#happy talks pjo

[happyk44]

Yes yes I agree that if Percy should've remembered anyone it should've been Sally, but please, please, please understand that a) Hera was actively fucking with his memories, it's not that Annabeth was who he remembered, it was that Annabeth was who Hera wanted him to remember and b) the reason was because Annabeth has ties to California!! And Hera needed Percy to go there. If Percy remembered anyone else, he would've been headed straight for NYC and her whole "switch the boys" thing wouldn't have worked.

Yeah, part of the Wolf House training is making the journey from the Wolf House to Camp Jupiter but Percy isn't headed there because that's the plan, he's headed there because his memories tell him that Annabeth is connected to it. If his memories said "your mom is in New York", he would've said fuck the plan and walked in the opposite direction of where he was supposed to go.

[aroaceleovaldez]

i had a thought of "do people not know what AUs are anymore?" and then i remembered nobody explains fandom stuff to new people anymore so it is entirely plausible people genuinely don't know what AUs are and nobody has explained it to them, so for today's lucky 10,000:

"AU" stands for "Alternate Universe" or "Alternative Universe" (same difference) and is basically any thought scenario for a fandom that isn't canon and can't fit within the canon universe. If it takes place in the canon universe but something is notably different, that is typically what's known as a "Canon divergent AU," because it diverges from canon.

an AU can be absolutely anything. There's a couple of widespread pan-fandom au scenarios that often get thrown around, like coffee shop aus, genderbend aus, hanahaki aus (hanahaki is a whole thing in itself i'd recommend researching on your own), etc. One you might hear sometimes is "crossover AU" which is when you have characters from one fandom interacting with characters from another.

You can have as many aus as you want. They can be whatever you want and you can do whatever you want in them. It's a sandbox for you to play around in and explore how things would be different or how the characters would act in those circumstances or environments. Maybe they have different relationships with each other. Maybe they behave slightly differently. Or you can just say "Okay, [x] is true. How did they get here? How would things have to be different for this to occur?" which can also be fun.

If you are ever confused about why people ship something that seems completely out of the blue or doesn't make sense to you in the canon setting, there's a good chance they like it in an AU setting! Not everything everybody is interacting with is necessarily the canon! Not everybody wants things to exist in canon and just want to explore playing dolls in a different sandbox and that's okay. And their sandbox might look a lot different than yours, and that's also okay. You have the freedom to make your sandbox whatever you please. Do whatever you want forever. Get funky with it. AUs are fun.

Okay that's my schpeal. everybody go have fun and play nice now.

[wonderrosss]

Thalia and Grover hanging out years in the future.... 😁

[vasinoop]

you remember this in blood of olympus right

[lynsstrange]

Something about Leah and Walker’s EXPRESSIONS during this episode. Especially the scenes where they’re fighting. There’s just something so somber and disheartening about them.

We’re seeing them getting traumatized as young children in real time. They have the weight of the world on their shoulders, and they don’t understand how to cope with it.

[ottpopfic]

Calypso is the #1 Valgrace shipper send TWEET

[happyk44]

Ohhhhhh. I love that. I think Jason with Rei's backstory would really fit a modern AU - lending from his being raised as child soldier in canon. I think in terms of Kazuki's backstory - if you wanted to keep things aligned - rather than a wife (lmao), Nico's loss would obvi be Bianca - which could make Karin be Hazel.

i feel like a jasico buddy daddies au would be neat. more incoming later probably

[hazellevessque]

MET SOMEBODY WITH A HYPERFIXATION ON SOLANGELO TODAY GOD BLESS

[sunsetcurveauto]

thinking about how annabeth ran away from home when she was seven and the first flashback to young percy we see is when he was in second grade when youre seven-turning-eight. im connecting the dots im connecting them

[laurellala-comics]

I may not be in the Percy Jackson fandom that much anymore but drawing purple Nico to represent angst and sadness is one of life's simple joys <3

[happyk44]

once jason remembers the exact location of camp jupiter and is able to provide it to the others, everyone's like we have to wait until leo is finished his giant boat then we'll go to camp jupiter and get percy, and grover's like cool beans, understood, 100% gonna wait for the giant boat to be finished, anyway i gotta go do a lord of the wild thing, don't wait up, bye!

