Ftm Percy which changes nothing during the og series, seeing as he transitioned before camp and no one gives a shit, there's more important stuff to deal with anyway.
However:
y'know how monsters call him 'Perseus Jackson'? SoN amnesiac Percy. He gets to CJ and they ask him what's his name.
And he doesn't know. Because the gorgons that have been chasing him, they call him '*deadname*' but that cannot possibly be his name. He's a boy, right? He knows he is, but he doesn't know his name, where he came from or who he is.
And even better if Hera doesn't announce him.
There's just this kid at the doorstep, he's controlling the entire river, nothing can hurt him (as he hasn't crossed the Tiber yet) and he's fiercely protective of demigods on principle.
Reyna (who doesn't recognize him, because he's changed a bit since Circe, starting on T etc.) and Octavian just look at each other :
"Think he's a god or sum shit? "
"Idk better not piss him off if he is. "
"Okay, okay let's name him uhh...Romulus. "
And by the time Mars arrives there's already a small shrine and people are worshipping him and Mars rlly doesn't care just gives the quest and fucks off. Percy immediately offers to go with Frank so they are given better resources, as to impress the God of Demigods.
And then like after the gamble with Gaea? When he starts remebering? New Romes newest protector god is a demigod? Hazel and Frank just like o.O
And Percy isn't a god yet, but he can hear the prayers, he can feel the offerings he's given, and he's stronger than ever.
He kill Polybotes by himself. Sure, he's a demigod, but the belief of New Rome is strong enough for him to manage it. At least, that's what he tells himself.
By the time the Argo II arrives, he's already half-ascended and New Rome is like 'nah mate, you ain't stealin' our Patron God Romulus, ya tweakin' and Annabeth can't believe she has to fight a custody battle over her boyfriend just cuz the monsters can't learn to stop deadnaming him.
Percy couldn't say he was relieved when Luke took that knife to himself, there was too much pain in death for that to be the case.
But nonetheless, in that deep seated exhaustion that wove in his very bones, Percy just wanted everything to be over.
Then, as Luke lay dying, his bright blue eyes seared into Percy and made him promise to not forget about the demigods, to make the gods be better.
Percy knew his job wasn’t yet done, because as Luke took his last breath, the shadows overtook the throne room. The hearth just mere embers, and a magical laugh echoed around the chambers.
Annabeth was crying over Luke’s corpse and didn't seem to notice anything wrong in her grief, but Percy did. He always noticed, even though Annabeth would most likely disagree. She does call him Seaweed Brain after all. But just because Percy doesn't speak up about what he notices doesn’t mean he's dumb.
It's why, when his instincts screamed at him, he raised his sword just as a great metal scythe came sweeping down at him.
“Oh, grandson. I long since outgrow that boy's body, but you fought brilliantly. But now I am back at full power, you will not be able to stop me as you are. Still, for you to not only sense my strike, but stop it… I knew you were special. You really should have joined my side,” Kronos says, his words like honey, as he presses his scythe down upon Percy’s sword. Golden cracks were seeping from Kronos’ bronze skin, showing his divinity leaking through.
Percy snarled, his green eyes blazing with fury, “I'd rather die!”
And Percy looked over to Annabeth for help, but she was not moving, her tears frozen in time on her cheeks.
Percy froze in fear, his heart pounding. Kronos was no longer in Luke's body and his powers restricted. Kronos had his own body now, and his abilities were restored.
However, Percy’s freezing was a fatal mistake, as Kronos pressed on with more force forcing Percy’s sword from his hand.
Percy looked up, his eyes wide in fear as he stared in Kronos golden orbs.
Except as Percy’s sword came clanging to the ground and Kronos swung his scythe. The titan leveled the blade just against his throat.
Kronos croons, “Don’t worry grandson. I couldn’t possibly kill you when I see so much of myself and Rhea in your eyes.”
Percy startles and flinches as Kronos touches Percy’s face gently, pulling black strands behind his ears.
“Hmm?” Kronos hums, “Don’t worry you’ll understand in time. For now just sleep, and we’ll celebrate later when I discipline my kids.”
“Stop-” Percy says, but then he feels a pinch on the back of his neck, and everything fades to black.
The last thing he hears is Kronos’ voice comforting him…
~~~
Kronos at first hated all these mortal pests that had the blood of gods in their veins.
Mortals weren’t worthy of such a gift.
Unfortunately, Kronos needed to play along with the pests' plans in order to revive.
However, how he started to view these pests, or rather just one pest, changed when he met the son of his Poseidon, his grandson, Perseus Jackson.
Perseus was different then the other pests - demigods. He was just twelve when Kronos first slipped in his dreams, and already Pereus was powerful, defiant, but then Kronos saw his eyes, Rhea's eyes. Kronos could barely stomach it when he swallowed Poseidon, his son with Rhea's eyes.
