#we are NOT talking enough about Thalia Grace

[corujalesbica]

I made a Playlist for Thalia Grace, I'm so fucking excited for her to show up in the end of next season. Like. Imagine Thalia sitting Percy, imagine Thalia hugging Annabeth, imagine Thalia meeting Artemis, imagine Thalia guys.

[happyk44]

Percy could kill with a snap of his fingers but won't because he doesn't understand or practice his own powers enough to realize he can do that.

Jason could kill with a snap of his fingers but won't because when he was young he preferred to feel the kill beneath his own hands, clenched tight between his teeth and as he grew he was told to only use his powers when absolutely necessary, otherwise hide them away and fight with only sword and shield.

Hazel could kill with a snap of her fingers but won't because she doesn't know how.

Thalia could kill with a snap of her fingers but won't because she is as unfamiliar with her powers as Percy, not because she doesn't understand them, but because she values the hunt and the chase and so sets them aside in favour of teamwork with her fellow hunters.

Nico could kill with a snap of his fingers and he will, when he needs to. He's kind, and patient, willing to fight until the bitter end in hopes that they'll cave, they'll desire life and give themselves up. But not everyone, not every creature, deserves to live and standing between him and his goals, ugly at the core of their soul, sometimes he'll decide they've lived long enough and snap his fingers, shattering their body into bits and pieces so violently their soul flings out and severs itself in the process.

[countdown-til-sanders-take-over]

"percy jackson vs-" it doesn't matter who the second person is. it will always be hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby. have u read the house of hades?

Nico di Angelo

[echo-stimmingrose]

Jason: *getting dressed up for a date, looking absolutely horrendous*

Nico: No absolutely not! You have no fashion sense, I'm taking you shopping.

Thalia: Um no! You are not taking him shopping! We don't need him looking like you!

Nico: Like me??? I look like you!!!

Thalia: Exactly! We already have two emo kids, that's enough!

Percy: Plus he's a fucking nerd and could not pull that look off.

Jason: I'm right here!

Percy: Hush Jason, the adults are talking!

Jason: Adults?!? Nico is younger than me!

Nico: Okay, but am I?

Jason: I-I uh YES!!!

Nico: I have the back pain of a seventy year old man that says otherwise!

Thalia: Guys! Back to the point! Finding Jason something to wear that doesn't look like he's never dressed himself before. No offense.

Jason: Hey-!

Percy: Hush! We are trying to make sure you don't make a fool of yourself!

Jason: I hate it here.

Thalia: You're one to talk, Percy! I've literally never seen you in any thing other than jeans and a camp half blood shirt.

Nico: And it's always dirty.

Percy: At least I don't look like Hot Topic threw up on me!

Thalia: Don't you dare disrespect Hot Topic like that! You still own a CHB tee that's literally cut in half it's a crop top!

Percy: So? It still fits!

Nico: The sad part is he actually looks pretty good in a crop top.

Percy: Thank you!

Jason: Guys...?

Thalia: I could pull off a crop top way better than you!

Percy: You could not!

Jason: Guys.

Thalia: Wanna bet on that kelp man?

Jason: Guys!!!!

Nico, Thalia, and Percy: *Stops arguing and turns to him*

Jason: I still need help!

Thalia: Sorry bud, we'll find you something that looks good and something you like.

Jason: It's not just that.....

Nico: What?

Jason: I've never been on a date before... I don't know what to expect....

Thalia: Okay... Um....

Jason: What?

Thalia: Well...I mean, I've never been on a date either, I was a tree at twelve then a hunter of Artemis almost immediately after.

Jason:.... Nico.....?

Nico: I got nothing for you.

Thalia: Holy shit, does Percy have the most dating experience out of all of us???

Jason: That's just sad to be honest.

Percy: I will have you know, Annabeth and I are very happy thank you very much!

Nico: It took you guys what? Five years to admit you liked each other?

Percy: How's Will, Nico?

Nico: *glowering* Shut up.

Percy: Look Jason, we all know you two like each other and this date was a long time coming. It is easier said than done, but you need to relax, you don't want to go into a date acting like there's a stick up your ass.

Jason: Jee thanks.

Percy: I'm just saying, you already know that you enjoy spending time with him, this is just spending time with him with a little extra.

Jason: Thank you, I just don't like being unprepared.

Percy: Which makes sense.

Nico: But let's be honest here, this is a date with Leo, no one could prepare for whatever he may have in store.

Jason: *laughs a little* Yeah, it just feels stupid. I've fought in literal wars but I'm this nervous over a date?

Thalia: Hey don't call yourself stupid, this is new for you. You are allowed to be nervous as long as you don't let that anxiety take over.

Percy: Exactly. Plus a date is way different than the battlefield. Most of the time you aren't fighting for your life.

Nico: But you may want to bring a fire extinguisher for this one.

Thalia: It will go just fine. And if he fucks up I'll strike him with lighting.

Jason: Um... please don't.

Nico: And if you're worried about whether or not you both like each other just know you two made it so obvious even Percy figured it out.

Percy: What's that supposed to mean?

Nico: point proven.

Thalia: Plus you two admitted your feelings within a year of knowing each other so you're already doing better than these two idiots *points to Percy and Nico*

Jason: It does make me feel better knowing I'm doing better than Percy.

Percy: *smiling* Watch it, Grace, you're a couple words away from having that date underwater.

Jason: *laughs softly*

Thalia: *hugs him* you've got this bud, now come on let's go find you something other than whatever the hell it is you're wearing.

[guskinnie]

Another random parody I've been working on (with @a-fucking-tornado): The Campfire Song from The Lightning Thief Musical, but replaced with other demigods that didn't appear

Switches:

Luke Castellan (son of Hermes) -> Will Solace (son of Apollo)

Annabeth Chase (daughter of Athena) -> Nico Di Angelo (son of Hades)

Katie Gardner (daughter of Demeter) -> Leo Valdez (son of Hephaestus)

Grover Underwood (child of Pan) -> Paolo Montes (son of Hebe) (and we actually wrote his verse in portuguese because it's canon that he doesn't speak English)

Chiron (child of Kronos) -> Jason Grace (son of Jupiter)

Silena Beauregard (daughter of Aphrodite) -> Lou Ellen Blackstone (daughter of Hecate)

Percy Jackson (son of Poseidon and Sally Jackson) -> Thalia Grace (daughter of Zeus)

I think the best part in all of the song is that Thalia is like "Jason already said enough about our dad" so someone is like "sing about your mom then" and when she actually sung about her mom everyone was like "you know what just talk more about Zeus"

also there's no timeline of this cause it's after Apollo was turned into a human and then back into a God but Jason's alive ??? idk

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

Gods, I hope in the show they'll pull a Medusa for Circe.

Circe hardly did ANYTHING to warrant being exiled to Aeaea. She was just a girl in love! And when men came to her island, guess what they did? Guess what they all tried to do before she stopped them? That's right, they took advantage of her, the island, and the nymphs. And this has been every single impression from every single human man who came to her island over thousands of years. Of COURSE she started playing offense.

Even if she turns Percy into a guinea pig (which she'd better still do, because it's objectively hilarious), we better get some kind of her backstory. Wistfully, sadly explaining it to Annabeth as she stands behind her, hands on her shoulders as they look at the two of them in the mirror (I have a vision, and I know you guys see it, too). Annabeth standing with Percy on the island's beach, explaining what happened to Circe as her voice breaks. Heck, maybe she even undoes the spell after talking to Annabeth and tells him she hopes he'll give her some grace (haha, Thalia pun).

