#< refs are for deadangelos

[aroaceleovaldez]

figured i'd share my WIP - yknow how I keep talking about "finding the limit of how many PJO ocs one person can have" and coming up with names/divine ancestors/etc? haha. yeah. behold my romans.

This is my project to create & make references for every Roman in the legion, including filling in blanks in the cohorts. For askblog purposes, because I like consistency. And I think it's fun and makes it more interesting. Yes there is a CHB counterpart to this that is done.

I still need to make more refs - all of the labeled chars here are canon. The rest I made up. This is 5th cohort (purposefully smaller than the other cohorts) through half of 3rd (both are about 30 each since the max per cohort is 40). I also have some misc romans not included here and still need to make references for the rest of the legion & messengers/healers which I have decided is a separate category.

These all will eventually be going on my wiki for my askblog, including the other cohorts once I finish those. Yes you may ask about any of these chars, they do all have names/divine ancestors/lore/etc. I'm having fun I promise.

#pjo #riordanverse #camp jupiter #pjo ocs #oc #ocs #deadangelos #< refs are for deadangelos #my art #not gonna tag all the chars cause. that's a lot #the note about ''design from cjc'' is cause im trying to use some semi-canon designs where i can #even if they dont have an associated character #so like janice claudia and blaise are also all just one-for-one to their illustrated counterparts #you can really tell when theyre all together which designs i get lots of ideas for #you can also see me get more experimental with outfits #after awhile i started doing designs based on whatever song came on my playlist #i need to finish this mostly cause i want to get to 2nd cohort cause i really like drawing Ida

[pjocharacterdesign]

Figured i should start posting some of my deadangelos ref designs, so here's Camp Dads Trio

#pjo #riordanverse #dionysus pjo #chiron pjo #argus pjo #chb #character design #scopophobia #< for argus </3 #i know Argus' description in the books is that he's blond but mythologically he's pretty consistently a redhead #and we have like no male redheads in the series let alone adults SO redhead Argus rick can fight me #he's very lumberjack which entertains me. im v pleased with how his design turned out #friendly camp security lumberjack guy covered in eyes

[aroaceleovaldez]

Do u still have that height chart u made of all the characters? Im trying to find references, no prblem if u dont!!!

You might be referring to my old one, but this is my updated one! Forgive the hastily doodled on clothes - this is also my body type/scar/tattoo/etc/general ref sheet, and while I've posted it without the colors before, it feels weird posting it with colors cause for some reason then it looks like theyre all naked, lol. Ref sheets are funny that way. So doodled on clothes it is.

#pjo #riordanverse #my art #Anonymous #ask #ugh hold on tags. #percy jackson #nico di angelo #leo valdez #hazel levesque #will solace #annabeth chase #piper mclean #drew tanaka #thalia grace #jason grace #juniper pjo #frank zhang #reyna ramírez-arellano #calypso pjo #PHEW also yeah i know like Grover and Clarisse and several others are not in there i apologize #this is my ref for deadangelos (theres an alt version of the ref with Leo's prosthetic and some alt colors for like. Nico but he gets a tan #so it mostly focuses on characters on deadangelos that crop up a lot. or that i have strong height hcs about #grover i unfortunately still have not decided how tall he is [pensive emoji] #with calypso on the doodled clothes you can tell i didnt wanna draw another dress lol #but yeah hard to make a body type ref sheet with clothes. kind of obscures it and defeats the purpose

[aroaceleovaldez]

Do you have ideas for how to make an oc who was taken in by nero?

I've thought a lot about this! I actually made refs for @deadangelos of what I imagine the canon Nero kids could be like (and I have a lot of hcs/aus about them)!

From what we know about the Tri kids, there seem to be three main elements to them: 1.) Roman-themed names, 2.) Their powers/roles are meant to replace one of the Olympians (or gods in general), possibly their own actual godly parent, and 3.) They were orphaned somehow, either through Nero orchestrating their mortal parent(s)' death or just being orphaned through less malicious means. They also all seem to be in the age range of 6-to-18ish. Maybe closer to 8-to-16. Also boy howdy do these kids have problems. They're also probably all particularly powerful demigods for whoever their godly parent is, based on Meg.

What I did for a lot of these guys, based on what we know about Meg, is focused on the mythology of whichever god Nero intends them to usurp and center their character around some of those themes and roles, with the thoughts of how Nero would raise them to mold them to those concepts. I also like to think about exactly what iteration of their parent their godly parent is - Like Meg's Demeter is very specifically Eleusinian Mysteries Demeter, for example, which we're told is why she's so particularly powerful as a Demeter kid.

So, for example: That Hermes kid is themed specifically around Hermes' psychopomp and messenger roles, so he's a really high-energy guy who can see ghosts and that combo is not doing him a lot of favors. Cassius in TOA is unclear if he's a Dionysus or Zeus kid, but I like to theme him around specifically Zeus' childhood myths because I think that's a really interesting aspect of him to focus on (and in doing so I can set up the Tri kids as basically being reverse order of the Olympians age-wise, which is fun - though if you make Cassius a Dionysus kid then they're probably just approximately same age order of the Olympians). Lucius and the Artemis-themed kid I've based off Apollo and Artemis' more destructive myths, because I figured it'd be most interesting to think about how Nero might foster those aspects if he sees it as more useful to him. The Hephaestus and Dionysus kids' are based around how Nero might have raised them to mirror the childhood myths of their respective roles and what effect that has on them, etc etc.

Hopefully this gives you some ideas!

#pjo #riordanverse #pjo ocs #godly parents #< this is just my general tag for ''nonspecific pjo oc concepts centered on being somebody specific's kid'' #in this case theyre the Tri kids #Anonymous #my art #ask #nero kids pjo