#toa meg mccaffrey

[spookedbees]

i've been getting a ton of requests lately so i decided to just do one big sketch dump

[tsartistry]

[thehyacinthprophecy]

Kayla: Hey dad, who's your favorite kid? And be honest.

Apollo: Nico.

Nico: What?

Austin: That's a surprise, I thought he'd say Meg.

Will: So did I.

Apollo: Meg laughed at me earlier when the piano cover fell shut on my hands, so she's been demoted.

Nico: I'm not even yours.

Hades: If it helps, you're my favorite too.

Nico: When the fuck did you get here?!

[leelight]

Yes, I think she would like MLP.

Tiktok: LightofLenora

[somewhereincairparavel]

jason getting so excited to show apollo and meg his designs and models of the shrines, and when you cut to the scenes and compare them to after his death, apollo cries after looking at jason's dioramas while jason's voice "remember what it's like to be human" starts playing in his head over and over, and meg defending jason's diagrams for temple hill literally FIGHTING two euryonomos with a single hand to keep them safe and preserve them from destruction never fails to make me sob actually. I'm not okay.

[im-an-apollogist]

So this is basically the ToA duo, right?

[guardianspirits13]

Trials of Apollo memes

[spokelseskladden]

*draws lester one billion times just because*

[literallyjusttoa]

I think I'm gonna make a reblog chian of all the little phrases and Apollo uses throughout ToA, now that I'm rereading it. Bc like, he has such a unique way of speaking, and I really wanna dig into it, you know? Ok let's start.

He says "heavens help me" instead of "heaven help me" using the plural the same way demigods do with "oh my gods". I'm guessing this is an acknowledgment of other pantheons? Or I'm looking too far into it, I've just never heard this phrase with a plural "heavens" before.

He calls Cade and Mikey "Ruffians" . And he makes fun of the arrow for being Shakespearean.

He also refers to people as "Mortals" a lot here, which I remembered him doing, but now I want to keep track and see if he keeps that up throughout all the books, or if it peters out near the end.

"I thought how amusing it would be if I could make the snake tattoos around his neck come alive and strangle him to death" I honestly love how violent Apollo's thoughts can be sometimes. Like, you can tell he's someone who has done shit like this before.

I also want to keep track of all the little anecdotes Apollo brings up, so we'll start with the guitar contest against Chuck Berry in 1957, which apparently ended with him getting repeatedly stomped on.

"But something told me this was not she" II love how it's the little things that really get across how old Apollo is. Rick could've easily just said "It wasn't her" or something, but instead he had Apollo phrase this in a way that is far more formal, and more reminiscent of the grammatical patterns of old english. Idk it's just really cool.

(Side note that's not connected to Apollo: Meg's glasses are black? I feel like I've been living a lie, I've been coloring them red for years lol)

God his metaphors are just so striking. Like, I can imagine the phrase "Whatever was left of my pride turned into ice water and trickled into my socks" but I don't want to, because that's such a visceral feeling. I like that Apollo inadvertently proving how poetic he is by making the reader as uncomfortable as possible.

I think I'm gonna start crying out "Horrors!" when I'm upset to. I think I deserve that level of drama.

ahh the classic "My blessings upon you!" Again, I love how every little line characterizes him. Either it's overly formal, like before, or subtly arrogant, like here, or both. It's so fun.

I need to write him saying "Sacred Sibyl!" more. Because that is such a fun little term. Rolls right off the tongue, honestly.

I think I'm gonna leave it there for now, but trust that I will definitely be adding more to this later. Bc Lester-speak is so fun to really look into.

[singingcicada]

" ... I joined Meg on the edge, dangling my feet over the abyss from which we'd escaped .... Had it really been only this morning? I couldn't see the net of strawberry plants below in the shadows, but their smell was powerful and exotic in the desert setting. Strange how a common thing can become uncommon in a new environment. Or in my case, how an uncommonly amazing god can become so very common ..." - The Burning Maze, Chapter 11

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[Image ID: An illustration of Lester Papadopoulos and Meg McCaffrey sitting on the edge of a cistern at Aeithales. The cloudy horizon is cast in an orange glow from the setting sun as stars begin to appear in the night sky through the leaves of a eucalyptus tree. Meg is glancing away with a neutrally guarded expression as Lester eyes her with concern, his ukulele resting forgotten against his back. / .End ID]

[oniragoma]

Some cute Meg McCaffrey Character design

I love her so much…

[spec-s]

this is dumb

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[leelight]

Meg can grow plants, and Lester seriously needs to get high. Can you blame him?

[reblogdumpforme]

People keep praising PJO and bash ToA. Say what you will, I don't care. But ToA had people sobbing over the sacrifice of an arrow /j

It also had the most well-written male and and female lead throughout all three series...

[im-an-apollogist]

Just ✨️THEM✨️

[ophii]

ok ok so. i saw a video and there were sun catchers in them so i was like "lol apollo would love those." then, i kid you not, i saw a post about him liking them. i took it as a sign, ofc, as you do

thyese exist now have fun