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to be honest sometimes i will read fics with tags that squick me out because i might like the rest of the writing and whenever i hit the point that is too much for me i either scroll past it or go AUGH AAA!! AAAAAA!!!! and it's basically like a silly little jump scare and then i move on

because i am an adult and i know the difference between a personal hard content limit and something that just makes me uncomfy and i would miss out on so many little gems if i didn't know how to power through the things that are not for me sometimes

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Keep up the great work, lads

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me at this point of the year, reacting to any bad news

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Asking for directions

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I don't need therapy I need rabid gay people freaking out in my inbox

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Hi👋so hope you’re having a good day/night and sorry for sending you a new ask when you haven’t answered my last one yet

but I just read your post about your au where Athena basically gets the winter soldier treatment and have lot of questions about the au like do Apollo and Athena tell the others about what Zeus did to them and about Athena’s conditioning or do they have to put the pieces together by themselves

speaking of conditioning does Apollo not have the conditioning and did Zeus try to do the same conditioning with Apollo and it just didn’t work maybe cause it sounds like that Zeus started doing this to Athena when she just was born and only stared with Apollo after god games or did he just decide not to the conditioning to Apollo cause he wasn’t trying to make him into a weapon

what are the reactions of each of the Olympians and especially Hera,Demeter,Hestia,Poseidon and Hades to finding out about everything that’s been happening to Athena and Apollo

What time is this au happening during

who is older in this au Apollo or Athena

In this au when Athena was banished from Olympus and went to live with Triton did Zeus not send her to Triton right away so he could turn her in to a weapon or while Athena was banished did he come visit and continue to do the conditioning without Triton being aware of it

I just thought of something dark what if in this au Zeus sent Athena to Triton to so he could have a weapon ready to strike in his brother kingdom

Also why did Zeus kill Pallas in this au because it seems like this is less of Zeus fearing to see his daughter lose in a spar and more calculated

It's all good my dude(gender neutral), I promise! You are welcome to send as many asks as you want, I will always do my best to answer them all even if it might take a while! I promise I'm still working on that Poseidon ask by the way, it's currently in my drafts and getting long!

So from the top! Spoilers under the cut, and warning this has gotten Really Long.

Athena and Apollo do not willingly tell the others anything until after Zeus has already been dethroned and cut to pieces for several days. They are far too afraid of what Zeus will do to them if their efforts fail and he finds out that they were willingly plotting against him. They are not taking any chances with this, not when this might be their only one. They are not trusting anyone but each other, and especially not when the others on the Council start poking around to try and figure out what's going on with the two of them.

This actually causes a lot of angst during the final battle when Zeus manages to trigger Athena's conditioning and Apollo has to fight her. The others had gotten hints that something was s very wrong with them both and that it has something to do with Zeus, but that was it before they take the fight to Zeus. So to see Apollo in that battle, with tears openly streaming down his face and his mouth twisted into a vicious snarl, fighting to kill against an utterly blank faced Athena, the only person they knew for a fact that he trusted, was like a slap to the face that they had all missed something huge going on.

His conditioning is also nowhere near as deep as Athena's either, to the point that he can actually remember every order, and is even able to defy Zeus at times.

And Apollo did go through a lot of the same conditioning as Athena when he got dragged in by Zeus, making him a lot more war like than he's usually depicted. He's even better in a fight than the rest of their siblings, including Ares, because he can regularly fight Athena to a draw as long as she's not under Zeus's orders. And he excels in all ranges of combat in a way that none of his other siblings do, even Athena. Melee, close range, long range, he can do it all, though he's best at melee and extremely long range. And he's a dirty fighter, he's not afraid to hit below the belt or throw sand in your eyes if it gives him even the smallest advantage.

But the thing with the conditioning is that it didn't work the same way as it did for Athena. He does still have some conditioning, but it's different from Athena's because Zeus didn't want him as a weapon, he wanted him as a way to keep Athena in fighting shape. Zeus only bothered training him in combat because he wanted him to be able keep up with her so he could heal her even in the middle of a battlefield.

