#Also it's not obvious BUT JULIE HAS A SWORD

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Julie and Sally for Welcome Grove!

( Though I might be redoing Sally's digitally later I love her but her shirt is not easy to paint lol )

Gist of the AU and Wally + Frank here!

#byte's bites #welcome grove #welcome home #welcome home julie #julie joyful #sally starlet #Also it's not obvious BUT JULIE HAS A SWORD #What they are doing with weapons? it's a surprise tool for later #:) #a bit #Something something don't leave glass lense lights just sitting out in the sun #ALSO fire means I get the perfect opportunity to lean into that Sun / Moon motif she's got going on #With the outfits I don't think Sally is at all consistent when just messing around btw #She probably has a CHEST OF COSTUMES by golly she'll use them #Btw just saying this now BUT! I do intend for this au to have a mostly happy / calm vibe BUT there will be angst becauseee #I can't help myself o v o“

[zionworkzs]

Okay, but I need to talk about Good Omens and The Sound of Music.

First of all, I’m genuinely obsessed with it being explicitly canon that The Sound of Music exists in the GO universe and is, for some reason, God’s favorite movie. Neil says here that Heaven misses the point of the movie/musical, but I find it incredibly fascinating that Aziraphale outwardly despises it. 

Brief summary of The Sound of Music incoming as well as some really interesting parallels:

So we've got Julie Andrews playing Maria, who is studying to become a nun in an abbey in Salzburg. Problem is, she isn't the best nun, and is often late to chapel and just isn't the shining beacon of holiness that the rest of the nuns expect her to be.

In response to this, the Reverend Mother of the abbey decides to send Maria to live with sexy widower Georg von Trapp, a navy captain who desperately needs help with his seven children. The Captain is a bit of a hard-ass since the death of his wife, and has been treating his kids like little soldiers as well as banning music from the house.

The 7 kids are rambunctious and make things difficult for Maria at first. But one night, a thunderstorm scares them, and they run to Maria for comfort. The kids realize that Maria is really fun, and then later, when their dad is off to Vienna, the kids and Maria end up running around Salzburg singing, dancing, climbing trees, and having a blast.

When the Captain comes home and hears about this, he sends Maria away. But then he overhears the children singing a song Maria taught them and he gets all emo and remembers how much music meant to him and his late wife. He asks Maria to stay after hearing the song, telling her she's brought joy back to their house.

And oops, Maria and the Captain are falling for each other, but the Captain is sort of kind of dating this blonde bombshell.

There's a big fuck-off party, and the Captain and Maria dance together.

But, oh, no, Blondie saw them and can clearly tell they're in love. She tells Maria what she's seen and Maria is freaking out cause she's just realized she's in love.

Mentally, my girl Maria is going through a lot. She thinks she’s disappointed God by falling in love when she was supposed to be doing a job. She feels scared by the depth of her feelings and because of all these emotions, she runs away. Back to the Abbey. Back to presumed safety.

Mother Superior figures out what happened real quick and tells Maria that she isn’t wrong for falling in love. She sends her back to the Von Trapps, and it's such a great scene. If you wanna watch, I included a link below.

Maria goes back, and the kids are elated and she and the Captain confess their feelings (and oh my god, don't even get me started on the lyrics to the song they sing to each other while confessing, Something Good).

(I’m unwell.)

So that's the Sound of Music. There's a subplot going on with WW2 and the Captain being pressured to join the Nazi regime (which he is very against). King, we love him.

I pointed out some obvious parallels, but I'd also like to pull some random thoughts together here:

Mother Superior (God) is the one that sends Maria (Aziraphale) to help the Von Trapps (humans) in the first place.

Maria (Aziraphale) extends grace and patience with the children (humans) and refuses to give up on them, even going so far as to disobey their father by letting them fuck around and be kids (going against God's wishes and giving humans the flaming sword).

Mother Superior (God) also sends Maria (Aziraphale) back to the Von Trapps after realizing that Maria (Aziraphale) is in love with the Captain (Crowley).

Here's to hoping we see God telling Azi that loving a demon is chill and he should go back to earth in S3.

Overall, it's incredibly amusing to me that Aziraphale, our Aziraphale, doesn't like The Sound of Music, with the main plot being about a woman who choses love over religious obligations and a man who rejects an authoritarian regime so that he might make his own way in the world.

Maybe Aziraphale recognizes the parallels and is in denial. Or maybe he just prefers Sondheim...

#can you tell i watched the sound of music too much as a child #fuckin love this movie #ineffable husbands #aziracrow #crowley #aziraphale #good omens #aziraphale x crowley #good omens season 3 #good omens meta #good omens season 2 #the sound of music #Youtube

[creativeashproductions]

Shadows of Haven // Luke Castellan

IN WHICH: Reader's been a sleeper agent for Kronos longer than most campers have been at Camp Half-Blood. Patiently waiting for the last piece of the plan it's a pleasant surprise that that piece happens to be the boy who see reader as his haven.

Warnings: Swearing, angst, hatred of the gods, dark!reader, manipulation vibes, Kronos mention, talk of death, and talk of betrayal.

Pairing: Luke Castellan x fem!reader (nicknamed Haven)

Words: 1.1k

A/N: I binge-read all of the PJO books and the Heroes of Olympus books. And the idea of the reader being in cahoots with Kronos and nudging Luke to join Kronos has been festering in my brain since the last episode.

Masterlist

You’d known Camp Half-Blood longer than most of the campers. Call it cruel, but it was a mixture of having no mortal parent and also watching naive, wannabe heroes stupidly dying for the gods. You had no love for the spawns, how they were abandoned by their godly parent and spent their short, meaningless lives trying to make them proud.

It made you sick.

It made you sicker that one of those gods was sentenced to be camp director. Not only did you have to hear about the gods from the demigods, but you also had to breathe the same air as a god.

And you couldn’t speak openly about it with anyone at camp either. No one shared your disgust or your thirst for vengeance. To change things. You want glory, too. But you didn’t want the novelty glory these children wanted. The glory that came with the plan that had been brewing ever since you were found nestled in a bassinet on the stoop of a house that never became your home.

Your skin itched to leave the climate-controlled bubble of Camp Half-Blood and finally put the plan in motion. There was only so much talk of quests and playing Capture the Flag you could take. The plan finally started heating up when you saw the seeds of unrest, hatred, and wrath. It just made it so much better that it happened to be your boyfriend of two years.

The cold October wind bit through your thick jacket. Standing on the edge of the training grounds, your gaze was fixed on the scar marring the skin of Luke’s face. The jagged line was a fading colour from the once brilliant red it had been in July when Luke returned from the quest. 

You kept your voice low, watching Luke’s shoulder heaving from deep breaths, training with his sword. “Luke, I know you’re angry. I know you feel betrayed by the gods.”

The disgust in your tone twisted around the word god like it was a serpent coiling around itself. More apparent than ever, and took Luke by surprise. In the five years he’d known you and the two years he’d been dating you, he’d only ever gotten the feeling you were neutral to the gods.

Luke turned to stare at you, “What-“

“What if I told you there’s a way to make them pay? To make them kneel before humanity?” You spoke with such conviction that it was obvious this wasn’t something half-baked but a real, thought-out strategy.

Luke dropped his sword on the ground, preferring to clench his fists, his eyes flashing with a dangerous light of rage, “What are you suggest, Haven?”

You stepped up in his space, only peering around your surroundings before whispering into his ear, “Join us. Join Kronos. With your wrath, we could finally overthrow the gods and bring a new era. An era where we have real glory, and Kronos can rule as it should be.”

You used Kronos’ name with such familiarity it was like the Titan lord was merely a long-time friend. Luke’s expression of rage faded into a mixture of shock and disbelief. His sweet girlfriend, who played referee between campers and pleaded military neutrality, was in cahoots with the absolute worst Titan, yet Luke wasn’t entirely resistant to the idea.

“You’re serious?” Luke asked, shifting his brown irises between your orbs. Only determination lights up your pretty irises.

“More serious than I’ve ever been. Luke, together, we can change the world. No more being errand runners for a bunch of selfish assholes. No more being entertainment for a bunch of fuckheads pitting us against each. Discarding us when they get bored like death isn’t permanent for us. No more fighting monsters.”

Luke’s attention was caught by the idealist future: “We could have our own home? If we want, we could have a family who won’t have to be scared.”

The wistfulness in his tone made you hide the sadistic smile on your face in the crook of his neck. You knew you made the right choice. You barely had to do anything with all the rage bubbling under Luke’s skin.

As the sun faded beyond the forest, it cast long shadows over the training grounds, and Luke made his decision. He was tired of living a life the gods thought he owed them, tired of the games, the excuses, and the responsibility that bred maturity sooner than a teen should have had.

“Lead the way. I’m with you.” Luke firmly spoke, defiantly smiling, and that same sparkle appeared again in his eye.

“Whoa there, hero.” You breathed firmly, pressing his shoulders to stop him in his tracks. “This is more delicate and important than a five-minute planned prank you and your siblings like to do. It has been in the works far longer than either of us has been alive.”

Luke furrowed his brow, “Then what—“

“You’ll find out more. When he comes, don’t fight it. It’s worse if you do. No one can know about this plan, either, Luke. You’re an important piece, and when it comes to that time…well, we’ll need your role as the camp’s Golden Boy.”

Luke captured your lips in a deep kiss before pulling away, his determination written all over his features. “When do we start?”

“First, Kronos will come into your dreams. Call him lord. Two, we’ll need to get you a weapon that fits you better.” Your nose wrinkled up in distaste at the sword Luke had used since he was fifteen.

Hands intertwined, you led Luke away from the training grounds to the trail leading back to the cabins. You steered away from the main twelve cabins to the smaller one hidden behind Zeus’ and Hera’s cabins. Zeus demanded a cabin to be built, and its location made it obvious why, even if everyone who didn’t know the reason was an idiot. Zeus was a mama’s boy at his core, and he’d protect her. Why else would he allow a cabin behind his own?

Luke hesitated after he saw it in the distance because even he had never been inside. Rumours swirled camp why you had your own cabin, and no one could find out the truth, just like why absolutely no one knew who your mom was. Luke knew your mortal parent was a man because you mentioned you lived at camp. After all, he died years ago.

When your hand touched the doorknob, the cabin door opened, “Welcome to the cabin of Titaness Rhea.”

“Kro—“

“He’s my stepfather. And what better way to overthrow the gods than by using Rhea’s own child.” Luke’s lips parted to match the grin on your features. 

The cabin door slammed shut, sealing you and Luke away from the camp you would soon betray. Plans were in motion, and fuck that so-called Great Prophecy.

#luke castellan x reader #luke castellan x you #luke castellan fic #caitsy and ash productions #luke castellan angst

[noxx-33i]

MUSIC/ARTIST HCS FOR THE PHIGHTERS

i said id do it and so i will… im also picking these off of vibes alone.. FEEL FREE TO DISCUSS OR ADD MORE!!!!!

Sword

Faye Webster

Her's

Lamp

Kenshi Yonezu

The Vanished People

Rocket

Julie,, please listen to their songs…

Ado!!!!

Radiohead (zuka influenced him)

Clairo. Now. Please hear me out on this guys PLEASEE

Skate

JVB

Freddie Dredd

Machine Girl

ICP

Tyler, The Creator

Boombox (i cant choose 5 guys.)

JVB

No Vacation

Odetari. This is like so obvious,,

Gorilaz,, he would love this band a LOT

NewJeans, HE WOULD FW NEWJEANS BC THEIR SONGS R SUCH MODERN BOPS

9lives

Mac DeMarco for the soft and quiet vibes

Twice is something he would listen to like A LOT AS WELL

Tame Impala, cmon….

Slingshot

JVB

spellcasting

Wallows

D4vd

Nuvfr, he would get this from Boombox bc he introduced one of the songs to him

Hyperlaser

Canonically he used to like metal,,, so im giving him Sleep Token

MEMI (specifically Guitar Pick- please listeb…)

Deftones is so obvious (younger days at least)

LOWKEY. A few Hoizer songs he would like

He would like CAS for the vibes they give off

Ok now im struggling to think

Subspace

Hes just breakcore, the entire genre…

Possibly has some slipknot saved in his playlist

Maretu too… he likes the crazy songs

ok sometimes machine girl too

ong i almost forgot sb femtanyl, it really fits him the modt

Medkit

what do i even give this fucker…

motzart?? 🤨

okay but i think he would like slow jazz as 2nd to classical music

Possibly laufey if we ignore the lyrics…

bro would just search "soft jazz" and hit the play button on any playlist

Katana

????

what what do i do… what do i give this man…

ig hes the type to listen to anything but has no specific taste

canonically. Okay. Ok but what if i just give him spellcasting for fun… what if sling makes him listen to it and he ends up liking it..?? Like.

#i made these at 2 am and copy pasted please ignore me #phighting #phighting! #phighting headcanons #whate the fuck would hyperlaser like #hes old he probably would like #hed probably like julie too as background noise #idk man #😞😞😞😞 #for the rest ill do later bc . i havent thought of any yet—

[iwritenarrativesandstuff]

Tarot Assignment: Elendira the Crimsonnail

I love her. But who doesn’t? Since we don’t find out much about Elendira, I did my best, but she wasn’t the easiest to find good cards for.

Three of Cups (reversed): This card, when reversed, indicates that we have lost touch with others and have not been connecting well. I’ve made an analysis post a little while back on how Elendira has achieved maximal strength, but also that she has severed all meaningful connections with others in the process. Yes, she chooses to work with Knives and clearly admires his vision, but there is no strong personal bond between them, or between her and anyone else for that matter. The card can also signify gossip and envy, to which I invite you to look at Elendira’s conversation with Wolfwood and her obvious dislike of Legato, hahaha.

