what do you think Lacy and Drew's reaction would be if they realised the god Apollo went to the same school as them? Like, would they recognise Lester as Apollo? If yes, do they just ignore it?
SOOO that is actually another thing I'm struggling with, haha! I'm a little stuck on how I'm going to navigate that. I haven't quite settled on a solution yet, but some options I've been considering:
A glamour on Lester that makes him difficult for Greco-Roman Demigods to spot. Their gaze just kinda... slides right off him.
An all-hands-on-deck situation at CHB takes Lacy and Drew out of the school
Lester is so Unremarkably Average that Drew just doesn't pay him a passing glance
Drew and Lacy DO recognize him, but he unknowingly gaslights them by saying he's never met either of them before and he's never been to summer camp. Drew follows up by charmspeaking him and asking him to tell her his real name, and he insists it's Lester.
The time and methods Niobe used to brainwash him actually caused physical changes that make him difficult to recognize (exercise & strenuous activity is often a big part of cult indoctrination)
It's a big school and their paths just never cross 🤷♀️ (unlikely, because Lester will be around Walt and Carter a lot)
Christmas is best spent/with friends and Family, A/pollo proves this fact
For @heresronnie21 from @peishathebookity using the prompts Meg grows a perfect tree... then decorates like a meg, Cabin 7 karaoke with dad and Waystation Family gift giving
'Lesteeeeerrrr."
I smiled. the voice of my demigod companion, Meg McCaffrey, came into my mind in the form of a prayer. Ever since she figured out I could hear prayers, Meg had been talking nonstop.
"Can you come here?" Meg asked, or more fittingly prayed. "I need help."
I smiled. A part of split off to the Cistern.
Meg was standing in the living room, in front of a big Evergreen. The tree's dryad stood next to it, hands on hips.
"You called?" I said.
Meg grunted in response. She grabbed my arm and pulled me closer to the tree.
Ah, Meg had called me to assist me in decorating the Cistern's Christmas Tree. (A note, just because I am a Greek god and a pagan, does not mean I cannot celebrate christmas. Though, dad doesn't like it much when we do.)
Well, lucky for her, I have decorated MANY trees. I could her help with that.
"Sure," I said, and she grinned. I gulped a bit at that, but it couldn't be THAT bad.
Turns out it was.
Meg did not call me for my awesome and creative artistic abilities, nooo, she called me because of my "goddy abilities."
"Apollo, summon blue candy canes." She ordered.
I raised an eyebrow at her. Who used blue candy canes for their tree? It was usually red and white or red and green. And trust me, I know. I see a lot of things from the sun chariot.
Meg stomped my leg, "c'mon, dummy!" I caved.
I summoned ten blue candy canes in my arm, and handed it to her. She looked at them, then at me, then nodded approvingly. I did not get punched in the knee.
Then Meg bit into one. I winced. Meg frowned as she pulled it out.
"This isn't a candy cane!"
"Yes it is, it's a candy cane ornament," I reasoned.
"I was asking for candy canes. Not ornaments." Meg punched my knee. But I was a god so it didn't hurt.
"I thought we were decorating."
Meg looked up at me. "Why would you think that?" I gestured at the tree.
The dryad scoffed. "No one is decorating ME. Don't you know how heavy ornaments are?"
I did not how heavy ornaments are.
"Not even for Christmas?" I asked.
The dryad shot me a look, then sighed. "I'd love too, it's the holiday season and all, but ornaments are really heavy!"
Well, that would be easy to deal with.
I motioned for Meg to hand me the candy canes (which she was trying to suck on, again.)
She reluctanctly handed me them. The I vanished them.
Meg stared at me.
Then I summoned ones that were hollow made of light materials.
"Help me decorate?" I asked. Meg smiled.
The first of the decorations were done, and several blue candy canes we littered (terrible wording, I know) on one side of the tree (no one would look at the back).
I stretched my arms. Meg had asked to put on the higher spots, but didn't reach. Instead of asking me to do it like a normal person, she asked me to carry her so she could do it, instead.
"How does it feel?" Meg asked.
Evergreen went out of her tree. "Not too bad," she bedrudgingly replied. Meg smiled, and turned to me. And I wonder once again what I had gotten myself into.
"You aren't adding fairy lights?" I asked.
"NO!" Evergreen protester.
"Yeah no we don't do that here." I turned around. Joseph, a male dryad, was leaning on the door. "The electicity bill is expensive." On that, I could agree.
