#the only exception i can think of for Percy giving up a soulmate without a fight is if it was like a sibling or a nephew Maybe-- maybe Tedd

[elisedonut]

i should really do more with the Our path, dyed in blue. Soulmate au concept because it really is such a neat concept for one that I feel is a little wasted with just a barely 700 word fic

not that I don't love that fic because I really do I just think that it's really neat

like Dennis realizing his soulmate isn't at the school anymore after finding out the rooms are on a seven-year cycle or how Percy reacted to Colin having splotches of color on him and what assumptions he made there (my brain always defaults to the camera had the most because he'd had it longer and thus Dennis had messed with it more though i imagine alot of his school stuff was at least a little tinted too)

what's Percy's thoughts on having a young soulmate in a universe where that's not tied to also feeling like they're going to die

like he would accept him obv because i feel it's ooc for Percy not to accept a soulmate tbh he's too much of a romantic for that imo He'd care too much about what having a soulmate means to ever just give one up like that this is something his this is someone who will always accept him this is someone made for him in a way thts too much to just give up for no good reason

like he'll have reservations and possibly a moment of panic depending on how much he just like knows since obv if he's always know his soulmate was younger then it's not a shocking Suprise but i don't think he'd try to like run away or sabotage it

I do really like the concept for them of Percy not thinking Dennis is a first year even though he know's he'll only enter Hogwarts a year after he graduates so early on it was well yeah- obviously a first year that year but then he learns about the tri wizard tournament when he starts working for Crouch and that assumption switches too "oh it must be a student from another school" just because i think that's neat

[bright-eyes-strawberry-lies]

Rating PJO Ships

I already made the PJO shipping jar meme (not linking because tumblr hates links) but thought I’d write it out anyway. 

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Solangelo - (5/10) Will is Nico’s unnecessary rebound because Rick couldn’t let someone walk around with a crush on Percy without pairing them off with someone or making them live a life of chastity. The fandom went wild with this ship despite all of their “development” being off the page. Would be better if the building attraction and relationship was given actual page time to develop instead of being rushed. 

Frazel - (10/10) My only complaint is that we didn’t get more of them being the awesome couple they are. The way they went from friends to lovers is perfect. Looks cute but can kick your ass. Very supportive of each other. I am here for biracial power couples. 

Lukercy - (10/10) There are literally dozens of parallels between them and Rick wrote them as soulmates. I love that Luke trained Percy so hard that Percy’s never lost a sword fight except to Luke himself and still hears Luke’s voice in his head guiding him through fights. The subtle ways that Luke constantly gave Percy (and Co) chances to escape from Kronos’ grasp even when he still believed in Kronos was golden. Luke was the only person who was kind to Percy at Camp Half-Blood and trusted Percy to help other demigods when he died? My heart. How Percy now shares all of Luke’s views on the Olympians? Bittersweet irony. I wish that Luke hadn’t died because I’m tired of writing resurrection AUs. 

Percico - (10/10) The most powerful power couple. Nico’s youthful hero worship giving way to love? Sign me up. Percy spending winter looking for Nico to keep him safe and trying to reassure him that he has a place at Camp Half-Blood? Give me more. Making mistakes and forgiving each other for them and their relationship strengthening because of it? Gods, yes. Going to Italy to go gift shopping and flirting? Thank you for this blessing, Rick. If only they had been endgame. 

Thaliabeth - (7/10) Thalia is the only person that Annabeth respects and Thalia has extremely protective feelings toward Annabeth. They would be the nightmare power couple. Murder wives who slay anyone who stands in their way of power and glory. Neither of them would take shit from the other. And honestly, I’m here for it. 

Perachel - (10/10) Mutual respect and open communication are extremely sexy in relationships. Rachel being Percy’s mortal tie and his chance at a normal life; Percy being the one to help Rachel with her powers and clear sight? Please yes. They were really cute and sweet and had so much chemistry. It would have been great if Rick acknowledged that the Oracle isn’t a lifelong job and that Rachel can still date and have sex as long as it isn’t vaginal penetration. 

Percabeth - (0/10) Annabeth hits, pinches, pokes, kicks, ribs, and punches Percy too often for my tastes. She’s got a superiority complex and makes herself feel better by calling him stupid, crazy, and insane. Constantly threatens violence. Annabeth is possessive, jealous, refuses to communicate, and doesn’t respect Percy or allow him to have autonomy. She constantly wants to control what he says and does or doesn’t say/do. She victim blames him multiple times for incidents that were beyond Percy’s control. Percy is scared of her, refuses to argue so that he doesn’t set her off, and thinks Annabeth is going to hurt him every time she so much as looks at him. Percy deserves better. 

Jiper - (5/10) It would have been cool to see them work past the lies and false memories to make a real romantic relationship but I don’t really have a horse in that race. They’re alright. Not bad, not the best. 

Pipeo - (7/10) If the theory that all of Piper’s memories of Jason were actually memories of Leo is true, then I’m here for this. The fact that they were friends before they even knew they were demigods was fantastic. Give me that friends to lovers dynamic and the chaotic trouble they would get into together. They would be unstoppable. 

Caleo - (5/10) Pairing Calypso up with a man boy instead of a man man was a strange choice but Rick likes pairing up teenagers with beings that are over a thousand years old. It’s terribly romantic that Leo kept his promise and came back for Calypso. I like that they decided to leave the demigod life behind to do their own thing. They’ve had enough of the gods! Let them figure themselves out and enjoy each other and life. 

Connabeth - (4/10) The idea is cute if you don’t think about it at all. I think Connor would stand up to Annabeth but she’s been known to wear down three thousand year old centaurs [Chiron] so that he’ll do what she wants...so I’m not sure that Connor actually stands a chance of holding his own against Annabeth. 

Lukethan - (4/10) It would be really cute but they’ve never even spoken to each other in canon. Ethan spoke with Kronos. 

Thaluke - (2/10) Thalia doesn’t like Luke. She withheld a lot of [trivial] information from Luke just because she could and didn’t tell him important info either. She almost definitely knew that Luke would do whatever she wanted him to because she’s got a Look that makes him melt. Thalia is incredibly eager to kill Luke and eventually does. Luke is too dependent and blinded by how much he wanted someone to love him. They’ve got an unhealthy dynamic and I don’t see either of them changing to become better people together. 

Valdangelo - (6/10) They’re both small and cute. That’s all I’ve got. There’s no reason not to ship them. Oh, and Leo warming up a cold Nico with his fire powers is so sweet that I’ve got cavities just thinking about it. 

Jasico - (9/10) Rick was really writing them with romantic troupes during Mark of Athena and House of Hades. When they were paired off with other people, I was actually really surprised. The way that Jason supports Nico’s queerness and the way that Nico can teach Jason that he doesn’t have to live up to stereotypes and other people's expectations...that would have been really good to read. The way that Jason’s death affected Nico really tugged at my heartstrings. I like to think that Nico visits Jason in the Underworld. 

