#julia connors

[critical-quoter]

'You,' he says and takes a deep breath, 'are the biggest risk I never took, and I've regretted it for five years. I'm not making that mistake again.'

On the Line - Julia Connors

[blueysbookshelf]

2024: Book 11 - Center Ice

Center Ice by Julia Connors My rating: 4 of 5 stars I know I keep mentioning in my reviews that I’m not a fan of “accidental pregnancy” and I tend to lump the “secret baby” trope in with that, because it must have been accidental if it was secret…right? That being said; this book was solid, despite the annoyance of a surprise accidental baby. Drew was an interesting character, carrying regret for the way he handled things with Audrey before he left Boston for the NHL and able to accept that he had been in the wrong, however messed up he was at the time. That’s unusual and I enjoyed it quite a bit I also enjoyed Audrey’s growth and the career she and her sister had built for themselves. She was strong and capable…but of course she held a grudge for too long. The only rub…and the whole plot kind of hinged on it, was essentially a miscommunication. And listen, I get that most issues in a relationship are because of miscommunication, but there has to be a better way. Audrey shouldn’t have stopped trying to reach him. sigh The book was good though and I did enjoy it, despite the kid that kicked off the whole plot was there, well, just for the plot. He was constantly being babysat by his relatives and I wonder if that was because the author didn’t want to actually write a kid or what? I’d still probably reread it though. I use the CAWPILE Review method for my reviews (see explanation here), just to keep me honest and help me understand what exactly I liked/didn't like. My ratings are below. Characters: 7/10 Atmosphere/Setting: 7/10 Writing: 8/10 Plot: 8/10 Intrigue: 8/10 Logic/Relationships: 8/10 Enjoyment: 8/10 Total rating 54/70 divided by 7 = 7.7 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 🌶️ 🌶️ View all my reviews

[moss-the-irishman]

Riordanverse race/nationality headcanons (Main characters and background characters alike)

This may be a very long post, and I’m throwing in little tidbits about appearances, so with no regard to any particular order, strap in:

(Seriously, this is a huge post)

Edit: Changed Luke from just Korean American to mixed Argentinian/Korean American, inspired by @tagthescullion

The Seven (Including Nico and Reyna):

Percy Jackson: Biracial White/Latino, Cuban American (Sally was born in Havana, she had Percy shortly after moving to the US)

Annabeth Chase: Biracial Black/White, Irish/African American (with Swedish, Ghanaian and Polish descent)

Jason (And Thalia, by extension) Grace: White German American (Beryl moved from Germany to the US)

Piper McLean: Native American, Cherokee

Leo Valdez: Latino, Mexican, Born in Texas

Hazel Levesque: Black, African American, New Orleans (1940's French Creole)

Frank Zhang: Chinese Canadian, Vancouver

Nico Di Angelo: White, Italian with Russian descent, 1920’s Venice

Reyna Avila Ramirez Arellano: Latina, Puerto Rican

Camp Half Blood:

Will Solace: Biracial White/Bangladeshi American, Texas

Luke Castellan: Mixed Argentinian/Korean American (Born in the US, May (or Mi-Hee) grew up in a Argentine Korean community in Buenos Aires before she moved to the US and met Hermes)

Malcolm Pace: White with albinism, Scottish, Glasgow

Travis and Connor Stoll: Mixed Scottish and Laotian, Edinburgh (Source: @freddie-77-ao3)(I think in the TV show, they cast two Asian boys as the Stolls, so I've made them Asian)

Alice Miyazawa: Japanese American, Los Angeles

Julia Feingold: White Luxembourger, Luxembourg City

Cecil Markowitz: White Austrian/Northern Irish (Born in Graz, grew up in Belfast since he was two, has dual citizenship)

Katie Gardener: White Scottish, Aberfoyle

Castor and Pollux Vintner: Black, Irish (Pollux is Albino, Castor wasn’t), Donegal

Michael Yew: Mixed Irish and Chinese, Limerick (Granny moved from China)

Lee Fletcher: White Irish, Donegal

Clarisse La Rue: Mixed French/Pakistani American, Arizona (Mother moved from France)

Chris Rodriguez: Afro-Latino, Nicaraguan (Moved to the states when he was seven, lived in the same neighbourhood as Clarisse)

Silena Beauregard: Blasian, African American and Filipino, Mississippi (French descent)

Charles Beckendorf: Black, African American

Jake Mason: White American, Wyoming

Harley Smythe-Davidson: Biracial White/Aboriginal Australian (Source: @freddie-77-ao3)

Nyssa Barrera: Latina, Panamanian, Panama City

Shane O’Doherty: White Irish, Laois

Christopher Chalkevas: White Greek/English (Born in Larissa, moved with his mother to Hackney, London at age five, has dual citizenship)

