#spqueuer

[aknosde]

Didn’t realize that a similarity between Jason & Annabeth is that they were raised in Camps and not allowed to leave until they were old, causing them to completely miss out on literally anything not from ancient roman/ greek culture. 

Annabeth hasn’t had chinese or thai food before the age of thirteen and she starts living with her dad agin. Jason has no idea what Star Wars is and doesn’t even see one of the movie theaters in New Rome until he’s eleven. 

[jeyna-rights]

Jeyna TsumTsums?????

Ask and ye shall receive

They're v tired from responsibilities

[underworldystuff]

No but Grover got more character development and ‘screen’-time in ‘Tree on the Hill’ from TLT Musical than he got in the entirety of Heroes of Olympus

[magicalmechanic]

Sometimes I feel down, but then I think about how Ronan probably dreamed up leather bands exactly like his to give to Adam when he goes off to college and Adam chews on them when he’s nervous and they make him feel better when he misses Ronan, and then I can be happy again.

[aknosde]

Just to be clear, I think that Luke’s plan w/o the influence of Kronos would have been rather,,, tame. Just bc he doesn’t really seem like a super violent guy? It’s a shame we never got to know his fatal flaw, but he is a foil to Percy in pjo and it’s obvious that pre Thalia’s death he was kinda a family oriented guy. I mean, Thalia’s death is ultimately a big reason Kronos won him over in the first place, and Thalia’s resurrection was a big reason for him realizing that he was being manipulated (even if he couldn’t get out of it). But before his whole failed quest thing he seems like the type of person who would try to arrange a socratic seminar with the gods. And only after they bail or skip or refuse for the hundredth time does he get a special god killing weapon made. Honestly I’d pay good money to see thirteen year old Luke have a socratic seminar with the gods. 

[aknosde]

In regards to the “Why do you think Kronos is a failure at manipulation?” question from an earlier ask, I apparently have more thoughts, so strap in. 

Now I’m taking it’s partner question, one of my own making: Since Kronos is a failure at manipulation, how did he manipulate Luke? And oh by do I want to talk about this. I’m sticking with there's ~2 years between Luke’s failed quest and Percy showing up, and oh boy, those were an interesting two years for Luke. These are two years of Kronos laying groundwork. Because Luke was a smart kid, he was angry, but he was smart. And he probably wasn’t angry right away. He was in pain, he was disappointed, he felt ashamed, but he wasn’t angry yet. Like I’ve said, Kronos isn’t good at manipulation, but he’s not powerful right now, the only thing he can really do is whisper to Luke in his dreams. This is far different from snapping his fingers and bending someone to his will. So yeah, there’s this sad kid, seeming pretty susceptible, and maybe Kronos can use this kid to get out, to get strong. 

From both perspectives, these years are pretty rough. Mostly because Kronos isn’t great at talking, and he makes a lot of slip ups, and he needs Luke to trust him. They talk pretty often, but when Kronos reveal himself as being, well, Kronos, there’s a big setback. And this big setback comes in the form of freshly seventeen year old Luke Castellan freaking the fuck out because a knowingly evil titan lord has been talking to him every night in his dreams. Understandable, but the thing is, Kronos has gained some strength, not a lot, but a little. Enough where coming back into power seems feasible if he continues, and Luke telling everybody about him is detrimental to these plans. So, while Luke tries his hardest to shut Kronos out, there is just this incessant pounding on his head. He can’t eat, he can’t sleep, he can’t rest for a second because then he’s done for, and most of all, he’s scared. What will his friends think if they know he’s been talking to such an evil thing, even if he didn’t know? He comes down with ‘the flu’ aka he can’t bear being around anyone, and after five days he literally passes out, and then Kronos gets to work. He apologizes for hiding his identity, but that doesn’t change anything in between us right? We’re just talking. And Luke barely has the mental capacity to think, so Kronos just keeps talking, and maybe he makes some good points about the gods, and maybe when Luke wakes up he doesn’t feel quite so much like a bag of shit that’s fallen out of an air plane at 30,000 feet only to be run over by a dozen eighteen wheelers on a highway in Arizona.

And he also doesn’t feel Kronos. Not the same way he did before. So maybe things are alright. But then Kronos starts talking to him outside of his dreams. Just little comments here and there, about what Chiron is saying, or what “really” happened all those years ago, or isn’t it unfair that Luke got tortured like that? And by the time Luke can see his nineteenth birthday on the year calendar that Annabeth hangs up in her bunk, a lot of things are making sense, in a way they haven’t since his quest. And he’s getting better at sneaking out of camp. And he’s getting better at setting his own groundwork. What does he want his life to be like? He doesn’t know, but Kronos does. 

[aknosde]

mayhaps andrew actually appearing in my fic???

He wakes up once, before they arrive at Allison’s pulsating, sea-side, LA house. The rental car rumbles soothingly beneath him on smooth asphalt and he turns his head to the cool side of the headrest, finding himself looking at the driver’s seat. Andrew’s eyes shine underneath the streetlamps, his hair dyed pink by the tail lights of the car in front of them, the city blurring into streaks of grey-navy-gold behind him. It’s worth waking up for.

[aknosde]

Some Cartercy head cannons cus there’s a lack of content

Sally first meets Carter when she gets back from one of her night classes and the two are asleep on the couch with the tv on

Percy wakes up first and gingerly pulls himself out from under Carter and goes into the kitchen to greet his mom

“Jeez mom we’re just friends” At this point they’re something a little more but they haven't talked about it yet.

Carter wakes up and joins them in the kitchen, Sally asks a lot of questions (not in an interrogator way tho)

Carter is uncertain how to answer some, but he looks at Percy who gives him a small nod so he tells Sally that he’s a magician and about the Egyptian gods

Percy thinks Carter is selling himself short and so he butts in every once in a while: “Stop saying that, you are literally the Pharaoh.” “You’ve had a god inside your head, I couldn’t deal with that.”

They have their first kiss when Percy gets first place at a swim meet

Sally and Paul leave before they do to give them some space

Percy is the last to leave the building because he showers there to save his mom the money

As he and Carter are about to leave a few monsters attack

The fight is pretty quick because Percy’s right next to a pool. And Carter’s there so there’s teamwork.

For their second kiss they are both covered in monster dust, and Carter is sopping wet, and they’re both a little sweaty but it’s nice.

They kinda hold hands on the way back to Percy’s apartment, but only when there aren’t a lot of people on the street.

When Carter gets back to the Nome he immediately goes and tells Sadie what happened and he can’t stop smiling the next day.

When Percy gets home he goes and Iris Messages Annabeth and dances around a bit.

They don’t announce their relationship or anything so it takes an absurdly long time for some people to find out *cough* Piper *cough*

She thinks that they’re just pining really hard but after a month she walks in on them kissing in a dark corner.

“What are you doing?” “Kissing my boyfriend?” “Oh, carry on”

They aren’t super affectionate in public because Carter is low-key uncomfortable but sometimes he’ll come up behind Percy and wrap his arms around him and kiss Percy’s neck.