#tragematum

` i was angry, ` reyna splutters. the action is so not reyna - like, it actually distracts me from the gnawing panic. just for a moment. ` i was angry a - about the harbour ghost. i didn’t mean what i said to you — ` ` angry or not, you were right, ` i want to reach out, squeeze her arm. tell her that i’m not blaming her for this. 

when she had exploded at me, back during that tiny quest — she’d said that the only reason the romans kept me, trained me, put me in such important roles with such important jobs, was because i had the fortune to be born a son of jupiter. thinking back on it, she had been very right, but it had still hurt. now? now i understood. of course the legion kept me, trained me to be the best soldier and leader i could. i had been born with immense power, and it needed to be honed — it needed to be cultivated so it could be properly used to defend the camp.

they weren’t training a leader, they were building a weapon. looking up at the mountain face, the threat that waiting for us all — the titan — i knew this had to be my purpose.

` don’t go up there alone, ` reyna urged, voice strained. ` you can’t fight that alone. ` ` i’m going to buy us more time, ` ` you’re going to get killed. ` ` better me than the whole legion, rey. you know i’m right, don’t you? look at our army — if something happens, goes wrong, we’re depriving new rome of it’s only defence and it’s future. `

a sea of young faces gathered below looked back at us. i could see my cohort — my friends — making their way to the head of the crowd. i had to move fast.

` lead them back down. help fortify defences around the camp. i know lupa and her wolves will help,` ` jason — ` ` the legion is yours now. okay? it’s yours to lead, a - and i know you’ll keep them safe — ` ` jason! ` ` reyna, please, just — ` i could see the apprehension a little too clear on gwen’s face. they were getting too close, and if they tried to stop me, i know i would have caved. there was no risking their lives. not now, not ever.

reyna managed to cut through the storm of thoughts by hugging me. everything went still, even the din from below calmed for a moment. if i was scared and weak before, a newfound strength seemed to wash over me now. the kind of strength that fixed my resolve to buy the legion more time. sadly, not the strength to let her go too soon.

      me trying to decide which one of my fake personalities to use to get someone to like me \ \ accepting

   Gwen is one of the only people around whom Dakota is actually comfortable being soft, unashamedly, at all times. he doesn’t pretend, doesn’t really hide things at all -- when he’s with Gwen, Dakota is as close to honest and straightforward as he’ll ever get, and that’s incredibly rare. for a guy who usually talks in circles it’s a big difference.

   he doesn’t really have to put up a front around her, because she knows him, and he knows that if he did, Gwen would just try to get around it. she’s comfortable and reassuring to him, so Dakota strives to be the same thing to her, though his overall presence is never really going to be a calm and steady anchor type. he can still make her laugh with petty asides and talk through things when she’s upset. and while he’ll sometimes get a little wilder than Gwen might be comfortable with, by Dakota’s standards it’s harmless and it’s mostly born of a need to push her buttons for fun. 

“ i am so mad you thought of that before i did. “

never before has such PERTINENT information reached the praetor’s ears. the revelation is kind of earth-shattering, actually. in an amazing, incredible, wonderfully GAY kind of way. 

meeting you guys was ... it was the only good thing about being robin.  but i can’t look at this — this symbol and feel like i earned it.  i didn’t, i don’t want it, i’m not okay with it, and it’s affecting the team. 

piper watches percy’s face while she repeats the words back to him; years ago, but she remembers the words so clearly it might have happened just yesterday.  jason wasn’t one for crying, and part of her thinks he forced himself to stop after the — funeral.  that heart was a dam waiting to bust, and jason couldn’t let it happen.

‘ he said that? ‘  percy asks, brows knotted, jaw working furiously — she can’t read the look on his face, much as she wants to.

memes r HAPPENIN

   He’s been lagging, he knows, nerves too frayed from a long week to quite keep up with Gwen’s chatter. He’d really thought the Centurion office was past saving, but no -- it turns out Gwen’s ability to team stress-clean is still sharp. 

   It’s the change in tone that catches Dakota’s brain again, the hint of mischief from the woman perched on his desk like a high-school couple in a movie (the irony is not lost on him). He looks up to see Gwen hauling her schoolbag up, stacking textbooks and printed readings on the desk until she fishes out- oh. oh. 

   “Are those,” he whispers reverently, fumbling for the proffered tupperware and cracking the lid. The noise he makes when the scent hits him is somewhere between religious and sexual. 

bobby no the only hets we know are all outside the fifth

:: love thine neighbor // ACCEPTING.

is canon now marvel percy is from brooklyn. anyways uhhh

I CAN JUST…WORD VOM EVERYTHING AT U I GUESS the first like half (pre-jason) pretty closely follows The First Avenger just bc it was easy and worked real well