of a tarot spread, and between Thalia and Bianca over the former's searching for Annabeth.
On top of that, Nico and Will needed almost an hour to keep Percy grounded for long enough that he actually managed to eat properly.
And. Amber had another black-out that lasted two hours and when she woke up she had a whole confrontation with Leo. Apparently, she say a boy who looked identical to him in a flashback, but he stubbornly insisted he's never seen her before coming to Camp Rebel.
This almost started a fourth fight, between Piper and Amber, actually, when they were interrupted by a patrol coming back with three demigods.
One of them was a boy who looked a bit like Will but more sickly, his skin pale, hair thinner, eyes dull.
The next was a boy with red eyes, dark hair and a large but clumsy figure.
The last was a girl with blonde curls, tan skin covered in burns on her hands and cold, calculating eyes. This girl he knew.
This girl, they called Maven.
But that wasn't her name. Her name was Annabeth Ulyssa.
And she looked at them like she did at a stranger.
He'll admit, he was a bit dumbstruck at what to do. What do you do, when faced with someone who's everything to you and you're nothing to them?
Bianca was the one who talked to her, in the end, while Clarisse ordered her apparent brother, Frank, to spar with her, and Will spent half an hour yelling at his relative, Octavian, for 'not using your fucking powers and hurting yourself'.
When Annabeth and Bianca came back, both were crying. The former told him she didn't remember him, but she'd regain her memories and come back.
In turn, after Will finished his rant, Octavian told Jason about the other-place, Camp Jupiter, which, ew, Luke was going to stick with their name.
Then, Annabeth told them about their quest. That Thanatos had also been kidnapped and they'd been sent to take care of it.
"Can't you just leave it to the other Gods?" Thalia suggested.
"Tha- That's disrespectful! We can't do that!" Octavian sputtered.
"The gods don't care about you, you shouldn't care about them. Although, I guess Apollo is cool." Luke sighed, and said God, who appeared, somewhere during their conversation, beamed.
"Damn right I am. But they're right, you know. Obviously, I'm not gonna tell you what to do, but I'd recommend ditching."
The three still went, joined by Jason who wanted to see the other-place, Will who decided he was going to babysit his idiot relative, Nico who went were Will went these days and Percy who just insisted he needed to be there.
Luke made them promise to be back soon.
They promised, all of them, even the Romans.
Should've figured Percy would lie.
He wasn't sure exactly what it was. Just that something was horribly wrong with his sea green thread. It didn't snap.
(Maybe it would have been better for him if it did. )
But Bianca stiffened, eyes wide in terror and Rachel gasped, eyes widened from horror only she could see.
Later, when the others kept their fucking promises unlike someone and came back, they would learn the full story. That Kronos arrived shortly before they could do anything and started fighting with Gaea to control the doors of death. That these two powerful deities split the very earth between them and Percy, just like all those years ago, pushed Nico out of the way and fell himself.
That this was punishment from the Fates for all the times they've defied them. That their threads wrapped around him like a noose.
That he knew this was going to happen.
And that's the worst part, isn't it?
They've been losing Percy for almost as long as Annabeth has been missing and this was the final part to that story.
He didn't notice Percy had been lying through his teeth when he promised and now it was too late to do anything.
"I'm going to kill them." Annabeth swore viciously once she was done recounting the story. "I'll kill the Fates. I'm going to kill them for hurting us again."
But still, they waited. Involving themselves as a fourth side to the War was useless and would only end in more death. It was better to wait for themselves to tire each other out.
That didn't change just how much waiting hurt.
They met with the representatives of the other-place. Or, well, the representatives of Camp Jupiter, without the Senate of New Rome, who thought of Camp Rebel as a rabid dog that needed to be put down.
They talked to Reyna and her soldiers. Explained to them how unfair it was that children were forced to fight for their gods whilst the adults sat back and watched them die.
They taught them the idea of rebellion. The worship of Libertas, of freedom.
Camp Rebel soon gained a third General. Luke, of the Greeks, Artemis, of the Hunters and Reyna, of the Romans.
Reyna, having picked up some tricks from her time with Circe, managed to give their amnesiacs their memories back. It turns out Amber's real name was Hazel, and she was a dead daughter of Pluto who fucked Gaea up in the 40's.
Because why not?
The War came to an end somewhere in August, coincidentally on Percy's sixteenth birthday. They aren't sure exactly what happened.
The Olympians, the Titans and the Giants met together of a battlefield somewhere near Rome. Those deities who made it out in any state to talk were covered in poison rashes and acid burns and talked in hushed voices about a newly ascended deity.
Apollo and Artemis report that even Ares refused to say their name.