Clovis Karlsen: Wasian, Welsh (Welsh/Norwegian grandad, Indonesian granny, Source: @ashthenerdtheythem)

Chiara Benvenuti: White Italian, Florence

Alabaster C. Torrington: British Indian, English, Westminster

Lou Ellen Blackstone: Black with vitiligo, British Ghanaian, Birmingham

Drew Tanaka: Japanese American, New York City

Valentina Diaz: Latina, Colombia

Mitchell Singh-Donovan: Mixed Indian and Irish, Cork

Lacy Alfsen: White Danish, Copenhagen

Ethan Nakamura: Japanese, Tokyo

Damien White: White Irish, Northside Dublin

Miranda Gardiner: Vietnamese American, Massachusetts (Distant Irish ancestry)

Billie Ng: Wasian, Irish/Thai Canadian, Toronto (She grew up in Longford till she was seven, then she and her mortal dad moved to Canada)

Sherman Yang: Chinese American, Alaska

Marcus (Mark) Dooley-Wallace: White Irish American, Georgia

Ellis Wakefield: Black, Algerian

Holly and Laurel Victor: Sri Lankan American, Seattle

Meg McCaffery: Wasian, Irish/Vietnamese American

Camp Jupiter:

Dakota Cheshire: Black, Bermudian

Gwendolyn Nunez: Hispanic, Spanish American

Bobby Herrera: Latin American, New Mexico

Lavinia Asimov: White Russian, born in San Francisco

Larry Schumacher: White American, North Carolina

Leila Grunfeld: White American, Colorado

This has been a very exhausting post to make lmao. I gave some of the characters who don’t have canonical surnames my own Hcs for their surnames. Also, I am yet to read through trials of Apollo, so maybe I’ll come later back to add more Roman names to the list.

Tagging my moots that I like to see their opinions for this (as well as the ones I tagged within the list as well):

@aki-bara @ravingcoffeeaddict @ebony-reine-vibes @squiggle3worm @sleep-needer

[sync-nd]

yikes! old art! from 2020 😥

[kurtcobaingirlie]

i love how we agree that challengers is brat coded

[theamazingmaddyas]

Look, I love The Sun and The Star as much as the next person; as someone who's written and consumed Solangelo media for years, but also loves comparing fics and headcanons to canon, the fact that I could get confirmation about whether headcanons of mine could possibly line up with the author's was amazing.

That being said, one super minor detail that has irked me since I bought the digital version of The Sword of Hades despite having a physical copy in The Demigod Files just so I could read the preview of the first chapter is what happened to the year rounders from the Hidden Oracle.

While we can't get tons of information on every minor character because the books would be miles long, but every character has their own story, even if we can't see it. Chiron says in TSATS that demigods probably want to see the world, especially after the few years they had, but if they've stayed at camp for a while, do they have a place to go? Do they have somewhere to live outside camp?

With this in thought, and more, I give you; my headcanons for what every single minor demigod at CHB in TOA is doing during the events of TSATS:

Note: I'm skipping Will, Nico, Austin, and Kayla as we know where they are as TSATS states it explicitly.

Billie Ng — Aeithales

Aeithales, for those who aren't great with place names, is the name of Philip McCaffrey's botany research facility that Meg refurbished for herself, the nymphs from the greenhouse, the Meliai, the children from Nero's army, Lu, and Herophile. It doesn't seem completely out there to believe that Meg invited her sibling(s) who don't have mortal families, whether because they're deceased or they don't get along, to live with her. Especially since Meg is working to restore Aeithales to it's former glory.

I hc she's about 14, so she'd probably attend the local high school with the older Nero adoptees.

Miranda Gardiner — College

While Miranda's age is not known, I personally believe she's around the same age as Percy. [I have no sound evidence for this, besides the fact that I believe Katie is the same age as Travis (because Tratie, a staple ship) and Travis attends college a year before Percy (as he is there in THO) and as Miranda is most probably Katie's second in command (because Miranda is said to be counselor in TLH instead of Katie, it can be assumed that Katie is a summer camper and therefore Miranda is in charge when she's not around. Like Malcolm for Annabeth or Sherman for Clarisse) I think she's a little bit younger than her, assuming that they were similar ages when they first attended camp.] which would put Miranda as a freshman in college during TSATS as Percy and Annabeth are freshman.

I personally believe Miranda would attend college, probably majoring in something agricultural or environmental.

Sherman Yang — College

Due to the fact that Sherman and Miranda are dating, I have come to the conclusion that Sherman is a similar age to Miranda. Now, whether he's attending the same school as his girlfriend or not, I'm not sure, but I feel in my bones that Sherman would go to college for kinesiology or exercise science.

