#nico the og & whatever this is

[princessofghosts-posts]

Nico's Powers and Rick way of writing them.

Honestly,I've been wainting to write this.

We all know Nico powers:

Can manipulate the shadows and travel in them (Umbra-kinesis);

Can sense someone's death and soul;

Can summon ghosts and talk to them;

Can summon skeletons that obey to his orders and fight for him;

Can use dreams to send messages;

Can unconsciously split the ground and create cracks or Underworld's openings;

Can turn someone into a ghost and make them forgot their life and ability to speak;

Can turn someone into a skeleton;

Has influence on the dead and can evade them when he has to;

Can create earthquakes (not major ones like Percy);

Technically has Geo-kinesis powers too (like Hazel);

Can summon zombies to serve him;

Can conditionate the CJ's lares speaking ability by forcing them to shut up;

Can influence the dead ones with his mood;

Death-touch;

(If I missed some feel free to add)

Other than this,you need to remember that his title as Ghost King give him some more leverage,and his sword is an uniqueness in the world that give him the ability to suck someone's soul in it.

By only this list you can tell that Nico is extremely powerful,and he is still younger than Percy,with a weak physical body (depression and ED do some wonders to you-) and wasn't never "officially trained" like him since he wasn't around camp much. But he still pulled insane acts even without being 100% ok most of the time.

Nico powers,differently from Percy and Thalia,are extremely versatile. While those two can use whatever source or form of water/lightning to fight,they can't do much outside of their fathers's domains. And then you have Nico. Nico that can use his powers to travel around the world and sending messages with a mental link,other than use them to fight. People always talks about Percy controll over all types of liquid (even poison or the Underworld's rivers),but there is still water in them,so it's normal for him to do so. Thalia can use lightnings because it's normal for her to do so since those are Zeus's main sources of power. But Nico's powers are more than just controlling the dead,he can manipulate dreams (something that only the Hypnos cabin can do if I remember correctly) and can use geo-kinesis too,even tho not as much good or frequent as Hazel (before she started to work with her mist affinity). He can do it all.

I'm not trying to pull the "Nico is more powerful than Percy" argument here,but more focusing on Nico's versatility usage of his powers. And Rick made a mistake here with him,that he realized later and tried to minimize.

You see,when you have a powerscaling system,you usually take the main character as the "default": it's from them that you start to build it so other people can understand where others characters stand,compared to the MC,on the scale. Most of the time,people want their MC to grow stronger after every fight,starting from the bottom,untill they are the most powerful character in the story. It's a format done everywhere (anime,movie,comics,fanfic,books,ecc...) and Rick Riordan also used it with Percy. And when you have as MC the "most powerful character ever" (in this case the most powerful demigod since Heracles times),you need to be careful with your side characters,especially when the author doesn't want them to outshine the MC. For this reason,most of the time,they are either weaker than them or have extremely excessive drowbacks. A good example of this is Jason: Rick introduced him to us as the roman counterpart for Percy,but made us understand that he wasn't never at Percy level of power. And when you have a "side" character as Nico,adding to the fact that he's most of the time the wild card for their victories and always know everything,you have a big problem.

Riordan made it clear that no one (for now) can surpass Percy in term of abilities. But he still went out of his way making Nico's powers more versatile than the others. Logically,he should have been stronger than Percy,especially because death cannot be stoped and it's part of everyone life,but canonically it wasn't going to happen since the MC is Percy. Riordan realized in a second moment that his powers were too much and decided to make sure Nico was always held back by something from going full out (like Jason).

Nico is the only child of the big 3 that,if he use so much of his powers,has extremely horrible drowbacks even when he shouldn't. I could understand during MoA-BoO events in HoO,he was either dying or disappearing into the shadows because of his kidnapping and Tartarus,and still had an extremely draining task to finish. But from HoO to ToA there is a big timeskip (I think 6 months or more but I'm not so sure) where he should had all the time in the world to heal and having back full controll over his powers. But he doesn't. Nico still faint after shadow-travelling,even tho after his trip with the statue he should have been stronger and not having problems for a normal trip. Which sucks,especially when Rick most of the time make him pull some jaw-dropping power-play that give you the full picture on how strong he really is.

I don't think Percy had so many downgrades with his powers,I never saw him almost fainting from controlling the waters. He get tired,yes,but that's it. Thalia has more restrictions because of her fear,but I also never saw her having so many problems after using her powers (after she went with the Hunters we never see her in general anymore). Neither did Hazel with her geo-kinesis powers (before Rick decided to make her learn mist manipulation). Jason is a whole mess because he faint every day when he gets hit by a brick,even when he isn't fighting or using his powers (Rick didn't do him justice either). It's only Nico that has so many negative effects.

And the fandom can explain it,in a canon logic,with: "He's s still young,he will have time to grow stronger." (I agree) ;"He wasn't never in a good physical condition so it's normal that he has this many negative effects." (Even dying he was still able to curse someone to literally becoming a ghost) ; "He was malnourished and depressed,since he didn't take care of himself before he still have problems,wait for him to be healthy." (Again,even in those conditions he still pulled insane stunts). But,outside of the narrative,Riordan totally nerfed him because he realized that he wrote his powers too powerful and useful compared to Percy's,and since he couldn't have his MC outshined,he made sure to slow Nico in any way possible.

