#echo pjo

[demigodpolls]

feel free to explain your answer!

[cabin10diaries]

you know how caleo shouldve ended? not together

first of all, where is the romance. they have all the banter and none of the cutes (except in the like, what, one/two scenes calypso tells someone not to attack leo in toa? i barely even remember)

theyre more like. siblings honestly

leo x jason and echo x calypso shouldve obv been canon 😞 (/j thats not the poijt here but i do love both ships)

they have totally different things they want in life

calypso wants to finally live it. she's spent so long on that gods forsaken island isolated, and she now finally has a chance to actually do shit !!! be a contributing member of society !! figure out who she is, what she wants, what to do with the rest of her life !!!

leo is finally done running. he's found his home: the waystation, chb, piper, not-dead-jason. he deserves to rest after everything he's been put through, and so he will; live life comfortably, finally stay in one place, have a stable family with unconditional love he so needs !!!

literally midnight rain by tswift

calypso deserves to go out and live her life, leo deserves to sit back and enjoy his

which is why they should go their seperate ways and at most be friends !!! (or siblings depending on waystation hcs <3)

[manygeese]

Trick or treat!

Flower

okay so backstory. there was a poll about the best rarepair and one of them was echo x calypso and I was like WOW! very good concept so I wrote it but I never finished it. excerpt here

~*~

Echo didn’t know how she got there.

One moment, she had been in Salt Lake City, trying to get Narcissus to look up from that godsforsaken pool, and the next she had been sucked into the ground and spat out onto a random island. Gaea had to have had something to do with it, she thought, if the hand that pulled her under in Utah had anything to do with her circumstances. Maybe that meant Echo had a chance with Narcissus, if Gaea felt it necessary to remove her from the equation.

So maybe Echo did know how she got there. But who was the lady standing over her, with cinnamon hair lit up at the edges, and a dress that made her think of the old days?

Just looking at the woman brought Echo back to Greece- running through the forest with her sisters, making flower crowns, and making Hera so angry that she cursed you. Ah, those were the good old days.

Which had her thinking- was this girl associated with Gaea as well? Was this island just where the Earth Goddess put fussy nymphs that interfered with her plans? Welcome to Exile Island: population, 2.

[witchhazelevesque]

An amnesia after resurrection au where instead of needing the curse of Delos to anchor a soul that shouldn't be anchored, what the seven need is water from the Lethe and from the Styx, because they are the gateway to rebirth and the gateway to the afterlife, and they create the needed balance.

Leo doesn't like this because it reminds him too much of Calypso's curse, where she relives the first day of her exile again and again, the realization that she will always be alone. It broke his heart each morning she would walk out of her cave to find him and be so relieved to see someone else there. It reminds him too much of Echo, who could not be remembered, even when she herself would never forget those she held dear.

They have Styx water on board, but the Lethe comes from Apollo, because it is tangentially medicinal with its calming effects. Asclepius explains that like the oracle of Trophonius and drinking from the fountains of memory and forgetfulness, the person who takes the cure will not receive the usual effects of either river's water.

But Nemesis exists everywhere, and the dead are owed a boy, and in a way, they get one.

When Leo returns to life, he returns with even less than what Juno left Jason when she took him from his life. He doesn't know his name or where he comes from or why he's sitting on a flying metal dragon, high above an ocean.

The dragon is the least of his worries, because he feels comfortable in his seat, like his body has done this so much he doesn't need to think at all.

And when he returns to an island he doesn't know he's been to before and meets a young woman he doesn't know was once his friend, he doesn't realize he's fulfilling a vow a different version of him swore.

She doesn't realize that she has learned his name many times. He learns hers and he sees that her punishment is unjust, and he has a ride and free seats and nowhere to be except anywhere but here.

[corvid-ghost]

Guys the chapters in Leo's perspective about echo and narcissisus were very bi of him, like no straight man would describe him like that, and his interactions echo were so cute

[sapphicmcmean]

echolypso ... drewbeth ... piplou ... shelchel !

[bunkernine]

But anyway before they meet narcissus/echo, nemesis tells hazel and leo that those two will teach them a lesson. But what hazel gathered from narcissus is that "demigods can't change/escape their nature" but idk shit about hazel so LEO :) he gathers his lesson from echo:

Leo had thought she’d meant Narcissus, but now he wondered if the real lesson for him was Echo—invisible to her brethren, cursed to love someone who didn’t care for her. A seventh wheel. He tried to shake that thought. He clung to the sheet of bronze like a shield. (moa, ch 8)

Echo is pretty sad because she still clings to her beliefs despite no one caring about her, and even Leo forgets her, like immediately but this comparison is sooooo entertaining. Before nemesis had left, she had said: “You will see yourself reflected, and you will have reason to despair.” ← Since it's Leo's pov we only see Leo doing that, but it's safe to say hazel doesn't see herself in narcissus or echo. Except Leo obvs sees himself in echo who is TRYING but never sees her happy ending onscreen :'(

[demigods-posts]

i'm one hundred percent certain that after percy and annabeth made out underwater. and he wanted to make their relationship official. the question was not "will you be my girlfriend?" but "can i be your boyfriend?" i don't care what the canon says. percy gave annabeth the space to take the lead in the relationship. because after a lifetime of being abandoned by everyone she dared to care for. and then watching her on the brink of a panic attack at the thought of losing him the last four years. he wanted to honor a new beginning between them by follow her lead and moving at her pace.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i have suddenly become obsessed with a theme that HoO established but never proceeded to extrapolate on, which is:

You are Percy Jackson, and you have been swapped with a boy who was allegedly everyone's favorite person, but they have decided to replace him with you. They just met you. You stand next to his best friend and the people he's known his entire life. In his home. In his cloak. In his place. They stopped looking for him.

