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Ok, ok.

So. I've had this theory floating around in my head for years but i've never actually talked about it.

The First Great Prophecy of the original Percy Jackson books is worded like this:

1. A half-blood of the eldest gods

2. Shall reach sixteen against all odds

3. And see the world in endless sleep

4. The hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap

5. A single choice shall end his days

6. Olympus to preserve or raze

Now, in Heroes of Olympus, Piper Mclean makes an interesting comment about the nature of the oldest olympian:

“And why shouldn't Piper intimidate them? Aphrodite was the most ancient Olympian, born of the sea and the blood of Ouranos. She was older than Poseidon or Athena or even Zeus. And Piper was her daughter.” ― Rick Riordan, The Blood of Olympus

Now, the reason for one of the Big Three's children being prophesized is simply, that "gods often refer to the male ones."

When you put this into context, this seems, odd, doesn't it? Prophecies are intentionally misleading, and according to the wiki, "Regardless of how a prophecy is received, they all have one thing in common: they are cryptic. A prophecy will never say exactly what will happen,"

So why are the Big Three assumed to be the eldest gods, and why does everyone just go along with this explanation, the easiest one to believe?

(Ok, so what am I yapping about? what does this mean?)

Aphrodite is the eldest Olympian. Her daughter, Silena (oh, no.)

could be the (my) hero of the Great prophecy.

Let me explain each line first, then go through the entire theory.

First of all,

2. "shall reach 16 against all odds."

Silena was around 16 at the time of her death. The "odds" she's faced, apparently to make her decision (which I'll talk about later) are most likely just one "odd": Beckendorf's death. Unlike Percy, who's (assumed to be) our hero in the original story, she does not go through multiple quests to try and stop Luke/Kronos. This might make someone feel this argument is less compelling. However, Beckendorf's death and Clarisse's support rock Silena's foundations to the core, because she operated with Luke only under the belief that he would keep Beckendorf safe.

So yes, Silena made it to her current age against all odds.

" 'Against all odds' is an idiom that means something was achieved despite the odds being stacked against it." So absolutely, Silena made it against all odds.

3. And see the world in endless sleep

This section is pretty self-explanatory. In the Last Olympian,

"Silena met with the campers... and she was astonished at how peaceful Manhattan was, and asked if they were dead, and Percy said they weren’t dead, Morpheus had just put them to sleep. " - Percy Jackson Wikia

So yes, as easily as this section applies to Percy, it easily applies to Silena. What's even more interesting is that in this specific scene, Silena is given a role.

Keep in mind up until this point Silena has basically been treated barely as a character, an accessory for Rick to use as an Aphrodite child Percy is semi-familiar with. Rick even regularly forgets the makeup of her physical features.

"In The Demigod Files, it said that her hair was black and her eyes chocolate brown. In The Last Olympian, she had brown hair and blue eyes and in The Ultimate Guide, her eyes were blue and her hair was blonde."

So yes, she does fit the third line of the prophecy.

Now you may think. "There's absolutely no way she can fit the last three lines of the prophecy into Silena's story. No. Absolute. Way."

But, dear reader, you misunderstand me. This is merely an alternate interpretation of the Great Prophecy that I honestly like better than the original one. Because it subverts expectations. Because it changes the way people see things, and prophecies seldom turn out exactly the way they are described. Percy at some point is just assumed to be the hero of the prophecy. I like this theory because it is exactly what a prophecy should be: it will never say exactly what will happen, in the way that you expect it to happen.

Let's move on to Line #4.

4. The hero's soul, cursed blade shall reap

Silena is established as the spy for Kronos in Book 5, The Last Olympian, Kronos begins taunting Percy with a bracelet that has a scythe charm on it: the method of communication he and his spy use. This scythe charm could very well be the "cursed blade" as Silena gives up her soul to be reaped by Kronos' cursed blade. Silena sells her soul in the hope of saving Beckendorf, and she loses her soul/life in the process of losing that blade. The cursed blade reaps, or kills, her.

If not for her association with Kronos and her later guilt that leads her to die for Clarisse, Silena would never have died. She wouldn't have been reaped. It's not as literal of a connection but it's a poetic one that still works quite well, especially in the tone of this side-arc mirroring the poem of Achilles and Patroclus.

5. A single choice shall end his days

("WAIT!!", you're saying. "IT SAYS HIS DAYS, NOT HER DAYS!!1!!!1 THEORY DISPROVED, AND YOU'RE A LIAR!")

Do you hear people say "humankind" very often? In many older texts, and partially in the current day, "him" was just the singular, default version of "they". Femininity had to be specified. This is why Thalia was considered a viable candidate for the prophecy.

