#reaperchr

Maybe I’m remembering the books wrong but I always used to think it was the weirdest thing on the planet that most of the demigods had body problems before going to the camps.

Leo was underweight, Percy got sick easily (if I can remember?), whatever Nico had going on, etc etc. And I thought it was the weirdest thing ever but now I actually have an idea for it.

What if it’s actually NOT that uncommon for demigods to have issues with their health and bodies before coming to their camps? And this is because most of the time demigods aren’t found is because they’re unconsciously suppressing their abilities? It’s like letting water build up in a pipe, eventually, that pipe is going to slowly break down.

It’s why demigods any older than teenagers/adults are rarely found. By then, the pressure from constantly repressing their abilities have already killed them. Compared to other demigods, using their abilities their parents gave them makes them happier, healthier, etc. (Percy who had an horrible immune system before Camp Halfblood vs damn near rarely getting sick EVER.)

And yes, this all circles back to Leo. Leo who is scrawny and underweight. Leo who I think gets constant migraines, hands that shake easily, gets hot or cold flashes, etc. Who has constant fatigue and appetite issues. Hear me out. Most of that can be traced back to his time in foster care BUT what if it’s also because he was actively suppressing his ability to control fire? And it was LITERALLY weighing him down?

So when Leo FINALLY accepts his fire as apart of him? When he finally accepts that his mother dying was NOT his fault? When he FINALLY learns to love himself and apologizes to himself for constantly keeping himself in pain, all of the sudden, he’s…lighter. Happier. He’s using his power and it’s fucking great. His muscles stop aching all of the time, he sleeps deeper, his hands stop shaking, and all of the food he’s eating actually tastes wonderful.

“Hmmm! What an interesting black character that I can relate to! I wonder where I’ve seen this exact character archetype before—“

what if I told you that in this AU, John Walker is a recently divorced military veteran who guy dishonorably discharged for something he does NOT want to talk about.

What if I told you after his wife won the lawsuit and the custody battle, he comes across an apartment looking for a new roommate to have. He finds the weird apartment listing of requirements: “must be cool with loud voices at night, lots of tech equipment, fake blood and occasional group projects. rent negotiable.”

When he goes there — he meets Yelena Belova, a blonde Slavic girl who laughs just as quickly as she turns to anger. A dry and sarcastic woman named Ava Starr, James “Bucky” Barnes who’s more quiet out of the bunch, and Robert “Bob” Reynolds — a brunette man in baggier clothes who seemed more reserved and actually antagonized John on his first day.

Which is why I am of the opinion that Caleo could not be a good ship because Calypso could mostly likely only do one of these things. Two if she’s having a bad day. NOW before we start cheering or start throwing the tomatoes, let me explain. (From an unbiased point of view.)

But Leo needs someone who’s gonna challenge him. Not too much that he’ll go out of his way just to defy you on something but enough to keep himself motivated. He’s quick with his remarks, he’s gotta have someone who can throw it back just as quickly. And I can’t emphasize this enough, someone who will match his crazy. This little dude is honestly low-key batshit insane and to have a healthy relationship, he needs someone who can understand it and match it.

And I’m going to tell you why I believe Calyspo cannot do all of these things:

1. His intelligence.

While I do believe Calyspo is very intelligent (she’s a goddess after all) and could match Leo on that, there’s a difference between raw intellect and thought process. In the books, Calyspo literally states that Leo treats every situation like a problem to be fixed. While she wasn’t completely off the bat and Leo does have a problem with doing that, she didn’t both trying to figure out exactly WHY and how to meet him in that level.

Patterns make sense to Leo. The one way to tell that the cogs in his brain are working at top speed is when he gets that look in his eyes and rolls up his sleeves and gets ready to work. A high to him is solving what was actually wrong with something and managing to fix it. And as a coping skill, he applies this logic to real life. And it makes it so much intense and harder for him because his emotions are involved.

