#post HoO

[lilislegacy]

mr. chase: i understand why you’re mad. and you’re right, i failed her. but you must know, she means a great deal to me.

percy: yeah? well she means everything to me.

[imagine-too-many-books]

Imagine Annabeth and Percy have a kid early, unplanned and it kinda fucks with their finances so Percy drops out of school to get a job so he can care for the kid and support Annabeth in school. At first he gets a job teaching kids sword fighting but then he hears about underwater welding which pays well because it’s dangerous but Percy is a child of the sea so it’s much less so for him. His boss is even willing to give him flexible hours which means Annabeth doesn’t have to take their kid to class anymore and they can actually afford daycare (why does is it the price of a mortgage nowadays???). A huge financial burden is lifted and Percy doesn’t mind the work so it’s good all the way around.

Fast forward to when Annabeth is done her masters in architecture and lands a job at a top firm. They’ve got savings and have Annabeth’s income to rely on. Percy heads back to school and finishes a degree in marine biology, going on to research some really niche topics like how underwater welding impacts the environment and shifting from there until he’s a well known expert in the field.

Just them finding their way. Supporting each other and landing on their feet no matter what

[bimafe]

when leo returned to the camp, he expected everything but silence.

not coldness - no. he was greeted, hugged, patted on the shoulder. but everything was somehow... neat. like people didn't know how to react to someone who'd come back from the dead.

frank was different.

he didn't pretend everything was okay. he didn't say reassuring nonsense. just sat next to him as leo sat by the fire alone.

"i hear you built a motor on a tangerine peel and a toothpick," he said, tossing a branch into the fire.

"not quite," leo grinned. "there was still a drop of desperation and a little bit of madness in there."

frank nodded.

"that's a good recipe. good for fighting ancient goddesses, too."

it had become routine.

every night, after dinner, frank would come and sit next to her. sometimes they chatted. sometimes they were silent. sometimes they drank tea that leo had invented himself (with a suspicious amount of spices and, i think, a few sparks from his fingers).

leo didn't immediately realize when exactly he started waiting for that time. when the fire in the campfire stopped being just fire, and became something... alive. a warmth that didn't burn, but warmed.

one night, when the moon was particularly bright, frank turned to him.

"you still don't sleep at night, do you?"

leo looked away, then shrugged.

"i don't feel like it. in dreams... it all comes back."

"and you hide it behind jokes. you always do."

"and you hide it behind bears and armor."

frank grinned.

"touche."

they fell silent. then frank held out his hand. not obsessively, just close. leo stared at it for a long moment, but still put his palm on top of it.

"you know," he whispered, "if someone had told me a year ago that i'd be sitting under the moon, holding hands with a roman praetor, i would have ..."

"blow him up?"

"nuh-uh. Invited him to dinner. a dynamite surprise."

frank laughed. quietly, almost tentatively.

but he didn't take his hand away.

leo didn't know how long they sat like that, hand in hand, fingers intertwined. the fire crackled, reflecting in frank's eyes, and leo found himself unable to look away.

frank stared straight ahead, as if gathering his wits.

" i'm not sure... what it is," he said at last.

"neither am i," leo admitted. " but i'm not scared. not with you."

frank turned around. slowly. as if he was afraid that any sudden movement would shatter this fragile moment.

"may i?" he asked quietly.

leo blinked. his heart beat harder. he nodded.

"yes. just, uh... no bear, please."

frank hummed - and leaned in.

the kiss was tentative. soft. without haste. like both of them just wanted to make sure it was real. that they were really here, alive, whole, and something good could still happen after all they'd been through.

leo felt frank's fingers clench tighter. he pressed closer, the warmth of another body almost frightening, but it was so...needed. so real.

[freyapoststhings]

The 7 having a sleepover at percy's apartment and they decide to do karaoke(ok this would be impossible in an apartment but bare with me) and what does Percy sing?

Miss Jackson by Panic at the Disco.

No one knows why Percy barely makes it through the song before joining his mother in laughing so hard their ribs hurt.

[the-one-and-only-aroace]

Genuinely out of ideas for the multi chapter fic I’m working on

[percylovesblue]

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians & Related Fandoms - All Media Types Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rachel Elizabeth Dare/Original Character(s) Characters: Original Child(ren) of Dionysus (Percy Jackson), Original Male Character(s) Additional Tags: Original Character-centric, Cell Phones, Late Night Conversations, Conversations, Pre-The Trials of Apollo, Between The Blood of Olympus (Heroes of Olympus) and The Hidden Oracle (Trials of Apollo), I think I have the timeline right, we’ll find out I guess, Mentioned Apollo (Percy Jackson), Mentioned Rachel Elizabeth Dare, Camp Half-Blood (Percy Jackson), Mentioned Hermes (Percy Jackson), Mentioned Dionysus (Percy Jackson), Mentioned Zeus (Percy Jackson), Other gods mentioned that I don’t feel like tagging, POV Alternating, being a god sucks would not recommend Series: Part 11 of Riordanverse stuff I wrote, Part 6 of Riordanverse Oneshots, Part 11 of Azura’s OC Works Summary:

Just a conversation between two of my original characters, and things that happen before that.

(Have my first 1k oneshot in a very long time, featuring my main OC and a god OC! I love my god OC he’s great.)