Now, Silena's single choice was obvious: going out with Clarisse's helmet on. She sacrificed her life to lead the Ares cabin, which by the way was a major problem as they had the majority of the weapons and heavy fighters but refused to be moved out UNTIL Silena decided to step up and lead them.

#6. and More Explanation will be out in a part #2 I will write soon!!!

So I was talking to a friend and we were talking about the Greek gods (percy jackson versions) and how hades Zeus and poseidon decided on realms and now I have an image of them useing hades helm to draw cards out of and hades sulking in the background

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@therainingkiwi dude, me too. i honestly have been hesitant to say it for a while because i wasn't sure how it would be received, but it's nice to know i'm not alone in my line of thinking. percy and annabeth would be foster parents of every demigod whose mortal parent won't step up. great addition, dude!

Pjo but Hestia has her own cabin and unclaimed kids go there because she’s the goddess of the house and home. So 1: the Hermes cabin isn’t so crowded and 2: so they can get claimed faster if all the unclaimed kids are in one area.

If Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter were to fight CHB would win. This is based solely on the fact that they actually know how to think outside the box.

They’re also crazy.

Intrusive thoughts about how the Apollo cabin would totally perform Epic the Musical for camp

Will Solace is so underrated. He was 13 when the battle the Battle of Manhattan was fought, and he became the Cabin Counsellor at this age because all his older siblings died. Cabin 7 went from being the largest cabin in CHB to just 3 members.

He could've hated Percy for taking his siblings away, but he didn't. He slapped on a smile, and kept helping.

Everyone sees him as Nico's boyfriend, but he is so much more. He isn't even just a medic, even though Lord Apollo was proud of him for his exceptional healing skills. He has plague powers, even though he hates them. He can literally spread or expel any illness!

So the gods are notoriously bad parents, but have we considered what it would be like if they acted like normal parents?

Zeus: AS LONG AS YOU LIVE UNDER MY ROOF YOU FOLLOW MY RULES

Thalia: under your-? YOU MEAN THE SKY?!?!

Or

Athena: I believe it's probably about time we have... the talk

Annabeth: bold words from a virgin goddess

Or

Hades: when I was your age my parents never gave me handouts. I had to work for what I wanted

Nico: your dad literally ate you, I -

Or

Poseidon: if your friends jumped off a cliff would you?

Percy: so... this has happened and I'm gonna let you know now that it will happen again

Or

Will: just gonna say that Aunt Artemis doesn't force her huntresses to go to music lessons...

Apollo: If Aunt Artemis is so great then go live with her!

Will: if I was a girl I would

Or

Aphrodite: Because I said so

Piper: jokes on you, I have charmspeak too

Or

Pluto: Another dog? We have a dog! One could argue that we even have three. Besides, who is gonna end up taking care of this dog? Me. You and Nico aren't responsible. Besides, dogs are expensive. You know, money doesn't grow on trees-

Hazel: because...i can get it from the ground??

Okay but imagine. Percy’s going to high school post canon, and he, being extremely attractive, is instantly popular. He has a lot of friends, some fake, some genuine, and he can tell which are genuine. A lot of girls also try to flirt with him, but obviously he’s dating Annabeth, so he shuts them down real quick. However, his instant popularity and unintentional wooing of girls gains him instant dislike from some of the guys who had already been popular. They want to teach this newbie a lesson. Thing is, they find out very quickly that roughing him up won’t work. Any attempted fight ends with him pinning his arm against your throat with your back to the wall and a warning to leave him alone. He even managed to come out on top when it was six v one. So they resort to the next best thing.

Words.

At first, nothing seems to bother him. Sneering comments about his looks and stuff bounce off of him like rubber, and he usually responds with a sarcastic comment that leaves them floundering for words. (Percy once got a severe panic attack in class after someone mentioned a bottomless pit, and they mocked him about that once, but it ended with Percy’s foot on someone’s throat and a dangerous gleam in his eye that sent the message to never, ever joke about that if you wanted to live.) But then that changes when they find a new topic to target. The ‘ringleader’ of the popular guys who dislike him, Brad, shares literature class with him. The lit teacher at that school likes to publicly humiliate students who don’t do well on tests or essays by not-very-subtly announcing their grade when they get their paper/test back. One day, Percy gets an F on a test, and Brad notices that he seems more sullen when he sees how he did. He also has noticed that Percy is no slacker, and does genuinely try hard on his schoolwork. He mockingly teases Percy about his grade, and Percy tenses for a split second but then just rolls his eyes.

But that split second was enough for Brad to know that he’d found a weak spot.