Calyspo, unfortunately, is still just a goddess at the end of the day. Or at least, was one. She can’t relate to Leo’s thought process, why things connect the way it does. She doesn’t think in patterns like him. They have two very different ways of looking at things, and this isn’t to say Leo needs someone who thinks like him. He needs someone who can UNDERSTAND how he thinks and Calyspo clearly can’t if she made a comment like that.

Two, his humor.

One thing I couldn’t see them actually connecting on his humor. Not saying Calyspo doesn’t have a sense of humor, no. She has a different sense of humor and Leo’s sense of humor is the akin to flirting with someone not because he wants them but because he finds it hilarious.

But Leo’s WHOLE thing is humor. That’s the one thing he uses on a day to day basis to connect with people. (Which is a whole issue on its own when he starts thinking that’s all he’s good for but we will get back to that.) A relationship with Leo, you gotta connect via humor. If he talks shit, you need to be able to talk shit back. I cannot emphasize on how having similar senses of humor is so important for a relationship, ESPECIALLY one with Leo “will joke than talk about his feelings” Valdez. You have to at least have similar senses of humor and he and Calyspo have two different sense of what’s funny and what isn’t.

Leo is the type to insult someone he loves for fun. And Calyspo will straight up kill him for that (/hj).

Three, his crazy.

I said Calyspo could match Leo’s crazy on a bad day. I was not lying. The point is — Calyspo is mostly stable and being in a relationship with Leo would lead to them not only disagreeing over plenty but miscommunication after miscommunication. I fear their relationship would be nothing but miscommunications which leads to fighting with leads to built up resentment in the relationship. You see where I’m going with this?

And it feels like (correct me if I’m wrong) that Leo is constantly walking this tight rope of genius and madness. Always on the verge of letting his emotions consume him or his thoughts get too much, I swear he said something in the book about not liking being left alone with his thoughts too much but maybe I’m wrong. Idk. 🤷

But like I was saying, Leo’s the type to walk this tight rope so long as people applaud. So long as people still see him as useful and worth keeping around, even if it’s slowly chipping away at his will, his health and his sanity.

And I don’t think he needs someone to help him walk this tight rope. He’s been doing this for a long time, he knows how not to fall. But sometimes, he’ll just…stand there and wait for a wind to swing him one side or the other. (Much like how he is about his life, Leo is careless.) He’d need someone to help him see that at least turning this tightrope into a bridge so it’s easier to walk is an option. Someone to challenge him just enough that he’ll do it and start drawing the blueprints the next time he tries to walk it.

Hmm. I wonder who’s the best at understanding how Leo thinks and giving him complete control in his environment, good at reigning him back, convincing him that he’s worth more than he presents himself as, and motivating him by just challenging him enough that by the time he realizes what happened, he already made something wonderful. I wonder who. (ahem ahem, Jason Grace, ahem.)

But this isn’t a valgrace post. Rick trying to use Calyspo as a bandaid for Leo’s issues we should’ve seen him get to work through ASIDE (not to mention age gap), realistically speaking, even if that was not the case — Calyspo and Leo could not be in a relationship. Even if they got into one, they would not be able to last very long. They could be friends but they’d quite literally tear each other apart in a relationship/hj

╰┈➤ 𝐍𝐚𝐦𝐞: 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐢𝐨.

╰┈➤ 𝐀𝐠𝐞: 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨𝐧’𝐭 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰. (𝐈’𝐦 𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐧.)

╰┈➤ 𝐇𝐨𝐛𝐛𝐢𝐞𝐬: 𝐈’𝐦 𝐚 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐇𝐂 𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫. (𝐀 𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐲 @wavescyber 𝐧𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬.)

╰┈➤ 𝐋𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬: 𝐃𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐲𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐬, 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭, 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐬, 𝐦𝐲 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐬 (𝐦𝐮𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐬), 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, 𝐩𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲, 𝐰𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞, 𝐩𝐮𝐳𝐳𝐥𝐞𝐬, 𝐦𝐞𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐲, 𝐞𝐭𝐯.

╰┈➤ 𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞𝐬: 𝐇𝐨𝐦𝐨𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐜, 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐜 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐬 (𝐣𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐫𝐲), 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐦𝐞𝐧, 𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐟 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐞𝐭𝐜.

