I would love to hear your ideas on demigod!Jake :)
Ah I'm so glad you asked :))
So Demigod Jake :). He's a son of Ares. His first summer at Camp was during the giant war - he was ten. And terrified out of his mind the whole time.
I have a specific image of him hiding beneath the bodies of dead campers so that the monsters think that he's one of the dead.
He never really embodies the traditional child of our motif. He spent a lot of time in the infirmary helping out. He's no Apollo kid, but he can bandage wounds, calm people down, stitch up cuts.
(Jake has been called a coward more times than he counts. He's used to it now, no matter how good he gets with a sword, or in hand to hand. He will always be the tiny ten year old shaking with fear in the corner).
Will was really a great mentor for him! He was the one who taught him a lot of the skills. Jake is really one of the only people that Will keeps in constant contact with after he left Camp - and one of the reasons he chose Pittsburgh.
Jake has told a lot of stories about Abbot at Camp. He's rather famous for his out of the box thinking, for his history as a medic in the military. He is everything Jake wanted to be growing up. Jake and Will teach themselves combat medicine, trying their best to mess around with it until it works for demigods who do not have at least half the equipment they are supposed to. (Will nearly had a heart attack when he realized who exactly Dr. Jack was his first day at the ED)
I go back and forth on whether I want Leah to be a demigod.
On one hand her being a mortal is so interesting. She's Jake's escape from the demigod world. Jake doesn't expect it to last (it's why he hasn't introduced her to anyone yet) but he is confident that she will outlive him by decades. And then Pittfest happens, and she gets hurt badly. This Jake is a medic, he knows that she's losing too much blood, that it's too close to her heart. But it's Robby, it's the abbot and he knows they can perform miracles. Will's in there too, and Jake has seen him drag people back from the dead with gritted teeth and nothing but his hands and some nectar. And Leah is a mortal; they're not supposed to die.
On the other, demigod Leah who gets shot and knows she's dying. Demigod Leah who clings to Jake and sobs I don't want to die, not like this. Do you think my parents would be proud? And Jake babbles back, promises of elysium and of course, it's a hero's death I swear. As she bleeds out in his arms. He is angry so fucking angry because she was taken out by a fucking madman after suriving all of the greek nonsense over the years.Ā
