theo :p

one of my favorite lil headcanons about pjo (maybe ignoring hoo maybe not idk) is that percy post war is so riddled with ptsd and depression and mental health issues and he hangs around camp because he cares for it and the demigods there and he kind of becomes a pseudo head counselor there (its not officially his job but it basically is) and he ends up spending more time with mr d who is slightly more chill with him after everything and they slowly grow closer until the god of madness sees how percy is struggling with his mental health—especially since his ass hates burdening his friends and family so he doesn’t talk to anyone about it—and dionysus is just like. write it all down. use text to speech for your dyslexia. get it all down and see how you feel after that and we’ll go from there. and then adds on that they could use his stories to help prepare future demigods for the trials and tribulations of their lives as well as send out feelers for any demigods out there still in the mortal world. and that’s when percy writes the original five pjo books as a form of therapy and a way to offer understanding and assistance to future demigods

always a fan of percy reflexively using christian exclamations because. he goes to american public school. so like he gets a little exasperated and mutters “jesus christ…” before shaking his head and going “wrong pantheon. i don’t want their attention.”

mr d being miserable at chb is reflected in him looking like an old drunk but when someone actually makes him laugh heartily, the years start to shed off and he looks like some twink in his 20s born to be at the club getting blackout drunk and doing lines in the bathroom before slowly shifting back to his alcoholic form and grumbling

|uke failing to get the apple from the ladon and being scarred and humiliated in front of his quest mates……|uke killing them in a rage…

rachel pleading with her father to return to nyc after she had a dream of percy, begging him fruitlessly until she promises to give up her personhood and autonomy and rebellion and be his perfect little girl if he just lets her return to the city…her flying into an active war zone and the helicopter almost crashing all to rush to percy’s side for both comfort and to tell him he’s not the hero, he shouldn’t make the sacrifice play, he can’t leave her. she can’t lose him. he’s all she has now. please…

perachel going to a drive in movie theatre and joking around with each other before it gets cold and they cuddle in close under a blanket and they start talking real slow and soft to one another and there’s almost no space between them so when they meet each other’s gaze, their lips are a hairs breadth apart and their conversation halts as their eyes fall down to one another’s mouths and and and