The ones that don't fit into the stereotype. The ones with dark hair and pale skin, with hands so cold that people always comment on it. The ones that hate the daytime, but stay up all night to marvel at the light of the sun reflecting off the moon and creating aurora in the atmosphere. The ones that never smile. The ones that have performance anxiety so bad that they don't even try anymore, but sometimes, if you listen hard enough, you can hear them humming to themselves. The ones that don't have music constantly running through their minds, instead battling an angry narrative. The ones that don't fit in.

But I’m enjoying this and now imagining:

Apollo and Athena looking the most like siblings. Same swishy ash blond hair and silvery eyes.

Apollo as shy and awkward

~light academia~ Apollo. He has a sweater vest and big square glasses. C’mon you know you want it.

Artemis seems big on rings. So like many many cluttered looking vintage gold rings on her hands and a cool hoop in her right conch.

Apollo booping his sister’s nose and calling it her “glow button.”

Big yellow harvest moons

Artemis and the girls brushing aside the first crunch leaves to look for animal tracks

Some of the hunters have a band called Waning Gibbous

If Apollo heals you with his touch, the place of the wound has a silver aura to it for days after.

I am absolutely in love with this, but now I'm also wondering what the Apollo cabin would do (because we all know how eccentric Apollo would be about this).

I think Thalia would get incredibly serious about the whole competition. At first, Apollo thinks his cabin already has it in the bag, so he's just relaxed. But then he sees Thalia and her Hunters actually practicing and he's like, "No. This cannot be happening on my watch." So he comes back down to Earth immediately and starts getting his kids working on some incredibly hardcore moves, and the next thing you know, there's a Thalia-Apollo rivalry to be the better coach while all of their teammates are sobbing in the background. There are way too many props all over their individual cabins - Kayla has been spitting feathers out of her mouth for two days and one of Thalia's Hunters had a slight mishap that involved a tap shoe getting stuck in her hair.

so after my post yesterday I had people ask me to write some headcanons for our favorite son if apollo. I'm not a born and bred texan, georgia what up, but I've been here most of my life and boy can I say Texans are weird

will yells "all y'all" a lot when giving instructions to campers and these northerners never know how to act

he may be the son of apollo but he's also texan. you'll see him preaching about good eating habits and then see him down sweet tea by the gallon

speaking of, what do you mean there's no sweet tea? how do you just not have sweet tea? NO YOU CANT JUST PUT SUGAR IN TEA AND CALL IT SWEET, THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS

after his rampage through camp, chiron makes sure there's always sweet tea on stand by

also on the list of things they dont have, will is upset that there's no whataburger around

"do y'all have a buc-ees around here" / "will what the fuck is that"

one word: mums

he brings pictures back from high school and has to explain the concept of homecoming and mums to everyone.

"no not like mom in England, mum like chrysanthemum"

"WHY THE HELL IS THAT GIRL'S MUM SO BIG"

"that's not even the biggest one this year. one girl had one shaped like Texas with lights and bells-"

he saw an aphrodite kid wearing a large ring and just mutters, "must be an Aggie, "

"WHO WANTS TO GO TO THE STATE FAIR?"

will refuses to eat any other ice cream but blue bell and nico learns that the hard way

when nico shadowtravels to texas to visit will during the school year, will drags him to schlitterbahn and nico wonders how they even pronounce these chaotic texan words

"how do you pronounce this thing?"

"you mean waxahachie? it's a town"

exclusively refers to soda as "coke" and gets upset when they actually give him coke and nor dr.pepper

as good as the bbq at camp is, nothing beats texas bbq in will's book

he and leo will break out into "deep in the heart of texas" at random times

they also have a friendly rivalry going on with who's city is the best

"at least you're not from a&m"

he measures distance in time and doesnt understand why everyone keeps trying to ask him for measurements, "it's just 15 minutes away down yonder"

passive aggressive nicknames and phrases with a smile when he's feeling annoyed or pissed off that everyone just thinks is a sweet southern thing

"aww sweetheart, bless your heart"

he doesnt have a heavy southern accent but when you get him on a roll, his drawl will come out and everyone at camp swoons a little bit