Thalianca - (6/10) The potential of Thalia and Bianca could have been so good and also good for comedy. Imagine Thalia - who missed the past five years - trying to catch Bianca up on the 21st century and being behind on the times. Both of them getting caught up together? Yes. Training together, friendly games and competitions. Midnight rendezvous at Camp Half-Blood. Bianca slowly showing Thalia that not all Hunters of Artemis are bad. Girls supporting each other and growing as people because of their relationship. This is what we could have had. 

[yukippe]

flowers so very delicate

@pjofemslashweek day 2: au (soulmates) | read on ao3 | word count: 3.1k

new rome is a city of flowers. 

the myth says that people were once two sided. that they were whole. that zeus took them and tore them in half, full of jealousy. myths, of course, are all based in truth. 

all mortals might have other halves, but it is when the children and chosen of the gods share souls that are able to find their soulmates. when two soulmates touch; flowers bloom. in new rome, a city of the gods favoured, the streets are full of colour and petals.

 -

reyna grows up in a family blessed by bellona. her and her older sister are the goddesses children, but her family has always been favoured. flowers are not unheard of and prized, but they are also hidden. a soulmate could be a weakness, a soulmate is unheard of for mortals that do not know of the gods. when she and her sister escape and find themselves on circe’s island a scarce handful of the women have flowers. those that do keep them on display. 

when the men take over the island, reyna thinks very little of flowers and thinks much more of trying to escape. 

it’s in the after, when she finally settles in new rome, that she thinks of soulmates. 

not everyone in new rome has a soulmate, after all not everyone falls in love or stays in new rome. most people in new rome have a soulmate. 

reyna comes to new rome alone with flora free arms, and no one minds. she meets jason when they’re both twelve and she starts to know she’s in the right place as he laughs with her and fights with her and somehow they both know to very carefully avoid skin to skin contact. soulmates are something special. what she has with jason is special - he’s her best friend. and neither of them want to know if being best friends isn’t enough. 

they go to the movie theatre in the city and carefully separate the popcorn into the extra bag they asked for, they go to the cafe and they never grab the others drink first to pass it to them, when they spar the winner doesn’t pull the other onto their feet. reyna knows the legion and the city thinks the two of them are being silly, that they should just touch and the flowers will be there waiting. 

but reyna’s lost more than she should. and all jason knows is the legion. neither of them are ready to risk it. so they shove each other in the winter when they are bundled up in layers, and keep space between each other when they sit and watch the sunset. 

they make it two years. at fourteen reyna falls off scipio and jason saves her. it should’ve been a moment of relief, instead they both freeze at the sight of their still empty skin. jason finds reyna after the mess of it all. 

  “i don’t care if we aren’t soulmates,” jason says, sitting next to her on reyna’s bunk. 

  “i do,” reyna tells him. she hasn’t met his eyes since he held her and nothing showed on their skin. now, she turns her head to meet his gaze. “i care that we aren’t soulmates. but, you’re still my best friend. and you aren’t going to stop being my best friend just because we aren’t separate halves. your girlfriend can be your second half, or something.”

  jason opens his palm to her and she takes it. he smiles at her and she smiles back. “well,” jason says. “i can hug you now.” and then he throws his arms around her and they fall of reyna’s bed and reyna doesn’t even mind that much that their arms aren’t covered in flowers. instead, she laughs and laughs and squeezes jason tight. 

  after that, if they’re within two feet of each other some part of them is touching the other. when people ask reyna ignores them, jason smiles with his too sharp teeth and claims they’re making up for the two years of their friendship when they always kept apart. 

  they aren’t soulmates, their connection isn’t enough for vines to grow around their limbs, or for sunflowers to sneak across their faces, or for bluebells to be found hiding between their fingers as they hold hands. reyna cares, but only because she cares about jason. reyna doesn’t mourn a half she’s still going to find, instead she teases jason about who’ll be brave enough to come close to the wolf boy. 

  and then she meets venus in charleston and the words she hears swim around in her head, promising a life so barren no child of ceres could heal it. no demigod will heal your soul. she will never know her other half. reyna will never be blessed with the sight of her flowers on another’s skin. her touch will never cause life to bloom. she takes venus’s words and she buries them in the half of her soul she will never know how to fill. reyna might live her life without a soulmate, but no one else has to know that but her. 

-

reyna sees soulmates find each other more times that she can remember. new rome is a garden of souls finding their missing half. reyna tells herself half of a soul isn’t soulless. 

by the time they give her praetor there a few members of the legion her age that are never seen with flowers. reyna thinks of the women on circe’s island and she does not cover her arms. she is not lesser without a soulmate to be found. 

she drives the legion forward, she hugs her friends and doesn’t ache for petals she will never know. she rides scipio and from the sky she can’t see the gardens growing on skin. she takes care of those she loves and she is reyna avila ramirez arellano. no one mentions that she has not found anyone. she is 16 and she has time, in their eyes. more importantly, reyna makes herself into the perfect praetor. 

and then jason grace goes missing. 

-

even perfect praetor’s are not able to rule alone. she does her best. she does everything right. reyna dodges octavian's touch, even though she’s felt his slimy fingers on her arm before. he wants to fill a space that belongs to her best friend, the boy who could’ve been her soulmate. soulmate praetors are a dream in the eyes of many. reyna couldn’t care less. 

instead of wallowing she searches for jason. and after months of looking, percy jackson arrives as a saving grace. part of her would prefer the grace she knows, percy jackson comes with faded flowers he traces everytime his eyes catch them. he is a mystery and reyna has no idea how to solve him, nor the time to try. instead she watches him leave on a quest and breathes easier when he comes back. 

someone who has already met their soulmate taking the place of praetor eases reyna’s worries. reyna doesn’t need to feel bad about not being his soulmate if he already has one. 

except it can’t be that easy. 

-

there’s a war. there’s seven to answer the call, and only six to come home. reyna finds herself with a new praetor by her side and her best friend across the country on a semi-permanent basis and he doesn’t even remember her well. 

reyna’s been having a very bad year. but she lives with it. she adjusts. she hugs frank and laughs when he asks if it’s true that she and jason are secretly soulmates, and then he helps her set that rumour to rest. 

there are meetings with camp half blood and jason becomes a liaison, and when he visits camp jupiter again they watch the sunset. it’s another sunset of so, so many for reyna. but she watches jason’s face more than the sun as it drifts down through the sky, because it’s the first for him. 

reyna and frank raise the ages of when demigods start their service and lower the number of years needed significantly. she goes to a game of capture the flag and is thoroughly surprised when the greeks beat her team of romans. she shakes the hands of all of piper’s siblings as piper watches hopefully, she is patted on the back slightly aggressively by the children of ares and she gets pulled into a very awkward group hug by a cabin lead by two almost identical boys with mischievous smiles. 

flowers never sprout. reyna lets it go, she’s had time to learn to let it go and learn to not care and she’s gotten very, very good at it. 

what she cares about is being happy, now. and she has that. She’s had that since she first found camp jupiter and the son of the camp’s namesake welcomed her with a smile better fit for a wolf.