Because Zeus had molded her into what is basically a barbarian in D&D. Doing as much damage as possible as fast as possible, with no care for how hurt she gets in the process as long as she's still able to fight.

Apollo was basically grabbed to be Zeus's personal healer and Athena's 'mechanic' as it were.

It's because with Apollo, he was already a fully grown adult with multiple primary and secondary domains, and a very defined sense of self because of his bond with Artemis, when Zeus started working on him.

So the rest of the gods, when they're finally informed about what Athena and Apollo suffered at Zeus's hands, are absolutely horrified.

Whereas with Athena, she was essentially a genius toddler that looked like a 12 year old. Zeus got her right from birth, carefully crafting her into his perfect weapon.

And up until she was sent to Atlantis, and then when she later met Odysseus and his family? That's all she was. She was a weapon, Zeus's weapon, and nothing more. People on Olympus basically treated her as an extension of Zeus, never her own person.

But Triton and Pallas taught her, entirely without intending to, that there was more to life than just training and pain. Her time in Atlantis showed her that the way Zeus treated her was not the norm, even for royalty.

And even after she was banished, even after Pallas's death and Triton's seeming abandonment, she remembered those lessons. They became a reminder of Pallas, of her first and only friend. A reminder of Triton and the fact that, even if he didn't love her anymore, he had still loved her once. He had still thought her worthy of his love once upon a time, and that gave her hope that she might be able to make herself into something worthy of being loved again in the future.

And those lessons came back with a vengeance when she met Odysseus. He treated her as a person, as someone worthy of respect on her own merit and not as an extension of Zeus.

Their relationship was extremely close, and she was gentle with him in training as far as she could tell. She gave him the things she'd always wanted in her training with Zeus. A trainer that didn't hurt him when he got something wrong, time to rest and heal when he pushed himself too far, guidance when he didn't know what to do. Even My Goodbye was impossibly gentle from her perspective. She didn't hurt him for defying her the way that Zeus did to her, she didn't torment him and take away the few things he cared about. She just left. Just ignored him for a little while, as a punishment.

But her perspective is so different from his that there was a lot of miscommunication over the years. To him her training was brutal, pushing him harder than he'd ever been pushed before, with long periods of silence when he disappointed her, and her advice was often cryptic and unhelpful until he had already messed up.

So when they reunite, Penelope makes sure they sit down and actually talk things out. And as Athena explained what her own training was like, Odysseus and Penelope suddenly understood so much more about why she trained him the way she did. So to her, seeing and training Telemachus the way that she and Odysseus did together, was pure fantasy. She'd never even known it was possible to be so utterly kind and gentle while training someone, and that hurt the Royal Family when they realized it.

Wow I got off topic there, my bad. Back to your questions!

For the younger gods, it's because Zeus made them complicit in it. They were part of the reason Athena and Apollo were abused for so long. Because Zeus pitted them against each other so they wouldn't have anyone they could go to for help. Ares and Artemis in-particular are disgusted with themselves because they were actively hostile to the two people that should have been their other halves. All because of a man that none of them had even truly trusted.

And the older gods are even worse off. The fact that Zeus was able to do something that many of them felt was worse than what Kronos had done, for thousands of years, all directly under their noses is genuinely sickening to them. Poseidon and Hestia in-particular blame themselves for what Athena and Apollo suffered.

Poseidon because he banished Athena from Atlantis after Pallas's death. He was the one who made her return to Olympus, even though he knew that Triton didn't want her banished. So to now find out, more than 3000 years later, that not only was Athena the weapon and not the killer, but that banishing her sent her directly back into the hands of the man that turned her into that weapon in the first place? He's horrified and disgusted and also desperately wishing that he could go back in time and punch himself in the face. He was horrible to Athena after what happened to Pallas and he knows that. He was already ashamed of how he treated her, so to learn she was suffering through all of this on top of it? He's definitely cursing himself for his foolishness.