Tower: There is, perhaps, no single character in Trigun who is as much a harbinger for destruction as Elendira, barring Legato. She only comes to play when the stakes are high - immediately on the tail end of Vash remembering July with an ominous warning, defending the Ark as the world nearly ends, readying a bomb to finish the job just in case Knives fails. She seems to regard humanity with a similar hopeless disdain to Knives - the Tower suggests that things cannot go on as they are and that something needs to change, and Elendira’s insistence that a world without humanity who “always ruin��� things would be best is this sentiment taken to its extreme.

Queen of Swords (reversed): This queen is logical, rational and clear headed, but when reversed, may lean into making some decisions based off of pride or anger, and may also signify a person who has become bitter and resentful. As stated previously, Elendira definitely has bitterness towards humanity, which she masks slightly beneath composure and an air of superior indifference. She’s skilled and powerful, but as Livio and Razlo start to irritate her more and more during their fight, she becomes more outright aggressive and petty instead of haughty, as she was initially. A similar thing can be seen in her annoyance towards Legato.

#storyrambles #character tarot assignments #trigun #trimax #elendira the crimsonnail

[sinumaki]

BIRTHDAY

note. its my bday. i dont like my bday. i do love eddie. this is v self indulgent so yes i did put my bday in. it is also the first full thing ive written in months. 

feat. eddie munson x fem!reader

warnings. self-indulgent. like very. THIS IS SO BADLY WRITTEN ITS EMBARRASSING. please remember i havent written in months thank u

☆ MASTERLIST

You can hear the poor attempts of your friends "whispering" outside your door, trying not to let out a groan as they all giggle amongst themselves. The calendar hanging on your wall mocks you as you stare at the date circled in red. 

July 16th. 

Your birthday. A day you - unlike others - did not enjoy. 

The door creaks open slowly, as they try to invade your room much too early in the morning. A whispered countdown of '3, 2, 1' before a chorus of cheers and 'Happy Birthdays!' are yelled. You try to give them a smile - you really do - but it's 9:43 AM and you hate your birthday and your bedhead has to be hideous right now. Eddie settles down next to you immediately, a grin on his face that doesn't falter even slightly.

"Happy birthday, sweetheart." He whispers gently, pressing a peck to your cheek. Well, this isn't the worst. Dustin interrupts the moment immediately, holding a poorly wrapped box in his hands - the proud gleam in his eyes as he urges you to take it makes you think he may have personalised this gift himself. You pull him in for a hug, and then continue to do so for the rest (Nancy's gift excites you a little more than the others, knowing whatevers under the pastel pink wrapping paper is thoughtful to you.)

"Alright, alright!" Eddie jumps up, beginning to push the others out of your room as they complain, "It's my girlfriend's birthday and therefore up to me to make her day - so shoo!" He has to give Dustin and Lucas one last hard shove before slamming the door dramatically, theatrically wiping his hands on his jacket - a new jacket it seems. 

"Hi, honey." You say, morning voice obvious. 

"Hi to you too, beautiful." Eddie seats himself down once more, pushing aside the gifts now littered amongst your bed as you jump into his arms. "You ready for the best birthday you've ever had?" You nod stiffly - knowing as long as you're with Eddie, you won't ever really have a bad day. Even on your detested birthday. "'Cmon baby, that's not nearly enthusiastic enough." 

"Sorry, Eds." You nuzzle into his neck, mumbling, "I don't really like my birthday, y'know?" He nods. 

"Then, don't think of today as your birthday. Think of it as… as us having an insanely fancy date on this particular day for no reason!" 

"So, you're taking me on an 'insanely fancy date' today?" Eddie freezes, mumbling a string of 'fuck' and 'shit' under his breath. You laugh, watching him fumble as you instead busy yourself with playing with his jacket. "This for me too?" You ask.

"Yeah - I didn't think my Black Sabbath tees would be the most appropriate look for En-" He stops himself, jokingly pushing you back down as he hops up, "Stop! No more making me spoil our date today!" 

"I'm not making you!" You giggle once more, pulling yourself up. "So, I should wear something appropriate for Enzo's, right?" 

"Are you fucking-" 

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Walking hand-in-hand with Eddie along the dark streets of Hawkins with his jacket over your shoulders is enough to make you positively swoon, and you quite literally have to force yourself to keep from giggling like a schoolgirl. Eddie had postively been the best gentleman all night long (Apart from the breadstick sword fight he initiated, but that's up to interpretation), and when he had asked for a combined bill at the end of dinner, his eagerness to sell to just about anything that walked in the last few weeks made sense - and it only made your heart flutter some more to know how long he had been planning leading up to your birthday. 

Speaking of which - this may be the last birthday you can remember not hating. 

"So," Eddie begins, obviously nervous despite the smirk he sports, "You have fun today?" You snort.

"Firstly, you sound like a dad." His comments of 'Well, I'd be a great one,' die down as you continue, "But yes, I did." Eddie smiles, genuinely. A soft smile that makes his eyelids crinkle and accentuates those pretty brown eyes. "Thank you." You whisper into the howling wind of the night, but he hears you anyway. He always does. 

You pretend not to see your mother peeking at you and Eddie through the window as you reach home - slightly (extremely) disappointed at how short the walk felt. It's quiet between the two of you, no words are really needed anyway when Eddie intertwines your fingers, pulling you in by the waist for a kiss - or 5. A breathless "I love you" comes from him in between every kiss, and you want to laugh because you should be saying it. 

"Eddie - My mum's definitely watching." He sighs, unable to resist going in for just one more kiss. 

"I know you don't like your birthday, but I couldn't resist getting you a present," You groan, but he cuts you off, "Nothing expensive or grand like Enzo's! Swear! Just… Just ask your mum for 'Eddie's present' when you get inside, alright?" You raise an eyebrow, but agree anyway, and with one last, last, kiss, your Romeo is off. 

"Mum?" You ask into the house, knowing she can't have run off far from her creeping at the window. 

"Welcome home - how did your date go?" She asks, and you roll your eyes with a snort.

"Clearly well, as you saw." She waves you off. "Uhm, Eddie said he had a gift for me." She points to the fridge, and you see a smile tug at her lips. 

Eddie's gift is front and center as soon as you open the fridge - a pretty pink cake with sprinkles thrown onto the terribly spread icing. Eddie's appalling handwriting is somehow even more illegible in the black icing on top.

Happy birthday, love.

© sinumaki 2022 — do not repost, plagiarise or translate my writing. i will beat the shit out of u.

#sinumaki #eddie munson x reader #eddie munson imagine #eddie munson fluff #eddie munson #eddie munson x you #eddie munson x y/n #stranger things x reader #stranger things imagine #stranger things oneshot #stranger things x you #eddie x reader #eddie munson fic

[thewapolls]

So a weird quirk is that, in April of 1996 the arcade fighter, Soul Edge was first released. In it the enduring franchise long protag Siegfried was introduced, and in the Bad End of his story mode, he is possessed by the malicious supernatural sword, The Soul Edge, and in epilogue becomes the new nightmarish wielder of the cursed blade(s). And in his ending cutscene he is seen in a corrupted suit of armor. That armor is itself a variation on his Player2 alternate skin in the game, and is also a secret playable character that can be unlocked: "Siegfried!"

Then the Original Wild Arms came out December of that same year (1996) and this(↑) is what the villain "Ziekfried" looked like... No big deal, totally dissimilar. But note his neat fleshy spear with the big bulging eye...

So, then in 1998, Soul Calibur debuted Nightmare's first official design as a distinct character. I feel like the obvious angle was that he was supposed to be wearing black armor, but the metalic sheen and associated artwork kinda gave the impression it was blue, notable because later redesigns would lean into the blue armor much more explicitly.

Like in Soul Calibur II in July of 2002...

But in Wild Arms 3, which came out in March 2002, "Ziekfried" returns with this new redesign. And like????

So, in the same year the initial Soul Edge featured a grotesque fusion of flesh and metal but no eye at all; and a variation on Siegfried with red corrupted armor and the GramZamber was introduced in Wild Arms, with a similar gruesome bio-metal look, and a broad blade and singular eye; and Ziekfried here has blue armor with a sweeping backwards crest/horn.

And a few years later we get Nightmare with a forward horn on his helmet, a giant claw hand, and the first instance of the Soul Edge with a big honkin' eyeball, just like Ziek's GramZamber.

Another couple years and once again, in the same year, we get both new Nightmare with now distinctly blue armor, and Ziekfriend[sic] returns with a new forward facing horn helmet, a big claw arm, and an admittedly less organic looking GramZamber.

I don't actually have a point I'm getting at here. I went to dig up some details and quickly found that the things I thought would sort of slide into place as I went, didn't. A lot of things got misremembered in my head, and I sort of assumed the original Soul Edge had the eye. I assumed original Nightmare had more obviously blue armor. I thought a few of these games came out in different years than they did, and in a different order... So, is there a link between these two characters? It doesn't appear to be the case. But, like, at a glance it feels like there should've been something there, right?

They do of course both reference the Siegfried/Sigurd of the real world Volsung Saga. But its not like he had blue armor, a helmet with a big horn, or a blade with an eyeball on it, so it isn't as if that shared reference accounts for anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

#wild arms #wild arms 3 #siegfried #ziekfried #soul edge #soul calibur

[wanou-dorm]

RSA OC - Marcus Akihoshi 

Note- I apologized for the use of AI Art , but I thought the Pictures looked cool  and Accurate to how I imagine him 

And are Placeholder for when I actually Draw it but I really need to take time to Do stuff with the. Ones I have and Finish up stuff

@/fumikomiyasaki- Characters mentioned

@nyxs-sins- Template

School: Royal Sword Academy 

Genmu( Touhou based Dorm)

Full Name: Marcus Akihoshi

Twisted from - Marisa Kirisame from Touhou

Grade/Class:2-A

Birthday: July 7 

Age:18

Height: 180 cm/ 5’10

Dominant Hand: Right

Homeland: The Shaftland/Onigashima 

Club: unknown 

Best Subject: Magic Objects and History 

Hobbies: Science, Potion making, Magic  , Anime , Stealing form Night Ravens Library , Broom Riding

Pet Peeves:  people taking his hat or Mini Hakkero , People Making fun of him , Bringing up how Smart he Actually is

Favorite Food: … Mushrooms , Spicy Food

Least Favorite Food:  Cold Food

Talent:potion making , Science Experiment , Intelligence , borrowing (Stealing) Books from NRC’s library , 

Unique Magic -  Magic Absorber -

 Marcus can absorb the Magic of Anyone if Hit by a Spell basically. Nullifying it , it’s usally Absorbed inside The Mini Hakkero  he Carries around to avoid Accumulating  blot inside himself. Which can he can   use  For His Ultimate Move the Master Spark 

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Character Summary (Backstory)

Vice Dorm leader of Genmu and Shus childhood Friend , Marcus is the only boy with an Actaul Family though they Moved to Onigashima Due to money trouble and Started a Magic Items Shop .

Marcus is actually a pretty average Magician , His Recommendation to RSA due his Immense knowledge on magic Items and Potion .

Unlike Reiji , Marcus is more Rowdy , Gutsy and Rambunctious   When Leads a lot of NRC and Even HSA students To Look down  on his Actual Intelligence which Catches Many off guard when Marcus Says Stuff that actually Right , it’s quite obvious that Marcus Humbles himself.  

 According to Hiei  the most Hard working person in ,town  despite his Tendencies to borrow (Steal) stuff from NRC’s Library and Tell Blatant Lies (Though  he doesn’t put any Effort deceiving people with them )  he’s been seen  helping the Residents  of Sage Island and   Students of HSA and NRC .

He Generally Friendly and chill dude with Danger Streak 

Trivia 

He Specializes In Star and Heat  based Magic

His Cosmic Magic looks Like Stars

He has a bad Hoarding Habit , due his like for Collecting thing

Hoshi Described him to Flynn as “ Greg if  he was actually smart. “ 

Marcus is said like to flirt , though he. Dosent really think it’s Flirting when you Just Give Girl a Flower  you found off the Ground. People  Really make him out to be a Man getting guys and Girl  like Wildfire - This in Reference to how much People Ship Marisa. In the Touhou Fandom 

Hiei Remarks that Marcus can fault in your Fighting Style  and Use it against you .. This also how he Got the Reputation as A flirt and tease 

Marcus dose not like Barry , What do ya mean ya don’t like Reiji. 

 Marcus is very Resistant to Poison due to Secret train

Despite looking like a Beanpole he is Stronger that he appears , He Was seen Carry two Whole Compture the Montior and The Computer it’s self. These were rather old computers by the  way .

He’s Seen with Jade and Kurama Foraging for Mushrooms  for Potion(Which are very Dangerous )

Such a good Broom Rider it Make  Vargas Cry

Hes been Trying to Figures  the Identity of these Phantom thieves. He keeps hearing about 

Shu says Marcus ‘s Magic is Very Flashy and Space inspired 

Don’t touch the Hat

Voice Claim

Scaramouche Scaramouche will you do Fandango !

Theme Song 

Magus Night

Love Colored Master Spark

#disney twisted wonderland #disney twst #twisted oc #twisted wonderland #twisted wonderland oc #twst fandorm #rsa oc #royal sword academy #Royal sword academy fandom #fandorm #twst oc #twisted male oc #marcus akihoshi #Youtube

[ellas-journey]

The Demon Slayer Timeline Part. 02

                      [Again Lots of Spoilers for obvious reasons]    Now we know that Urokodaki was active at the Edo Period [c. 1603-1868]. That does not say much since that is a 200-year era but let us resume that. 

