Hera isn't even sure how to feel about the new acquired title. She's still warming up to it but everyone can tell she's growing fond.
Yes !!! Support systems are best. Pen and all the others are gonna drag Ody back into mental stability and health !!
Oooo but yea definitely. Maybe nobody really explained sexualities to the couple, so while they can get the concept of demiromantic in the sense of 'slow in falling in love', ace is a bit harder to follow, especially since they only talk about being ace AFTER the couple finds out about Calypso and Percy. Ody and Pen are confused and worried, they just think their child internalised what Calypso did and now subconsciously refuses to have any sexual intercourse. They accept it cause they're great parents they don't try to make Percy feel anything sexual, but they are worried and sometimes try to breach the topic of Calypso and that Percy doesn't need to be ashamed of himself if she did something- and yea. Percy is confused but more or less appreciates it. He's still mainly confused. The couple just feel sad and sick that Calypso not only got to their son, but while he was UNDERAGE, and now they think that trauma is so big Percy blocked off any memories of it and just doesn't want anything sexual anymore so it doesn't trigger said blocked memories. All subconscious, of course. The couple know what Percy is saying is what he THINKS is the truth. The couple distrusts Calypso too much to accept that.
Yess !!! Pen is done with Calypso. She had to comfort her husband after he was in her island for 7 years, and now her little baby refused anything close to sex 'because' of what Calypso did. I think that Pen leaving to kill Calypso wouldn't happen for a long time though, since this would all hit Ody really hard and he'd probably spiral into flashbacks and memories. Pen would need to be close by since she and Percy/Tel are the only ones who can calm him down when he's like this, but Percy isn't good at calming people and he spends most of his days at camp so he's not always with Ody. So Pen would stay until it all settled down and Ody grew more mentally stable, though still shaky. She's still unsure about leaving but she reallyyy wants to kill Calypso.
Just everyone being short of shocked that their plan seemed to be working because while they had hope it seemed more like a pipe dream then something that could become realty.
Also just Ares cabin is getting special treatment from the rest of because they are taking one for the rest of team.
Ody and Pen are just devastated they think a part of life has been ruined for their son and will do everything they can to help him but they respect his boundaries and wont force him into anything. Percy is confused but feels really supported.
Ya Pen killing Calypso will happen after she is sure that her boys are ok and that might take a few months/years depending on everything. Pen she has time it isn't like Calypso can going anywhere.
Yess Hera starts to slowly feel a bit of guilt hearing the Ares kids talk about their experiences with monsters, knowing she's the reason the monsters find them.
The Ares cabin just gets first showers more often than not because of their sacrifice in playing nice and cuddling up to Hera. I think they'd start to warm up to her slowly tho, since I think most demigods are touch-starved or at least crave affection, so they'd slowly savour this new form of affection from a mildly positive-figure.
Ody and Pen are so upset. They understand that Percy is happy and he likes living without sex, but it's still something that unfortunately kind of ties with what they know about Calypso. I know ace is more of a spectrum, so maybe while Percy doesn't necessarily want sex, he's fine with joking about it. Maybe Ody and Pen go look for Percy and find him being jokingly hit on by an old classmate. The couple does NOT take that well, especially since they think Percy has already been violated by Calypso. The guy definitely leaves with his face swollen. Percy doesn't stop them cause he didn't like the guy anyways, he's kind of an asshole.
THAT'S FOUL HAHAHAH but true Calypso certainly isn't leaving...... Pen is still itching to beat her up anyways.
Just that bit of guilt is enough to undo the spell and the demigods are free from monster and camp is waiting for the Ares kids to stop interacting with Hera but that point they already came to sort of her for her. I think some other demigod would reach out to Hera to see what the Ares kids seemed to like about her and Hera was nice to those demigods because she knew her grandkids would be upset if she wasn't.
Ody and Pen think they are saving their son from reliving unhappy memories and Percy is thinks they have a low paitens when it come to assholes which he thinks is fair.
Just everyone seeing Pen research ways on how to kill gods and every immortal is wondering who pissed her and thinking about anything they could have done to get one her bad side
Awww maybe the Ares cabin warms up to Hera even more after that. The rest of camp is curious and Hera decides to play nice. Surprisingly, it leads to a lot of bonding. Somehow Hera spends a few days at camp hanging out with the kids, and the kids start showing her these couple therapists and advice from wives on the internet. Hera is immediately taken and gets a phone. I think that would definitely do good for her, since it'd slowly lead to her stop blaming whoever caught Zeus' interest and start blaming Zeus himself. she, as the goddess of marriage, adores that a lot of people are actively trying to better their marriages or at least making sure that they are in a health marriage, even if they have to divorce someone to do it.
