#pjo hephaestus

[tiredbitchposts]

Somewhere in the Aphrodities au

Hermes, reading from a cue card: What's something you mother has said that changed your brain brain chemstry? Oohh, ok, some motherly wisdom, Ares, you go first.

Ares,: Just because you could, doesn't mean you should?

Hermes: That's a good, not sure if you follow it, but it's good advice

Ares: Fuck you

Hermes: You wish. Hephaestus, we're skipping you because it's gonna be depressing—

Hephaestus, sigh of relief: Thank fuck

Hermes: —Apollo?

Apollo: Well, my mother has imparted with plenty of wisdom over the years, but I'd say that what has impacted me the most was her saying that dreams are only unrealistic if you don't have what it takes to make them come true.

Hermes, nodding: Wise auntie, you should still give up on our cousin though,—*Dodges Apollo's sandal* Touchy, I see, and speaking of our most beautiful cousin, Dionysus, what has your mother said that changed your brain chemstry?

Dionysus: Has it be something she said to me or that I overheard saying someone else?

Hermes, thinking then shrugs: Can be both.

Dionysus, takes a gulp of his wine: If it's something she said to me then it'd be "If you're in a situation where someone's mom is going to cry over what happened to their child, make sure it's the other's mom crying"

Hermes, laughs: I did not expect anything else from Lady Aphrodities herself. Now, what's the other one?

Dionysus: While you're here crying over him, he's out there helping someone else put it back in after it slipped out

Hermes:...

Dionysus, solemn nod: Changed my life

[poppitron360]

Underrated moment in TLH:

When Leo just fucking KNOWS how to fly a helicopter. He like puts a hand on it and can instantly recite the make and model, knows it’s top speed and altitude and how much fuel it has left. And then he fucking flies it. He’s 15, untrained, and unlicensed, and he’s flying a helicopter. Has anyone talked about how Hephaestus kids are seriously OP?

[localfandomenjoyer]

Does the golden apple incident stay the same?

Potentially even if Perse wouldn’t want to, to reduce the chaos or just not wanting to be involved

If she’s married to Zeus she’d be THE QUEEN and it might look bad if she doesn’t try to fight for the title even though objectively it would be Aphrodite.

Hephaestus forcefully injects himself into that myth to argue on her behalf because he loves his mum. Ares does too, but he's married to Aphrodite, so it's a conflict of interest. This makes for a rather amusing encounter for Paris.

Athena: Pick me, I will give you wisdom and skill in war.

Hera: No, pick me, I will make you king of Europe and Asia.

Aphrodite: They're both wrong. You should pick me, I'll give you the most beautiful bride in Greece.

Paris: Um, okay *sees Hephaestus beside the trio* and what about you?

Hephaestus: Pick my mother, I will craft you a huge bronze robot that you can pilot around.

Paris: Hmm...

Every modern reader: Dude, it's a magical fucking Gundam suit! Pick the Gundam suit!

Paris: I choose Aphrodite.

Every modern reader: This idiot...

The Trojan Gundam suit becomes a meme in the modern age. Each year, Paul Blofis must grade at least three essays that go into excruciating detail about why Paris not picking the coolest thing ever ties into the themes of the Iliad. He low-key agrees with them.

[lavenderberrycow]

This is your reminder that in ToA, Apollo canonically mentions:

Hades is a grumpy napper(wake Hades up prematurely and you were likely to end up as a nuclear-blast shadow on his wall.)

Athena always wins scrabble(once she played abaxial on a triple, and Zeus lightning-bolted of the top of Mount Parnassus in his rage)

Hephaestus and Ares caused Three-Mile Island with a chainsaw fight(Ares insulted Hephaestus' bell bottom pants)

Demeter once cursed him so that every clothing he put on would immediately sprout(He told her "They're just seeds!")

Dionysus insists on keeping old casks of wine in his cellar that have long turned to vinegar

The Greek gods are truly strange

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[reefs-camp-blog]

how many gods know all their childrens last names. or how many gods remember which child had which mortal parent. or how many gods know their childrens age. or birthday. or their favorite color. or their favorite snack. or if they even have favorites. who their favorite friend is. what their favorite shirt design is. what activities they favor. do the gods know anything about that? anything about their children? do the gods just see their children as pawns? as static tools to use when things get bad? canon suggests thats how they see them. but how far down does that go? do the gods know how long each of their kids have been at camp for? how many monsters theyve taken down in their parents name? how much suffering theyve gone through to get one look from the god that brought them into this world? do they see anything their kids do to get a glimpse of their parents attention? do they see anything their kids do at all? how long did it take for the gods to realize a child of their died in battle? did they even realize? or of any of their kids joined kronos’ army? would they have noticed there was an unmade, untouched bed in their cabin, because their siblings couldnt bring themselves to do anything with it after their sibling died? do the gods even know if their children care about each other? or even interact?

did hephaestus know beckendorf got accepted to college? did aphrodite know silena was gonna go with him? did apollo know how michael died? did hades know what bianca died for? did zeus know what jason was doing for forgotten gods?

[cabin-seven-kid]

I think hephaestus kids should be immune to the "technological devices" thing cos. Like seriously. I understand why Rick uses it in the books, but I DON'T like it in practice. Can the monsters, like, detect when a demigod is using a t-mobile hotspot?? What??

