#percalypsobeth

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percalypsobeth

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Lesbian Percalypsobeth aesthetic

Little surfer little one Made my heart come all undone Do you love me, do you surfer girl Surfer girl my little surfer girl

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@polypjoweek · day 14: the arts au

percalypsobeth with classic pianist!calypso, ballerina!annabeth, and guitarist!percy who taught himself

initially inspired by this ask

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here are some headcanons for @polypjoweek for relatability au day!

just little bits and piece of an au with percalypsobeth where annabeth’s blindness from tartarus comes back that i’ll hopefully be able to make into a full fic one day

annabeth realizes it when she keeps waiting to wake up but then percy asks her what she wants for breakfast and she’s like, “wait, i’m awake?”

“yeah, you’ve been staring at the wall for ten minutes. i just thought you were thinking, why?”

calypso panicks, and when they have to tell her how it happened, she cries and cries and cries until it’s the only sound annabeth can hear

they ask chiron to help, ask mr. d to heal her; when they said only a titan can heal a cruse like that percy bangs his fist on the table and goes, “well haul one of those assholes up here, i’m sure if we could take them while they were waltzing around you can take them in chains”

eventually annabeth sees faint shapes, doorways, outlines, but as the weeks pass and nothing changes, she tries desperately to cope with the fact this is permanent

being a demigod aids her, with her reflexes and adhd, she’s very aware of her surroundings, she learns the layout of the apartment quickly

calypso and percy help her, match outfits for her, describe things she’d never even give a second glance, walk her everywhere, but she can’t help but feel bad

initially, she cracks when she sits down to sketch and she realizes she can’t even see the paper; she cries and she lets herself do so, she’s allowed to, she tells herself

percy tells her how he feels, she can feel the tension in his shoulders when he holds her, he knows how angry he is at them; she asks him to stop, because she needs him right there, right now

annabeth doesn’t have the patience for braille, so she uses audiobooks, but because she’s annabeth she says “screw it” and learns it anyway

when percy traces shapes on her back while they’re laying bed, she tries to guess what each one is; as time goes on percy keeps making them more intricate but she never gets it wrong

they label everything in the apartment, and they color coordinate her wardrobe, pining shapes to the hangers; it’s a lot funner than she’d thought it’d be

her battle skills are different, she can still fight--its ten times more strategic if that was possible and she finds her self disabling her opponents with much quicker with a few well planned blows--but her hearing has almost doubled, and she appreciates the way clarisse yells at her whenever she screws up; it’s the one place where it feels like she’s stepping into old shows, just with a twist

when she stops the three of them on a sidewalk and says there’s a monster trailing a block behind them, they ask how and she goes, “i can hear it”

after a long pause, percy says in a tone filled with surprise, “that’s so cool”

part of the fic undercut

annabeth can hear calypso crying all the time, even when she’s lying in bed pretending to sleep, she can hear her in the bathroom, in the kitchen, in the living room

one day when percy is out, she hears her again and decides that’s the final straw. she stops what she’d been doing and follows the noise straight to the bedroom.

it’s almost to easy to find calypso, kneeling down in front of her and taking her face in both hands, “stop it.”

calypso sniffles. annabeth imagines her eyes are wide, glistening from all the crying. “what?” she asks, clueless.

“stop crying. stop pitying me, please.”

“i’m not--”

“yes, you are.”

there’s silence and then she’s crying all over again, blubbering out a, “but it’s my fault. i did this too you, i cursed you, if it hadn’t been for me this never would have happened. i don’t understand how you’re not angry with me, please just yell at me, anything. it’s my fault--”

“calypso,” annabeth tries to keep a steady tone. “it’s not your fault, you didn’t do this knowingly. we thought it was gone, we were never going to mention it. how could you have known?”

“but if i hadn’t--”

“don’t,” annabeth said, cutting her off again. “i don’t blame you, i’m not mad at you for something you can’t control, but i’m mad because you won’t stop crying. please, i’m still the same person. i’m not weak, i can do most of the stuff i used to, calypso, just differently. i’m not dead, i’m right here in front of you.”

“it’s not fair.”

“of course, it’s not but we can’t change it. our lives weren’t supposed to be easy from the beginning, i know you know that.”

“of course i do.”

