#this is pure and utter wordvomit proceed with caution LMAO

[edenslice]

is it cheating if I ask about both den of dens and with or without you (but also, please!)

with or without you, i'll get over fine

evidently i'm never posting this and it's never going past the Outline Stage so might as well dump it all here

(ps if anyone wants to make an actual fic about this PLEASE DO!!! just credit me for the idea and the rest is all yours)

was planning to make it a ToA/TKC crossover! so it goes:

nico di angelo, feeling a strong sense of Wrongness with apollo's disappearance (he'll never call it death, gods no) and olympus's incompetence, takes matters into his own hands

hades is no help to nico because a god has never actually died before, so the greco-roman underworld is out of the picture

so that only leaves: tartarus. FAR out of hades's domain. nico does not want to go to tartarus. and so he searches for other options.

enter: meg mccaffrey (worried sick and plagued with nightmares), and rachel dare (worried sick because she's NOT plagued with nightmares; apollo's essence no longer within her)

rachel suggests they head to brooklyn after remembering the strange cesspool of non-greco-roman demigod energy she felt back when they raided nero's tower

but before that—

enter: sally, whom nico, rachel, and meg go visit when they've run out of Other Options (nico is Very Embarrassed. rachel is overcompensating. meg is just happy to eat more 7 layer dip)

sally says that percy once mentioned meeting another demigod from another pantheon—carter kane

hc that the 21st nome and rachel go to the same school (brooklyn high), so while rachel doesn't know a carter kane, she's heard of sadie

insert oddly sickening parallels to piper, meg, and lester entering a school illegally to find jason and rachel, meg, and nico entering a school illegally to find sadie

and the rest is. idk. i had nothing else planned for this

ultimately i wanted to explore the concept of lester's body rotting in tartarus but his godly essence stuck in the duat, in the same nursing home (??) sadie and carter found ra in

den of dens

ok. this one i KNOW is gonna be really fucking long so most of this will be under a readmore

what you need to know:

genres: slice of life. mystery. domestic horror. psychological horror. whateva the fuck type of horror house of leaves is....cosmic horror maybe???

the story is divided into four parts; 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1982. it's a mixed media project (ie chapters/comic/manuscript/animatic/podcast etc) because

a) i want to test my abilities as an artist

b) i wanna emulate the thing memories do: not everything is remembered animatedly. some memories are blurry, some are like words we've read in books, some are simply voices, fragments of everyday life

there are 5 protagonists;

kamil kara, the core of the story. teacher. patriarch of the kara - agbayani - rosas household. whether you'd like to see him as judas iscariot or as his own person is up to you.

manuel cagadas, deutaragonist. architect. black sheep of the cheung family. whether you'd like to see him as jesus of nazareth or as his own person is up to you.

liesel kara, tritagonist. kamil's bold-hearted daughter. she has her own story outside of kamil's complicated narrative in which she stars in.

ramona agbayani-kara, tetartagonist. kamil's wife and matriarch of the kara - agbayani - rosas household. surgeon, specifically in the ob/gyn department. like her daughter, she has her own story outside of kamil's narrative.

alyosha trinidad, pentagonist. liesel's best friend and kamil's top student. an angel in disguise, he serves as the initiator of many of the important events.

kamil and manuel are lovers; their messy relationship is what drives the stories forward

by the time dod begins, kamil and ramona have fallen out of love completely. liesel doesnt know jackshit about her parents' falling out because they'd rather die than let their daughter see them argue or fall apart

kamil's relationship with manuel may drive the stories forward but its kamil's (and everyone else's) love for liesel that keeps it grounded and steady. if that makes sense

liesel is so so so loved. more than she will ever know. ← keep that in mind

manuel has known of his past life ever since he was old enough to think. he doesn't retain actual memories but he does have the same otherworldly powers as the son of god did

meanwhile, kamil only discovered his past life after having his first conversation with manuel

and that's when everything fell apart

alyosha is a literal biblical/abrahamic angel btw. he took the name "alyosha" because it sounded pretty and he rebirthed himself to a family of five indebt to him

most if not all of dod would not have happened if alyosha didn't make his choices around the original jesus and judas

kamil and manuel are 42, ramona is 43, alyosha is 13 and arwen is 12 in 1979

manuel is a trans man! very important for his arc