   Japan would enter isolation, meaning there was no contact with the outside forces (well almost none) and people were forbidden to leave or enter the country- the famous Sakoku. The Shogunate would also start the bakuhan, meaning the tight control of the land.  The shogun would be switching the number of domains like they were pieces of a Go game. He also created a new code that commanded all the samurai, where he would tell the samurai to live frugally, wear appropriate clothing, continue they military training and not go crazy with entertainment (poor thing did not now that the last one did not serve for much). Lords would need the Shogun approval to marry. The "great barbarian-suppressing supreme general" (and if you read danmeis would think that those titles were an exaggeration) would keep Japan safe from the foreign, and the best way, was by isolating it.    With Japan locked into himself, and the government controlling everything and everyone, there were no more wars, and the samurai class turned into a warrior class just in name, staring to have his status as a hereditary one. They turned into clerks, night watchers, security guards, but extremely overdressed ones. On the other hand, we going to observe the rise of merchants and artisans. Even tho the samurai class still looked with bad eyes to these classes, they would be the ones that would create the new culture that the samurai would consume (and spoiler alert, they would become come rich than then).    Kabuki theatre would be born, shinju dramas (suicide dramas of course they would), the red-light districts were courtesans and actors would be the ones dictating fashions, mass publishing of books and art printing with the ukiyo-e, the shunga (erotic painting). All of this was a culture that was born during the times were Japan as closed over himself but still had its dramas that where sweep under the rug by the government. 

   Now just like with the Edo we must do a really quick rundown about the Meiji Era to understand the Taisho one. The Meiji Era [1868-1912] was the things that the Japanese knew started to change. After almost two centuries of peace, the Americans decided to knock on Japanese borders, and then them to open them with two options: yes or yes. Commodore Matthew Perry dropped anchor on July 1853. The Dutch that lived on Daneshima, the artificial island in Nagasaki warned the Shogun that the Americans would be returning some Japanese runways and look for some goods. The Shogun did not care. Perry was sent was sent way. Perry returned in February 1854 with even more less friendly terms -  they would start fire if they did not open the borders. He was then guaranteed the “Treaty of Kanagawa”.    “But all was no well. There was no way to put a healthy spin on the Shogun’s surrender to these terms. He failed his duties. There were already bellicose samurai domains who thought they could do a better job” Clements,2018. War started in January 1868 were rebels seized the imperial palace in Kyoto proclaiming that the power of the Meiji Emperor “has been restored”. More battles broke out after that, but surprisingly without much violence (amazing I know). “Modernization was now the keyword, starting with the moving of the capital from Kyoto to Edo, the city that had been the de facto center from 200 years; The emperor’s new home, where he took up residence in the departed shogun’s castle, was soon given a new name: the East capital, Tokyo” – Clements,2018. Most of the old daimyos were rebranded with a new set of European-like noble titles creating the “kazoku” or “glorious houses”.    The samurai, even if they fought for the restoration or against it, received a payment cut of 50%, and in 1871 they were freed from using their swords. They could chose wearing their swords or not as it was a matter of fashion. But in 1876 this preference turned to a ban. They were forbidden to wear swords, every-piece of the samurai status was being destroyed.    Once again, the keyword of the Meiji period was modernization but in a specific kind: westernization. Only learning the western way could the Japanese beat them. So, we going to see this quick change in which Japan leaves it's Edo characteristics to become like their European counterparts. Which would also mean that they would learn the not so good stuff. Yes I'm talking about imperialism. It will start with the Ainu and Ryukyu kingdoms to then turn to the continental lands. I will not go into detail into the various (VARIOUS) wars during this time, but the rising sun symbology, that is present on Tanjiro's earrings was not a good thing for non-Japanese. While in Tanjiro's case the earing might symbolise, the sun breathing and Amaterasu, during this time it was the flag of Japanese imperialism.

   Now back go Tanjiro’s Timeline aka Taisho Era [1912-1926]. Ah the Taisho era, the less problematic of the three Imperial eras. [ Spoiler alert: It is still problematic, but we are not here to talk about Japanese imperialism]. After fighting in World War I (in the good side for once) the West is going to evaluate Japan (and they ask why Japan acted the way it did). They realize that it is a well-developed country, but the government had its issues, mainly because new ideas and sects were being born so the Taisho emperor had to find a solution that is reflected in the election of various political parties for the government, that did not go so much as planed.    In 1921 Japan wanted to prove that it was not an aggressive country [AHAHAHAHAHAHA] and will agree with Washington that would maintain the Status Quo of the empire. There was this reduction of the military that would only end up with the older generation teaching the newer generation bigger hate speeches. But the Taisho emperor would die 5 years later, and his son Hirohito was not having all of his dad's bullshit. So, he will again give power to the military and that would start the Manchuria incident at 1931 what would be the beginning of a snowfall of incidents that would culminate in 1945. (So yes it is possible that the trio lived through the WW2).    Now at least we now that all of our favorite character had a chance to be reborn in our timeline, so it all goes well in the end, right?

Bibliography:   CHAPLIN, Danny. 2018- Sengoku Jidai: Nobunaga, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu: the three unifiers of Japan. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Ebook;   CLEMENTS, Jonathan. 2017 - A Brief History of Japan:  Samurai, Shogun and Zen. The extraordinary story of the land of the rising sun. Clarendon: Tuttle Publishing.Ebook;   HILLSBOROUGH, Romulus. 2017 - Samurai Assassins: "Dark Murder" and the Meiji restoration, 1853-1868. Jefferson: McFarland & Company. Ebook;   MANSON, R.H.P ; CAIGER, J.G. 1997 - A History of Japan. Clarendon: Tuttle Publishing, 1997. Ebook;

#demon slayer #demon slayer history #demonslayerfromhistorytofantasy #demon slayer from history to fantasy #japanese history #history #research #history reseach #kimetsu no yaiba #kamado tanjiro

[alyjojo]

Family Ties 🤍 - July 2023 - Cancer

Overall energy: The Lovers

There’s likely a narcissistic asshole in the family, or that’s the collective opinion, clarification is nodding towards a grandparent, since both areas have 3 Swords involved. Cheating is the story I’m getting here, and a lot of heartbreak surrounding that, it’s been a heavy burden on the entire family and the connection has probably since been severed with that particular person - because Death follows them. But I don’t think that happened immediately, there was a time where everyone was trying to play nice and just dance around this person’s issues for the sake of peace, and having family around. At some point, boundaries had to be drawn. Or it’s possible they’ve already passed on. I’m getting there could be something karmic with them and someone else in the family too, a soul tie of some kind, it’s like it’s unconscious but also…eerily similar.

Mother: 7 Swords & 4 Pentacles

Mom could be the reason everyone put up with the drama person in the family. She is a peacekeeper, probably a bit of a doormat to be honest, a person that would rather play nice and avoid directly confronting issues. A lot of people are like that. She protects her peace overall, and is very patient with everyone’s problems, she is very much an “I love them anyway”, unconditionally loving sort of person. It’s a wonderful thing, and painful for her surely because she’s probably been taken advantage of on several occasions. She puts people before herself, though she has learned to protect herself as best as she can. She is guarded, avoidant, probably also keeps secrets and acts kinda shady, but in a way that’s like “I won’t tell Dad” so you won’t get in trouble. Passive aggressive would explain how she handles things, not at all a confrontational sort of person. Preserving peace at all costs is the goal, she just wants everyone to get along.

Father: 8 Wands & Ace of Wands

Ah. Dad could be this person, or they are the ones with a karmic tie to a parent that’s done the same thing. Could also be Mom with a parent and partner that are similar, what a hard lesson if so. Dad is an impulsive, exciting, very passionate sort of person, they follow where their *ahem* leads them in terms of romance. Or have before. They too have pulled The Lovers. I’m not sure if they cheated on Mom, or with Mom, it could be either side, because I’m not seeing obvious heartbreak with either. But siblings…it’s more obvious, so Dad could have more than one baby mama here, and the pain would lie with the initial family. He is unbothered with it, whoever The Lover was/is, he both loved and was passionate about, all clarifications show him as knowing what he wants and moving towards it, that’s that. He may like to talk a lot, be social, or get really passionate and animated when he’s excited about something. I don’t get asshole vibes like the initial story, so again maybe the story is very similar to their own parent, but they’re not exactly the same.

Siblings: 9 Wands & 6 Swords

Siblings have the pain, you could be the baby of your family, and with a split family like this, it has its own set of challenges where the hurt of the siblings may be projected onto you…not that it’s your fault whatsoever. It’s a very deep wound for them that Dad left, The Tower, they were shocked and never saw this coming. They were shocked how fast everything was replaced, with your Mom, maybe you too, it’s like their entire world changed in the blink of an eye. They’re very nostalgic about the life they had with their parents before this. All of this is normal really. 6 Swords, The Star & The Fool could show them having a prominent Aquarius placement, which would also show them probably being kind of distant with the family in general, because that’s how they typically are, if that sign applies, or this is just how I’m being shown their energy. They may have literally moved a distance away. This does also indicate they have healed from this, or started healing when they moved away from this, removing themselves from this situation was the best thing for them to do. They could be chasing a personal dream of theirs, using this experience as a kind of inspiration for them.

Grandparents: 3 Swords & 7 Pentacles rev

They have a very similar story to your parents but from the opposite side. One grandparent was left, and your father did the leaving, but both had Lovers. This is the main conflict of the family, there could be very little contact with one grandparent, who may have cut off your father and your whole family due to a personal wound and it all being too similar for them to bear it. A lack of respect mostly, it goes against her personal morals…she doesn’t care how he feels, unfortunately. She may be very self-righteous, though one can sympathize, she wields her pain as a weapon of Justice, in her mind. She’s deeply conditioned to hate Mom, not because of anything to do with Mom. That’s the only grandparent coming through here. I don’t know which one is more narcissistic in nature, it could be her that has that issue. But more likely, her ex husband.

Spiritual Ancestors: 4 Wands & 2 Swords rev

You could be largely unconscious to the deeper heartbreak, traumas, triggers, and motivations in your family. You’re just like “what is everyone’s problem??” Again I get “the baby” vibe from you. You were not present when the book of PAIN was written! And everyone said it’s not your business (or problem, and it’s not 💯) Your ancestors are saying now that you’re kinda clued into some of these things, now you understand some of the sadness or regret on some level, that may have confused you for some time…you should reunite with your father, or forgive him, depending on your experience of course. King of Wands is how he comes out, makes sense because he has a lot of fire energy in what I got from him. The love he has for (I assume) Mom, and you, is genuine. He’s someone that follows his passions and is overall a joy to be around from what I can see. He doesn’t subscribe to everyone else’s issues, which may be perceived as selfish, but that’s kinda fire too. He can’t stay down for too long, he wants to be happy and other people need to see that & find their own happiness too - in his mind. Knowing this, you can feel more secure in developing a deeper connection with him and celebrating him as a person. Other people may be mad, but you don’t have to be, in some way he did it all for you or so he could have you ❤️

If not Dad, could be Grandpa, as the counterpart to the Queen of Wands on the grandparents’ side. If he’s still around, this could be showing it’s okay to reunite with him too, and that would be a very good thing. Or…maybe just form your own opinion. This may also be him celebrating his story being told in an impartial way for once, and he’s not the monster he’s portrayed as. If he’s passed on, he could simply be apologizing for the “three” situation, but still confirming he was happy.

Oracle:

Truth

An honest desire to know and speak the truth produces beneficial results.

Recycle

Learn from the past and apply it to creating your vision of the future.

#cancer tarot reading #family ties #July 2023 #free tarot #cancer #tarot #generational trauma #healing family relationships

[huttrust]

When does fable 4 come out

When does fable 4 come out plus#

The Sword of Aeons' appearance in this trailer is an obvious signifier that they're rebooting the franchise in the model of the first game. In that period magical heroes still roamed the land and attended heroes guilds, whereas by the time-period of the 2nd game, Albion has been somewhat modernized and magic is far rarer. It's symbolic of the more divine and fantastical nature of the first game. If you didn't play Fable 1, this is basically the mightiest sword in the realm, and it was bloodforged long before the Old Kingdom. And our main reasoning for this is based on the sword you first see: This is the Sword of Aeons from Fable 1, which suggests we're returning to that older time-period, and that Albion. We're actually thinking that it's more likely we return to the mythical times of the 1st game rather than the second. The city in the background and the surrounding landscape effectively confirm that we're getting an Albion set around the Fable 2 period at the very latest. And our reasoning for this comes from the reveal trailer, which seems to give away the setting of Fable 4. Our money is on an RPG reboot in the style of the first game that takes place after the rise of Jake of Blades but before the events of the second game. Although stranger projects have been commissioned, so it’s possible. It wouldn't suit the franchise, and it would seem like a stretch for the developers. But his claim that it will be an MMO is honestly quite unlikely. This was tweeted before the reveal, and so we're quite sure that this leaker has some inside knowledge. Rough translation: "A game in the world of FABLE. Mais en MMO (desole, pas FABLE 4).- Crono Trigger July 23, 2020

When does fable 4 come out plus#

Here's that leak:Įt pour le plus grand bonheur de : un jeu dans l'univers de FABLE. Will Fable 4 be an RPG or an MMO?Īlthough it will likely be an RPG, one leaker claimed that the game from Playground Games will be an MMO. There's a very small chance that the game is released in 2022, but we don't want anyone to get too excited ahead of time. 2023 is also most likely, given that the reveal took place in mid 2020. Fable wouldn't compete with the big multiplayer releases that we expect each year in the fall, so a spring or summer release make the most sense. Fable 4 will most likely be released in early 2023, but it could be delayed into the late summer of 2023.

#When does fable 4 come out

[sixthwater]

Few General Social Media Readings Because I Can’t Sleep!

