#Reyna Arellano

[pjotwitter]

[etoileee]

here are pictures that remind me of the hero’s of olympus as someone who’s shifted to percy jackson!

—PERCY JACKSON

—JASON GRACE

—LEO VALDEZ

—FRANK ZHANG

—NICO DI ANGELO

—ANNABETH CHASE

—PIPER MCLEAN

—HAZEL LEVESQUE

— REYNA AVLIA RAMÍREZ ARLLANO

[ilovepjo]

reyna and annabeth teaming up against percy im crying

[piedpip3rrr]

Scary movie night 2

[demigod-shenanigans]

Jason thinks love needs to be earned. The only love in tiny Jason’s world that ever came without strings was Thalia’s, but he was so young when they got separated that he barely remembers her. His mom abandoned him but surely she had her reasons. Maybe he just wasn’t a good enough son.

So he tries to be a good strong wolf and then a good little soldier, for Lupa’s approval and Camp Jupiter’s approval and because maybe if he earns enough points on the achievement scoreboard his dad will come see him. Maybe his dad will love him. If he hasn’t yet, it’s just because Jason hasn’t tried hard enough.

And his friendship with Reyna feeds into this mindset. It’s not anything Reyna says or does. But Reyna is guarded—understandably so, considering she’s extremely traumatized and lived the first ten years of her life knowing love mostly as a thing that could blow up in your face at any given moment. Of course she’s slow to trust and even slower to love.

It takes time for her to let herself love Jason.

And she doesn’t love him because of some achievement scoreboard, or because he’s a good soldier, but Jason doesn’t know that. Jason just sees that Reyna is his friend now, so apparently he’s gotten a good grade in being a friend through his achievements. His dad may not love him yet, but Reyna loves him, so clearly it’s possible to earn love and the world works exactly how he always assumed it did.

And then he meets Leo and Piper. Leo and Piper who love each other without terms and conditions. Who get in trouble together and make fun of each other and would die for each other in a heartbeat. There were no grand gestures or heroic achievements that caused that love to happen. It just did. They just looked at each other and knew they were meant to be friends.

And they love Jason, too. Even after they realize their memories of him aren’t real, they stick with him. Even when he keeps messing up, which in his world should get friendship points docked and make their love go away, they keep loving him anyway.

Jason sees Leo make his little pipe cleaner helicopter and immediately asks if they’re actually friends, because he may not even remember who he is, but surely he hasn’t done enough to earn the friendship of someone that cool. In MoA he talks to Piper about how he keeps being knocked out and having to be saved and how that makes him a terrible hero. He tells her he doesn’t deserve her when she tries to reassure him.

But Leo and Piper keep loving him anyway. They met the version of Jason that’s a mess before they ever met the Jason that’s capable and heroic and they still love him. Leo loves Jason so much he dies to keep him safe.

Leo loves the Jason that laughs at his stupid jokes and plays video games with him and gets stupid competitive about it. He loves the Jason that’s a nerd about Ancient Rome and the Jason who is kind and the Jason who’s unsure what the future holds and what he wants it to look like. He loves the Jason who’s a bit childish and cannot cook to save his life and has a terrible taste in movies.

When Piper is trying to comfort Jason when he almost dies, she doesn’t talk about his heroics. She talks about Jason when he was happy, with a goofy grin on his face and marshmallows stuck in his hair.

All his life Jason thought there was a certain version of himself he had to be in order to earn love. A mold he had to somehow fit himself into, no matter how uncomfortably it fit. And here Leo and Piper are, loving him even when he’s not exactly the fearless hero leader everyone’s expected him to be all his life. Even when he doesn’t know who he wants to be, or what he wants to do with his life. Even when he tells them that maybe he hates being a leader.

And Jason wonders if that’s what love is supposed to be. If he’s been doing it wrong his entire life. If maybe Reyna could have loved that version of him, too, if he’d let her see it.

But he’s so afraid of the answer to that question—so afraid that the girl he considers his platonic soulmate won’t like who he is now—that he never lets himself find out.

