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Introduction:
Name: Online, I go by EsmereldaPearl or EsmereldaRose, but you can call me Esme.
Fandoms: Percy Jackson (entire universe of it) and Sanders sides. I would like to mention, this blog might go back and forth between the two, months at a time even. Like, for four months I’ll be REALLY into Percy Jackson and then one day swap to Sanders sides.
bianca di angelo being the “angel” of the di angelo family. always polite, always poised, always well-behaved. her voice is like piano music, her braids never come undone, she knows every silver spoon from the other. her brother, constantly running around and pulling tablecloths, listens to her every word without question. she is perfect. what her family does not know, however, is the girl is festering black hole of screaming sound affects
You telling me that Esperanza Valdez, a woman who did everything in her power to make sure her son didn't suffer from godly beings and tried to give him a childhood- named him after a king who died in war, alone and sacrificed everything he had to save his home?
No fucking way. I don't believe you. Even if Rick HIMSELF appeared in front of me and told that Leo is short for Leonidas, I still won't believe it.
Things I think happened in the chb’s infirmary No Order my references are prophetic dreams and war memories from when i was a health student
- they have like this huge old whiteboard glued god knows how with a little cartoon caterpillar sticker saying “get well soon?” where they (Will and any other poor souls that are in infirmary duty) put everything they need to remember but they can’t make themselves write complete sentences so is just “JuYCE” and “neomicinabacitracinanitrofural” and “CLARISSE = OUT”
- there is this hole on the floor that they always forget to ask a Hephaestus kid to fix so its like a rite of passage to not notice it and end up falling
- They are in a camp. Sharing cabins. Bathrooms. ADHD kids who love to run and procrastinate everything including hygiene. THE INFECTIONS GET SPREAD INSANELY FAST. They have to WEEKLY go renovating the “PLEASE WASH YOUR HAIR WE NEED TO ERRATIC THE COOTIES” ads around the camp.
- we need to rip off the band aid. where there is teenagers there is sex. Michael Yew was pioneer on the sex education topic and his legacy isn’t going to die on Will Solace reign. One thing is cooties another one is herpes. There will be informative and traumatizing videos and awful teen pregnancy documentaries. They are all gonna watch.
- And since they are already here there will be having safe drug use convos too and dionysus is the one sponsoring them there is a rap battle at some point i think
- kids will be kids and most part of the time they are taking care of spread ankles, stomach aches, allergies and flu season at this point Will doesn’t even need to touch them to know when its a flu case
- since they (the infirmary squad) are spending a lot of time walking around they need to wear comfy shoes. At some point Kayla shows up wearing a neon monsters inc slippers. So Austin decides to wear his clown shoes. Now they only accept sandals and crocs. Rules are rules. The weird socks keep going tho.
- on the topic there is a lot of unspoken rules. One of them is that the communal and personal things limits are very rigid. Everyone gets to drink the coffee. No one is going to use Austin personal “Grammy Winner” mug. No one is going to use Kayla’s special glitter rainbow hairbrush. And, mostly important, no one is going to give their bureaucratic work for Nico to help. That is Will’s personal secretary.
- on the communal help tho, sometimes they will use Drew’s charmspeaker as an anesthesia. The Stolls are always there to get a couple of stuff outside their monthly rides to get things. Clarisse is amazing to held people when they need to put their bones back into place. They make it work.
- the communal work have one problem unfortunately. They are neck deep into drama. And into a complex cobweb of they likes them and they kissed them and they hate them. And. Worse of all. They cheat them. Thats when there is screaming. And chairs floating into peoples neck.
- the smaller kids don’t get the drama on its fully complexion. But they still gossip. At least five of them have called Will “Dad”, at least three of them have called Kayla “Mom” and all of them have said “Thats embarrassing, dude.” For everyone around there.
THIS
Thinking about solangelo in a deeper way makes me want to genuinely cry.
One of the whole things about TSATS being Will changing his view about the Underworld because he wants to understand Nico, their first kiss, how Nico describes Will, the inside jokes, Will describing what love looked/sounded like to him, the PDA, the way they both take care of each other, that conversation between Will and Persephone. Everything.
I could literally yap about them for hours.
You know, some of my favorite fics are abandoned. And yeah, I wish they weren't abandoned, but it doesn’t change the fact that I love them. I certainly don’t wish they’d never been written. Just saying, for those of us with dangling fics we guilt ourselves over. It’s still better that you wrote what you wrote.
"i dont like jason grace because he's boring" is the most evil statement because a. THATS THE POINT and b. thats EXACTLY what makes him NOT boring.
camp jupiter is BUILT to make children into machines. work as a machine, work with the group to be a machine. or, be spare parts. it is rigid. it is unforgiving. it is built to suppress individuality. the MOST autonomy jason grace got was joining the lower end of the cohorts of the legion, was a failing petition against a traditional board.
jason grace grew up in camp jupiter. not like hazel, frank, percy, nico, etc., who were only there for a year or two at MOST. he grew up there. if i had to guess, i would say age 5 through age 15-- roughly a decade. everything he learned there is going to be DRILLED into him.
yes, he is going to seem boring.
the whole POINT of it is so he can have his character arc of "i dont really want to follow the rules..?" that he doesn't want to be praetor, he just wants to be a normal kid at camp half-blood and live with piper and leo. and thats what MAKES him a character that ISNT boring.
I feel like most people won't agree with this but it's my option so deal with it. I don't think any of the pjo characters would name their kids after friends who died.
The first reason being that it would probably bring them a lot of pain. I mean just imagine, every time you look at your child, you think of the friend you failed, who if you tried harder they could still be here. Every happy moment, every good time is tinted with the memory of their death.
Secondly, how would the kid feel if they found out who they were named after? Maybe they would feel proud to carry on their legacy, or maybe pressured to do so. Pressured to live up to that person, feel like they have something to prove. Maybe prove that they are their own person, that they have their own options and ideas.
It might also offend other people, like Percy naming his daughter after Bianca, Nico might be against it as he thinks/thought that Percy is the reason Bianca died.
Anyway, sorry if I offended anyone, it just my opinion.
YES!
Normally when someone is named after another person, it’s a family member that they’re named after— and normally a parent/grandparent/great grandparent (etc) and normally not a sibling (unless the sibling is alive— same goes for friends)
And, some characters, probably like Percy, are bound to be a bit superstitious about naming their kids after their friends who passed on, especially since some of those friends were doomed by prophecy to have it happen.
