Taken A Stupid Amount Of Time For Me To Work On The Weapons In Camp Jupiter Post Because Its Been A Day

Taken a stupid amount of time for me to work on the weapons in Camp Jupiter post because it’s been a day and I barely have started on the Spatha section.

Watching a documentary on fungi and it is improving my mood significantly. Also a stuffed animal, his name is Gus (that is short for Augustus.)

Would love something to talk about but I really don’t have anything going on in my little brain, the weapons post is just taking a while and I might do that map post.

We’ll see, idk though. Always open to suggestions, I think my asks are open, I’d love to give my opinions on prompts.

Will not be tackling anything New Rome or Temple hill related though. Gonna mention New Rome in my Ranks post that will come at some point of time in some point of the future.

Working on doing that ranking post, doing the gathering of various online sources because at the moment I don’t have any Rome books :[

Anyway would like to say everytime I see a post about something Rome related I start a very stupid laugh my friends have likened to a bird, dolphin, or hyena. Love seeing them,

My musical production begins meetings sooner and sooner every minute and… I should probably practice my audition a bit more lol-

But uhhhh, substance- working my way through TBoSaS (the ballad of songbirds and snakes) sadly I probably won’t do much, about hunger games. But if I do let it be known that it would be mostly about,

District 2

The Capitol

District 4

Because that’s what I’m interested in, the Capitol mostly because it just haifjwbdiekanfnrjrjw- hits the yummy part of my brain.

Anyway, more Octavian general hcs, or another Michael Kahale one? We’ll see what I decide to do while waiting for both my McDonald’s and the new episode.

Okay that’s all (it’s going to be an Octavian post all about his siblings/family)

ALSO! I’m working to get a grip on Ancient Roman naming conventions(?) and posting my hcs about that an applying it to Camp Jupiter or whatever, also the Ranking post will be the first time I’ll bring up New Rome (gonna talk about the governance, which I think I’ll pull from late Republic? We’ll see idk I don’t usually pull from specific eras of Rome intentionally-) weapons post coming up, and more in depth map one :3

Heads up to not use Duolingo or to cease using it

In December 2023 they laid off a huge percentage of their translation teams, replacing them with ai and having the remaining members review the ai translations to make sure the translations are “acceptable” (Note how they use the world acceptable and not accurate)

Link to the tweet that informed me of this:

https://x.com/rahll/status/1744234385891594380?s=46&t=a5vK0RLlkgqk-CTqc0Gvvw

If you’re a current user prepare for an uptick in translations errors as I’ve already seen people in the comments say they’ve noticed

Times Caligula was probably fucking with people

I have a pet theory that at least some of Caligula's "madness" was really him being a huge troll and screwing with people, and that several incidents the ancient historians take seriously were shitty jokes taken out of context. From Suetonius, Gaius:

Wandering into emperor Tiberius' bedroom at night with a dagger, thinking, "Eh..." and wandering back out. (12)

Chucking money into crowds to make people scramble for it. (18, 26)

Telling people "I'm gonna fuck the moon." (22)

Getting into arguments with a statue of Jupiter. (22)

Constantly pranking his uncle Claudius. (23)

[Caligula's daughter violently attacks her playmates] Caligula: "Yep, she's definitely mine." (25)

Promising an exciting gladiator show and then swapping in old shitty fighters at the last second. (26)

Reminding people "I could kill you whenever I like." (29, 32)

Grumbling about how the empire was too peaceful and there was nothing heroic left for him to do. (31)

"Everyone reads Homer. I should ban him and see what happens." (34)

Leading an army to the coast, making them gather seashells as "spoils of war," then telling them "Treat yourselves!" on the tiny monetary bonus he awarded them. (46)

Practicing goofy faces in his mirror to freak people out. (50)

Invites three terrified senators to the palace in the dead of night. Jumps out from behind a curtain and does a song and dance number in drag. Refuses to explain. Leaves. (54)

Does not actually make his horse consul, but pampers it so much people said he wanted to. (55)

Taunts the praetorian guards with so many "sissy" jokes they get fed up and shank him. (56, 58)

When people heard he was dead they thought he was pulling a stunt. (60)

are we told on how Probatio’s work?

Did people like Octavian, Michael Kahale, Bryce Lawerence, etc. have to go through the Probatio process??

Would go look in the book but I’m not swimming through it again to try and find answers. That’s… probably my fault but I just got back from vocal auditions (fingers crossed I get the LeFou role-) and I don’t want to try and scramble through it to figure out.

Anyway this is 100% me just not remembering it and I will probably go back and try to read through for information. About all the roles, for the post. Probably might just post the beginning of my drafting process. Auhghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Anyway another Bryce Lawerence post soon potentially because he’s so silly and I like talking about him. Possibly might be an outlining for a Bryce underworld trip thing? Either it’d be in the same style I write all my posts, or an actual story? We’ll see when we get there I guess.