[yobinty]

Who's your favourite duo from pjo series? Mine is definitely Reyna and Nico 💜🖤 I just loved their friendship arc :<

[hopefulrunaways]

HAPPY PRIDE MONTH!

by your fav demigods plus my favorite parings and headcanons abt them 🫶

[readerromantic]

PERCABETH ON YOUR SCREENS COMING SOON!!!

[obsidianstrawberrymilk]

A short list of things I would have changed in HoO

It takes place ten ish years after the end of PJO. Percy and Annabeth aren’t a part of the seven but instead appear as cool older mentors to help out the Lost Hero trio. They both have careers and live in New York and go to Sally’s house for dinner every weekend.

Caleo isn’t a thing. In fact, let’s not even mention Calypso. At most we mention she was freed after the last war as idk proof demigods have some power or something.

More than 1 Asian character. Give this one ADHD and dyslexia bc shocker Asian kids can be disabled as well.

For that matter a properly disabled character. I have a deaf OC I would use if I rewrote the series.

Leo is aroace. His arc is about learning that his self worth doesn’t have to be tied to the people around him and his friends love and care about him and he doesn’t need romance to be complete. His flirting is overcompensation bc he doesn’t feel romantic or sexual attraction and is afraid he’ll be alone forever.

Drew and Piper become friends. Drew’s mean girl bullshit is outdated and boring and it would have been a lot cooler to see her icy exterior thaw and her help Piper with her charmspeck (explaining how Piper learned how to use it to begin with) and take on an older sister role

Neither Leo nor Piper become head councilors to their cabins because that’s dumb

Keep the chapter title style from PJO. It was so fun and one of the highlights of the series for me. The relatable nature of PJO in general was kinda lost in HoO and it’s a shame bc there was such a variety of characters for people to identify with there.

Give Reyna a girlfriend or at least a homoerotic friendship that can become an actual relationship in the next series or something

Frank is 14 and he and Hazel aren’t dating, they just have mutual baby crushes on one another.

For that matter what the fuck was ‘Frank is magically not fat due to Mars’s blessing’ bullshit? Frank is a fat character who stays fat but learns to be confident in himself and his body type.

Stop The Adultification of Hazel 2k23. Hazel is 13, she’s the youngest member of the seven and despite her trauma I think that should be obvious. I think emphasizing her relationship with Nico could be fun here - he’s in his 20s so him taking a more ‘that older sibling who toes the line between parent and sibling’ role here could be fun.

Also, I don’t want Hazel to have Hecate’s blessing or whatever. Between her being a magical horsegirl and the daughter of Pluto there’s already a lot of room to expand on her powers that was never used - I think doing more with her cursed jewels and metals powers and her learning the other aspects of her powers, like Shadow Travel, would be fun.

Instead I think having a daughter of Hecate as a part of the Seven would be cool, because we could still have a witchy character with mist manipulation and magic powers.

Give Jason an actual personality, please. Bro’s been a child solider practically since age 2 and has spent his whole life with the weight of other teenagers’ lives on his shoulders as praetor - give him perfectionism issues and anxiety. We’re told that he’s spent his whole life helping others compromise instead of being his own person - show that. Let his arc end with him deciding to try and live a mortal life and find out who he is beyond being a war general.

Show us that Octavian’s a piece of shit, don’t just tell us.

Leo and Piper are the ones who fall into Tartarus. Nothing romantic ever happens but we get heavy emphasis on their friendship and we get to see their grief over Leo’s mom and Piper’s grandfather respectively

Piper’s grandfather has died a few months ago and she cut her hair herself when her dad didn’t want to let her due to that (correct me if I’m wrong but it’s a tradition in Cherokee culture to cut your hair when a loved one dies, correct?), which is why it’s all uneven. A lot of her insecurities stem from going from growing up in rural Oklaholma (not in a reservation bc there aren’t any there) without much money to suddenly being catapulted into a millionaire Hollywood lifestyle and having everyone criticize everything about her and be really racist, all while her Dad drew farther away from both her and her grandfather. Her arc would be reconnecting with both her culture and Dad and learning to find who she is and her self worth again.

They defeat Gaea in a way that isn’t so anticlimactic and fucking stupid

[seagull9111]

only the best characters get those middle names...

