#lamina treech

Pose reference suggestion from @laminasnumber1fan

Going with @ylvisruinedmylife’s theory here that movie Treech left Lamina to protect her, because refusing Coral would make him (and thus, if he stays with her, automatically Lamina) her primary target. Here, Treech genuinely believes in Coryo’s (Luke) cause and while he has his doubts about the Kronos part he trusts the older camper to know what he’s doing. I’ll add to this story that Treech is less mad about being passively rejected and left to rot in a horrid home life by his godly parent than he is about Ares favoring Lamina’s brothers over her for being a girl. He’s not an exceptional fighter but he’s great at sneaking and running away (Hermes kid who?) so Coryo sends him into the Labyrinth hoping he’ll avoid the horrors long enough to find Ariadne’s String and come bring it back for the invasion. It doesn’t go well.

See Coryo clocked Treech as a Hermes kid the second he came through the Cabin door (my Chris hc) despite Hermes never officially claiming him, so he was hoping Treech inherited their dad’s navigational powers. Now, that’s not untrue, Treech is a great navigator. The problem is that Treech also got the more psychopomp aspects of their dad and can thus hear the tormented souls of the dead in cursed or otherwise divinely lethal places. The closer the link to the demigod world, the clearer he can hear them if he wants to and the harder they become to block out when he doesn’t. So if things had gone according to Coryo’s plan, Treech would’ve definitely been the best guy for this mission. Send in one other person to make up for his lack of fighting prowess and he’ll be back with the string in a week tops.

What actually happens is that navigational skills don’t mean shit in a labyrinth made to not be navigable, Treech’s guard gets viciously torn apart in front of him and the souls of the dead lead him around the maze with their tormenting screams until he runs into Minos who drives him insane.

It’s okay though, because Lamina ends up finding him and brings him back to camp, caring for him until Dionysus cures his madness and she helps him regain his will to live, after which they become a cute couple. Yes, Lamina beats the shit out of Coryo at one point for sending Treech into the labyrinth unprepared and subjecting him to a fate worse than death.

“Group parents” jokes galore because of how close the two are. Then it becomes clear they’re pining for each other.