-

and then, reyna starts to grow up. at seventeen she surprises two camps and a hidden city and chooses to go to a university other than the university of new rome. she goes to fucking harvard. 

“harvard?” frank asks her as she slings her bag over her shoulder. 

 “yeah,” reyna says smirking. “fucking harvard. being the mayor of a small town looks really good on college apps, i think. and i’m getting the legion to bankroll it. imperial gold is a lot more in mortal currency.”

  “okay,” frank says. “but like, did you do high school? Because i haven’t really been doing high school since before i got here.”

  reyna laughs at that. she puts her bags back down and pulls out her phone to text frank some links he really should’ve had, “i do night school and online school. the entire legion should be? I guess you can go bother them all to start while i’m at harvard.”

  frank shakes his head, but then he pulls a hat out from behind his back and reyna starts laughing again. it’s maroon and in big lettering on the front it has the harvard logo. reyna asks him where he got it, but he pays her no mind.  he puts it on her head and pulls it down too far in front of her eyes. before jumping back out of her range. “well, i guess you’re going to harvard. stay away from frat parties!” he smiles at her and reyna rolls her eyes at him and pulls him in for a hug. flowers don’t grow, but reyna doesn’t need them to know that frank was the best co praetor she could’ve asked for. 

  and then he walks her to the bus and she sits at the back of a bus no one else gets onto. it stops in new rome and no one ever gets on or leaves, reyna doesn’t know why but she’s always like the idea of how confused the bus driver must be. she certainly startled him when she stepped on and paid her fare, and reyna smiles at the driver when he makes eye contact with her in his rearview mirror. he doesn’t make eye contact with her again for the rest of the trip, not even after other passengers filter on. 

-

  harvard, for the most part, is easier than being praetor and (probably being the only roman demigod) doing high school. her classmates are mostly awful and reyna would like to show some of her professors why monsters fear her name almost as much as percy jackson’s, but she shows restraint. all those years with octavian finally come in useful. 

  no one at harvard has flowers that came from their other halves' touch. reyna thinks there are one or two greek demigods also on campus, but she doesn’t see the telltale flowers anywhere. so either they’re very good at avoiding her gaze or the other demigods at harvard are also bloom free. 

  it’s nice. she gets to laugh at her own jokes and she goes on dates with girls that aren’t watching for petals as their fingers brush and none of the friends she makes try for touch too much or too little. reyna can’t remember the last time that skin contact didn’t mean something. she entertains getting a tattoo of a dead plant on her shoulder, but she lets her roommate talk her out of it pretty quickly. 

  when she goes back to new rome for the summer in the tiny apartment she gets for her service as praetor she teases her friends who are stuck in summer school because they never thought about high school until frank made a big fancy assembly after reyna left in september. frank and leila have grand plans for high school education - even though neither of them have finished high school yet - and reyna sees construction ongoing for a school behind one of her favourite parks. it makes her smile. 

  there’s a reunion for the seven and company when reyna’s in town, leo makes a crack about how she’s been missing longer than he was and reyna’s eyes soften as she she’s the red camellias and hyacinth jason’s touch leaves on leo as he puts his arm over leo’s shoulder. they weren’t there until after leo came back from death, but no one knows why. then, leo tugs piper close and reyna is properly surprised when she sees geraniums and asters grow on piper’s arm. (later she will find piper and get the story out of her. once she has the story she’ll go to hug jason and tell him how happy she is for them all)

  she’s forgotten the way it feels to be around soulmates. but there’s frank and hazel who are as free of flora as reyna remembers, like her. nico covers the flowers of the boy he’s been seeing he’s trying to keep a secret from her she thinks he’s worried she’ll threated the mystery boy. he’s not wrong) and percy and annabeth will never be found without each others jasmine, thyme and chrysanthemums. reyna finds it hurts less, even knowing that it’s likely one day frank and hazel will find flowers too. 

  reyna has a life where no one knows of souls that make their mark with blossoms. 

-

  reyna joins the harvard climbing team her second year for kicks and also out of spite. she goes to her program’s societies events and has been known to drop by the chess club to and make the members cry. she’s involved. but, as dakota had pointed it out with far too much glee, she’s not on any sort of athletic team or club. 

  so she picks up climbing. if she’s going to fucking harvard she might as well join the fucking harvard team. 

  later, dakota will say she owes him. reyna will offer to spar him for credit when he mentions it and he’ll back off. 

    in reyna’s second year when she joins the climbing team, a first year named zia rashid joins too. zia’s originally from egypt, but she did high school in brooklyn where she was staying with family friends. she’s majoring in history and has a minor in earth sciences and is planning to do her masters in archaeology. she’s a little addicted to smoothies and reyna is going to fall off the climbing wall one day because of her. 

  their friends, really, just friends. they spot each other on the wall and zia is one of reyna’s few friends at harvard that knows she was the “mayor” of a “small town”. reyna really, really wants to go out with her. 

 they’re getting lunch together after they leave the gym when reyna finally gets up the nerve to ask her out. she’d been teasing zia for ordering a smoothie even though she’d had one as they walked over to the cafe. 

  “uh,” reyna laughs as she watches zia’s mouth maybe a little too closely. “how many smoothies is that today?”

  zia sighs at her, “well i didn’t know we were coming here. the restaurant next door - i wouldn’t have ordered a smoothie there. but this place is my favourite.”

  reyna raises an eyebrow, “you didn’t give me a number.”

  zia pulls her straw out of her mouth and sighs. “here try this,” she says. “it’s the best thing you’ll ever taste. try it!” she starts waggling the drink at reyna and reyna grabs it when zia’s smile turns soft and teasing. 

  she tries it. “okay,” reyna says, still holding onto the drink. “maybe you have a point.”

  zia gives her a knowing look and then reaches for her drink back, but reyna moves it out of zia’s reach. zia’s mouth drops open, “i. you.”