Percy is just vibing because he also has a low patience when dealing with assholes. Ody and Pen maybe think Percy is repressing his emotions and discomfort at the situation so they spoil him (more than usual) for the rest of the day. Percy is very happy at that.
Everyone divine is absolutely losing it when they find out. Ody is onboard with it since he hates the gods but i think he'd quickly change his mind when he finds out Pen is trying to kill Calypso. Don't get him wrong he very much wants that goddess dead but i think he'd be terrified that Calypso would be 'lonely enough' to try and do the same to Pen that she did to Ody. He's terrified of his wife going through the same thing and tries desperately to convince her not to go to Calypso's island. He's very much panicking.
ooo, Hera in some bizarre turn of events becomes the camp grandmother and everyone is ok with it because it turns out that Hera isn't that bad that going through therapy. Also what if after Hera realized that divorce isn't all the bad she gains it as a domain and maybe even divorces Zeus, because their are just some things that therapy can't fix and Zeus cheating is one of those things. Since she now has the domain of divorces she can break up Zeus and not fell bad about it.
Ody is trying his best to trust in his wife but terama is making it hard. He knows that Pen can handle herself but the though of her being alone with Calypso's island makes his skin crawl. Maybe Ody asks for Pen to take someone with her, like maybe he sort of explains this to Apollo knowing the god would want a piece of Calypso for what they think she did to Percy and it turns into a two person mission and Ody feels a bit better about Pen leaving
Hera is officially the grandma™ and gets a lot of advice from the younger kids. I think she'd grow stronger too seeing all of that in the internet. Like she's slowly been losing power because she was so deep in denial that marriage has slowly shifted away from her interpretation of it, and thus she was losing her domain slowly. Now though she fully regained it back plus the domain of divorce. She'd definitely divorce Zeus now and all of camp would be cheering, especially since Hera is now powerful enough to be able to stand his rage.
Yea Ody wants to be healthy about it but unfortunately he never quite healed from Calypso. Just sorta shoved it all in a neat little box only to opened when Pen wanted him to talk about it. He'd feel more relieved when Apollo goes with Pen, but then maybe he'd suddenly panic even more, because he KNOWS Calypso is mentally older than Apollo and unfortunately the internet taught him what grooming means. He knows it's impossible to happen Apollo is way more powerful + Pen is there to make sure nobody is manipulated. But he still can't help but panic that he not only allowed Pen to go to Calypso and suffer like him but also he sent his son's boyfriend to suffer even *worse*. Ody is unfortunately just trying to keep it together. He is very bad at it.
I love that!! Hera didn't notice that she was losing power because she was in so much denial about how much marriage chanced over the years she couldn't even see the effect it was having on her until she saw the change and started to get her power and more back. I would love Hera to take her grandkids on a field trip to prank Zeus because she is confident in her powers and knows that she could shield herself and the kids.
Poor Ody, he is going through it. Percy tries to be their for his father but this something Ody doesn't want Percy anywhere near because he is afraid that it would being up bad memories.
Now I'm just picturing Ody calling Ares for help because he was the patron of Sparta ( Pen was from Sparta and thinks Ares would protect Pen because of that) and Apollo older brother. Ares knows that Apollo can look out for himself but that doesn't stop him for worrying after learning everything from Ody and tags along as back up to make sure that nothing can happen.
Yess Hera starts being an awesome grandma and maybe that makes the other gods curious. At first it's Ares that's curious about Hera's change and starts hanging out with her more, and they've always had a mildly kind-of good relationship but now it gets even better since Hera isn't in denial or angry at Hermes, the twins and the other kids from Zeus' cheating.
Oo Ody desperately wants comfort but also he's scared of Percy finding out where Pen and Apollo are going and he thinks that would make Percy panic since they believe Calypso did 'something' to Percy. He doesn't want to bring his son bad memories but he also doesn't want to pull away enough that his kid starts getting suspicious.
Yeaaa Ody is just making a few calls to make *sure* Apollo and Pen don't get hurt. Ares agrees with it easily because he does like the two but also he wants Ody to calm down. Ody is way more calm afterwards since he knows Ares is way stronger than Calypso and won't take anything from her. Of course Ody is relaxed about this new arrangement only because he doesn't know Ares was, in fact, easily manipulated by Kronos in the first war. I think that would quickly send Ody into a panic again.
I'm starting to love good Hera, just after Hera getting over her bitterness and finally getting out of the toxic relationship she grows as a person and can finally get a better relationship with her family. Her relationship with Ares wasn't bad per say but it could be way better and after Ares sees that his mother can change he is open to working on their relationship.
I think at some point after Hera comes to realize that Zeus's kids aren't to blame for his action she should ask Ares if it would be possible to apologize to his half sibling for past action because she has come to realize that the kids are blameless and feels sort of bad for taking her anger out on them.