Hestia is absolutely sickened by what Zeus did to Apollo and Athena. She hates him on a level that up until that point had been reserved solely for Kronos. And she blames herself because as Goddess of Family, the Hearth, and Home, she should have been able to tell that Athena and Apollo didn't consider Zeus family, that they didn't view Olympus as their home. She should have realized what was happening right under her nose, but she didn't. And her niece and nephew, her own family, both suffered for thousands of years for it.

Am I implying that even so long after Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus's deaths Athena and Apollo both still consider the palace in Ithaca their real home? Yes, yes I am.

And this is all happening around roughly the same time frame as my Chthonic Athena AU, so like 30 to 40 years after the second Giant War.

Athena is much older than Apollo in this AU. She's Zeus's very first child, so she's older than everyone on the Council except Zeus, his siblings, and Aphrodite. Apollo is actually one of Zeus's youngest children here, with only Hermes and Dionysus being younger than him.

So Athena's time in Atlantis was a very strange mix of banishment and diplomatic visit. The royal families; basically Zeus, Hera, Athena, Poseidon, Amphirite, Triton, and Pallas, all know that Athena was essentially being banished. But everyone else was told that she was there for an extended diplomatic visit because of her status as Zeus's only child.

And there is a gap between Athena's birth and when she's sent to Triton. It's roughly a century, or about a hundred years. Enough for her to still be very young by godly standards, but old enough for Zeus's excuse to make sense when combined with her domains.

And remember how I said Athena is the oldest? Yeah, it's by about 500 years. More than enough time for Zeus to really get his claws into her even with her time in Atlantis.

And you are exactly right on why Zeus sent her to Atlantis. He wanted her there because he wanted a weapon in the heart of Poseidon's kingdom when they went to war. And that's exactly why he forced her to kill Pallas.

Zeus wanted to go to war with Poseidon. He wanted an excuse to attack Atlantis. And with Athena killing Pallas, who was not only Poseidon's only grandchild, but also a princess of Atlantis as Triton's child, and in line for the throne should Poseidon and Triton ever fade, he was absolutely certain that Poseidon would declare war first. Or at bare minimum keep Athena as a prisoner and give him an excuse to do so.

But Triton put a stop to all that, and Zeus hates him for it. Triton's obvious love for Athena not only stopped Poseidon from taking her prisoner, but he didn't even want her banished. According to Atlantian law*, as the one who lost a child, Triton should have been the one to decide Athena's punishment. But Poseidon overruled him with the power of his position as King and banished her before Triton got the chance to decide.

*That I'm totally making up for story purposes

Triton didn't even get the chance to speak with Athena before she was sent back to Olympus, so he never got to hear what happened from her point of view. As a matter of fact, no one in Atlantis did. Poseidon didn't want to hear what she had to say, too enraged at the death of his granddaughter, so he sent her away immediately.

But let's lighten things up a little bit since these got pretty heavy.

Pallas and Athena once fought Triton together and actually managed to beat him. He was so proud that he insisted on throwing a feast and had Athena wear his crown for the whole day to show off.

Odysseus once beat Athena in a spar and she did the same thing, giving him her cape and even letting him keep it.

It had protection magic weaved into it and Odysseus, with Athena's help, made it into Telemachus's baby blanket. It became a family heirloom that was passed down for generations, and when the last of their descendants died, she started using it for her own children.

Athena helped Odysseus carve his and Penelope's wedding bed into the olive tree where they met, blessing it and putting protections on it so it would be all but impervious to mortal damage.

Athena actually attended Odysseus and Penelope's wedding in disguise, blessing their union.

She also blessed their promise rings* when Odysseus was forced to go to war, making it so that as long as one of them** was wearing theirs, they would both always know that the other was still alive.

*As far as I could find, the ancient Greeks didn't use rings to specifically symbolize marriage, but rather as a token to show love and affection.

**Because wearing a wedding ring on the battlefield is a great way to lose it or get yourself killed***, especially when it's not made from modern more durable materials.

***You know I'm right, no matter how romantic it is. Having it on a chain is begging to get choked with it, and trying to punch somebody with it on increases the likelihood of breaking a knuckle or something.