Anyway Bryce headcanon of the day is that through exile he got a pet reptile. Don’t know what type but he thought it’d be cool and actually took pretty good care of it. Or it’s a mouse. I like the idea of Bryce Lawerence with a mouse so really it’s all up for debate (or maybe a rat. I can see Bryce with a rat.)

Octavian headcanons :3

Another round of general Octavian headcanons, family edition! Would first like to state I’m not touching the legacy strands currently because stuff like Augustus Caesar and his demigod status in Pjo and all of that messes stuff up and I need more time to think about that and actually reading ToA and stuff.

Anyways, motivation for the Octavian post is to settle pre-audition jitters. Drama club beauty and the beast production, and auditions are tomorrow :,] gonna have to weasel my way through the singing part and hope my acting carries me the rest of the way through (in the words of Perseus Jackson; if I tried to sing I’m pretty sure it’d cause an avalanche.)

*Update because I’ve been writing this post for a day; we had dance auditions first! Pretty much just seeing where we are in dancing skills for this, it was really chill and fun and vibes were immaculate! Sorry this post is kind of ajifnsdb and I couldn’t get names down for these people, but I’d want to do that after figuring out.. naming work?

But ajdienajdjfneb whatever onto the headcannons!!

Big family, BIIIG family. In my head he has 8 other siblings (he is indeed the eighth child just for my amusement and it works for the little time before I work on how I think New Rome does naming, and I’m not touching that with a 39 and a half foot pole)

Old money family too. They’re descended from Emperors and they’ve managed to continue that legacy and have a family business, aware of Triumvirate holdings, may even have positive work relations.

Octavian is the 2nd youngest, in order his siblings go; 1st eldest, 2 kid, 3 child, 4&5 were twins, then 6,7,8,9. His poor mom has so many kids- but got solid breaks between them, though I don’t want to calculate ages at the moment.

Staring with his youngest sister. It’s Julia, that Julia. The one that’s Terminus’s little ‘assistant’. Octavian likes getting the opportunity to see her more often than most of his other siblings. She’s a little menace but gets away with it, nothing bad though, just mischievous.

Skipping Octavian we go to child 7. Who doesn’t have a name but just got out of the legion a few years ago, and moved out of the legion/New Rome. Bit of a rebel, but just wants to settle down with a family of their own and distance themselves from the family. They had a neutral-to negative relationship with Octavian. Octavian doesn’t like his siblings distance from Rome, and sibling likes Octavian but can’t help worry over him.

Kid 6 would be probably Gaius or something (again. Not about to go think too hard about what is gonna end up being Octavian’s Oc siblings. I can think about them later) he got out honorably after Mt.Tam, I like to think he’s still looking for a job and drifting in that University stage.

Kids 5&4 are twins, fraternal (maybe identical but I want more fraternal twins) and absolutely wild?? Jobs set up probably as something like loan sharks, they help upkeep the family fortune. Think like Ebenezer Scrooge or how Bob Marley are described in Christmas Carol. Taught Octavian everything they knew about blackmail, manipulation, etc. but they’re generally silly. Both usually try to charge people for various scams, think of the cartoonish dealer with the giant trench coat.

Child 3 has their own family and works for Bombillio’s (?) pretty comfortable with life. Fascinated with the mortal realm, slips on trips their parents take for business.

Child 2 and 1 have significantly branched off and live sort of anywhere, I feel like 1 is supervising that outpost in Canada (that’s another Hc I have that I talked about a LOOONG time ago) and then 2 probably lives out with their partner in San Fran and cats.

Okay a sorry I’m a little jittery because it is SNOWING!!!!! Where I am at least but still, SNOWING!! Sorry I couldn’t name anyone but still, wanted to get general family stuff down and writing posts like these calm me down when I’m feeling a bit aaaaaurgh.

Octavian has mostly good relationships with his siblings. Though he feels like he’s the only one really invested in being a citizen of New Rome and upholding the family name.

I’ll probably change around the siblings and their order whenever I decide how their ages work. But I feel they’re all relatively close in age and then Julia is just the odd one out.

His mother is a legacy from a newer family in New Rome, she’s pretty silly and generally just wants the best for her family.

His dad inherited the unnamed, unspecified family business/company and currently runs it, preserved his old crown awards and has them framed in his office, takes his family very seriously.

Okay, I’m working on the rankings research. It’s… a thing, but for now I might just make more of these random little hc posts, in between larger posts and passion stuff y’know?

Also maybe other fandoms? I’m still very much a Pjo person but I still wanna talk about other stuff lol,

Anyway here’s a quick Octavian thing I did, I’m still messing with his design, I feel like this might stick but I’ll still mess around with his hair, but I just wanted to add a little more to this post because it felt… pretty empty lol.

Also possible post on how some of the weapons characters have look? Would love to draw actual referenced things like IVILIS(? Don’t wanna go check but the Juno sword I think- Jason’s sword-) Reyna’s spear sword & dagger. Octavian’s Pilum & dagger, some hc stuff, maybe actual Camp Half-Blood stuff (because I wanna draw Backbiter)

Okay, I think I’m done now :3