So the vibe for Vyncent is I wanted to keep him vaguely an elf and I wanted to keep him with that isekai culture shock which was what led to the whole part dryad thing (also saying I turned anna sol into a tree is very entertaining to me.) and his whole thing of having a versatile set of skills he can go between for his powers just fucking screams hermes !! and also the whole god of travel and roads yknow it just all lined up really nicely
his basic deal is that he was kinda just raised at camp, but only started actually formally like 'going' at around 6, though he hasn't really ? been anywhere else? ever ??? so while on the quest with Dakota and William its super weird and confusing and he's very out of his depth!! he's very competent at the shit he does while at camp but when he's not he's just a fish out of fucking water, just like in PD.
For William I've been getting a lot of "you'd expect Will to be a Hades kid" WHICH WAS SOMETHING I THOUGHT ABOUT and if I had gone down the death route I probably would have been more Thanatos leaning (and, originally I had assigned him Hypnos) but I just!! felt like it wasn't quite right y'know. and since William is THE detective. like THHEEE investigator, Athena felt like a natural choice. I feel like it really fits and is very silly.
he grew up basically the same, lived in Deadwood his whole life, saw things no one else did but this time because of the mist and dealing with monster encounters and shit. until he's like vaguely 15-16 on a hike in the woods and he has a particularly bad run in with a monsters and his dad goes. Okay. Alright. Time to send your ass to summer camp. I do think it would be really funny if he still does have a wisp problem and they just fucking follow him around for NO REASON.
ASSIGNIGN A GOD TO DAKOTA WAS ACTUALLY MUCH HARDER THAN YOU'D THINK. My kneejerk reaction was Ares because. combat focused! primal idiot! but he's not. war-like. y'know. I did look around at other gods for a while before settling on Demeter because. gestures vaguely at Meg. I didn't actually finish Trials of Apollo but her and Dakota have very similar vibes in my brain, and the whole "oh the plant cabin is actually SCARY in combat dude" thing will always be so important to me,,, AND IT FIT HIS WHOLE BEINGINTO NATURE AND ANIMALS LIKING HIM THING.
Like I said before, he is functionally this au's percy (despite the fact he's not a big 3 kids,,, shhh,,,,,) because he's literally just shown up at camp and has no fucking clue what's happening. get's tossed into the Hermes cabin and suddenly he's Vyncent's problem y'know. Also !! the stress of suddenly being in a new place where theres so many more rules that you don't know about and then HOLY SHIT YOU'RE BEING SENT ON A GOD ISSUED QUEST. and my man has to just with it!!
And now you may be asking yourself. Randy. Where's Ashe? and heh. let justr say. Valhalla. (Not actually but Ashe is busy being a Loki kid and wanting nothing to do with this whole vibe)