#akhlys

[sallyjacksonsson]

percy when he makes circe’s water jug explode… THAT is the percy that tortures the goddess of misery

[hermesmyplatonicbeloved]

"ppl in this fandom overreact when someone so much as breathes on Percy-"

I'm sorry, my favourite 16/17 year old has been tortured half to death TWICE in the last 12 months, and no one, not a single character protected him, checked in with him emotionally afterward or provided any type of medical aid. no one. instead he's blamed to defending himself in the only possible way he could've, and HIS TORMENTORS are comforted right in front of him, BY HIS LOVED ONES.

yeah I think this calls for a bit of an extreme reaction, don't you think?

[lilsillustration]

House of Hades Chapter 48 - Percy vs Akhlys

Part 5 of PJO/HOO Chapter Illustrations

[womanwhoembracesfolly]

Reading so many pjo and percabeth fanfics, and re-reading all of my favorites of course and I keep getting rage-baited by some of the random Annabeth hate some of these fanfictions, especially my LEAST favorite genre of Riordan Verse Fanfiction (Chaos Percy/the fanfic where he and Annabeth break up and then everyone decides to hate him so he like runs away and gets with a God or gets with chaos or whatever).

Some people act like Annabeth being scared of Percy because of THAT moment in HOH is like a genuine crime against humanity. I have two things to say to that.

1. They match each others freak. Sorry, not sorry. Like girl was scared but also has her brain wired in a way that she will ALWAYS be able to see the practical value of something. And also girl walk him a dog. Walk him like a dog.

2. I’m sorry if your mortal boyfriend almost killed an immortal goddess by controlling her own poison… like would you not be a little bit frightened? Like would that not like give you a little bit of an ick? And it wouldn’t necessarily be scared of him but more scared of what he could do or could become… which like yes if your mortal boyfriend became a blood bender, you’d be scared too! Like what????

God forbid you’re a girl and god forbid you’re a seventeen year old girl in a traumatizing situation 🙄.

[criticbutlikeimfriendlyso]

percy jackson might actually canonically be a bloodbender

now before you guys say 'hE jUsT cOnTrOlLeD pOiSoN, bLoOd bEnDiNg iS nOt cAnOn', yes i know that's what i ORIGINALLY thought before i reread percy jackson

here is a lovely excerpt from the house of hades :

"But the goddess of misery was now fixated on Percy. He tried to retreat again. Unfortunately the poison ichor was flowing all around him now, making the ground steam and the air burn. Percy found himself stuck on an island of dust not much bigger than a shield. A few yards away, his backpack smoked and dissolved into a puddle of goo. Percy had nowhere to go."

as you guys all know this is the scene before percy controls the poison like

"Warmth flowed through him. The poison tide stopped."

NOW LOOK AT THE EXCERPT ABOVE

IT SAYS 'POISON ICHOR'

IT'S ICHOR!?

IT'S GODLY BLOOD!?

guys someone prove me wrong

also in case someone does prove me wrong

lemme just say that percy has controlled the rivers (or at least one, of the one when they first fell) of tartarus which are the bloodstreams of tartarus in the riordanverse

GUYS

IS PERCY BLOODBENDING CANON!?

[princessofghosts-posts]

Thinking back about Percabeth travel through Tartarus made me more sad about the fact that we will never know about Nico's first travel.

Idk if in TOA or TSATS he talks about it to Will or someone else,but I really wish we could know more about it. The only things we know are the following:

He went alone,so no Bob with him that could have helped him like Annabeth and Percy,at the start of SoN;

His meeting with Akhlys,where she straight up told him he was perfect in his misery and she couldn't make him more miserable than that;

He saw Tartarus for what it really was all the way in,and almost went insane for that;

He got captured when he got to the door by Gaia's army and then was bought for a bit in his father temple,before putting him in a jar in Rome.

And apparently Nyx is obsessed with him and his darkness,and like Akhlys,she think Nico can't change and he's perfect in his darkness. And this is something that's only talked about in TSATS,unlike the others,so it's a pretty "new" information. But that's it,we don't know anything else and this will be probably one of my greatest regret.

