Im Starting The Octavian And Michale Kahale Quest Fanfic, But, How Do We Think Auguries Feel? Like Im

I’m starting the Octavian and Michale Kahale quest fanfic, but, how do we think Auguries feel? Like I’m really trying to consider this because obviously we never see it too well, and what we do see is like?

Octavian cutting open the stuffed animal, muttering something and being like “rad alright your golden” to Percy about joining but like?

What’s actually going on here? How like- hhhhhhhhhh. Also while I’m at it how was he in contact with Apollo? Does that ever get answered because I don’t think it could’ve been through his Haruspex/Auguring? Like-

There’s just so much Octavian stuff and so little to explain it. I might just make it like, super duper toned down Oracle because, he’s not an oracle but I still wanna give my silly little boy something that makes him ominous other than towering over everyone and like everything else Octavian has going for him.

But anyway expect the first bit of the Octavian Michael quest story soon! I don’t think it’ll be too long but I’ll honestly just have to see lol?

(Update: I have a little snippet of the beginning out now, the prologue if you would? I’m by no means a good writer but I like the story-)

Me and my friend got callbacks and we might end up being Lumire and Cogsworth B] but we get Cast list soon so fingers crossed!!

Anyway I’m gonna work on Ranking stuff right now. Literally just have to finish something and then the post will begin to be physically drafted, but for now I wanna talk about some of the (massive-) changes I’m making for the sake of being excited and getting to talk about Rome in some way,

Praetors are being swapped out. They’ll be a part of New Rome’s government (that I might go off of but that’s a different thing) but are being replaced by a ‘senior officers’ class. Not exactly senior officers, they’re elected and other stuff that I’ll explain. But yeah, generally making things a bit more complex and election drama and that stuff.

I say I’m making it complex but really it still is the ‘Senior Officer, Senator, Centurion, Legionnaire+’ pyramid. Just with some extra spots to account for the fact that Camp might be a bit bigger in my re-imagining? Much more bustling (*not to mention a lot of minor Gods probably subtly guide their kids there for various reasons but that’s a different idea I haven’t thought much over*)

The Centurion role list will probably look very long because of the 4 titles but it literally boils down to ‘Centurion. These Centurions have a different tilte. Blah blah blah’

More legionnaire roles!! I’m gonna go on a rant over Optio’s (Optiones? Optii? Idk) because it’s my favorite position in the Roman military and because I find them interesting and a good way to build characters n’ stuff. But yeah, not lots but more legionnaire roles (I think like 2 or 3? We’ll see but I’m 100% omitting some roles)

I’ll be transparent. I’ve only thought about how this may affect plot surface level. I am not the plot guy or the writing guy. I just like myself ten buckets of worldbuilding, but I’ll probably go over what I think this changes for characters. Probably.

Okay thats really it I think. Another note is that my research probably isn’t that in depth, I have a lot of things to do and therefore I try my best but I obviously won’t be like a million % accurate or correct or whatever. And this is all for my Re: imagined! It’s just my headcanons for how I want to think of my Re-imagining of Camp and HoO. The extra roles and how I see SoN in my Re:imagining add to what I want Camps suffocating regimented atmosphere that Percy has to experience to be.

A Chris Rodriguez rambling

I yap about Catholicism a little, and like I said two other times. This is just my experience! I am, once more, a silly black cat that is just talking about a connection I made. This is not a blanket statement on all Hispanic households, though you all probably understand that.

Also slight spoilers for Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth!

Hi, I’m back. And this is a thought I’ve been having.. since I read Titan’s curse really. After my thoughts circled back to Chris, it also came to Mary.

If anyone doesn’t know or wants a refresher. Mary is the person Chris calls out to while he’s in the whole madness state due to the labyrinth. I’d like to propose what my interpretation was when I first read it/what my interpretation still is whenever I re-read it.

I always thought he was calling out to the Virgin Mary. So uh- that’s obviously just a bit random. But let me set up the brain thought process, I am Hispanic, and for the sake of set up there is this one show, La Rosa De Guadalupe, specifically the 2007 stuff because that’s what I know,

La Rosa De Guadalupe has heavy emphasis on the Virgin of Guadalupe (the Catholic title for the Virgin Mary I think), and the Virgin Mary is a very important figure, she was a mainstay in my childhood in relation to my Mom, and is an important figure in Catholism I believe. Which- is the most prevalent religion in Mexico. All that to say that religion and specifically the Virgin Mary are very important figures that even in non-religious households are still held in high regard from my experiences (in my anecdotal evidence; this is just my interpretation and not a blanket statement on all Mexican/generally of Latin American descent households.)