In BotL and TLO there are 2 scenes that,for a long time,I thought I was the only one to ever have read them since no one talked about them.

In the end of BotL when Percy get out of the Labyrinth and went with Rachel to see the coffin,Nico created an earth barrier (or something closer to it) to help them escape form Kronos's attack. He never did that after it,and I never saw people acknowledge that scene so I legitimately thought that I was imaginating it. Which was strange since it came right after the famous "Did you just throw a blue brush in the eye of the Titan Lord?" scene,but no. It really happened and Nico did use the earth at his liking. After that Riordan decided to never bought it up and Nico never manipulated the earth in that way (he still split the ground a couple of times) again.

In TLO after Nico went to free Percy from the dungeons,they escaped the palace and went to the Styx. During their escaping Nico glared at the guards,while growing weaker and weaker with each one,and they ignored them. Again,since I never saw someone talk about it I genuinely thought I was remembering things wrong. Especially because it was part of the whole "Betrayal" plot that everyone know. But again,it wasn't the case,Rick just decided to never bring it up again. It was the only time Nico did something like that. Someone can say "Well,those are the royal guards and their boss is his dad they would never go against him." but the guards were against Nico,if he didn't do whatever the fuck he did,they were going to tell Hades about their escape. So,again,Rick realized he gave him a powerful trick and then hoped that one one would remember it after he used it one time.

All of this shows that,even if he is good at writing certain things,when it comes to others topics (like power-scaling,Tartarus's trauma and many more) he just can't write well and try to put patches on the holes,without having success. But that's for another post that I will do.

Rick lack of continuation in his work,and he needs to decide what the hell he is going to do with Nico,because the guy himself is a contradiction that needs to be solved. And if I see someone else say that he is weak because he continue to faint,I'm gonna crash out very very very bad since it's Rick's fault. Nico has grown enough in his power to stand tall and use them without having majors problems (if he abuse them,then of course he is in big troubles). He isn't anymore the 13 years old kid that was dying during a world-ending trip after days of being captive by the enemy,and Riordan needs to acknowledge it and move on from that.

[maxedes]

we got a nico rosberg norris mention so safe to say we good

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[thebaronsilver]

First of the bat, let me say this as a disclaimer. I love the og Percy Jackson series. Secondly, my fav character is Nico and then the Percy from the og series.

Do you know why I make this distinction? Because, Heroes of Olympus ruined Percy's basic characteristics.

Just think, this is the percy who was bullied in almost every school he attended (except, maybe, Goode). Even, camp half blood,till he came back from the first quest. This is the guy with so strong a sense of loyalty that he was willing to get into trouble with the teachers for Grover when they studied together, was willingly an outcast because he would rather be friends with the one guy everyone picked on and thus be bullied himself. He was pretty excited to have a brother once he got over the whole Cyclops thing, too. This is the same guy who spent all his free time looking for a runaway kid who said he hated him. Maybe it was out of misplaced guilt. Maybe it was due to the fact this guy big brothered everyone he could get away with. (Atleast, I felt like that.)

While we're on that issue. Was Nico right to blame Percy for Bianca's death? Absolutely, not. But he was also a grieving ten year old who just lost his only family (even though she had, in a way, already left him behind. But that's an entirely different rant on the Hunters as an institutions. Bianca was also a child, remember.). And considering that Nico changed his tune once he found the truth out and even helped Percy and the camp willingly afterwards, I like to think he more than made up for that mistake.

There's even a part where Percy refuses to burden Nico with the prophesy and claims it for himself. Considering that till then he was trying not to even think about it, I believe we can easily claim that Nico was in some ways important to Percy. Maybe not in the same way his Mom, Annabeth Or Grover was to him, but still an important person.

Then we have in the last Olympian, Percy using Nico as an example why Children of Hades shouldn't be treated as Pariahs. Because if not for him and the reinforcements his powers brought (not even counting the three whole deities he brought along) the casualties would have been higher. (It was Hades who locked Percy up. He even confirms that Nico hadn't had a clue. Nico in turn broke him out and got himself in trouble. Then in a turn of events, Percy starts to blame Nico for something that wasn't in his control. A reversal of roles so to speak. I had thought that it had been momentary anger on Percy's part, but apparently considering all the references to how Nico betrayed him in the HoO, it wasn't. He'd pushed it aside momentarily, it seems.)

Percy was not to blame for what happened to Nico in the original series. Life isn't fair and it just happened to be extra unfair to Nico. Even then Percy went out of his way to look after the kid, to make sure he had a safe space.

This is the Percy who I liked. The Son of Neptune only emphasised this. Even without his memories, he took Hazel and to a lesser extent Frank under his wings. He actually recognised Nico in a vague way. Not just Annabeth (which is something else I have beef with. What about his mother? Why didn't he remember Sally till a lot later and even then he didn't let her know he was safe till a lot later?)