Remember, and I cannot stress this enough about EVERYTHING: Sometimes, there's never really a true villain. Everyone is just a victim of circumstance, though it can never truly excuse all their actions.

[berylgrace]

being true to my url, i HAVE to talk about the grace family rn and how all three of them were doomed from the start. (ao3 user loverboxd i am kissing u on the mouth btw)

first beryl. even if we only go off what we know of her in canon, which is very little, we know that a) she was an actress desperate for fame and controversy and b) she managed to win the affections of both zeus and jupiter. famously, women who were favoured or hell, targeted by zeus, didn't end up so well. whether they were victimised by his methods of getting to them, his attempts to cover it up or the wrath of his wife, those women end up, nine times out of ten, dead or cursed.

beryl is no different. in getting both zeus and jupiter, she opens herself up to twice the godly wrath. and not only that, but in the deeply toxic world of hollywood elitism, the only way to maintain the high she lives in is through excess - more drugs, more fame, more press, more affection from the most powerful of all gods, with little care for the consequences. if she continues her relationship with zeus/jupiter, she's going to die, but there isn't a world in which this is real enough of a threat for her to stop. if she continues to pursue fame and fortune, partying and doing drugs, at one point she will go too far, and she's going to die. and in my fic (here), if she stays at home and lives the life that is expected of her, her dissatisfaction would be too much for her to live with. beryl's life, through any and all of her choices, is predestined to be cut short. with or without zeus, with or without fame, beryl is fated to die.

then there's thalia. thalia, the firstborn daughter, a child that breaks the big 3 pact that, more than likely, her father was the one to propose, being the king of the gods. thalia is cursed from the moment she's born, through no fault of her own. there are only two outcomes for her - she will, as the (age-wise) oldest big 3 child, reach 16 and die in battle as per the prophecy, or she will run away from her fame-crazed, grief-stricken, drug-addicted mother and sacrifice her life at age 12 in order to save her new family. thalia's story ends in death in every iteration. zeus turning her into a tree saves her, but only temporarily. luke poisoning the tree almost kills her but then leads to her essentially coming back to life - only temporarily, before she turns 16 and is killed fighting kronos. she narrowly escapes her fate by circumventing it, choosing to stay 15 forever. thalia loses all of her biological family, and survives, ironically, by gaining access to her mother's greatest unfulfilled wish - to live forever.

lastly, jason. arguably the biggest victim of them all. jason does everything right when the odds are stacked against him. jupiter is harsher and colder than zeus. juno is even more vengeful than hera. beryl is much deeper into her insanity and addiction when he is born. at the age of 2 he is surrendered to juno and to wolves, trained to be the perfect hero, to command a legion, to save the world. his life is wracked with tragedy but he remains stoic, he's kind and thoughtful, he focuses on justice and duty, even when parts of his mother's endless ambition and his father's power start to shine through in MOA. he was groomed to be a leader but he accepts his position as the right thing to do and tries his best to be a classic, good hero. we don't know if the roman counterparts of the gods made the same oath, but even without that curse, jason is a pawn of juno's, uncared for by his father, and given the weight of the world to carry away from his own family. and he isn't even given the dignity of a mighty hero's death. his life is ended swiftly, violently, and then it's done. his entire life's purpose to help others, and no one to help him.

the grace family were always cursed. every single one of them was fated to die. greek or roman or hollywood bound, they are a tragedy.

[triscribeaucollection]

Summoned

(So my "write a post a new PJO fic each afternoon" got derailed by going out of town, and the next one-shot is going to be significantly longer by the time I'm done with it, but here's the first page just to tide my new followers over for a bit):

Maybe the ocean would always be nice to her, but Thalia was having second thoughts about the camp’s lake.

“MotherFUDGE-!”

“Come on, Thali!” “You can do it, Grace! “We believe in you!”

“Shut UP,” she shrieked, grinning from ear to ear but doing her best to still sound annoyed. “I am never trusting you again, Castellan, never!”

Luke just laughed from the other canoe. Thalia took a chance and swiped her paddle along the top of the water, which did manage to splash the jerk but also caused her dumb boat to wobble wildly again.

“You’re only making it worse!” Percy did not have room to talk, seeing as he kept twisting in all directions on the bench seat in the middle of their canoe. Every time the stupid thing shifted underneath Thalia’s butt, she tensed up and tried to compensate, but then they’d bob the other way instead, and it was all a vicious cycle, okay?!

And she loved every minute of it.

“Just relax!” The big Hephaestus kid in the front spot tried to offer. “It’s like riding a pegasus- or a bike!”

Thalia almost yelled back that she’d never done either of those, thanks very much, but a face-full of water cut her off first. Sputtering, the girl wiped at her eyes, then glared at a highly unrepentant Annabeth gliding by in her own canoe. “You are so getting tickled later,” Thalia swore.

The shrieking-laughing-cussing kept getting louder and louder, until, inevitably, Percy leaned too far over the side to look at something underwater, and Thalia jerked forward to grab him, and the combination of too much weight and movement dumped all of them overboard. At least the Hephaestus kid, Becken-something, didn’t seem to mind: he just grabbed onto the tow line at the front of the canoe and leisurely started swimming for shore. Rather than follow, Thalia enacted her revenge, lunging through the water towards Luke.

“Oh shit-” his alarm got the other two Hermes kids to actually start paddling, instead of just messing around, but they didn’t get away fast enough. Thalia gripped the edge of their canoe, and capsized it too. By the time she kicked away from that mess, cackling, Percy had made his way over to Annabeth. Even if he’d wanted to, the kid didn’t quite have enough bodyweight to dump it over so easily - he just swam alongside instead, dropping his head down underwater every time Annabeth tried to bop him with her paddle.

Hands grabbed at Thalia’s ankle. She kicked back, and was rewarded a moment later when Luke surfaced, coughing and rubbing at his forehead. They proceeded to slap water at each other for a few minutes, gradually drifting closer to shore, until someone shouted their names from the small beach.

“Last one back is a rotten harpy egg!” And of course as soon as she said that, Thalia kicked Luke in the gut, knocking him back with a yelp and propelling her forward.

“Hey! No fair!”

She snickered all the way out of the water and back up onto dry land, where Hailey waited with some towels and a raised eyebrow.

“Chiron asked me to come find you guys,” the older girl said, when Luke staggered up out of the lake as well. “Probably ought to dry off and change first, before you go down to the Big House.”

“Yeah, fine,” Thalia agreed, way more cheerfully than usual. Whatever the old centaur wanted, it was not going to be enough to spoil her good mood. And she managed to keep that mindset, all the way through getting dressed in clean clothes and rejoining her friends and heading down to the camp’s largest building.

But her good mood dropped like a stone when Thalia reached the glass-wall porch, and saw Hermes sitting at the table.

She could tell the instant Luke spotted him too, thanks to the sudden death grip on her forearm. Hermes must have sensed his son in return, because he looked up from talking quietly with Dionysus. He tried to offer them a smile that didn’t reach his eyes.

“Luke. Thalia.” The god’s gaze flickered down and to one side. “And you must be the new Perseus everyone’s been talking about.”

A smaller hand tucked itself inside Thalia’s grip.

“What do you want,” Luke demanded, voice flat and cold.

“Hey,” Dionysus warned, speaking before the other god could, “You better watch it with the tone, kid-”

“It’s fine,” Hermes cut him off. “He’s fine. It’s not worth getting annoyed about.” Thalia shifted her arm, and Luke’s hand slid down to where they could both hold onto one another. If Hermes noticed, he didn’t mention it. “Sorry to drop in unannounced, but you two-” He nodded towards Thalia, and Percy pressing against her side, “-are being summoned to Olympus.”