I couldn’t sleep so I decided to read up on the current energy of the community on here, it’s engagement, TikTok, and a couple of other things. I usually like to do readings on like actual corporations (I did a few readings on my past jobs and they were fuuunnnn they were all very bad) so I decided to do this

*Completed July 7th at like 2AM or smth idk

This is for entertainment purposes only, I have a disclaimer. Every and anything I mention here is how I perceive the cards and not to be seen as facts/truth. If you believe it to be, well that’s your choice free life, but also I have paid readings open so treat yourself why don’t ya 🌟

Tumblr’s Astro/Tarot community & their current energy

Page of Swords Rx, The Sun Rx, The Hierophant Rx & Five of Wands Rx (Back of the deck: Queen of Wands Rx)

Hm. Okay so that sort of doesn’t surprise me but it gives me a sort of solemn energy, like “I miss what we used to be”. It’s pretty obvious there’s a lot of impulsivity and brashness thrown around here, and words thrown around without fully thinking about the weight of them. The whole “hiding behind an icon” internet phenomena is very heavy here. There’s also a strong energy of…it’s not necessarily insecurity or wounded pride really but it’s like when people hit a sore spot, you strike lower without really thinking because you’re hurt, so then this pool festers of feeling like you have to always be ready to attack. Usually I take The Hierophant as rebellion and going against tradition but this just feels like broken community, especially with the five of wands. Heavy energy of people feeling like they have to meet others halfway when they’ve been wronged. Problems are solved but there’s cracks in the glass house. It ends with people sticking to their favorite creator and not really venturing out anymore. So while they’re still interested and involved, it still holds sour memories.

Engagement on Tumblr

Ten of Pentacles, The High Priestess Rx, Ten of Cups Rx (Back of the deck: King of Swords)

So I usually don’t pay attention to the eyes on this deck (they flip every other card), but the only eye open in this is on the high priestess but that’s reversed. Meanwhile, the cards where I’m seeing the engagement happening, are closed (this makes sense in a second trust me lol). So it’s a little—it’s simple but also kinda not. This follows up on ‘keeping to your own little bubble’, the one found from before. However there’s a feeling of just taking things at face value. I’m going to be very clear when I say I’m not diminishing anyone’s work. What I am saying though is that how people practice things and translate them can vary a good bit, and depending on what content people take in, well, that’s the content that’ll be their go to source. No follow up. That person/those people are their King of Swords, and the community (other followers) is their Ten of Pentacles. Like how users will give anons those cute nicknames, building bonds. However there’s no strong sense of picking apart information being thrown at you and questioning anything (because for some this Is just a hobby so—) and it can start to distort their perception of self—or seeking clarification through various accounts because that is advised so then Everything is scrutinized, etc. There is a heavy sadness though when those accounts are less active because like…that was the community for them lmao. It was like the one good bag of fruit at the grocery store that wasn’t browning and then you get home and find out it has mold, that big disappointment when it’s been some time and the account hasn’t posted for a bit, so when there’s new content I can definitely like. Feel the joy bursting lmao. But this leads to my next curious question

The Effect TikTok has on other Social Media

Nine of Swords Rx, Knight of Swords Rx, The Magician (Back of the deck: Eight of Swords Rx)

Lmao so we’re going to pretend I’m wrong? Great. Also I usually blame a funky shuffling on me but the other shuffles were fine and suddenly cards Kept bursting for this question. Uuhh this got me confused at first but then it hit me like a truck that a large chunk of this was very much “yes zaddy make all those innovative ideas for us” and I’m so mad I had to type that! It has a lot of botched up mangled messages but the loudest one is like, someone who Isn’t using all of their weapons to be on top again even though they definitely can. They have this energy of like, “yeah we Could fight them and beat them at their own game, but wouldn’t it just be easier to incorporate their stuff to get users interested in our platform again”. There’s a slight laziness here, but they feel like a weight has been lifted off of their shoulders a bit in terms of constantly having to come up with stuff to excite people, but it’s definitely kinda cocky. Cause I mean, it’s just recycling lmao. Which I think is the point because I’m sure if these companies had a problem they would’ve dealt with it by now. I think it also bleeds into other content creators a bit, because as I said there’s an essence of recycling—just move some of your TikTok’s over to shorts, boom—and it’s like “okay I don’t have to worry about a 30 minute video now I can schedule it for later” so there’s less stress but then there’s less push to use all of the talent and arsenal at your disposal, like less motivation is found to push yourself because you can just ctrl+v (which, again, not attacking any content creators, making content ain’t easy).

The Future of TikTok

Wheel of Fortune Rx, Page of Swords Rx, Ace of Pentacles & Two of Wands (Back of the deck: Seven of Swords)

. Listen I’m in a bad financial spot and I’m not about to get in trouble over some damn cards but if some funky money play happens to hit the news over some people happening to have some fun with some investments they shouldn’t have that wasn’t theirs, or funding something for personal gain, then well. Crazy how I didn’t say that. Also the Second pull that the deck wanted to go crazy.

Well that was fun :) hope you enjoyed the reading and uh, let me know your thoughts? I guess? As I mentioned, I have readings that are open right now, you can check my pinned for details. You can also sign up for a newsletter that will let you know about any upcoming events or changes in services, etcetc, I am Very Tired Now.

#should I- actually idc lmao #astrology #tarot #I’m going back to bed I didn’t sleep until 4 lets gooooooooooo

[fanfic-corner]

Destiel

It’s my birthday tomorrow, and to celebrate, I’ve compiled a list of my favourite fics! I’ve read a lot of Destiel fics over the past year, but these are the ones that have stuck with me the most. I’ve not put as much detail in as I usually do because otherwise we would be here forever, but I am begging you to read these fics. They’re all amazing.

Kiss You When It’s Dangerous by zoemathemata (@zoemathemata) on AO3. (57,593 words).

It’s adorable. The plot is fabulous. It’s my all time favourite fic. Please, I am begging you, just read it.

Stand By Me by whelvenwings (@whelvenwings) on AO3. (31,252 words).

The first Destiel fic I ever read, and it’s managed to stay with me this whole time.

Angel’s Wild by LimonadeGaby and riseoftefallenone on AO3. (389,271 words).

The pining is unbearable but it’s all worth it in the end. The ultimate slow burn.

The Tea is Decaf by mnwood (@tomhardysteeth) on AO3. (3,673 words).

Cas is adorable. Eileen is adorable. Everyone is adorable.

a turn of the earth by microcomets on AO3. (95,274 words).

Of course I’ll rec the ultimate John Winchester bashing fic. The plot is so amazing and it is written excellently.

the inexhaustible silence of houses by Askance on AO3. (31,820 words).

This was beautifully written, made me cry, and the ending haunts me to this day.

Forget-Me-Not Blues by noangelsinthegarrison (@aaziraphales) on AO3. (68,689 words).

Jesus Christ, I have not read another fic where these two are such blatant idiots. That being said... I love it. Everything about it is amazing.

the cost of a thing by quiettewandering (@wanderingcas) on AO3. (74,198 words).

So cute! All the angst! My all time favourite trope and absolutely the best take on it!

In All Your Borrowed Finery by vanishingact (@vanishingactblog) on AO3. (67,950 words).

Okay this is adorable and you can’t convince me otherwise. Every time I read a fic with Gabriel in, I miss him just a bit more.

Down Like Water by museaway (@museaway) on AO3. (14,512 words).

I reread this occasionally just to feel something. I literally had to check if I misread the tags like 3 times and I cry every. single. time.

Partnered by K_K_TiBal (@thebloggerbloggerfun) on AO3. (28,112 words).

This is so fucking cute. The artwork is gorgeous. And, now I ship Jody and Donna. All round win.

Black Swans by omphalos and Wolfling on AO3. (66,455 words).

Okay so maybe this is more Sabriel than Destiel, but it was written amazingly and the plot was phenomenal!

this is a good thing, dean (prayer is a sign of faith) by cascountsdeansfreckles on AO3. (529 words).

The one time Cas can’t hear his prayers... I had to include a 15x18 fic in here somewhere, and this one set me off.

Purgatory, director’s cut by runsinthefamily on AO3. (23,722 words).

This was beautiful. It felt hypnotic, almost like poetry, and I absolutely cried at the end.

The House on the Ocean Road by coffeeandcas (@coffeeandcas) on AO3. (111,351 words).

This was gorgeous! Dean and Cas as parents was adorable, and Jimmy was such a fucking icon I don’t even know where to start. Also, not the weirdest past Cas ship I’ve ever seen (but it’s up there).

Broadway Musical by Griftings on AO3. (12,453 words).

The King and Queen of the crack fics. I adore the ‘did you fuck the Michael sword’ vibes and the formatting just makes everything so much funnier.

How Many Slams In An Old Screen Door [podfic] by Tenoko1 (@tenoko1) on AO3. (1hr 50mins).

Before we were shoved back into lockdown, I used to listen to podfics on the way to/from school, and this has to be my all time favourite so far. The asexual representation was fantastic, the plot was hilarious, and (as always) it was read beautifully.

When Charlie Met Cas by riseofthefallenone on AO3. (24,666 words).

This has to be thee funniest fic ever written. I don’t make the rules.

Boneless Wings by PallasPerilous (@pallasperilous) on AO3. (4,333 words).

The art is gorgeous (I’d literally just finished watching Pan’s Labyrinth which was terrifying) and it was such a brilliant parody of all the other wing fics out there (not that I don’t love them too!)

Grace by july_19th_club (@july-19th-club) on AO3. (5,164 words).

This was gorgeous and now I really want to see it filmed! It is so much better than the ending we got. I would say the author should work for them, but... frankly, they deserve better.

It Started With a Fanfic Competition by Tenoko1 (@tenoko1) on AO3. (124,487 words).

This was written beautifully. It was so wholesome, not afraid to call the characters out on their usual bullshit, and has genuinely more character development than the entire 15 year long show.

Serendipity by whelvenwings (@whelvenwings) on AO3. (23,891 words).

I absolutely adored every character in this (and thoroughly enjoyed guessing who was going to show up next!) and the plot was fabulous!

The Mute!Cas ‘verse by Princess_Aleera on AO3. (148,656 words).

Oh man. I wasn’t sure at first, but this is now maybe my favourite universe out there. The fluff was unbelievably fluffy, the angst was quality pain, and that’s without mentioning the fact the end had me ugly sobbing. On Christmas Eve.

When Dinosaurs Ruled The Earth by Mishafied on AO3. (68,926 words).

Oh my lord, what about this isn’t amazing? The casting was fabulous, the amount of research was obvious and really paid off, and I mean... Jurassic Park AU! It made me desperate to rewatch the films, too.

The Passion of the Christ (and his angelic ex-boyfriend) by Bzzee (@clarafordahwin) on AO3. (4,972 words).

I am going straight to Hell, and it is because of this fic right here. That being said, this is top quality crack and I’ve sent it to everyone I know just for the trip (two of them had never watched SPN. One asked me if Jesus was actually in it).

You Can Keep Holding On by NorthernSparrow on AO3. (352,388 words).

I won’t spoil it, but one of the best plot twists of all time! The exploration of Dean & Cas’ relationship, the detail put into the lore, the foreshadowing... amazing.

Apres by imogenbynight (@imogenbynight) on AO3. (24,045 words).

This was so adorable - Cas and Dean deserved a holiday in France!

I hope you enjoyed them! I’ve really been struck - especially over quarantine - with appreciation for all the writers out there who are giving us this professional quality content for free. I genuinely don’t know what I’d do without you, which is why I’ve done my best to hunt you down and tag you so you can take my love! There are a hundred other fics that I could have included on here as well, or ones that I’ve read since making this list. Thank you all so much for giving us these wonderful stories!

#fic rec #favourite fics #destiel #supernatural #sabriel #spn #fave

[itsuki-minamy]

PROFILE: HABARI JIN

Translation: Naru-kun Raws: Ridia

Real name: Habari Jin

Terms of address: Habari, Blue King

[PROFILE]

Birthday: February 1, Aquarius

Blood type: O Rh-

Age: 25 (When he died.)

[APPEARANCE]

Physique: 1.82 cm in height. Slim and well balanced, tall.

Face, hair: Smart and elegant. A cold, shadow less smile. His hairstyle is long hair.

Attire: Old Scepter 4 uniform.

Personal effects: Exclusive saber.

[HABITS, SKILLS]

· As "Blue King", he has the power to "control" everything.

· Fighting power as an individual is also top-notch. He fights using his own skill and his skill with the sword.

[IMPRESSION, OTHER NOTES]

· The image color is "blue".

· One of the youngest "kings" at the time of the "Kagutsu" incident. He works for social stability.

· "Red King" Both he and others have recognized that they are antagonists of the revelation of Miwa Ichigen.

· An ordinary person has an indecipherable side, but he is a positive person with no side hidden behind.

· In later years, it was said that his appearance was "like Reisi Munakata's", and that he may have the same qualities as "Blue King". However, there is a definite difference in whether or not there are points that make you feel "intimidating" or "inside out" in terms of personality.

[POSITION, OBJECTIVES]

Fourth King, Blue King. The head of the old generation "Scepter 4" security organization against the Strains.

At that time, "Scepter 4" had a strong personality as a secret organization under Kokujoji and, on a daily basis, it was never publicly named as the "Family Registration Division of the Tokyo Legal Affairs Office, Scepter 4 Branch" as a cover.

This position is the position that Habari himself desired for his ideal "social stability", and neither he nor Kokujoji have a sense of "hierarchical relationship." It is just an "alliance" between the "kings".

