#now im actually really invested in the concept of a 2nd gen pjo story following a bunch of demigod children of the titans

[aroaceleovaldez]

So in doing research over the years I have found some interesting facts about demigod parentage in mythology, and i'm pretty surprised I don't see it brought up ever in the contexts of PJO.

Basically - Greek mythology has at least one known instance of a demigod child of a Titan (Dryas of Calydon, either a son of Ares or Iapetus, aka Bob). Roman mythology has at least one demigod child of a lar (lar and Vestal specifically). Both have plenty of children of mortals and nymphs. So that begs the question - where are those demigods in the riordanverse?

We're told lares at Camp Jupiter can only physically interact with Nico (implied because he's Ghost King, since Hazel can't interact with ghosts and Nico couldn't either pre-Ghost King), but also they're house gods so who knows what laws they abide by.

Titans, they had maybe like 4 (or almost 5 if you're Iapetus) years to potentially have kids and we know they were hanging out with mortals in that time. There were a ton of mortals on the Princess Andromeda. There is absolutely some very compelling potential stories there in a like next-gen story but it's a crew of demigod children of Titans. Or even just something like instead of Nico searching for an on-all-accounts-very-killed-by-Tartarus-Bob he has to track down Bob's kid (maybe Bob named Nico his kid's godfather that'd be cute).

Child-of-nymph demigods just generally feels severely underutilized. Like, you can do a lot there! And then also you have other weird fringe cases like other non-deity immortals, like Chiron. Chiron has established children in Greek mythos! And that doesn't even begin to broach the topic of situations like the Tri! They're kind of gods. Off-brand gods. But they sure are immortal! Do they have their own demigods kids? Just imagine!

#pjo #riordanverse #pjo ocs #we need weirder pjo ocs! #now im actually really invested in the concept of a 2nd gen pjo story following a bunch of demigod children of the titans #like it's been a decadeish since the second titanomachy. and suddenly a couple of weird demigods turn up #and oh huh would you look at that their parents are all titans. shenanigans ensue.