“No.”

“Luke-”

“No.” Thalia could feel her best friend start to tremble. “You can’t.”

“I have to, kid.” Hermes kept his words soft, but it didn’t make them any easier to accept. “Even gods can get orders from on high. And right now, I’m under orders to bring both of them directly to Olympus. No stops, no detours, no delays.”

Thalia swallowed.Then she turned in place, pulling on Luke’s hand until he met her gaze. “Go find Annabeth,” she told him. “Keep her busy until we get back.”

His face turned stricken in an instant. But he didn’t argue.

[worlds-oldest-teenager]

Because I have to make everything in pjo about my specialest boy, Apollo, I like to think about this AU where Apollo helps raise Thalia and Jason. (Raise is a strong word but he's doing a heck of a better job than beryl). It's also not really an au and could be canon if you squint cause no one said otherwise.

He basically gets insanely worried about the family cause Hera, Poseidon and Hades are going to brutally murder them if they ever find out Zeus broke his oath and had a kid. So in a moment of weakness he ends up in disguise as this punk rocker/med student and moves in next door to the graces. He's also a woman. There's no reason for this.

All this happens before Jason is born.

Things are chill and actually going quite well. Thalia has a safe place to be when her mother gets drunk. They play music and Apollo helps with homework and cooks a nice hot meal (despite having no ingredients in his fridge) for Thalia when Beryl forgets. He teaches her how to drum to get out her pent up rage.

He also trains her cause he knows she's running on borrowed time. It's in a smart inventive way cause he can't tell her she's a demigod but it's enough to give her a fighting chance.

In my au Beryl is struggling hard. Postpartum depression, depression depression, bipolar disorder. I also like to think of her as being a former child star and being on the much younger side cause that makes hers and Zeus relationship so much more insidious.

Apollo being the god of healing would judge her parenting but also see her as a struggling young woman and want to help (Apollo internally: 'Deep breaths. Not everyone can be like Leto'). And they become pretty good friends. She's working hard trying to combat her addiction and put herself back together.

And she actually succeeds.

Everyone is so proud, especially Apollo who's happy that Beryl is in a better place now and can be the mother Thalia deserves. Apollo even jokes about setting her up to get her next big break in the acting world because it's no longer a point of tension for Beryl but something they just can casually talk about.

And then one day Jupiter appears.

Everything goes wrong from there.

Apollo accidentally bumps into him in the hallway Infront of Beryl's home and freaks so bad he bursts into toga Apollo form. He isn't supposed to be here. This is direct interference.

He weaves some tale and Jupiter doesn't really look bothered, just extremely guilty and like he's trying to get away.

And then Beryl opens the door, looking disheveled and half naked.

Understanding hits Apollo like a truck.

He and Beryl get into a bad fight after that. He asks her if she'd just changed to get Zeus back and not for Thalia and begs her to not do this. She demands to know why the hell he even cares. Escalates. She accuses him of being jealous that she could do what his mother couldn't do. Get Zeus to come back.

Talk about a self death sentence.

Apollo doesn't murder her immediately. Just informs her that her decision has sealed not only hers but her children's fate which will all end in tragedy.

I like to think Apollo can see several possiblities of the future and he's just seen Beryl prune her tree of fate into a rootless stub that will die a slow and painful death.

It's just kind of devastating all round. Beryl is manic and genuinely believes she's won over the king of the gods again. Thalia is ambivalent to seeing her father but hopes he won't leave this time. Apollo begs Zeus to not destroy this family but realizes it's futile.

Beryl is pregnant which leads to a very serious conference between Zeus, Athena and Apollo before they realize it's a Roman child.

Zeus: She has to abort the baby.

Apollo : She doesn't want to.

Athena: Why don't we just throw her down the stairs?

Apollo : Do not throw the pregnant woman down the stairs.

Jupiter doesn't like how his quick fling turned into a mess and leaves.

This sends Beryl into the lowest she's ever been in her life. Crying all the time, unable to get out of bed, unable to eat. It gets even worse after delivering the baby.

Apollo sticks around but only to help Thalia with Jason. He tries to get a little food in Beryl and occasionally magics their house tidy but that's it.

Zeus meanwhile makes everything worse by deciding to be a good husband and confess everything to Hera. Hera is pissed off because not only did her husband cheat on her while under a binding oath but Athena and Apollo knew and did nothing. (Sidenote: I like to think of these four as the council's council. The big brains or so they think. )

Apollo and Athena manage to mollify Hera by persuading Beryl to name him Jason and eventually hand him over to wolf house when he's of age.

Years later, a heated fight between Zeus and Hera, Hera goes and tells Poseidon and Hades that Zeus has a child.

All hell breaks loose.

You know the rest.

I think Apollo would seriously hate himself for the decision to come into the graces' life because of how badly they've suffered since then.

Beryl ends her own life speeding drunk, high and reckless. She had nothing to live for anyway. Apollo's the only person to show up to Beryl's funeral.

End.

Additional: I'm not sure if Thalia was at the funeral but this was more dramatic.

I'm also torn between Apollo looking like himself vs in disguise cause if he looked like himself that could have been the reason Thalia got so attached so fast to Luke. Luke doesn't start a war because of Thalia's death but I'm sure that would help.

Also firmly believe Apollo knew Thalia didn't die and told Zeus. For once having good intentions, Zeus makes him swear not to tell the grieving demigods because then Thalia would die for real. This action will have consequences.

This au also primes a huge Apollo vs Thalia fight because he knew the whole time that Jason was alive? He helped beryl get sober enough to let Jupiter wreck their lives? Love you Apollo but you accidentally and purposely enable abusers so much.

[nerdthatsiriuslylovesteaxx]

Helpless part 70, I'm living and loving my life by the sea

Thalia walked up towards the Zeus cabin, she wasn't sure what to expect exactly, but she hadn't imagined she would find her brother making out with Leo Valdez, well she thought that was his name, when she opened the door.

"Thalia?!"

"Think I came at a bad time, sorry about that." She knew he was gay, he'd never told her but even after barely seeing each other for years she'd known. Still she wished she'd gotten filled in on the boyfriend, mostly because she didn't actually think he was capable of getting one but he didn't need to know that.

"What are you even doing here?" He tried to hide his fear, she was smiling but that could easily be faked. He didn't want anyone to know, Thalia was... the only part of his family that cared, he didn't want to lose her.

"Checking in on you, Percy said he was worried. Don't worry, he didn't tell me anything, just said that if I was ever close enough to visit he was worried about you and thought we should talk." Fuck, he hadn't told her anything but now she knew half of what he was hiding. He wanted to hate Percy for calling her but he couldn't bring himself to, he didn't tell her anything and well he missed his sister.

"O-okay...?"

"Leo, that's your name right...?" He nods, still confused by the situation. "Please do not tell me if you are sleeping with my brother, I don't want to know. However do tell me how long you've been together because I was still thinking Jason is completely hopeless." He cracked a smile but didn't say anything, the Grace sibling in the same room was sending him into a pan-ic.

"I was dating Piper when I last saw you? I'm not that hopeless, you're the one that still can't get anyone, unless you want to count Luke?"

"Fuck you, I was tweleve okay? I was an idiot-"

"He's hot."

"This is why I was more confused when I thought you were dating that girl then when I walked in on you kissing your best friend."

"How obvious was it?"

"I knew after three minutes, or maybe you just had horrible chemistry with Piper. Also I've got my eye on someone so you can stop with Luke."

