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Percy Jackson and The Olympians

Comics

── .✦ Architect of Olympus ✧˖°. (Table of Contents link)

Fanfiction

── .✦ The Bones in an Owl's Crypt ✧˖°. (ao3 link)

Ao3 Stuff: 9,171 words, chapter: 2/3 [INCOMPLETE] Character Centric: Athena Main Tags: Reincarnation (of Annabeth not Athena), Ancient Greece to Canon, Good and Bad (in chapter 2) Parent Athena My silly summary of it: I put Athena into a blender and then try to do tea fortune telling out of the soup

── .✦ Star Catching Hands and Shooting Stars✧˖°. (ao3 link)

Ao3 Stuff: 92,016 words, chapter: 23/? [INCOMPLETE] Character Centric: Entire cast centric honestly Main Tags: Time travel, Broken Pantheon Au My silly summary of it: I take the concept of Broken Pantheon, timeline of The Sea is Wine Red, and the main conflict of Peripeteia then smash them together before seasoning it with my headcanons

── .✦ To Redo a Scarf One Must Cut The Thread✧˖°. (ao3 link)

Ao3 Stuff: 8,602 words, chapter: 1/1 [COMPLETED] Character Centric: Annabeth, Malcolm, Will, Katie, Clarisse, Pollux, Connor and Travis Main Tags: Time travel, Character death but like temporarily My silly summary of it: I give a bunch of theater kids (in soul) the ability to traumatize their parents back with no consequences in the most violent way possible. Yeah, it goes as well as you expect it to.

── .✦ Time Is An Asshole But Eternity Isn't✧˖°. (ao3 link)

There's a lot of Annabeth going "oh boy my fond childhood memories" except it's her when she was on the street alone and scrambling away from monsters. Reyna (being raised on a magical island and placed in the background when compared to her sister and then pirates) and Jason (wolves. then being immediately socially isolated whether from being Jupiter's son or choosing the 5th legion) has not so normal social upbringing and respond to this by going "yeah me too, hey did you also experience negligence?"

They're a lot like that one meme where it's like "wow these two are weirdos thank god I'm the normal one here" and that is their collective thought process

But as for their quest, they're following in past Annabeth's footsteps. Guided by Annabeth lingering feelings and impressions they try to find the safe haven that she's sure is their destination. As camp Jupiter is right next to San Francisco, they head over there first. (Which brings up a lot of questions on how did no one find her considering she's a demigod and right there). Where they find someone that Annabeth reacts strongly to and through some breaking and entering they find out he's her father

Reyna and Annabeth bond over varying levels of shitty fathers and dogs. Both of them get sad when they realize the dog in her memory is dead. Don't worry they get happy after Reyna becomes Praetor as she gets Aurum and Argentum as a gift from her mother. Afterwards they trace where Annabeth ran off and lived on the streets

Annabeth and Jason get their bonding moment as they both find out how they had to grow up at a young age. Learning things by themselves of with limited help and no (human) grown up to help. They bond more when Annabeth gets her memory back of becoming (unofficial) leader of camp at a young age

Jason and Reyna get some suspicion on who's her godly parent with Minerva giving the quest and Annabeth reliving her paranoia with spiders. But they dismiss it as Minerva doesn't have children. Their travel is mostly linear to Annabeth's life although it is broken up by quests coming to mind in different places. There's more tension nearing the end as Annabeth remembers "oh shit I'm Greek not Roman" but as she's quite literally leading them to camp + her mother gave this quest, she does tell them before getting to camp

As for the enemies they face, it's a lot of monsters as asleep Gaia is trying to stop them. She can't have that statue and camps reuniting before she even fully woke up after all. Another issue they face is a bunch of Titan army demigods. Especially when they find out that Annabeth has amnesia so Luke is set on bringing her back while Kronos is allowing it seeing how much control over Percy she has even unknowingly (+ seeing Percy crashout due to her being dead means he would have an advantage if he shows him that she's alive and uses that to bargain a deal with him still shocked)

Percy treats Jason and Reyna very neutrally. He does not like them. Sure he's incredibly grateful that they brought Annabeth back alive and saved her from falling into Tartarus. But he's uncomfortable with the fact that he doesn't know her like they do. Yeah he's the one who understands the pressure and trauma that the quests put on her. But she never told him details about her childhood, at least not the chunk with Luke in them

Reyna and Jason don't have a history with Luke like he does, at least not enough to immediately react negatively/disbelievingly to his name or actions. Percy also gives Fredrick grace since he had a loving mother who tried her best. He's familiar with physical abuse not emotional neglect (plus I don't think he really worked through the emotional abuse that Gabe put him through at this point even). Reyna sometimes does this too but she also understands how the neglect and pressure affected Annabeth.

