some dark!katie headcanons bc @trollisgirl‘s tags (thank u for this idea) on this post got me thinking, and since everyone was focused on annabeth/piper/reyna/hazel i ended up thinking about katie and what could’ve happened
her powers are vast, more than any other demeter kid has possessed. her control over nature is impressive, and it seems like the earth breathes when around her
her weapon of choice is a scythe - most people frown because it reminds them of kronos, overlooking the fact that this was demeter’s weapon too
she’s never had much loyalty to olympus, so it was easy for luke to convince her to be the spy
(katie knew silena was a spy as well, but no one knew about her)
she can change anything into grass, flowers, vegetables, whatever. it makes battles seem easy to her, so boring, so she rarely uses it.
she makes her betrayal known during the battle of manhattan, injuring demigods who stood fighting next to her and ordering the monsters about
a few other demigods join her, mainly her siblings, because they know her anger, they share her pain, and they’ve had enough, and if katie was brave enough they could be too
her eyes glow the colour of wheat when she uses her powers, and people realise just how much she looks like kronos
they forget that demeter had been kronos’ daughter too, and she makes them all remember as she tore through them, defeating people left and right
poison ivy crawl up people’s skin, thorns separated them all, and vegetation so thick grew that people couldn’t see who they were fighting anymore
she and percy fight, in mount olympus, but she can tell that percy’s barely fighting, can see that he’s faltering too, and she takes the opportunity, the choice to talk to him instead of making him fall
percy makes the choice to let olympus raze
katie gardner sits at kronos’ right hand, green eyes sharp, scythe deadly at her grasp. everyone knew now, everyone remembered demeter’s name, and she would make sure that no one forgot it any time soon
oh. my. god.
I am so in love with this.
You know, I’ve always thought that Demeter belonged in the Big Three group because they share the same parents. But they (Rick) never thought anything of her because she is the goddess of flowers, of whatever
But then Katie shows them, just as you beautifully described.
Also, in the myths, Demeter not only was powerful and angry but also selfish and capricious and prideful and possessive. I mean, when Hades took her daughter from her side, she just stopped the plants from growing and thousands of humans died of hunger. Then, her sadness and joy from when she could not or could see her daughter ended up creating the seasonal, literally changing the world.
Katie is as possessive and protective with those she loves, aka Travis Stoll, her boytoy, whom she didn’t even need to convince to change sides with her. He just followed her blindly, as he always did
And when that guy cut her sacred tree she made him feel so hungry and so unsatisfied with everything he ate that he ended up eating himself.
Like, I get where Katie gets her dark side from, lmao. Can you imagine her having those powers? Just stopping the earth in some city/country from producing and therefore controlling the whole place? Or having the famine power?
In my fic I’m writing about the Demeter kids being the most powerful demigods of camp and knowing it but they keep it a secret because they don’t want to be send on stupid suicide quest haha
Anyway. I adore your headcanons, thank you so much. I too wrote her fighting with a scythe!! It suits her so much and it’s such a badass weapon. I love the part about her eyes changing colors.
Demeter kids are the most powerful, and Katie is the strongest among them. Yes, Zeus may control the sky, Poseidon the seas and Hades the Underworld, but people don’t live there. People live on earth. And that is my queen Demeter’s domain.
Her kids are closely followed in power by the childs of Aphrodite, who was literally born from Uranus and is older than the Big Three.
Love can start and end wars; it can change the heart of anyone, for better or for worse; it can save people or drown them into madness. Her kids are so fucking powerful and we all should be afraid of them.
But people are not ready to have that conversation yet
“People live on earth. And that is my queen demeter’s domain” is such a powerful sentence oh my god.
And an alliance between the two most powerful cabins?? Forgotten powers, underestimated children… just imagine the pride in their mothers’ eyes and the horror in zeus’ that’d be such a power move omg
Demeter and Aphrodite’s children can literally take over the world but people choose to ignore them. ugh. worst mistake of their lives
These additions are so amazing I’m absolutely in love
Ok, how dare you put in my mind the image of the horror in zeus’ eyes when he realized what his pride and sexism had caused? Now I can’t stop thinking about it.
Just picture it. The gods are at Mount Olympus or wherever fighting against Chronos’ forces (yes I know they were elsewhere fighting Typhon but this is more dramatic) and suddenly… golden vines start growing everywhere. They crawl upon the gods ankles and cover their whole bodies and they start to feel trapped and asphyxiated and as if all of their energy is drained.
And then Demeter and Aphrodite take a step foward to the center of the throne room. The are side by side, looking at each other, smiling with pure joy. But then Aphrodite looks at the gods, one by one, and they all start to feel just absolutely miserable. Like all of the love they have ever felt to people and things and places just… vanished. They are alone in the world and they will die that way. It’s just a raw devastating feeling that it makes them wish they were not immortal so they could just let themselves die.
Hermes is in a corner just simping about the two of them
Meanwhile, the exact same thing happens at camp with Katie and Drew, but they just make out afterwards, as they stand in the center of a hurricane of thorny vines and hopeless, loveless ruin.
Travis simps about them too
Anyway, I made memes
Hermes and Travis simping over them is such a comedic thing to happen we love men appreciating women’s bloodlust after years of constantly being pushed down by sexism
and demeter and aphrodite kissing while taking turns stabbing zeus possibly with i did something bad by taylor swift playing in the background is such a girlboss thing to do hera and hestia are wiping away proud tears
katie and drew would be such a power couple and travis being their #1 supporter is amazing
and aphrodite sapping them all of their capability to love and the love that they feel, that rawness of being alone… it kind of symbolozes reality?? And everyone remembers how old she is, how she can literally be called a primordial if she wanted is just so powerful. It’s one of the best things ever and we were very much robbed
(this could all be very symbolic too, a woman’s rage and how it can be controlled and feral all in one, and i 100% think the rest of the goddesses will support demeter and aphrodite; i fully believe that they were all just waiting to snap tbh. Good luck to all the male gods that have ever done them wrong)
Yes, yes to all that!!! You’ve added so much depth to this hc with your symbolism, oh my god, your mind.
Just thank you, thank you for sharing this awesome idea with me. May the goddesses bless your life.
















