#pjo riptide

*young new yorker lad pulls out pen*

*uncaps pen, pen is now GUN*

*lad waves gun around and CUTS A THING*

*puts cap on back of gun, now it's a pen again???*

*he writes with it and the ink is GOLD*

*then he tosses it away, you go to find it but it's NOT THERE???*

Where everything is the same except riptide works like Sofia the first’s amulet and Greek heroes turn up when he is facing physical or emotional turmoil

Like - 

It’s the reason Achilles appears to him before he jumps in the Styx in canon TLO

Just imagine the possibilities

Percy wakes up on Ogygia - 

Calypso: Hi!

Percy: Wtf?

Odysseus: Ikr?

Percy, but to Odysseus: Wtf??? Who are you?

Odysseus: I’m Odysseus. I highly advise you to get off this island asap

Calypso: Stay with me, im in love with you.

Odysseus: She said that to me too

Percy:

Odysseus: She kept me here for 7 years, and kept me away from my wife.

Percy:

Odysseus:

Percy: *Passes out because he’s still injured.*

Percy: *dreams of annabeth*

Percy: Aight time to go home

~~

HOO - BoO

Instead of Jason and Piper going down to meet Heracles, Percy just uses Riptide to summon him.

Percy: *proceeds to yell at him about Zoë until he cries and lets them through*

Annabeth has to physically restrain him from throwing punches.

The seven: *Blinking wide eyed because Percy = scary!!!*

~~

At the doorway to the underworld that orpheus opened in TLO

Orpheus: *appears*: Beware of the underworld! It is a dangerous place that-

Percy: Yeah, yeah. We know. This is like my third time going down.

Nico: *Looking at the both of them like theyre crazy because who tf??*

Orpheus: You don’t understand, hades will try to trick you, trap you there. He does not let go of what believes is his easily!

Percy: look dude, we aren’t even going to see Hades. I did that when I was 12 and it was fine.

Nico: *sweats in betrayal*

Orpheus, side eyeing Nico: Okay then. Proceed, but you have been warned.

*later*

The Percy Jackson franchise has had a few designs for Riptide over the years, but my personal favorite will always be the design it had on the original cover art:

It's an unusual design that has a completely straight edge, making a very narrow blade that comes to a fine point; a lot of ancient greek swords had curved "leaf shaped" blades, or the ones that were straight tended to have thicker blades until ending with a more rounded tip.

The interesting thing is that I always assumed this design was not historically realistic, but it actually could be! Some ancient greek swords really did have that kind of very thin blade with a straight edge from the guard to the tip.

I've seen the terms "Mycenean Rapier" and "Greek Rapier" used interchangeably to describe this kind of sword.

Now, it was retroactively confirmed, on the page, that Riptide does have a "leaf shaped" blade like the official art.

Pic 1

Pic 2

I went on translater and put in Anaklusmos and it said it means effusion! Percy’s sword is actually called effusion! That means Percy’s sword is based off a organ!