Telemachus once called Athena Mom* while half asleep and she was really touched by it. Penelope wasn't even mad about it because he'd already told her and Odysseus that he saw Athena that way. They were just surprised that he'd actually said it to her face.

*Or the ancient Greek equivalent that I can't find right now

So yeah, thanks for the ask!!! I love answering questions like these, and hopefully you don't mind the lighter parts at the end!!

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no way ppl are using ai to write ao3. what happened to being a tortured writer. what happened to blood on the page. what happened to the ao3 curse. people used to get run over, have their houses burned down, break their entire spines and they still put in the work to finish a chapter. fuck you, using ai. y’all are weak

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the cathedral skirt is finally done….. 😭 expect her early next year……..

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A wave crashes into a lighthouse in Porto, Portugal. The photographer was dragged by the wave and had to receive care for hypothermia, but is fine now. x

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Ferret shows the owner her babies.

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DPxDC Prompt

The GIW were created from a branch of the League of Assassins, their purpose was to isolate places with a high likelihood of spawning a new Lazarus Pit in the future. The reason they took on the looks of white suits was they needed a visible presence to make the civilians in the area cooperate, by playing the part of government agents.

It worked well in the beginning, until they learned about the portal (after Pariah sucked the town into the ghost zone), then they infiltrated the town on mass. Something was different about this hotspot then it was in Gotham or anywhere else. Something connected to the very source of the pit's power and Ra's wanted it for himself.

As the town was soon locked down and ghosts were hunted with prejudice, the governing bodies within the infinite realms took notice. And a newly crowned Prince was given no choice but to watch as war was declared against the GIW and in extension the LOA.

Ghostly skeletons rose from every Lazarus pit in the world and hunted down everyone who even spoke affiliation with the LOA or GIW, League bases were emptied overnight and Ra's found facing off against the Fright Knight himself.

The LOA/GIW stood no chance and by the time the rest of the world even suspected anything was going on, it was over.

When the Bats realize LOA activity has been quiet for over the past week after a day or so of frantic communications and sightings of members disappearing in broad daylight (that they have been watching with concern). They are left to try and piece together what happened and if it is a sign of something dangerous to come.

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DPxDC Prompt

The justice league was informed by a dark member that the infinite realms crowned a new monarch and they are eager to summon them to do a threat assessment and possibly strike up an alliance, depending on how similar they are to their predecessor.

The issue?

Danny is the new crown prince, but he isn't old enough to take the throne at 15, he needs to be at least 25 years old in human years or fully dead. So right now he has no power in the realms, he is just a figure head with no authority. He technically doesn't know a single thing about how the realms are run…

All that ruling stuff is handled by the council, the observants and the ancients.

Fast forward to Danny forced into full royal regalia by summoning magic and summoned into what looks like a meeting room. Blinking he turns his attention to the colorful cast of characters that have summoned him and is greeted by a very diplomatic sounding woman in a cape.

Maybe he shouldn't have decided to wait till he was eighteen to start those diplomatic lessons with Pandora… because right now he feels like he just walked into somewhere that he really needed them…

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DPxDC Prompt

Phantom has been part of the Justice League for a while and though he looks young he is just as experienced if not more so then most of the league's heavy hitters. With a historical record going back to the very beginning of civilization as a guardian of balance and a hero whoever he meets, it was only natural to add him onto the roster.

Not a lot is know about his species as the rift to his home dimension was closed long before the information black out dropped from Amity Park and even after it dropped all the records appeared to be wiped clean.

But it was assumed even though he looked young it was probably some sort of glamor or disguise. They had seen many of his kind during meetings with their leaders "the Council of Ancients", none of them looked as human as Phantom did, so it stands to reason he changed his appearance to be more familiar to those around him.

With dull teeth, soft hair and human skin.

When John or other JLD members call him an eldritch baby in so many words, they assume he is talking about his young appearance. No one corrects that assumption, least of all Danny who knows that he is very young compared to other ghosts, being dead for only five years.

