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Like, if there’s some big gathering of people, and you’re short but you want to see what’s happening. The only thing you have to do is find the closest person that, by the looks of it, can pick you up and ask them for a hand.

It sometimes looks uncanny, because some demigods, if the person they’re helping is old enough, have their arms crossed on their chest, and sometimes seem to not even realize that there’s someone sitting on their shoulders.

If you were to envision a transfem Percy,how would you do so?

I trust your Percy takes hence why i ask

I'm gonna be honest with you anon

As someone transfem myself, I'm probably projecting to an extent with my headcanons, but that's inevitable. I tried to make it different from me though.

I think there's not that much textual support, except maybe for how he excludes himself compared to boys in general when describing Silena? But we can still hypothesize what it'd be like if he did transition.

I definitely think she started by just feeling weird about her beard. Probably at first she just shaved regularly. I'd also say that going by the lack of stubble in TLO, either she didn't have beard growth until after that (but I don't think there was any in SON either) or the Styx temporarily inhibited the growth. The same thing applies to Tartarus.

At some point though, she notices it, and starts shaving often, I expect. I actually think she might genuinely start to use her water powers more, as she becomes more uncomfortable with body hair, especially as she and Annabeth become more intimate. I think she probably thinks of it as gross, and she starts, like, using her water powers like a blade to cut her body hair away efficiently.

Placing this according to the original timeline, I think she'd not really know being trans was a thing until post-BoO, when she maybe goes to a GSA meeting or something at Goode. I feel like Paul would probably be a supervising teacher there (personally I hc him as bi, but I also think he wouldn't be out). Percy would be going there because she wants to support Nico however she can, but after a while she might also learn about trans people.

I feel like she's going to be torn for a while even once she starts thinking about the possibility. I think she'd kind of feel guilty about it, like it's frivolous, and I don't think she'd actually try on make up or women's clothes or anything, it'd be a self-denial thing.

I think the most likely person to get through to her is probably going to be Rachel, who would also be the first one she'd confide in. She loves Annabeth, but that makes it scarier in a way, plus Rachel is more likely to know about this stuff (plus I'm a firm believer in Rachel and Percy being besties like they canonically were, when I catch you Rick!).

I feel like (and I think Percy would think the same) Grover would be fine with it but wouldn't get gender enough to help Percy understand herself, Hazel would again be supportive but she's from the 1930s and that's going to make it hard, and Frank also wouldn't have a great handle on it (even if the family gift makes transition super easy and it's actually pretty common in the family, which I think would be fun, Frank still doesn't have any of that history).

(Unrelatedly my mind was just hit by the flashbang of transmasc Frederick Chase and for some reason that works really well in my mind, but I feel like he'd also not tell his kids about it because he's from an older generation.)

I think Rachel would probably have at least one friend in St. Clarion's who is transmasc and hiding it, and I think she'd both help talk Percy through it and maybe introduce her to the transmasc friend.

After a few weeks, I think Percy would feel able to come out, honestly, especially with some very gentle prodding from Sally. She'd probably take it slow, and I also think she wouldn't want to say it over Iris message to anyone because she wants to tell Poseidon in person and doesn't want it getting gossiped about (or at least that's how I'm doing it in my fic).

At the same time though I think she's going to tell Tyson and Poseidon is going to have an inkling. It really depends on how good their relationship is after HoO, but I like their relationship, so I learn towards it being good. I think Poseidon might offer a magical transition (assuming the ancient laws don't constrain him, which they do in my fic because it counts as a direct gift) and I definitely think Percy might be tempted. Percy would feel bad about others who don't get to transition, but she's not going to tell Poseidon about them outright, and I think in the end she'd accept, maybe after posing the question as a hypothetical to her transmasc friend.

As for the name, I genuinely don't know. I think to an extent she'd be proud of the name Percy, and would consider naming herself that instead of Perseus. That way she gets to complain more if gods or monsters use Perseus. On the other hand, I've seen Iphigenia, with Jenny for short, used as a form of dark humor, as the girl who was a sacrifice to the gods. I feel like Sally would veto that though. Atalanta could work, I believe she had a mostly happy ending if you ignore the lions bit.