Then comes the Mark of Athena. He apparently told so many horror stories to the 7 that there was a debate on whether or not they should save a 13 year old demigod, the brother to one of them, from a preventable death. This wasn't like the Titan war were demigods could be the enemy. Then why was there even a debate? It's like all that loyalty disappeared. This is the guy that was once bullied at every school he's attended. Doesn't he know the impact of telling tales when people aren't there to defend themselves? To tell the whole story? Then House of Hades. Every single person in that ship thought that Nico was spooky, creepy whatever and all that poor kid was doing was exist. He made himself scarce, barely spoke unless necessary and even then they were like ew, creepy. It's like Percy's personal loyalty became loyalty to just Annabeth. Fuck whatever happens to anyone else. It upsets me.

The later books ruined Percy as a character. And I will stand by this.

[lucius-i-ran]

Rewrting the scene Nico gets rescued from the twins as someone who is not a writer and does not remember well how the og scene goes

They take a left on the tunnel and find themselves walking in an arena, set up in a giant hideout, similar to where Percy had defeated Ethan Nakamura and Antaeus. Jason is at Percy's side, just as confused as he is.

Two booming voices start speaking at unison, poorly coordinated: "Welcome demigods, to Otis and Big F's arena! The place where entertainment is assured!" they say. And then a pause, as if they're waiting for a reaction. And then a groan resonating in the air when said reaction doesn't arrive. 

"Told you we needed to work on that slogan" complained one.  "Whatever let's just, explain the rules" says the other. 

The two large figures are looming over, right in front of them, sitting on a high structure built on the very top of the arena, like roman emperors waiting for gladiators to be mauled to death by some exotic beast. 

The set up does not sit well with Percy.

Otis and Ephialtes both turn to look at the two, very puzzled, demigods "You two very lucky lads have finally entered our games!" one of the two exclaims, a little too exicted for the demigod's taste. 

'Finally?' Percy thinks, as the sense of doom in his guts starts to grow.

"Let us show you the rules" chimes in the other. "Rule number one: once you've touched the arena's ground there is no leaving except belly up, if you know what I mean"  They know what they mean and they DON'T like it. Then as if on cue the metal doors on the exits of the arena shut closed with a loud CLANG!

"Rule number two: one of the two parties has to die. There is no point in fighting if isn't to the death right?" 'So wrong' Percy thinks. 

"And last but not least: there is no attacking your own party or all three of you, you know," the giant pauses, as if trying to come up with a catchy synonym "die." he says, eventually. 

"Three?" Percy says and when he opens his mouth he realises how dry his throat is. And why is even that the part of this crazy charade that he has a problem with?

"Yeah silly, do you think you'd be fight each other?"

Percy and Jason exchange looks.

"Well yeah kinda" "We were kind of afraid you were going to make us fight, yeah" 

They say and the twins starts coarsely laugh. "Oh no! You'll be fighting with our warrior! It would have been a waste making him train this long just to catch dust!" they shout between laughs, bent over in two. 

A sudden burst of confidence strikes Percy. 'Whatever' he thinks. He has fought gods, for crying out loud! This "warrior" will not stop him. Besides, his friend is trapped in here somewhere with very little time left to live; he will not let him rot in that jar. 

That thought sparks a fire in his soul and "Alright!" he shouts, maybe a bit too smug "Bring it on!". 

One of the twins pulls a lever, a sinister and menacing smile appears on their faces. 

The metal door right in front of them starts to open slowly. Percy uncaps Riptide and Jason flips his coin, turning it into his sword, both taking a fighting stance. 

The door is open all the way up and a cold silence fills the hideout. Then a figure emerges from the darkness and Percy's heart drops. 

Before him stands his friend, Nico di Angelo.

[belovedcampfire]

Hehehehee.... Solagenlo is just American Wolfstar and you cannot change my mind... Also, the thought of Nico with Werewolf Will soothes something and idk why.

Ok I see you and I raise you- jegulus being solangelo variants. I find their personalities match a bit more as does Nico/Regulus losing a sibling and wanting them back, joining bad guys then regretting it (Nico helping Minos and Reg the death eaters) and Will/James helping others to the point of struggling themselves but sometimes struggle to see things from others povs, plus the Sun/Star comparisons speak for themselves.

However, I NEED wolfstar dressing up as solangelo. I really think they would (in a modern au ofc) cause Remus was definitely a pjo kid and got Sirius into it too. They’d rock up to the Halloween party with their silly little solangelo outfits on and spend the night making bad puns and it would be brilliant.

And werewolf Will is AMAZING as a concept, especially cause of like. The time Nico met and fought Lycaon or whatever his name is, the og werewolf, and got all scratched up. Will would probably overthink it cause of the fact Nico has been hurt by werewolves before and get overly nervous about telling him but Nico’s chill with it, obviously. And then they dress up as a werewolf and vampire for Halloween, just to keep the costume ideas flowing. Nico and his creepy underworld stuff and Will with his supernatural werewolf stuff. They’re thriving and I love them!!!!!

Now I’m thinking about vampire Nico and werewolf Will. Really thinking. Hmmmm, this may be a good idea.

[daedalusdavinci]

asked a friend for a prompt and this is the second one they gave me! revisiting the OGs <333

25. “I would not be surprised if you got struck by lightning right now.”

Nico scowls at Leo when he says it, all gloomy child-of-darkness in the twist of his mouth and the scrunch of his nose. He's not half as intimidating as he thinks he is, something young still hanging around in the pettiness of how he hands out frowns. "My luck isn't that bad."

