I Was About To Say Itd Be Cool If Lester Met Apollo Post Trials And He Got To Go Home And Recover From

i was about to say it’d be cool if Lester met Apollo post trials and he got to go home and recover from the ordeal of the past several months, but then i realized something. Lester’s body didn’t survive the edge of Chaos, did it? Apollo regaining his immortality must’ve destroyed any part of it that was left.

Lester died.

He’s gone, and Apollo has no idea (unless he stumbles upon a missing poster and realizes that another innocent soul was sacrificed by Zeus just to punish Apollo, and oh he’d feel so guilty about it)

wtf i’m so sad now

So, I'm workin on an AU where Lester is a Real Person before Apollo takes over, yk. But we really need a baseline abt how he acts and who he is before I get into writing, so we need a place to write down all thats known abt him from a canon pov, to get a bit of a hold on him

He has a New York City Junior Drivers License. This doesn't seem important at first glance, however, junior drivers license means that you have to have some one over 21(usually a parent or legal guardian) to be in the car with you. That means that Real Person Lester has an adult in his life who is willing to sit in a car for long periods of time to let him get driving practice in, in New York City.

Despite his skills from his godly domain being diminished, Apollo still plays the ukulele well. Not only that, but he does not once complain about developing calluses on his hands(which is a painful process when you're doing it with metal strings, trust us), this implies that Meat Puppet Lester's hands already had calluses from metal strings. which, considering that that implies that Real Person Lester had a high end Ukulele rather than a cheap one, also implies that his legal guardian, whoever they might have been, would have supported Real Person Lester in his playing of the instrument, and wanted him to do well in playing so.

Hades and Apollo's Fieldtrip to Superhell!!

Based on one of the best fics I've read! Seriously it's so good, the Hades-Apollo bonding took me out and nearly brought me to tears on way too many occasions, 100/10 I didn't know I could be rendered incoherent with emotion when two deities touched each other's shoulders and tolerate each others existence, but here we are.

They're the Uncle-Nephew duo ever <33

Also! I decided to try out a new lineless art style, and I really like how they came out, so I might do some more in the future :D

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Apollo is always there at the birth of his children. He stands as aid to the midwives in scrubs and a mask. His lovers wouldn’t recognise him if it wasn’t for his shining gold eyes that light up the room upon seeing his newborn child

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Percy, Nico, and Jason should have fallen into Tartarus together, while Annabeth should have remained with the rest of the Seven in House of Hades. Please hear me out.

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For one, this way Tartarus would have been much more intimidating. At least in my opinion, it has pretty much lost this aspect, especially after Sun and Star. Tartarus is the prison of the titans, a place so scary and so dangerous, that only the best of the best can make it through. Homer described it as being as far beneath Hades as heaven is above earth.  Overcoming it should be the ultimate challenge.

Yes, Annabeth is smart, incredibly so, but, I feel like, because Rick wanted her to be useful in Tartarus, he used a lot of cheap tricks in her POVs to get her and Percy over obstacles, which seem a bit too simple to really work against beings like Nyx. This took the heaviness away from them being down there and felt at times even anticlimactic. Don’t get me wrong, again, because I know this is a sensitive subject, Annabeth is smart, has a strong resolve and is great at hand to hand combat, but that’s it. And, in my opinion, that should not be enough to overcome Tartarus. If it would have taken a child of each of the big three working together to only barely make it out, it would have definitely reinforced that status, and also the gods’ belief that such children can become too powerful.

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Secondly, Percy not letting go of Nico’s hand, would have done wonders for the development of their relationship and for each character’s individual arc.

Imagine, Nico dangling from the edge, instead of Annabeth. Nico, who had only days prior pretended like he didn’t know Percy, who is so full of self-hatred, he thinks the entirety of camp half-blood hates him, who is already weakened by being imprisoned in the jar, and who is scared out of his mind by the idea of being alone in Tartarus again.

Imagine Nico staring up at Percy, clasping his hand, while Percy looks up at Annabeth, the love of his life, whom he had been separated from for months. Imagine Nico being convinced, that Percy is going to let Nico fall down to stay by her side.

But Percy refuses to let go.

He refuses to let go, even after Nico tells him he should do it, and decides instead to fall together with him into the worst place on earth, just so Nico doesn’t have to endure it alone again. It would have further reinforced Percy’s self-inflicted role as Nico’s protector which he already had in the original five books and his fatal flaw of loyalty. To Nico, it would have given him a worse inner conflict about having a crush on him, which could have been revolved while they were travelling together.  The confession scene would have been much more impactful and healthier, if it would have come from Nico himself, and if he and Percy would have had a more in depth talk about it.

And if Jason would have flown after them in a moment of desperation, it would have reinforced the sense of loyalty and protectiveness that he had already shown when he had saved Piper at the grand canyon. The scene with Polybotes could have also taken place in Tartarus instead, and him and Percy working together, and putting all of their differences aside would have been a much more interesting dynamic than the stupid, out of character, rivalry bit they’ve got going on in Mark of Athena.

And, to be honest, just having Nico, Percy and Jason go all out, would probably be one of the coolest scenes in the entire Riordan verse.  

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All the while, Annabeth could have really cemented her role as a leader. I love her character, but to say that she has more leadership capabilities than Percy is laughable to me after reading the original five Percy Jackson books. These books are, after all, about Percy’s hero’s journey from an inexperienced kid to a smart, powerful and wise hero and the leader of camp half blood.  Annabeth, in comparison, shows relatively little of that. (Obviously this makes sense, considering that the books are from Percy’s POV and revolve around him, but the complete switch-up to saying that Annabeth is the natural choice as leader of the seven just felt a bit out of the blue to me in Mark of Athena)

Her leading the rest, in a moment of such a tragedy and remaining strong would have really reinforced the strong resolve that she had already shown in holding the sky in titan’s curse and in remaining steadfast despite all the horrible things that happened to her with her father’s rejection and luke’s betrayal. Annabeth’s relationship to Piper, Leo, Hazel and Frank, which is painfully underdeveloped in the books, could have also been given some much needed attention. Like, I can’t remember a single scene where she and Hazel, or she and Leo really talk to one another, which is a shame, because they could have had really interesting dynamics with one another.

It also would have also been a powerful statement about Percy’s and Annabeth’s relationship, if they, while separated, still believed in each other and trusted that the other person would get the job done.

Without powerhouses like Jason and Percy on board of the Argo II, Hazel and Frank could have really shone as individual fighters. Hazel is probably the second, or third most powerful demigod in the entire franchise, but barely gets any attention, and for a guy, who is apparently so powerful his life had to be tied to a stick, Frank seems, outside of one or two scenes, also pretty underwhelming.  

Without Jason, Piper’s and Leo’s friendship could have also gotten some more attention, and generally the reunion scene at the end of House of Hades could have been much more impactful with these character dynamics. I mean, Hazel, and Nico being reunited, Jason, leo and Piper, and Percy and Annabeth, and Percy, Hazel and Frank.

One of the biggest problems, I have with Heroes of Olympus is the extreme focus on romantic relationships. Having some couples be separated from each other like this, would have also solved this and given the only couple still together, Frank and Hazel, more room to develop.