[darkwitchingflower]

Pjo characters as quotes from me and my friends* and one from my old favourite teacher:

Will : I feel like amputating our customers is a bad idea

(@caffeinatedgh0st)

Annabeth : Hydrate or diedrate or as Nico said "hydrate or die straight" (@indecisivenb)

Reyna : How strange. They're pretending they don't respect me. (Friend not on tumblr)

Leo vibing and singing along to California Girls* : -will melt your popsical wohohoh wohoho

Percy trying to take Leos sandwich infront of him*

Leo : wohoho-NOOOOO!!! (@carpcranium)

Frank talking about how some of Canada speaks french*

Percy walking into the mess hall halfway through the conversation* : Canada isn't even a language but ok (best friend not on tumblr)

Leo: Oh ya know what? Im going comando in the cinema (best friend not on tumblr)

Calypso: do not go comando in the cinema (me)

Leo: I'm going comando in the cinema (best friend not on tumblr)

Percy: Does- does Medusa have tiny snakes for leg hair? (Me)

Nico: Imagine the screams as she shaves (best friend not on tumblr)

Frank sighing*: I wanna be a polar bear (friend not on tumblr)

Piper: Why am i arguing with a colourblind person over what colour something is (friend not on tumblr)

Jason: Despacito, play Alexa. Wait. (Me)

Leo: Cinderella is a straight man (me)

Percy: Hey coach, can I go to the bathroom a sec?

Coach hedge: No, were having fun! (favourite teacher)

Nico: No amount of Karate will save you from the heat death of the universe (@carpcranium)

Jason: King of rock and roll, instead I'm the king of stock control (@carpcranium)

*tbh I'm not even sure about some of these but they're funny and should be on here

[ilovepjo]

reyna big sister agenda!!

[symp4nat]

Sleepy sleepy Praetor

reyna ramirez arellano x reader

Being a praetor could be a lot of work. Lucky for you, your girlfriend Reyna was also a praetor.

Finally, after a long time of reports covering the desks of your shared office, the past couple of days were slow. Almost blissful.

Aurum and Argentum laid in a corner quietly, the only thing in the room that you heard was both you and Reyna's breathing.

"Go rest," Reyna said as she slouched from exhaustion in her seat, "There's no point in both of us staying up while only one of us works."

Other than that, the room was quiet, as per usual.

"Rey, it's okay," you trailed off.

"I'll take care of it," Reyna said, her voice was gentle, but her eyes were the ones with weariness. She knew she wouldn't allow you to pick up the slack. A small smile came to her face, looking at you. "Trust me."

"Rey, I'm here to help, it's okay.."

"I'm aware," Reyna said, a sigh coming from her as her eyes closed. She leaned back in her chair, her voice was soft, like a warm blanket on a cold night. "I know you are, it's just that... I can't just let you do my work."

"Well, that's both of our work... so too bad." Your eyes lingered on her face.

Reyna looked at you and laughed softly. "Why are you being so stubborn about this?"

"'Cause I don't want you doing this alone."

Reyna smiled and leaned into her seat as she closed her eyes again. "I'm not doing this alone," she said, her eyes still shut. "I have you. I have Aurum and Argentum." Reyna turned her gaze to them as well, a soft, affectionate smile on her face as she looked back at you.

"I meant humans."

Reyna laughed softly and raised an eyebrow. "We spend every day together, and our animals are better company to me than most humans. Do you know how many people I deal with every day, dear?"

You sighed, "'Course I do, baby..."

Reyna chuckled and tilted her head to look at you. "Well you don't have to worry about me."

"So you're forcing me to go to sleep?" You tried to look innocent to guilt her into letting you stay up with her.

"Well, technically not forcing as you are still awake," Reyna said, her voice a bit of a tease. She looked at you with a coy expression before she grinned. "I'm going to try to convince you to sleep. There is a big difference... Right?"

You rolled your eyes, "I'm not sleeping 'till you do."

"You're so stubborn," Reyna smirked, "I'll end up pulling an all-nighter."

"I doubt it," you said gently with a shrug.

Reyna chuckled at your stubbornness, though she knew you were right. You had this... Resilience about you. It was something she admired.

Aurum and Argentums' tails thumped softly on the floor, the two of them curled up and sleeping quietly.

"Don't laugh at me, look at our babies, they're sleeping, like you should be," you gently scolded.