"If it's Percy, like half of camp, he is still taken."

"Oh ew no, I'm not telling you who it is, at least not until you tell me more about this."

"I thought being in the hunt meant you weren't allowed to date?"

"Technically it said free from men, hopefully they won't mind if I get a girlfriend."

"You're gay? Actually thinking about it that makes a lot of sense, dumb question."

"I was gonna say, take a single look at me."

"Previous comment, you getting a girlfriend? Unlikely."

"I can get a better girlfriend than you."

"I'm gay and I was mind controlled, what did you except?" He knew he flinched at the word, he knew Leo noticed because he grabbed onto his hand gently.

"I would say you can do better but you can't, how are you even tricking Leo into dating you?"

"Believe it or not he's here willingly."

"I can confirm that." Leo added, slightly shocking both of them as they'd forgotten he was there. "I'll leave, you two need to talk, properly." He was shocked with how seriously he'd let him say the the last part, he'd meant it but would often cover that with jokes to hide the reality. He wanted to kiss Jason as he left but decided against it, it felt too weird with his sister there. "Bye Sparky, meet me in the bunker later."

***

[writing-oof]

PJO Exchange Extras - Part Four

[TW: Kidnapping, Misunderstanding, Prophecy]

[luke castellan, kidnapping a literal seven year old as a literal fourteen year old: this is my only option

twelve year old thalia grace with a steel chair: you sure about that?]

---

"You kidnapped me."

"Yeah."

"You tried to kill me."

Luke swallows roughly. "Yeah."

The water drip, drip, drips out of the leaky pipe, splatting on the concrete like rain.

Percy sniffles, his bright green eyes wide and teary. *"Why?"*

"You were gonna kill *me!"* Luke defends, but it sounds a lot less reasonable when Percy's looking at him like that, curled up in a ball and whining like a kicked puppy. He's also like three feet tall, which definitely doesn't help.

"I was *not!"* Percy argues, his tiny hands balling into angry fists. "I wouldn't kill my friends, even if you *are* a stinky jerk!"

Luke scowls. "I'm not your friend," he spits like a venous snake, like a pit scorpion.

It's effective, if the immediate onflow of tears means anything. Percy shakes and shudders, going from a few stray tears to downright sobbing into his knees. Luke feels his mouth go dry, as the position they're in really sinks in.

He just kidnapped a kid, a kid who grows up to have mind control powers strong enough to get him to *stab* himself to death, if his visions are right.

---

Luke makes sure to stand far away enough that Percy couldn't even hit him if he wanted to, just in case, his face totally flat.

"Why would I be your friend?" Luke asks, a little curious. It's the one thing he hasn't been able to figure out. Maybe that's what the mind control powers are for? Maybe Percy just wants people to be his friends and then, once they are, he makes them kill themselves for him.

He's heard of gods doing crazier things for stupider reasons, and he doesn't doubt that demigods could be just as powerful and derranged. Even ones as little as Percy.

"What?" Percy asks bitterly, scowling up at Luke from where he's curled up in the corner of the mattress.

"Earlier, when we were fighting," Luke says, trying to stay casual and scary sounding. Scary sounding for a kidnapper, at least. "You said you wouldn't try to kill me because I was your friend."

"I was wrong," Percy snaps, but he really sounds more like a whiny little kid than a powerful demigod. "You're not my friend! You're just an jackass."

"Seven year olds can't say jackass," Luke says automatically, though he has no idea why. He doesn't think he's ever even talked to a seven year old before Percy, let alone one he'd tell not to say 'jackass.'

"They can too!" Percy says, scowling harder. Then, shouting so loud Luke flinches back, "Jackass! Jackass! Jackass, jackass, jackass!"

"Stop it!" Luke shouts, his heart thrumming to life and his hands shaking a bit at his sides, but Percy just gets louder.

"Luke's a jackass!" Percy shouts, standing up now and waving his free hand at Luke in wild gestures, his other wrist straining against chain tying him to the pipes. "Luke's a big ugly jackass!"

"Cut it out!" Luke screams, taking an angry step forward.

Percy flinches back, his mouth snapping shut like a mouse trap, and the room is eerily quiet save for their laboured breathing.

---

"What?" Thalia asks, her face twising like she's bitten into a lemon. "Percy didn't kill you."

"No, I know," Luke says bitterly, "I killed myself *for* him."

"Well, mostly I think it was to stop Kronos from taking over the world," Thalia says with a laugh. Luke frowns, the name like blood between his teeth.

"Kronos doesn't want to take over the world," Luke protests immediately and Thalia suddenly goes very, very still.

"Luke," she asks, her face flat and careful, "where's Percy?"

[f0xgl0v3]

The Camp Jupiter thing.

That is a vague title, but ‘The various reasons that we have gotten fundamental rules about the ascendancy in Camp Jupiter due to the list of characters we were given’ this post has turned into ‘Various reasons I’m sad about canon Camp Jupiter’

I will note I just go off on like 50 tangents through this post, bear with me. And I forget what I was talking about halfway through. But hey! Long post :D also I’m reading through this and note I am not serious about this, I am cannonically a silly Kerropi and Choco cat hugging on the internet that talks about how much I like Rome and this fictional franchise- please don’t take anything I say too seriously, I can’t put up good arguments without actually trying to format my points in a argumentative essay format. This is just me typing words and thinking it’s good enough.

This takes into account that I have not read ToA yet because for some reason the hidden oracle falls under the same problem that I had with reading TLT or tTC; which is very slow first chapters that are hard to get through :[ So nothing other than what I know about ToA Camp Jupiter stuff (which is dubious) won’t be talked about; sadly including characters that are fully introduced in ToA and their issues, though I’ll probably mention them or something.

Okay, these are claims, but I’ve now decided to dedicate my bus ride to this issue that I’ve realized (that probably is well known and whatever) while those are a couple things,

First and the most well-known Camp Jupiter thing is lack of characterization, or at least consistent characterization (the first cohort),

Aside from our POVs I feel that (and I think most of what I’ve seen from the community) the characters don’t have much of any Characterization, and not in a like ‘these characters don’t have complex narratives and that means they suck >:[‘ but in the fact that they don’t have.. much of anything? Comparing them to Camp Half-Blood seems the best, some of the side characters we see there like Clarisse La Rue, Charles Beckendorf, Silena Beauregard, and Thalia Grace, and more I can’t think about right now all have noticeable to somewhat noticeable arcs, and clear characterization and more than just 2D personalities. (I don’t focus on Camp Half-Blood nearly enough to give rundowns of them and I don’t have room, but note that every single CHB character mentioned has at least 1 B plot and is important to the narrative)

Now, let’s look at Camp Jupiter characters were given (that don’t end up POVs because they obviously have to be given complex personalities.. to which degree it is effective and how they chose to use those personalities is probably a different post) but we have characters that get Characterization like,

Octavian; A character set up to be some form of threat, even though repeatedly we are shown that, despite what traits were told he has, are shown a different character. Who then in the next books is played for laughs because the community didn’t like him enough and is eventually killed off without a solid reason to be killed off. He is set up to be a threat and told to be a threat, but showed to be incompetent and played for comedic value to varying sucess (don’t set up a character as a villain that is said to be hard to deal with if you then turn around and have him beat in the first 5 pages and then continue to beat him again and again without any strain from your Protags)

Michael; We know nothing about him, we are told that he is ripped and that he is meant to be Octavian’s closed ally and confidant (that is slightly exaggerated but he is meant to be close to Octavian) then we see him remorselessly wave and say goodbye as Octavian is murdered and simply walk away (Also and exaggeration, but like- he’s not doing himself any favors)

Dakota; he’s not really given a personality that is distinct, and is played for an addiction joke before being killed off (I have no idea if he is given any character in ToA, but like..)