"I dunno," Leo drawls, folding his arms behind his head with a shrug. "You're kind of testing fate here, aren't you? I mean, fucking with the Chosen One."

"Jason is not the Chosen One. Not anymore than you are," Nico scoffs. It strikes Leo that even though he's a child of the Big Three, same as Percy or Jason, he doesn't think Nico's ever been Chosen for anything. And yet, he acts like it's something mundane and stupid, like having a Tesla, instead of something he'd ever be envious of. Leo was one of the Seven, and he wasted absolutely no time developing a complex about whether or not he was the important one. Nico makes it sound like the whole prophecy was just some stupid thing they did one time.

Instead of focusing on how that makes him feel, Leo grins and jokes, "Aw, you think I'm on par with Jason?"

Nico's scowl deepens. He turns his head, jerking dark curls out of his eyes. "Whatever. You shoot flames out of your hands, so sure. You can be a Chosen One."

He says it like it means nothing, but it kind of feels to Leo like it means everything. "You think I'm cool," he says gleefully.

"I did not say that."

"You think I'm cool," he sings, lurching forward to throw an arm around a squawking Nico's shoulders and drag him in.

"No!" Nico all but yelps, flailing to try and duck out of his sweet embrace. "Leo, you loser!"

"Hey, Jase! Nico thinks I'm cool!" Leo shouts, still trying to grapple Nico into a one-armed hug while he attempts, simultaneously, to wave at Jason. He's not surprised when Nico's palm hits his face and shoves him away, sending him stumbling backward with more force than he really expected.

"Nico, don't hurt him," Jason calls back, sounding pained.

The glare Nico fixes on him is fierce, practically smoldering in the face of Leo's laugh. "You are such a loser."

"I'm so cool. And we're best friends," Leo says, grinning back. And he thinks, when Nico's glare cracks, just for a second, that he might be right.

[confused-alienated]

Voiceless

Summary: "Josh would fight"

Tw: abuse, Dema

Notes: Set during the SAI era but Josh is real. I wrote this a while ago as a part of my prompts series. This is the first fix I've posted on here to don't mind any mistakes.

Word count: 756

Link to the og fic here

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Being in Dema revealed a whole new side to Josh. Back in Trench, Josh was a stoic leader and he wasn't a man of many words either.

Dema seemed to have lit a fire in Josh. Whilst Tyler grew quieter and more withdrawn with each passing day, Josh only got louder. On their first day as prisoners, Tyler swore he'd heard Josh talk more than he had in their whole time knowing each other.

Back in Trench, Josh was quiet and sugar sweet, Tyler would have never thought that Josh was one to hate. Oh, how he was wrong. Every insult, every word, every syllable that Josh spat at one of the Bishops or their goons was laced with more venom than Tyler had ever heard.

Josh would fight.

Obviously the lack of filter led to, usually physical, punishments. Those deterred Tyler from following Josh and fighting aswell.

At the start, Tyler had begged Josh over and over again to, "Please stop fighting them!"

"I can't, Tyler," Josh had said plainly.

Tyler was so sick of arguing, that all he could do was sob into Josh's chest.

Tyler had stopped asking Josh to stop months ago.

The two never lost hope that the Banditos would come for them. They just didn't know when. They'd been there for six months.

The Bishops had decided that since both Tyler and Josh were 'very influential both inside and outside of Dema' that they should produce propaganda together.

They had been forced to form a band. It was a long term dream of the two. They both didn't want it to be like this.

Some days they would chain Tyler to his desk, he would only be allowed out once he'd written enough.

This only made Josh fight more aggressively and more often.

Tyler loved Josh but hated that he would fight. He hated how often Josh was getting punished.

As well as getting beaten, Josh would be starved and isolated. Tyler had lost count of how many times Josh had been smeared. Tyler hated it when Josh was isolated, it got lonely for him aswell.

Despite the cuts and bruises, Josh would always be there at the end of the day with some story or memory to lighten the mood.

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Tyler remembered the day too well.

Josh had been dragged off for another punishment that morning. It had been hours, Tyler hoped he wasn't being isolated again.

The Bishops had given Tyler a day off, they'd told him it was for all his 'Good behaviour', whatever that meant.

Tyler had been laying on Josh's 'bed' since he'd been gone. He was half asleep when the door suddenly heavily swung open.

Nico entered the room and threw Josh on the floor.

Tyler waited for Josh's snide remark. It never came.

Nico mimiced a smile, "Hope you enjoyed your little break today. Back to work tomorrow, rabbit," he sneered then left, slamming the door shut. Tyler heard the lock and deadbolts click into place. They were in for the night.

Josh slowly got up and silently sat down next to Tyler.

Tyler waited for his usual 'How was your day?'. It never came.

Instead Josh took a shuddering breath and tears began streaming down his face. Tyler placed a careful hand around Josh's shoulders, trying to avoid any bruises.

"What happned?" Tyler whispered. Josh had never been this upset after a punishment.

Josh continued to cry. Tyler noticed that he wasn't making much sound. Josh was a loud crier. Tyler's stomach dropped. Even when he did cry he would always explain. Even if his cries were quiet, he would talk to Tyler.

Tyler slightly tightened his grip, "Joshie? Are you okay?"

