#percethan annon

[springtimesdaughter]

Godswap AU Ethan Nakamura is the son of Hades and Percy Jackson is the son of Demeter.

Witching hour headcannons

Ethan, who has been at camp for two summers about to join Luke's side, is now faced with a new kid who 1. Grieving the loss of his mom and 2. Ends up saddled with because Luke doesn't want to deal with him.

Percy, who is still blamed for the missing items. Not because of sibling rivalry, but because 1. Hades thinks Demeter is mad about Persephone again, 2. Zeus thinks Demeter is mad about him for Persephone and 3. Hades and Zeus think the other put Demeter up to it because of Persephone. So now Demeter kids are being faced with back lash, but all of them had been questioned.

Ethan has a power set that is a lot more shadow and ghost based. He can't summon skeletons, but he can reanimate or puppet existing ones.

Percy's power set is very ground and plant based. He's not so great at growing small amounts of plants as he is making them just go insane. Think big vines used to keep monsters in place or like root systems being used to make holes appear in the dirt. He will kill a plant if he's taking care of a singular one but give him a field and its plentiful harvest.

The prophecy still applies to Percy! In the modern public use of the word 'gods', it can mean all deities within a religion. Also the parallelism of Kronos being a Titan with significant connection to agriculture and land, and him having to face a child of Demeter.

Percy, who gets claimed during capture the flag and gets to have older siblings!

Percy gets sent on a quest and chooses his best friend and the one guy who might make a trip to the underworld easier.

Grover still gets the shoes because Percy is an earth person he doesn't want to fly even if he won't get shot from the sky.

Ethan and Percy are working together a bit quicker because Percy had already proved before he claimed that he didn't care about the godly parent thing.

Percy is showing up in the underworld and wondering if he can control plants made for the underworld.

Throne Room scene where he shows respect to his godly mother first, and this makes Zeus even more offended than before but pleases Demeter.

Percy and Ethan are having a soft, slow burn romance that takes the same amount of time to mean anything.

Ethan, who doesn't leave with Luke because he's seen the lengths Kronos went to during the quest and while Ethan still believes the horrible mistreatment needs to change he knows with first hand experienc this won't fix anything.

The Sea of Monsters happens so much more differently.

Ethan is picked for the quest with Clarisse because the Ship of Bone and Percy (fatal flaw still loyalty) is having none of it and wants to go as well.

Clarisse having to save the two of them from being household rodents. Just in general, this quest is more of a mess, but a lot of personal growth happens.

Luke is trying to turn Ethan to his side, but Ethan is having none of it.

[springtimesdaughter]

Ethan Nakamura wears a simple inconspicuous pendant with a forget-me-not flower in resin.

It is always hidden under the collars of shirts and armor, but when Ethan is alone, he takes it out and looks at it tenderly, running his fingers.

He knows it's dangerous, but the longing and pain in his heart are too strong, he misses him so much, he wants to hug Percy again so much... let at least a tiny part of him be with him.

[Forget-me-not in the language of flowers is true love, respect and devotion, memories of those we love. Also, the "Alpine Forget-me-not" is considered a symbol of Alaska].

Ethan's pendant, it's really very tiny and inconspicuous, - https://pin.it/3qVuw0u

based on my hadcanon, Percy Jackson's favorite flowers and the only one that doesn't die at his hands - forget-me-nots.

[Also, the fact that Alaska is the land beyond the gods and therefore their love is untouched and uncorrected by the gods.]

Sadly, I can't see the link because of issues with my devices, but for a moment just imagine something with me.

It falls off of Ethan when he falls off of Olympus, and Percy ends up wearing the pendent. He wears it when he has his memory erased. It's one of the few things he has as he is leaving the wolf house. He didn't know why he fought fingernails and teeth to keep the pendent, but he did. It impressed Lupa quite a bit.

He ends up wearing the symbol of Alaska to Alaska slowly regaining his memories while there. The first clear memory he has of Ethan is giving it to him. Standing in Alaska, looking at the pendent on his neck.

[It's almost fate that he, too, would nearly fall to his death in the quest.]

[springtimesdaughter]

What if Ethan and Percy have the same fatal flaw - excessive loyalty, but manifested in completely different images?

Percy is primarily about people, his mom, his friends, his loved ones, Camp half-blood and all those for whom he feels at least a drop of affection, he will do anything for them and he is infinitely sacrificial to them. And then his moral principles and goals follow, which he is certainly ready to give up if his human is on the other side of the scale.

Ethan is primarily about his morals and goals, what he believes in and what he strives to achieve. He is ready to do anything for this, I think "the end justifies the means" suits him, he longs for justice and he will achieve it by any means. Even if it costs coassal sacrifices, against which his lost eye will fade.

I think it really suits them.

This is just canon to me no matter what universe. Even out of shipping context.

But seeing as I know who this is and I know why you follow me: shipping context.

When push comes to shove, Percy would do anything for Ethan. He has his morals and beliefs, but in moments of heightened emotions, he can be reckless, and that means his morals and beliefs might, if only for a moment, be forgotten.