  “i like it,” reyna says with a shrug. and then she steals herself and goes for it. “let me take you on a date and get you another one.”

  the hand zia had in the air that was trying to get her drink back freezes. for a moment, reyna worries she read their quiet moments and late night perfect grammar text chains wrong. the hand drops to her side, though, and zia’s face turns warm. “yeah,” zia says. she pushes her hair back behind her ear and reyna thinks she just got a hint at one of zia’s little gestures she’d been curious about. “yeah, that sounds good.”

  for a few moments they just smile at each other across the table. eventually, their hands find each other under the table and reyna gives zia her drink back. in those few moments though, reyna is reminded of sunsets with jason and nights with nico after shadow jumping across the ocean and horseback rides with hazel and calls with her sister.

  they don’t let go of each other’s hands until they have to pay. all reyna can see is zia’s eyes and they wander out from the cafe bumping into each others sides and reyna can’t remember the last time she was this close to someone. 

  zia pulls reyna down to a bench and reyna bumps into zia softly, her heartbeat faster than normal in her ears, but it doesn’t sound like it’s racing. nothing needs to be a race with zia. reyna brings their linked hands up to her mouth to kiss when she sees it. 

  she’s never seen roses bloom when soulmates touch before. she could’ve sworn she’d bumped into zia before in some way that would’ve had their skin touch, but reyna had grown used to being kept apart and carefully not getting close enough to be disappointed. 

  zia’s eyes are wide and reyna’s mostly confused as to how she didn’t know. 

  “i haven’t seen you in any nome, though,” zia says. 

  “um,” reyna says. and then she realizes what nome means as she remembers a story from percy and annabeth about magic and a different pantheon. “oh. that’s because i’m roman.”

  zia blinks, and then understanding flashes through her eyes, reyna giggles lightly and zia squeezes their still linked hands. “we both have long stories to tell, i think,” zia says. 

  they share them. soulmates are not unique to the children and blessed of the greek and roman gods, reyna finds. and as she listens to zia’s stories she knows she would’ve found zia with or without the roses on their palms. 

[imagine-wannaone]

A Second Guanlin Soulmate Au

Anon requested another Guanlin Soulmate au with pieces of Barista au mixed in, (I have no idea how there is still more soulmate keys left to write about) so yanno, here we go.

• Your soulmate sign was odd, different to many of the other signs,

• A possession, a necklace,

• I mean, the first worry is forgetting it right?

• Nah this thing is like a magnet - magic or something- if you lose it, it’ll appear around your neck again within the next minute,

• ( Y'all know Percy Jackson and his sword/pen? Like that voodoo),

• It’s quite a rare Soulmate sign, but you’re pleased with what you’ve got,

• Who needs quotes or music or tattoos when you have a literal thing to hold to signify your soulmate,

• The pendant that’s hangs on the inky black string is metal and cold and delicate,

• A light blue and silver moon littered with patterns and careful designs make your little sign one of the prettiest things you own,

• All swirls and linking patterns and quite beauty,

• A lot of people ask where you got it from,

• You just smile and say your soulmate made it for you,

• hA who could hand craft something so beautiful?

• Being the moon, it’s always cold, occasionally becoming slightly warmer on its own,

• Because it’s such a rare sign you don’t know it actually warms up when you get nearer to your soulmate,

• So you wonder around in your life peacefully, occasionally skimming people’s necks or chests to see if they also have a moon,

• Nope,

• But you’re in no rush, always quite relaxed and cheerful,

• So you’re in university Despite the threat of crushing student loans,

• But because you’re a student you’re actually broke,

• (but so is everyone else so at least you’re not totally alone),

• So you decide you’re going to have to find yourself a job,

• I mean you knew you where going to get one Anyway but you have a huge essay due and a hell of a lot of work from your course,

• Looks like you’re going to have to say goodbye to your social life rip,

• So you go scouting at all the cafes to see what they’re like and if they’re hiring,

• You had a job at a cafe in your old home so you’re pretty sure you could score one at uni as well,

• So you set off on a mission™

• You Jump around businesses because there’s many busy places,

• But you’re walking down this road and your necklace is warming up and you’re slightly surprised but used to its ‘random’ temperature changes,

• But then you spot it, seemingly glowing and calling your name, a cute cafe on the corner,

• But that could be because by now you’re Hella tired from walking around with a lot of course work to try to complete while scoping places out,

• You slide Through the door and glance around the cozy place and you swear you just walked into a fic (Whoops) because this place is too picture Perfect,

• The place is casual and bright and smells sweet with odd tables and chairs with soft music,

• The place looks to be half full of students meeting up or studying, the atmosphere relaxed,

• There must be a con - everything has a con,

• Like the very cute barista must be an idiot because if he isn’t you might cry and beg them to let you work for them,

• But oh shit how you’re wrong,

• You slide up to the counter to order a smoothie,

• (because although you’re apparently an adult now coffee hadn’t miraculously become something you crave),

• “Hey, what would you-”

• The barista spins round with a smile and as your eyes meet his beautiful ones you come to realise,

• Your necklace is near enough burning your damn chest and glowing,

• It’s hot as hell but it doesn’t actually hurt it just sorta tingles,

• Inner you is screaming that this is weird as hell you have burning metal on your chest why doesn’t it hurt,

• But it may look weird if you did that,

• So outter you is just like 'huh, you feeling this as well?’

• It’s actually funny because you can see the Batista’s own inner turmoil as well,

• So you take this moment of mutual panic to check your supposed soulmate out,

• A toll bean™

• That’ll be handy for when something’s on the top shelf,

• Or spotting him in a crowd,

• A face so delicately pretty and striking that you’re starting to question if Photoshop irl is a thing,

• Your eyes trail down to his chest, where a pendant sits on an oily black string, just like yours,

• Although there’s no moon, but A small and simple sun hangs from his neck, careful oranges and yellows and whites blend together seamlessly and in an eye-catching way, one that draws attention with an easy aura,

• Not an identical moon, but something that matches perfectly - You can’t have a moon without the sun, 

• You want to take it into your hands and examine it yourself,

• Except 1) that may be a creepy right now, factoring in the fact you’ve only just met this cute boy,

• 2) it is also slightly glowing and hot looking like yours, His is a brighter, burning glow, whereas your moon in more of a pastel glow,

• Except you do take it into your hands anyway because self control is a myth,

• The Sun is warm and sends tingles up to the top of your head and back down to the tips of your toes, making you feel like you’re floating,

• You feel him take your moon and you only hope he’s feeling the same rising absolute joy that’s filling your heart,

• You already want the absolute best for this stranger,

• This soulmate,

• You need to calm the hell down,

• “It’s just as pretty as you,”

• You’re about to call yourself out for being cringy AF with your first words but you decide to let yourself this once,

• Because if your necklaces are representatives of your soulmate, like you always had a suspicion about,

• Because there had been a rumor, and people had told you before you where cheerful and bright like the sun,

• ( A coincidence? I ThiNk nOt),

• He’s the moon - shyer, quieter, more aloof and graceful,

• Because he looks so, like the shining moon hovering in a black sky, providing the perfect amount of light to illuminate everything,