Bryce Lawerence; given the stereotypical traits for a psychopath, given 2 minutes of screen time to be un-menacing and then to have a horrific death.

I chose some of the worse options (also options of characters I hold dear to my heart and like talking about) but there are probably a plethora of other characters that can also be used as examples. The point is, comparing them to other secondary characters that are presented in the books. They are used situationally, for laughs, to fill in a menacing problem blank or be killed off, and for one of them (*cough, cough* OCTAVIAN *cough, cough*) they fit all of the boxes I have listed. Which sucks because it generally means that when thinking about Camp Jupiter characters, there is digging and a whole lot of interpreting you have to do to squeeze character and possible traits out of them. I’ve been ranting a lot and it’s hard to get what I’m trying to say typed, but I hope when I say ‘most characters were given are nothing burgers’ people understand what I’m trying to convey; that compared to other characters in the same universe that are written by the same author; Camp Jupiters characters are given so much less amazing characterization!

Also I don’t quite know where to put this; but the books treat Camp Jupiter with this mob mentality, but not in a like actual way; but in a ‘I think of them as just a hive mind instead of people with distinct personalities’ where again, in Camp Half-Blood they all have these somewhat distinct personalities and would react differently to situations, where Camp Jupiter, one of the Praetors would say something and then we wouldn’t care because there would be no mixed reaction. There is no CJ equivelant to the Apollo and Ares cabin having a tiff over a chariot, literally it’s just ‘we agree that the 5th sucks haha’. I consider this for one key reason; we aren’t introduced to enough characters in Camp Jupiter who have distinct personalities nor are we introduced to a big variety of characters! And most of the times we get a variety of characters is in probatio’s journal, an extra short story book that people who aren’t interested in Camp Jupiter. THAT I AGAIN MENTION NAMED A DAUGHTER OF JANUS JANICE!!! it’s not a big deal, it’s fine; but it bothers ME. It shouldn’t, it’s fun, it’s a short story but still.

Okay, okay. Second reason is the Centurion/position of power issue. NOT including Probatio’s journal (which I decided not to read before this) almost every single character in Camp Jupiter we are introduced to is or ascends to a position of power. We don’t get a ‘hi I’m Jerry and I’m just a legionnaire trying to work through’ even characters that don’t need to be in other positions of power like my example, Larry.

Larry is mentioned in the Senate scene of SoN, opposing Frank rising to Centurion-hood. Great, he can be one of the 10 elected senators we are told about and then we never have to talk about him again.

But, they had to make him the Centurion of the 2nd cohort. Okay, great, that’s fine- he just was cool enough to be elected as a senator.

But that’s not just it. Every single character that was mentioned there (not including Cato’s ghost which is wild but extremely funny in my opinion- no I will not be elaborating on why it is funny to me) was a centurion or in a position of power. Every named character was a Centurion, Praetor, or someone who ended up being a Centurion or Praetor (I don’t remember if we’re told names of Veterans, other senators, or if there is a character that was just mentioned without a secondary rank).

But, that itself is like, all fine and dandy. If this and the scene right before it didn’t throw around a bunch of rules during it. Which- with the combination of lack of named characters that were purely elected Senators, we ended up with mishaps like thinking the rule for Centurion’s that they had to serve 5 years in camp before being able to.. like be a centurion (if there is confirmation that the rule applies to Centurions somewhere else in the book please tell me) but no, the quote is just in relation to being a Senator. (I just realized but it doesn’t help that Dakota; our in the book closest source of info for Centurions also happens to be a Senator)

But Okay, so that- and then there is the obvious assumption that Centurions just also go and serve in the senate. Though- I don’t believe that is explicitly mentioned in the books- so not confirmed..? My memory is dubious though so this is a little more flimsy- BUT THE POINT-

The point is, that without any labeling or clear-cut rules that are told to us, it’s harder to know. In combination with the rules we were told being muddled up between the two roles, and it’s not helping when all the characters there mentioned in the senate end up being Centurions- it’s a mess.

I at this point, I have lost the whole point I was trying to talk about. But yeah. Camp Jupiter has a lot of problems, and suffers so much (in my opinion) from the lack of utilization. It makes me sad and upset, and now I have to go re-read Camp Jupiter’s parts in SoN to confirm… a lot of things that were wrong. And think a lot harder on things.

But yes. Camp Jupiter makes me so happy and then realizing Camp Jupiter isn’t written the best makes me very sad/upset/angry but yeah. Lets give Camp Jupiter better characterization and actual characters- yeah :D

I say this a lot in recent posts, but I am a little tired compared to when I wrote most of this and I feel like that’s obvious, but Camp Jupiter map is about.. 75-80% ish done. The first draft at least will be done by at the least, this weekend. I’ll probably either finish a Dionysus/Bacchus kids post I was working on, or start on that Michael Varus post, talk more about Larry because he’s so infrequent but is so silly. OR just talk more over Octavian or Bryce Lawerence because those two are genuinely some of my favorite characters and one (Bryce Lawerence) clearly has much less reason and content for me to like about him.

ALSO possibly Outsiders (the book by S.E Hinton) content coming up? I don’t know how much people like the Outsiders, but I like it. And if anyone wants to know; I’d probably be posting about Two-Bit, Dally, really any of the Greasers. Or Bob- the Soc that Johnny murdered. He is my 2nd favorite character. Yes that is so stupid but I love him too much for no good reason one day I just joked with a friend about Bob being my favorite and it came true-

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Crossover Masterlist

Harry Potter & The Vampire Diaries Universe

Reborn from the ashes

Harry James Potter at thirteen years old was adopted by an American family visiting England.

After Pettigrew and Voldemort's deaths, Harry assumed that he would have a peaceful life.

He couldn't be more wrong

Mikaelson Family & Harry Potter, Elena Gilbert & Jeremy Gilbert, Bonnie Bennett & Caroline Forbes & Elena Gilbert, Jeremy Gilbert & Harry Potter, Tyler Lockwood/Harry Potter, Harry Potter & Damon Salvatore, Caroline Forbes & Harry Potter, Bonnie Bennett & Harry Potter, Jeremy Gilbert & Jenna Sommers, Elena Gilbert & Jenna Sommers, Katherine Pierce & Harry Potter, Elena Gilbert/Stefan Salvatore, Alaric Saltzman/Jenna Sommers

Eclypse

When Ashlyn Potter found out she was adopted, she could only think about her twin sister.

She found her after the war. She learned what her birthmark on her shoulder meant.

For years they have been looking for someone who knows something about their parents when they get help.

Unfortunately, that help didn't tell them that, during her one night fling with the big bad hybrid, Hayley got pregnant with his child.

And to think Ashlyn had always wanted to be an aunt

Elijah Mikaelson/Harry Potter, Hayley Marshall/Jackson Kenner, Rebekah Mikaelson/Marcel Gerard, Davina Claire/Kol Mikaelson, Harry Potter & Klaus Mikaelson, Harry Potter & Blaise Zabini, Harry Potter & Hayley Marshall, Harry Potter & Jackson Kenner, Harry Potter & Kol Mikaelson, Harry Potter & Mikaelson Family, Harry Potter & Marcel Gerard, Hayley Marshall & Rebekah Mikaelson & Harry Potter

Merlin & The Vampire Diaries Universe

Immortality shared

Merlin knew his immortality was a burden.

