#Leo:*absently says i love you mum n morse code*

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K so remember when i said I was gonna make a post about Ethan and the seven if he had been on the quest? Yeah well here goes

He would be wary of Frank at first because a son of Mars and a legacy of Neptune just has to be a stuck up jerk right? He is pleasantly surprised to see that Frank is actually a sweet heart who just really cares about doing everyone proud and not catching fire. And Frank would probably admire him because he was a survivor of the biggest demigod war in a while (not counting the current one) and he was there when Kronos was defeated. Also since Frank still didn’t know about demigod stuff during the titan war he probably isn’t that bothered by Ethan’s former occupation as some others especially since this fact is slightly overshadowed for him by the betraying Kronos thing.

The same weariness would happen with Jason because “son of Jupiter AND praetor?? better steer clear” and the weariness goes both ways because Jason is super paranoid about having an ex titan army member on the ship, especially one that he didn’t know before the war. I think they could have had a way more interesting rivalry than Jason and Percy’s posturing alpha male bullshit. Ethan would have genuinely criticized Jason in a way that would be completely foreign to him and Jason does not like it because “wtf who does this traitor think he is talking to a praetor like that???”. Ethan eventually gains Jason’s trust through heroic stuff or confiding in him about how guilty he feels about what he did during the war and how he feels betrayed and mislead by Kronos; being convinced to join by half truths at best and straight up lies at worst. Jason warms up to Ethan by being a competent semi-leader, nicer than he expected and not the narcissistic ass he’d been bracing himself for and he almost melts when Jason asks for advice on the minor deity’s shrines on the hill because “well you helped build the minor deity’s cabins so you have experience right?”

Reyna (because in this version Reyna is also there) would be even more weary than Jason and it takes pretty much the whole quest for Ethan to convince Reyna he’s not going to kill them all; not that he tries, he doesn’t really see the point in trying to change her opinion of him when there’s much more important things to do so he mainly tries to ignore her side glares. She also doesn’t like how critical he is of everyone even more so than Jason and at one point tries to “remind him of his place” as a former traitor talking to a praetor and he just says “no❤️. I don’t think you realize how little of a fuck I give”. Eventually Reyna figures that he had many many may chances to kill/betray them all and since he didn’t he’s probably not going to. After this she starts to respect him a bit as a good fighter but she’s still pretty salty about the war.

He’d absolutely adore Hazel because A how could you not? B because I hc Ethan and Nico to be friends in this Ethan would probs have a soft spot for his pals new sister (especially considering what happened to his old one) and C when she starts learning how to use the mist she reminds him of is old Hecate friends from the titan army and because he thinks he failed them it’s his responsibility to look after her. Hazel would be a little cautious around Ethan at first because of the titan army thing but she warms up to him the quickest out of everyone who didn’t trust him because of how nice he is to her and surely such a nice young man can’t be bad. she does find it a little funny that her old friend used to talk about joining to army to fight the Japanese in the war and now she’s fighting with the Japanese (technically just one but still). They also joke about how Ethan broke into her dads house, stole her step mums sword and then got his ass kicked by her brother and whenever he leaves the Argo to go do something she goes “bye try not to break into anyone's houses :D” and he makes a show of saying he’ll try but sometimes it’s very hard to resist.

At fist he would HATE Leo. He’d hate how this kid could never take anything seriously and it’s like he doesn’t even CARE that there’s a WAR going on, one that could get LOADS of people killed just like last time (Ethan’s still a little (a lot) scarred about the titan war) not to mention he was team “let’s leave a malnourished depressed child to starve or suffocate in a jar because I don’t trust him”. He’s a little more sympathetic towards Leo after hearing about his rough childhood and learning that his jokes are mostly a coping/defense mechanism and they get talking and find out that they shockingly enjoy each others company. Since I hc that Ethan lived on the streets for a while between leaving camp and joining the army they talk about that sometimes (and Ethan also encourages him to get better coping mechanisms because ironic jokes aren’t gonna work forever).

Because Jason told her about the Titan war (I know this isn’t canon but if Jason trusted Piper as much as Rick said he did then he would have have talked to her about the war) she’s a little guarded around Ethan at first but when she sees him and the others being friendly she starts being friendlier as well because she trusts her friends to know the difference between a friend and a possible impostor (queue among us impostor sound) who’s going to murder them all in their sleep when he gets the chance. Ethan was lowkey terrified of Piper at first because in the titan army Aphrodite children weren’t the pink girly girls who can’t do anything but hair, they were the children of their bosses sister and therefore Zeus’ cousins. Also the fear of god (or goddess) was put in him about charmspeak so he tried to steer clear until the others convinced him that Piper wasn’t anywhere near as dangerous as her uncle K.