#achlys

Tag: interpret your OC as a deity of your choice that fits your OC. Pick any pantheon or mythology.

Thank you so much for tag @gortashsrighthand and that idea, i was so excited about it!!!

i was also tagged by @sakesword, thank youuu!

Clementine as Psyche

The Greek word psykhḗ translates to both "soul" and "butterfly". The butterfly symbolizes the transformation of the soul through struggles.

Psyche was a stunning mortal princess whose beauty rivaled that of the love goddess (fuck you mystra). Aphrodite commanded Eros to make Psyche fall in love with a hideous monster (fuck you raphael). Instead, Eros accidentally fell in love with her (oh gale...).

Vinessis as Achlys

In Homer, the word achlys (ἀχλύς, 'mist'), is frequently used to describe a mist that is "shed" upon a mortal's eyes, often while dying.

Achlys was considered an eternal being existing even before Chaos. According to Hesiod, she was the personification of misery and sadness: pale, emaciated, and weeping, with chattering teeth, swollen knees, long nails on her fingers, bloody cheeks, and her shoulders thickly covered with dust.

like he finds it weird that sena and achyls hate each other, he KNOWS they have history together but he can’t be damned to figure out why they hate each other//

— this is milk anons mod btw :pp

A bit of a 2am rant about stuff that's been said before, but I absolutely love this tag.

There's just something about it.

In the books, Percy is CONSTANTLY fighting against the fates and the gods, what they want and wish.

And I know and understand he declined immortality and didn't want it...

BUT

The God's and the fates have never really listened to him before. Why should they start now?

All the tropes like:

A Percy forced into Godhood by the Gods not listening to him, going off the rails, and isolating himself.

A Percy naturally Ascending without Godly input because it was his fate.

A Percy Ascending because all the new campers come to know of him as a legend, this higher being in the camp, a protector and not seeing the differnece between him and the God's, and leaving offerings and prayers to him.

OR A Percy Ascending because its whats needed at the time for them to get out of the situation alive.

Percy in the athenide au or ancient Greek time travel aus where he's chucked back in time as either a god or Ascending and looking into the personal issues he has with that and then him living through the thousands of years to come back to the moment he left and for us as readers to find out he was laying low or working behind the scenes.

Percy becoming closer with some of the other Gods more involved with their kids like Hermes or Apollo, or slowly building friendships with Athena or even Persephone (i feel like those two would be great friends).

Percy getting his domains, and I've seen so many different versions on which ones he'd get and the possibilities around them like taking them from other gods or domains which didnt previously have a god, which I think is amazing (e.g. Riptides, Poison, Loyalty, Laylines, Coastal Storms, Seaweed growth, Liquids, sections of sea and ocean, Rivers / Fresh Water, Sword Fighting, Protection, Patron of Demigods, etc...)

Percy becoming something not quite a God, something more mortal but with immortality, or something more like a Primordial because of what happened with Achlys (and if in a version of things he did kill her, how would his relationship with the Gods and other Primordials like Nyx and Chaos play out).

Poesidon is delighted about it all, and Percy building deeper connections with his half siblings and step mum out of necessity to not be left alone once everyone who is mortal is gone.

And I think one of my favourite things about these takes is that I LOVE the amount of angst that comes with it:

Annabeth not getting immortality, and Percy has to learn to live without her and his friends, having to forget all the plans made about his future. OR. going forward with all the plans still, ignoring his immortality, and seeing the mental toll it takes on him over time, all his loved ones growing older and him being forever 18.

Acknowledging that he's going to outlive Sally, Paul, his sister and friends, etc..

The darker side of greek mythology and the gods that looks more at their personalities and ethics and them not being human but something else and how that affects their feelings towards things and how they differ from Percy's.

In the time travel aus, reuniting with his friends and family after and realising he doesn't really remember them and doesn't feel the same affection towards them anymore.

Percy starting to act more like the gods and the realisations that comes with that, for example realising people are starting to fear him, and maybe him understanding a bit more why the gods act the way they do.

A Percy who kills Achlys and the fallout of that, potentially the breakdown of his relationship with annabeth, the Gods being hesitant around him, maybe Zeus trying to lock him in Tartarus out of fear and paranoia and it come back to bite him

Hundreds of years passing by, and Percy not realising.

Percy learning to control his domains and accidentally hurting someone close to him.

I've read every fic tagged with deity percy jackson, and i need more 😭

Idk, just a bit of a rant really about how much I love deity percy jackson, and my favourite tropes within it.

What do you think?

Achlys was a primordial female deity in Greek mythology. She was the personification of sorrow, misery, and misfortune.

Achlys was also associated with poison, self-awareness, and death, as well as the veil of death, which obscured the eyes of the dying. She was said to wander battlefields, reveling in the suffering of mortals.

I also read that Achlys is linked to Pandora's box, being present when the box was opened and all the evils of the world were released.

Today, I also identify her with emotions and the knowledge of them that allows us to evolve, especially in the face of sadness or grief. For me, she is also linked to inner work, to the negative wishes we might have for ourselves or others.

Over time, deities evolve with the knowledge and mentality of the era. Originally, Achlys wasn't a very popular deity; today, I think she can be a deity who helps us in our evolution, as sadness is an integral part of life.

Offering to Achlys

⚪ Working through the grief of losing our loved ones

⚪ Accepting our sadness and learning from it to move forward

⚪ Putting our misfortunes into perspective and taking control of what we can control

⚪ Offering compassion to others in their troubles while protecting ourselves

⚪ Learning about poisons and their effects

⚪ Practicing gratitude and forgiving our mistakes

Music for her