has âkilling a god makes you take up their mantleâ ever been done in the pjo fandom? as in Percy accidentally kills Ares on that beach and becomes the god of war at 12? or Percy accidentally killing Hades and becoming the god of the underworld at 16? or Percy finishing off Kronos himself and becoming the god of time at 16? or Percy going too far and killing Achlys and becoming the god of poison at 16?
Percy, age 15, trying desperately to protect Nico from being the child of the prophecy, not knowing that itâs a pointless battle because he became the god of war at twelve and no one ever told him. the prophecy clearly speaks of a half-blood, and Nico is the only mortal one left
but also the tragedy of the god of war being a twelve years old whoâs unaware he lost his humanity at all??
Percy only truly realizes what he has become during the Titanâs war because he feels weirdly powerful all of the sudden and he feels so guilty he has a breakdown about it
What if... Percy didn't kill Ares, but when he defeated the god, he accidentally took a sub-domain? Let's say... battlefields.
Okay, this is going to sound very silly coming from me because I haven't read PJO in ages and I don't interact with the fandom on here much at all, but I've had an adjacent thought about this for the longest time.
So! My thought is that Percy is/would have been the god of environmentalism.
'Textual' evidence:
Percy (among others) was present when Pan died and spread out his essence. Part of the message behind Pan's death was that people (humans) have to take stewardship of nature, which is also the idea behind environmentalism.
Many of Percy's side tasks seemed to involve pollution or cleaning up pollution in some way. Admittedly, this could also point towards Grover's general character arc, but there are other incidents that only involve Percy.
Smelly Gabe is essentially described as the human embodiment of pollution.
Cleaning the stables.
The sand dollar side plot stuff.
One of his greatest failures (Bianca) taking place in a junkyard.
Being able to control poison (a form of pollution) in the encounter with Akhlys.
Gaea wanting his blood specifically for her awakening.
Phorcys (I think it was Phorcys but I'm bad with names, sorry if it isn't) wanting to keep Percy specifically in his aquarium.
Plus, environmentalism is a relatively new concept.