I wouldn’t say it’s a far stretch for Chris (who’s said Hispanic I think?) to still have some ties to Catholism? In some way or form. And those factors always led me to believe that when he’s calling out for Mary, it’s always the Virgin Mary. What Chris knows, what’s ingrained in his brain from childhood other than Greek Gods, calling out for a miracle or to be saved.

Just my silly little head thoughts. But wowzers never thought I’d be talking about like- religion on here! Uh, yeah. Like I said this is all anecdotal from my experiences, and just my ideas as to what this mystery’s answer may be :] but that’s my funny haha headcanon. Also if you want a good laugh go find some episodes of La Rosa De Guadalupe’s 2007 run, I remember it mostly for how wild some of the episodes were but it’s all good fun.

Ahdianodensn I haven’t posted in almost a week!

First off happy Valentine’s Day, my contribution to the day is,

My silly Oc gets to be in my guilty pleasure ship (please they are thematic and in my heart where Mercury is a real character and Octavian doesn’t die they help each other through processing their trauma and are so silly-) also Ares because after watching the episode more everytime I see him I spontaneously combust.

Anyway the next post will be about ToA hidden Oracle, I’m finishing the book and I’ve been bookmarking things that looking interesting and that I wanna talk about, which I’ll compile into a post and hahahaha.

Anyway uh Happy Valentine’s Day and Lupercalia to all. Possibly a New Rome/Camp Jupiter festivals post if I don’t get to finishing Hidden Oracle in a timely manner.

(Also another map post. It’ll finally be there soon I pinky promise.)

Do you have an account on TV Tropes?

I don’t lol

Octavian’s Pokemon team Hc

I bought the Pokemon Scarlet DLC and now I’ve decided that every pjo character I like now needs pokemon teams. With explanations

Octavian’s team I think came the most naturally. I’ll probably also be including like fully evolved teams and stuff but the first team I thought of (probably like baby Octavian’s team) would be,

Stufful, Poocheyna, furret, snivy, pidove, and evee.

(The pokemon in question from left to right,)

Why these little guys specifically for his like first team? Well Stufful is a stuffed animal and that’s the Octavian thing (I was tempted to put pancham on here for the joke but no-) poochyena just gives me Octavian vibes, feel like he’s on their wavelength and thinks their cute. Furret also just, feels like Octavian. That is my justification. Snivy is here mostly for the evo and how snooty it was in the anime, probably a family tradition pokemon, also its final evo is Octavian vibes. Pidove is there purely because of Auguries and because I believe Octavian thinks it looks funky and cute. Eevee is there partially because I just like eevee and a shorthand to show Octavian’s pokemon treatment in the future and like pokemon stuff, he probably wants it to become an umbreon.

Now Octavian’s final team in my head ends up being Bewear, mighteyna, serperior, unfeazant, meowstic, sylveon. (Sadly not pictured due to tumblr app restrictions on 10 pics per post.)

Bewear is Stufful’s evolved form, known for being absolutely massive, wanting friends, and then accidentally crushing people. I wanted to keep the Stufful on and I thought it’d like fit with Octavian because of his like constant push and pull in the pseudo-taking into account of canon in my mind of the character. Mighteyna is Poochyena’s evolved form. Octavian just got attached to it and it’s a dog/hyena/sort of wolf canine esque creature and Rome dog parallels. Serperior is Snivy’s evolved form and if you only look up one pokemon from this post look up Serperior because it actually is just Octavian’s pokemon. But it’s regal. Unfeazant, he evolved his little pidove. Just there for his Augury stuff and maybe even the Haruspex nature (a Pheasant is close enough to a chicken or something-). Meowstic is there for its wild psychic abilities, like future telling and stuff. Sylveon is a guilty pleasure because it’s one of my all time favorite pokemon (like many of these are) and it’s showing his dedication to his pokemon and passion and love for like New Rome.

I didn’t add Falinks just because I’d rather give it to other people (Michael Kahale or Reyna). But if it’s definitely a honorable mention along with crobat.