• Except he doesn’t have craters of course, 

• (although craters add a charm, a unique beauty),

• So yanno, you figured you might as well talk first,

• He laughs at that, eyes shaping into crescents and his ears turning shades redder,

• He moves his hands up to carefully run through your hair, which makes love explode in your heart and you’re automatically content with him being your soulmate,

• Honestly, someone playing with hair? A kink™

• You already know the years ahead are going to be filled with new experiences, ones that’ll make your heart ache and your head dizzy,

• An adventure calls in the eyes of your soulmate and you’re ready to explore the unknown,

• Which starts with you getting a job at that cafe the very same day,

• Honestly, it’s suspiciously perfect,

• But I guess everyone has a different perfect, so maybe it’s not so suspicious for you to find your perfect,

• You seem to co-exist so perfectly, you can work together in perfect harmony, knowing who needs help with what or how to complete an order with each other without so much as a word,

• And when it’s quite you share smoothies or sandwiches and chat or read or silently send each other memes which is true love,

• Or you listen to each other rant, or play stupid games or make up stories about the people that walk past,

• If you’re with the right person, nothing is boring,

• And you find out what it feels like to depend on someone with utter, unquestionable trust,

• But you also realise your whole life isn’t about soulmates,

• While spending time with Guanlin makes your heart race and your heart fill, if he’s in class you can still enjoy lunch with friends or walk cute dogs from a centre,

• It just makes the time together cherished,

• And because Guanlin is a goof, there’s never a moment that’s dull,

• A lot of lazing around in pajamas and blankets and in front of TV’s,

• (Because we all know Guanlin is 2nd lazy in wanna one aka very relatable ),

• Your necklaces are always a content warm when you’re together, a cold when you’re apart,

• And even when you can’t meet, you have your moon,

• A quite reminder that you have someone to lean on, someone to cheer you on,

• You have someone to support you until their arms give way and they can’t anymore,

• Although they’ll still try everything they can to give you their all,

• It’s a comfort, a soft glowing light for the darkness that occasionally appears,

• You know that time together doesn’t need to be jam packed with activities, and that sometimes quietly keeping each other company is love in its own way

We hit 800 followers yesterday, so tysm for that, It means a hell of a lot!

[fantasticworldoffanfics]

CREDENCE/GRAVES

                                              ——— (part 2) ——–

Fandom: Fantastic Beast and Where They Come From

Even longer list of fanfics :)….

top favourites, part 1

Believe In What You Can’t

Author: Crimson_Voltaire

Summary: "How good and thoughtful he is; the world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it." - Bram Stoker, Dracula 

Credence walks into a book store on a rainy day, and the world changes. 

Mob!AU Series

Author: themunchking (themuchking)

Part 1: Two-Headed Boy (Put On Sunday Shoes)

Summary: Everyone who knows Percival Graves knows about his boy, too.

Part 2: Sinner’s Delight

Summary: Credence is like silk, and he loves to be wrapped in it.Or—Credence greets Percival after a long day.

Perfect Fit

Author: classicasshole

Summary: Bonded Alphas Percival Graves and Theseus Scamander are looking for an Omega to add to their bond. Credence Barebone recently presented as an Omega and had to be removed from his mother's 'care'. He is exactly what the two Alphas are looking for.

sidenote: Credence/Graves/Theseus ship

What’s New PussyCat

Author: canis_m

Summary: Credence learns the Animagus transformation. It's all downhill from there.

My Greatest Weakness Is You

Author: CinnabunAngel

Summary: Credence loves Percival so he would do anything for the man...Including wearing lingerie, while still at MACUSA. Percival Graves is the most respectable man, can keep his composure, that is until Credence is in the room. Then his eyes go straight to his chewed up lip, how are they so distracting?? Or more so, I needed this and I ended writing this instead of sleeping...

The Boy In The Thunderbird Mask

Author: Binary_Sunset

Summary: It's been two years since Credence has set foot in New York City, and in that time, it seems his whole life has radically changed. He's travelled all around the world in the suitcase of a British wizard. He's seen creatures he never could have imagined existed. And now, after getting a job with MACUSA, he's heading back to the first place he ever called home.But with a new outlook and a strange fascination with a man he thought he knew, everything comes to a head at MACUSA's annual masquerade ball.

We Met, We Kissed, We Married

Author: TheSilverQueen

Summary: “Angels above and demons below,” exclaims the god. “You are one of Hecate’s children.”“Who?” says the boy.  The god rubs wearily at his brow. “Credence Barebone,” says the god, startling the boy, who had given his name, “what do you know of magic?”’

Percival is the god of pumpkin patches. Credence Barebone is just the boy who wanders into one of them.

What Is All This Sweet Work Worth (If Thou Kiss Not Me)

Author: Rrrowr

Summary: Credence had never felt more so than he did at Graves' feet, with a large hand settled over the crown of his skull. There were people all around them and Credence was wearing dreadfully little -- barely more than his underwear and a gauzy shawl -- but he felt safe.

"Darling," Graves drawled, tugging a little at Credence's ear. He was smiling as Credence looked up, eyes half lidded and drowsy with love. "Get me a drink from the bar. If you spill so much as a drop, you'll get a spanking."

Honeypot

Author: inb4invert

Summary: It wasn't about Grindelwald. It wasn't even really about Graves and his wounded alpha cop pride, either. What Piquery and Detective Graves had both known, the unspoken thing that swirled around like a curl of black ink suspended in the depths of their mutual stare-down, was that this was about the omega. The one Graves knew would be haunting his dreams tonight, languishing and panting all unseen in the sweat-dampened sheets of his empty bed.

Sweet Like Honey

Author: kovisk

Summary: He still had it somewhat, but a new identity was to be ushered, because he'd been careless, because he'd slipped up for a doe of a boy with dark hair and poppy lips soaked in opium, drug enough for them both.

Prosperity

Author: projectoverlord

Summary: ‘There’s a really handsome guy over there,’ he signs, and as she starts to turn he makes a frantic, ‘Queenie! Don’t look at him!’

AU Credence was born deaf, and his past has left him insecure about the likelihood of anyone ever really loving him.

Consort

Author: TheZ1337

Summary: Percival Graves decided to buy a sex slave, to help around the house of course. What he gets is an emotionally jaded and highly anxiety-ridden Credence Barebone whose not good at anything, except being in bed.

Early In the Morning

Author: gold_pebble

Summary: Graves couldn’t really remember when he had first started living for the Sundays, but there he was, in bed with the prettiest boy in the world, ready to spend the morning in lazy sex.