Meg stepped on my foot, "summon green ball thingies." Joseph left after that.
"Ornaments," I corrected. Meg rolled her eyes, muttering about potatoes and tomatoes, which was NOT how the saying goes. I still summoned ten of them.
Meg tried to put them up, then realized she was, once again, too short.
"You need to get more calcium," I told her. She stamped my foot. I, by the way, have nothing againt short people. Short people are cute! Why, I have dated many. Still, Meg was a growing girl.
I carried her up. Meg did not weight much, though this was probaly because I was a god. She put a lot of the green ones on top, no, she put all ten of them on top.
"Now for yellow," she said. I stared at her. Green and yellow... hmmm...
I summoned them for her. Meg could put half of them just fine, but needed my part for some higher ones.
"Why did you call me and not just ask Lu?" I asked her after helping her put on a pink - that's right, pink - star on top of Evergreen.
Meg shrugged. "I wanted to hang out with you, I guess." My heart warmed.
Then Meg asked me to summon red ones. And she put them on the bottom half. She walked back and admired her work.
Meg had decorated her tree as a street lamp, with a glow in the dark pink star on top.
I was having a really hard time processing this.
Evergreen seem to share my sentiment.
She stepped out of her tree, and looked at our job. Dumbfouned and shocked.
She turned around at us. "Whose idea was this?" she demanded angrily.
Meg pointed at me. I protested. Evergreen believed Meg over me, though, and sent me a stink eye.
She sighed, "oh well, I guess it's too late to do anything." But then she looked at me.
"Well, I gotta go," I said and dissapeared, not wanting to deal with an angry dryad.
After that fiasco, I decided to visit my kids, and drop their gifts while I was at it.
When I teleported into the Me cabin, the whole place was still bright and alive. The sound proof walls were up (after several complaints from the rest of camp, the row of 5-7-9 were given sound proof walls to use at night) and all my children were wide awake.
Jerry, Gracie, and Yan were playing a vicous and extreme round of Uno on the floor (a game that was one of the reasons why Olympus no longer held game nights, another reason is that dad is always right, and therefore the best at everyting, but we also cannot just give up, and oh the fights that erupted from it.) Gracie and Jerry were doubling down laughing as Yan picked up card after card with a mournfull expression.
Austin was playing a love song using his saxophone in its full glory, while Kayla faked gagged at Will and Nico from her perch on the top bunk. My son's skin had gotten darker with the blush, while Nico sat on the bed with a deadpan expression.
None of them had seen me yet.
It was my youngest that did.
"DADDY!" Gracie screamed and stood up, throwing away her stack of 14 Uno cards in the air. She pushed her siblings and jumped, enloping me in a hug. I scooped her up and twirled her around, smelling her cherry scented hair, the sound of her giggles music to my ears.
Jerry groaned, as he was about to win. Yan was not sad at all, seeing as they had 36 cards. They threw down their stack and walked over to me, much to Jerry's chagrin.
Austin stopped playing, and Kayla jumped up from her perch, which I winced. Luckily my ginger daughter was fine. Will stood up and dragged Nico, staring at the younger three's mess disdainfully.
"Hey dad," Austin greeted. I gently dropped Gracie and hugged her siblings and brother in law.
"How are my sunshines doing?" I asked.
"I was about to win but somebody had to run off," Jerry sent a side eye at a certain blonde with pigtails. Gracie, being the mature twelve year old she was, stuck out her tongue at him. Yan shook their head at their antics.
"Gracie don't tease your brother, and Jerry we can play later," I chided.
Jerry lit up, "can Yan get 36 cards in one round again?" Yan groaned and playfully punched him.
Then Jerry stamped on their shoes.
Then Yan pulled his sleeve.
I realized they were about to fight and quickly dissolved it. Gracie was the one that shook her head, this time.
Kayla held my hand and brought me to the rug in the middle, waving at the others too follow.
Jerry grabbed all the Unos with help of Gracie, and brought them to the rug.
"We're doing 7 each," Jerry said and started to dividing them. Nico tried to leave but stopped when Will pulled him in.
"You're not leaving me with Jerry and Uno."
Nico and Will sat together, with Austin on Will's right. Kayla sat left from Nico, with me on her left. Yan was beside me and Jerry and Gracie sat next to them with Gracie next to Austin (because Austin and Jerry should not sit next together)
And thus, the game of Uno began
"Uno!!" Jerry exclaimed cheerfully as he placed down another plust two card.