And, somehow, something changes

Percy Jackson & The Originals & Suits

The crazy soulbond

"Okay, and we're what?" Percy asked.

“Soulmates, darling.” Elijah said, glancing at the mark they shared.

“I didn't even know they were a thing.” Percy snorted. "I'll have to talk to Aphrodite about it and ask her why exactly no one knew about the existence of soulmates."

Percy Jackson/Elijah Mikaelson/Harvey Specter

The crazy soulbond

"I found him. I found my soulmate"

Percy Jackson/Elijah Mikaelson/Harvey Specter

Percy Jackson & Merlin

What's the problem, weather boy?

Percy and Merlin meet

Percy Jackson & Merlin, Merlin & Arthur Pendragon, Leon & Merlin, Percy Jackson & The Olympians, Merlin & The Olympians, Annabeth Chase & Percy Jackson

What have you done?

Leon has to deal with Merlin and their new friend, Percy Jackson.

Leon isn't paid enough for all this.

Leon & Merlin, Percy Jackson & Merlin, Percy Jackson & Leon

You're just special 

Merlin has a nightmare. Percy is there for him. They trust each other

Percy Jackson & Merlin

Remember that time? 

It's time to ask Nico his help in their research.

Of course, when Percy says 'everything's going to be fine', Merlin should worry.

Percy Jackson & Merlin, Nico di Angelo & Percy Jackson, Hades & Percy Jackson

Immortal Knights, Old Sorcerers and Demigods 

Percy makes a discord server for their group.

Percy Jackson & Merlin, Leon & Merlin, Thalia Grace & Percy Jackson

The Seer

Merlin finds the first reborn soul.

Percy Jackson & Merlin, Percy Jackson & Leon, Merlin & Arthur Pendragon, Merlin & Morgana

The Druid 

Thalia and Merlin give memories back to the first reborn soul.

Merlin & Morgana, Thalia Grace & Merlin, Nico di Angelo & Thalia Grace, Mordred & Morgana, Merlin & Mordred & Morgana

The most loyal of them all 

Thalia, Nico, Merlin and Leon find Lancelot.

Merlin & Morgana, Merlin & Mordred, Leon & Merlin, Jason Grace/Piper McLean, Jason Grace & Thalia Grace, Lancelot & Merlin

It wasn't your fault ~ it was my choice 

Jason ~ reborn Lancelot ~ and Merlin talk

Lancelot & Merlin, Jason Grace & Merlin

We left you alone for five days! 

Jason has a competition with his other cousins and he isn't worried of playing dirt to win.

Merlin is amused, Percy has unhealty adopting mechanism and Jason is tired.

Percy Jackson & Merlin, Jason Grace & Merlin, Jason Grace & Percy Jackson, Lancelot & Merlin

The blacksmith's son

Merlin, Percy, Leon, Thalia, Nico and Jason find someone else

Nico di Angelo & Jason Grace & Thalia Grace & Percy Jackson & Hazel Levesque, Nico di Angelo/Will Solace, Will Solace & Merlin, Will Solace & Leon, Percy Jackson & Will Solace, Jason Grace & Will Solace, Lancelot & Merlin, Elyan & Merlin, Elyan & Leon, Leon & Merlin, Lancelot & Leon

The queen

Hazel got her memories back.

And she uses the situation for the Competition.

Percy Jackson & Merlin, Nico di Angelo & Jason Grace & Thalia Grace & Percy Jackson & Hazel Levesque, Nico di Angelo/Will Solace, Gwen & Elyan, Gwen & Merlin

I see my reflection in your eyes 

Merlin and Percy discuss about their lives.

Percy Jackson & Merlin

It's movie night!

The new reborn souls, Percy, Merlin and Leon have a movie night!

Nico di Angelo & Jason Grace & Thalia Grace & Percy Jackson & Hazel Levesque, Leon & Merlin, Percy Jackson & Merlin

“Hey, it’s me. It’s just me.”

Merlin and Percy spend some time alone

Percy Jackson/Merlin

If you agree with me that Percy is everyone's type, choose the role 

Percival enters the chat!

Hazel Levesque/Frank Zhang, Past Gwen/Lancelot, Past Gwen/Leon, Past Unrequired Gwaine/Gwen, Percy Jackson/Merlin

Did you send the head where? 

The reborn souls, Merlin, Leon and Percy talk about some quests.

Hazel Levesque/Frank Zhang, Percy Jackson/Merlin, Leon & Merlin, Nico di Angelo/Will Solace

Funny. I wasn't aware of that. 

Merlin has a chat with a possessive parent.

Merlin isn't impressed at all

Percy Jackson/Merlin

It takes a lot more than that to impress me

Merlin finally meets reborn Gwaine.

Percy is amused, Leo is amused, Merlin is amused.

Leon is not amused.

Percy Jackson/Merlin, Gwaine & Merlin, Leon & Merlin, Percy Jackson & Leo Valdez

You need therapy

Leon and Percy talk.

Leon adopts Percy

Percy Jackson & Leon

Supernatural & Harry Potter

Happiness can be found even in the darkest moments

Harry James Potter is Sam's and Dean's little brother.

This is how it all change

Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, Bobby Singer & Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, Harry Potter & Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester

Join us, we have sweets

“Tea Party and sweets.” Harry nodded. “That could be the new motto for Team Free Will. Join us, we have sweets.”

Harry Potter & Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester

You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?

“Hey, Dean, right hand on red!” Harry smiled as he watched Dean and Castiel get even closer.

It had been Bobby’s idea.

Well, Bobby had had the idea to celebrate the end of the Apocalypse in style.

pre-Castiel/Dean Winchester, Gabriel & Harry Potter, Harry Potter & Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester

Dysfunctional family

Harry was the only relaxed person at the table.

He was probably also, he mused, the only person who wasn’t there to meet any parents at the moment.

Gabriel/Sam Winchester, Castiel/Dean Winchester, Crowley/Bobby Singer, Gabriel & Harry Potter, Rowena MacLeod & Harry Potter, Harry Potter & Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, Harry Potter/Fred Weasley/George Weasley

We cannot kill him ~ our little brother will be very sad

"He's not a monster!" Harry shouted, glaring at Dean while Sam just stared in shock at his brothers, wondering if that was how Dean felt every time he and their father started yelling at each other. "He's a Trickster! They're called gods of Justice, Dean, not monsters!"

Harry Potter & Dean Winchester & Sam Winchester, Gabriel/Sam Winchester, Gabriel & Harry Potter

This is unforgivable

Dean did something unforgivable and his younger brothers can't forgive him

A gift for Harry

“I said no dogs in our shelter!” Dean yelled, pointing at Sam and Harry.

Tell me that I'll be fine

And if he died right now, he would come back as one of them, a vengeful spirit.

Would Dean and Sam salt and burn his bones without a second thought?

Would Harry still be their little brother or would he become enemy number 1?

Harry sighed.

He couldn’t really be surprised that he couldn’t sleep.

Overseas Sleepover

“Ron, don't be like that.” Hermione was watching Ronald Weasley, her other best friend, as he tossed his clothes around the room.

Room he had kept tidy, much more than normal, anticipating Harry's arrival.

“It wasn't a secret.” Hermione said again, raising her voice and feeling out of her element.

Harry and Ron usually understood each other much quicker.

Where is his nose?

Dumbledore, Dean, Sam and Harry have a tea party to discuss about Voldemort

Road trip

“Our life is a road trip.” Harry replied. “And I had plans.”

Or when Dean decides to take Harry and Sam in a road trip

In this family line

Bobby watched his three boys.