Devil’s Kiss

Author: shionch

Summary: (No magic / Modern AU.) Credence Barebone, an impressionable young man from a poor family, all-but-accidentally (it might or might not be Newt Scamander's fault) meets Percival Graves, a handsome & well-off older man. It leads to a strange relationship, with neither Credence nor Mr. Graves being certain how it might end.

Sins Of The Father

Author: Anonymous

Summary: Graves takes care of his son through every heat he has, and has him almost wrapped around his fingers.

Ripped At The Edges, But Still A Masterpiece

Author: writingramblr

Summary: Percy is a Fourth Year Wampus, who comes across a new First year wandering the halls.  He doesn't mean to rescue the kid, but it ends up happening anyway.  Percy Graves, retriever of strays. Stray would-be Obscurials, that is.

What Can I Do?

Author: NaughtyLokiStories

Summary: Graves comes home and finds Credence distressed and in his obscurus form. He does his best to please his boy and make him feel better.

Harmony

Author: projectoverlord

Summary: The guard escorting him, who wears the name tag Scamander yet introduces himself as Theseus, shows Graves to the tiny cell that he will call home for the next twelve months. It’s empty, but when he goes to place his things on the top bunk, the guard chuckles. “I wouldn’t recommend it. Credence likes the top bunk.”

It Was Easy (Natural As Breathing)

Author: projectoverlord

Summary: Credence has spent his entire life in a shadow of orders barked down his spine, every movement under strict control. And now everything is different, and new, and he is drowning in his own freedom. Percival is there to guide him through.

The Stripper!AU Series

Author: intravenusann

Part 1: I Like The Way Your Body Moving (I Like The Way You Spread Confusion)

Summary: While attending a faith conference with his family, Credence Barebone finds an opportunity to leave behind his small, ordinary life and indulge the fantasies he's always carried inside his head — if only for a few hours.

Part 2: I Like The Way Your Heart Is Blooming (On And On, You’ll Never Be Mine)

Summary: After a wild time at the strip club with Mr. Graves, the best night of Credence's life quickly turns into the worst when he tries to return to his family. If he doesn't go home to New York, where will he go? Will he ever see Mr. Graves again?

Part 3: Would You Ever Take A Chance With Me? (Would You Ever?)

Summary: Just as Credence feels settled into something like a routine with his found family in Atlanta, his sisters arrive in the city. Also what exactly is his relationship with bartender/strip club owner/general hottie Mr. Graves?

Pretty Little Thing

Author: gold_pebble

Summary: Out of all the omega boys in the world, Percival had been so lucky to find one that didn't need to get into heat to beg for his cock.

See You On The Other Side

Author: bluebeholder, Truetomorrow, writingramblr

Summary: After recovering from Grindelwald, both Percival Graves and Credence Barebone have been putting their lives back together, with Credence working in MACUSA under the watchful eye of the Goldsteins, while Percival tries to pretend he doesn't feel obsolete.They're friendly, but neither of them wants to make the next move.Help comes in the form of a magical toaster.

Breaking & Entering

Author: writingramblr

Summary: Graves is a Gentleman Thief with a dash of vigilante, on the way to his next target, he stumbles upon a veritable princess in a tower. Or, Credence lives in Grindelwald's attic and likes to sleep naked.

Enraptured

Author: Anonymous

Summary: Graves' pet is very distracting.

Spoiled

Author: Kaleido_dance

Summary: Percival Graves, following the wishes of his dark master and old friend Grindelwald, seduces the obscurial to get him to join their side in the fight for the greater good. But he loses himself in Credence's charming innocence while trying to teach him about love and sex, and ends up adopting him as his son, giving him everything he can think of and spoiling him to his core.

Penitence, Absolution, Salvation

Author: KissMeCthulhu

Summary: (Modern AU.) Mary Lou Barebone is convinced that the new principal of the local high school, Percival Graves, is a wizard, and ceases homeschooling Credence to send him to investigate further. However, in order to get close to Graves, Credence has to keep getting in trouble so he is sent to the principal’s office. Unfortunately for Credence, Mr. Graves takes discipline very seriously – especially when it’s a pretty boy causing all the trouble.

Silent Souls

Author: Yeoyou

Summary: Percival Graves didn't allow himself the delusion of thinking himself a good man. But neither did he believe that he was particularly bad. So the rumour that he had no soul should have been without foundation. And yet the suspiciously spotless skin of his wrist seemed to say otherwise. For what other explanation could there be for the absence of any markings, any words stitching his soul together with another's, than that he had no soul at all? No soul. No soulmate. The logic was irrefutable.

Safe From The World

Author: Truetomorrow

Summary: Credence and Percival were roommates in college; now Percival is an up-and-coming lawyer, and Credence is in his last year of undergrad on a trip to visit Percival. They are best friends. Sometimes they undress each other. It's platonic. Totally platonic. (Until suddenly it doesn't have to be)

Call Me When You’re Sober

Author: hiikigane

Summary: Having a roommate sucks when you're a socially awkward gamer/programmer starting your first year in college. It sucks even more when you're a studious, uptight senior who applied for a single room in the first place. But Credence and Percival learn to get along and with a little outside help, learn that being roommates can be pretty fun.

Detachment

Author: projectoverlord

Summary: The first sign of trouble for them is always Queenie making that face. The one that she is wearing right now; her mouth open just a little, eyes wide but vacant, like she is a thousand miles away. By now they know that look. It has them all on their feet immediately, gearing up and getting the jet primed to go.

AU Percival is part of the Superhero team known as the Aurors. Obscurus is the thorn in his side that gets innocent people killed and refuses to join his team.

Sweeter Than Honey

Author: ozean

Summary: Basically where Percival Graves gets off on getting a certain Credence Barebone off and then paying him for the "experience."

Tucked Away We Are Found

Author: nerdygaycas

Summary: Credence Barebone survived that fateful month of November after the metro attack, but MACUSA deemed him a hazard to himself and the rest of the world, and so he was sent to Kästner, the place where ill-fated witches and wizards, untreatably sick or mentally disturbed, suffered in shame, completely forgotten. Exactly one month and eleven days had passed since Graves was officially reinstated in his charge, but despite his best efforts to forget the whole ordeal, like a cut that would not stop bleeding in his mind: Credence, the Second Salemer boy. Haunted by the weight of his conscience and a strangling sense of duty, Graves decides to travel all the way up to Kästner, and pay Credence a long-overdue visit.

We Fight Ourselves

Author: writingramblr

Summary: Germany's Ambassadors come to MACUSA to discuss ever evolving laws and borders that may change, but instead of keeping things professional, Director Graves manages to end up on the other side of a seduction game that just may turn his worldview upside down.

The Name Game

Author: secondsodomites

Summary: Credence first sees Graves at a bar. Two days later Graves waltzes into Kowalski's Bakery & Deli and shenanigans ensue.