Yan's color drained from their face. Turns out, their last card was not a plus one.
It was sad watching them get 36 cards. Gracie was laughing again. Will shook his head.
Nico had about 19 cards. Kayla had raged quitted after getting a stack of 28. Austin was content with his 7. Will did not care. Gracie and Jerry were tied in five, and Yan had 37. I had 3.
Jerry's card was blue, and I placed down a blue +2
Somehow, Yan won. And Jerry was last, much to his dismay.
"I want a rematch," he proclaimed to his sibling. Will shook his head.
"C'mon," Austin said, "karaoke time!"
He pulled my hand and asked me to set up the karaoke set. Will, Gracie, and Nico sent scared looks of eachother. My youngest did not know what to fear.
Austin turned on his speaker and played THE Christmas song. Nico had gone, much to Will's dismay, as soon as the song started. Kayla is searching for something to cover her ears with, and Will is done.
Yan is confused. Jerry is insulted by Austin's choice in music. Gracie though...
"-IS YOU!" she sang, joining me and Austin in karaoke (Will shot me betrayed looks when i joined my other son in his fun.)
The song finished, and Jerry turned to look at his brother. "Austin, what the bloody hell was that."
"Language," I reprimanded as Yan asked him to donate into the swear jar.
"It's your turn, now," Austin said and smiled. Jerry slinked away but Austin caught him before he could.
Gracie turned on her song choice, and started singing along.
"LAST CHRISTMAS I GAVE YOU MY HEART, BUT THE VERY NEXT DAY-" she stopped for Jerry, giving him a look.
"You got fanum taxxed." He sang, seemingly enjoying himself.
Gracie and Austin both stopped, staring at him as if he had grown another head.
"THIS YEAR, TO SAVE ME FROM MEWING," Jerry continued on, completely oblivious from his siblings' stares. Will looked done with him, and Kayla's jaw was dropped. Yan just shoon their head, seemingly used to Jerry's antics.
"I'LL GIVE IT TO SOMEONE RIZZFULL~"
Gracie shook out of her daze and clamped Jerry's mouth shut, and shook him.
"What was that?" She demanded.
"How, where have you heard rizz from?" Austin wondered out loud, wondering how Jerry, who was white, heard the AAVE word. (AAVE, mind you, is slang Blacks made to talk about things without alarming the oppressors)
"...gen Alpha version?" He said unsure.
The others just stared at him as if he was summoning an ancient primordial by turning into a dog and dancing (long story don't ask)
Jerry was panicked that his siblings had no clue.
"Dad that was future stuff, wasn't it?" Jerry's thought prayer asked, since he couldn't say it out loud and his siblibgs couldn't know, yet. And Jerry wasn't comfortable with people knowing.
I shook my head, and he blushed at my gesture.
Austin shook his head, "just, how do you know rizz?"
Jerry shrugged. "It just came to me."
"Well, don't say things if ya don't know the meaning, okay?" Jerry nodded dutifully.
"Can I choose a song now?" Austin hesistated before letting his brother choose, hopefully nothing like the monstrosity of the one before.
Jingle Bell Rock played, and I heard a snippet of Will and Kayla'a conversation.
"I think he's too far gone, Will"
But Will and Yan were singing along, then Kayla joined, and it lasted until I forced them to go to sleep (they were still kids after all.)
As I rised the sun, this prayer greeted me:
"Hey Apollo," the voice of my friend Jo came into my head "We're opening the gifts."
I split off a part of me to Indiana. This year, Jo and Emmie thought it would be a good idea to do a secret Santa. Me and Meg were invited. Meg couldn't come though since she was spending Christmas in the Cistern.
The Waystation was bright and colorful. Red and green fairy lights were intertwined with fake bushes on the walls. Mistletoes were everywhere, and all sorts of Christmas decorations were on the walls. All the inhabitants were in the living room.
"Hello, Waystation," I greeted.
The Waystation's tree was (thankfulky) decorated normally, with ornaments and cady canes and red string around. The star was a celestial bronze throwing star. The gifts were under the tree.
Jo waved me over. "Hey Apollo," Emmie greeted, leaning on her lover.
I walked over and sat next to Leo. "Hey guys," I greeted back.
"Okay now that everyone's here, let's get started, eh?" Leo said, grabbing a red gift. He read the tag, "Georgie this is for you." He tossed the gift to the eight year old sitting on Lit's lap, next to their moms.