[PERSONALITY, CONDUCT]

A guy who excels at momentary judgment and intuitively moves things forward. To put it wrong, everything happens, but it is rare for him to make a mistake. The ultimate weapon is "speed of action" based on "infallible swift judgment" both as an individual and as an organization.

This "judgment" may be something that should be called a fateful prediction that goes beyond mere logical thinking and boasts divine precision, but for matters involving powerful Strains and kings. Sometimes, there were times when he couldn't read. However, even if there was an error in the judgment, the recovery of the situation derived from it was sufficiently possible and no significant damage was caused.

Hawari himself discovers that there is a section where it is interesting to him that he is in a situation where he cannot read, because he can read ahead of everything.

[FATE, ENDING]

As a result of considering "how to use my powerful and special ability for society", we naturally came to the conclusion of "stabilizing Kokujoji's system".

However, "security activities against people with powers" as a way to fully utilize one's existence eventually led to a confrontation with the "King of Destruction", Genji Kagutsu. The trigger may be the irony of fate.

[ABILITIES, TACTICS]

A mighty power like a "king". He has the property of "controlling" everything.

He's basically the same talent as Reisi Munakata, who was later the Blue King, but Munakata used the power in complicated ways like "taking apart and rebuilding objects", while Habari says "It's often used in more direct ways, like "barriers"and "shear reinforcement"." This is due to the tendency of Habari's personality to give importance to the "physical and intuitive".

Also, in organizational management, it is rare to make a plan that carries out, "First, let yourself run to the top and follow your subordinates", "Have your subordinates take action freely and naturally, we bring it together in one action" and we carry out the operation with high freedom.

Inevitably, "Scepter 4" in the Habari era had the characteristic of being a "minor elite combat unit".

[POWER]

A (Class "King")

[LIKES]

Liberty. Good weather. Sports in general.

[DISLIKE]

Drawback, Cloudy sky.

[HOBBIES]

Enjoy the mission of Scepter 4.

His personal hobby is unknown.

[FASHION]

As he is always in public service, he rarely wears clothes that are not uniform.

Private clothing is purchased as needed. There are no particular preferences, and every time he makes a choice it is sensory and judgmental.

[BODY]

The physical ability is very high, but he always uses different abilities, so it is not known how much "natural physical ability" he has.

It can be said that "the switch of incompetence remains on" and "self-consciousness as a superhuman".

[INTELLIGENCE]

It does not require logical thinking because you always "make the right decision intuitively" and "act as if everything is obvious".

This is the only quality of a combat organization that emphasizes "immediate judgment on the ground", but not without exception discourages communication with the general public.

[BELIEFS]

Act according to sensory goodness, not reason.

In a word, it means "the pursuit of happiness for all", but Habari himself does not make such a distinction between "himself" and "others and society".

He points to "social stability" by "being physically comfortable" and the feeling of continuity.

[RELATIONSHIPS]

[EARLY YEARS]

The details of his career before becoming "Blue King" are unknown.

[TIMELINE]

· 1974, Habari Jin is born.

· 1994, he Awakens as "Blue King". He started the activity of "Scepter 4".

· 1999, July. Kagutsu incident. Immediately after Kagutsu Genji's sword of Damocles fell, he was slashed by clan member Zenjo Gouki to prevent a chain of disasters. Scepter 4 was partially destroyed.

[ATTITUDE AND THOUGHTS TOWARDS OTHERS]

[TERMS OF THE ADDRESS FOR HIMSELF]

The first person is "Ore".

Although he has a soft tone and demeanor, he acts with an assertive tone regardless of his presence.

Since there is no such thing as "avoiding responsibility" or "judging", it is this guy's behavior, but he seems to "behave around the smoke around him".

However, since it is widely known to the people involved that he is an innocent king who always produces results in line with the public interest, there is no particular problem.

[TOWARDS ZENJO GOUKI]

He calls him "Zenjo" and other names are dropped.

Also, his subordinate calls him "Habari".

The old organization "Scepter 4" was able to be led by Zenjo, who has a strong sense of "letting go" and a strong tendency to act on his own, at his own discretion. However, it was believed that Habari's transcendental predictive power, or his gathering power, eventually resolved the situation the way Habari intended.

It can be said that he was an ideal teacher for Zenjo and his colleagues, who could fully use the outstanding "power" that he could have.

[TOWARDS SHIOTSU GEN]

He calls him "Shiotsu".

Shiotsu was called the "arms of Habari" alongside Zenjo. Shiotsu was in the position of "representative of the person of common sense" in response to Zenjo, which is said to be "the first person in the habit" among the old "Scepter 4" who is full of habits.

In the old Scepter 4, Shiotsu exclusively carried out common sense organization management, such as negotiations with the general public, organizational organization, and various plans.

However, Shiotsu's common sense plan often fails and must be adjusted due to the insane behavior of Habari and other members. In that state, Shiotsu often complains about the dogmatic behavior of Habari and his members (especially Zenjo).

On the other hand, Shiotsu himself felt that he was not close to the fullness of Habari's infallibility like other members, and felt a slight fall. According to Habari, his personality was also an essential element of Scepter 4.

[TOWARDS KAGUTSU GENJI]

He calls him "Kagutsu".

It is said that the "Red King" Genji Kagutsu, who measures others only by his "power", barely recognizes the clan member under his control.

It is said that only the other kings believed that that team was standing next to them, and above all, they viewed "Blue King" Habari, who was in direct opposition, as the "only good opponent".

Habari himself also had the intuition that stopping Kagutsu Genji, the "King of Destruction", was his greatest mission as "King".

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[andorerso]

If you're still taking prompts for rebelcaptain, how about “Are you trying to seduce me?” - “Depends. Are you seducible?”

Here you go, anon, more modern AUs! Hope you enjoy :)

It starts with a stupid coffee stain. Bodhi trips on a piece of fabric on the floor (that Jyn might have left lying around and Cassian might have asked her to put away), spilling the hot contents of his mug right onto Cassian’s chest. Jyn watches in sympathy as Cassian yelps in pain, hurrying to get rid of his drenched shirt. Bodhi, amidst a slew of apologies, brings him napkins to wipe his chest, and as the laughter dies down from Han and Kes, Jyn notices that Cassian is… surprisingly fit.

It’s not something you would have noticed with his shirt on, being as lean as he is. But he has some abs and looking at them, she idly remembers that he does go to the gym every week. Clearly, it’s worked to his benefit. She knows she should stop ogling – this is her roommate for Christ’s sake – but as her eyes slip lower to the trail of hair disappearing into his pants, her mouth goes dry. Oh shit. Since when is Cassian so hot?

Don’t think about it, don’t think about him naked, don’t think about him sweaty and naked, do not –

“Alright, Andor,” Shara says, snapping Jyn back to reality, “put a shirt back on, nobody wants to see all that.”

“Apparently, Erso does,” Han says, looking her way with a smirk.

Jyn chokes on her own coffee, giving Han the nastiest stink eye that she’s capable of.

“What? No, I don’t,” she protests, but her voice sounds a bit high even to her own ears. Terrific. Now everyone’s going to think she has the hots for Cassian.

And she doesn’t.

But she can’t look into his eyes for the rest of the night.

It keeps happening after that. Cassian stepping out of the bathroom with only a towel around his waist, Jyn blinking after him in bewilderment. Cassian making coffee in the morning, in his pajama pants and shirtless, Jyn trying to act normal as she accepts a mug from him.

Then, on a sizzling July afternoon, Cassian sitting on a couch shirtless, going through his papers when Jyn gets home.

It’s the last straw. She’s had enough confusing dreams as it is, filled with various levels of a naked Cassian, and if he’s pulling a prank on her after finding her ogling amusing, then two can play that game.

“It’s hot,” Cassian answers her unspoken question as she stares at him expectantly.

Jyn nods.

“Yeah, it is,” she agrees, then promptly pulls off her shirt and plops down on the armchair. She does not look at Cassian, choosing to stare at the wall instead like she’s deep in thought, but she can see him looking at her from her peripheral vision. Her plain white bra is nothing special, but she feels confident enough in her body that she’s not self-conscious about him looking at her.

Well, not too much. She just strangely, stupidly wants him to find her attractive too.

Cassian clears his throat.

“We should get an AC,” he says at last after he’s gathered his composure. She chances a glance at him, noting the slight flush of his cheeks that makes her feel smug as a Cheshire cat. It’s obvious he didn’t expect her to strike back, but enough is enough. If he wants to be a tease, he’ll have to put up with her first.

Determined to get a bigger reaction out of him, she stands up and heads to the kitchen to wet a dishtowel. When she reclaims her seat on the armchair, she puts the towel around her neck, squeezing it to let the cold water cascade down her chest. She has to admit, it does feel nice in this heat. It’s also nice to see Cassian’s eyes go wide as saucers.

“What are you doing?”

“It’s hot,” she says, throwing his own excuse back at him. Then she holds out the towel towards him. “Do you want it?”

“I’m good, thanks.”

“It’s really nice,” she insists.

Standing up, she crosses the room to him, ignoring his surprised yelp when she puts the towel on his chest.

“See? It’s refreshing.”

Jyn leans down to dab the towel across his chest, ignoring her own racing heart. This is a double-edged sword, it seems. But it’s working on him too, eyes dark and sitting ramrod still. When he tilts his head up, their faces are so close that she can feel his breath on her cheek.

“Are you trying to seduce me?” he asks, voice hoarse as she’s practically straddling his lap.

“Have you been trying to seduce me?” Jyn counters. She has a good idea about the answer now, but she can’t make a move until he confirms it.

“Depends.” He quirks an eyebrow. “Are you seducible?”

A grin forms on Jyn’s face, and instead of answering him with words, she kisses him. She’s pretty seducible indeed.

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[outoftimewriting]

Imagine (Son of Hades! Percy; Godswapped! Big Three's kids) Mark of Athena AU Pt. 1 (3/7) or (8/12)

Hello!! MoA is freaking extensive, so you're getting it in two parts. What are y'all thinking about this AU? Do you like it? Do you have suggestions? Anyway before reading this, check on the masterpost - all parts are essencial for the understanding of this - PJO or HoO - and check on the warnings before proceeding :))

Before everything, everyone's ages. Malcolm is 20, Reyna and Octavian are 19; Percy and Annabeth are 18; Frank and Jason are 17; Piper, Leo and Nico are newly 16; Will and Hazel are 15 - everyone is older, because I can.

Perseus is on a very uncomfortable toga praetexta, and he is late to the committee he has been organizing for at least two weeks now.

Planning for the greek commission - that he really hopes has planned a decent diplomatic mission, come on, Annie - is a very difficult job.

Mainly because Octavian is being a pain - and his direct superior, the Pontifex Maximus, is his grand-uncle, so nepotism is, of course, making Perseus life very hard.

They don't have any real say about the subject - the Vestal Virgins outrank them, and they're all for it because their Lady said so - but they still can protest every single one of the Alliance Committee decisions. Every single one.

They don't know how the greeks are getting here - it seems to be by ship, so they are keeping people at the closest bay, but no one is sure, so they are preparing for everything.

Hera gave him a date - July 8th, a Sunday - and they're working with that. Saturday is a day of rest, to the Roman people, so they organize everything on Friday - food, beverage, accommodations. Will they need garments? Perseus is not letting them walk around in those orange monstrosities.

Well. Hazel and Frank organize those - mainly helped by Questors and Magistrates - while Reyna and Perseus lock themselves up and review all the paperwork.

Because if they're not coming with their own mountain of paperwork, Perseus is kicking their asses, from Jason Grace - the previous Praetor - to Annabeth - she is supposed to be smart.

He also works on the mess that is the patrol rotation, the defense plans for the city, in the reconstruction efforts and in rising the wall at least 10 feet - getting it thirty feet tall, an impenetrable fortress for the upcoming war against the Giants.

Perseus has also made time for Iris Messaging his mother, - who is always overjoyed to hear from him - Persephone, - who he was only able to talk to once - Rachel, - who was not surprised to hear from him, and keep suggesting that he goes to the college closest to Parsons instead of staying in Nova Roma - and Calypso - who no Iris Messaging has been able to connect, nor can he find her location, so he guesses she is also in Olympus.

So back to the present - Perseus is late. It's 9h22 - he doesn't think that the greeks are getting here in the afternoon. He passes by Reyna's villa - with a cup of coffee and half their paperwork - and she is also late - a first when it comes to Praetor Arellano. Because they aren't Perseus and Reyna from now - they're Praetor Jackson of Styx and Praetor Arellano.

So they go to the courtyard - where the whole army is waiting, swords and shields gleaming with Frank in the head, plus the Consul, his two assistants, the Pontifex Maximus, Augur Primus Octavian, the six Questors and Perseus, and Reyna's assistants.

Perseus was never so grateful for someone as he was for Commander Sabina Artorius - the legacy of Pomona had been injured in the battle against Polybotes and lost her right leg and an eye - didn't make her any less valuable for him - but in the eyes of the prejudiced Roman people, she was a burden - so Reyna appointed her for the job.

She did everything Perseus wasn't able to - including proof-reading everything he wrote, teaching him the intricacies of Roman Politics, and giving him paperwork to sign.

Everyone who called her a useless servant was lying - Sabina was an amazingly competent P.A. and diplomat, and Perseus was very grateful for her, and her salary reflected that. Even if the Romans found weird a Praetor was paying for work - weird slaver fascist culture.

Reyna also has an assistant - a boy called Aeneas Nerius - a son of Virtus - who was born blind, so was relegated to poor-paying (or not paid at all, because housing and food aren't payment) jobs. Because Nova Roma is not only queerphobic and racist, no. It's also ableist.

The Pontifex - his name is Septimus Gavius, and he's a direct son of Phebus Apollo - looks at them angrily when they arrive late - but the Consul doesn't even notice the time - the man is too afraid of their conjoined power over the masses.