They're privy to a part of Annabeth that he isn't. And it brings up a lot of his self worth issues as he sees this as her not needing him anymore. With Annabeth pouring her focus into the Greek-Roman alliance, it seems as if she's abandoning him for her shiny new friends. (As Reyna and Jason are their main point of contact due to being Praetor and having been at camp) Seeing how the Romans worship Jason for being a son of Jupiter also brings up buried feelings of Thalia's reappearance he never worked through

But honestly, I think I have to blame how their crushes were written. Rachel was an antagonist in the Percabeth love story (the main and widely adored couple in fandom) and, unfortunately, the Percy Jackson fandom are usually pretty horrible against ships that break up the popular ones. This resulted in a perfect environment to create wave of hate towards Rachel even if she didn't do anything wrong. Plus she didn't get more characterization other than rival for Annabeth, rich weird kid, and environmentalist. Then Oracle which Rick uses to sideline her forever

Plus Rick did the thing where he tries to make a very privileged kid show that their life is incredibly hard. Which can be done well but he's going two for two of not doing it very well. As Rachel wants her father to stop polluting but she's benefitting off his money and takes no direct action to stop him (that's shown in the book). And people do NOT like that (rip to Piper too for this you had such an interesting character set up)

There's another issue that the fandom tends to blame Rachel and Annabeth instead of Percy for making this situation in the first place. Although I wouldn't say he was wrong for trying to escape the war. It's more of how he handled the situation with the both of them. But god know that teenage relationships are messy as fuck so messy Perachabeth for the win

As for Nico, we don't get confirmation until everything is done. There was no perceived threat towards Percabeth as they were already together. It was a one sided crush on Nico's side and there wasn't any "oh but would Percy go for them" that Rachel had. It places him in more of a grey area where he's the sad pining boy. Enough where it makes him more of a uhhh victim? I don't want to use that word specifically but I don't have another word for it

Then there's godly catnip au where they were born in a family that was basically selectively bred to have the average of what the gods considered attractive. Yikes. And now you have to figure out what parts of you was made for the gods. (I find this mean but the Chase family are heavily prone to pick up a special interest that they'll keep forever to attract gods who have a domain surrounding it. As excelling people in their domains tend to catch their attention easier. For Fredrick it was history and Annabeth's is architecture. Idk about Magnus bc I haven't read his series)

There's monsters of multiple pantheons that could potentially sniff you out even if you aren't a direct demigod. Different Chase branches have wildly differing ways of raising their kids as they have to weigh the danger of being more noticeable due to knowing about the godly worlds or being unprepared if a monster does sniff them out. (Annabeth and Magnus are part of one that hides the existence) Lucky branches can go long enough without interacting with a godly world to fade from relvance

I'd still say that Magnus and Annabeth get the short end in possible endings. Cause they're already direct demigods AND they're heavily involved in world ending prophecies. They should get to meet different branches and find out they're the outliers even among other Chase demigods. Since their sample size is each other, they got a wildly skewed perception on what their lives are supposed to be

Nevermind that with their achievements they're considered more attractive in the gods' eyes. There's no winning for them. They're seeing their friends get less attention as they become more jaded against the gods' orders. They think they'll get the same treatment yet gifts and requests for meetings only seem to increase. Hands begin to linger longer on their shoulders and friendly touches seem to tighten. It's quite startling as they think of most of their pantheon gods as estranged family members

Nevermind when it starts to spread to other pantheons. They're finding out the existence of so many gods they never wanted to know about. At least at their relevancy and attractiveness has to come with enough strength/protection from their own pantheon for them to fend off their suitors. (As their reputation comes from, you know, saving the world)