Ethan will always put his morals first. He justifies any action needed to get any if that means hurting his friends he will. He would have sacrificed Percy if he thought it would fix things. But Percy is someone who would see his morals out, who would act on them. To Ethan, Percy is the person, the singular person who embodies his ideals. If that means sacrificing himself to make sure Percy lives because that would be the way to seeing his end come to fruition, he would.

Percy fell first

Ethan fell harder (in more ways than one RIP dude)

Percy who loses Ethan, but he knows Ethan and knows what Ethan would want, and he will see it through. He promised, and he won't break this promise.

[springtimesdaughter]

Demigods have strange rites of love associated with their divine parents.

For example, the children of Apollo meet with their lovers, dawn, hugging, and the children of Demeter plant with their lovers, fruit-bearing trees.

The rite of love of the children of Poseidon is a joint swimming in large water. Swim side by side, gently touch your bodies, share the air with your beloved through kisses, connect your foreheads be free and gentle in your feelings like dolphins...

But if Ethan and Percy climb into any river/lake together, the nymph/deity will immediately ring all the bells and then it won't be much fun. It is too dangerous and the fact that they are together already poses a serious danger to their lives.

But the children of Nemesis also have a rite of love and it is much easier to perform it - a joint motorcycle ride through Manhattan.

They just need to thicken the fog and put on their helmets.

May I also suggest the idea that because Percy is the only demigod child of Poseiden, he doesn't know about his associated rites of love. The impact that baring children on the big three has on camp culture and the ties between cabins and other children. Percy could ask Chiron if he would have to know. He could ask one of the other campers if they knew the history, but he couldn't. It would be dangerous to. It's also considered semi personal. A sort of open secret of non-participation. Other campers know about other rites, but it's sacred between the people going through them.

Imagine Percy finding out about the swimming through a large lake or a wide river or best if all the ocean. Imagine finding that out and not being able to. Imagine spending the time trying to figure it out only to realize it's the last thing he and Ethan should be doing.

Percy, who talks about it with Ethan. The two of them talk about it in the maybes, the what ifs, the possibilities.

It leads up to Ethan talking about the Rites of Love that his devine parentage is associated with.

[It would be really interesting to explore the parts of demigod life that were lost by the banning of children, by the incoming war, by the finishing of the war. The aspects of family, of love, of even the culture they were lost, adapted, and on some cases forgotten.]

[springtimesdaughter]

I like to think that Sally, Annabeth and Rachel knew that Percy was seeing someone, but they respectfully kept quiet because he didn't want to tell...

Sally was an attentive and sensitive mother, she noticed some unusual anxiety and dreaminess of Percy, his appetite decreased and his mood swings became even more pronounced. She quickly guessed that he was in love.

Her suspicions were confirmed when one day Percy returned home from school slightly pinkish and little stuttering, he was reciprocated. Sally expected an enthusiastic colorful story and perhaps a request for advice, but Percy didn't do it, a Sally didn't push him.

She was only quietly glad that her little boy had experienced such tender feelings for the first time and received reciprocity.

From that moment on, Percy's behavior changed again - he became agitated and dreamy, his appetite increased and his mood swings became weaker.

And every day after school, he went out for a "walk" every day and took food with him and made hot chocolate, each time with a different additive.

If Sally saw her son come home late at night or sometimes at night, he looked insanely happy.

Even Paul noticed this and asked Sally, and she, with a little guilt but too excited, told him. They held each other's hands and were happy for their son together.

By the beginning of summer, Percy's behavior had changed for the worse again - he was depressed and sad, but he tried to hide it from them, his appetite was greatly reduced, and his mood had hardly changed.

"He broke up," Sally thought, "most likely to protect his lover."

Sally Jackson felt anger towards Poseidon again, and this time it was harder to suppress.

After the Battle of Manhattan, Percy was alive, Olympus won, Kronos was sent to Tartarus, but Sally didn't give a damn about two things out of it.

Percy was depressed, severely depressed.

When he returned home, his eyes were red with tears and empty with pain.

The bright oceanic blue faded.

Sally, except by a miracle not bursting into tears, hugged him tightly to her.

"He's dead, Mom," Percy pressed his face against her chest, Sally laid her head on his pearl-golden crown of her head, "I'll never see him again..."

her son cried even harder.

Sally understood everything instantly.

Hatred for the adoring tragedy of the goddess of love Sally Jackson, could not be suppressed, and to be honest, she did not want to.

Having to watch your child go through the perils of love, of the horrors of war, of the tragedy of love, and not do anything. Sally was smart, she made educated guesses on the situation.

The first clue had been when Percy didn't talk about it. It wasn't unusual for Percy to not speak of things, but to jot speak of any of it, to actively hide it to what in the beginning seemed to be himself. At first, she thought it was just because he had caught feelings for another boy. Maybe he was struggling internally. Maybe the things Gave had said impacted him more than she thought. Maybe it was one of the schools. Soon, she realized that wasn't the problem.

