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#diary excerpts: There are some secrets these three would never share when asked, how thoughtful of them to each have places to keep their most private thoughts.
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The hallways of the Princess Andromeda were, thankfully, empty while Ethan was walking through them. The dead of night ensured that most of the residents were asleep and those that were awake were most likely to be in their own rooms.
Ethan could still feel his arm shaking, at the very least he could move it properly now but the feeling of having full control over it had yet to return. It didn’t matter, better him than someone else, he’d be better by the time the sun came up. He did the right thing. He was being a good lieutenant.
The only sound he could hear was the sound of his own footsteps, a reminder of just how alone he was. He walked further and further through the dark, it was almost suffocating how the dark kept closing around him, time was moving normally now but it still felt too slow and—no. He could hear something.
Someone was muttering to themselves. A quiet mutter that sounded as loud as a gunshot in the silence. And Ethan recognised the voice.
He knew if anyone were to be awake at this hour it would have been Rachel, being ‘helped’ by the god of dreams had some adverse side effects, but he hadn’t expected to see her outside of her room.
It was almost creepy. Rachel was sitting all alone in the dark, drinking…something out of a cup and muttering things that were just barely incomprehensible to Ethan’s ears.
He could see why some of the younger kids seemed so intent on believing her to be a cryptid or a ghost.
She noticed him as soon as he stood in the doorway, her eyes moved down from his eye right towards his shaking right arm. She tried to smile at him but even Ethan could see the worry in her eyes.
“How bad was it this time?” He asked her, Ethan figured the only way she’d leave her room so late was if there was a painting of a prophecy she really didn’t want to look at. He could almost smile at the way she immediately sighed into her cup before taking another sip.
“Not as bad as some of the other ones. I just… needed to get out of my own head.” Rachel absentmindedly tapped her cup as she spoke “Are you okay?”
His arm still hurt, it still felt strange to move, he felt like he was going to faint if he stood any longer. “Of course.”
“If you say so.”
He really needed to sit down, it really didn’t matter how okay Rachel thought he was, it would be much better to not faint in front of her. That would just be embarrassing. He tried to walk as normally as he could to sit next to her. Every action still felt strange to do, it was like walking through molasses.
Sitting didn’t make him feel worse, it hardly made him feel particularly better either.
Rachel was staring at him. “Ethan, you’d… you’d tell me if you needed help, right?”
Where was this coming from? “Of course I would.” He paused for a beat, then pointed at her drink. “What’s that?”
“Hm? It’s tea.” She looked at him confused. “Do you want some?”
Huh, he hadn't realised he’d been so dehydrated until she asked. “Sure.”
Ethan had had quite a few teas throughout his life, he drank a lot less while in the army but he had a few from time to time. He could confidently say that Rachel could have won the award for giving him the sourest tea he’d ever had. He could barely taste the lemon flavour under all the sourness on his tongue.
It was very distracting.
He was midway through his second sip when he realised he’d downed the whole drink. He looked at Rachel sheepishly. “Sorry, that was rude.”
“No, no, it’s fine.” She assured him, she thought for a moment. “I have more back in my room, if you want some. I tend to make too much for just myself, I’d feel bad if any went to waste again.”
Rachel had to be the most transparent person Ethan had ever met, but he smiled at her politeness regardless. “Okay,” He said. “For the tea.”
Rachel: Well, we've already talked about our feelings on him before and I don't think our main feelings have changed in that time. I still don't hold much of an opinion on him at all considering I met him like once.
Rachel: However, I have noticed that not a lot of people here seem to share that opinion, or lack thereof. Most of the people I meet seem to think that he's the scum of the Earth or something similar. I kinda get it, war and all that, but it's not like he's the only person against us and I barely hear anyone talk about anyone else from Camp Half-Blood in the same way they do him. What makes Percy Jackson so different from everyone else?
we interrupt your irregularly scheduled askblog to bring you:
Happy 1 Year Blog Anniversary!!
Yep! March 21st officially marks this blog's birthday
There's nothing big for it, I just wanna take a moment to give a really big thank you, this blog was an impulsive thing I did because I thought it'd be cool and you have all made it so special for me, from the bottom of my heart thank you all so much <3
A plan for a letter addressed to Ethan Nakamura from Alabaster Torrington written in the latter’s diary, estimated date of September 3rd. It’s unknown if it was sent.
To lieutenant Ethan,
I don’t know how to write this letter, there are so many words that I would love to say to you, but I’m going to try and limit myself to only the most important. I feel a lot of different ways about you, sometimes I want to throw you into the ocean and watch you drown, and other times I want to hold you so close and never let you go just so you can see how much I care about you. You feel like such an important part of my life, a part I’d never want to lose. I suppose that’s why I’m writing this down instead of saying it to your face. I know you don’t really believe in luck but gods I feel so lucky to be friends with you. I’m lucky you don’t smile often because every time you do I feel like you’re trying to rip my heart out of my chest. Gods, I thought I could just wait these stupid feelings out, but no, you just had to keep being a plague on my mind, so now I am writing this letter. You don’t need to return any feelings, you’d hardly let me force you to do anything, but I do just want this to be known, we don’t even need to speak of this at all, if you'd like.
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Rachel, have you ever had visions about Ethan’s future?
Rachel: To put it simply: I don't know, probably not, I hope not. The thing with my prophecies is that, unless there's some sort of hint or Morpheus is feeling nice, I have no indication of who the people are in them. I doubt I've had any visions of Ethan, I mean, he'd probably tell me if I had considering he sees all my paintings. I suppose I'll never know for sure.