ᴀɴ ᴀᴅᴠᴇɴᴛᴜʀᴇʀ ᴀᴛ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛ, ᴀ ᴋɴɪɢʜᴛ ɪɴ ᴍɪɴᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴘɪʀᴀᴛᴇ ᴀᴛ ꜱᴏᴜʟ. (ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ɢʀɪᴍ ʀᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ ꜱᴏᴍᴇᴛɪᴍᴇꜱ ᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴇᴇᴋᴇɴᴅꜱ.)

ᴍʏ ᴍᴇꜱꜱᴀɢᴇꜱ ᴀʀᴇ ᴀʟᴡᴀʏꜱ ᴏᴘᴇɴ ʙᴜᴛ ɪ’ᴍ ᴀ ʙɪᴛ ꜱʟᴏᴡ ᴡʜᴇɴ ɪᴛ ᴄᴏᴍᴇꜱ ᴛᴏ ʀᴇꜱᴘᴏɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴛᴏ ᴀꜱᴋꜱ.

🗡️﹕𐔌・my fandoms〃・꒱ ☕️

(feel free to strap in because it’s a lot.)

↳ 𝐆𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞. (𝐄𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐢𝐱 𝐨𝐟 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐬 & 𝐂𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐊𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐨𝐦.)

↳ 𝐎𝐧𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐞𝐜𝐞.

↳ 𝐏𝐉𝐎, 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐨𝐨𝐤. (𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐦𝐲 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐞𝐝𝐠𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞.)

↳ 𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡. (𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭, 𝐙𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐲 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐭 𝐦𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦.)

↳ 𝐘𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐣𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐬. (𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐚𝐝𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐨 𝐦𝐮𝐜𝐡.)

↳ 𝐘𝐚𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐞/𝐌𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐤. (“𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐞, 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲!“)

↳ 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐀𝐑𝐆𝐒. (𝐒𝐅𝐀𝐖𝐓𝐃𝐄, 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝟑𝐫𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐝𝟑 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞. 𝐘𝐞𝐬, 𝐈 𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐮𝐬𝐞 ’𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐞’ 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔.)

↳ 𝐃𝐇𝐌𝐈𝐒 & 𝐍𝐎𝐓 𝐘𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐀𝐕𝐄𝐑𝐆𝐄 𝐊𝐈𝐃’𝐒 𝐓𝐕 𝐒𝐇𝐎𝐖. (𝐃𝐨𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐞 & 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐆𝐮𝐲, 𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐛𝐨𝐭𝐡.)

↳ 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐛𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐤, 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐚 & 𝐇𝐚𝐳𝐞𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐞𝐛𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐧. (𝐌𝐘 𝐅𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐆𝐎𝐃, 𝐖𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄 𝐈𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐅𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐌 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐒𝐄??)

↳ 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐖𝐚𝐥𝐤. (𝐁𝐈𝐆𝐆𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐆𝐀𝐕𝐑𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐏𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐄𝐓.)

↳ 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐤. (𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐦 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞, 𝐦𝐚𝐧.)

↳ 𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐁𝐨𝐲 𝐃𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬. (𝐀𝐊𝐀, 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐒𝟐.)

↳ 𝟗-𝟏-𝟏.

↳ *𝐓𝐡𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐭𝐬. (𝐒𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐔𝐂𝐊𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘𝐀𝐆𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍.)

↳ 𝐇𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝. (𝐍𝐏𝐌𝐃 𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐲 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐡𝐲𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐢𝐱𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐧𝐨𝐰.)

↳ 𝐀𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐛𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫. (𝐙𝐔𝐊𝐊𝐀 𝐒𝐇𝐈𝐏𝐏𝐄𝐑𝐒 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐖𝐈𝐍)

✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧ ✩₊˚.⋆☾⋆⁺₊✧

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#ʀᴇᴀᴘᴇʀ-ꜱʜᴀʀᴇꜱ ← ᴄᴏᴍᴍᴏɴʟʏ ᴀ ᴘᴇʀꜱᴏɴᴀʟ ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇ.

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(𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚 𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐤 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐭𝐨 @ianrkives 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐭! 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐬𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝.)

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