Georgie caught the gift and giggled. She opened it up and found a coloring set and book. Her eyes lit up and teared.
Calypso smiled from where she sat next to Sssssarah, happy Georgie enjoyed the gift she got her.
Georgie put her gift next to her, then walked over to the tree and grabbed a green, giving it to Olujime.
The pretty man took the present, and inside it was a key chain of an ax, with a note attached. "From Stan," Olujime read the tag.
He opened the note and scanned the page, his eyes widening after. He took the keychain, and flipped.
The keychain, turned into a lifesize ask.
Stan, for your information, was also a son of Hekate, and was being mentored by Jo to take care of the Waystation after she and Emmie dies.
Olujime grinned at the ax before minisizing it, shooting a thanks at Stan. The boy was very proud of this.
Olujime grabbed a colorfull paper wrapped box, and handed it to Leo.
Leo opened it gingerly, and opened the brown box inside it. It was filled with bits and bobs and a drawing of Festus, by Georgie.
Leo sniffed and wiped his eye. "It's beautiful," he said rather melodramatically.
Stan had an equally dramatix reaction to Lit's gift, a book on the history of Magical Mechanics by Hardy Long from RMRAR Publishings, the only publisher of the Greco-Roman world (other titles you may know would be Camp Half Blood Confidential or the Demigod Files)
The Lit in question scratched his neck at the Stan who had tears and thanking him really really extravagantly.
Lit could not relate. Sssssarah had given him a new cornhusker shirt and corn seeds, with a note saying, "reap more corn and less men."
Suffice to say, Leo will not let that die down. Sssssarah was rather proud at her idea.
Jo must've known about the Snake's parctical joke since all she gave her was eggs in cups.
It didn't work well though. Sssssarah loved it, and ate it all up in a couple of bites.
Stan stared at her in disgust.
Olujime gifted Calypso a hand made book full of note sheets for her band practice. Calypso was really happy, even if she was losing interest in band. Not that Olujime knew that, of course.
Emmie's gift was the best, of course. She had given me a picture book filled with pictures of time I spent with my loved ones, with empty slots for more. I did not cry, my eyes were watering from the dust.
The gift Deacon (and me. I helped xey out) gave to Emmie was also really good. She got artifacts from way back when, something to remember with.
I don't know if it was a good idea, though.
Leo got Deacon a lot of toys, and I gave Jo handmade sweaters.
It was a very nice present opening. And I had to leave for goddy reasons and Calypso wanted to spend time with her bandmates and Olujime wanted to hang with his girlfriend. Leo and Deacon went to their work.
@peishathebookity TUMBLR JUST DOESN'T LIKE YOUR ASKS, I GUESS??!! XD THIS IS LIKE THE THIRD TIME I SWEAR LOL
before i have people jumping down my throat-
Solangelo is a cute ship! i don't deny that. but i honestly don't really care if they date or not lol XD
they are, first and foremost to me, friends! i do think they would work as a QPPS, hence why i colored in those boxes and the 'in the gray area of platonic and romantic'. perhaps it's the arospec in me, but imo, the best ships always have roots of friendship, and while i'm not die-hard for them, i can still look at them and go 'aw they're friends!! cute :3 i can see it.' plus they do have a really good dynamic in ToA, one that is highly overlooked by the wider fandom, really, in favor of the stereotypical 'uwu emo boy and sunshine boyfriend'. like...that's no fun?? i'm more into what we got from them in ToA then that tbh.
now...i didn't include what my thoughts of them would be if i factored in tsats...and honestly that's probs a good thing because i would for sure get hate haha (nervous). i know how fandoms are *war flashbacks*
as for that 'their love inspires me to be aro' box? that's just me and my 'best lovers are always friends first' self speaking lmao
@peishathebookity my email alerted me to your ask but TUMBLR ATE IT-
so i shall answer here lmao
I initially wrote When The Heavens Collide after I reread The House of Hades. When I came across the scene in Tartarus where Percy, Annabeth, and Bob (& Small Bob) run into Koios as they got close to the Doors of Death, I kinda paused and reread it.
Koios laughed. “You’ve forgotten my daughter [Leto], as well? I suppose it’s been too long since you’ve seen her. The peaceful ones like her always take the longest to re-form. This time, though, I’m sure Leto will fight for vengeance. The way Zeus treated her, after she bore him those fine twins? Outrageous!”
