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[dykeseinfeld]

u asked someone to remind you to post about your pjo dual protagonist thalia/bianca au and i am SO intrigued by this idea please say more

anon asked: hey queen hope your homework went good yesterday 🌸…now what were you saying about thalia and bianca 😳 ?

ok y’all i’m here...the moment almost none of y’all have been waiting for....bianca/thalia protagonists with alternating pov’s au

warning it’s kind of super long and may or may not read like a 2nd grader’s semi-coherent game of pretend so under the cut it goes!

so the main things you need to know about this au are 1. thalia survives and 2. annabeth’s + luke’s ages are a lil diff bc canon is my sandbox 3. i can’t decide if percy exists in this au or not (maybe y’all can help me decide?)

so the first book:

would start a few months after grover brought thalia (12), luke (13), and annabeth (10, not 7)  to camp half blood. they were chased by monsters sent by hades on the way, and thalia almost didn’t survive, but ultimately she got lucky and managed to send a bolt of lightning through her spear for the first time and they made it into camp

it’s been some time so annabeth is happy as a clam in the athena cabin doing her 10-year-old-with-severe-mommy-issues thing and luke is actually pretty popular with the hermes cabin bc he actually Met Their Dad Holy Shit and also he’s getting pretty good with a sword

at the same time, thalia is alone in the zeus cabin. everyone has been freaking out bc they all saw the huge bolt of lightning that incinerated a couple hellhounds as they made their grand entrance and What The Fuck Child Of The Big Three???

she’s also further isolated because chiron will take her for private training sessions sometimes, since she is clearly really powerful already and also Hades Himself was trying to kill her (chiron told her the reason was the big three’s pledge not to have kids, and maybe about the great prophecy? if he tells her that then she’s sworn to secrecy)

once grover leaves on another protector assignment, thalia mostly hangs out with luke, and annabeth. luke + annabeth both will try to eat meals with her at the zeus table but annabeth doesn’t want to get in trouble and luke is genuinely making friends in the hermes cabin so thalia will feel bad sometimes and send him back

kronos, seeing this bitter isolated child of the big three’s dreams: it’s free real estate

MEANWHILE

hades is Pissed that thalia survived and zeus got to break their oath And get the glory of a prophecy child

so he sends someone to take bianca (12) and nico (10) out of the lotus hotel and casino a little early.

grover is still their protector, but since the Stirring hasn’t begun in earnest yet and hades is lowkey determined to keep them safe, they make it back to camp half blood with no escort/incident

bianca + nico are put into the hermes cabin, and luke kinda takes them under his wing bc while he’s not bitter he still needs therapy bc this 14 year old has never met a pre-teen he couldn’t try to parent

luke introduces nico and annabeth since they’re the same age and they become really good friends!! she Loves mythomagic and he thinks her dagger is super cool and they’re both just really excited about camp <3

bianca is more reserved and resistant to the whole thing, and she wanders around alone exploring and runs into thalia in the zeus cabin

at this first meeting they get into a bit of a fight bc bianca is still in shock/denial about the gods being real, but thalia at this point has zero patience for this

anyway after that and maybe another scuffle during capture the flag or something they hit it off and become best friends in the way girls can, especially bonding over how they’ve both had to take on raising annabeth and nico basically on their own at the age of 12

~QUEST TIME~

thalia is given a quest for [unspecific reason] and chooses bianca and luke, they go off leaving annabeth and nico frustrated at home

quest hijinks etc, bianca is trying to figure out her parentage + her weird mysterious powers? and thalia is arguing with luke because he’s settling into camp/hero life really well actually but she’s getting progressively angrier with the gods for trying to kill her and also keeps getting dreams from kronos and doesn’t get why he doesn’t seem to remember all of the shit that the gods have put him through

bianca + thalia have las-vegas-style-heart-to-hearts where thalia shares her tragic backstory about her mother and her brother and how hades tried to kill her and even about the great prophecy and how she’s trying on this quest bc of that and her dad but at the same time these dreams are making her suspicious that he might’ve been responsible for her mom’s death.

bianca then shares her own stuff, about how terrified she was being on her own with nico having to protect him but also not remembering most of her childhood and not remembering her parents or how she ended up in the care of this lawyer and just the absolute mindfuckery that her memories/past are

luke is asleep in those scenes i guess lol 🧍‍♂️

anyway eventually they finish their quest in this massive climactic battle where bianca discovers her powers in a huge-showy-”i’m the ghost prince”-way and is formally claimed by hades which thalia sees as this Massive Betrayal obviously and bianca is horrified too because she knows what hades did to thalia but at the same time she’s just so happy to finally understand at least part of her past

thalia just reaches a breaking point though because everyone around her just doesn’t understand her anger and just when she thought she had found another sympathetic person who understood what she was going through she joins hades??? no. no fucking way. kronos reveals that he’s the one who has been sending her dreams, prob by sending some messenger who he possesses or smthing and when he offers thalia the chance to join him? she does (dun dun dun)

