My @toa-minibang entry for @trials-of-apollo-my-beloved's beautiful fic "Fine to Not be Fine"! I worked together with @sep-fish, you can find her piece here 💕
Every version of Apollo's sun chariot horses I've seen have been perfect show horses. That's cool, but I like the idea of these bois being giant Clydesdale type horses that are triple the size of a mortal and fully made of fire. Bc that would be badass and awesome and I like it when Apollo gets to be badass and awesome.
I think one of the reasons Meg's actually allowed to act like a child while other characters her age from the other rrverse series weren't as much is because ToA has a lot more important adult characters than the previous series did.
Because of the massive age gap between Apollo and Meg, Meg doesn't have to act like a grown up. Although he's a dumbass and Meg's servant, Apollo is still the adult of the duo and takes most "grown up" responsibilities away from Meg, as well as just being there to support her and giving her a shoulder to cry on. Emmie and Jo are two important characters who take in and protect kids. Luguselwa is a mother figure to Meg and her siblings. Piper's dad is the one to comfort her after the Burning Maze incident. Dionysus even helps the campers (at least Nico's) mental health for once. It makes sense to have a lot of good older characters in the books to contrast with the terrible parental figures, like Nero and Zeus, and show that there are adults who the kids can rely on. This isn't even mentioning Sally and Paul who we already knew were amazing
I made things. Enjoy Aoroi Lester and, thanks to @literallyadonis , Luguselwa Scissorhands. This was supposed to come out yesterday as a Halloween thing but Lu took forever and I eventually gave up with those hands and redid it. It's All Souls Day so close enough
Also I'm not going to bother coloring Lu as I don't even HAVE a color pallet for her yet. But stay tuned for something else that literallyadonis inspired me to do... hint it involves Tyrant's Tomb!
literally the thought "i hope luguselwa doesn't die" came to me AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER THAT SHE SAID THAT HER PLAN INVOLVED PUSHING HER OFF A BUILDING?????!!!! rick i can not do this shit anymore
i was so caught off guard by that scene in the tower of nero where lu’s hands get cut off and oh my god this thought only occurred to me now.
meg got the weapons from nero when she was younger, and lu was the one who trained her to fight like she does. she was basically the person who raised her after nero murdered her father. and on top of the trauma meg already has, she had to witness him order someone else to use her weapons to cut off her mentor’s hands.
Got permission to repost this amazing thread about the themes of The Trials of Apollo and why the conclusions of characters like Reyna and Leo are fitting for their stories by @/smhrk221 on Twitter! Definitley worth a read.
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