The group redoubles their effort, viciously tearing him down with taunts about his grades, his intelligence level, everything and anything they can think off. And Percy knows it’s stupid, but it starts to get to him. Because he (thinks he) knows they’re right. And though his mask of impassivity never breaks, Brad can tell that their comments get to him.

When they find out he has dyslexia, it doesn’t deter them (cause they’re assholes) but instead gives them something new to also mock Percy about. They tease him inside of class and out, sometimes volunteering him to read when the teacher needs someone to read for the class, and mocking him/over-exaggeratedly stuttering when he inevitably slips up once or twice. The tip of his ears turning bright red is the only tell that their words are humiliating him.

It all escalates when Brad’s girlfriend, Lena, dumps him in favor of trying to get with Percy (hilariously unsuccessfully, as it turns out). Brad is furious, and the group is ruder than ever before, constantly harassing him. Percy is not the type to take this lying down, and snaps back with sass (as he had been doing from the very beginning as well), but they know they’re still getting to him anyway. One day, Percy is talking to a very pretty, sweet looking blonde girl who none of the guys recognize (it’s Annabeth visiting Percy cause her school is on break) and as they’re walking past the pair, who are discussing where to go on a date, Percy says, “I think that-“

But that’s as far as he gets.

“Let me stop you right there,” Brad interjects, interrupting him. “I know whatever you’re about to say is going to be moronic, since you began it with ‘I think’ when you clearly can’t think.”

Which isn’t Brad’s most creative taunt, but Percy had gotten a C on an essay earlier that day (which had been an opinion essay. He’d gotten a C on what he thought.) and so he just glares. It was also Brad’s first mistake. Annabeth is fuming by the end of Brad’s sentence.

“What did you just say to him?”

“What to Per-C minus?”

Second mistake. Annabeth blinks at him, her anger growing at the nickname.

“You like that?” Brad says, somehow misinterpreting her fury for being impressed. “We’ve also got Doesn’t Know Jack-son, and-”

Annabeth grabs his wrist and twists it sharply, not enough to break bones, but enough that it hurts. By the end of their conversation with her, Brad and his group are promising to never talk to Percy again, and they mean it because they do not want to risk the wrath of this blonde girl if she finds out they broke their word. Once they’ve run away with their tails between their legs, Annabeth turns to Percy. She’s prepared to rant about how those guys were moronic jackasses, but she sees his expression and instead pulls him into a hug.

“Listen, Seaweed Brain.” She stops. “You know, when I call you that, I don’t-“

“I know, don’t worry,” Percy interrupts.

“Good. Anyway, don’t listen to those guys. They’re completely wrong. You may be boneheaded at times-“

“Hey!”

“-but you’re not stupid. Not even close. You’re really, really smart and clever, and they don’t know the first thing about you. Don’t let them get to you. You’re smart and funny and loyal and cute-”

Percy pulls away from the hug, waggling his eyebrows. “You think I’m cute?”

Annabeth sighs in exasperation. “We’re dating. Yes, I think you’re cute.”

Percy’s grin grows and he wiggles his eyebrows again. “You think I’m cute.”

Annabeth rolls her eyes fondly, and interlaces her fingers with Percy’s, tugging him out of the school doors. “Yeah, yeah, Seaweed Brain, you’re cute.”

(As they walk outside, Percy turns to a random passerby, points to Annabeth, and says, “She thinks I’m cute.”

Annabeth drags him away, muttering, “I can’t take you anywhere.”)

I wonder what kind of relationship Poseidon and Annabeth have. I’m sure it’s a subtle one bc they don’t interact, but I like the idea of them kinda trying to feel the other out. Like, Annabeth occasionally gives Poseidon offerings when she’s worried about Percy and Poseidon just being NO WAY IS MY SON ENDING UP WITH AN OWL HOOLIGAN only to see Annabeth save Percy’s life and him reluctantly allowing her a nice beach day.

And later on, they begrudgingly kinda do nice things for one another. Annabeth sighs and cleans up Poseidon’s temple and Poseidon might groan and tell sea monsters not to bother Annabeth and it’s just an exasperated relationship even though they haven’t even had a single conversation.

The real kicker comes when they start defending one another without thinking about it. Hera complains about Annabeth and Poseidon is just like ‘okay, now. don’t be mad bc she called you out’ while Athena is sitting there bewildered. One of Annabeth’s siblings makes a passive aggressive comment about Poseidon and she starts listing off all his accomplishments and ‘everyone makes mistakes and he’s been alive for a thousand of years so he might have a bit more than the average person but he’s done plenty of good things too-’

And poor Percy is just praying to Athena like “That could be us :D”

I like that there is just… A noticeable gap in the gods’ understanding of mortal children. Like, Zeus really accused a TWELVE-YEAR-OLD of stealing his master bolt and the only justification I have for him is “Well, Hermes stole Apollo’s cattle right after birth so that tracks”

But now I have a theory that the gods don’t really understand how mortal children work and that’s why they’re so blasé about sending them to do ridiculous nonsense?