It wasn't easy to tell, but she figured it out. He baby, her child, one given a burden no one she bear was in love with someone that he shouldn't even be speaking to. It was the way that he always was out around the time of pre-dinner, the way that he left earlier in the mornings. The way on weekends, he would pack extra food and be gone for hours. He was meeting his love during the times people would be paying less attention, the times when the gods were busy, the monsters were busy, and when less eyes would be looking.

Sally figured it out. She never said anything. Never confronted Percy, never spoke of it to anyone. Paul knew Percy had found someone, but Sally never talked about her suspicions. This was greater than parental pride and fear. There was something big coming, and her child, her Percy, was going to be forced into fighting someone he loved.

So she makes sure there's extra food, that hot chocolate is ready to be made, that Percy is given the quiet to leave and come back. It's the least she can do. She worries. This is her child. She never wished for this pain upon him, but she knows life for Demigods is often painful and short. She has to allow her child happiness, even if only brief.

If she privately curses the romantic connection between people as a game to higher power, she doesn't dare speak or dwell on it. She remains vague of her curses of her pain, as someone having to watch their child head towards tragedy.

She dares not speak.

Until Percy comes back crying, in pain, and she knows that he may have won against the Titans, but he lost someone he loved.

She dares not speak on how she knows, not yet. She allows her child, he's still just a child, to cry and break down.

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I also love the idea that other people sort of knew something was happening. They Percy was seeing someone. Rachael thought it was a demigod, and Annabeth thought it was a mortal. They knew about the tragedy incoming, and they assumed his emotions were for possibly leaving them behind, of the death that was drawing closer. Percy's fatal flaw was loyalty.

Loyalty is rarely straightforward or easy to understand. There is loyalty to a great many things, and those loyalties can come into competition with one another.

[springtimesdaughter]

It becomes ironic that "Princess Andromeda" was blown up by Beckendorf and Percy.

In general, there is a lot of irony and parallels in Charlie/Silena and Ethan/Percy.

Percy and Ethan, who knew who each other was, what each other stood for, the stakes, the consequences, and still choose the other. Who met several times on opposing sides of the battlefield but still found themselves next to the other. Holding hands, hugging, and feeling the deep connection of a growing and doomed love. They knew the reality that they would have to continue to fight against the other. The first time it happened, Percy still showed up days later with thermos in hand and a box of fresh cookies. Ethan still received them and smiled. The two of them knew the complete truth of the other and chose it even when it put them in danger. Their stakes were the highest in this. The right hand and the prophecy.

Selina hid the truth. She was a spy, the spy. She was in love and continued to be together with Charles even when it hurt. She wanted to help her side and have love, too. Charles would die not knowing what Selina had been doing and what she had been doing. Selina would be given the rude awakening of what the stakes in this were, the consequences of war and love. They were in love, but it was a love tainted by secrets and unknown betrayal. She was by no means a bad person, but she did get people hurt, put people younger than her in danger. That is the nature of war, and Aphrodite was a war goddess.

It is a mirror. Both were secrets. Percy and Ethan couldn't be together. That was the secret. They were. Selina and Charles could be together. That wasn't the secret.

Both relationships enact a form of betrayal.

[springtimesdaughter]

He was a rebel.

He was his father's perfect little golden boy.

They received nothing from each other but love.

Pure and sincere.

It was a tragedy.

Fun fact: hate the term golden boy when referring to Percy or just any demigod in general because the demigods are the children of narcissistic immortals whose love will always be conditional and fleeting.

But yeah, there was nothing to gain from the relationship. In fact, there was everything to lose, and Percy struggled with his fatal flaw the whole time. His personal loyalty to his friends to his family and the person he fell in love with. But ultimately, Ethan didn't want Percy on his side, and Percy would never have joined with all the other people he cared about. A deep betrayal to everything he stood for was. The perfect tragedy.

Their relationship was betrayal. It was beautiful. It was soft. It was dangerous. And yet, in the end, nothing changed with the existence of it. It was almost like it didn't exist at all. For no one else knew about it. No one else would know about it. So, who's to say anything happened in the first place.

[springtimesdaughter]

Percy kissed him gently on the cheek and rested his head on his shoulder. His hand covered his palm, interlacing their fingers.

It was gentle and affectionate, a pleasant warmth spread inside Ethan, concentrating in his heart.

It was wonderful. Ethan wanted this moment of affection between him and Percy to last forever.

The last time they saw each other before the Battle of Manhatten. The last piece of gentle affection they were gifted with before the crescendo of battle. They were both already wearing figurative armor, and yet the two of them were still soft and gentle as if they weren't child soldiers marching to death.

They were just two love sick teenagers being dramatic about a week apart from one another. They were just two teenagers being separated for no long amount of time. If just for a moment, the both of them imagined a different world, a different time where they didn't have a war separating them.

If maybe, just maybe, for a moment, the two of them in this place so far away and a time too out of reach they got to meet again and love eachother sooner and for longer. If their lives were just a bit less dangerous.

Of course, the moment ended. They were separated. And the Battle of Manhatten was weeks away.