Anomaly

Author: projectoverlord

Summary: Everything goes quiet. In the boat, underneath the blanket, is a man.

AU Percival is a pirate captain who finds Credence unconscious in the middle of the ocean in a little boat.

There’s Nothing Wrong With Me (Loving You)

Author: intravenusann

Summary: When Credence — who has been living with the Goldsteins for six months now — learns that Mr. Graves feels ill, he does whatever he can to make sure the man is… comfortable.

more fics: part 3

[1940snico]

We were in screaming color - Solangelo - Soulmate AU

Nico’s entire life was black and white. He often thought it was perfect because it suited his bleak life. Of course, a lot of other people also only see in black and white, including his soulmate. Wherever they are.

Nico stumbled on Halfblood Hill. He had to disable the onagers somehow or the camp would be destroyed. Then, he saw three people dressed in all black. One of them had bright blonde hair that stood out like a sore thumb. And suddenly Nico’s world was in screaming color. He freaked out for a just a minute and decided to think about this more later. The whole camp was on the line!

A few days after, Nico was thinking about a conversation he just had with Will. 

“You don’t think I could stand to see a friendly face?”

“My face?”

“You’re so dense.”

Nico wondered if Will could see in color too. He wondered if Will could see in color before he could. He wondered if Will knew he was the reason he could see in color. 

Oh my gods Nico thought I just came out to Percy. 

He strolled over to where Will was waiting.

“Hey, deathboy,” Will joked.

“Don’t call me that, sunshine,” Nico grinned.

“Whatever you say, zombie breathe.”

“That’s even worse.”

“I think you owe me three days in the infirmary.”

“I suppose I do. Lead the way?”

They walked to the infirmary in comfortable silence. Nico still had some of the excitement from coming out. When they got to the infirmary, Will led him to one of the long-term stay beds. 

“I thought you might like the privacy.”

“Thanks.”

“If you need anything, holler, okay?”

“Okay,” Before he could stop himself, Nico continued, “Is it okay if I ask you something kind of personal?” Too late to turn back now. 

“Um... sure,”

“Have you met your soulmate yet?”

Will turned red, “Yes. Have you?”

“Yes.”

With that, Will left quickly, muttering something about a bone he has to set. Nico sat on the bed smiling. At least he knew there was a chance. 

The next two days, Will checked on Nico but always seemed to be distracted by something. One time, he even started wrapping bandages around Nico’s calf instead around the injury on his arm. This caused him to turn tomato-red. 

On the last night, Nico had a nightmare. He always had nightmares, but this was different. It was like all the pain he felt rolled into one. He saw his mother and Bianca in Tartarus. He kept trying to help them. To get them out of this hell. But he was trapped. Misery was whispering in his mind. “You’re perfect. So full of misery and pain.” All he could do was watch and listen. He tried to close his eyes and block out the noise with his hands, but it didn’t work. Even with his eyes closed, he could see his dead family. He screamed. He screamed at the top of his lungs. He screamed for this torture to be over. 

Suddenly, he woke up with a start. He quickly sat up right. He noticed something warm curled around him. Will.

“Easy, deathboy. Doctor’s orders.”

“Will? Why are you here? Why are you in my bed?”

“I’m sorry,” Will blushed, “You were screaming from a nightmare, and I was just trying to calm you down.”

“Why would YOU calm me down?” Nico said with an unnecessary amount of harshness. 

“I’m sorry,” he looked like a kicked puppy, “It’s just that... I’m pretty sure... we’re... um... soulmates?” He squeaked out the last part as if he expected a bomb to go off.

“Wait, so I’m your soulmate? I always assumed I would be one of those people that the Fates messed up on, and their soulmate is paired up with someone else.”

“Why would you think that?”

Nico just shrugged.

“Well, we’re soulmates, okay? You’re my soulmate, and I’m yours... I am yours, right?”

“Unless I started seeing the world in color because of Cecil or Lou Ellen last week.”

Will’s face lit up. “So, should I call you soulmate instead of deathboy?”

“Shut up, you dork.”

Nico is now 18, and waiting to pick up Will. They are going on their monthly date, which Chiron somehow approves. Today, they are going to dinner at a fancy restaurant for their four year anniversary, and Will is late. Nico gets impatient and goes out to find his boyfriend.

He runs into Cecil and asks him about Will. He says he’s in the infirmary. Great Nico thought he probably got caught up working and forgot about the date. But when he gets to the infirmary, all of the Apollo kids are hurrying around except Will. Where is he? Nico stopped Kayla to ask her.

“Kayla! Where’s my idiot of a boyfriend?”

“Over there, now please let me go get some ambrosia and nectar for him.” 

She pointed to a far cot, and Nico ran to it. He saw a bloody Will being healed by his siblings.

“Will! What the hell did you do?!”

“Hey, deathboy.” Will croaked.

“No can do, Nico. Will needs to rest.” Austin shooed him off.

Nico pulled up a chair and sat as close to the cot as he could without getting yelled at. The next morning, Nico woke up in said chair. He rushed over to Will to see him bandaged up and sound asleep. He slipped beneath the covers and put an arm around his boyfriend. 

“You’re stupid, did you know that?” Nico whispered, “But I love you, so please wake up. I have no clue how serious your injuries are, you’re the doctor, and who knows if you will wake up. But please wake up soon, for me?”

“Hey, sorry about making us miss the date.”

“Oh gods Will, you’re okay. Who cares about the date, what happened?”

“I snuck out of camp to find some flowers for you. I got attacked by a couple of cyclopes. Good thing Leo made us phones that don’t attract monsters, or I would have died.”

“You’re an idiot. And I wouldn’t have let you die, I would have gone to the underworld and dragged you out of there myself.”

“Awe, you care.”

Nico is now 24, and it’s his wedding day. He looks in the mirror and straightens his tie. He’s wearing a black one, and Will’s wearing a yellow one. He takes a deep breathe and walks down the aisle with Jason, who is ‘giving him away’. His eye’s nervously look around the room. Everything is going as planned.

Will is smiling.

No monsters. 

All the guests showed up, except for a few of Will’s southern relatives. 

It couldn’t have gone better. The two exchanged vows and rings. Nico wore a Imperial gold band while Will wore a Stygian iron one. They shared their first dance to When The Day Met The Night by Panic! At The Disco. At the end of the night, everyone lit lanterns and sent them off into the night. Sure, Will fell on the cake, and a few arms came up from the ground during the ceremony because Nico was so nervous, but he thought it couldn’t have gone better. 

Nico is now 34, and he’s taking his little girl home for the first time. Him and Will adopted a 7-year-old named Delilah. She was bouncing in the back seat asking them all sorts of questions.

“Do you like dogs?”

“What’s you’re favorite color?”