About non-godly parents: Rachel, how is your mother like? Ethan, Al, what do you think of your mortal fathers? Do you ever miss them?
[sorry if a similar question has been answered. I have bad memory.]
Ethan: You can't see this because we don't have a camera but the moment Rachel and Alabaster read this question, they both had the exact same expression on their faces. So in the spirit of being nice I'll go first to give them some time to think.
Ethan: My dad's great! I think I've mentioned him a little bit but he's one of my favourite people ever. I haven't had the chance to speak to him since I left Camp Half-Blood, I want to see him but I doubt I would have any spare time to travel there what with being Kronos' lieutenant. I miss him a lot but I know it'll all be worth it once this entire war is over.
Alabaster: I... don't like thinking about my dad. It's hard to even think of him as my dad, sometimes it felt like he really was my dad and he did love me, other times it felt like I was just a robot who had to perform every spell he wanted and needed to be fixed if I ever messed up. There's just a lot of mixed emotions about him. I'm not too sure if I'd ever go back to him, given the chance. I suppose it doesn't really matter, he's dead after all.
Rachel: My mother isn't too different from my father, I saw her a lot more often because my father wasn't present all that often. I always got the impression she was kind of a control freak, it felt like she had my entire life planned out before I was even born, I was supposed to be the studious boy who was going to inherit the company with no qualms. But then I turned out like, well like this and I don't think my mother ever really prepared for this. I don't have any plans to go back.
An excerpt of Ethan Nakamura’s audio log - July 5th, 10:02pm, Princess Andromeda
I messed up. This was a mistake. This shouldn’t have happened.
[A shaky breath is just barely caught in the recording]
She shouldn’t be here. I don’t know why I brought her here,it was a mistake, a lapse in judgement, a— No, I know what it was.
An indulgence.
[Quiet laughter lasts for a beat before fading into a sigh]
Oh, isn’t that just fucking pathetic, poor Ethan makes a friend and suddenly he gets distracted from the goal. Gods, what is wrong with me? I’m not supposed to be like this, I’m better than this, I was made to be.
I don’t know much about Morpheus, I don’t know that much about any of the so-called minor gods here, I suppose I could see if mo— no, I need to solve my own problems. I could see if Alabaster could give me some help.
It's nice that I get to see Alabaster again, that was a welcome surprise. I don’t think he should’ve helped me and Rachel, he’s got enough to deal with already. I do hope he and Rachel could become friends, it would make this easier.
[Another shaky breath is heard]
Deep breaths, Ethan. Trust your instincts, just like you always have.
Rachel: Well, yes and no. I'm told there were mortals on the Andromeda that were staying there but Kronos kicked them off at around the time I joined so I never got to know any of them. There is technically another mortal here, Zorah, she's a magician from another pantheon, and before you finding out there were other pantheons definetly didn't send me spiralling thinking about how small our lives are haha, I've tried talking to him a couple times but I don't think she likes me very much. I think they and Al have some sort of dislike of one another for some reason so I think they just keep that when they're around me so there's not much i can do. I don't think many people actually like her because she spent like a week burning our food supplies, something about a "sworn nemesis", in any case nobody wants to bother him. I honestly think he might be a little lonely.
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Ethan: Eh, for some people having a place to stay is a perk enough but honestly for the average person the Army isn't exactly the best place but it works well for what we need. Also, I don't think us three have the most average experience of the Army; anyone of a high enough rank gets some priviledges, most notably getting their own room because we don't have the space here for everyone to. We were given the option to share but Alabaster wanted his "own space for once" and I didn't want to be kept up at night by different musicals, Rachel.
Ooc question: Sorry, where exactly on the AU timeline does this askblog take place?
[while all the characters are still in the ta, basically in the year between botl and tlo it's about the Spring time for them. I know I probably will change at what point this is on the timeline but I doubt that'll be happening too soon and i'd probably do it through events because those are really fun, though the only event I have planned for the future would be for the 1 year anniversary (which is ony 6 months away wtf I thought i made it like 2 months ago) so not close to now]
thinking about my TA Rachel au and how in canon before she bacame the oracle Rachel always expressed her prophetic dreams in art so if she joined the TA that’s really only how she could express it
now I’m imagining a scene where Rachel is showing Ethan her art she made at like 3am and is trying to find out what it means and if it’s important
and Ethan who can’t understand art at all is just like ‘yeah, I like colours too’
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so basically Rachel and Ethan meet post ttc and Ethan is forced to explain the myth world to her and they become kinda friends. Later Ethan invites her to go into the labyrinth with him to help her escape her parents and so he can find his way to Mt. Tam. They become closer during that time and Ethan also realises that she can see the future due to her writing prophecies in ancient greek (a thing she actually did in canon).
Ethan then asks Rachel if she wants to join the TA with him to which she accepts because free housing and she gets to take down a theocracy! Ethan still has to fight Percy in the labyrinth who is with Sally instead of Rachel but Rachel just kinda hangs out with Alabaster who was sent to question her and they start bonding over their similar childhoods (their parents were rich but Rachel and Alabaster both had redemption arcs where they became communists/hj)
Alabaster, being the general, uses some connections to get Rachel in and she actually does kinda help them. And during that 1 year between botl and tlo Rachel Ethan and Alabaster actually start dating! Ethan still dies during tlo but Al and Rachel bring him back when the doors of death are open post son of magic.