“then please,” annabeth’s voice was shaking now. “stop crying, stop treating this like you’ve killed me. stop acting like. . .like you can’t love me anymore.”

calypso sucked in a breath, “what are you talking about? i love you more than anything--”

“then act like it. i’m not going to break, i’m not a charity case, i don’t need the pity. i love you so much and i need my girlfriend back.” she pulled calypso down and kissed her deeply. there was nothing to see but she could taste sweet cinnamon on her lips and as she registered how much she’d missed it, she realized this was the first time they’d kissed since her blindness had returned.

as they pulled apart, calypso spoke up, “i love you too, so much, but i don’t know how to, what do we do, i. . .”

“what’s something we always do? anything, anything at all.”

“. . .get milkshakes?”

“there, perfect. let’s go, right now.”

as they got ready, annabeth called percy and told him to meet them there. her voice was still shaking but percy didn’t press the issue, he just agreed and said he’d be there in fifteen minutes.

when they got to the front door, annabeth pulled it open and gestured to calypso to step out.

“oh, i was gonna--” calypso started, then paused 

“i can lock the door calypso, don’t worry.” annabeth said.

after a moment, she could hear calypso pad lightly out the door. “right, sorry.”

annabeth closed it behind them and once the familiar feeling of the brass knob left her hand, she searched instantly to grab calypso’s, and intertwine their fingers. “it’s okay, you don’t have to apologize.”

calypso said nothing, but instead squeezed her hand in reply and annabeth felt the tension leave her shoulders. they were silent leaving the building, but as they walked down the street, calypso piped up, “you wanna make a bet?”

“about what?”

“percy’s milkshake.”

annabeth laughed and sighed, “definetely. i bet he’s going to have chocolate when we get there.”

“okay, i bet strawberry.”

“alright, but if we get there and you lie about the color i’m gonna be super pissed.”

calypso was quiet for a moment and then she started laughing. a good, whole-hearted laugh that sounded like bells and it set annabeth’s heart off racing. “annabeth! stop, now i feel bad for laughing!”

“hey, i’m the one who’s blind here. i can make a joke or two if i want to.”

“okay, okay. i promise i won’t lie.”

annabeth kissed her again, “perfect.”

when they got there, she couldn’t see him, but the way percy greeted them, she could tell he knew something was different.

annabeth won the bet.

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so @annpbeth was interested in some more percalypsobeth headcanons and i am more than happy to oblige

calypso’s favorite store is forever 21 because they have a lot of flowy, white, lacy stuff and it reminds her of ogygia, and every time they go shopping, she drags both of them in there

on those days, you can expect to get a notification on instagram, with a photo usually consisting of calypso, annabeth, and percy all wearing sun hats and throwing up the peace sign

they travel everywhere together but annabeth and percy make sure to steer clear of california (for obvious reasons)

percy pulls pranks on his girlfriends all the time, like they get him back for it, but he pulls so many prank; he’ll switch the shower temp to cold for like 3.5 seconds, or hide their phone or their drink but they can always tell when he’s joking because he’ll have this lil smirk on his face and his eyes will be shining and he’ll be trying to muffle his laughter behind his hand

one time when he pulled the shower prank, annabeth jerked his arm just as he was about to eat a cupcake so it hit his face instead, they all laughed

once they went on a cruise, and they all took turns doing the titanic pose on the first night, percy filmed annabeth and calypso during their pose and everyone on snapchat could hear percy’s horrible rendition of the titanic theme song behind the phone

when they first moved into their apartment, all the rooftop gardens in the area improved immensely and no one could figure out why, but they knew (it was calypso)

sometimes she got homesick and so after a year back in the modern world, a bunch of nymphs gifted a calypso an old loom (just like the one she’d use on her island) and when they moved in together she set it up in a sunny corner

when she wanted to relax or if she was working on a project, she’d sit at the loom and kind of lose herself in her work, but because of this she never caught herself when she started to sing

and when she was done she’d always turn around to find annabeth and percy just sitting there mesmerized and she’d blush so hard, she felt so embaressed

annabeth brought calypso up to olympus one day (because the gods had requested yet another project) and calypso was so proud of her girlfriend and how awesome she was and annabeth got all flustered while trying to explain things to hephaestus and artemis because she’d keep catching calypso’s eyes on her

percy’s work ran late that night so they got food at a cafe in the heart of olympus (it was famous bc it also served food for demi-gods and the chefs there were t o p n o t c h) and they sent percy pics and told him they’d bring home something for him

what a concept though: annabeth and calypso on a date on olympus, sitting at table for two, drinking wine, while twinkle lights hovered above them, excuse me for a moment pls

i hope you like them!!!

