#will solace pov

[fishing4stars]

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83204486/chapters/219136136

Fandom: Riordanverse - Percy Jackson & the Olympians - Trials of Apollo

Rating & Category: PG (about the same as the books, but with some curse words)

Category/ships: Primarily Gen. Some side romance (Solangelo, minor Percabeth)

Word Count (once all 12 chapters are posted): ~37k

Summary: It’s the beginning of a new summer when Apollo arrives at camp to ask Will, Kayla, and Austin for urgent help. A letter sent by Lee Fletcher just before his death has spiraled into a disaster and now a sister that never made it to Cabin Seven is in trouble at a folk festival in Vermont.

Along with his siblings and his supportive boyfriend, Will sets out on a journey that will bring him face to face with the best– and the worst– parts of being a demigod at Camp Half-blood. Together, the children of Apollo will have to decide: what would they do to keep their family safe?

(To be posted weekly April 18-May 23, 2026, 2 chapters/week. Drafted & in proofreading process.)

[thetimetraveler24]

Okay so I don’t want to jump the gun or anything, but like…

I just finished writing a whole chapter of DYBWAYM after a one and a halfish year hiatus???

So I’m excited 😆

[mxr1e]

I will cry if people start criticizing Will’s every little interaction with Nico like they did with the first chapters.

[thetimetraveler24]

Here’s a cut scene from DYBWAYM. It’s more crack fic than I would like for this fic, but I thought it was funny and you guys might like it.

~from ch four of DYBWAYM

“It’s Percy,” Miranda Gardiner said. “Of course we’ll back you.”

“Yeah, Annabeth,” Connor agreed. “Besides, you’ve already got one volunteer, right, Drew?”

Drew raised an eyebrow. “Excuse me?”

“You volunteered to go with Jason and Leo,” Connor reminded her. “Or was that just because Jason is hot?”

Everyone looked at him. Connor faltered under their looks. “What?” he asked defensively. “He is! Kind of like a blond Percy.”

“Do you find my boyfriend attractive, Connor?” Annabeth asked, eyes narrowed.

Clarisse looked absolutely giddy over what was going down. Will was pretty sure Connor was walking into a trap. Everyone else looked amused.

“No?” Connor said, voice cracking.

“So you think he’s not good looking?” Annabeth said.

“No!” Connor protested. “He’s… he’s fine. He’s…” He dropped his head in defeat. “Can we move on?”

“Welcome to the club, dude,” Rachel said.

“The club?”

“The ‘I Would Have Tried to Date Percy Jackson If He Didn’t Have a Scary and Badass Girlfriend He Loves More Than Anything’ club,” Rachel said.

“I’m pretty sure a lot of people are in that club,” Drew said.

“Are we implying Annabeth isn’t hot?” Lou Ellen asked. “Cause she is.”

“We are so off track,” Nyssa said.

[thetimetraveler24]

For anyone reading Keep Your Face Always Towards the Sun (and the future subsequent Will pov sequels), it may interest you to know that if I were to assign Taylor albums and songs to characters it would look a little something like this:

Debut/Fearless - Will (Tied Together With A Smile, A Place in This World, Fifteen, Change)

Speak Now - Lou Ellen (Innocent, Enchanted)

Red - Alabaster (All Too Well TMV, I Knew You Were Trouble, I Bet You Think About Me)

1989 - Cecil (Style, Shake it Off, New Romantics)

Reputation - Clarisse (Look What You Made Me Do, Delicate, Call It What You Want)

Folklore/Evermore - Nyssa (seven, this is me trying, champagne problems, it’s time to go)

Midnights - Nico (You’re On Your Own Kid, Anti-Hero, Sweet Nothing)

TTPD - Drew (Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?, I Can Do It With A Broken Heart, The Albatross, The Prophecy)

Sorry Lover. Didn’t have someone to fit you. They probably all can take at least one song from Lover though. The Apollo kids as a whole could probably be a whole separate post. Although, that might give spoilers. I already had to leave out a couple songs from this list because I didn’t want to spoil anything for y’all. 😆

[thetimetraveler24]

It’s come to my attention that Keep Your Face Always Towards the Sun has reached over 200k words. Which I was not aware was a lot until I looked up how many pages in a book that was.

It’s 800.

So. That’s a lot. Uh, I’ve got the next chapter written, but I’m still working on the one after that. Otherwise I’d say, let me just update this and have a whole to do about it in the end notes.

Guys, I feel like I need to do something to celebrate this. And thank everyone for reading 200k words of my writing. So, what do y’all think I should do?

[thetimetraveler24]

Holy shit I’m actually here. I’ve made it to the end of Keep Your Face Always Towards the Sun and I’m writing the very last chapter now. I never thought I’d ever make it to this point. Oh my gods.

[thetimetraveler24]

Okay. I think I know what I’m doing for organizing all the Will pov and Will pov adjacent fics. I will be making a series for everything in reading (or chronological, not sure yet) order, a series for just the main Will pov fics, and a series for the side fics and one shots. Here’s the names I’m thinking, very open to suggestions.

The Whole Series: yesterday we were just children playing soldiers, just pretending, dreaming dreams with happy endings

Will PoV Trilogy (possibly Tetralogy): drunk as they watch my shattered edges glisten

One-Shots: look at this godsforsaken mess that you made me

Idk. What do you guys think?

Yes, they’re Taylor Swift lyrics. I like Taylor Swift songs. Sue me.