She might be tempted by Ariadne but would feel weird with Mr. D existing, and same with Psyche. Penelope could work, but it feels a bit weird and stuffy for Percy. The final option is Andromeda, shortened to Andi, since she had a happy ending along with Perseus, but that's also going to feel a bit weird. I've also seen jokes about Persephone offering magic HRT, but honestly I find that unlikely.

Ultimately, I lean towards either Atalanta (hard to shorten though), Andromeda, or just Percy by itself.

companies/facilities/organizations that service mortals and also have a supernatural side are a dime a dozen in this universe, and the blending of mythology with modern society is truly the essence of pjoverse. so percy running a nonprofit (or something like that) to help natural and supernatural creatures is perfectly fitting.

he's already doing marine rescue as a passion project at the ripe age of 14 and he is, obviously, a natural. plus it fits perfectly with his natural disposition - hero, kind, helper, active, works on his own schedule.

if you think about it percy's also kind of a natural entrepreneur and hustler. he's very resourceful and works very hard when motivated/passionate about something, he's so clever and has natural tendencies towards selling things and smooth-talking people and he's excellent at leading and inspiring people towards a goal. i think he'd really enjoy being self-employed for something he truly cares about. like when you think about the kid who sold candy out of his dorm and bribed his way into the underworld and told hades to give charon a raise and rallied a group of forty teenagers to save the world and dispelled a senate of riled up romans it's like. wait hold on he'd actually be... excellent at giving keynote speeches at fundraising events

the spirit of pan went into him and charged him to reclaim the wild so this is a fulfillment of that.

the aquarium in atlanta bothers him so much and he can't stop thinking about it and promises to come back for the animals so i think this shows more than anything that this is a real passion for percy. and it also shows you how it could start organically - he makes good on his promise to reform that specific aquarium and when he mentions it to grover, grover goes completely ballistic and throws everything he has at helping percy achieve this goal, and as the besties that they are, they realize, huh, we could like, keep doing this together and that would be great, right?

percy would have easy partners with rachel and grover, two environmental and animal rights activists that have a lot of available resources at their disposal. with their help running the business side of things, percy would be free to only participate in the hands-on parts that he actually enjoys. and like what is the point in having a millionaire friend with a guilty conscience if he's not going to leverage that, you know?

plus i think annabeth would be involved as a side gig since she's an animal lover too. i also think that, given her natural workaholic tendencies, she'd be really happy to have a long-term project to share with percy that he's passionate about.

if they make their own nonprofit (or something like that) then percy can easily work there without needing a degree. i think percy is perfectly capable of studying marine biology or oceanography if that's what he really wanted & if he actually just got accommodations and wasn't in danger, for once. but regardless, he's never liked or taken naturally to traditional classroom learning, and given his mental state, i think it's like, bordering on self-harm to shove him into a bachelors program right out of high school lol. this way if he wants a degree he can get one at his leisure.

they can work freely without being constrained by the mist if they just run their own organization/facility. like this way they're free to employ satyrs, naiads, nymphs, cyclopes, etc. and rescue mythical creatures. they can finally get the ophiotaurus out of his bubble on olympus and enrich his life. they can work with the hudson and east river gods to start anti-pollution initiatives. it just opens up all kinds of possibilities.

rachel has mortal resources, but between percy's status as poseidon's son and grover's status as lord of the wild, they would have tons of access to mythical connections and it would be such a waste not to use them. like percy can then accept donations in the form of sand dollars and magic sea pearls and they don't have to worry about what the bookeepers are going to think.

This trio could've been legendary — Reyna and her two prophetic co-workers

Check out my new oneshot, featuring Percy standing against Tartarus!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82900241

Ahead of him was the avatar of the pit itself. Massive, indomitable. Behind him, nothing and no one besides the Doors he had to protect. “Tartarus,” he forced himself to say, voice shaking, one hand still holding the button, the other holding Riptide. The truth was, a slight nudge could have sent it to the ground. But he held it nonetheless. Under his breath, he continued his count, trying to keep track of how much longer he needed to hold out. “Three-hundred ninety-seven,” he muttered, going by his best approximation. “Three-hundred ninety-eight.”

In which Percy comes up with a new plan to get through the Doors of Death, one which leads to a very different confrontation with Tartarus himself.