Watching Epic made me I miss Mischief Chaotic Hermes in PJO so much!
PJO's gods are shitty written for real
They should weirder, crazier, funny, less people and more forces of nature
And good parents trying their best instead of plain evil parents, usually their kids are a exception to their assholeness
Make Poseidon a little worse and Zeus a little better please, both the Sea and the Sky
Make Ares, the father and patron of Amazons, called Feasted by Women, Girl's Dad
Make Apollo equally terrible and beautifull
Make Athena a wise and stern patron of heroes, keep her a virgin goddess, make Annabeth Aphrodite's daughter or Ares's. Annie can still be her champion.
Make Demeter just as powerful as her brothers, no Big Three, but Big Six (only three have demigods kids in Myth, so Demeter can replace Hades)
Make Aphrodite's children just like Aeneas instead of pretty vain girls. Make the Love Goddess, daughter of Uranus, lover of Ares, scary and powerful and ancient.
Make them petty, and bad and good, and crazy and funny, loving and hateful, a mix between human and deity.
Make Hestia the "unclaimed kids' Cabin
Take off the whole World War 3 shit for Olympus's sake, its weird!
I really like to think about how the relationship between persephone and the demigod children of demeter is. Definitely there is some jealousy, resentment there...
Poseidon: *Hurries back to the chariot* Hang in there!
Eleni: *Stares at them silently*
Apollo: *Hurries over to his daughter* Eleni, what happened?!
Eleni: Crow..he attacked us while she was giving me a life lesson and she got hit with a dart that had poison..
Eleni: Basilisk poison...
Apollo: *Nods, looking at the baby and lifting his hands* I can-
Eleni: No! *Quickly steps back, her eyes narrowed* I'm not letting anyone touch him..I got him...just help Demeter..she's really weak and needs all the attention and help she can get..
Eleni: *Turns and hurries away, heading in the direction to camp*
Apollo: *Sighs, watching her go*
Eleni: *Narrows her eyes, keeping a protective hold on the newborn*
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Chiron: Send the search parties out-
Mitsuko: *Smiles widely in relief* ELENI!!
Eleni: *Walks up with the newborn, golden blood on her hands and arms*
Eleni: *Looks at everyone, lightning striking in the distance, her gaze dark* Hey.
Mr D: Eleni-
Eleni: If anyone touches this baby wrong..no matter who you are, I will stab you repeatedly until you are nothing but a bloody unrecognizable pulp.
Val: Girly...
Lily: *Stares at Eleni in shock*
Woodie: *Steps forward with Chuck stunned*
Eleni: *Drops down to her knees, her adrenaline beginning to run out* God's..everything hurts....
Lexis: Eleni-
Eleni: *Glares at him, her hair glowing* STAY BACK!! NOBODY IS ALLOWED NEAR THIS BABY!!
Chiron: Eleni..we have to check him and you.. *Steps closer, stopping every few steps just in case she decides to attack* I'll give him back when it's all over, I swear..
Eleni: Swear on the Styx.
Chiron: I swear on the Styx..
Chiron: *Holds his hands out slowly and carefully* Let me see him...what's his name..
Eleni: *Stares him down*
Eleni: *Carefully hands the baby to him* His name...
Since there are already weird shenanigans concerning some demi-god children's birth confirmed - looking at Darren Knowles and the Athena mindbirth children - wouldn't it be cool, if Demeter children were born like japanese folklore heroes?
Kaguya - cut from a bamboo
Momotarō - creatively named after the peach he came out of
Basil Plantman - random Demeter cabin child we found in a kidney bean last week idk man they just keep poppin out of our legumes
We as a society need to acknowledge the fact that Demeter legit got so fucking pissed she created a new element….
I never hear anyone talking about it but it is actually insane to think about. Like my girl invented snow. Brought into existence a whole new season out of pure unfiltered rage.
And what’s funnier is the fact that people call her weak….like would a weak goddess be able to do that!? I don’t think so.
(Ok well not a new element, that was just the first thing that came to mind, but yk what I mean. She fucking made ice guys)
One thing that always pissed me off in HOO was like..the way children of demeter and Aphrodite are described as weak..especially kids of demeter like im sorry any kid of the olympian gods being weak in general is fucking ridiculous (Rick your power scalling is nonexistent and sucks ass) but Demeter? The sister of Zeus ? One of the original six kids of kronos (Hades,Hera,Zeus,Demeter,Poseidon and Hestia) like if theres any god thats weak..im sorry it isn't them (I blame misogyny for this because wtf)
putting aside who she’s even related to…she causes famines by allowing the crops to wilt in bitter cold. like with the whole Persephone myth, the only reason why the mortals didn’t all literally die was because Zeus had to strike a deal with her. she’s essentially a life goddess (both in crops and fertility) so it would make sense that she should be extremely powerful and arguably her kids should be able to like. drain someone’s life force. deplete the energy from the food they ate so much that they could pass out/die etc.
i really like her portrayal in the hades game on the switch. she’s cold (literally), but has her reasons. a much better interpretation than the uh…cereal goddess we got in pjo
Hestia looked at them then, all gathered in their circle. She burned their faces into her mind just in case she didn't see them again after this night. She didn’t have the words for color yet, and her world was too small for poetic comparisons then, but ....
Her not much younger sister, Demeter’s eyes were the color of the grass they stepped on when they landed outside the cave earlier. Both her eyes and the grass were like the feeling of Hestia's own blanket at the beginning of her life — soft. The makeshift clothes made out of her own, a bit Hestia’s and a bit of Hades’ blankets were wrapped tightly around her shoulders and her hair was long like Zeus’ but longer, wilder and the color of the wheat fields they saw flying —Hestia only knew what grass and wheat was because of her; Demeter loved the land even if she had been away from it as long as Hestia had. Her skin was a shade paler than Zeus but that would change in the days ahead.
Some of her curls were plastered to her forehead either from stomach bile or sweat. For once Hestia thanked the darkness, her fire didn't burn bright enough to tell. She didn't want to know.
— From my Cronides first night out of the stomach! shot. Its long because Hestia reallly really loves her siblings and I decided to be dumb and put in the rule that I could not use the names of colors and that I had to use comparisions of things she could have experienced in their escape or knows innately/from her siblings because how the fuck would they know that in Kronos' stomach😭