It isn't until they are fighting an evil magic user that it becomes clear, the magic user can see immediately that Danny is hiding his true form subconsciously and decides to turn the League against each other by "revealing the monster within". When Danny is struck by the spell he collapses in on himself and the other heroes with him are concerned both for him and of what the spell will turn him into when they realize the intentions.

In a bright flash of light Danny's true form is revealed.

His white hair is a brilliant bright flame, his eyes are a void of black with shining green spotlights for pupils, his hands became claws and so have his feet. His black suit became a covering of black fur and he has a tail very reminiscent of a certain Ancient (cough Frostbite cough), if they look closer he even has the beginnings of ice like horns growing from his temples beneath his bangs. All of this along with fangs that look a little too big for his mouth together would be unsettling…

…if not for the fact he was very much the size of a five year old.

The baby comments make sense now…

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DPxDC Prompt

The thing about Danny's dimension, is that it is so closely linked to the infinite realms that ectoplasm was everywhere. Trace amounts were in the air you breathe, in the food you eat, in the clothes you wear.

It was in everything and people have come to not only live but thrive on it.

The portal opening in Amity park thickened the ectoplasm already in the air, but people had been living with it long before then to even notice. Heck, those that did notice would say the air felt fresher, food tasted stronger, it was like the town became more vibrant.

It was something humans of Danny's dimension felt they couldn't live without and Danny would agree especially since finding himself displaced in a new dimension separated enough from the realms that there wasn't a trace of ecto anywhere in the air or environment.

He didn't realize at first, blaming shock for the fact the food here tasted so bland, blamed the smog for the fact the air was so stale, he had just fled his home dimension after all.

But when his core decided to take a tight hold on all his ecto production due to the lack of ambient ecto to absorb, he couldn't make ectoblasts anymore, he could only use powers that kept his ecto within himself.

And even then they were weak and couldn't be used for more then short bursts.

Beyond, invisibility, intangibility and flight, he was powerless. When he found himself in the care of a rich frootloop with a number of identical children, he couldn't even explain to them why he turned his nose up at the food they all drooled over.

He has taken to exploring the caves below the city just to get away from the "concern" of his new guardians, and that is where he finds it. A thick pool of condensed ectoplasm leaking from a rift from the realms, he may have lost himself scrambling for a taste after so long only encouraged by the strong spicy taste, but it was worth it.

That single taste was like an expresso shot after a restless night, by the ancients, Danny is never going without ecto again! It might be a bit saturated with emotions, but those dissolve away like sugar on his tongue and while rage wasn't his favorite emotion to flavour his ectoplasm, it was the best thing he has tasted since he got here!

Now how to sneak the forbidden spice back to the manor without those rich frootloops finding out and asking questions…

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DCxDP Prompt

Ra's had a secret, one that not even his closest confidants knew of.

In an undisclosed location, in a twisting cave system deep below the earth, is a hidden cavern. Within that cavern is a very familiar green glow, but this pit is very different from the rest.

Because in the center of the pool, hung by an excessive amount of glowing chains is a pale being with white hair and green eyes. They hang limp and listless where they are impaled in countless places, leaking bright green into the pool below them.

This was Ra's greatest secret, Lazarus himself.

The being has never spoken, has never done more then stare listlessly at the pool beneath themselves and has never answered a single question Ra's has asked no matter what method he implemented.

Ra's had planned to bring Damian to Lazarus once he was old enough, but the child had proven himself unloyal once the detective got hold of him. It was a disappointment.

Tim though, had proven himself a more viable heir. Smarter, more clever and willing to do what the detective would not. So when he had taken Tim from the desert bleeding out from a fatal wound, he healed him and brought him to Lazarus.

What he didn't expect was for Lazarus to speak to Tim.

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Ooooh. I just saw your most recent post, so I want to know what are the new AUs that you have thought up now. Are they more Naruto, Epic/PJO, or DC/DP? Or are there even more fandom AUs being introduced. Either way, I would like to hear about them!

So I few new ideas here!