But now it seems that another inherited her eyes. The one who would be the doom or savior of Olympus. And should die when he was sixteen.
No, this one would not be the one to fulfill the prophecy. He couldn't be.
Kronos sent the boy nightmares, hoping he would pray to his father. That Poseidon would scue the boy. Except that never happened.
And so the next thing that Kronos could do was set his vessel to poison the daughter of Zeus, so a quest would be sent and the Golden Fleece would be retrieved to not only help heal him, but the daughter of Zeus as well, so she would be the one to fulfill the prophecy.
Of course, everything went downhill from there and that daughter of Zeus ran away from the prophecy and gave it to his grandson.
Huh? When did Kronos start thinking of Perseus as his grandson? From the moment he saw Rhea's eyes.
And after his grandson saved Artemis and by holding Atlas’ weight the gods voted to kill his grandson!
As if he hasn't already saved them and proven himself before!
It made Kronos resolve to tear Olympus down all the more.
And so, even as he had to fight his grandson to do so, he would, for Perseus for power.
Of course no one but Kronos himself knew that he would never mortally injure the boy. It's why when his scythe, which is said to suck the life from one's soul, struck, Perseus was merely fatigued.
And Kronos regularly asked for updates on how Perseus is doing from that daughter of Aphrodite.
It's how he found out Perseus’ powers were growing every day, he was long on his way to ascending.
Oh, and how that daughter of Athena was trying to shackle his grandson to mortality by seducing Perseus of all things. As if that girl would ever be good enough for his grandson! She, he always calls him stupid, and tests him at every opportunity. No! Kronos would not stand for that!
Then, the final battle came. Unfortunately his spy turned traitor and died, but it didn't matter because the battle lines were drawn. And Perseus was practically glowing in his divinity.
It would be soon!
Perseus made his choice, but it was too late to stop Kronos, for he was already healed.
And Kronos fought Perseus one on one. The boy didn't even notice that he glowed, his veins golden. Too fueled by anger to stop and think why he could still move when Kronos stopped time, and that daughter of Athena did not.
Unfortunately, when he noticed that time was stopped all around him, the boy froze, and Kronos took the advantage.
And when Kronos saw the wide eyed fear in those green eyes he reassured him that he would not kill him. How could he, when he came to care for the boy?
However, Perseus startles and flinches as Kronos goes to comfort the boy by face gently, pulling black strands behind his ears.
“Hmm?” Kronos hums, knowing the boy is too brainwashed by the gods and too young to understand, “Don’t worry you’ll understand in time. For now just sleep, and we’ll celebrate later when I discipline my kids.”
“Stop-” Perseus says, but Kronos swiftly pinches a nerve on the boy's neck, and the boy slumps forward into his open arms.
Kronos whispers to his grandson comfortably and holds him like a little one to his chest, “Don't worry, I'll take care of you, my grandson.”
Notes:
Whelp! At least Kronos doesn't want Percy to die. Maybe he'll even do alright with being the new prince of the Titans.
Chapters: 16/?
Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types
Rating: Mature
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Percy Jackson & Poseidon, Apollo/Percy Jackson, Percy Jackson & Triton, Amphitrite & Percy Jackson, Apollo & Percy Jackson, Hermes & Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase & Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo & Percy Jackson, Thalia Grace & Percy Jackson, Gods and Goddesses & Percy Jackson, Nico di Angelo/Will Solace, Clarisse La Rue/Chris Rodriguez
Characters: Percy Jackson, Annabeth Chase (Percy Jackson), Apollo (Percy Jackson), Poseidon (Percy Jackson), Triton (Percy Jackson), Amphitrite (Percy Jackson), Original Male Character(s), Original Female Character(s), Hera (Percy Jackson), Ares (Percy Jackson), Zeus (Percy Jackson), Hermes (Percy Jackson), Dionysus (Percy Jackson)
Additional Tags: Protective Poseidon (Percy Jackson), Undersea Family | Amphitrite & Percy Jackson & Poseidon & Triton as Family, Good Parent Poseidon (Percy Jackson), Hurt Percy Jackson, Tooth-Rotting Fluff, Fluff and Angst, Family Feels, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Post-Tartarus (Percy Jackson), Healing, Protective Apollo (Percy Jackson), Possessive Behavior, Not Canon Compliant - The Trials of Apollo, slight - Freeform, Annabeth Chase Bashing (Percy Jackson), Chiron Critical, Sally Jackson Critical, Minor Original Character(s), Ascending Percy Jackson, Ascension
Summary:
In the depths of Atlantis, Percy Jackson is given a chance to heal, but the journey is far from simple. As he navigates strained family dynamics, buried emotions, and the weight of his past, the sea reveals that his destiny may be far more complicated—and far less mortal—than he ever imagined.
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.