She shrugged and as she spoke, her voice trailed off as her eyes shut and she leaned back into her chair, sleep beginning to pull her in.

Your hand brushed hers. "Baby!"

Reyna felt your hand brush hers and her eyes came open and looked at you with heavy eyelids. She blinked a few times and smiled at the familiarity of your touch. She wanted to fight her tiredness. "I don't want to sleep..."

"Yeah? Well, you just fell asleep," you said softly as your thumb brushed hers.

Her lip curled slightly. "I was not sleeping."

"Baby, go to bed, I don't wanna walk to my room, I'll crash on the couch," you whispered.

Reyna's face softened and she blinked as her eyes grew heavy again. It was almost impossible to stay awake. "Okay..." She finally gave in to your demand. As she leaned back, her eyelids grew heavy.

You helped her stand up and kissed her head. "I'm in the office if you need me."

Reyna looked up at you tiredly and nodded. She wrapped her arms around you and leaned against you as she helped to her feet. She let out another sigh, her lids fluttering as she tried to stay awake to say something else, but she didn't have the energy. Reyna then nuzzled against you and wrapped her arms tightly around you.

"C'mon, cuddle-bug, bedtime," you laughed.

Reyna looked up at you with a small smile and nodded against you. "Mm..." Was all she could say right now since you practically made her too tired to say anything else. Reyna nuzzled against you more and let her arms wrap tightly around you. "You're comfy..."

"And so is the bed..."

"I'm comfier with you," Reyna whispered and closed her eyes as she nuzzled more into your body. She was so tired that it would've been impossible to not fall asleep in the cozy embrace of your arms.

"I'm staying on your couch, go to bed..."

For a while, you laid there by yourself, cold as the couch was. It was uncomfortable and cold, but your eyes were still wide open. With a sigh, you glanced over to the office door and wondered if you should just go lay with Reyna. 

-

Spoiler alert, you couldn't resist her.

It's not that she minded, she pulled you closer to her and fell back asleep.

[simpingforpjo]

I'm loving the fact that Rick had to specify that "Dive-bombing a volcano wasn't in Reyna's bucket list" as if there was a chance of that happening. Like yeah *advertiser's voice* catch that flight to Greece, enjoy the beautiful views of Santorini and don't forget to bungee jump in the active and highly dangerous volcano too!! :))

[demigod-shenanigans]

I’m endlessly amused by the thought that most of the Seven probably assume Reyna has been at Camp Jupiter for most of her life and that her life was semi-normal before this (or whatever normal looks like for most demigods)

Like, I’m just imagining a scenario where they need some obscure knowledge about magic or weaving or something and Reyna just knows. Which isn’t the part that surprises people but when asked what book she read it in she just shrugs and tells them “I learned this on Circe’s Island” and refuses to elaborate

Then a while later this happens again with knowledge she got from the time she spent with the pirates.

Leo is convinced she has got to be making this shit up, but she says it with a completely straight face and Jason also nods and tells him it sounds right to him, though obviously he can’t remember the context

Percy and Annabeth can sort of confirm which just makes him even more confused

[ashyjingles]

Jason Grace and Cicero Parallels

(And Octavian and Catiline Parallels)

Okay so this is the start of me. Blogging my research experience I guess? I’m looking into Roman history starting with SPQR – A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard. It’s for my fic of Jason’s life at Camp Jupiter pre-swap (from the Heroes of Olympus Series by Rick Riordan) but also for fun. And depending on how much I talk about Jason this may or may not be comprehensible even without any knowledge of that.

I figured going chapter by chapter would help me organize my thoughts the best so I dont forget everything I wrote down by the end of the book. I mean like I have an abysmal amount of sticky notes in the book itself already but doing it this way will also keep my motivated I think

I’ll try my best to make this comprehensible in case anyone wants to follow along, but I think most of this is going to be for myself lol so I don’t have to reread the entire book for a single piece of information (hopefully)

The prologue was just a mention on how the book will be centered on the history of the city of Rome and Roman Italy because getting into the history of Roman everywhere is a bit too big of a project for one book (page 18). and I agree because SPQR is already over 500 pages already lmao

The other thing the prologue mentioned that I noted down was that SPQR is the acronym for “Senatus PopulusQue Romanus,” which means “The Senate and People of Rome.” (page 16)

Chapter 1 is titled Cicero’s Finest Hour and takes place in 63 BCE (Before Common Era). Despite Rome being founded seven centuries earlier, the Romans didn’t start recording their own history until the events of this year. As Beard put it, “Roman history, as we know it, started here,” (page 23) and is the reason she chose to start her book with the events of this year.

