Plot thought:
So when Thalia gets turned into a tree/dies she's in the middle of the fight of her life - presumably - on an adrenaline rush and very scared.
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She blinks and then there's a weird tree next to her, she doesn't feel blood on her face, it's midday, the sky is clear, and she is so fucking confused.
Even when the people around her - is that Annabeth - stop being so wary, she still feels the blood pumping through her veins, feels the buzz of strength in her muscles, the screaming in her bones to call down lighting.
It takes a while for her to settle down. Even after she meets Percy and hugs Annabeth, and makes a little sleeping nook in the Zeus cabin, she still feels her body both aching from the fight and demanding to fight.
She tries to shake it off. She runs, she eats, she trains, she pulls Annabeth aside and they talk about everything and nothing.
The buzz won't leave.
She goes into the woods. She fights monsters, chats with nymphs, banters with Percy, climbs trees, explores tunnels.
The buzz won't leave.
She follows Grover to the council. She feels a little guilty about guilt-tripping him, but the buzz tells her that in life or death, she has to do what she has to do. She hears him talking about a demigod they heard about trying to find their way to camp. The buzz leaps at the challenge, and Thalia is entirely in agreement.
She leaves camp easily. Luke may have been the sneaky one, but he taught her a few tricks.
She finds the demigod. A powerful daughter of Demeter. According to Miranda, her father had told her the truth about her mother as he died, and she had immediately ran to the place he claimed would keep her safe. They traveled together, and Thalia felt the buzz quiet - not gone, but satisfied.
A monster attacked. Thalia felt the buzz return and stretch out. A million volts of lightning, exploding it from the inside, whatever she had done to it, Thalia and Miranda watched the hellhound dissolve seconds after it had appeared.
The buzz felt stronger than ever.
Thalia had to hold back a laugh as she realized what the buzz was. She had gotten stronger. She had died, and come back with a greater capability for power, her own source to pull lightning from.
She asked Miranda if she minded rain.
Miranda said she didn't.
Thalia created a thunderstorm the next night, and Miranda smiled and made plants grow.
The buzz didn't leave.
She didn't mind, exchanging smiles with Miranda as they reached camp.
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When Talos started jerking around, Thaila felt fear evelop her.
Percy didn't seem to have thought of the prophecy.
One will be lost in the land without rain.
Idiot. They were in Arizona.
But maybe...
Thalia looked up at the sky and concentrated, frantically whispering her wish.
The buzz spread into the sky, but was shoved back into her before clouds could gather.
She tried again and again.
But the buzz didn't stay.
When Talos fell, Thaila felt fear evelop her.
She rushed to the body and started digging, already knowing what she would find.
In the back of her mind she kept screaming and screaming for rain to fall, but none would.
When the sun rose, Thaila knew it was helpless. They were on a time limit.
They would have to move on now that they saw how much time had passed.
She had pulled out her spear in the middle of the night to hack away at the giant.
Screaming with rage, she impaled Talos in the face with it.
Just in time, she felt the buzz return to her once more and Thalia looked up.
This was the land without rain.
And Bianca was dead.
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Combining two personal headcanons of mine for Thalia:
1. In the fight with Talos, when Bianca started controlling him Thaila panicked - remembering that the prophecy called for the death of two of them, and that they were in a desert - and tried to make it rain, but couldn't, and therefore was the first to realize that Bianca was dead.
2. The second is that Thalia basically "leveled up" due to puberty's effect on her powers, and the extra power (six years worth of it) was dumped on her 12 year old brain when she got out of the tree. (I mean, there is a reason people fear the Big Three kids reaching maturity.) I never really thought what the extra power would be, but Jason does mention having a lightning bolt allowance, so I ran with that, and now Thalia can make her own lightning.
3. Thalia was ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIED when she stopped being a tree, don’t you lie to me, the adrenaline was PUMPING. She was ready to run away from these weirdos until Percy showed up.
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