The Consul plays for the people as if Perseus would be a good successor - calls him Augustus and Imperator - even when everyone knows Reyna is the obvious choice - the man is as misogynist as all the older Senators are.

While Reyna tries her best to make her purple stola less constricting and Aeneas corrects Perseus toga with the practiced movements of someone who has been trained to do it - and that's when Perseus remembers that Aeneas was a servant to Octavian's family.

He pointedly avoids looking at the boy's hands - the demigod is no older than Percy, and his hands are burned and scarred. Perseus doesn't pity him - he rages internally against Octavian and his bigoted, slaver, prejudiced family.

They are talking - he is still seething from his realization - when the Greeks appear. And Perseus wants so much to kick their butts.

He has no words. He wants to scream. Reyna massages her temples with the face of a resigned person, and Sabina - the bloodthirsty woman that she is - snorts in amusement.

"Praetor Jackson. I fought beside you! I didn't expect your people to be... well... barbarians!" Whispers Reyna in his ear, in utter exasperation.

"I wasn't expecting this either! They have Grace, who is a roman! Why are they doing this?" He whispers back, as lost as she appears.

It doesn't matter - he tells Frank - Legatus Legionis Zhang - to make the troops stand down. This is not a fight - not yet, Lady Lupa whispers in his mind.

Hazel - Centurion Levesque - looks at him worried. She has been frenzied since her brother's disappearance the day after her birthday, but this is just the cherry on top. Are they fools?

The ship crosses their wall - and hovers in the air as, one by one, six people climb down. Perseus recognize almost all of them - there's Annabeth, Malcolm, Will, Jason Grace, and two other demigods, who he doesn't know.

At least Grace is wearing a toga. A makeshift, purple toga picta - as if he was a Triumvir or an Imperator - but a toga nonetheless, even if pretentious.

The Consul is the first to talk - the Greeks approach slowly, wary of the army behind them. The man welcomes them to Nova Roma - looking at Grace's toga with something akin to disdain - and then promptly passes the torch to the Praetors - the organization of this whole thing has been in their hands from the start.

"I am Praetor Urbanus Arellano" Reyna starts, in an official tone that no one questions "And this is Praetor Peregrinus Jackson of Styx. These are Pontifex Maximus Septimus and Augur Primus Octavian, Legatus Legionis Zhang, and the Twelfth Legion of Nova Roma. Please, follow me - let's continue our talking in a more private setting, I'm sure you're must be exhausted."

It's just an excuse to avoid the mocking looks the bigots are throwing them - Perseus can hear their voices in his head, calling him an ape, a savage bringing barbarians into their home.

The greeks - with their orange T-shirts and faded jeans and mocking purple toga - look as out of place in Nova Roma as Perseus feared they would. Reyna and he take them to the Praetor Villa - is as much as they can restrain themselves.

Annabeth - who knows him longer than anyone here - doesn't jump him - she just looks a little overwhelmed - Nova Roma is probably a bit much for her Athenian brain, which is now possibly being overridden with possibilities. It's Jason who makes the first move - and what a weird move at that.

"Reyna" He greets, and they hug briefly - and as manly as possible, for some weird roman reason about feminization - before the blonde turns to him "Perseus Jackson"

"Jason Grace" He answers back, and they exchange a handshake, but there's something weird in the inflection of his voice that Perseus doesn't necessarily care for "Annabeth"

Her greeting - when she gets off the subspace she dropped to - is much nicer - and warmer - he even gets a hug out of it.

They introduce him to Leo Valdez - who Perseus looks at once, remembers Charles Beckendorf, and swears to never let any harm come upon his baby brother - and Piper McLean.

"I know you!" They say at the same time - because that's where English gets you.

They explain that they went to Yancy together - two years, doing the same English tutoring. They give each other a high five for surviving the highs and lows of high school as monster bait. Malcolm and Will both hug Percy and greet Reyna with the same respect they give Annabeth - Praetor Arellano is terrifying.

The conversation eventually goes to how - how did they find Nova Roma, why they aren't surprised to see him here - and the answers are kind of obvious.

"I dreamed of you," Says Grace, still with a strange tilt to his voice. Perseus guesses he probably isn't okay with losing his place as Praetor - but he was kind of lost for eight/seven months. It's the gods' fault, really.

"Me too. Kind of - Lady Juno... I mean, Hera, she sent me dreams for about a month or so? It was all very weird - like basically the training I was doing at the day, you were doing at night. I think she was trying to tell me to follow in your footsteps. Helped me a lot - thank you, man."

Jason - and all of the greek entourage - seems a bit downtrodden - like he just gave a big miss. But Perseus has more important things to care about.

"Who had the brilliant idea to come for an alliance in a military flying ship?!"

Jason Grace wants to punch Hera, or Juno, or whatever is her name in the face. He wants to punch himself either - the gods never did anything good for him, why would they now?

He talked - like a creep - about the dreams. And turns out? He is the only one having deep, emotional dreams about Perseus' past for months. He got a crush on someone he knows, like the palm of his hand - but that doesn't know him back, because really, why make this easy? Why give him those dreams at all - if they were doing this one-sided?

So he stays quiet, as Leo apologizes for the worst idea ever - coming with a warship to a military city - and, while Perseus and Piper trade stories, Reyna beacons him for a quick walk - to show him the development of plans they did together - their own way of catching up.

"You're infatuated with him," Jason says but is not an accusation, is just the truth, in the worst time possible.

"Can you blame me? You were gone." She retorts "Wait... It's not me you're jealous of. But how do you? You never met before."

He explains the dreams - the seven months of dreams, the only link to his past, the way Camp Half-Blood worships Percy - the way that they don't have rules about who you lay with. Jason feels Nova Roma around him - the decadence of water everywhere that CHB simply lacked.

"Well, we should open a club. Me, you, that blonde girl, Di Angelo, half of Nova Roma..." And they laugh, for it seems impossible to not fall for Percy's charm, just as impossible as making him notice any of them. "Now can you explain to me why are you wearing purple of all things?"

He is apologetic - it was the only toga they could find in short notice without leaving Camp. Then, she shows him the plans - Reyna can do multiple things at once, and her best friend's love life is merely a blip in her radar.

Reyna loves differently - she has known that, all her life. It doesn't make a difference where it comes to Perseus - she loves him, even if she can't imagine ever laying with him. Maybe that's why she hasn't made any moves under the course of three months. She should let him go - he has so many options, anyway.

When they go back, is to see Perseus and Annabeth in a heated debate about she wearing a chiton or a stola - anyway, no greek can go to Senatus in jeans and a T-shirt.

Eventually, they manage to get them all in togas - the girls refuse the stolas, but they are convinced to put on the chitons for diplomacy.

They didn't come with mountains of paperwork. But between Malcolm, Will, and Annabeth, by lunch they have outlined most of their possible contributions and what do they need - and what they're unable to give up.

Perseus and Jason - and possibly Nico di Angelo, who's missing - are the only ones who know the full information - how many battle-ready people both sides have, how many disabled people, how many children, healers, resources.

Nova Roma is winning - in everything. Except for power - because Camp Half-Blood only has, maybe, five legacies out of more than 150 campers, while Nova Roma is mainly composed of legacies, second-generation demigods, or minor gods' demigods.

The Greeks are composed of 63% Olympian's children, 36% minor gods' children, and 2% legacies - all children of two demigods, so second-generation demigods. They don't have Nova Roma's training - but they have powers the Romans could only dream of.

The Romans are composed of 12% Olympian's children, 39,5% minor gods' children, and 48,5% legacies - most who are at least a few generations diluted. They don't have Camp's power - but they have techniques and numbers the Greeks couldn't even hope to have - if you counted the able non-fighters - the ones who would fight either way for the sake of Rome - it was a number bordering on 700 hundred strong.

It is a gamble that could only bring destruction - for both sides. So Perseus and Jason exchange looks - and decide not to divulge all information. Egos are so fragile - especially between the older generations - so it's best they don't have material to plan in accord.

The Greeks and Roman heed together to the Forum Romanum. Is still weird to see the Romans - especially for Leo.

You see, Leo has been surrounded by a cult of Perseus Jackson over the last few months. Half the people he knows are infatuated with the guy - including the meticulous Annabeth Chase, his best friend, and even scary as hell, Nico "I'm bringing the thunder" di Angelo.

He is expecting a Batman-esque character. He is expecting the heroes from legends - the ones destined to fall. Leo is half-waiting from an automaton - or perhaps Lucifer himself. He isn't sure.

But the guy is... easy-going. He bears a striking similarity to Charles Beckendorf - with surprisingly green eyes. Perseus is wearing sheets - why, Leo can't phantom - and making jokes with Malcolm Cage like the guy wasn't perpetually boomed by something.

It isn't the only thing that surprises him: All his ships (the romantic ones, not the literal one) crashed and burned worse than Helen of Troy and Paris. Perseus is seemingly oblivious to romance - he is all about the job, making friends, rebelling against the traditions and their superpowerful angsty parents.

Well, Leo can get behind this. He can't stop looking at Nova Roma - a whole city, directly taken off a good Gladiator reboot. Leo is not an architecture crazy like Annabeth - but oh, the aqueducts!

Leo wants to take a peak at the place the chimneys are poking of - maybe a two or three hour walk from where he is - but Piper keeps a hand in his wrist, leashing him like a unruly puppy.

Annabeth is in a similar state of amazement - she came here for her best friend and crush - and is surprised.

Not by Perseus becoming some kind of military political person - he always had the potential - and the way he grew, somewhat, harder and prettier at the same time. Annabeth is only eighteen and still on sophomore year - blame the hormones.

But she is amazed by Nova Roma. They have such an intricate society, with traditions the greeks have long forgotten - who still uses clothes like that - and a military formation worthy of Julius Caesar.

Her best friend turned out to kind of be the Julius Caesar to Reyna's - Praetor Arellano - Augustus. Perseus - Praetor Jackson of Styx - is militar and rigid, a political conqueror - while Reyna is infinitely more dangerous - she is a king, a leader to be worshipped as a goddess for centuries to come.

Annabeth came in this mission for three reasons: Her best friend, the war, and the mission her mother gave her. But now, she looks at the politics, at the city - and wants to stay.

They enter the Senatus - Perseus and Reyna upfront, followed by Jason and the greeks - and take their places. Jason - for the anger of most romans - stay with the greeks.

The session starts as normal - titles, names, rankings, people bringing their issues, strifes, budgets, ideas of infrastructure that were authorized by the Censors, marriage licenses and research projects.

Jason thinks they are scarily good together. Reyna works most of the civil front - she is a master at law - but it's Perseus who separates most strifes and solves the money problems - he is the son of a fair judge himself.

He can see the looks - he is Propraetor now. Why doesn't he sit in his side of the Senatus, between his pairs? Does he think himself above them now - even between barbarians?

But Jason can't let his friends to the mercy of the romans - not alone. After all people come - some redirected to the Consul, some with their issues solved for better or for worse - it's their time, to state the case.

The Alliance of Ephesus - for a city that was both greek and roman in nature - is still in it's initial states. But they make their cases - the way Camp Half-Blood could help in the upcoming war against the giants, their own roles in the previous war against the titans.

It is a convincing argument - both Perseus and him are unmovable objects, and Reyna is an unstoppable force - but they do hit a rock in the way.

"If the best your camp has to offer is a healer of Phebus Apollo, a bulla-wearer of Flamen Vulcan, a daughter of Venus Verticordia and two children of Minerva - a virgin goddess - this Alliance is highly unfair for the people of Rome!"

It had to be Octavian, Jason thinks. It is good, then, that Perseus has the tongue made of steel and looks like a Basileus - sat on a throne, overlooking them, with a bored look upon his face, he could demand a crown and they would give him.

"You overestimate yourself, Augur Primus Octavian. You see yourself so mighty that you have no need for allies?"

It is mocking and there's a message behind it - "This is where I come from and I am your Praetor - do you challenge my power?" - it makes Jason shiver.

Perseus - Praetor Jackson of Styx - is his father through and through. Jason only met the god once - in the post-war council in Olympus - but he had the same imposing voice, the same luxury that seduced Proserpina to the Underworld.

Just like he looked leading the greek forces against Kronos, wielding his weapons of choice with a roar that made Manhattan tremble.

It seemed to work - for Octavian shut up pretty quickly. Jason is no longer in a position to do it - he is respected, technically, as a Propraetor, but he barely reached half of his term - after spending a year as Legatus Legionis - a position which Frank Zhang more than deserved.

Everything is going well - too well, for Piper's liking. Perseus is cool, Reyna is cooler, they have a whole government (!), Jason is making heart-eyes at dream dude and even prejudiced guy recognized her as a girl.

They have a feast - where they are introduced to Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque - and Piper sure isn't keeping all those titles straight in her head, this is Annabeth's job.

Centurion Levesque - Hazel, a girl a little younger than them, but apparently already a general - keeps looking at Leo as if he is about to implode - a normal reaction to him. She stops once they are introduced - there's a forlorn air about her.

She catches up a little with Perseus - who is the most oblivious person to ever grace this earth, for so many look at him and he barely looks at anything but his paperwork - who finds it mightly funny to slowly eat a pomegranate while everyone freaks out at the implications.

Well - he thinks they are scared. But Piper knows they're just horny and waiting to pass winter cozying up in hell.

Perseus explains to her (finally) why they give the gods different names - Venus Verticordia, Genetrix, and Victrix; Juno Moneta, Regina, Lucina, and Populona; Mars Ultor, Pater, Quirinus, and Gradivus, etc. He explains they are epithets - different forms of each god.