The first one is an Epic sort of Pjo crossover in that it's part of my brain damage Athena AU, OdyPenAth AU called Athena's Prayer! I've been working on it with @dantsem who is amazing!

What happens in that one is that while Penelope and Odysseus managed to scare many of the suitors families out of retaliating for their deaths, one particular family decided that the threat of death wasn't enough to stop them from taking their revenge.

Essentially, after Odysseus returns and reunites with Athena and his family, Athena, Odysseus, and Penelope all get together. And then, some time later, Odysseus is out in Ithaca with Telemachus when they're attacked by one of the suitors families.

The attackers are killed in the ensuing fight, but Odysseus takes an attack aimed for Telemachus and is poisoned in the process.

No one in Ithaca knows how to find or make the antidote, and even when Athena searches her library she can't find anything.

So Odysseus gets worse and worse, nothing they do is helping, Athena isn't strong enough to burn out the poison because of God Games, and Odysseus is not going to live for long.

So as Odysseus's condition worsenes Athena finally breaks her promise of not bringing anyone in from Olympus and prays to Apollo for help. Literally begging him to heal Odysseus from the poison so they won't lose him after everything they've already gone through.

Apollo, upon hearing Athena legitimately praying to him, which Gods never do, goes to her immediately to see what the hell is going on because she's supposed to be resting, Fate's damn it, she just almost died!

Two more AU's under the cut! One Naruto MadaTobi, the other Epic/PJO

WARNING: The second AU under the cut, Hades' Lament, is Really Dark and I do go somewhat in depth about Zeus being abusive to Apollo and Athena!

Another AU is a Naruto Mada/Tobi one that I'm just calling the Wolf AU. Basically, some Hatake can shift into wolves in this verse as a kekki genkai, but those that can have a lot more trouble controlling their instincts than those that don't. And sensors are even worse off on that front than average. So of course Tobirama gets the kekki genkai.

Hatake that can shift have two forms. One that's roughly the size of a real wolf, so bigger than a dog but not enormous. And the other is huge, roughly the size of a moose. AKA 10-12~ feet tall at the shoulder with canines and claws longer than your forearm.

*WARNING: This one gets DARK!*

Now in this verse, if a Hatake that's shifted gets injured, they can't shift back until they're mostly healed. So when Tobirama gets wounded in his smaller form on a mission, he's stuck that way. He ends up in the same area as Madara, who is on a 'vacation mission' because Izuna and Hikaku thought he was too stressed out. Madara finds shifted Tobirama and takes care of his wounds, Tobirama sees who Madara is off the battlefield, all those cliches.

The vacation mission later goes to hell because of course it does. Tobirama, still in his smaller form and slightly hurt, takes several hits for Madara and gets him the opening he needs to get away.

Madara takes it, feels guilty, blah blah blah, hard cut to the next time they're both involved in a skirmish.

Madara is still recovering from his wounds, Hashirama's upset he was gone for so long and pushing him even harder because of it.

Madara missteps right into the way of one of Hashirama's attacks. If it hits he's probably gonna die.

Tobirama, on the other side of the battlefield fighting Izuna, vanishes and reappears between Madara and the attack.

He takes the hit, shifts to his bigger form without thinking, loses himself to his instincts because of the sudden and unexpected shift, and attacks Hashirama for almost killing Madara.

From there I'm not sure how it'll go yet.

I might have Tobi and Touka run for attacking Hashirama, might have it go a few other ways, but it's endgame MadaTobi either way. Might go with a Centering AU, might not, haven't decided yet.

Another AU is yet another Epic/PJO AU I've been considering called Hades' Lament. It's starts out very similar to the Chthonic Athena AU, except Hestia, Poseidon, and Hades are all at the meeting as well.

It goes roughly the same until just before Athena dies, but instead of Athena getting struck, Apollo manages to get between her and the bolt.

But Zeus is much worse here than he is in Chthonic Athena (I'll explain more on that front in a second) meaning that both Apollo and Athena fall into comas from it because of how badly off they both already were.

