I am SO looking forward to Sunny Day Jack coming out! Especially after listening to Pugsr read Rotten Tommy. Going to use it to give Becky a happy ending if I can because David Sodergren ripped my fucking heart out.
Respectfully, you listened to Pugs-who reading what? What is that? I don't know what or whom either of those are except SDJ.
Edit: congrats Court of gray waves, after listening to the Pugsr audio book you OWE me that better end for Becky now too/hj
This is only barely related to Percy Jackson/Heroes Of Olympus/Trials Of Apollo as it pertains to demigods. But: How would a college-age range equivalent to Camp Half-Blood/Camp Jupiter work? My latest pipe dream that I’ll probably never pursue is to write a “Percy Jackson for adults.“ As a protest against the “Harry Potter for adults” plague.
Hi! Long time no see, Court!~ (*^▽^*)/ Thanks for dropping by again!
First of all, gods, not entirely sure what the “Harry Potter for Adults” is so that’s something new I’ve learned. I don’t blame the natural progression of this idea since a lot of kids who read the HP series when they were out are now adults, so the idea of having a “Harry Potter for Adults” is only going to happen.
But also considering the learning structure system in HP doesn’t give me the best hope for what their university system is like either. Would it be just university but with magical elements? 🤔
Then again, I was never involved in the HP fandom and J.K. Rowling as a kid and as an adult, and didn’t read the books, even though my brother did, so most of my HP knowledge is through sheer exposure by the fandom popularity, bits of information my brother rambled off when he read the books as they were released, or the movies. So don’t take my word for it.
Anyways, if the idea for basically if we’re taking college age demigods, let’s say at least starting 18 years old on average and go between 18 to 20s on average, but takes place in a similar system as the camps, it doesn’t feel that much of a stretch to be honest. ※NOTE※ I have rambled in this so I apologize if I may have derailed from the point or some things do not generally make sense.
If we look back in Greek Mythology of Greek Heroes, most of them are presented as ‘adults’ during their feats and stories (note: I say ‘adults’ but obviously back in the day, what constitutes as an adult then and now are very different so what I’m referring to is the equivalent perception).
It’s totally doable and probably more accurate to lore.
Even in the PJO series though, there’s always been a sense of it being ‘adult’ if you’re aware of it and the dangers are already dangerous. If it were actually set in a college or had the dangers that you’re reading for adult readers, it's actually would be very easy because we already see demigods at risk of or have died, fighting to survive, being eaten by monsters and stuff, and we all know Greek Mythology is a lot more explicit. Heck, just take all the ‘water-downed’ Greek aspects and just replace it back with actual Ancient Greek mythology and there we go!
It’s only because the PJO series is deliberately set for young pre-teens and basically kids and that DISNEY: HYPERION is publishing these books, Riordan wrote the setting in such a way.
The Camp is set up as a general safe space for demigods who are coming into their identity and have survived at this point, and they go to college/camp to learn how to fight and generally survive while also serving the gods in a way-
Maybe the “PJO FOR ADULTS” could be set in one of those Military Summer Camps (NOTE: I have not attended a Military Summer Camp and only know they exist) where they still learn everything they need to survive as a demigod and remove all the leisure activities (like the Arts and Crafts center, the Amphitheatre) or maybe they do still have it but that’s done near the end or during designated breaks to keep up solely for morale.
The training is going to be a lot harsher and intense because they’re adults and they’re training all the demigods to be warriors and soldiers for the gods.
If there is a college setting, I can see that being a thing for adult demigods attending to learn other things, other than general education and specialized trades (i.e. forging, weapon making, etc) while learning about monsters, history, and etc.
As for the adult version of the Divine Cabins, nothing really changes honestly; just they aren’t Cabins if you know what I mean.
Basically a PJO For Adults isn’t that different from what we already see just in the books but add back in the unfiltered version of Greek Mythology accordingly, just add more stakes to their lives in a lot of more precarious or actual depiction of death and threats to their lives that are more explicit and yeah, we’re good.
Even what I just wrote or theorized I realized is basically Camp Jupiter and New Rome but just make it even more strict, precarious, and explicit for not only the Roman Camp, but even for the Greek Camps; the only difference is that one is Greek and the other is Roman.
Maybe there is still the mist but maybe there isn’t a mist to conveniently cover everything either. It would certainly add to the weight of the situation because there are monsters among us, hidden and not hidden in sight, and they are not only a threat to demigods, but they are a threat to mortal kind as well; and only demigods are able to fight these monsters like some sort secret force.
I guess we also don’t see in the mainline books either is because even in Camp Halfblood, the only reason we see things more relaxed there is because they have Thalia’s Tree that acts as a magical barrier of protection around Camp. And that they have a literal god in the camp that acts as their guardian and century old centaur who deliberately trained all the famous greek heroes.
Remove that? Like we see in the Second Book: “The Sea of Monsters”, the Greek demigods would be doing what they’re Roman counterparts do, by having regular guards and sentries around the clock around the perimeter around Camp to make sure no enemies or monsters approach or breach the inner Camp which is stressful and precarious.
Riordan never deluded his writing of Greek and Roman Mythology of their true aspects, but he just wrote them well enough that it seems filtered. Otherwise, there’s always the underlining in PJO series that things are dangerous, the gods are fickle and not always fair to mortals, and so much more, that the demigods' lives have always been expendable. We see that when Jason Grace’s death and everything else in the Trials of Apollo because that’s what it is, and just as the readers have gotten older, we can pick out the truth.
Anyways, hopefully this made some sense to you? Sorry if it didn’t cause I just literally wrote what came to mind as soon as I got this ask. Hopefully you did find some joy and stimulation in reading this and hope you all have a good day!
Hey, I’be been pondering about this concept and want to hear from you: Weretoons anime edition. Like, co-existing with the “Western” version of the condition.
This made me flashback to Kappa Mickey. It's definitely how I see Western and Eastern style Weretoons interact with each other.
Stand Name: “Silence Is Golden” Appearance: A seemingly innocuous pen colored gold Ability: Should someone make an agreement with the user (Verbal or written), Silence Is Golden ‘binds’ them. While this means the Stand’s user can control them to a an extent, it can also bend affect things like fate. For example, should someone make a deal in exchange for their life, the contracted will, one way or the other, die.
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magic promises are always SO much fun to mess with, especially when you take into account all the possible loopholes and deception that could be going on from both partiers
That should really be a thing: Mythology themed stands. More of them outside the Egyptian pantheon, at least.
I wholeheartedly agree with you. May I also throw in constellations, planets and various classes you find in RPG games such as Knight, Monk, Thief, etc?
You can avoid a WHOLE LOT of copyright with these instead of using something like songs especially when you look at how it took for Diamond is Unbreakable to finally have an anime adaptation.
As for mythology, if you choose to use deities then at least be respectful to the culture they originate from.