[thebat-musicman]

I love that Sally Jackson’s 3 love interests are just

Literal god

Canonically pure evil

Paul

[minjimunji]

bi 4 bi percabeth,,,,, 👉👈

[sunshinemoon3341]

[peabodysautobodyrepair]

“Nico Di Angelo is a token gay! His coming out scene sucked!” babes I’m BEGGING you to remember 2013 gay characters were not allowed in children’s media.

Lemme say that again: In 2013, it was expected that gay characters would be censored in children’s mass media.

Remember Korra? How she and Asami had to settle for ambiguous handholding rather than a kiss? That was fully a year after House of Hades came out. Nickelodeon said No Gays, the Children™ can’t handle that. Too risky. And people said man that stinks, but that’s how these things go in 2014 America.

Gay marriage was literally still illegal in the vast majority of US states. As of October 8th, 2013 (House of Hades release date) Gay Marriage was only a thing in thirteen fucking states. California had only legalized it that year.

Gay people were still very much on the fringes of society. It was an acceptable political position on both sides of the aisle to be against the existence and equal rights of gay people.

Nico was legitimately a landmark character in queer representation. To my knowledge, there wasn’t before an openly gay main character in a bestselling ya/middle grade fantasy fiction series. It simply was not a thing. They didn’t exist. They weren’t allowed to exist.

I remember people crying. Finally. It was a watershed moment. Kids all across the world finally got someone who represented them. It was such a big fucking deal. And it was controversial!!! Not for the reasons it is today, but because people thought gay kids having representation was inappropriate.

Is Nico’s coming out a great scene? No, these days it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I’m sure Rick wishes he could change it. But the fact that’s the case is a wonderful reflection of how far we’ve come.

All of your gay heroes in children’s media have Nico Di Angelo to thank. It was important, and good. It deserves to be celebrated, even if we’ve progressed past it since.

[starii-void]

going to chb must be crazy like imagine sharing a camp with

-one of the strongest demigods ever who's saved the world like at least 3 times, fought multiple gods & titans and WON (and is a tartarus survivor)

-the literal main architect of OLYMPUS who's also saved the world multiple times (also tartarus survivor)

-THE lord of the wild who's also close friends with the first two (and has helped save the world multiple times)

-an emo kid from the 1930s who again helped save the world and is also a tartarus survivor (TWICE)

-a son of apollo who survived tartarus with nothing but cargo shorts and sheer will (pun intended)

-the main designer and builder for the argo II, also the first hephaestus kid to have fire powers since hundreds of years ago (did i mention killed gaea? no? yeah he did that too)

-a girl who somehow charmspeak-ed gaea into falling back asleep (also side note daughter of super famous actor because why not)

-pretty much everybody is a two-time war veteran

-THE GOD APOLLO who just sometimes comes down to visit in the form of a teenage boy

-did i mention dionysus, god of wine madness and theatre

-also chiron, trainer of pretty much every greek hero ever

[jankwritten]

I’m thinking about big three kids being influenced by their own powers

Percy being quicker to panic because he accidentally influences his own blood to rush faster. Jason who often feels like he can’t breathe because he’s altering the air pressure around himself constantly, or when he’s flying, he accidentally displaces some of the air in his own lungs and can’t inhale for a second. Thalia afraid of heights because her demigod instincts constantly tell her to take flight, leave the ground, while her human instincts scream she’ll die if she does that. Hazel and Nico both being cold and tired all the time because their bodies have naturally slower heart rates that are VERY difficult to raise. Hazel can’t wear earrings because she accidentally rips them out when she gets stressed. Nico used his powers to heal his own broken bones too often and now when he raises a skeleton, his own bones ache like he’s got arthritis in every joint.

[demigods-posts]

currently obsessed with the idea of everyone viewing percy as a forced to never be messed with. for the sea is unpredictable and does not like to be restrained and all that jazz. except, frank and hazel. who only see him as just a little guy. a soldier left to his own devices out on the streets with nothing to comfort him but a panda pillow pet and a lingering memory of a girl he loves. he's just a little guy you guys.

[fanfic-lover-girl]

This is the only PJO content I have read in full...and this felt like a fanfic. I don't mean that in a good way. I have seen fanfic writers who could blow RR out of the water.

Anyway, I am not feeling the seven friendship here. At all. If this is reflective of the dynamics of the group in HOO then I can understand why others have said it was lacklustre.

I wish I could be optimistic about the second pjo season, I really do, but every time I see that hopeful sentiment of "maybe the show runners will listen to the complaints about season 1 and fix it going forward!!" it reminds me of another notable time that RR's work received a not insignificant amount of criticism (the Blood of Olympus), and in response he wrote a passive aggressive one-shot wherein the seven literally just sit and verbally justify everything that happened asdlfksdjfsdf

[poisonpercy]

“average demigod goes on 3 quests a year” factoid actualy just statistical error. average demigod goes on 0 quests per year. Percy Jackson, who lives in New York & goes on over 10,000 quests each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

[purplepomegranate08]

Annabeth cannonly told monument facts to all her friends can we include this in the fandom please

Annabeth gets caught off her guard by something someone says and just spouts

“construction on the gateway arch was completed on the 28th of October 1965”

She never lives it down