To summarize, Catiline (Sometimes Catilina) was a bankrupt aristocrat who tried running for one of two consuls which were the highest political positions in the city (This was before any emperors came along). He came from a distinguished old family who had a successful earlier career but was close to bankruptcy in 43 BCE and was dealing with a failing reputation. He advocated for debt relief which was “one of the most despicable forms of radicalism in the eyes of the Roman landed classes” (page 28). 

Cicero came from a wealthy family as well, but it was outside Rome and thus he was considered a ‘new man’ without any political experience in the city which was looked down on. His climb to power rested on the shoulders of only his own skills — specifically his skill at speaking to a crowd. It won him the election of 63 BCE.

Some time after the election, Cicero got wind of a plot of Catiline’s to burn down Rome. Catiline was also building an army outside of the city. Cicero called a meeting in front of the senate and gave a famous speech that he later wrote down and spread copies of. Catiline then left town after the defeat in front of the Senate. Cicero continued to try and expose everyone left in the operation and succeeded because the conspirators had tried working with a group of Ghauls “who had come to Rome to complain about their exploitation at the hands of Roman provincial governors” (page 34) and provided names of everyone involved.

Cicero rounded up everyone that had evidence against them and without giving them a trial, executed them all. “Triumphantly, he announced their deaths to the cheering crowd in a famous one-word euphemism: vixere, ‘they have lived’ — that is, ‘they’re dead’.” (page 35) Eventually Catiline’s forces were defeated with Catiline on the front line. Cicero had many supporters after this defeat of terrorism, but soon his previous act of executing citizens without trial got him run out of town. He spent some time in North Greece before he came back to Rome, and his career never fully recovered.

Okay. Now I’m here to talk about Jason and how I think he and Octavian (and Reyna) parallel Cicero and Catiline because it was literally ALL I could think about while reading this chapter.

Like Catiline, Octavian comes from a long lineage of reputable people, whether politicians or soldiers or prophets, with him being a distant ancestor to Apollo. While he isn’t at risk of going bankrupt, he does have a certain want for power that leads to him vying for the position of praetor so much that in Heroes of Olympus he repeatedly seems hostile toward Reyna. (And Percy, but given his sudden appearance, greek vibe, and Percy’s own distrust of Octavian, I wouldn't say it’s unwarranted. Plus, at this point, Octavian had already been preparing to aim for the position of praetor now that Jason was gone.) Because we never really saw him interact with Jason, I can’t say anything about his canon relationship with him. So far, Octavian parallels Catiline in his aim for power.

Catiline attempts to stage Cicero’s assassination, but it’s unsuccessful. While it’s not entirely confirmed, what Frank points out leads the audience to believe that it was Octavian that tried killing Gwen. 

Then he noticed the marks engraved into the wooden shaft of the pilum: CHT I LEGIO XII F. The weapon belonged to the First Cohort, and the point was sticking through the front of her armour. Gwen had been speared from behind — possibly after the game had ended.  Frank scanned the crowd for Octavian. The centurion was watching with more interest than concern, as if he were examining one of his stupid gutted teddy bears. He didn’t have a pilum. – Page 142, The Son of Neptune

Of course, with the doors of death being opened she lived, but both instances were an attack on a Roman from a Roman. Catiline also turns to an outside source like the Ghauls, while Octavian turns to outside sources like monsters. The monsters don’t act as a double agent toward a character playing Cicero, but they are double agents and end up being on Gaea’s side. Granted, Octavian’s enemy at that point were the Greeks, not his fellow Romans.

While this is a much looser parallel, Catiline was run out of town and killed on the front lines of the army he amassed. Octavian died in the catapults in the battle on Camp Half-Blood after being ridiculed by the protagonists. Is this a strong enough parallel for me to heavily consider it? No, but it crossed my mind and given his previous parallels to Catiline I thought it was at least mentionable.