I don't know if the kids will forgive her because in a lot of causes she was their bogyman growing up, having to hind themselves out of fear she would do something against them or their mothers with they were still too young to defend themselves.
Ody is going through it. Nothing is going right at the moment and he is just a bundle of nerves. He would deff panic if/when he finds out that Ares was easily manipulated in the past.
Good Hera for the win !!!!! I think Hera is such a genuinely interesting to think about because she could've been such a good person had she not met Zeus.
Yess Hera starts realising there's no saving this marriage and she gets the divorce domain when she yells out that Zeus isn't her husband in a fit of rage. Now that Hera doesn't need to deal with Zeus' toxicity and childishness on a daily basis she gets much better. Ares sees this and starts reaching out to Hera because i imagine something in him does want back the gentle mom that would sing him to sleep before Hera and Zeus' relationship truly went completely sour and toxic. He's so relieved when Hera does genuinely seem to be becoming even better than that person.
Ooo yea, i imagine Hera would feel guilty about it and want to reach out. Meanwhile the sibling group and the other stepchildren are scared and suspicious when Ares starts liking Hera again. Apollo and Artemis very vividly remember how much Hera's words got to their younger selves and are extremely worried for Ares because they think he's letting her get to him. Hermes is worried too but he didn't have to suffer under Zeus so much because there were already other people around to protect him from Hera.
Yea Hera was really bad. I think eventually (probably only a few decades later) the stepchildren would be willing to try. They won't forgive Hera, ever, but they're willing to forget and restart their relationship with her.
Ody is just looping through worst-case scenarios. I think he'd immediately lose all calm and assurance when he finds out Ares is in fact prone to being manipulated. Maybe he's so worried he thinks about going to Calypso's island to see her and help the group, after all he's the one person who knows the island as good as Calypso. But he's terrified of seeing Calypso again and doesn't know if he can take it. Poor boy is NOT thinking straight.
The first few times that Ares goes to meet Hera, one his siblings always check in with him to make sure that everything is fine. As they join more trust in Hera the check in get less frequent but they never stop happening.
The step kids only willing to get to know Hera because of her new relationship with Ares. They all know that Ares wont take things standing down and know Hera must have really gotten better if they didn't hear about any issues between her and Ares like they would be in the past.
Now I'm just imaging how up set Delos would be when they find out that the twins are willing to give Hera a chance. Like it up sets them so much they take a humanoid form for the first time every. Delos gets to yell at Hera and drag her kids back to the safety of her island and lecture them. Delos only saw Hera at her worst and doesn't want to believe that she could change because what if it was trap.
The sibling group just has meetings to know when Ares is hanging out with Hera so there's always a member available to check up on him afterwards.
Yess they all trust Ares to not be so easily emotionally manipulated since he's dealt with Hera for a long time. Even so they're all incredibly surprised when it turns out Hera has indeed changed for the much better.
Delos has been an island for a really long time even by immortal standards, so i think that would stunt her brain and keep her on a loop of ideas. So Delos took it so badly because for centuries the only idea for Hera in her brain was 'bad'. Now that she finally has a humanoid form i think her brain would start to move forward again, and with a bit of coaxing from the twins her firm wall of bad opinions about Hera would start cracking.
Ody is having a bad freaking time™ meanwhile Pen, Apollo and Ares are just hanging out, gossiping and travelling to Calypso's island (because for plot reasons they can't just teleport using the gods' powers), extremely excited to bash Calypso's head in. Pen especially, she's been holding onto that rage since Ody came back and and through the centuries in the underworld.
They wouldn't let their oldest brother be without emotional support even if he instead that he didn't need it.
I 100% agree with that. Island thinking is different than regular thinking. I think the thing that would finial make Delos accept that Hera isn't all that bad is the goddess apologizing directly to Delos for the harm she cause and maybe even swearing not to intentionally harm the twins. Hera is mother, she might not have had the best relationship with her kids until know but she always loved them and understands Delos need to protect the twins for her.
Pen is living her best life, about to do something she has dreamed about for literal centuries meanwhile her husband is having a meltdown to put all other meltdowns to shame.
Maybe Ody send another god after them and it turns into a my grandmother eat a fly type situation and gets really out of hand. Or he just turns catatonic due to stress and indecision about if he should go after them.
Ares grumbles about it but is silently glad. Maybe he and Hera get into a mild argument since you know it's still a normal relationship, they're gonna have arguments every now and then. Ares just storms off and in an hour he gets all of his siblings from the group at his house, with ice-cream, plushies and a few weapons to either use on Hera or gift to Ares since he likes weapons.