cue him staking out camp jupiter with a pair of binoculars for a few weeks, seeing nico pop in and out, bothering him abt it and then abt percy who nico genuinely hasn't seen yet, and bing bang boom percy finally shows up carrying hera/juno on his back and grover's just "alrighty, my time to shine" and careens into him at full speed once percy's past the river and juno is just "wait is that the goat"

percy, no memories but a strong gut feeling: i think you're my best friend

grover on the verge of tears: WE ARE BEST FRIENDS

percy, clueless but enjoying the hug: oh my gods that's fucking awesome

[happyk44]

Powers Jason and Thalia could have that I regularly think about (usually in regards to Jason or my OCs with similiar powers):

Flying

Electrokinesis or whatever it's called: basically just can control lightning, wind, clouds, the sky, etc

Related to the above: lightning is electricity. Nerves are electricity. Piss them off and find yourself burning from the inside out. Find yourself being controlled like a puppet as your nerves fire off the wrong messages to your muscles and make you do things you don't want to do (kind of like blood bending)

Also they can rip the air out of your lungs

Can create storms: tornados, rainstorms, hail, gail force winds, hurricanes, lightning storms, etc

Zeus/Jupiter is the god of the sky, the sun and stars are in the sky so they can create their own light. Probably on a lesser scale than Apollo's children but yeah

Law inducement: Can force their personal rules on other people. Say Thalia believes very intensely that new and younger Hunters must be accompanied by an older Hunter. Well now you believe very intensely the same. Can be used to force enemies to join your side or to make them punish themselves if they broke a rule

Related to the above - logic manipulation: think of someone disagreeing with Jason's plan. Well he's the king, he's in charge. All he has to do is convince them he's right

Extreme sense of moral justice - black and white attitude to things (hahaha, autistic behaviour lmao). Also because of this they have a very much "you are wrong, I am right" attitude to disagreements and it is very difficult to get them to see the other side of things once they've made up their mind

Inherent leadership skills. People feel compelled to follow them and do what they say. Works well with war-related demigods like Ares/Mars, Athena, Bellona. Doesn't mesh well with Poseidon and Hades's children as the ocean will never be orderly and death cannot be controlled - requires more effort to get them in line and I like to think they can break out of easier than other people

Also related to the above: order manipulation. Say the army is out of whack? A few snapped demands and and everyone is working like a well-oiled machine. Throw a deck of cards into the air and they fall into a perfect stack. That kind of thing

Heightened senses using the air around them - can hear/smell from far distances. I headcanon that Jason, as a wolf child, is more attuned to using this power and often forgets to turn it off which leads to its own privacy issues. They can also use the air to touch - it's a different sensory thing from physical touch. Again Jason is more attuned to using this power and often does so to reach out to his friends when they're closeby

They're like a battery. The air is all around them. The sky is there. Winds whip around them and it only makes them stronger. They can summon lightning from the sky and when it hits them, it's like a power-up

Healing using air - a favourite headcanon of mine. Percy can heal himself in the water? Cool. Thalia and Jason can heal themselves with air. They have advanced healing when they're above ground, more so than most demigods, but if they want to speed it up they can use concentrated bursts of air like a bandage over the wound

Also relayed to the moral justice/law inducement: punishments. They feel like they must enact or have someone else enact punishments on rule-breakers. The more important the rule, the worse the punishment. This can be very dangerous in the event the rule that is broken is stupid

i.e. Thalia has a personal rule against eating dinner without cleaning up first. She will follow this as strictly as she can (and might not eat dinner if she can't clean up because of this). When other Hunters don't clean up, even mildly like washing their hands before eating, she feels the urge to punish them for rule-breaking. Depending on how important the rule is, her idea of justice could be forcing them to wash up after everyone else OR it could be killing them

they feel so fucking strongly about their rules that it nearly blinds them to all else (again, autistic behaviour, lmao)

I feel like people very much downplay the extent of what Zeus/Jupiter's kids can do and I don't know if it's because Rick didn't put any real thought into Jason and Thalia's powers or because people just sort of reduce Zeus down to his lightning bolt - I think people also often forget he's the god of law and order.