There's a fight, Zeus is dethroned for it, all that good stuff. Then the others realize that oh shit, Athena and Apollo aren't waking up, something is actually really wrong here.

Now to elaborate on how Zeus is worse here. Not only does God Games happen here, but afterwards, Zeus becomes physically and emotionally abusive to both Athena and Apollo. He treats them well in public, particularly in front of their siblings as a way to further isolate them and turn the others against them, but when alone he's much worse than anyone else on the council expects.

One particular change in this AU is that the plot is very different from any of my other ones so far. What basically happens is that when the others realize that Athena and Apollo aren't waking up, they go to Hypnos. Hypnos in turn sends them to his son Morpheus and reveals that a major part of the reason Morpheus fought against Olympus when Kronos returned was because of how badly Zeus treated Apollo and Athena.

When the Council go to him, Morpheus ends up revealing that, as the God of Dreams, after his brother Phobetor faded shortly after the fall of Ancient Greece, he had also been given domain over nightmares as well. Which was how he found out about Zeus's treatment of Athena and Apollo.

He'd essentially been stuck watching the two of them suffer through their nightmares ever since, because of how often they had them. Gods only sleep deep enough to dream when they're particularly exhausted or recovering from injuries, so the two of them were dreaming more than anyone else on Olympus. He could give them relief sometimes, give them pleasant dreams when he could, but that was all. He couldn't do anything about their suffering when they were awake.

Morpheus then tells them that, while he can't tell them the reason the two aren't waking up, he can show them what Apollo and Athena had suffered over the years.

The Council agrees to this, and they're then shown that not only was Zeus physically and mentally abusive to the two of them, but he also leveraged their relationships with their siblings and children against them as well.

Zeus would threaten to kill their children, or to hurt the others the way he was hurting them to keep them in line. Threatening Ares and Artemis in-particular was very common for him, because of how much Athena and Apollo cared for them as their other halves.

He would even leverage that relationship to make them hurt each other, making them fight until one of them was beaten unconscious.

The Council, and particularly Ares and Artemis, are absolutely horrified to learn all of this, but they still don't know why Athena and Apollo aren't waking up.

Morpheus gives them a cryptic clue about one of them having the ability to wake them, and then leaves them on their own.

So yeah, those are 3 new ones I have so far and I've been looking at a few others as well. You're all more than welcome to send any questions you might have about them or any others!!

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Hi👋 hope your having a good day or night

So I have some questions about your chthonic aus hope it’s ok if I ask them but anygays since the power Zeus used to damage Athena’s soul was basically stolen from Hades could if he found out about it while Athena is still alive could he heal the damage and save Athena and anyone else who’s soul has been damage

In the regret au who is the one who manages to calm Athena and Apollo down and how do they do it and also how do the other gods react to truly finding out how much Athena has been suffering and in the regret au how does Hades react to all this because I don’t think you talk about he in this au I could be wrong

Thanks🙏for reading

Hi!! Hope you're having a good day/night too! And questions are always welcome! I love answering them, even if they might take a little bit because my brain won't cooperate.

And yes, Hades could potentially heal soul damage while the person is alive as long as he knows about it! But how he would have to go about it would change drastically depending on a number of different things. Whether the person was a mortal or a god, how badly their soul was damaged, what caused the damage in the first place, things like that.

Athena from right after God Games, for example, would be handled with a very different approach than an Athena from right before her death in Astraphobia. The damage would be much more extensive by then, and Hades' own feelings towards her at the time would also have an effect on how quickly that healing happened. Hades has calmed down a lot as far as grudges go by the time Astraphobia happens, especially compared to how he was in ancient Greece.

Other answers under the cut!

So in the Regret AU, I'm kind of torn on who's going to manage to get through to them. Because on the one hand, Hestia would be the best at it naturally, compared to the others. But at the same time, she just became Queen of Olympus, making them much less likely to trust her than before. The realization that Zeus, being King of Olympus, basically had impunity to do whatever he wanted is a Major reason the two are so afraid of him. Zeus, in their eyes, essentially killed Athena and faced no consequences for it. They want less than nothing to do with whoever currently has the throne.