Sam was running too much, his laps getting longer and his pace faster every morning.

Dean was drinking too much. Not dangerously, but way too much, and too often.

Harry, sweet little Harry, was losing hope. He was eating less, his nails were biting, the bags under his eyes were getting more pronounced.

He was losing his boys.

Christo, I think I have some broken bones

“Well, the younger Winchester comes to die.”

Harry bared his teeth in defiance. “You first!”

Dousing the demon with holy water and hearing it scream had not been necessary, but Harry had felt vengeful, since he had designed the trap to stop it with his own blood.

And, after all, it had been his duty to exorcize the demon.

Can I return him?

Why had Dean wanted another brother, exactly?

Sam had been more than enough.

Could he be returned somehow?

Merlin & Supernatural

There's always a way

Merlin is desperate to see his friends again. He cannot die, so he can only bring them back.

Enters Crowley.

Merlin & The Hobbit

The Protector of the Gentle West

Thorin's Company is left by Gandalf as they enter Mirkwood. But, fortunately for them, another maiar decides to help them.

Even if he isn't a maiar. Nor an elf. Nor a man. Nor a dwarf or a Hobbit.

Well, at least he can control dragons, right?

Go back to the General Masterlist

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Chapter 3: The Explosions Keep on Coming

Thalia startled to her feet the fastest, but Percy wasn't far behind on pure reflex at the new voice.

They turned in unison, and Annabeth screamed.

It was a strangled, broken noise as her eyes landed on his dark hair and shocked face, blurring into the room fast enough Artemis was impressed as she tackled Percy back into his seat still making disjointed, painful-sounding noises.

Percy crashed into the seaweed beanbag with a mass of tangled blonde curls obscuring everything, and it was the best view in the world as finally, finally, it was her squeezing him tight enough to pop his head off. He'd surely have a bruise on his cheek from where her head had collided, but he also doubted that's why all the breath had escaped him.

They'd fallen flat out and rolled onto the floor when time slowed down and reality fluttered in as he leaned back in surprise, a cry of joy on his own lips, only for her to do so too and kiss him.

She was not gentle about it, he could still feel the desperation in her every movement as her lips melded to his. The intensity of it scared him as he tried to push her back, and she did so gasping and looking at him with just as much concern.

"Whoa there Annabeth," Thalia wanted nothing more than to run to Artemis and hug her in relief, but her sense of duty overruled as she swooped in and tried to help Annabeth up. "We need to catch you up-"

"Percy, what's wrong?" She asked, allowing the separation as she briefly hugged her, tight and meaning it in relief for her being okay, but never taking her eyes off him.

"We, um, that was, not how I remember, um, I was going to ask the same," Percy sat up the reddest color ever and talking through his fingers as he covered his lips.

The rest of the room rushed in fast enough she felt dizzy, as she spun around to see the others.

Nico, and for some reason Will, were also down here. All children of the Big Three in one place was never a good sign, she knew something was up!

Then there were two strangers, one of whom stood out for a horrible split second. His dark blond hair, the faint scar in the dim lighting. Luke- but no. He was her age, he looked nothing like her old hero more than the passing resemblance; but still her eyes averted away to someone with strange green hair and- "Magnus?!"

It would have made more sense to see her mom or dad chilling down here than her mortal cousin she hadn't seen in over ten years.

He gave her a cautious wave and an awkward smile as he said, "hey cuz?"

Annabeth was speechless. Thalia took the chance to turn to Artemis and try to ask hopefully, "my lady, I'm so glad you're here! Do you know what's going on, what the gods are planning?"

She gave her lieutenant a fond smile, but then, something was wrong.

There was a shimmering in the water around her, her face scrunched up like she was about to sneeze. Gods didn't do that unless they were about to reveal their true form.

Artemis looked at Jason, and she flickered.

Not by too much, but there was a sudden harshness in her features, her loose auburn hair was suddenly tied back in a severe bun, a power she didn't try to keep as dormant in her now yellow eyes settled on him. "Jason Grace, what are you doing in here young Praetor?"

Thalia startled, but not a word could escape her before the goddess cried out in pain, and her small body grew. Soon she was the size of the room, her camo threads covered in frost, with blue tinged skin, icicles laced into her braided auburn hair, and a yet harsher still gasp as she glowered about the ocean floor with eyes pure white. "How dare I be summoned here!" She drew a wicked sharp hunting knife, and for some reason had a pair of skis in the other hand.

There was a crack, and she was gone, leaving the room glittering in snow.

Annabeth swatted a white flake from her eye and screamed, "what is going on!" She'd been in some weird situations, and this capped them all as Percy stayed flustered at her feet, Thalia looked like she'd been frozen in place, and her cousin was making exaggerated faces and strange symbols with his hands at a green haired girl.

"Long story short," Will offered, his arm casually over Nico's shoulder like they were long-time buddies as they stayed on the couch, which was the least weird thing in a long line of parallel universe things going on in this room. "Percy's memory is a mess and we've been getting them back with books," he gestured to the dark red book sitting in place like Percy's heart had been dislodged out of his chest when she tackled him. Then he gestured to where a neat stack of books was piled in various colors. "Last thing he remembers, is um, heading off to blow up the Princess Andromeda with," he stopped with a sad, deep sigh. She didn't need him to finish. He did anyways, forcing a smile into place, "with Bekendorf."

The mention of his name caused Percy to wince, and yet another crack to appear in the wall, finally erasing that look of stunned awe on his face like he was convinced someone was toying with him.

"I see," she murmured, offering him a hand up.

He still took it without hesitation, but dropped it like a stonefish was attached the moment he was upright. Her orange shirt and jeans were stained and rumpled like she'd been sleeping in them for weeks. Her hair was a greasy rat's nest, and she was so pale it made the dark circles under her eyes look like Ares had broken her nose.

She looked like she'd been on a very long, world-altering quest without him, and all he could think about was that her beaded necklace was gone, the curve of her throat was empty as he just stood there staring at her.

His blushy insecurity was cute, almost, but she straightened her shoulders with a mission.

"Grace?" The unknown blonde would barely be a blip on her radar of going over to the books and finishing this without delay if he hadn't said the one thing that had also speared another shock into her. It felt like she was juggling, something she was more than proficient at, but also while somebody was trying to launch flaming turtles at her while on ice. Keeping everything in one train of thought which was nigh on impossible.

"My last name is Grace?" He sounded ecstatic for five seconds, even fist pumping the air for a moment, until his eyes went to Thalia.

The look on her face was unmistakable.

She tried to erase it, putting up a happy-go-lucky smile, but she was no Zoe. The cold indifference would never come to her as easily. Her strained smile and the look of longing on her face was one of joy and dread mingled into her dark features, and his startling blue eyes.

"You knew?" Something in him was rapidly deteriorating as he took a step back. Thalia Grace. He didn't need to ask, he knew that was her name. Why had it never occurred to him to ask her what her last name was? It sounded so natural, like he always should have known.

"Jason," fear was bubbling up in Thalia, she took a cautious step forward, and he took another back. "I didn't know how, I wanted to and thought-"

"You knew!"

Winds began tugging on their clothes, like strings pulling taught and nearly jerking everyone off their feet. Annabeth cursed as Thalia's next words were snatched away, and a funnel of water was already beginning to form into a tornado.

"Percy," she grabbed his arm and shouted into his ear, "make the water as dense as possible around this room, for as long as you can! Block out all noise!"

He understood instantly, closing his eyes and throwing his hands out to the walls. It didn't seem like anything was happening, but they all felt the pressure it caused everyone else as they gasped in pain and fell flat to the ground along with the vortex as Annabeth struggled to Jason's side.