Anyway, I have an OC and a story (original, not fanfic) very much based on the above powers after I fell into a hole thinking about them so like, I could go on forever about it, their applications, consequences, etc.

the Big 3 kids power scale is immensely funny to me. Cause like. Percy and Nico could cause the apocalypse if they wanted to with little to no effort. They could accidentally kill somebody and barely notice. They could cause a natural disaster with a sneeze. Hazel? Could absolutely do the same but has way more control over her powers than they do, and has more specialized powers rather than their generalized powers, and also generally simply chooses not to. If she wanted to make an earthquake she could, but she doesn’t so she won’t. Thalia? As far as we know, basically just a tesla coil with an attitude. She’s never done anything more than that. Jason? Same but he can also do windy things. and then Tyson has no demigod powers because he’s just a cyclops and Bianca we never got to see the powers of except getting to keep her memories while a ghost, some implications of dream manipulation, and effects from the Lethe eventually wear off for her.

Like, technically it’s probably because Zeus/Jupiter has less forces-of-nature aspects and more like, law/business/order stuff. So Jason and Thalia just kind of get the short end of the stick in terms of physical abilities. But also it’s incredibly funny what a stark difference is between them and the other Big 3 kids. Like oh, sorry, you can only make some sparks. Meanwhile your buddy over there got startled by a bug and now it looks like Night Of The Living Dead, or a flood. Whoops.

[t1oui]

ive been thinking a LOT about percy's family in a pjo mortal au

like. percy with triton and kymopoleia, his much older siblings (im thinking triton is 18 and kym is 16 when percy is born)

and like. im thinking about triton taking care of percy while he's young, back when sally is working a lot and gabe is still around. triton who takes the train to school with percy just so percy doesn't have to go alone and who protects percy from gabe whenever he can. triton who takes care of percy when he's sick, making percy soup and cuddling in bed with him because percy can't fall asleep on his own if he doesn't feel well. triton calling poseidon out for not being around when percy needed him and generally being a great big brother

[existential-life-crisis]

Happy birthday @wrongcaitlyn (and Percy)! Here's a little token of appreciation for your dedication to the fic and amazing writing. I will be doing more fanart at some point (not sure when tho) hopefully of better quality because I low key ran out of time on this, this is the first time im drawing most of these characters and am still getting used to digital art lol. I definitely underestimated how long it would take to draw 9 people. The cake is vanilla btw ;)

Also you're more than welcome to use my username for the fic :D

Just incase its unclear:

Apollo's Tshirt - delphi records logo I made (literally just a record with the symbol of delphi in the middle. Creative I know)

Kayla's Tshirt - USA archery (USA crossed out to say Canada)

Nico's Tshirt - a misprint of his tour shirt (all readable dates are infact accurate at least roughly)

Leo's Tshirt - unreadable but its star wars

Shel's Tshirt - superache by conan grey (the shirt we first see her in is the Nico tour one which she probably wouldnt wear around him so I picked a similar artist instead)

Fun fact about the art -

Austin is playing careless whisper (probably for the 3rd time) and the notes written are accurate! (to what google said anyway)

Credits for inspo -

@delicate-sketch - nico specifically (their curly hair guide is a god send i swear)

@/aqua.en.llamas on insta - will

@mariartesz_doodles on insta - piper

The cake I saw on pintrest but a lot of people have done it on there, not sure who the original was.

[dark-elf-writes]

Ooh, idea for the Mama Poseidon au

Poseidon can’t actually visit Sally and Percy once the baby is born. Too much risk of Zeus finding out

But Amphrite can

The Olympians don’t may too much attention to her for a number of reasons. She doesn’t visit much, she keeps to herself and her kingdom. She wasn’t even a god before marrying Poseidon, but a nymph. A powerful one, yes, but still ‘just’ a nymph

(What I’m saying is Percy picks up both his mom and step moms fashion sense)

With Amphitrite occasionally stopping in there would be no reason for Sally to marry Gabe. After all who to better protect Percy than a goddess? Even her lingering presence between visits is enough to ward away all but the most reckless of monsters and even those more often than not choose to look for easier prey after they catch the gleam of celestial bronze in Sally’s hands (Amphitrite would have never left her without a way to defend herself and her son. She knows all too well what happens to women left alone.)

Sally has a lot less to worry about as Percy grows older. With Amphitrite’s occasional visits (and the gifts she brings) and no one siphoning away all the money she makes Sally is able to set up a good life for herself and her son.

(And it’s nice to have a friend and something more)

Percy grows up happy and healthy, though he gets kicked out of just as many schools because demigod, and absolutely picks up on both his mom and step mom’s styles as he grows older…leading to many bi awakenings when he goes to camp

[39nyx]

*happily impulse-writing a jason grace fic*

*pulls up his wiki page to double check some info*

FUCK, I FORGOT AGAIN--