Josh looked at Tyler helplessly.

"Can't talk?" Tyler got like that sometimes, distress and anxiety stealing his voice.

Josh slowly nodded before getting up and waking to Tyler's desk. Tyler watched curiously and stood to join him.

Josh's hands shook as he flipped through the notebook to a new page. He began writing something that Tyler couldn't quite see.

Josh's handwriting was nice. Maybe a little scratchy, a bit wobbly but nice.

Tyler heart lept to his throat when he read it.

'They took my voice.'

"What do you mean?" Tyler voice shook.

Josh pointed to the paper again.

'They took my voice.'

"Oh," Tyler breathed then brought Josh into his chest.

Josh cried harder. Tyler's jumper grew wetter and wetter with tears.

Tyler felt completely helpless. They had taken his voice.

Josh would fight. Well he used to anyway.

[ganeshpnf]

Are you a fan of httyd as well?! I agree how Percabeth they are :) If you are a fan, what do you think about the live action and casting? Since everyone is debating on it. Personally I dont like race-swapping but I like Nico Parker so much!

Hello! And yes I am a fan of httyd as well, it is one of my fav childhood movies :) Now I dont usually talk about races or other stuff on this blog, but since you asked, I gotta add some warnings first:

Please remember that these are mostly my personal thoughts, if you dont agree it is okay. You are free to add your own thoughts, but please be respectful. Okay, lets go-

I love Nico Parker and know her since her role in tlou. And I gotta say I dont like actors getting hate because I also got so many racist comments when I was a child too. I had a facebook account when I was 12 and you wont believe how people can be so cruel for someone's nationality. Thats why even today, I am rather secretive on my nationality, only sharing to people I trust and call them friends. So why would I be happy seeing actors getting the hate comments bcs of their skin color now? I would never blame the actors, but- I would blame the companies and todays "new era of televizion"

Whatever we like it or not, we cant deny the fact that they only do it for the new era, marketing. Look at Nico Parker, her face looks exactly like Astrid. If they give her a blond wig, she is Astrid. But they dont, also giving her braids. And the only reason is: To show us that she is black and would appear as so. They want us to see that. I hate live actions, because even though they do this for marketing and "diversity", they realize this would get hate for the actor, they are using them. And no we cant say "No it is not for diversity or wokeness". Well, it is since we see almost every og white character is getting race-swapped: Snow White, Ariel, Rapunzel, April from Tmnt, Annie the Orphan, Triss, Hawkgirl, Annabeth, Jimmy Olsen, Doctor Who and many more. I know, whitewashing is a big problem, but I dont think its ever a way to stop the racism. To me even, It creates MORE-

It is also giving double-standarts, because people flip when you even mention changing an og black character. Not that I support that either. "Their race has a meaning in the story!" You can change Snow White but you cant change Tiara. It gives the message "You can change white characters but you cant change poc characters". I am not fully white, but it is giving also racism to me. Not to mention, this new televizion era, tries to avoid blond characters, especially blond woman in any day. New httyd cast has 0 blonds and they are Vikings. Any blond character is replaced. Oh and people say "It is a movie about the dragons!" Well, these are all fantasies. Tiara has a talking frog yk? If you think that, that we should be able to change all of them.

But in today's televizion, race is everything to them. Everything has to be about race. Which is stupid. We all want to be equal, but now they made people look onto race only. Back then, we loved movies because of their plot, acting etc. But now, every remake only focuses on one thing: diversity, how to make it more diverse? Now I also love a good diversity, which means every races together on tv, which is amazing right? It is what we all want. But today, it changed all the meaning. And the only thing companies look for MARKETING. It is not fair to audience, it is not fair to the actors. I would prefer companies to stop doing live action but to make something new with diversity, with new characters who are white, black, latinos, Hispanic, Arabic, Turkish, Indian etc. Now that IS diversity. Not changing og characters to white to black OR change to black to white. Both of them are doing nothing but upsets the audience because people are aware the point behind it.

The worse part is, I think they know it wont do anything as well, but do it for money, using actors as shield. I dont think they deserve it, at all. Especially child actors would have that scars forever. Even how much people support them, at the end, the scars stay.

So yeah, this is what I think. Oh I gotta add, costumes looks like a school play kinda...Its like they only focused on Hiccup and Toothless. But we will see, I would watch it and then share my thoughts again ^^ Thank you for your ask :)

[crumbsssscookie]

🩵 here!

Please steal whatever ideas I send in my asks lol it's an honor since most of these are just random things that pop into my head!

Anyways, I was wondering how/if you were going to continue to explore how Logan feels being a woman in her new life? Obviously, she's used to being one of the boys, but does that mentality ever cause her to slip up?

For example:

Would Logan occasionally forget that her body has changed? I mean, on OG Logan posted a lot of shirtless pics or stripped his race suit and fireproofs down in certain Williams videos, so he was comfortable like that. Do you think she'd ever forget and just take off her fireproofs after a session when she's exhausted and feels gross in the Prema drivers room without accounting for the fact that Oscar is right behind her and that she's a girl now? (Poor Oscar would do a very quick turn around and face the door until she realized what'd she'd done, but that'd take a minute imo)

Or during interviews when she's asked about her struggles as a woman in racing or when the press/fans/randoms are misogynistic to her, would she get thrown? Would others, like her PR person or Nico, point out things that Logan hadn't noticed because she's still getting used to perceiving herself as a woman?