Did Nico hesitated to jump because he realized something was wrong and could see the real Tartarus? Did he already knew about this "privilege" of his,since Tartarus is in his father's domain? Did he ask Bob for information before jumping? Did he research or knew about the gods down there that could have helped him? And if he didn't,how did he knew about Akhlys's dead mist? How did he met her since Bob didn't bought him to her? Did she gave him the mist without trying to kill him like she did with Annabeth and Percy,because she liked his misery,or Nico had to endure a near-death experience? Did he also met Nyx? If he did,did he went though her house like Percy and Annabeth? Since he is immune to the mist in Tartarus,can he also see beyond the darkness of Nyx's house? Did he met other gods or primordial? Did Tartarus watched his travel but didn't interfered,like he did with Percy,because he knew Gaia's plan? And if he did interfered? Did Thanatos helped him (he is one of Nyx children so he can go in Tartarus without a problem) since he technically work for his dad? Did he felt being followed by monsters and,without knowing it,by also Gaia's army? Did he met old enemies like Percy and Annabeth? Did his title as ghost king made things more complicated in case there were vendicative spirit around? Did the fact that he was Hades'son/the prince of that place gave him more downside? Was his travel more easier than theirs since the monsters knew about Gaia's trap for him,so they didn't interfered and let it unfold once Nico got to the doors? How did Nico felt knowing he was walking and seeing Tartarus body? Did Hades know what he was planning to do or was too busy with his split personality to understand what was happening? Did he cared? How did Nico felt once he got to the doors and got kidnapped? Persephone gave him the seeds,so she probably had an idea of the dangers he was going to face,how did she felt about that? Did Nico thought that Persephone cared about him? Did he thought of his dad too? Did his powers snapped too down there,like Percy's did? Did he felt the change or only realized later on when he turned Bryce into a ghost? Did he felt getting weaker by the moment or Tartarus didn't had the same effect to him? How Nico felt once he was out of Tartarus,in Gaia's hands,and was bought to his father temple: a place where he should be safe? And what about the jar,did the giants put him in there while he was conscious and trying to fight,or he was knocked out before he could get out of Tartarus? If he was knocked out,how did he felt we he understood he was trapped in a jar under the colosseum–that he was in Italy? How did he felt while watching Percy,Jason and Piper coming to his aid? Was he guilty since they were getting hurt for him? Was he relieved since someone cared enough to safe him? Was he feeling useless since he couldn't do anything to help them and was too weak to even move? What did he felt when he met Hazel,after so long,without knowing if she was still alive? What did he feel as the ship descended into Arachne's cave,and noticed another opening to Tartarus? Was he panicking inside? Was he having a silent trauma-respons? Did he wanted to get the farthest away possible with it? Did he wanted to take everyone else with him and shadow travel away because he couldn't do that again? And when Annabeth and Percy got pulled over the edge? And when he tried to get them out,putting himself on the edge of the same place he just got out again? What was he feeling? And when he watched them feel? Was he having flashback of his jump? Was he screaming in dispears? Was he dissociating because the trauma is too much? Was he feeling guilty because he couldn't do anything to help them? Did he had nightmares about their fall?

There is so much we don't know about,and it has so much potential to explore and ground to cover. You can probably write a whole separate book about it,of more than 200 pages (if someone will write or wrote a ff,or know about a good one on this topic,please,share it in the comments,I'm desperate for Nico's first travel in Tartarus ff).

Nico is the first ever survivor of Tartarus. He is the first: before him no one ever made it,and Percy and Annabeth made it out of it thanks to Bob's help. And Bob helped only because Nico was a friend to him,and talked about Percy. And the fact that we still don't know nothing about his travel is truly a crime.

There are so many dark topic you could talk about,especially because Nico travel was more dangerous than Percy and Annabeth. In HoH everyone was going to the Doors because they wanted to go out and take part in the final battle,so nobody was actively trying to hunt them down expect Polybotes and Tartarus (idk about him). But for Nico,that went there when the Doors were freshly opened? And Gaia probably knew he was coming and her trap was probably pre-organized only for him? Everyone was either hunting him down,or was waiting for the right time to jump at him. Akhlys encounter was a straight up nightmare,the one when you throw up after waking up. Nico probably felt more devasted when Misery herself told him how she couldn't make him more miserable. You can't tell me Tartarus wasn't watching him,since Nico was the first demigod in ages to venture in his body. He was probably keeping a close eye on him and either didn't interfer because he didn't care,or because he was aware of Gaia's plans. And I need more of Nyx interacting with Nico,because her obsession waa probably born from his first travel. Maybe they didn't met,but if Akhlys loved his misery so much,who say she wouldn't talk about him with other primordials? The dark topics and trauma here are>>>>>

[redfire-910]

Another thing about the poison scene in House of Hades. Not only is it bias on Rick's part to make Percy more powerful because he likes him more. But it MAKES NO SENSE.

Poseidon is the god of the SEA and OCEAN.

Akhlys was a fucking PRIMORDIAL GODESS.

There is no way Percy should have ever been able to have more control over her domain than herself.

And another thing is that it was POISON.

Nothing about it had anything to do with the sea or ocean.

Percy should only be able to control the sea and ocean because that is Poseidon's domain not fucking poison.

It makes no sense.

I actually have a headcanon for that scene that since Percy was half dead and in literal hell he was hallucinating that entire encounter and it never happened.

[theartofmetal]

332. House of the Black Geminus - Akhlys (Black Metal, 2024)

Art by Agostino Arrivabene (Cover Art for both album & shown Single releases)