Like…

Zeus: what do you mean ‘first word’? Why would they only speak one word?

Artemis: humans can only cry when they’re born

Zeus: nonsense. When you were born you didn’t cry. You delivered your brother and then came to me to ask for a birthday present.

Artemis: humans aren’t the same though. They can’t walk or talk for many months. When they do speak it is only in small, short words.

Zeus: ….that’s not true

Artemis: I’m afraid it is

Zeus, under his breath: what the fuck

Later on…

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So the gods are notoriously bad parents, but have we considered what it would be like if they acted like normal parents?

Zeus: AS LONG AS YOU LIVE UNDER MY ROOF YOU FOLLOW MY RULES

Thalia: under your-? YOU MEAN THE SKY?!?!

Or

Athena: I believe it's probably about time we have... the talk

Annabeth: bold words from a virgin goddess

Or

Hades: when I was your age my parents never gave me handouts. I had to work for what I wanted

Nico: your dad literally ate you, I -

Or

Poseidon: if your friends jumped off a cliff would you?

Percy: so... this has happened and I'm gonna let you know now that it will happen again

Or

Will: just gonna say that Aunt Artemis doesn't force her huntresses to go to music lessons...

Apollo: If Aunt Artemis is so great then go live with her!

Will: if I was a girl I would

Or

Aphrodite: Because I said so

Piper: jokes on you, I have charmspeak too

Or

Pluto: Another dog? We have a dog! One could argue that we even have three. Besides, who is gonna end up taking care of this dog? Me. You and Nico aren't responsible. Besides, dogs are expensive. You know, money doesn't grow on trees-

Hazel: because...i can get it from the ground??

Demigods cursed by the enemies of their godly parents

Imagine demigods whose weaknesses depend on their godly parent's enemies. Not like "I hate their kids" but in a "their powers affect me" kind of way.

Zeus' kids with fertility problems, who always happen to see dangerous sea animals at the beach, who are terribly scared of the dark.

Poseidon's kids with asthma, who can only learn how to use one weapon, who have worse dyslexia than other demigods.

Demeter's kids scared of heights, who have alergic reactions to certain metals used for jewellery.

Ares' kids who can't use any technological device, who can't bring themselves to be near a horse/pegasus (let alone ride one).

Athena's kids who never learn how to swim properly, who can't come up with cruel strategies even when their lives depend on it, whose weapons break way too easily.

Apollo's kids who avoid at all costs eating meat, who are scared of thunder, who can't learn a second language.

Hephestus' kids with allergic reactions to feathers and cosmetics, who faint at the sight of blood, who can't read a map even when they know the area.

Aphrodite's kids who break every invention they use, who are allergic to pollen, whose battle plans go wrong.

Hermes' kids who sunburn fast, whose wealth doesn't last long, whose plants dry no matter how much they water them.

Dionisus' kids whose spouses die young.

Hades' kids with celiac disease, who get seasick even in calm lakes, who are unable to get into planes.

There should be a blog post where we get to know what nectar tastes like to each of the demigod, you know like a short interview thing.

Here's a cursed post :

Percy Jackson dressing up as jake from the subway surfers for halloween and using earth disks as hoverboard.

So, imagine leo arriving in a black toga on halloween and setting his hair on fire(somehow managing not to burn it because, he knows his powers pretty well at this point)and turning the fire blue and tailing nico around calling him his delicate and fragile son.

Until Nico just goes feral and Reyna has to hold him back because...LET ME GO REYNA! I'M GONNA MURDER THAT ELF DEVIL! AND SEND HIM STRAIGHT TO THE FIELDS ASPHODEL!

tell me you didn't swell with pride when you read this!!

Imagine Percy Jackson bringing hundreds of these one day because "they looked so cute and helpless I couldn't help it PLUS THEY'RE BLUE LOOK...and annabeth just....collapses.

No, listen to me. Percy Jackson actually learning blood bending and helping the apollo cabin in the infirmary with bleeding cases and other blood related injuries.

It's no longer a head canon as I deem this to be 100% true

Hc that Drew is extremely bad at comforting people

I wanna make a pjo story (when I have the time) but I don’t know what plot to do. But this is my reader and I want to know your ideas, any idea is welcomed

I wanna know what kind of ideas come in your minds when you see this, any idea and the one that will inspire me the most I will do it (when I have the time)

Please comment your ideas

Y'all.... just imagine a daughter of Aphrodite who's aroace..imma leave it to your imagination