Both Gaea and Kronos' forces were shattered and returned to hiding as their leader's essence was scattered in Tartarus.
Zeus' was as well. Athena became the new Queen of Olympus and she reached a deal with Camp Rebel.
No more 'forbidden' children.
The killing of the Fates was more symbolic than anything in the end. Thoon got them pretty good, and their repeated breaking of their tapestry have weakened most of people's belief in them.
They were half-way to fading when Camp Rebel's forces found them.
They found Percy soon after. Or rather, Artemis did.
She brought him back to Camp Rebel and said she found him in Rome. Not so far from the final battlefield.
The injuries on his small body bled gold, not red.
When he opened his eyes a few hours later, they were unseeing.
"My sight is what first allowed us to disobey the fights. Figures I'd lose it when they punished me." He shrugged, as if it was a small thing.
It took them a while to heal. They never really forgot about all those they've lost.
But they would never let their tragedies happen again.
[A few things that weren't explicitly stated but I think are important and you might not have picked up on:
- Luke has slightly different motivations here than in canon. He's more focused on making sure the tragedies of forbidden children don't happen again rather that revenge, which is why this allows a good Luke.
- Leo and Luke lived bc the team broke the fucking fates
- Octavian is a descendant of Apollo's plague aspect, like Will. But he wanted to be a prophet rlly bad, so he repressed his powers which caused him to get sick.
- The Three-Way War happens between roughly September after BoTL and the Battle of Manhattan. Like, the events of HoO are wildly sped up in this thing.
- Piper is the daughter of Aphrodite Areia [warful]
- Hazel is brought back earlier bc Gaea rises earlier. Why does Gaea rise earlier? Bc the Fates' plan got fucked up, idk
- I chose Amber for Hazel bc 1) it's also a shade of brown, 2) it's a gemstone.
- As for Taran and Maven, the first means thunder and the latter 'one who understands'
- Annabeth doesn't actually remember Percy properly when he falls, but can feel she cares about him deeply. It's part of the reason why she's so pissed at the Fates, bc they took her friend/boyfriend (up to your interpretation) away before she could remember him.
]
Also, Hades: I'm gonna give Bianca my 'guider of Fates' aspect so she can save them when Thoon tries killing them
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.
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.
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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.
(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.
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.
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 🤣
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?)
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
And peter is cautious at first but ends up equating Brucie Wayne to Tony Stark (billionaire, playboy, philanthropist? Hello? Bruce is just a foot taller than tony and thats the only difference) and gets wayyyy too comfortable
Comfortable to the point that he kinda starts to treat Brucie Wayne like Tony stark, in that he kind just blurts out whatever hes thinking around hom and just randomly calls bruce to ask for help
"hey is *insert company* chill? They wanna do a collab or something? Idk"
Brucie Wayne, actively on air in a live interview "Funded a anti LGBTQ+ movement a couple months ago, Peter, they're so last season"
No one let's bruce live down he said that on live television. Bruce defends it by saying its what Brucie Wayne would've said in that situation. No one denies it.
"Hey, can I legally *smth stupid that Bruce absolutely also tried to do as a young CEO*?"
Bruce, actively on patrol. "...unfortunately, tha answer is yes, but i strongly advice against it"
"Your advice is strongly noted. Thanks, Mr Wayne!"
Theres yelling in the distance and some sort of explosion followed by maniacal laughter. Bruce hangs up the phone for his own peace of mind
"Mr wayne, I think i just developed a green energy arc reactor"
Bruce, actually sleeping for once "...Peter, it is 4:37 in the morning"
Peter ends up being basically Bruce's most unofficial son. Or maybe like a nephew that calls their uncle instead of their parents. Whatever is it, the public eats it up and the Batkids are Not Amused
Except Tim. Tim thinks peter is a riot, as a fellow young CEO. But also bc peter has literally no supervision, press training, or even council to answer to, so this witty (and angry tbh) teen (who was also recently widowed from his last family member)(aunt may) kinda just. Says whatever he wants and does whatever he wants (within reason)
Idk... I love my dick as Peter's dad trope, but bruce as Peter's almost-dad-maybe-uncle (its a weird gray area. Hes got issues, okay?) Is objectively hilarious
Bruce Wayne catching peter as Spider-man or half dressed in the suit,,, his instincts as a father, Brucie Wayne persona, and vigilante life all merge together into one, immaculate reply
"Peter Benjamin Parker, what the fuck?"
Dysfunctional found family my beloved,,,
OH OH AND imagine they find out they're all vigilantes right?? So peter uses the design from the iron spider to make them nanite suits too they'd look so fire Tim would LOVE 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). ]
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.
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
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
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)
(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.
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.