Different from the greek to roman transition, these are the same gods - in very different facades. Like, for example, her mother could either be Venus Genetrix - the maternal one - Victrix - the war one - or Verticordia - the romantic love one.

Greeks used to have this - but some of their aspects got too jumbled, so they started rebirthing - evolution. Zagreus became Dionysus. Hermes split from Pan. Helius merged with Apollo, Selene merged with Artemis. As their cult changed - so did they.

Children of Venus Genetrix and Verticordia are different from Children of Venus Victrix - still brothers and sisters, but their powers are different - where the first lean towards priesthood and the second towards charm speak and magic - almost all the third's are warriors of the same caliber of Mars Ultor's children.

Everyone here is so different though- Perseus' P.A., Sabina, is a total badass and Piper would be all for her... but wouldn't that invalidate her? She spent her whole life trying to prove she is a girl - to now go pursue sex with other girls? Piper is confused - she should IM Ariel before sleeping

It is all going very well - minor accident when someone mentioned Perseus' decision to send the harpy Ella away days ago - probably to Rachel - until Octavian decides to see the ship. And, of course, Leo just has to go.

Jason is proving to be very smart - for while Leo is occupied above with Octavian, he insists to also be on the ship, with Will and Malcolm as his backup - no one here trusts the drowned rat.

They take with them Frank and Hazel Levesque - two possible candidates for the mission on the Roman side - evening the sides - three Romans, three greeks, and Jason - a medium.

Perseus stays on ground - he is the host and can't leave the party - with Reyna - who is talking to Annabeth in hushed whispers - and her - who is starting to get a little tipsy.

Well. She should've known better.

Leo attacks the camp - it's not him, but it's enough. Perseus - at the first cannon bomb - whispers something in Reyna's ear, and escort her and Annabeth to the ship before Roma can react.

He jumps on board, pops an unconscious Octavian out of the ship, and tells Annabeth to get out of there in the next ten minutes or he won't have an alibi. They do - but look at him like he is either crazy or drunk, still in laurels and a toga, a goblet of wine precariously between his fingers.

"I'm Praetor Peregrinus Jackson of Styx - and this is an espionage mission with the objective of rescuing Legatus Legionis Zhang and Centurion Levesque while finding who is the greek traitor. At least, officially - I'm here because I am not a big fan of the woman encroaching in my territory, trying to kill my friends."

Leo - who is still disoriented of what Frank explain is an eidolon, they had a run with those when the attacks on Nova Roma started - starts laughing and takes Annabeth's place steering the Argo II. After a minute of silence, everyone starts laughing - the man is a genius.

So they go after decent clothing - because just Hazel and Frank are in battle appropriate clothing, and Perseus just noticed that they're floating and he can almost see the equations around his head - he wants so bad to talk to him because he has the same numbers around him all the time.

After everyone is in pants and shirts - Perseus, Frank, and Hazel take the loose shirts - Annabeth brought a stash of clothes in more or less their size, in Jason's word - but, while Frank tugs on a pair of sweatpants, the other two look at each other.

Leo is not really surprised when Hazel is in a skirt - but he gasps when Perseus walks in Frank's roman military skirt. He looks uncomfortable at the mere idea of pants.

No one says anything - not only they lived in CHB, but he has the Minotaur dagger that pair perfectly with Rachel's strapped to his tight, while his ax and Warhammer are crossed in his back.

Leo can see Jason drooling - he isn't the only one. Leo is newly sixteen - the youngest bar Will, and, perhaps, Hazel - and generally more interested in machines but he is not blind - the guy is hot.

Perseus gets hotter when he comes to Leo - still with a resting bitch face that would give Chiron a run for his money - and starts asking questions with the excitement of a puppy - about the ship, about the plans, how the aerodynamics work.

Hazel is roped into the conversation when they try and test if she has any control over the wind - almost nothing, but Perseus thinks he can hone her eventually - while Will and Malcolm start grilling Frank and Jason over Nova Roma.

Perseus mentions Nico - which Hazel supports. He hasn't be seen in either Camp since Perseus recovered his memories - said he was going to make up for it, but Percy knows the guy is a little self-destructive - he is too prideful to know when to just stop.

Piper and Annabeth are on patrol - no one is really sure the Romans aren't going after them. It doesn't serve for much: they are attacked.

Not by Romans, but by griffins. Between Jason, Piper, and Annabeth, Perseus and Leo don't even move. The ship does suffer some damage - which prompts Leo to give the Romans a tour of the Argo II.

Perseus is fascinated by Festus - while Hazel is fascinated by Leo - And Frank is seriously just marveling at the greeks by now - Nova Roma is pleasing to the eye, but they don't have automaton dragon ships.

They go to Salt Lake. Jason, Frank, and Piper go get tar, while Leo, Hazel, and Perseus go to the Celestial Bronze. Annabeth, Malcolm, and Will stay, to protect the ship.

It's the first time Perseus has touched land outside of Roma with his memories back - and he can feel a pressure in his chest: His link of empathy to Grover, never completely off.

They encounter Nemesis - who talks to Perseus about Ethan and Domitia, for which he retorts she has no rights. She took Ethan's eye, and his choice was not worth it - she asked for too high a payment.

Nemesis, or Invidia, laughs. Says the world isn't fair - look at Perseus and Jason, Leo and Sammy, Hazel and Nico, the marks in Roman's backs. She doesn't explain anything - but they understand.

Perseus understands Hazel and Nico - it's not fair, that her brother is missing, probably captured if his dreams have an ounce of truth. Leo understands Perseus and Jason - for Jason confided in him for months. It's unfair that Perseus doesn't know as much about Jason - and that Jason knows way too much about him.

Both Hazel and Perseus muse about Sammy - the one from Hazel's flashbacks. They hold hands and keep silent - this is not the moment. Leo doesn't ask about the marks - he saw Jason bare-chested once. He doesn't need to know more.

Invidia gives the fortune cookie to Leo, and promptly disappears - Percy wants to punch her. For Alabaster, for Ethan, for Domitia and the punishments that she has to dole out.

They meet Echo - who Perseus pity and rages, for it's the gods's fault. She couldn't refuse to help Zeus - neither could she flee from Hera's punishment, or Eros' arrows. It's their fault, that she stands now, alive again, but incapable of happiness.

Narcissus is a dick. And Hazel thinks that both Sammy - Leo - and Percy - who looks just like Pluto, and not in a bad way - could surpass him in both looks and personality.

Percy and Leo distract the nymphs - in different ways. Perseus plays his father well, and the dryads flee to Leo, in search of protection from a hero. A black makeshift toga Echo gives them, and that's it: The god of the Underworld coming to kidnap someone else.

Hazel retrieves the Celestial Bronze - the energy in it is strong enough, with Perseus opening the earth sideways for it to pass. They don't need to run back to the ship: Percy keeps evoking skeletons, which scares the nymphs, and in a fit of fury for Echo, Leo breaks Narcissus' nose - which sends him into a panic.

While getting tar, Piper feels her dagger heating up - Katoptris shows her a man Jason recognizes as Dionysus, in Topeka.

When everyone is back to the ship, they relay their stories. Perseus briefly asks Annabeth about Grover - who she tells him is occupied in Maine this year, but never gave up on looking for Perseus. Then, they leave for Topeka - they have a god to meet.

"I know a friend who could help us get down" Starts Perseus, looking at the emptiness under them with worry. The daughter of Aphrodite sympathizes.

"I thought you couldn't shadow travel more than one person at a time" States Jason, with all the creepiness of the dream stalker that he is. Piper is laughing - while Jason flushes and tries to explain.

Perseus ignores it, for the sake of his sanity, and asks if Jason has a Pegasus: Thalia has Porkpie, and he is right, Perseus couldn't possibly get three of them down and up without draining himself.

Jason doesn't have a pegasus - he does have Arion, the son of his matron, Ceres, and Neptune, his father. It doesn't fly - but Hazel has a venti that does.

So it goes Hazel and Jason on Tempest, Piper, and Perseus on Blackjack. Bacchus is waiting for them, a two-liter bottle of Pepsi in one hand.

While many of the roman aspects of greek gods are mainly more rigid, Bacchus is the complete opposite. Dionysus is a god of madness and, in his older iterations, Zagreus, a god of the Underworld.

Bacchus is a god of drunkness, sex, excess, and parties. He has none of the darker sides of his counterpart - nor the austerity of his aspect as Bacchus Liber, a god of freedom, fertility, and protector of people.

No, this was Bacchus in his most simple form: a deadbeat drunk. Piper is so tired - why couldn't she be born in a serious pantheon? Egyptians seem pretty focused.

Bacchus wishes for Ceres' presence - says it's not his responsibility to deal with plants - this is the dominion of Liber, and he can't be Liber without Ceres here. He asks Jason or Perseus to call for the matron - she should listen to them - but Ceres doesn't answer their prayers.

Perseus is as done as Piper and just rolls his eyes. At the presence of a fertility god, even if he only has a bare connection to it, vines start growing around the son of Hades' ankles, like if they're coming to play. Perseus is not only a son of Hades', Piper remembers, but he is also a champion of Persephone.

And while Jason's only blessing is his magical horse, Perseus was trained and has some mild control over plants - Piper thinks he got the better goddess in the deal.

Bacchus - drunk in Pepsi, if that's even possible - don't answer much. He tells them about Phorcys, and paying tribute - Liber would probably answer to it. He then flees.

Jason and Perseus hold a brief conversation about holding evening prayers - Piper doesn't understand much, but Hazel is nodding along, so it can't be bad: The girl is pretty level-headed.

Perseus is a son of the Underworld, he cannot be possessed by spirits, and fight them off easily, and Jason does too - mainly because he knows Perseus way too much to attack him.

But then the spirits turn to the girls. Jason has to throw a wave over Perseus to wake him from Piper's charmspeak so that he can exorcise them. It works, but Perseus has a small panic attack over drowning, is immediately drained and faints on his arms.

So Jason hauls Piper and Hazel over Tempest, so the venti takes them up first, before he bride-carries Perseus into a hurricane and over to Argo II, and promptly passing out from exhaustion and scaring the hell out of everyone on board.

Jason thinks it's worth it - Perseus asks him to start calling him Percy, and, in the Mess Hall, each takes one head of the table. He feels like he should be bothered - he isn't one to share leadership, but they all know the true head of operations here is Annabeth, so.

Percy tells them what he told Reyna - to stop any from following them, for this was a special ops mission. It's his role, and, later, Jason and he can strategize what Perseus will say in the Iris Messages to the Senatus.

And how they're going to spin crossing the Mediterranean Sea without using Julius Caesar's journey as a comparative too much, least they think Jason and Perseus are planning a coup.

They totally are. The two of them and Reyna would be the first triumvirate to work.

That evening, they sit together on the deck and talk. Not about Jason's dreams, not about Perseus's fear of drowning. But the joke about the Forum, and trade anecdotes of campers both know - and it feels like something.

Perseus dreams of drowning on earth and trashes around in his sleep - just until he starts dreaming of Nico again.

Nico is locked up in a cage - like a bird trying to reach flight. Ephialtes and Otis taunt him - two eagles come and try to attack him. He fends them off - feeding off electricity in the sky - but Perseus knows he won't be able to keep this for a long time.

Perseus goes to the deeps of the ship, just close to the motors, and cuddles up to Blackjack - the Nico situation will have to wait until morning.

In the same night, Leo catches Frank sleeping as a dog - and his crush on the guy threatens to swallow him whole.

It's Will who finds him, twelve hours later. Everyone is pissed that Perseus disappeared - so they don't let him go search for Phorcys with Jason, sending the blonde boy with Frank and Will, claiming the son of Hades is still exhausted from the past day.

Perseus stays on board. He tries to decypher his vision with Piper and Hazel, while Malcolm and Annabeth trace the route to their own mission. Leo is steering the ship and finishing the repairs.

Hazel is worried about what Percy saw. The two eagles match a dream she had, a little over a week ago: Prometheus. If those eagles reach Nico, when Nico gets too weak, he will have his liver ripped off, and no magical powers to regrow it.

Jason's mission is also giving bad results. They meet Keto - who Jason is pretty sure he already killed once - and is uncooperative as she takes Will in a tour. Phorcys is much more open - after a little flattery, he tells them all about the twin Giants, the prisoner in a cage - bait for Perseus Jackson and Hazel Levesque - and a map that would possibly lead to the Athenas Parthenos.

They escape when Will kills Keto with a well-positioned arrow, before breaking the tank together and fleeing to Argus II.

In the way to Charleston, they discuss where could the map be. Perseus trade his first Iris Message with the Senatus - in his room, faking that both Frank and Hazel are helping him, and that the greeks have no idea what happened - that there is a traitor in their midst, but the Alliance continues.

Perseus hopes they can win this war with minimum bloodshed, and then he can claim the traitor was controlled by Gaia or something because that's not his main preoccupation. He trades information with Reyna - she tells him to go to Battery.

Annabeth remembers her meeting with her mother - for this time, she was accompanied by Malcolm. Athena told them they were failures - wasting their time searching for a son of Hades. But that they should have a chance at proving themselves - and gave them the small silver coin. To "avenge" her.

Athena raged and bristled about Annabeth and Malcolm helping the Romans, but that's where Annabeth would not relent. Would her mother prefer destruction over her pride? Oh, how wise.

Annabeth feels ashamed she still craves her mother's approval, while the goddess simply saw them as pawns, even after the war raged by the rejected children - she was one of the Olympians with most children on the opposite side.

This time, they play with the finger trap all together - in the mess hall - and Annabeth looks at them and decides this is her family, not a bitter goddess that never bothered with her. She wasn't doing this for Athena - she was doing this for Camp, and her friends.

