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OOC (with pjo and hoo spoilers):

As you might know, Jacks is my Percy Jackson series oc. They are also almost completely loosely based off of me. So I wanna just post the process of choosing the godly parent (oh boy that was a struggle) of them [including the gender changes bc I'm genderfluid irl] :)

1. Son of Cupid

I didn't want them to be completely on the nose of being the child of a love goddess (specifically Aphrodite), so I did research on different greek gods and I ended up choosing Cupid. This version was called Jackson, and he had a crossbow with bolts that were similar to Frank Zhang's arrows during the mansion part of The Son of Neptune. With influences Jacks's weapon today.

2. Son of Aphrodite

Again, almost the same thing as Cupid, but I got tired of explaining to my irl friends the difference between Cupid and Aphrodite so I just said "Fine! He's the son of Aphrodite, happy?!"

3. Child of Hades

I went back into my Nico phase and wanted my character to be related to Nico, so I changed it to Hades. This version's name was Jax (politely given to me by my friend) and they had a Scythe as a weapon (inspired by Backbiter) that changed into a bracelet where if you snapped off a bead of the bracelet, it would fall to your hand where the handle then wrapped around it.

4. Daughter/Son of Demeter

I was really into farming and agriculture at the time. Female version's name being Jackie. Nothing notable other than I grew primarily mushrooms.

5. Son of Dionysus

I was watching the show and a lot of mead/wine making stuff at the time. Remake of the Son of Demeter where I would grow strawberries for low alcoholic mead that I would sell to other campers for parties. Weapon was a bow and arrow that did the same thing as the cupid crossbow in Ver. 1.

6. Son of Erebus (primordial god of darkness and shadows)

Heavily considered Nyx, but I thought having a character that could control shadows was sick asf. Was temporarily a girl in a version where she became a Hunter but broke her vow, causing her to hide in her father's pocket dimension in the underworld for five year, coming out insane. Combination of the weapons for Cupid and Hades. Also had a crow with 23 razor sharp, detachable feathers, that could shrink and grow (to the size of a dragon) and transformed into a ring with 23 feathers encircling the ring in a design on it. Her name's Kori (based off of Koronis, story variates through each time, but the basic is that she ran away, Athena (or some other god) saved/punished her by transforming her into the first ever crow. Which, based on a different myth, Apollo burned her for something and caused her, and all other crows/ravens, to be black). Kori is still present in the current and final version of Jacks.

7. (very shortly) Child of Poseidon

Nothing notable except I was able to finally decide how Jacks would look.

8. (finally) Child of Apollo

The final version of Jacks. Arguably one of the best versions of them. Has a version of the sickle where it's more one handed and less clunky, rather than dual-wielded, the Cupid Crossbow (now called Orgí tou Íliou or Wrath of The Sun), and of course, Kori (I love Kori sm 💜💜💜).

Thanks for reading this, if you did!

@bright-side-of-the-moon read this if you want a yappathon of a lore fest lol