It wasn't easy, with everything fighting against her to go near him as the elements began to duel back and forth. One minute she was being thrust in a direction only the wind knew, the next she was forced to crawl with the depth of the ocean fusing her spine together. One second she was spitting her hair out of her face and shivering with painful chills as the winds cut her, the next there was a pressure along every inch of her like her skull couldn't hold another second.

She made it next to Jason Grace when Thalia took her hand and yanked her the last foot forward in front of him, her would-be sister pressing her tight into the ground in front of him with a look of concentration. When Annabeth spoke, she knew they could hear her despite everything. "I don't know you," she spoke gently with every word feeling forced, "but I take it you've been getting to know Thalia. Whatever she did or didn't say, trust this Jason Grace, you know she cared. Thalia has always cared about those she shouldn't," she finished with a bleak smile. "If you're anything like her, I'm betting you're the same way. You don't want to hurt us."

His wild blue eyes were the same fractured mess she'd seen in Percy's. Something had been taken from this boy the same as hers, his hands were fisted into his blonde hair, but those sky blue eyes were open and afraid as he looked at her.

Slowly, slowly, the gale force died down.

"Percy," she called. It was the only thing she needed to say as the pressure began to slowly vanish as well.

Everybody sat up shaking themselves off with looks of mild annoyance like this was an everyday occurrence, except Jason, who stayed on his knees glowering at his sister.

"Wooo, your reputation precedes you girl," the green haired girl said to Annabeth with a wild smile like she was about to ask to go again.

"You lied to me," there was still a rumbling danger in Jason's voice that stopped any other levites. "You've been lying to me this whole time!" His eyes flickered to Nico accusingly, and a flash of lightning lit the room, arching upwards from him and leaving a black mark in the ceiling.

Thunder followed faintly in the distance, and Annabeth leaned forward anxiously.

Thalia beat anybody else to it. "It was a hunch Jason," Thalia pleaded to be understood. "You disappeared when you were two," she spoke in short, sharp snap words like launching arrows to quickly get her target under control. "I couldn't be sure, I thought you were dead!" Then she was looking at Nico too.

"Hey, I have no clue what's going on," Nico raised his hands with a sincere enough face. "I knew of another camp and nothing else, swear on the Styx."

Another faint rumbling, but he didn't turn into a puddle of acid so they seemed to believe him while Annabeth's nerves ratched up another notch. Another camp?! Thalia had a brother!? She'd been in here five seconds and disaster was already afoot.

"Guys, listen," her frayed tone instantly had all attention, and she filed that away for later with interest. "Artemis made a deal with Oceanus for me to be here to stop the constant noise, like that!" She needlessly gestured to the wall that looked like one good poke would collapse it now. "Somebody was supposed to go with Artemis before she vanished, and I don't want to know what that Titan's going to do when he finds out that didn't happen. We've all got to take a deep breath and figure this out together, right?"

"You got it Annabeth," Percy said first, a charming smile on his face as he looked hopefully at her.

She held back a sob of relief and got to her feet, going right back to his side and hugging him again. He held her like he'd never let go again, but it was still off. Too gentle, cautious, something of it felt fleeting as he awkwardly patted her back. She pulled back again with a determination that had never failed her to see his cautious look and a touch to his lips again as his arm quickly fell away like somebody was going to slap him if he kept thinking to much about what just happened.

She had to fix this.

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HYBRID THEORY

Chapter 24

Fandom: Percy Jackson and the Olympians / Heroes of Olympus

Summary: Percy dies in battle.  A very tragic death that wasn’t at all lame, thank you. Unfortunately, the gods aren’t done with him yet. Instead of waking up in Charon’s waiting room as he should, Percy wakes up in the courtyard of Hotel Valhalla.  Thinking things can’t possibly get worse he runs to Carter Kane for help. In hindsight, that probably wasn’t the best idea he’d ever had.

Rating: Mature

Warnings: Major Character Death, Canon Typical Violence, Off Scene Sexual Content, sex addiction - kinda, Percy’s PTSD, super self destructive behavior

Characters: Percy Jackson, Nico DiAngelo, Piper McLean, Jason Grace, Samirah al-Abbas, Magnus Chase, Sadie Kane, Leo Valdez, Jasmine Anderson, Hazel Levesque, Thalia Grace, Reyna Ramirez Arellano, Thomas Jefferson, Annabeth Chase

Pairings: Percico, Cannon Pairings, Leo/Reyna, Percy/Jaz - kinda, Percy/TJ - kinda

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"They don't care about music or any kind of noise at all." Annabeth confirms. "I guess the raven makes them too smart to get whipped into a frenzy like that."

It's not what I want to hear. "Ravens like shiny objects." I look to see that T.J, has abandoned the group of single pantheon soldiers to talk with Annabeth and I. He is also a strategist and I am not surprised that he is inclined to join the leadership when a fight is going poorly.

Annabeth takes that tidbit and runs with it. "We could bring out some metals large enough be worth a roc's time. Set them about and ambush the birds that take the bait. It would definitely lower their numbers."

"As long we get it done fast." I say. "Wise Girl, head up coordinating that with rest of the adult campers. The kids stay in hiding. Reyna, Leo and I will distract the monsters with support form everybody else." I try not to mention that we're probably all going to get killed.

"I'm coming with you." T.J. says suddenly.

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helloooo about that 101 questions ask game;79, 97, 37, 44, 60 :0

79: What is your most prized possession? Honestly, probably my book collection and the fact that I have my old games that still work. While I'm kind of "rough" with all of them (books are usually filled with sticky notes and some are dogeared. my old DSi is "bedazzled" and kind of scratched) but I'm so happy to still have them and I do deeply cherish them!

97: Favorite word? SCUTTLE! It's sounds funny! >:D

37: Favorite Poem? Can I count the Odyssey? 😅 While I enjoy Poetry, I don't think I have had one that has really resonated with me to be a favorite. I think that's because I'm kind of funky with Poetry in that I REALLY need to "vibe" with the topic and I could definitely say that I deeply resonate with the Odyssey

44: What is the earliest dream you can remember?

Put on your fucking seatbeat, Niko. We're going for a ride >:D

Even my good dreams have always been "stressful" or I usually wake up frustrated with the fact that it's usually people in my dreams behaving irrationally and me needing to get them out of that situation (that's probably NOT trying to tell me something lol) and so I usually wake up "mad". I don't think it's my earliest dream but I definitely remember it vividly.

2 of my friends simply mentioned an "old friend" they wanted to see again but moved to another country. I basically suggested, "hey let's go visit!". for some reason we took a fucking rowboat, battled a bunch of shit, basically was a "quest". (don't remember details). After that we finally met the "old friend". (funny enough, the "old friend" was what I imagined Thalia Grace looking like. 😅 (actually think it was her "official art" at the time???) She had just been "untreed" in my reading so I think that's why lol)

BUT THEN MY FRIENDS LITERALLY JUST WAVED AND THEN WANTED TO LEAVE?! APPARENTLY, SHE DOESN'T "TALK MUCH" so that was it?! I was so mad. I basically yelled at them about how we did all this shit to get here and you're not even going to hang out?!

And then a giant blue cow with horns crashed into the house and I then I climbed on and then left. ( think this cow was a "friend from the quest"? Idk for sure. it's a dream. shit don't make sense. This story was crazy from start to finish)

Then I woke up. I was still mad about it.

60: EArly, on time, or late?

You know how ADHD is. Time is an illusion. I NEED to get there early or I just will never be there.