Ellis Wakefield — High School in Arizona

Ellis was the hardest for no reason, because I hc he's younger than Sherman by a year or two, meaning he's not at college age yet (I do think he wants to attend college though), but rather a senior in high school, and then I thought, Clarisse would absolutely take in one of her siblings if she realizes that they'd be the only Ares kid at camp.

He lives in a small apartment just off campus of the University of Arizona with Clarisse and Chris, who are starting their sophomore year, and attends a local high school near by.

I have no proof for this, but I feel in my heart that he plays baseball and Clarisse and Chris go to every game, and Clarisse almost gets kicked out multiple times for yelling at the umpire. Also, Sherman comes every so often, and that's when things get really crazy and he and Clarisse do, in fact, get kicked out, leaving a really awkward Chris alone in the stands.

Malcolm Pace — SODNYC

Following in his older sister's footsteps, I hc that Malcolm goes to the School of Design Annabeth attends in COTG and WOTTG for his senior year. I personally hc he's a year younger than Annabeth, which would put him at like 17, so he'd live in the dorms there for a year before moving to a college to study architecture (since battle strategy isn't a major, lol)

Harley — Waystation

I have talked about this quite a bit, both on here and on ao3 through my fics, but Harley's adopted by Jo and Emmie and him and Georgina are best friends.

Honestly, Harley's the main reason I've become obsessed with finding out where every minor character is, because if any demigod deserves a fleshed out backstory, it's Harley.

He's eight in THO. Eight! And he's already been at camp for over a year since he's also in TLH. And because TLH mentions no new Hephaestus campers before Leo have arrived in a hot minute because of the curse, we can infer he's been at camp for at minimum, a year and a half by TOA, which means he arrived at, maximum, seven (or seven and a half if he turns 9 right after Apollo leaves camp). And the first series drills it in our head that Annabeth is an anomaly for coming to camp so young, so Harley, not only being a camper, but a year rounder, probably means he doesn't have a mortal family. (I wrote my own version of Harley's backstory, with this hc on ao3, called Wanting to Feel Safe) so yeah! Also, Harley and Leo are very close (see, the entirty of THO) so when Leo finds a family willing to take him in, his little brother isn't too far behind.

Harley's in third grade, is a math wiz, but struggles with spelling. He's also in the same class as Georgie.

Nyssa Barrara — Waystation

You think Leo's leaving Nyssa behind while taking Harley? Think again. I personally believe Nyssa's probably a year or two younger than Leo, which would put her at around her sophomore or junior year of high school, and she probably attends the same school as Leo and Calypso.

Valentina Diaz — BAG

For those who aren't The Kane Chronicles fans (go read them, they're amazing) Drew and Lacy both make an appearance as they attend Brooklyn Academy for the Gifted with Sadie Kane. I like to think that Val joins her sisters at the school studying fashion history (as she shows an interest in it in CHB Confidentials) (Lacy studies fashion design and Drew theater, source: me) and that she stays with Lacy and her father so she can attend school. She still goes to visit camp during holidays along with Lacy and Drew (as we see them at camp during winter break in TLH).

The reason she's not at BAG in TOA with them is because she found out she was a demigod only right after the war and therefore didn't have time to fill out the application to attend.

Connor Stoll — College

Connor and Travis are reunited in college once more! Yay!

I think Connor's studying linguistics, which Travis is studying business administration (though he's a sophomore already)

Cecil Markowitz — hanging with Lou Ellen Blackstone

Source: I made it myself.

As I hc Cecil being around the same age as Will (who's 15/16), he's not old enough to go away to college, or begin adulting like some of the others, so why not stay with his best friend?

They send Will letters in the mail all the time because Will, Cecil, & Lou friend group supremecy.

I also hc that Cecil is the boy that Hermes mentions from Wisconsin that Hermes has Percy promise to bring to camp, though that doesn't really affect where he's ending up.

Alice Miyazawa — her family

I hc that Alice's relationship with her family is strained because of her being more of a "troubled" kid (I also hc she has kleptomania) so that's why she's at camp year round in THO.

So, I think she's going to try with her family again.

Also, I hc that Alice (and Julia) are the two girls from Los Angelos that Hermes mentions to Percy in TLO so her family's in California.

Julia Feingold — with Alice's family

See previous note about Alice and Julia being the two girls from L.A.

Alice wouldn't try with her family again if Julia wasn't there, because they've been attached at the hip since they met at juvie in L.A. as kids, so Julia goes with her.

Damien White — Working

Chiara is stated to be about 18, and her and Damien are probably in a relationship, so it's not too off base to believe that Damien is probably around 17 or 18.