Ooo, i imagine that Hera would swear to the Styx to really let it sink it. Sure the promise isn't fool-proof but it's the closest thing to it when you're dealing with the divine.
Through the journey Pen is constantly daydreaming about brutally murdering Calypso in various ways and considering which one would be the most painful. Meanwhile Ody's mental state is deflating like a balloon.
Ody tries and Percy finally notices it. He just calls Pen using the rainbows and tells them to hurry up (Ody is having a breakdown in the background of the call). They very much hurry up.
Ares would be so touched from the care his siblings are showing. I think someone maybe Hermes would bring pictures of Hera they could deface to the party for some extra fun.
That just shows how much Hera has changed because the old queen would have never promise not to hurt any one of her husband bastards much less swear on the Styx.
Again Pen is just living her best life while her husband is have the worst time. They hurry up and Pen starts think about the quest way to murder someone that is still brutal because she want to get home faster but still wants Calypso to suffer.
Yess it becomes a very therapeutic party. It becomes something of a tradition for the sibling group. At the end of every week of month they all get together with weapons and pictures of the faces of the people they're currently upset at, and they just deface and ruin!
Yess maybe Delos slowly relaxes around Hera. I think it would make for such an interesting dynamic. They're civil and sort-of friends but there's still a lot of grievances between. Maybe they start bonding by talking about their respective children's childhoods. I think eventually Hera would just list out everything she did to the twins to Delos. Delos would be extremely upset but she'd turn around eventually, mainly because the twins didn't tell her some of those things, and now she finally feels like she has someone in Olympus that'll actually tell the truth about how the twins are doing. Delos worries :(
Pen just calls Hermes over to ask if he can ask Hades what's the worst/ most brutal way someone has died. For ideas. Pen is worried about Ody but she knows he has Percy around now that he found out. For now She is just daydreaming violently. Calypso has no idea what's coming for her. Especially since if Apollo and Ares are also coming along, their domains also work really good to make Calypso suffer. Ares knows the worst aspects of war and Apollo knows which wounds are the most painful due to his healer nature. The three are possibly the best team to torture someone. Pen has creativity and ideas, Ares has bloodshed and rage, Apollo has information and knowledge.
ooo, not only the is the party therapeutic but it lets everyone know who to watch out for. Like their is a lot beef between gods and all of it is known so the hate party could be a way for them to know who everyone has long standing issues with that might not have been well known before. Like after finding out that one of their siblings really hates this other god or some other god gave them issues before they become Olympians the rest of the sibling would either act as buffers from now on or take action
Just Hera dishing out every ones dirty laundry and telling Delos about the others god that don't like the twins and what they have done after she finished lister her own crimes to make sure that she doesn't get blamed for that. Delos used to be so focused on Hera that she missed that some of the other gods had beef with the twins. The two of them end up being terrifying allies once Delos comes around.
Hermes is just a little more terrified of Pen and Apollo after everything is over and done with. He knew to expect stuff like that from Ares but not from the Pen would aggressively adopted him or Apollo, his partner in causing chaos.
Ya the three of them are probably the best to team to torture someone. I think Apollo should remind everyone of a deranged doctor from a horror movie when he is adding to Pen ideas and Ares is torn about feeling proud of his brother and concerned
Oooo some minor god upsets Hermes by saying he doesn't deserve to be an Olympian since he's just a 'delivery boy' and suddenly next week a bunch of Olympians are glaring at them and acting cold and cruel.
Delos realises that her hatred of Hera was so big she didn't take notice or any other possible threat to the twins in Olympus. I think that would be a turning point in their relationship because Delos would start to fling her rage out the window, after all she ignored all the other problems in Olympus in order to be angry at Hera, who's to say that anger grew so much Hera doesn't even deserve it anymore?
Hermes just watched all that go down and then the next day he has to sit in front of the kitchen table with Mr.D, watching Pen blush at something Ody said. It would give him so much whiplash. I think Apollo would be by far one of the most vengeful gods, since prophecies are usually tied to revenges and there's the rage that prophets feel when they aren't believed and just written off as crazy. Plus when it comes to mortals, Apollo is capable of just.. giving them prophetic powers, just enough that they have to watch their loved one's deaths. so i think it wouldn't be really obvious to immortals since Apollo usually can only go so far on mortals, but from then one Hermes quickly realises that Apollo is actually rather vengeful when he wants to.
Pen just throwing out ideas and Apollo commenting on whether or not they're possible and how it would affect the human body. Pen would absorb the information so she analysis it and just throws out even more messed up ideas now that she was deeper knowledge. It's a loop. Ares is unsure how to feel about it and just sprints for Olympus to gather the rest of the sibling group. He needs council right now.
World spreads fact after that and no ones makes a comment like that again, they would like to stay on the good side of the Olympians whenever possible. Having a good portion of them mad at you is just bad.
