The-restless-bones - Behold: I Speak

Rex: You're scared someone will ask Cody out before you? Obi-Wan: Yes Rex: 99.9% sure you don't have to worry about that Obi-Wan: Why? He's amazing Rex: He's also terrifying *later* Quinlan: So...got any plans later? Cody: Uh- Rex: Holy fuck the 0.1%

NO, BECAUSE TELL ME WHY WHEN MY BAND DIRECTOR ASKED ME WHAT I WAS DOING, MY FIRST FUCKING INSTINCT, THE VERY FIRST THING OUT OF MY TRAITOROUS MOUTH WAS-

“Your mother”

Paul uses one of those razor blade subscription services and, since it's cheap, sends Percy at New Rome University a spare pack every time he gets a delivery. Percy keeps a MUCH cleaner shave than Paul does, who kind of keeps it scruffy. Unfortunately, one time, there's a shipping error as Paul's package is lost in the mail, so nobody gets razors.

Percy doesn't consider it much initially, but as days go by without a shave, he starts to build up stubble - something incredibly uncommon for him. People turn their heads and tease him a bit until the stubble grows into a shadow, grows into a beard.

Suddenly, nobody teases Percy. They give him a wide berth, and on more than one occasion, a younger New Roman called him "Sir" reverently. Now, when Percy delivers some Classic Snark during a lecture or between classes, it's not met with snickers and eye-rolls. It feels scathing in a way it never had before. Now things that Percy pokes fun at are corrected, and people nod along to his comments as though they were suggestions - no, expectations.

Sure enough, people relax a bit when some new razor cartridges come in, and Percy shaves again, and things go back to normal. Percy isn't sure why people acted odd for a week or two there. Then Annabeth, who (tactfully) avoided kissing him for that duration, points out, "You look a lot like your dad."

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