Zeus himself trying to talk to them would just make things worse and everyone knows it.

Hera isn't going to work for a number of reasons, including both her association with Zeus and how badly she's treated Apollo and Athena in the past. So she's also a no go.

The protections Athena and Apollo set after the Olive Tree Incident won't let Demeter within a hundred yards of the palace, so that's not happening either.

Poseidon would be worse for Athena specifically, which would definitely send Apollo even further into fight or flight mode. And since flight wouldn't be much of an option, that would probably just end with the two of them fighting Poseidon while he tries not to genuinely hurt them. That sounds rather entertaining honestly, but I'm not super confident in writing fight scenes so I'd probably skip it.

Aphrodite isn't happening because of the spill over taking her out. She'd just send them spiraling even further if she tried.

Ares would definitely be seen as a threat, no matter if he was trying to be or not. Which would suck, because he'd definitely do pretty well if he could come to the realization that they're basically continuously triggering each other into panic attacks brought on by anxiety and paranoia.

Artemis I think wouldn't really know how to handle seeing Athena, and particularly Apollo, so utterly freaked out over what she's convinced is no big deal. I think she'd be really blunt about it too, which wouldn't help in the slightest. Apollo is definitely the more emotionally intelligent of the two of them, so him being the one that's freaking out isn't super great.

Dionysus I'm pretty conflicted on as well. Because on the one hand, he's the God of Madness and Apollo and Athena are definitely tipping towards that point if they're not already there. But on the other hand, after so long at Camp Half-Blood, I'm not certain he'd even see it as a problem that needed to be dealt with. Half-bloods are paranoid as all hell, and for good reason. It keeps them alive. He'd probably look at them, see that they're not actually hurting anyone, and then tell the others to call him again when they have an actual problem. But that could also be my lack of confidence in writing him talking.

Let's be honest with ourselves, Hephaestus wants nothing to do with any of this. This is not his circus and those are not his monkeys, he's going back to his forge. He'd feel a little bad about it, because he can see that the two are genuinely terrified and truly think Zeus is out to get them, but he'd also know that he is not the right tool for that task.

Hermes I'm not certain on either, if I'm being honest. It would really depend on if I stick to the rocky relationship I have him and Athena have in Astraphobia because of Luke, and I haven't decided if I'm going to keep that or not yet.

I could potentially bring in Hades that way actually! As a "Hey, we didn't want to bug you during winter, but you and your wife are our literal last resort. Please help us help them before they drive themselves even more insane," kind of thing. Which would actually be a really good segue into the whole "Hey, Athena's way worse off than we thought," talk.

And I honestly think Hades would just walk in with Persephone and listen to the two of them talk. Persephone would take care of most of the talking and help keep the two focused on the conversation so they can calm down enough to be rational, but I could definitely see him using his reputation and power as like, a deterrent if that makes sense? Basically telling them that "Hey, while I'm here? Zeus is not going to be able to hurt you, I will not let him." It calms them down a lot more than any of them expect.

And oh boy, when the others find out that Athena's condition is so much worse than they already thought? All of them are going to be so horrified.

I'm honestly really torn between having Hades be the one to reveal it, in which case he finds out during their conversation, or having Apollo reveal it so Zeus can go to his older brother and genuinely beg Hades to see if there's anything he can do to help Athena.

And speaking of Zeus, I genuinely feel kinda bad for everything I'm putting him through here. Like, the man did some shit, God Games did still happen, but he genuinely did not intend for Athena to get hurt, and especially not so permanently.

It's a little like someone with a temper shoving somebody during an argument only for them to fall and crack their head open, from my point of view. Absolutely horrifying and it should never have happened in the first place, but the consequences of that single action during a fit of temper were several leagues of magnitude greater than anyone involved expected them to be.

I love all your questions, my dude (gender neutral)! Please send more if you think of any! They help me work things out that I'm having trouble pinpointing!