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Note: Inspired by @anotheroceanid 's Athenide AU and loosely based on a scene from The Swan Princess.

HERMES: You’re not still thinking she’s alive, are you?

APOLLO: When I find Perse, Hermes, when I find her, I’ll have my proof.

HERMES: Apollo, you’ve searched everywhere. Olympus, the Underworld, Poseidon’s fish tank—

APOLLO: There was a dolphin in there. I thought it might have known something.

HERMES: The whole pantheon knows she’s gone.

APOLLO: The whole pantheon is wrong. Perse is alive, and I’m going to find her.

HERMES: You do realize you’re the God of Prophecy, right? Have you—oh, I don’t know—checked?

APOLLO: That would ruin the dramatic tension.

HERMES: And you’re also the God of Logic.

APOLLO: Exactly. And logically, if I refuse to accept that she’s gone, then she isn’t.

HERMES: …That’s not how logic works.

APOLLO: (ignoring him, dramatically stepping onto the balcony) Animals, assemble!

(A majestic raven swoops in, landing on his shoulder. A wolf pads up and sits beside him, looking unnecessarily intense. A swan gracefully lands in the fountain. A dolphin dramatically flips out of nowhere, splashing Hermes.)

HERMES: (spitting out water) Oh great. The ultimate search party. A bird, a dog, a wet chicken, and a fish.

APOLLO: They are my sacred animals, Hermes. Show some respect.

HERMES: And what’s the dolphin going to do? Detect her with echolocation?

APOLLO: …Maybe.

HERMES: (gesturing at the swan) And this one? You think it’s gonna serenade her back to Olympus?

APOLLO: If necessary.

HERMES: (pinching the bridge of his nose) I swear, if you just used your actual powers instead of forming a divine petting zoo—

APOLLO: I will find Perse, and when I do, you’ll regret doubting me.

(The raven caws ominously. The wolf suddenly stands up, ears twitching. The dolphin lets out an urgent series of clicks. Even the swan looks vaguely determined.)

Percy: crouched down stroking the feathers of a lovely swan that’s glided over to serenade her with its strange song, raven perched on her shoulder watching for threats while also grooming her, hand fisted in the fur of a wolf she’s currently nose nuzzling, otter laid across her neck/ shoulders like Otto from Barbie swan lake, and a fox trying to climb into her lap.

Percy: GIVE IT BACK!

Hermes: No, I quite like the look of it~

Percy: You have too!

Hermes: I'm a god dear boy, I don't have to do anything

Percy: Well if you don't you'll have to marry me! Thems the rules! You take the pelt you marry the one it belongs to! So ha!

Hermes: ...Oh darling that is not the threat you think it is~!

Percy: *Blushing Fiercely*!!!

He repeatedly rejects Apollo's advances not because he's uninterested. He is very interested, he thinks it would be nice, to be Apollo's lover, he just wouldn't make a good one.

Apollo: And what makes you believe that?

Percy: ...I'd have to leave you...

"...You don't—"

"I do, it's in my nature..."

"..."

Rachel was one of Percy's closest friends until she became friends with Annabeth and they almost stopped talking.

Piper thought Percy was an idiot before they met, she heard about him from Annabeth.

Rayna thought Percy was smart and even wanted him to be a Pretor, but after one conversation with Annabeth, she decided he couldn't get out of a paper bag without help.

Annabeth's mortal friends Dave and Hannah don't even know Percy, but they think he's stupid and Annabeth is too good for him.

Let's end the night with something light-hearted.

I know! Perpollo!

Boyfriends snap chatting.

transfem/genderfluid Percy.... I had so much fun drawing her askjdkjfc

@punkeropercyjackson thx for the refs and inspo <3