100% that is when they can really put the past behind them and be friends or as close to friends as they could be.
Hermes just making a comment about it and Pen blushes, Ody just laughes because he knows how blood thrust his wife can be and Mr. D didn't believes it at first but after seeing the couples reaction he does.
I 100% agree!! I really like the fact that Apollo has duality since he is both the god of plague and healing and think that he should be one of the most hospitable and vengeful gods. Like he will spared light, music, art and healing to the mortal world but if you cross him the light will turn burning, the music into screams, art into vision of your doom, and healing into plagues. All the singes of his rage are everywhere but it gets hidden under all the acts of good he does. Most people can't picture Apollo hurting someone right after they seem him heal someone. They forget that he is more than just a healer or an artist.
The loop goes on until they have the single most painful way to kill Calypso. Artemis showing that she is just as unhinged as Apollo asked Ares if her twin remembered to tell some messed up fact to Pen.
The sibling group quickly become well-known among the minor deities because if you anger one, you anger all of them. And no one can afford more than half of the Olympian council being upset at you.
Everyone is quickly horrified at this new development, just watching Delos and Hera show up to Olympus arms in hand, gossiping and giggling. Apollo and Artemis are just glad that Hera is getting better and Delos has finally let go of her anger. Meanwhile Percy, who has not been kept up to date with the recent Hera character arcs, still believes her bad and is confused and mildly afraid at this new friendship. He's a bit scared over how much power Hera might hold over his bf now that she's besties with Apollo's mom, but also Hera might genuinely start taking up to the role of stepmother and Percy does NOT want to have family dinners with her.
Hermes just eventually lets it go, though he's still very much baffled. Ody is very glad that Calypso actually suffered, and happy his wife at least had fun while on the trip.
I feel it had a lot to do with his personality. Apollo is overall a very expressive and energetic person, his personality leans more into one of a healer and artist than of a killer, so people forget a bit. Plus his general company is Hermes and the muses, who although not at all harmless also display that fun and seemingly-not-a-threat look. I think that side of him would come out more often now, since Apollo is incredibly protective over his loved ones (due to the general end his lovers tend to meet...), and Percy has pissed off A LOT of gods. Everyone remembers that Apollo is actually very much vengeful and deadly when they watch him beat up or hurt a minor god for trying to do something to Percy.
Ares is very concerned. I'd also imagine Artemis to be able to add things to the killing! She's the goddess of the hunt, and that probably allows her to create an environment and situation where the victim feels *exactly* like a prey. Powerless to the threat of the predator, only able to run and hide for a chance of survival. Apollo and Pen are immediately on board with the idea of hunting Calypso down like that before killing her. They very much want to prolong this but Ody's waiting so they have to be kind of quick.
Now that the sibling are getting alone they can control the vote of the council and that scares people. Their are seven of them making them have majority. OO maybe someone feel threatened and tries to cause issues in the sibling group, it doesn't work because the sibling was built on communication but that fact that it happened rattles the group. They wonder if outside influence is part of the reason they were never as close before.
No one has never known fear until the meet the combined forces of Hera and Delos. Someone made a rude comment about the sibling group and learned the true meaning of fear. No one mess with their kids and get away with it.
I think that Hera would apologize to Percy at some point for kidnapping him and everything. Mainly the unfair treatment that he got in comparison to Jason. Like ya she might have had a reason for the swap but that is no excuse for leaving him alone on the street while Jason got to two new friends a ride to camp.
100%, Apollo didn't have a reason before to remind everyone that he has a dark side but now he does. I love the idea of music being Apollo's main domain and that bleeds into the others all the time. Like how when kids need to know something their is usually a song that goes with it (ties into both protector of youth and knowledge). How with plagues their is some creepy nursery rhymes comes about ( like how Ring Around Roses is about the black death). How every prophecy has a rhyme scheme. How people feel better by listening to music and I think his kids can sing to heal people.
So just Apollo singing a creepy sing that chills people to their core while he slowly makes his way to the person who harmed his bf. They can hear the song no matter what they do to avoid it and knows that it is for them and what dark things await them when Apollo finally caught them. No one dares make that mistake twice, they have learned and never what to hear a song like that again. They all gain new respect for music because they didn't know it have that kind of effect. Expect for Artemis, she loves all of Apollos songs but she likes the creeper ones the best and everyone looks at her a differently after finding that out. I imagine that she and her hunt would sing some of the creeper ones while hunting down a man that has done something to get on her radar. Like she asked Apollo to write a few song just for that prepose since she know how those song can affect someone and like that would add fear to her prey.