Sorry for the deep thought questions! Just really interested in your take on things!

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Omg, that’s a hard hitter if I ever seen one 😅 I've put it all under the cut, because I feel this could double as my dissertation...

To be honest, I hadn’t planned on explicitly exploring Logan’s feeling about being a woman now. At least not consciously. I’m very go with the flow with my writing rather than planning all out down to a T. When I’m brainstorming for ideas, I usually write what feels right and fits for my characterization of Logan in that very moment. But it will be a part of the broader character evolution I have in mind.

Broken down on just the gender aspect of things, right now Logan feels very content with being a woman. In my head there are three distinct Logans. OG Logan, AU Logan and Post-time-travel AU Logan who exists ever since the memories and experiences of the first two were merged in chapter one.

Our Logan, the post-time-travel AU Logan is well aware that she is a woman and doesn’t really mind it. I didn’t exactly write it out, but I imagine in those first few days where she was holed up in her room, unsure how to handle Morgan or her family, she had enough time to mull over her new identity and get acquainted with her new body.

Although she makes up only about one third of Logan’s overall part of herself, AU Logan had a higher impact on how Logan handles herself in the beginning. Because the challenges she faced as a girl in motorsport and her place in it, are the “newest” information. It makes Logan approach her goals for this life consciously and methodically. Up until now, Logan is not one to pull the big spotlight on herself. She is happy with following her plan and is fine with performing well but would do nothing controversial that would pull the focus too much. But over time, as she meets the people she knows from her past life, OG Logan’s characteristics will gradually come forward as well. Like in the scene with Jenson when she acts impulsively because she forgot that he doesn’t know her yet but is desperate to have a similarly tight relationship to him as she had in the original timeline.

So with time, I see Logan forgetting not that her body changed but absolutely the part about how the public’s perception on her body changed. Seeing as this is technically the body of AU Logan, who had insecurities concerning her body like every woman on earth, our Logan would be aware of them too and acknowledge them. But paired with laid back, content with his body view of OG Logan, it makes her feel confident in her body bc it’s not like she can change them. She can only love herself for being who she is.

So yeah, this is just a roundabout way to tell you, that if she can’t be bothered, she’d act first and think later. Her own comfort is in that case more important than adhering to nonsense patriarchal norms. It’s not like she’s naked, she wears a sports bra underneath, and a fresh shirt is quickly on hand. (So unfortunately, no sudden undressing in the boy’s Prema driver’s room but the boys could get the occasional glimpse of sports bra Logan in the hallway before she reached hers.)

Also, she wouldn’t change shirts on air, but the common after race move of pulling up the hem of the fireproofs to “air out” with the abs on full display, Logan would absolutely do as well. (I also see her getting community service at least once for this in F1 because MBS feels uncomfortable with women living their best lives).

Our girl Logan is also an avid surfer and still a Floridian, so bikini pics on Insta would be a regular occurrence. Her PR agent would eat this up too, because it fits Logan’s brand of being the people’s princess of motorsport or F1 in particular.

The two situations Logan would be out of her depth, even though she’s comfortable in her own skin, is one, when the media would really lock onto the supposed “blemishes” in her appearance, and two, when she has to interact with people in a “dressier” environment.

The first situation would probably arise when she has created enough buzz to gather the attention of the non-motorsport outlets. Like she could be ridiculed for her paddock fit in a dodgy fashion magazine or the common weight related articles paired with blurry paparazzi pics. And it would put her in serious distress because why do people care for this shit, why not go and criticize her for her objective race results rather than this subjective bullshit. It would also make her angry and see her snapping at journalists if they dare to ask her something related on media duty. Nico would be the one to point out to her, that although he can understand her frustrations, she can’t behave like this. But rather than make her shut up, he would ask her to tone it down, because it’s better to still show defiance without getting personal.

The second situation would be public events that aren’t racing related bc OG Logan is already one of the drivers that falls into the category that doesn’t really like this whole part that comes with the job. So when Logan now has to wear a dress or being otherwise dolled up would make her even more uncomfortable. I think her mom or Morgan or even Nicole could help her overcome that, reminding her that almost every woman feels that way and that it isn’t something she should feel bad about. In my head, that would also fit in with AU Logan’s part of the characters, since she’s a teenager. Because when I think back to how I was at 18, I hadn’t figured out yet that other girls also felt uncomfortable in those situations, even if they looked like the most confident creatures on earth.

I hope that answers your questions bc they definitely melted my brain 🙈 Not mad though, I simply had to take a few days to mull it over like Logan did when she was brought back in time 😉

[apollothesunrat]

Y'know what I want to do?

I want to to create a "What if Kronos rose early" au(possibly a collaboration?). Because the Great Prophecy never says when Kronos has to defeated, never says if it is before or after he takes over. But if needed I could change the prophecy to make it fit better

Now this is by no means my own idea. I got the idea from multiple tiktoks and fanfics that presented the idea in iteresting eays that wanted me to make my own version.

Let ne explain below the cut because I do believe this will get lengthy.

