#besides they also had a festival for him in july (neptunalia) and they dedicated horse racing to him since he was also the god of horse

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thinking about this very hypothetical child of Neptune (who I am definitely not thinking about writing a fic around) and she'll have to be a girl because of the established pattern (if you don't understand, just think about it for a min) and thinking about how she could turn fresh water into salt water with just a touch, and how she'd speak with an almost monotone, until she's really really fucking angry and then the cadence of her voice pitches and twists like the thrashing of the waves, and how her eyes would be almost as dark as Nico's, a dark blue-gray of storm clouds, an always clear threat, and how she'd be able to blend in easily with other people, appearing sweet almost, with a subtle air of danger around her that people ignore until it's too late, and how she'd rip the blood from someone's veins without batting an eye, and how she'd stand behind Percy encouraging him to let go, to give into the violent nature of the ocean in their blood, to cave to the riptide, to stop fighting and let everyone else drown.

If they wanted to reach the surface, maybe they should've swam harder.

#happy talks pjo #the fresh water to salt water thing is because neptune was also considered the god of fresh water in addition to the ocean #which makes it even funnier than they feared him in pjo canon bc um. why would you be scared of the guy who gives you drinking water #but honestly i think the romans feared neptune thing was a bit exagerrated in pjo - i can't find any IRL proof of that online #other than generic statements about how the romans weren't typically seafaring people and sailors in general were wary of the sea blah blah #besides they also had a festival for him in july (neptunalia) and they dedicated horse racing to him since he was also the god of horse #the push to represent neptune as some heavily disliked figure was some weird way to make a whole new camp bully percy again lmao #but then again was it even frigging necessary? like what did the whole neptune is bad and we don't like him or you do for the series anyway #daughters of neptune