OO, Calypso being haunted by such a song even though Apollo isn't singing out loud, he is singing a song in his head (he doesn't want to distract Pen from her planning) not knowing that is enough to count and Calypso is really shaken up by the time they get their and Apollo realized that his song reach its target even though he never actually song it out loud and is a little bit happy that Calypso's suffering started long before they reached her island.
Ares makes a side quest to figure out why his little siblings are so unhanged because this is starting to sounds like something the twins have done before. He wants to know if someone did something to twins to force them into being unhanged or if they are just like that. Artemis def adds to the killing, maybe just follows Ares back to Apollo and Pen to help bounce around ideas and to make it easier for her magic to work to make Calypso feel like prey.
The group just gets more tight-knitted because now they're scared if they don't communicate they'll fall apart. I'd imagine the other members of Olympus don't actually care that much, more preoccupied with their own stuff. Except Aphrodite i think since she's also the goddess of familiar love she's loving this whole thing.
Hera and Delos are wonderful at what they do. Ooo maybe Delos is still writing books, so the next one is just the story of their reconciliation. All the mortals immediately love it because since Delos is actually retelling and not inventing the story is incredibly realistic with the complicated emotions and grievances between the two.
Yea, Hera before was very dismissive of everyone she didn't care about, but Jason was her champion so. Percy is still coming to terms with it, but he sees how happy his bf is, plus I'd imagine that Ody and Pen also kind of like Hera since she helped Athena bring Ody home in God Games, simply because Ody loved his wife. The couple is pretty neutral towards her but they still feel gratitude, and i think that'd pass over to Percy so he'd be more open to actually listening to Hera and giving her a chance.
Yes!! Music in general is very much one of the main things that define who humanity is, so it's an incredibly powerful domain when paired with another domain that has to do with mortals. It always bleeds into other domains because it's one of the things that define someone as a rational being (mortal or not).
Ooo Apollo just creepily singing. Humans by nature always try to match the music they're listening to with their current mood, so i think it'd go vice versa and a scary song would naturally scare people. Artemis is just a feral little gal but she's not animalistic enough to growl so she substitutes it for creepy songs Apollo made for her.
I'd imagine upon finding that out Apollo would immediately try to do it with other songs. Like he starts singing love songs in his head and trying to project it to Percy so he hears it. I'd imagine Apollo and Artemis, being twins, figured that out long ago but thought it was a twin thing rather than a music thing, so when they're silent they're actually singing something in their mind to the other. It's just a inside musical for them and they've gotten way too used to it.
The twins are unhinged by nature but also due to being raised by a literal island. I think Ares would figure that out upon meeting Human-Delos and seeing how she's like (probably even more animalistic and feral than the twins). Artemis is just following along with the two, but i think as a goddess of the moon she'd be able to change its color, so every night for Calypso the moon is just blood red. The three are very feral and Pen quickly grows to love the twins.
That tracks, I think that Aphrodite is the goddess of love in all forms so she would be loving this whole thing.
This book becomes Delos best seller since people actually take it as a self book instead of just fiction. They think it just a fun away to take about deep emotion and maybe people go back to her other books to see if they could also be used to help in real live besides being a run read.
He still doesn't make it easy for Hera because she stole six months of his live but he is willing to give her a chance and that is enough.
Now I'm just imagining Artemis singing Hide and Seek by Lizz Robinett after someone she was after tried to hide in a hunting cabin in the woods. OO if some really messes up the nymphs will join Artemis in her singing and it just sounds like the forest is joining in. They having a grand time with the everyone else is terrified. I imagine that Apollo can just sort of tell when this is happen throw his music domain and might add instruments to the song making it even more like something out of horror movie.
100%, I can seem him sending songs to his kids to let them know that he was thinking about them. it would either be that kid favorite sing or one that reminded Apollo of them. I think he would also send songs to his siblings just to annoy them. I think it would be hard for them to tell what is a twin thing and what comes with their domains and this just sends them done a rabbit whole and they try to figure out what is what.
They just got so used to sharing songs with each other that if they go a few days without doing it it feels wrong and they check up each other to make sure they ok.
OOOO, Apollo singing to Artemis the whole that she was under the sky in a way to comfort her. He left a break in between each song for her to share one of her own but she never did because the sky was too taxing and it just left Apollo worried because something mush have been supper wrong for her not to responded. But he kept the music up in hopes that it could still reach her and brought her some kind of peace.
I can't remember if said ToA where a thing in this au or not but Artemis doing the same with Apollo was Lester, hoping that her song could reach Apollo even though he was mortal to let him know that she was still with him even now. This is a supper sad thought but every time it looked like Apollo wasn't going to make it out of something Artemis would sing a version of Delos lullaby because if her brother really was going to die she wanted him to go with the comfort of home it didn't matter that he might not be able to hear her because she also needed the comfort that song brought. Artemis would have fought tooth and nail to be by his side but Zeus knew that and made sure that she couldn't be their for her brother. Unlike the others she know that Apollo died she would follow and took comfort knowing that no matter how things ended she would be back be her brother's side one way or the either.