In this universal, I believe a good majority of the characters we know would still exist because of the Fates. Most notably: the seven, Nico di Angelo, Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano, Grover Underwood, Will Solace, etc, etc. Because I do not believe the gods would disappear. Just because they are overthrown does not mean they are forgotten, many pagan mortals would still believe in them as well as the children they have. I believe they would simply go into hiding like many titans did when the gods took over. They simply hide away and occasionally have demigod chimdren in the hopes that one their children will help them overthrow Kronos again one day.

But that isn't the most important thing right now. The main story/idea for the stroy is all I have planned at the moment.

Our main characters are the big three children. We start our story with Bianca di Angelo at 19, Nico di Angelo at 17, Thalia Grace at 10, and Percy Jackson at 5. It begins seven years after the di Angelo's were released from the hotel, they were released about a year after Kronos took over because Hades didn't want to risk them getting killed or hurt simply because they knew nothing of the outside world.

I plan to have the story progress one year per chapter until Percy is twelve and then start following a timeline closer to the og books. Basically Percy turning 12 starts progressing canon events. It is by fate that certain characters die and all that, those type of canon events.

I honestly don't have much planned after that because I lost my original paper on the au.

So yeah, if anyone would like to help me or possibly collaborate on this, I believe that could be fun because I need more ideas and it is easier to create when I have someone helping me not put in dumb stuff.

You can reach out to me through dms here or whatever you want.

[puckandgossip]

https://www.tumblr.com/puckandgossip/779212619936579584/httpswwwtumblrcompuckandgossip77921157660350 this is what I got from the story too. I wanna say the anon went on goliegossip first and said that the devils were out in Columbus and Nico and Luke were talking to girls but more Nico and other guys, I think she sent in a pic she took and that’s the one where you can see Luke and Nico and Nico was talking to someone - idk for sure if it’s the tiktok girl that’s what I’m leaning towards but don’t wanna just assume -she disclosed to the blog owner that Nico did go home with someone and that she went home with another Devil player and that the player was in fact single. A tiktok was posted and it was set to FRIENDS ONLY and someone took a screenshot of it and sent it to another blog - not goliegossip- the blog posted it and you could clearly see the girls face and she was talking to Sprong at the bar and the anon said they left together. Someone found her tiktok and posted it to a blog but then the girl from tiktok came on here and was like uhhh hey can we not post my info pls and why is my face everywhere hahaha the blog deleted it, but the person who was sending in the girls handle sent it to multiple blogs and that OG bunny or whatever the new blog is posted it and people started flooding her account and saw she had posted a couple tiktoks talking about hockey players and that she follows a bunch on instagram. Sooooo from what I got is she hoooked up with Sprong and basically a friend or someone she knew took a screenshot of the tiktok and posted it to tumblr and now people are thinking she went home with Nico but it wasn’t her! Idk some people kind of took it too far and we’re calling her names and a punk bunny and got a little crazy in my opinion because of course all the blogs started fighting again 💀

wow thank you for the explanation you're doing gods work THANK YOU

[wrongcaitlyn]

Okay so since Apollo hasn’t released music since like the 90s-00s ish time period I can’t imagine how shocked everyone is going to be at how different his newest album will be in comparison to the music he’s made before. Especially since he didn’t really get to have a hand in writing any of it and is now ofc older and has more experience. But imagine the haters??? Like imaging just going on a tangent about how someone’s fave artist can’t write lyrics and then he comes back and produces storylines like he’s Shakespeare. I’d be so embarrassed.

But I’d imagine it being like if I went from listening to all of the first releasing of Speak Now and then immediately skipped to Midnights, like that’s a whole different person now. But I am genuinely so excited for Apollo’s full album, like I know people will be disappointed because he’s not going to be touring with it but I just know that the listening parties are going to be amazing.

And also just seeing the reactions of everyone as well, (like Latricia, Darren, maybe Leto, Zeus, the children, etc.) especially when it comes to seeing how they’re portrayed within the album as well. Like not exactly dedicating a song to them but you can hear the references to everyone’s character in some way. And in Zeus’s case I just like seeing him upset in general.

Oh and because Apollo won’t really be touring or having concerts to sing his new album live, will there be live studio versions of the songs? Or will any potential collaborating artists get the sort of ‘ok’ to perform a song they sang together and Apollo does that bit and relaxes the rest of the time?

And I almost forgot to mention in but whenever his album comes out I just know the Grammys are going to be good. That the album’s going to break records on Spotify. That it’s definitely going triple platinum in my room. But I can’t wait to see Apollo’s acceptance speech. Knowing that whatever you’ve created with your blood, sweat and tears was formally recognized is always a good feeling.