Jason, to me, parallels Cicero. His dad is Jupiter, so while similarly to Cicero he has the background for the positions he fills, he doesn’t quite have as much experience as other candidates. Of course, he was brought to Camp Jupiter incredibly young and started building skills just as early as Octavian, but for the sake of the parallels, just go with me here. 

While Cicero relies solely on his speech skills, Jason is clearly a formidable fighter. We don’t have many instances of him using his verbal prowess, but I think that to be as good of a praetor he seems to be described as, it wouldn’t be nonexistent. Plus, while facing off against large threats such as that one giant in The Lost Hero, he has an entire speech ready on the tip of his tongue without him even having to do much to remember it. 

“I'm the son of Jupiter, I'm a child of Rome, consul to demigods, praetor of the First Legion. I slew the Trojan sea monster, I toppled the black throne of Kronos, and destroyed Titan Krios with my own hand. And now I'm going to destroy you Porphyrion, and feed you to your own wolves."  – Page 510 of The Lost Hero

While this isn’t a political speech, the rest of his lines throughout the series give his words a bit of a sophisticated feel, especially in comparison to Leo’s comedic feel. Considering he grew up in Camp Jupiter from an early age and was probably taught Cicero’s works just like many people in later years (until even now) used his works in various classes from learning Latin to studying the rhetorics of speech. Jason would have most likely seen his works growing up in various settings, so I wouldn’t think it too far-fetched to say that he probably modelled his own speeches around Cicero’s. (This is something I would like to incorporate in my fic, so if anyone has any good recommendations for specific pieces/books/sources of his speeches to read I’m open!)

While this is a sillier and much looser parallel, they both turn to either Greece or Greek culture. Cicero flees to North Greece after he’s shunned for executing citizens without trial, and while it is nowhere near the same magnitude of villainy, Jason leans toward Greek culture after his amnesia-drenched months spent at Camp Half-Blood and is shunned for becoming ‘too Greek’ along with the Argo II bombing New Rome and him going to the old lands. He does return to Camp Jupiter though as Pontifex Maximus after giving up his title as praetor to Frank when the zombies spawned by Diocletian's Scepter deem him too ‘Un-Roman’ to command them. Cicero does the same and returns to Rome a year after his exile, but while Jason flourishes (for however short of a while) his career never quite recovers.

Now, I mentioned Reyna as another Cicero parallel, did I not? Her family was long established with and favoured by Bellona, though she and her sister were her first children to be born into her line. Unlike Cicero, she had the experience and background.

However, Octavian rivals with her much throughout the series. It’s her orders he defies, it's her he tries to overthrow, and they don’t have a very friendly relationship overall no matter how professional they manage to act with each other. Her quotes speak to her eloquence (pun intended) and her ‘step too far’ as Cicero was travelling to old land against rules and counsel. Granted, I think her parallels are not as strong as Jason’s, but I think combined, she and Jason make a good Cicero parallel to rival Octavian’s Catiline.

Between all of these, I wonder if these parallels are intentional on Riordan’s part. We know that he’s used parallels before, given all of the original quests in the PJO series that Percy goes on and Silena and Clarisse’s explicit parallels to Achilles and Patroclus. It is also entirely possible I’m just reading into it too much.

Of course, there could be plenty of other parallels to myths that could fit better. I just haven’t gotten there yet. But this is the one I’m noticing now, and it’s strong enough that regardless of whether it seems to be intentional in the books, it’s one I think I’m going to be including in my fic. Foreshadowing Octavian’s plans in HoO by paralleling him and Jason/Reyna to Catiline and Cicero is something I’m really interested in doing tbh. 

If anyone’s still with me, thoughts? I’m choosing to post this to share my ideas and possibly receive some discussion on them, so feel free to support or debate any of them lol, whether it’s a small detail or the topic itself entirely. I still need to reread HoO for this project, and I’ve also never really shown this much of an interest in history so this is a little new to me lol.

Jason Grace & Cicero Parallels || Chapter 1 on Cicero (and Catiline) Lupa || Chapter 2 on Roman Founding Myths