Ares saying he hates his own kids and the worst day of the year is when they visit him makes my heart break for Clarisse more. Clarisse fights so hard for scraps of her father’s attention and Ares sees her as just another nuisance. He doesn’t care about her unless she’s able to serve him. But Clarisse (like Annabeth) thinks she just has to work harder for him to love her. In her mind, it’s all her fault. Which is why she is so angry when little punk Percy strolls in at twelve years old, no training and unclaimed, and immediately defeats the minotaur. In three days hes already got the gods attention and his father claimed him. Of course she’s angry.

annabeth!

Okay but if the Mythomagic cards were so accurate about the Minotaur and his underwear, and Grover used them to “train” Percy, does that mean the satyrs designed and mass produced these cards themselves? Whose idea was it? Did they like have a big meeting about recruitment and go “What do the kids like these days? Pokey-man? Let’s make a Greek myth Pokey-man game. That’ll help,” and they interviewed a ton of campers like, “Hey, I know that time you almost got killed by a Gorgon was super traumatizing, but we just wanna make sure our cute little card design is accurate. Were her snakes green or purple? Also, would you classify her as Class A or B in power?” Did the campers get super into it too? Was it a group effort? Do they have to update the decks regularly based on new information? Which generation of Mythomagic cards did Percy use? Is the OG packaging limited edition? How popular are they in normal life? Do they get covered by the Mist, and people like Rachel think they’re just insane when they see Mythomagic in a shop window, and everyone else thinks it’s a Pokémon deck? Are there satyrs out in the world running game shops, and whenever someone asks about Mythomagic, they’re like “Do you come from a single-parent household, and also do you want to be friends?” How deEP DOES THIS GO??

percy, as he arrived at camp jupiter, in his amnesiac era: Hi! im percy. do i know you?

nico, professional gaslighter since the 1940's, sweating bullets: I've never met this man in my life.

Do you realize that Camp Half-blood is most probably a place full of juvenile delinquents? Like nearly all of them have committed a crime or two? If no, you should.

SIX SCHOOLS IN SIX YEARS SIX SCHOOLS IN SIX YEARS SIX SCHOOLS IN SIX YEARS

Roman Campers: We almost never see our parents Greek Demigods: Our parents talk to us or see us maybe a couple times of year, unless your special. Apollo's kids: Our dad visits a lot, he knows our names and gives us gifts and is actually a pretty decent dad nowadays. Dionysus kids: *Summer camp is both a break from the mortal world but also their fathers shared custody time, gets claimed by him pointing and calling 'mine', forced to have family meals (though at a distance) every day, has to get him a fathers day gift thats not a burnt offering otherwise he gets cranky, when asked by new campers who their godly parent is, have to explain that he is the grumpy camp director who got their name wrong earlier.

this is canon i dont make the rules😌

art by: @nottabat on twitter

"I'm making friends here. Like, real friends."

Percy is scared and alone and confused when he comes to camp and Luke gives him a warm welcome, comforts him, and shows him the ropes, even gives him hope about his father.

This is going to hurt so, so bad.

Camp Half-blood, Percy Jackson and The Olympians (2023)

jason: *bites someone who grabbed him during capture the flag*

piper: what the fuck, were you raised by wolves?

jason: …yes

leo: oh gods please tell me you’re joking

frank: no, he’s serious- you have to prove your strength at the Wolf House before they let you into Camp Jupiter

jason: yeah i was left there when i was two

frank, who went at sixteen: you were WHAT

obsessed with two 15 year olds trying to parent cocoa puffs from hell

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Will: NO INTERNALISED HOMOPHOBIA YOU CANT JUMP ON UR SISTERS HEAD LIKE THAT UR HURTING ISOLATION

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Nico: I never thought I'd be agreeing with my aunt/step grandmother but for fuck sakes grief eat your cereal

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Chiron: um one of ur kids is trying to climb the lava wall..

Nico, screaming at shame from the foot of the lava wall: THATS IT UR GROUNDED YOU BETTER GET UR ASS DOWN HERE YOUNG LADY

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Hazel: holy shit Nico have you been sleeping ???

Nico, bouncing a cocoa puff on his hip with bags under his eyes: don't have a teen pregnancy hazel

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Will: here comes the aeroplane *wHoOsHhH*

Isolation: *random gibberish*

Will, with tears in his eyes: DONT TAKE THAT TONE WITH ME *sobs*

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Bonus:

Kayla: alright kids aunty Kayla's here lets go commit some felonies

Cocoa puffs: *unionised cheering*

Will and Nico: *sobbing in teenage rebellion years they weren't ready for*

Do you think nicknames are a big thing in demigod culture?

There are lots of cultures where nicknames hold a lot of importance, like your family has a specific nickname they call you and your friends have a different specific thing they call you.

And in the world of pjo names/titles have power.

So maybe even more names/titles you have the more powerful you are. Like Poseidon also being known as Earth shaker and stormbringer, Nico being the ghost king, and Hylla earning the name Hylla twice kill.

So in demigod culture nicknames are a way to show you love someone but also a way to try to imbue them with power so that they'll be more likely to survive.

So for a demigod maybe there would be a specific nickname that demigod is called by their siblings (I'm pretty sure Luke calls Annabeth "Annie" at one point so maybe that's what her siblings call her?), a few nicknames used by friends (like when Piper and Leo called Jason Golden boy or sparky), and a nickname reserved for a demigod's significant other (seaweed brain and wise girl).

There's also the whole "don't name it or you'll get attached" concept that could factor in, considering how often demigods die.

So giving someone a nickname in demigod culture is a way of saying "I care about you, I want you to survive, so I'm going to run the risk of getting attached"

It would also explain why every time a new friend is made in pjo a nickname is one of the first things they get.

@fairytalepsuedonym

GAMER NICO

Nico spent seventy years in an arcade, this bitch is a video game god, who’s twitch account is setting records, video game companies fear because he just breezes through every game, making their games look easy and childish despite the games always being ridiculously hard on other people.

Someone, anyone, fan art, fan fic, anything please?

I love how Percy can tell when two people like each other but can’t tell when half the fücking camp has a crush on him.

~ Hephaestus' children are born to burn ~

[Image Description: On a dark red background and surrounded by glowing flames, Leo Valdez looks around in fear while Charlie Beckendorf crouches in front of him, visible from the waist up. Leo had his hands out, as if to ward off the fire snaking up behind him, feeling just as trapped and fearful as he did when he was eight years old and he saw his mothers warehouse go up in smoke.

Charlie is not afraid, however, and instead appears determined. One hand cups the air around the lit match he's holding, which burns bright, ready to explode Luke Castellans boat and sacrifice his life in hopes to protect the world.

Neither child of Hephaestus met and Leo would only vaguely know of Charlie as the legacy of the once-cabin-leader for their siblings. Both children were forged in fire at the start and ends of their lives, and both were destined to burn.]