main beats of the rest of the series:

thalia and bianca on opposite sides of the war training to be the prophecy child, they come together a Lot and have like melodramatic fight scenes where they talk out their anger and try to get the other to join them bc they don’t want to kill each other

luke is extremely conflicted/betrayed and there’s a titan’s curse moment prob towards the end of the third book where they’re fighting and thalia is trying to get her to go with him but here he actually does go to join her (gasp!!) and is evil for at least one book but his heart’s not in it and he goes back to the good side eventually

by the point of luke’s betrayal, annabeth and nico are growing and developing and old enough to go on quests w bianca and by the last book they’re a main trio of sorts and their hypothetical character development is already making me emotional

there’s just a lot of general sexiness with foils and inner conflicts and bianca doesn’t even want to be the prophecy child but she needs to for the fate of the world and bianca is so angry at thalia bc thalia is a daughter of zeus and could control her powers and is perfect and just meant to be the prophecy kid, not some daughter of hades who they didn’t even have a cabin for before

hm maybe by either the last or second-to-last book thalia + bianca are close to reconciling or at least their interests are aligned for the moment and they read the text of the prophecy together and things go Wild bc they both think “single choice shall end his days” either is about luke or nico and it turns up the gas to their fighting both of them care about both of them and yeah

and then i can’t decide if there’s romantic arcs at all but if there were it would go like this:

just a dash of thaluke where at first it was luke having a one-sided crush but thalia misses him a Lot after she goes to kronos and wonders if it’s that she misses him or if it’s something More until to get him to defect there’s like a melodramatic moment in the fight where thalia kisses him and they go off to be Evil Together but it ends bc luke doesn’t believe in the cause and only joined her in hopes of getting thalia back to his side

once luke leaves/is kicked out thalia realizes that she didn’t love luke she just wanted a family and also in the second half of the series she realizes she’s a lesbian as a parallel to her redemption arc

bianca meanwhile is unconcerned w romance until she has her botl-hoe-moment where within one book she 1. runs into the hunters on a quest and has a thing with zoe nightshade who tries to get her to join plus tells her about that time she met thalia, 2. she goes to calypso’s island and falls in love w her in the moonlight or w/e and has her what-if moment, and 3. when they meet up that book thalia somehow knew abt zoe + calypso and seems almost angrier abt them  than the war?? weird bc bianca knows that thalia is Totally Straight right??

my main point is that bianca/thalia is our friends-to-enemies-to-lovers endgame thank you i will take my pulitzer now

[fen--harel]

for the questions! alaina: 5, 18, 35, 61, 89; stefan: 22, 50, 60, 73, 93; kal: 14, 25, 40, 56, 77; etienne: 19, 43, 53, 86, 90; vanessa: 6, 28, 53, 82, 96

ALAINA

5 - Who is the first person in your contacts?

It would honestly prob be Asiel ?? Because Alaina would have absolutely no concept of last names and it would be in alphabetical order so it would be “Asiel *insert heart emojis and shit*”

18 - If you were given a chance, would you like to have a different life?

Definitely no !! I feel like the only reason she would have wanted another life so she could be happy and with her birth parents, but once Alaina gets married to Stefan and has her kids she’s super happy and content with her life. It’s like all the suffering she had done had all led her up to the point where she would finally be happy in her life. And she would never leave her current life and end up in a life where Stefan and her kids didn’t exist. 

35 - How’s your heart?

Her heart is so strong !!! And so kind !! And so loving !! And bless her tbh :’)

61 - What hair color do you prefer?

I think Alaina would love her natural dark brown hair but she also loves being blonde !! I think an appropriate Alaina response to this would be “I love all hair colors!” 

89 - Who’s the person who first comes to your mind when someone mentions “love”?

There’s like ten people, don’t do this to her. Honestly though, I think the first thing to come to mind would be romantic love so of course Stefan. And then simultaneously tho, like maybe a milisecond later it would be family/friend love and then comes like Brose, Asiel, her kids, the mafia famiglia, etc. 

STEFAN

22 - Who is your bestfriend?

OF COURSE IT’S ERASMUS !! WHO ELSE !! And no Alaina doesn’t count bc she’s his wife. But also I would consider her one of his best friends because he can truly be himself around her. I mean he can with Erasmus of course !! But I guess not to the affectionate extent he can with Alaina ?? And then I think I can see him get pretty close with Ruben, Eliane, and even Ferran !! 

50 - Do you regret your past?

No, the same thing with Alaina, he would feel like he wouldn’t be where he was today if he didn’t have the current life and had lived his current past. 

60 - Did you slap anyone whose name starts with an “R”?

STEFAN SINCLAIR DOESN’T SLAP PEOPLE ?? THAT IS SO BENEATH HIM. If he did though it would probably be like Ruben or smthing lmao 

73 - Have you ever sacrificed something important to you for someone you love?

