"Do You Think It'll Stop One Day?" Percy Asked Of Him One Day, Breaking The Comfortable Silence They

"Do you think it'll stop one day?" Percy asked of him one day, breaking the comfortable silence they both basked in.

Poseidon tilted his head toward his child, raising his eyebrow as Percy laid down on the wooden floor of the dock.

"What, little one?" He questions the boy back, his tone curious and fond.

His son sighs softly, splashing around the water with his feet. He looks up at the lavender-toned dawn, stars shining across the heavens like a divine pattern on the fabric of the world.

"The suffering. The constant struggle for a losing battle where I can never win." The boy says, the reflection of the stars in his eyes, like a swirling galaxy of miracles and wonder.

Poseidon stills.

He slowly turns to his son and closes his eyes as he breaths out his words.

"I'm sorry." He apologizes.

"Don't be," Percy says back, his voice firm but soft. "It's not your fault, and neither it is mine. I'm not blaming you for loving me enough to make my existence a reality."

Poseidon opens his eyes, his gaze filled with sadness.

"Then what can I do?" Poseidon whispers desperately. "Whisk you away to be my side? Keep you chained to this land by immortalizing your body and destroying your soul? You wouldn't want any of that. I am a god and yet I can do nothing to aid you with your pain." He finishes, falling silent as angry waves crash upon the shore and stormy clouds cover the sky like curtains.

Percy glances at the crashing waves on the horizon, at the dark ocean that stretches to eternity and beyond.

"I don't know. And it's okay for you to not know either." Percy says calmly.

"Just be here for me until I won't be here at all."

And wait until comes forth the inevitable end.

I'd like to think that as Percy grows older, he starts resembling Poseidon way more than anyone expects.

And not today, modern, chill fisherman Poseidon, we're talking ancient Greek God Poseidon. This also includes some...unique features.

Sharp teeth, sometimes when he gets agitated and frustrated his irises become sharper and thinner. His hair gets pretty dang long, going to the middle of his back; kinda symbolic of the ocean with waves and curls. (Which Annabeth loves braiding or playing with. Percy does not cut his hair.)

One time he's on a quest for 3 months and is not in any position to shave, so he is rocking a beard while visiting Olympus to give back whatever item the gods need at the time.

Suffice it to say that Apollo has a heart attack, Zeus nearly faints on the spot, Hermes is sitting in a corner holding up a cross and reciting the entirety of the Bible, Athena has Athens flashbacks and Ares re-evaluates his entire life in two consecutive minutes.

Poseidon is incredibly proud.

I also have a headcanon that the more a demigod takes after their godly parent, the more it pleases said godly parent.

It's like a claim on the kid, in a way to tell the other gods that "this is my kid, mine. Look at him and all the ways he resembles me."

So Poseidon is watching Zeus have a midlife crisis while he's giggling and kicking his feet. He tells Percy to definitely keep the beard.

Zaptrap your plethora of emotionally neglected children are waiting for you in the underworld :)

Percy: Alright let's see. Looks like a cinnamon roll but would actually kill you. That's definitely step-mom. Very pretty but if you get on her bad side? Yikes.

Percy: Looks like a cinnamon roll, and actually is a cinnamon roll? Tyson. All the way. He wouldn't hurt a fly.

Percy: Looks like they would kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll? Hmm. Probably dad? Yeah. The number of times I think he's upset and fed up with me but then he hugs me?

Percy: Looks like they would kill you and would actually kill you? Kym.

Everyone:

Zeus: *wheezes* looks like they would kill you but is actually a cinnamon roll? Hahaha.

Poseidon: *glowers* you try expressing emotions around a child previously physically and verbally abused by a father figure!!!

Amphitrite: No need to butter me up Percy, I already set aside your cookies for when you visit.

Tyson: *nodding* I am a nice cyclops!!

Kym: Fuck yeah!! Nice one little brother.

I think Arthur and Lancelot would have been the best couple.

Sue me, I love sad tragic couples.

Like, was having a threesome that hard?

We could have named you guys and Guinevere's ship name polyarmoury.

Poly ARMOURY.

DAMN IT YOU BITCHES.

Me rn:

#suggestive

just in case lmao

Poseidon

Incorrect PJO quotes:

Zeus: you can say anything to me for the next 30 seconds, and I will not smite you.

Percy: if you spent half of the time you spend screwing over people's lives, on building actual relationships with your family, maybe you wouldn't have so many people betraying you.

Zeus:

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Annabeth trying to convince herself Luke isn't evil: it's not that he's evil. He lacks empathy and goes into a disassociative state and commits atrocities.

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Thalia: hey Percy?

Percy: yeah?

Thalia: ur a bitch.

Percy: I luv u too Thalia.

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Annabeth: as if! Your sense of direction is so bad, you lose yourself in a mirror!

Percy: you CRACK mirrors!

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Frank: I don't see any handsome man here?

Leo: just turn around!

Frank:

Frank: Leo, please. Only one of us can hallucinate at the time.

Leo:

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