Annabeth, Hazel, and Perseus go to the Battery, while Leo, Frank, and Malcolm go to the museum after the map. Jason goes to the bay with Will, to try and free the animals at Phorcys aquarium, and Piper stays on board to patrol the ship.

Aphrodite is flickering between her greek form and her Venus Genetrix aspect, but ends up settling as Venus Verticordia - the closest she can get to greek between a roman, a greek, and Perseus, who, according to her, is both.

"You shall tread carefully with love, Annabeth Chase, for your heart lays elsewhere; You are locked up between two ways of the heart, Hazel Levesque, and shall thread both; And you, Perseus Jackson of Styx, when it comes to the heart, you are my crown jewel."

Perseus would punch her, but he knows better: Verticordia means "the changer of hearts", she is a manipulator, a player. It's this aspect who caused the Trojan War, who tossed Aeneas right and left for Lavinia.

He much prefers Venus Victrix, who appears when they're about to leave, to warn then about the importance of the statue and the location of the map, in Fort Sumter.

Octavian - who was conspicuously missing from the Senatus meeting - is here - against the orders of both Praetors. He tries to attack them - but Perseus makes the earth tremble and they run away. Jason and Will join the fray, and they send a message to Leo's group for them to regroup.

Annabeth gets the map - again fighting against spiders and the voice of Lady Earth - but this time there's no Reyna to confront her - this time, Roma is on their side.

Perseus asks if killing Octavian would be so bad, after all, but Hazel stops him from making the earth swallow the Augur - he is still a person, after all.

They change their minds pretty quickly once Reyna IM's Perseus, saying that Octavian poisoned the minds of the Senatus against the greeks and that she was unable to do much. She says the Augur is claiming that Perseus, Jason, Frank, and Hazel are mind-controlled by Piper - and that he tried valiantly to rescue them, but failed.

Perseus is pretty sure that he should've made the earth swallow him, send him directly to the Punishment Fields so he wouldn't be able to leave the Underworld never again, the lying rat.

It takes three days for them to reach the Mediterranean Sea. These three days are spent most with training and planning - while the children of Athena plan for their mission, Hazel and Frank train their powers, Perseus and Piper spar, Annabeth and Leo steer the ship, Perseus and Jason spar and patrol, Jason and Annabeth trade ideas about the two sides, Will mends a lot of people up.

Leo, especially, admires both Hazel and Frank from afar - since the Narcissus situation, he can't keep his eyes off the girl, and Frank is just adorable - he feels like he just watched Pirates of the Caribbean all over again.

The group becomes pretty tight - especially after Will walks in Percy without a shirt on, and immediately manhandles him into the infirmary. He does the same with all Romans - trying to figure an answer to those scars.

Will has a boyfriend - Jake Mason, seventeen - who has the same bad habit of hiding scars from him. But since he lost his foot - Will has discovered a thousand ways to find someone's health problems.

Piper and Leo are not surprised - they are the closest to Jason after all. Malcolm and Annabeth are up in arms - and they call the greeks barbarians?

Jason blames himself - for he has a guilty streak a mile wide, and apologizes to them - as if is his fault Juno had this godawful idea. Perseus punches him in the shoulder and tells him to stop with the bullshit - they have bigger problems than that.

They meet Heracles - and their best speakers are Piper, Perseus, and Will - the charmspeaker, the Praetor who actually finished high school, and the son of the god of poetry - maybe some flattery would help.

Heracles is a complete ass - no, he is a creep. He leers on Will - who is fifteen and he calls eromenos, yes, like a pedophile - then on Piper - who is utterly unimpressed - but don't try on Perseus - his eyes are as dark as the Pit, and he looks ready to punch Heracles.

They don't mention Hera - because the three are smarter than to mention the woman who turned the god's life miserable - but, after Piper refuses to kiss him, he gives him the mission to get the horn of Achelous anyway.

The Achelous is suitably afraid of Perseus - and it's easier to break his horn. They fight against the god - Will punches the guy in the face, while Perseus has no qualms about swarming him with skeletons and melting his armor.

Jason - who is keeping a keen eye on them from the deck - raises a wave for them to go onboard. Will - dripping and utterly mad - starts throwing curses at Heracles - he shines with the power of his father.

Percy is trembling - he hates water, he hates the feeling of drowning, he hates water in his face. He feels weak.

Hercules throws stones at the ship - but fail to hit anything, even if he almost gets Jason - who is pushed to the ground by Perseus, who grounded himself on the blonde.

For now, they have a cornucopia and managed to pass Heracles - so they just hug and laugh breathlessly at Will's increasingly ridiculous curses.

In the midnight patrol, while keeping watch for Stymphalian birds (Perseus hates those), they talk. Perseus tells him about drowning in his own element, about his distaste for both air and water - explains why he never gets close to the margins of the ship.

"Y'know, I dreamed of you" Percy nods, but Jason shakes his head "Not for a week or two, but for seven months. I thought it was Juno..."

Percy seems tense as if he is about to flee at any moment. High-strung. He looks anywhere but at Jason, and finally, he murmurs, almost too low for the silence that expands between them.

"How much?" "Everything."

He tells Percy about his dreams: Luke, Ethan, Alabaster, Persephone, Hades, Sally, Annabeth, Clarisse&Connor, the Labyrinth, the Sea of Monsters, Bianca, Nico, Zoe, Thalia, the weight of the sky, the Styx, the last defense of Olympus.

There are a lot of pieces missing - Percy Jackson is not a puzzle, but a giant Rubik Cube with ten sides - but Jason saw the worst parts of Perseus, his friends, the betrayals, the deaths, the bitterness that threatened to swallow him whole.

Percy doesn't answer - he flees. Back to his room, to conciliate that someone has dreamed about him, for months. That someone he is barely friends with knows so many deep details about him, things he never told anyone, and didn't plan to, ever.

It's not the only difficult conversation that night by far - Hazel and Leo are having a similar one.

You see, Leo is, by all means, closer to Jason out of all romans, and the least close to Frank - who is Hazel's best friend. Leo is pretty friendly flirty with Hazel since the Narcissus situation - because she is cute and just a year below him - but he also has been nursing this massive crush on Frank - who is a hunk of a man with the attitude of a puppy.

But seeing that Frank is straight as a board and Hazel only sees him as his grandfather, apparently, he is out of luck in this department - nothing new. At least he has a bunch of friends.

"Are you my friend only because of my grandfather?" "Of course not." Leo doesn't believe her, but he lets it go - it's the fatal flaw of Hephaestus' children: Lack of self-worth.

Perseus sleeps fitfully - and wakes Hazel to tell her about his vision of Otis and Ephialtes, for she is Nico's sister. They go to the deck, and he plays with her hair as they watch the sunrise.

Jason - looking at them from the other side of the ship - suddenly has a bad feeling - there's something coming in their direction. He makes Leo - who is steering this night - stop, but they are rammed and overrun by dolphin warriors.

Chrysaor disarms Jason - and his crew manages to tie everybody up - except for Perseus, who managed to flee into the shadows, and Frank, who hid away.

It's pretty simple from there - Hazel and Piper trash around when Chrysaor says he is taking them to Circe, Jason says their Captain is Dionysus, and Chrysaor says he is a roman, and Bacchus is weak in comparison to his greek form.

To prove Jason's point, Frank turns into a dolphin while Perseus makes vines appear and hold Chrysaor into place. Their enemies throw themselves overboard, including Chrysaor himself - and Jason sinks their ship by filling it with Diet Coke and Pepsi and burning it to Dionysus and Bacchus Liber - both of the serious sides of the god.

Perseus sleeps on the deck under the fickle rays of the midday sun and dreams of Gaea. Jason wakes him. They spend an awkward moment looking at each other before Jason hugs him.

"I'm sorry" "It's not your fault, stop blaming yourself for everything, Water Boy" "Sure, Death Boy"

They laugh - and for a second, they feel their own ages - eighteen and seventeen - without a care in the world. They mock-wrestle before giving up and just laying in the sun.

Perseus looks at Jason and thinks his beauty under the light of the day might be a good reason to tolerate the brightness.

It's Leo - with a knowing smirk - that tells them to come to mess hall - they need to plan.

Annabeth and Malcolm are going together to the Tiber River - but the children of Athena aren't leaving without a proper send-off - so they're having lunch together first, all together.

They pile around two tables in a little restaurant. This time is not Percy that asks for pizza - it's Leo and Will.

They eat and joke - and forget they are demigods in a mission that might bring the end of the world. No, for a second they're just teenagers - Malcolm is the oldest at twenty, and Hazel and Will are the youngest, both fifteen.

The group jokes and fools around, spending more or less an hour at the little restaurant. The old man who manages the place has a warm smile upon his face.

They go to the park close to the river to walk around - they are stalling the time they'll have to go back to their hardships. Annabeth and Perseus walk together, apart from the others - she says she wants to catch up.

Annabeth has a crush on Perseus since they were both fourteen. She studied with him for a year - he as a senior, she as a freshman - and this crush only grew. She looked for him for months, he is her best friend and she loves him.

Annabeth still remembers after the war - when she thought they would get together. They were both too caught up in mourning - Perseus even more than her - even if she always knew he corresponded. But this... this might be her last chance to tell him.

So, she kisses him.

Perseus is shocked. He is shocked, and speechless.

"Annabeth..." He says, but she takes this as iniciative and goes back to kissing him "Annabeth!"

Kisses have to mean something to him. And Percy only feels friendship with Annabeth.

She stops, and there are tears in the corners of her eyes. But Perseus just hugs her and says, slowly and as kindly as possible.

"Annabeth... We can't do this. It's been... it's been months. I-... I love you. But we-... I-... Not that way, Annie, not anymore. We spent months apart, and before that, I was too busy with school, and before that..." He takes a deep breath, and clear her tears with his thumbs "I'm sorry. I don't think I can do this."

Annabeth doesn't cry. She doesn't scream and rage with jealously and ask "Who else? Who else if not me?". She wants to because she knows, she knows he loves her, and Annabeth has never been wrong before.

Because she remembers Aphrodite. Her heart doesn't lay with Percy - her heart lays elsewhere. It still hurts - but she just nods and asks him if they can still be friends, for which he answers an enthusiastic yes.

There's a little voice in her head, that keeps comparing her to Reyna Arellano, Jason Grace, and Nico di Angelo, their powerful heritages and legacies. A sliver of poison in her heart, that shows her Rachel, Calypso, and Piper - their beauties far beyond hers.

Then she takes a deep breath, finds her brother, says goodbye to everyone, and leaves with Rhea Silvia and Tiberinus. Annabeth has a mission.

Annabeth and Malcolm pass by the same challenges - she with a broken ankle and him with a twisted wrist - and both fall again in the hands of Arachne.

While the children of Athena fight their way through the underground, Perseus, Hazel, Frank, and Leo embark on a mission after Nico di Angelo, and the rest of the demigods go back to the ship.

Hazel - who is almost sentient to Perseus moods at this point - takes one look at Annabeth's rushed departure and Percy's wistful face, and, when their group takes off, takes the demigod aside, leaving Leo and Frank to walk side by side.

"I'm telling you, Hazel, because you won't tell anyone else - and I don't have anyone else as close as you on board. I would've said yes, perhaps, had she asked this question before... before everything. Had she told me this when I was fourteen or fifteen, I would be overjoyed. But it has been two and a half harrowing years since... since Luke. And I cannot love her - there's too much history."

He tells Hazel what she cannot remember from what Perseus told her in the Fields of Asphodel, and she nods and calms him - she became a kind of his little sister in the short four months that they have known each other alive - and the year and a half they knew each other dead. Closer than most, aside, perhaps, from Rachel (who he still managed to talk to once after this mission started), his mom, Calypso (who he still hasn't be able to contact) and Persephone.

Leo and Frank are behind them - far behind them, so to not accidentally eavesdrop in their conversation. They talk - a little stilted - but it quickly picks rhythm, as Leo is such a charming person - and Frank is a weak, weak man.

You see, while Leo pines from afar for both Hazel and Frank, Frank himself is dealing with the fact that, since leaving Nova Roma, those improper feelings towards inappropriate people resurfaced - now, together with something even worse.

Frank doesn't want just men anymore, like the clear aberration that he is. He wants a boy and a girl - and at the same time, at that! Not only improper - for he is two years older than Hazel and Leo is a boy - but they are clearly infatuated with each other.

And Frank doesn't really think he could be happy with one of them - he wants both, together. Selfish, something in the back of his mind says, so selfish. Let them be happy, they don't need you.

So he hoards this little conversation with Leo in his chest, like a precious treasure he won't ever get the chance to hold again.

Perseus and Hazel eventually go to the underground - while Frank and Leo still talk - about life, about their mothers, even about Frank's stick. Leo wants to hold the boy and never let go.

The Eidolons appear, forcing Leo and Frank down the hole, where they meet back up with Hazel and Perseus. They find a workshop - full of stuff that makes Leo salivate.

While exploring the workshop, the Eidolons take control of the automatons, quickly knocking out Hazel and Frank. Perseus is able to banish them - but by now, the automatons are out of control - it's the Bianca situation all over again.

He and Leo escape into a control room and lock it. Leo finds a control sphere for everything in the shop but they're unable to find the right password. Leo uses the fortune cookie Nemesis gave him to ask for the password, allowing him to take control of the machines and deactivate them forever. Perseus seethes inside - the little manipulative bitch.

When Perseus questions why his efforts with Hazel lead them to this workshop, they find Nico's Celestial Bronze and realize it was a trap. 

Gaea appears in a mirror and taunts them, but Leo burns the mirror - "I thought Mother Nature was supposed to be cool but this is what we got? Sheesh, this is almost Aztec-levels of crazy man" - and they leave to go search for Nico.

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