Leto tried her best to make the twins somewhat civilized so they could fit in but Delos was working against her. Ares would finally have all the pieces and is a little glad that the twins aren't as feral as Delos. I love that, Calypso hasn't known peace since Apollo gained Pen and it just keeps getting worse. She was already terrified before the moon changed. Pen loves those feral kids and wait to inform Ody about his two new kids. Ares is just off to the side wondering if he should reel them in, he think that this has to have crossed some sort of line by now and doesn't know what to do. Usually other people are the ones to reel him in and Ares doesn't like how he might be on the other side of that now because he isn't sure what to. Like Calypso 100% deserves this for what she did but at what point should he be concerned at their ably to come up with these ideas and their determination to go through with them.
Ares is just happy his gf is having fun. I'd imagine Aphrodite would also invite Artemis to her nights with Zeus and Hera. Even if Artemis is a goddess specifically to virgin women she's still a women's rights defender, I'd imagine she'd love yelling at the married men Zeus slept with and comforting the women, but also doing the opposite whenever the women are the ones who sleep with Zeus. The other three gods are mildly surprised but don't really care cause entertainment!
Delos just accidentally ends up as the number 1 writer in the world and is completely oblivious to it. The mortal world has just mostly given up on finding out who the author is and is just excitedly waiting for when the next book suddenly drops. Yea I'd imagine there'd be a lot of people praising the book for it's realism and probably some analysis on the complicated relationships and stuff.
Hera is genuinely surprised by it but absolutely tries she is not letting this chance go to waste.
Ooo I'd imagine they do that whenever someone, mortal or immortal, either tries or manages to assault one of the nymphs. Artemis due to her domains will obviously help and the other nymphs jump in to defend their friend. So they trap the person in the forest and just have and long, terrifying hunt. Apollo upon noticing just adds onto it because the prey is a bad person anyways.
Honestly i can't properly talk about ToA because my memory sucks badly and i legit cannot remember anything about it anymore. But it'd be so sad because if they can talk because of the music domain, since Apollo was now mortal and couldn't access his domains anymore so he couldn't hear. Oof yea i think due to being raised in an island with the only other person even close to their age being the other, the twins are heavily co-dependent. Artemis would've done everything possible to be with Apollo but she didn't have a choice. Either way she knows she can't function without Apollo so she doesn't really care, she'll follow her twin wherever he goes.
It didn't help that the twins were also working against Delos since being feral is fun. And yea Ares is suddenly extremely glad that Delos wasn't their primary caretaker initially. I think Hermes would love Delos though, they'd both be extremely feral. Ody is quietly having panic attacks and being scared over what Calypso might do to Pen but then he stops, confused over why he feels like his family just grew bigger. That man totally has inate instincts to whatever Pen is doing I can't be convinced otherwise. Yea Ares just calls for the rest of the sibling group to ask their opinions. Everyone is equally split and conflicted. Except Hermes he says to let them.
i don't know why but in my head Aphrodite and Artemis friends or at lest get along really well because they respect each other. They both know that romantic love isn't for everyone and that being single isn't for everyone either. Like Aphrodite just sort of send people that would love to join the hunt to Artemis and if anyone changes their mind Artemis lets them leave the hunt and ask Aphrodite to make sure they have a good relationship if that is the reason they chose to leave. It throws most people off to learn that they are on good terms with each other. So I 100% agree with Aphrodite also inviting Artemis and he taring into the cheating parten and comforting the other one.
OOO Delos just dumping all her money from the book sales into camp to sort her grand kids.
Just the hunt lasing days or even weeks because everyone wants to drag it out as added pay back. Maybe they even go as far to only sing at night to give the prey the illusion that the day is safe maybe they start again right the prey makes a breck for it during the day they feel safe or they start up again when they get bord of letting bad person have their illusion of safety or maybe Apollo decides to be dramatic and make that person unable to see the sun making them think night as come early. Just some thing really horror movie like that makes the nymphs feel safer because they know how ever mess with them will get his kind of treatment but makes everyone else terrified because they made a horror movie come to live.
The only thing I really remember from ToA is that Apollo tried to stab himself in the heart with a arrow during the second(?) book to make it impossible for the bad get what godly engery was left in his body, they only reason why he was left alive as because the arrow he choice was alive and move so Apollo missed his heart. He was still badly injured and the evil people had to save him. But it was just never addressed because Jason died so soon after that. Because of that I think Apollo had a death wish during all of ToA and maybe even before that and that is sort of why he let his duties fall to the side. He either wanted to be forgotten so he would fade or he just didn't have the energy to do them because he has a lot of domain bc of depression or he fully believed the were all going to die during the war and didn't see a point anymore bc it wasn't like it would matter much in a few year.