You are Jason Grace, and you have just found out you have a long lost sister who completely replaced you in her life with this girl you just met. Your lives and personalities are mirrors. She is you, living the life you were robbed of.

You are Annabeth Chase, and you have just become starkly aware that you have been inhabiting the void left behind by your best friend's long lost brother. You and Luke were just replacements for him. Now you have to look him in the eyes when he has nothing and know you took that life from him.

You are Piper McLean, and you have just found out your relationship is fake and built entirely on the memories of Annabeth Chase. You have been given a boyfriend when hers has been taken away. You have no idea how much of it is real or not but regardless you feel like if your relationship isn't exactly in their image that you have failed.

You are Leo Valdez, and you have just learned that you are the echo of your great-grandfather. You are not your own person. You just exist to be a mirror of him. A doppelganger. An actor and stunt double facing all the danger he never had to but wearing his face. To be there for his best friend decades later simply because he couldn't. You are playing a role. A seventh wheel and a pawn for a goddess who carefully sculpted your entire life for her own purposes.

You are Hazel Levesque, and the only reason you are alive is because your brother couldn't save your his sister. You are a consolation prize. An apology. Your existence here is misplaced in every way but you inhabit it anyways.

You are Frank Zhang, and you are a shapeshifter. Inhabiting your own body feels strange and clumsy when you could be literally anything at any time. You are anything and everything and live your life with the simple certainty of knowing exactly how you will die.

[bookalicent]

yeah so this was insane

[thebadboysuprememcshizzle]

Okay actually like why does nobody talk about Leo and Echo bc that chapter is gonna make me cry.

“Leo closed his eyes, but the memory of her smile was already fading”

why don’t you just kill me now actually

[cabin10diaries]

soo. hear me out. right. echo and calypso band au

echo, like calypso, eventually got rescued by leo (like, idk, maybe they were flying nearby so memories sort of happened and leo was like. hey i could Totally help her now !! or smth) and her curse is taken away as well

she now has her voice back. calypso and her have lives ahead of them, and they have only each other to understand what theyve gone through (eternal curses by gods)

echo wants to make use of her voice again, and calypso wants Something in her life. so. band !!! of course, a band is more fun with more people. so. they get 3 more people: hunter, leo, shel. piper helps with outfits, rachel helps out with advertising & venues & etc. lityerses is their manager, with jo & emmie & georgina as their biggest fans. britomartis and sssarah help backstage, olujime sometimes comes to concerts with his gf

echo: vocalist

calypso: lead (electric) guitar

hunter: bass guitar

leo: drums

shel: keyboard

[jessmalia]

Percy: *comes up with a great lie to cover their asses in a heartbeat after Annabeth stuttered, unable to think of anything* Annabeth: You're stupid

???

[witchhazelevesque]

"Echo?" Leo calls, scanning the tall grass of the fields for slight disruptions. "Echo, are you here?"

"Here?" a voice returns, sounding confused and Leo's heart swells. 

"Echo!" he calls, gingerly walking Festus down so they don't accidentally step on her. 

"Echo!" comes the voice, sounding a little stunned, like she's saying Leo's own name in return, surprised that he came back. 

"Where are you?" Leo asks. 

"Are you?" she asks back. 

"Yeah, I- I'm here, are you okay? Did things-" Leo stops himself from asking if things with Narcissus worked out, spins the sentence into "Did things calm down once Gaea went back to sleep?"

"Sleep!" she says excitedly, and Leo doesn't know if that means she finally got some peace to sleep in.

"Okay!" Leo calls back, "Um, I guess I'll just keep talking so you can keep answering until I've found you-"

"Found you!" her voice says, very close. 

He looks down, sees a rippling next to Festus's front leg, and he beams.

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part 3 of angelon, celosia, nemesia, hellebore

[echo-stimmingrose]

I'm just saying Calypso and Leo could have been AMAZING friends if Rick didn't have to ruin it with that god awful relationship that was caleo.

Like a girl who has been forced to fall in love with every guy she's met that she can't have, finally meeting someone that can just be her friend and help her escape. Someone who can show her the world without any of the romantic expectations behind it.

And Leo having a single friend who's he doesn't have to feel like he's third wheeling with. Who can share a similar interest in craftsmen ship. Leo learning that his purpose doesn't have to come from a relationship.

Calypso and Piper eventually teaming up to get Valgrace together once jiper break up.

Not having any of the awkward tension between Leo and Percy because of Leo blaming Percy for not rescuing her as a fourteen year old.

Calypso apologizing to both Annabeth and Percy for what she put them through in Tartarus.

And more. They had so much potential as friends instead of the downright illegal and emotionally abusive relationship they did have.

[sapphicmcmean]

drewbeth pipachel echolypso you will always be beloved by me