Also I think it's funnier if the other cabins (especially year-rounders) pull up to the hephaestus cabin like

"... can you go grab your laptop."

"I'm not going to play wordle for you."

"That is NOT what this is about!"

"What's it about then?"

"... wordle. PLEASE you're the only one who can use tech without dying."

"I don't want to play telephone between you and new York times. You can subscribe to the physical newspaper if it matters that much to you."

"I have a streak!!!"

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

one of the reasons why i love ToA so much is the little bits and pieces of the gods we get to see.

so i guess this is really more of a 'this is why i love the gods so much' rather than my usual 'this is why i love ToA' post lmao

but fr, the gods are just sooooo much more fleshed out in ToA. they're more complex, and have these layers to them that pjo and hoo just Did Not convey (and really, only conveyed those things post publication of ToA, which came with the tools on how to decode the gods and read between the lines).

and i'm not even talking about Apollo here. he is by far the most fleshed out god we have because he's the pov character, but i also mean all 12 of the other olympians - they're just so juicy!!

like okay, sure, in pjo and hoo we get glimpses that Dionysus may care more than he lets on, but ToA CONFIRMS this, but not in an 'in your face' way - but in the 'Dionysus picks at Apollo like a little brother would' way, and in that FIRST interaction between Apollo and Dionysus, we can SEE what their relationship was like!!

Hermes is another VERY layered god, ESPECIALLY with pjo's context. but that context ONLY gains its own importance BECAUSE of the story ToA gives us - we would NOT have 'resigned to fate' Hermes without it. or embittered at his favorite brother Hermes. we love this Hermes eheheheheheheh

Artemis also gains more character, and is no longer just the stoic cool badass #Girlboss she's largely presented as - she's scared, she fears for Apollo, so much so she SPLITS. she comes RUNNING to help him in TTT as soon as she could, giving her a softer side, while simultaneously expands on her previous appearances and allowing us to see how she is unconsciously enabling the abuse Apollo's experienced. LAYERS !! !! !!

DEMETER. OOOHHH DEMETER ILY, IN MYTHOLOGY AND THE RRVERSE. BUT FOR COMPLETELY DIFFERENT REASONS LMAO

we can infer Demeter has basically shot herself in the foot by obsessing so much over Persephone, where she NEGLETS her other kids (ex: Lityerses, Meg). myth Demeter would NEVER but rrverse Demeter is still a fav BECAUSE of how flawed she is.

ARESSSSS do i even need to say anything. we KNOW Ares and Apollo are bros because of how often Apollo takes pot-shots at him in his dialogue LMAO true brother behavior

Hades is a chill uncle with Apollo in particular. i mean. *gestures* he used to purposefully mess up Apollo's aim when shooting for no reason. need i say more?

looking back i'm also a little intrigued by how little Poseidon was mentioned - perhaps lending credence to the idea that he and Apollo grew apart over the centuries?

also Hestia's position as the goddess of the hearth and home calls into question how passive she is on olympus BECAUSE of the shitshow it's become!! she defends it!! what has caused the hearth and home, the FIRSTBORN OF KRONOS, of the ENTIRE PANTHEON to be so stagnant in the face of this toxic cycle? the people want to know and so do i.

Hephaestus is trickier to pin down for me because he has little mention, but there's one SPECIFIC one that has stuck in my brain and its the "apollo missed an entire decade watching Hephaestus's newton's cradle INSIDE HIS OFFICE"

what was apollo doing in his office. and why did hephaestus - notorious introvert - let him stay in there. these are the questions we are all dying to know.

ATHENAAAAAAA !! !! !! !! !! that nod she gives apollo at the end. her bet on his SUCCESS. need i say more? she's bros with him trust <3 add in the mythology and it gets SPICY

Aphrodite is arguably a tricky one to pin down too, and honestly we as a fandom have probably taken more from the mythos to pin down her character than with the others, but she's sooooo interesting too!! the eldest olympian. powerful goddess. extremely cunning and ruthless. and yet she's seen as airheaded and vain by practically everyone.

makes you wonder who else is like that. *quick glance at our favorite god* i dunno who that could be. *whistles innocently*

and do i need to say anything about Zeus? about the tragedy of him falling into the cycle he was meant to break? ABOUT THE TRAGEDY OF HOW HE DEF WANTED TO BE A FATHER BUT HIS PARANOIA GOT THE BETTER OF HIM UNTIL HE NO LONGER WAS ONE??

*seizes you by the shoulders* HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE NORMAL ABOUT THIS. HOW.

and ofc. one of my FAVORITE gods...Hera. oh, ho ho Hera. you do NOT deserve the hate you get <3 okay maybe a bit of irritation is warranted because you do pull off risky things in hoo but we stan a goddess who takes charge in this house.

YOU CAN'T CONVINCE ME SHE'S GONNA BE - well, nicer? is that the right word? - BETTER WITH APOLLO POST-TOA. AFTER SEEING EVERYTHING HE SUFFERED? AFTER SEEING HIM SHED THE MASK? AFTER JASON GRACE?

*pounds mercilessly on the table* I WILL NEVER NOT BE ANNOYING ABOUT THEM I LOVE THEM ALL INCLUDING THE BITS OF CHARACTER FROM THE MINOR GODS WE GET TOO!!

[literallyjusttoa]

Ok, I actually really liked that short haired post-toa Apollo design, so here's some more of that plus Hephaestus because we all love Hephaestus.