Just at some point when Leto reforms and Ares gets a chance to meet her he thanks her in person for being a part of the twins lives and balancing out some of the Delos feralness. Hermes would get adopted so fast by Delos because this is just other feral child that needs a parent. He is already the twin's brother so it wouldn't be that hard for her to adopt him.
This is kind of dark but what if Ody thinks that the new additions to the family are Calypso kids that she had with past victims, what if he wonders if they were his kids. In pjo time works weirdly on her island and in the myths Calypso and Ody did have one or two kids together. Ody is not thinking 100% rationly so him thinking that Pen rescued/freed kids from Calypso's island that could have been his even after all these year would make sense in his head.
Hermes was suspired by the wipe lash at first but he he is one board for making Calypso life a horror mover after what she did to Ody and what they think she did to Percy. Hermes like horror moves so he would just be watching everything go done like it was a movie or maybe even suggesting things he say in movies to the twins to see if it was possible in real live.
Ares and Athena or socked over how feral their younger siblings. they thought they were they feral ones since they were war gods but they apparently have nothing on their younger sibls.
Yess i feel like they'd get along great because Artemis' hunt basically emcopasses women uplifting women, and that brings forth a lot of kinship, platonic love and family feels. Aphrodite loves it because it's not often she gets to experience such a strong bond that isn't romantic.
She just throws a bunch of money at the Apollo kids and the hunters. On another note i don't remember whether we decided that Delos sold the books on purpose or was just sending them out and sold them on accident, but I'm just imagining Delos coming back to her island to see a mountain of mortal money and be extremely confused because she doesn't know how popular her books are. The kids are super happy though, the Apollo kids immediately bribe Mr.D into expanding their cabin.
Artemis is very vicious when it comes to those she feels are in the wrong, and Apollo is just going along with it, he's equally as vicious but he doesn't feel as strongly about this as Artemis. The hunters love this, since a lot of them joined the hunt to escape from men's lust, and are happy to finally get back at those kind of men.
OH. but yea probably. Maybe since The twins communicate through songs in each others' heads, as a mortal Apollo can't hear Artemis' songs anymore which leads him to think she abandoned him (since I'm pretty sure they don't directly interact with him as Lester???..........). He's obviously heartbroken since that's his twin and it's basically the thing that breaks the camel's back after so much stress for centuries caring for his domains. I imagine even when he becomes a god again his mental state still won't be the best, made even worse by the newly acquired trauma.
Leto is confused but then sees the twins and immediately understands. They may be feral but she knows they 100% would've been less civilised if Delos mainly took care of them. Hermes is a confused boy since he's already been adopted by Ody and Pen. He doesn't mind the new mother though, especially since now he gets to be even more unhinged.
Ooooo i mean the new additions would be Apollo and Artemis, so the misunderstanding would immediately clear, but i do remember that either in the myths or Epic cannot recall which, Calypso had nymphs. Maybe the group comes across a young nymph while hunting Calypso, and decide to bring her along because no way they'll let this kid be raised by the nymphs that encouraged and helped Calypso do what she did. Ody is just having a bad time™ though hopefully Percy can talk some sense into him (the boy is still extremely confused over why they're mad at Calypso, but he's not gonna question it).
The younger siblings have domains closer to humanity, and we all know how unhinged and insane humans can be. They just hid it nicely. Ares and Athena accept their fate easily.
I don't think were talked about if Delos meant to sell her books or not. I love the idea of Delos doing it an accident and is just confused about all the mortal money. I think she would realize that it is something her kids wouldn't like because they haven't told her about it before and just give its all the grandbabies because she doesn't know what else to do with it. Que the twins still not knowing anything about the books and are question how the hunt and cabin 7 get their money before deciding that they don't really care.
Ya their is no way anyone is walking out of a quest without a worse mental state. Quest are just a way to gain trauma people call glory.
Delos just sorta sent the books out so other people could be helped by her experience but she doesn't quite understand currency so she ended up accidentally selling her books. Ya she's so confused when she's suddenly rich but the kids seem to like it so she just gives it to them. Apollo and Artemis just label it as living island shenanigans because even they don't fully know what Delos is capable of.
Very rarely are quests actually needed, but i imagine the kids would hate to be stuck at camp for so long. Like they have this idealistic version of a quest that's basically a fun adventure to not be bored, and very few kids fully realise what quests mean.
Annabeth is great expiable of that. She saw first hand the aftermath of Luke's bunched quest but still dreamed of going on one because it met getting out of camp.
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