#toa commodus

[im-an-apollogist]

My life is falling apart so I'm coping drawing Copollo

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

Apollo chronically uses terms of endearment.

[literallyjusttoa]

Y’all know what these are about.

[spec-s]

ending of the dark prophecy summarized

[odysseus-crewmate-number38]

unfortunately thinking about them again

[star-mannnn]

Maybe in another universe Commodus doesn’t become corrupt and Apollo doesn’t end up drowning him

[polyhexianbirb]

Omg I love Scott Pilgrim vs the world! I love how he goes and has to fight the evil exes who want him dead becaus of this girl and started this whole company just to make his life difficult and he really sucks at fighting but hey at least he has his talking arrow-- what do you mean that's a different media?

[autumn0689]

I still STAND with the belief that one of the best romantic that Rick Riordan has ever written is still the Copollo tent scene! The way he wrote it was just so… intricate. Am I making sense? I hope I am. It’s just an amazing scene and honestly makes Commodus’s and Apollo’s dynamic so so interesting!

[the-copollo-files]

Frankly, I think there's a lot to be said about potential dependency in Copollo. Particularly on Commodus's part.

There's a lot more thoughts on this (which will be part of the Essays) but TL;DR-

Apollo was Commodus's validation machine and he went off the rails when he lost both validation sources in a single day send tweet

[incorrect-sunflower-sibs]

Apollo, to Commodus: Hey are you single? I think I could worship you.

Apollo: Never mind I took my meds.

Apollo: They wore off how you doing.

[anonymous-ace72]

Slightly back on my bullshit in regards to roman portraiture but also linking it to Trials of Apollo because why tf not.

So, quick recap for those who don't know: Roman portraiture is to be taken with a grain of salt; especially Imperial portraiture. These are not realistic pictures of the people they portray, but rather carefully crafted, idealized images that would have been pre-approved by the subject before they were shown off to the world. They might include some individualized aspects (Pompey's portraits are a good example) but we really don't know what they look like.

On the other side of things, we can't really trust written accounts from people like Sutonious either, because in the case of the Julio-Claudians, he wrote about them some hundred years after that dynasty ended, and whatever sources he might have used in his describing of these people have long since been lost, and probably greatly embellished. Really, we have no clue what these people looked like. We don't even have remains to do facial reconstructions of because I'm pretty sure most imperial Romans would have been cremated.

So, what does this have to do with ToA?

I know within the universe of the books, the triumvirate is described in ways that look very similar to their surviving portraiture, it makes sense, these are the only images of these men we have left, but I thought it would be kind of cool if they only started looking more like their portraiture, after they became minor gods. Stay with me for a second.

These portraits were widely circulated, usually made as a means for the emperor to stand in during official events where he would need to be present, as well as just to remind everyone who's the boss. Most people in the Roman empire probably never physically saw the emperor himself, only these portraits, so this is the image of him that they would have known. I doubt, with the triumvirate being only minor dieties, that they have the ability to change their appearance at will like a major god can, but maybe one of the things that happened from transition from mortal to god is their appearance changed to fit more in with the widely circulated images around the empire. With some individuality sprinkled in as well.

Just an interesting thought I had.

[chaoticcatbehaviour]

what’s ur fav “”””””””””problematic”””””””””” ship?

I think the answer's obvious....

Copollo my beloved

[apollosgiftofprophecy]

UPDATED 1/29/24

this was inspired by @lubble-underscore's post and I decided to expand on the iceberg and see how much I could throw on it

thanks to the Discord server for filling in on things that didn't cross my mind! :D

feel free to save and highlight what you know :3 Links to many of these things are below - some are not tho!

Tier 1 - do we even need to SAY anything?

pathetic little meow meow

bisexual

unreliable narrator

Tier 2 - surface level/easy to see

superiority/inferiority complex

bitchsexual (i mean... points to commodus)

raised chiron (see CHB Confidential)

Tier 3 - complete read-through/reread; taking first steps into fandom

breaks cycle of abuse

polldona

great with kids, actually (see Harley, Georgie, ect.)

ordered pizza to chb (see The Hidden Oracle)

domains contradict

best godly parent

still heavily affected by past lovers (see The Whole Series)

Tier 4 - digging a little deeper

love life isn't actually terrible

definitely tried to bang frey at least once (see that One throwaway line in The Hidden Oracle)

malewife malewhore manslaughter

broke up the beatles because paul jilted him (Discord)

sees the faces of primordial gods (see The Hidden Oracle)

copollo could have worked

catboy but cats are competition (See The Tyrant's Tomb; submitted by @trials-of-apollo-my-beloved)

freakishly high pain tolerance (See THE ENTIRE SERIES)

Tier 5 - holy shit we're on to something

that apollo & jesus fic (Discord)

knew hades had kids in TTC

pressured to be the perfect son

fatal flaw is love

not as close to hermes as he used to be

seahorsed kayla

patron of CHB

roman apollo au (Discord: Creator chronictheorizing)

Tier 6 - wait what. OH!

was forced to punish halcyon green

deathsong (Discord: Creator @txny-dragon) (addition)

kids are greek & roman

michael yew is most like him

brings change by being his true self and not the fake one (Submitted by @/txny-dragon)

laomedon is why he hates slavery (Discord: Creator @ukelele-boy)

intentionally made the orientation video to communicate info on the gods

Tier 7 - what the fuck did we get ourselves into

directed travis & conner to tartarus tongs

Apollo x Orion is peek hateship (Discord: Origin in Tsari's server during Eclipse)

unlocked heavenly prophecy powers during trials

dated oscar wilde and inspired the picture of dorian gray (Discord)

half-titan theory

tartarus regenerated him

imperial kids were meant to usurp the olympians

Tier 8 - we're in too deep but will never come out

knows estelle is omen of end of the world

[literallyjusttoa]

Did another discord request stream, and this time I got to draw Apollo sleeping on a herd of sheep for @cows-and-crows and more college Copollo for @chaixinni !

[arihuntress]

I looove your Hermes design!! I just wanted to know if you already have a Commodus design? It's okay if you take some time to reply to this, but I'd really like to see it!!

Sorry lad, this took much longer than I expected 🥲

So I made his younger version together with our boy Apollo. As you can see his Accessoire Designs are based on what Apollo is wearing, you know like MATCHING~, and the laurels and sun were a gift from him as well. The only difference to Commodus older version would be, that he has a curly/wavy beard like Hercules and he would wears his neon pink Nike Training jumper and Make-up 😋

[odysseus-crewmate-number38]

i want the people at the readriordan website to make one of those otp relationship timeline articles but for commodus and apollo. i think it would be really funny