I don't think Damien decides to go to college (maybe later but I doubt it), so he decides to just go and join the job force as he's legally an adult now. What job? I dunno. He's in a union though, I can feel it in my bones.

Also, a little off topic but Apollo saying he didn't know if he wanted to steal Chiara from Damien or Damien from Chiara lives rent free in my head.

Holly Victor— Boarding School

Holly and Laurel are the only two who Chiron had a hand in them not being year rounders, because they're a lot. He's been training for thousands of years, he needs a break too.

So, I hc that Chiron enrolled them in a boarding school so they could quench that competitive spirit of theirs.

I think they're about 13 or 14, so they're either in eighth grade or a freshman in high school.

Laurel Victor — Boarding School

*see above*

But also, I think Holly and Laurel joined every single sports team they could do, and Nike showed up to watch one of their games and got thrown out for trying to fight the ref on a bad call.

Paolo Montes — College in Brazil

While Rick hasn't confirmed this, I am quite positive that Paolo was on summer break when THO takes place, and that's why he's not mentioned in TON and TSATS, because he's back in Brazil.

I hc him around 18, so he's probably in his first year of college.

Chiara Benvenuti — College

Chiara's the only one we get an exact age for—around 18—so it makes sense for her to have left camp.

I think she's studying something to do with Lit, though whether English or Italian, I'm not sure. It's just a gut feeling. And is she somewhere near Damien? Well that's also up in the air.

So, that's everyone at camp in THO and what I think they're doing. I would love it if Rick Riordan confirmed or denied these in TSATS sequel, but I have the habit of convincing myself something is so obvious and will be mentioned in the book, and then it never is, so I'm not hopeful for my own sanity.

[justaneedle]

Luke and all the demigod kids of Hermes can be compared to the winds.

You all remember it, right?

Hermes looked surprised. “Very clever. I never thought of that. But its intended use is a bit more dramatic. Uncap it, and you will release the winds from the four corners of the earth to speed you on your way. Not now! And please, when the time comes, only unscrew the lid a tiny bit. The winds are a bit like me — always restless. Should all four escape at once… ah, but I’m sure you’ll be careful. And now my second gift. George?”

[beuatifulbuttercup]

Cabin 11 Incorrect Quotes

Connor : Hey, Julia. These candies you gave me? They sucked. Julia: But you ate them all. Connor : I had to make sure they all sucked.

Connor : I’m going to hell. Travis: Probably. Connor : I'll pick you up? Travis: nodding Carpool.

Cecil: I’m the smartest, wisest person in this group. Travis: Really? Then why is your hand stuck in a vending machine? Cecil: I paid for my Mars Bar, I’m getting my Mars Bar.

Luke: I don't follow the rules. I follow dogs on social media.

Alice, very tired: Can I sleep in your bed? Connor: half asleep Alice, this is a queen-sized bed. That means it’s for gestures vaguely to themself the Queen.

Cecil: Guys where did Luke go? Connor: They got arrested. Cecil: How the hell- Luke: bursts in through the window The cops are after me, I thought it would be fun to steal crackers and throw them at people.

Connor: Trouble at 2 o'clock! Travis: looks down at their watch Travis: Now, how do you know that?

Alice: I’m afraid of clowns. There, I said it. Julia: Alice, if you don't like clowns, why are you hanging with Travis?

[fallout-lou-begas]

murderfreak character inspiration moodboard

[whimsiyi]

I will make these into proper drawings but for now enjoy my sketchbook ideas

[bdsmsub67]

Connor Newall becomes the new face of American Vintage, posing for the label’s Fall Winter 2019 campaign shoot. DSCENE Cover boy and breakthrough model Connor Newall was photographed for the eye-catching American Vintage shoot by Fashion Photographer Julia Champeau.

[t0p-1-sidecharacter--fan]

I love the Hermes Cabin so much 🥰❤ (also the Area Cabin and Apollo Cabin)

[bethaven]

Well, this was not a surprise at all...

[julysn]

risa ward 🤝 early seasons wendy testaburger

this clip especially.

[wellwhataboutme]

Miles did a number on you. 1x03 - 1x08 - 2x21

[bestmothertournament]

Propaganda Under Cut:

Sarah Connor (Mother of John): Recommended by Elmaxlys. Upon finding oout about her son's fate she chose to train and learn so she could be a suitable mentor for her future son. Upon the birth of her son Sarah Connor taught her son to fight and prepare for the coming War.

Julia Ogden (Mother of Susannah Murdoch): Recommended by my sister. Wanted her child to have her father even when he was risking his life and encouraged her husband to be more careful for their child.