#pjo Pothos

[bugwolfsstuff]

Pothos, erote of longing and yearning: Watcha got there?

Eros: *with Nico Di Angelo, who is the epitome of yearning and longing but Eros doesnt want to share* A fruit smoothie, go away.

Tbh litterally all of the erotes except Hermaphroditus should be interested in Nico. Eros is beating (almost) the entire squad off with a stick.

[deadangelos]

lemme guess, they're hot.

[silkhy-john]

HEADCANON:

Last one for the day. This one is a bit about how being a godly parent works?

So, I think that really really minor gods put their demigod children under the protection of a more major god with powers similar to their own. An example of what I'm talking about (though it isn't truly it in many ways) is how though Jupiter sired Jason, Juno is essentially his mother. Again, a lot of the things about this example aren't exactly what I'm talking about, but just read and see.

The reason for the choice of god should be pretty obvious (I think); they want their kid convinced once they manifest any powers or skills they might have.

My example is that the erotes (cupid, agape, pothos, etc) would put their children under the protection of Aphrodite/Venus because they'd have similar powers. After that, claiming should work the same. I HC that Macy isn't a child of Aphrodite, and is actually a child to one of the erotes.

But the problem with putting their children under other gods is that these other gods tend to ignore the children in favour of their own.

For that reason, more often than not, the god chosen is Hermes.

Hermes is the god of a lot of things, so even the more niche gods can get away with it. He's also the one of the only ones who'd treat them without any bias and give them all a pretty okay amount of love and attention.

Demeter is another one, and that's because she considers all agricultural gods (even the ones she's had children with before when they were mortals) to be her children, and thinks of the whole situation as "children of my children".

So, does anyone ever know the truth about who the parent of the demigod is?

Yes. Our favourite resident liar-cum-horse-man, Chiron, has millenia of experience and can tell who a demigod is child to. He keeps quiet about it, and he's eaten up about it to the point that that part of him is pretty numb. He still feels a pang every time he has to keep quiet about it, though.

The other relevant person who knows is King Minos, and he tells the spirits of demigods who their true parent was when they pass, not for his role as the judge of truth, but because he enjoys watching their faces crumble when they realise just how much of their life was a lie. He's a cruel man, just like his father Zeus.

Jason playing a role as a sort of Pontifex Maxima also created a hubbub, because now minor gods are represented enough to feel they have the power to protect their demigod children after claiming them (that's the point of claiming btw, divine protection from a demigod's godly parent)

They won't claim their children who've already been claimed by another god before, but those children will likely make the connection by similarity in powers. The situation is a bit of a powder keg.

No shitposting for this one, I feel the topic just deserves a ficlet with an OC. Is that something you guys would be interested in seeing? Do tell.

Anyway, deuces.

[1940snico]

Pothos, greek god of sexual longing or desire

[avestaproduction]

so yeah. some of these kiddos have!! pjo!!! verses!!!

goldie, silver and martin in particular are all half-siblings who are children of different erotes. in a pjo verse, marty is long gone- he’s a child of pothos. goldie looks after her sister silver after their very foolish mother overdoses. they’re children of himeros and anteros, respectively.  marty is surviving on his own. goldie would have done her best to drop silver off someplace safe, and then would have tried to bolt- if allowed to or not, because she’s usually hovering between 17 and 18 in this verse, is usually up for debate. anyone with a pjo verse or any pjo muses who wanna play or know more, lemme know! i’ll write up proper things about the verse when i get a chance!!

[bugwolfsstuff]

I just realized sometime after my Legacy/Champion of Pothos Leo Valgrace post that Pothos, as the Erote of longing and yearning would probably be interested in Nico too

Which probably gives inspo for some angst but i'm just picturing Pothos and Eros throwing hands on who gets to claim the little depressed closeted emo.

Also funnier if you remember that Pothos' dad is Zephyrus....who works for Eros in pjo so Eros could just threaten to tell Pothos' dad

[bugwolfsstuff]

Random headcanon about my pjo version of the Erotes:

Eros and Psyche's palace on Olympus is basically the home for all of the Erotes even though only Anteros and Hermaphroditus officially have rooms there (and Anteros only has one because Psyche made Eros do it, twin bro can sleep on the floor for all Eros cares)

So it's not unusual for Eros to:

be woken up by Anteros

find Hymenaeus in only Himeros' (or any of theirs) shirt, singing wedding songs at the top of his lungs while frying eggs in the kitchen

Also find Himeros himself sitting on the counter with smudged makeup reading a magazine

Also also find Hedylogos also wearing smudged makeup, half asleep

walk into the sitting room and see Pothos on the couch wrapped up in a blanket eyeing the food longingly like he cant just get up and get some

And watch Hermaphroditus just casually eating cereal