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@toapril-official day 5/16 - desperate gambit/was it worth it

Meg (in a very introspective tone): You know what the best feeling in the world is...?

Apollo: Being free of Nero? Getting to live out your life in this beautiful place with your loved ones? ...spending time with me?

Meg: When you put shredded cheese that's been in the fridge on top of hot spaghetti bolognese and it melts just slightly and then you eat it.

Eventually one of the officers informs Percy that his lawyer arrived at the station, which he considers incredibly odd because he hadn’t made a phone call home (again, demigod problems) and he’s fairly certain he doesn’t actually have a lawyer.

@toapril-official day 1 - gullible on the ceiling

Apollo who just had to listen to the most insane, co dependent thing about his aunts, uncles and father being soulmates in the most confusing of ways: NO???

Zeus: Huh. Really?

Apollo: I DONT WANT TO BE ONE WITH MY SISTER AND I THINK I AM MY OWN PERSON WITHOUT HER AND I DEFINETELY DONT WANT HER TO BE THE ONE TO MURDER ME.

Even the ancient Greeks were slightly confused about that. He's called Apollon Smintheion at one point in the Iliad which means something similar to "Apollo the lord of mice" but the language used was archaic even by Homer's time and confused scholars during archaic and classical Greece too.

Some people have theorized that people prayed to him to kill mice so they wouldn't eat their food, some people think maybe the mice were one of his means of spreading disease since he's also associated with the spread of disease.

Here's a blog post about a temple to Apollon Smintheion by someone who writes about Turkish archaeology and here's a page about the modern day museum attached to it. The temple is the main thing other than the line in the Iliad that mentions his association with mice in most things I found.

The ancient geographer Strabo claimed that the mythology of his day said that the temple got its name because some people who were told by an oracle to found a temple where they were attacked by children of the earth and they were attacked by mice who ate all of their leather in that spot where the temple is now. Not necessarily because Apollo is associated with mice. You can read about this in his geography book 13.

BAH. such a lester thing to do.