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i have a mighty need... for percalypsobeth headcanons...... idk man they don't have to be good but i just. anything. would be greatly appreciated.

omg of course!!! i’ve been itching to write some percalypsobeth headcanons thanks for asking!!

they are such a beachy couple

they go to the beach so much during the summer like omg they might as well rent a house down there

can we talk about all of the three of them eating cotton candy and walking down the wildwood boardwalk?? i’m gonna cry

percy tried to wing calypso a big stuffed animal because she’d never gotten anything even remotely close to it at all in her entire life

after three frustrating attempts, annabeth stepped in and one them both each big whale plushies

i wish i could say who’s the big spoon / small spoon but i feel like they’d all switch around every night

since annabeth and percy are so used to the fast paced heroic life they literally can’t stand chores but calypso knows how to make domestic tasks fun and if you walk into their apartment on sundays you can catch them dancing around the apartment doing dishes / vacumming / doing laundry

the first time calypso sparred with them (she is a demi-titaness, she’ll have to learn) she wasn’t the best with weapons, but they were both caught of guard by her strength and hand to hand combat

she pinned percy to the floor in under thirty seconds and when she saw the shock on his face she leaned close to his ear and whispered, “daughter of atlas, remember?”

their apartment always has light streaming through the windows (or at least as often as apollo will allow) and it’s warm and dvd’s and books are stacked this way and that on the bookshelf, and there’s always a nice big fluffy blanket draped on the couch

can we talk about babysitting squad? omg i’m gonna cry

percy’s sister loves when she gets to have a sleepover at their apartment bc she gets to play video games with her brother, and bake cookies with calypso, and annabeth reads her a bedtime story no matter how late it is

omg they’re like the best at skinny dipping, they are skinny dipping pros

about a month after they all get together calypso comes up to annabeth with a bunch of history books in her hands and tells her that, “yes, i have caught up on modern times, but there is so much i’ve missed and i was wondering if you could tell me about…well, everything”

and annabeth smiles, closes the book she was reading and she makes them both some tea and they spend the rest of the night curled up on the couch flipping through the italian renaissance 

they’d spend like all day lounging out in the big field in central park, i can already see it, calypso and percy cloud gazing while annabeth is sketching building after building after building and they have to pull her away from her book to make sure she gets to relax

in the morning when none of them gets up, you can catch percy absentmindedly stroking his fingers through calypso’s hair, while she’s absentmindedly braiding annabeth’s

there was one time when calypso became so overwhelmed with the world and both annabeth and percy could see how distraught she was

and she kept telling them “i want to go back to my island,” but all of them knew it was impossible so they gave her the next best thing

they dropped everything, packed overnight, and took her to hawaii (they would have gone to the bahamas, but they weren’t sure if the sea of monsters extended to their as well, and they didn’t have time to contact chiron)

the smile on her face was enough to convince them that this would become an annual trip (they went to the florida keys next)

of course, it was in hawaii that they learned that calypso was better at surfing than both percy and annabeth, and that percy had a brother who’d kept himself alive by staying in the islands his entire life (he just so happened to their surf instructor) (apparently orcas are the best bodygaurds)

they’re so cute i’m gonna kermit alkdjalksdjaksd lsdjskd

i hope you like them!! thanks again for the ask!!

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pjo aesthetics • percalypsobeth

your hand, touching mine. this is how galaxies collide. 

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a slight amendment to the percalypso post: percalypsobeth where Annabeth is a dancer/choreographer who knows Calypso because she choreographs to some of Calypso's original pieces. they're pretty close, if a bit professional, when Calypso invites Annabeth to go to one of her best friend(Percy)'s concerts. Annabeth's first impression is "his music is alright but he is /all over the place/. does he even choreography??" Calypso is amused.

I’M

I’VE NEVER LOVED ANYTHING MORE THAN I HAVE LOVED THIS

I..DON’T EVEN HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY JUST IMAGINING IT I’M..I’M SPEECHLESS

I AM SO HAPPY, THIS IS SO BEAUTIFUL ANON, I’M

OH MY GOD