Honestly, I think Stefan pretty much sacrifices his dignity and his long held “evil mafia boss” persona for his family ?? Like once he and Alaina get together everyone can tell Stefan becomes nicer and less moody and he starts to really understand people more and starts to have a bit more empathy ?? It was big character development for Stefan to push his pride aside and admit he loved Alaina and that pretty much changed him as a person. And then when his kids come along he does other stuff that he never would have done before like pretending to be a prince and drinking fake tea with baby Odi, driving his limo through a drive-thru so Emil and Michele can get their fast food, helping Rosaire pick out a tux for homecoming, and kissing Hermine and telling her how proud he is of her in front of other people at her dance class. Like he just becomes more ?? Idk, kinder pretty much, and more open with his affection and he’s willing to put aside his snobby and selfish personality aside for his family. 

93 - Do you believe in destiny?

STEFAN’S NOT CESAIRE !! LMAO !! He definitely doesn’t believe in destiny and just thinks that if you want something you can definitely achieve it through hard work and that things happen bc well, they just happen, and if you want it to change then you can change it. 

KAL

14 - What do you want to be in the future?

Kal doesn’t care about his future or where he’s going. I think that’s one thing that’s just super interesting about him is that he has no concern for like ?? his wellbeing ?? like he doesn’t concern himself with having money, being safe, or finding stability. he pretty much acts purely on instincts and current desires and he always follows through. He says he’s gonna try to kill the Demonio Famiglia ?? Then you bet your ass he’s gonna try to kill the Demonio Famiglia. 

25 - Who do you spend crazy moments with?

Definitely with everyone in the Divina Commedia !! And honestly every moment with Kal is a crazy moment. For gods sake he stabbed Eliane and then proceeded to flirt with her. Like what ?? Being near Kal is like playing Russian Roulette, like maybe it’ll be a normal encounter, or maybe you’ll walk away with no eye ?? Who knows ?? 

40 - Did you try to change for a person?

NO LMAO !! Even with Eliane in his life he’s p much no different ?? Because he “loves” her but it’s honestly as close to love as your gonna get with Kal which is p much a weird “ur the exception” obsession and you bet ur ass if Eliane tried to leave he’d make it so she couldn’t. And even though he does what Eliane wants for the most part he’s still himself. Like that whole scenario when Eliane tells Kal she wants a normal life and kids, he tells her they can try to have it ofc, but he’s not gonna stop killing and he can’t guarantee he’d truly love their children. Like he’d fake it ofc and never let his kids know he’s a murdering sociopath, but he could never truly change himself. 

56 - Did you fall for someone you shouldn’t?

There’s not should or shouldn’t with Kal. It’s just “do”. He has absolutely no sense of morals. 

77 - What kind of person are you?

A MURDERING SOCIOPATH !! Kal literally has no sense of morals and does what he pleases. Long story short, he lives a hedonistic lifestyle where the only thing he cares about is fulfilling his own desires.

ETIENNE

19 - What was the best thing you were given?

A name !! He was known as “the orphan boy” at the brothel, either that or other names like “rat”. So when (im blanking on her name rn !!! and charahub is down !!!) so when his “mom” gave him a name it was honestly one of the rare moments in his life that he actually cherished. 

43 - Are you in a good or bad mood?

Unless Etienne has whatever he currently wants at the time he’s ALWAYS in a bad mood !!! He’s always sad and cynical, he just doesn’t show it. 

53 - Do you have a grudge against anyone?

Mafia famiglias in general. It’s because of them that he lost his mother and had a terrible childhood and he will never forgive them. Which is why he spends his entire life built on revenge and trying to destroy all mafia families. 

86 - Have you ever had an argument with someone?

I feel like since Etienne is super fake he would never truly have an argument ?? He would just go along with whatever ___ was saying and then p much disregard them. And no one in Les Sirenes Noires would ever say a word against him. 

90 - Do you think all the pain is worth it?

Only if the pain is against the people he hates LOL !! His mother didn’t deserve the pain she went through, she didn’t deserve her death, and neither did he deserve all that emotional and physical pain that he suffered through when he was little. 

VANESSA

6 - What is your favorite song as of the moment?

Want Your Love and Nightlife by Sickick !! she’s definitely into all the current music and loves whatever is on the radio. She especially loves r&b and pop !

28 - What kind of music do you listen to?

OH LOL !! Like I said she loves r&b and pop ! She also loves hip hop, pretty much any song that you can dance to at a club. That’s her style! 

53 - Do you have a grudge against anyone?

Vanessa doesn’t have the energy to waste it on people that don’t matter !! So she definitely doesn’t hold grudges bc that’s so tiring ?? And anyone that irks her gets their ass whipped anyways. 

82 - Who is the 6th person in your contacts?

Ferran !! I could definitely see her get along super well with Ferran and they would take super aethetic instagram posts at organic restaurants and people would think they were like some beautiful couple or smthing but unforetunately she’s with Asiel. 

96 - Do you believe that first true love never dies?

Vanessa isn’t the kind of person to believe in “true” love, she believe that you can make deep connections with anyone in life and if it’s meant to be it’ll stay and if not it’ll go.