I’m kind of torn on whether or not I think he’d perform at an awards show though. I feel like the met gala is a clearer imagination to me but also I know if I were in tgol I’d be praying for a music festival to come around lmao 🥲

ohh it'll 100% be such whiplash from his latest album. like. completely different, first in terms of like changing of trends in production but also apollo's own lyricism

apollo haters really have no leg to stand on, esp when it comes to his music and not outside rumors/tabloids - he's legendary, and he KNOWS it. so does the entire music industry!!

leto is unfortunately dead at this point, i think in some chapter of tyt nico mentioned how apollohad been silent when he learned his mom died, but his dad... oh he'll have a reaction alright. i prob won't cover it because i don't see him actually making his reaction public but i can just imagine him fuming LMAO

i think that there will def be some alternate versions, some live versions, though i'm sort of back and forth on whether apollo would actually release them. one thing i can say is that he 100% has a few other versions with original demos of the songs - like, how taylor did for ttpd and the og 1989? but like. its 2000's apollo recording these demos. and i think that those would definitely also be released eventually and it'd just add soo much to the album and how long apollo has been waiting to put this stuff out

i will say that there are no features on his album, though i won't rule out *any* live performances... potentially at a nico concert or at an award show ;)

"Knowing that whatever you’ve created with your blood, sweat and tears was formally recognized is always a good feeling." HELL YES!!!

[frayna-of-the-hollow]

While there is still 5 hours or so left on the og poll, drawing characters from a fandom in my style seems to have won, so heres the follow up poll:

tbh i think i know whats gonna win but whatever

@homobrainjuice @fizzycereal @sk3tchyy42 @be-gentle-with-littluns-2 @s4gefr0g (again, sorry if you didn't want to be tagged!!!)

[happyk44]

It's kinda funny because w/ my Zeus kid OC (who I've been thinking about renaming as Araceli, 'cause it means altar of the sky, apparently, which I like 'cause sky-themed-ish but also like. A little bit I wanted something that meant cloud the way Coral's name means... Coral) the implication is that she takes after her father to an almost mirroring degree because I developed her and my other PJO OCs (who also all got retconned into an OG work) at the same time I was playing around with my ideas on the Big Six, and the gist at the time was supposed to show how the Big Six could've turned out if they weren't so weird.

So the dynamics of the friendship was supposed to be very similar to the dynamics of Big Six's relationship to each other (e.g. Mary having a major crush on Hera's "representative" but also being attracted to literally every other person that walked by, Nico being the soberminded big brother figure, etc). It's also one of the reasons Mary would get angry whenever someone would compare to her dad, because similarly I think Zeus would get angry if someone compared him to his dad.

And then eventually as I got older and the daydream moved around with whatever obsession I had at the time, the characters and general storyline began to change away from that in some ways but core features sort of stayed and so I ended up with a version of Zeus that ignores his daughter's pleas for help because he loves her but her pain hurts him because he can't do anything about it and it's his fault she's suffering.

She got this intensity from him, it's ingrained into the way it's ingrained in him. But he was able to rebuild the world according to his own needs and wants and beliefs. And she can't really do that. So he doesn't have any advice he can give her when she's on her knees begging for help with all the noise and pain in her head. He doesn't know what to do! It's like he can just go and rip it out of her.

But she's suffering because she's different and she's weird and she knows it and she knows it's his fault which is why she's asking but he just doesn't know and he can't handle watching her suffering and listening to her cry when there is no helpful answer to give her because "I don't know" isn't going to fix it.

He's supposed to fix things, he's supposed to have the answers. He's king of the world, by damn! He's a problem solver. He supposed to have a solution, and a million backup solutions. But he doesn't! There's nothing he can do to make the noise stop because truth be told, the noise never really stopped for him! It just got easier and quieter. So he turns away from her because he loves her and he's failing her and he can't handle that.

But also in the same breath, I think he recognizes similar aspects of himself in Jason, who isn't even asking for help, and fucking despises him for it, lol.

✨ Girl Dad ✨

[spokelseskladden]

for the pjo asks, i’m curious about your rankings of ships and/or characters 🫶

Hell yeah I'll rank anything, I'll rank some of the main ships + the stuff i personally ship, but everyone can send me whatever/whoever and I'll rank them

1. Percy/Annabeth 7.58/10

It's a fine ship, they have chemistry and I'm completely alright with them being canon. I have a lot of nostalgia for them, but I won't actively look for fanart or fics about them cause I can just read the book yknow? But if they're together in a fic I'm interested in they would never stop me from clicking on it 👍

2. Nico/Will 3/10

Not my fave, they're there. They look alright together aesthetically but they just do not speak to me, never did :/ maybe it's because I've been shipping valdangelo since the dark ages (2013) but I just can't get into it. I've read fics where they've been a side pairing and liked them well enough but meh. Not for me, idk why lol. And no i haven't read that one book about them and I probably won't 🤷

3. Jason/Piper -11/10

Piper is a lesbian👍

4. Nico/Leo 100000000/10

I've been here since the beginning, I'm an og shipper, you have no idea what it was like to be 14, there were like 10 fics of them, no fanart, and I didn't even learn how to draw kisses good until i was like 17 so you can see how difficult this time was for me. I love then because the spite fuels me and also they have similar trauma and stuff😌

5. Piper/Annabeth 1000/10

They're badass, they're so very flawed, there's so many moments in the books where i just think. Wow they should probably have a romantic relationship about it. Plus i think they're very underrated :/

Ok next up I'll rate the goddesses based on how beautiful i think they are, I'm sure nothing bad will come from this👍

[f1uckinghell]

Brocedes walked so...oh no, that was Martian. Martian are the OG.

love the discourse, bestie, but

1. I don’t respect Mark Webber enough to agree and

2. nothing comes close to the journey from childhood besties to whatever nico and lewis have going on now