“Where do you live?”

“Yes, yellow and right here,” Will replied as they pulled into the drive way. Delilah hopped out of the car and ran in. 

“She’s excited,” Nico whispered to his husband.

 “Let’s go show her her new room.”

“Lead the way,” Nico said as he took Will’s hand. 

Nico is now 39, and is panicking because his daughter locked herself in the bathroom and refuses to come out. 

“Lilah, sweet-heart, let me in, please.”

“I want Dad.”

“He’ll be home soon, dear.” 

As soon as Nico heard the front door open, he ran to it. 

“Will, its Lilah. She locked herself in the bathroom and is asking for you.”

“I got this, honey.” Will kissed Nico’s forehead and smiled. 

Nico patiently waited for his daughter and husband to come out of the bathroom. He had heard some crying, and he was scared. Then, the two emerged. Nico was about to say something when Will gave him a not right now look. 

That night, when the two were in their bed, Nico decided to ask.

“So... what happened with Lilah?”

“She’s a woman now.”

“And that means?”

“Aunty Flo is visiting.”

“Huh?”

“Hades’ waterfall is here.”

“Will, you’re not making any sense.”

“Wow, you dense, deathboy. She’s on her period.”

“Oh... what do we do?”

“We give her the three ‘s’s, space, supplies and sweets.”

“That doesn’t seem to hard.”

“I gave her your last chocolate cluster from that candy store in New Rome.”

“YOU WHAT?!”

Nico is now  and picking up Delilah from her first date. 

“How was it, Lilah?”

“It was okay.” 

“Did something happen? Did he hurt you?”

“No, dad... it’s just.... I don’t think you would understand.”

“Try me.”

“I don’t really... like him. All my friend’s say we would be perfect together, but I don’t like him. I’ve never actually liked a boy before.”

“Oh? I think I understand.”

“You do? But I thought you only liked boys.”

“True. Can I ask you something, Lilah? Do you like girls?”

“...yes.”

“Then I understand you perfectly. We, my dear, are both raging homosexuals.”

“Papa!”

“What? It’s true!”

“You’re a dork.”

Nico laughed, “Let get home, I think Dad has dinner ready for us.”

“What is it?”

“Meatloaf.”

“Bleh.”

Nico is now 45, and at the grocery store. It was just an average day. He picked up the ingredients for some recipe Will found online. He gets some cookies and ice cream for dessert. 

He is picking out some flowers for Will when it happens. Nico’s world is suddenly black and white again. He almost faints. He screams and sobs, but he doesn’t care who hears or sees.

“Will! My Will! He’s to young! Too young to die!” He keeps screaming like this till his voice hurts and he falls into a ball on the ground. Store workers and customers try to approach him, but skeletons and zombies appear to keep them away. Will is... dead.

[a-scatterbrained-fangirl]

Don't mess with Piper

"I'm just saying next time I'm telling Hera to shove it up her ass. " Percy was saying to Annabeth. Annabeth laughed before responding, "Percy! She's the queen of the gods. " "So?" "So... she could smite you or something. " Annabeth responded a little uncertainly. Percy looked at the sky pretending to think it over, "Nah. " Anna with laughed again," You can't just say 'nah' at a very real death threat." "I have before and I will again. " Percy responded without missing a beat, "Besides. The gods won't touch me." Annabeth rolled her eyes, "And what in Tartarus could make you so sure of that?" "Well besides the fact that I've saved them... and the world... multiple times and knowing the gods they'll ask me to do it again, I have you. And as long as you're here I'm not going anywhere, not even the queen of the heavens smiting me is going to separate us." Annabeth blushed and kissed her boyfriend. Piper just kept watching them dreamily. The 7 and Nico were at lunch and Jason was talking with Leo and Frank about whatever stupid thing they were currently discussing. Hazel and Nico were equally engrossed in conversation so Piper had taken to watching Percy and Annbeth. Of course she was happy in her own relationship but it was much more fun to fangirl over Percy and Annabeth. They were soulmates! And so damn cute. Cool it piper. Your Aphrodite is showing, she thought to herself. She finally looked away from Percy and Annabeth in time to noticed a son of Ares approaching the table. Piper racked her brain for his name before remembering it. Jake. Ya that was it. Jake stood there clearing his throat until he had all of the demigods attention, "So what's so special about you guys?" The curious expressions around Piper suddenly became tense as they all smelled a fight brewing. To be honest Piper felt bad for the kid. Hazel was the first to recover and being Hazel responded in the most polite way she could, "Well nothing really but we are the children of the prophecy and Nico might as well be for how much he helped us. " Nico smiled a little at Hazel appreciating her words. Jake scoffed before continuing stubbornly on his path to start a fight, "I mean I get the children of the big three and flame boy and of course Frank makes sense as a son of Mars. I can even get Annabeth. " Piper glanced between Jake and Annabeth and decided they had encountered each other before, and based off the micro expression that crossed Jake's face Annabeth had come off better in that encounter. Jake barreled on, basically signing his death certificate, "But a daughter of Aphrodite? Really? I mean what does she do spray perfume at the monsters?" Jake smiled at his own joke. Piper had in fact dealt with her fair share of haters but something about Jake made it feel worse. Maybe because it was in front of her friends? She wasn't sure but her blood boiled and she had half stood up trying to decide on the best way to teach him a lesson when Nico interjected, "Ya. She does actually. " That stopped Piper in her tracks. She felt kinda betrayed. Nico and her were good friends by now and she had thought he would have valued her skills more. She glanced around. Jason had gone from tense to shocked to murderous and now was shocked again. Everyone else around the table either looked shocked or uncertain with they exception of Hazel who looked scandalized. Jake looked surprised someone had agreed with him. But when Piper looked at Nico he looked smug like he was about to deliver the punchline of- Oh. Piper eased herself back down suddenly content to let Nico handle this. "You know Piper is the only demigod I know who actually cleans up her messes." Nico continued, " A little spritz of perfume over the decapitated bodies of her fallen enemies helps to cover up the smell." Nico said it matter of factly, in a way that suggested it was a regular occurrence for Piper to perfume the dead bodies of her enemies. But Nico wasn't done yet, "So since you've just made yourself her enemy I have to ask, do you have any preference on what kind of perfume your dead body will be getting?" Nico asked curiously, giving away no hints of a joke. Piper struggled to keep her own poker face but managed. Jake cleared his throat uncomftorably and opened his mouth a few times in a failed attempt to speak before scampering off. As soon as he was out of earshot Nico and Piper broke into hysterics pounding the table and clutching their guts. Piper managed to choke out in between laughs, "Nice one Neeks." The rest of the seven finally got over their bewildered expressions and one at a time began laughing as well until all 8 demigods were cracking up. And minutes later the demigods were back to normal.