My First Design For My PJO AU Where Luke Isn’t The Host Of Kronos (among Other Things But It Doesn’t

this is how I envisioned Annabeth when my fic will end. she'll have shorter hair and a more pale/goshtly complexion after Tartarus

Uh so I made or may not have started another AU. It’s not gonna be a multi chapter as of rn it’s just one big one shot but ngl I’m lowkey invested in it. But yeah that’s the next thing I’ll be posting on my ao3 account.

My brain needs to STOP giving me ideas cuz bro.

I’ve been watching Arcane and I have a few more episodes left and tell me why all of a sudden I’m starting to write a fantasy esk AU help.

Anyways, the Spiderman AU is going to get a new chapter soon. I just have to get the energy to get on my computer to post it.

Unfortunately none of the AUs I write will be short because I don’t think I have that capability within me to do that so.. yeah.

Look forward to that maybe? But just keep in mind my next posts on ao3 will most definitely be straight Spider-Man AU chapters.

Thinking about Sally and Percy in my AU (spoiler alert for something I haven’t written yet, but it has to do with Sally and I may or may not have mentioned this on a post prior to this)

Because subconsciously or not Percy sort of equates Sally as a God, because Sally was a source of hope throughout all the suffering he went through as a child.

And then stuff hits the fan and she just, dies. She’s gone. The Minotaur ran his claws through her and he never saw her again and his salvation is gone.

And from there, things don’t really get better for him, because after the incident tm with Jason, he doesn’t feel like he belongs. (Plus all the gang related activities he’s apart of inbetween pre CJ and right before CHB)

And then he goes to CHB and things are going decently, then his first quest he gets two people killed. But he stays, because he has friends, he has people to find, and eventually he finds friends worth staying for and his life is getting better then BoTL and Titan War happen and he basically loses everyone, all of his friends (and self sabotages and self isolates from anyone who could help him) and then gets hooked on drugs because now it’s back to the real world for him, he has to go to school because it’s the last, plus it’s CHB. He has to get a job because how else is he going to live somewhere with lights and a place to sleep? He joins the shittiest team at CHB because he has to constantly keep his body in shape somehow (he’s too paranoid not too).

And eventually (kinda a spoiler alert but i desperately wanted to yap about this) after all that, plus everything post kidnapping, she’s alive? That Hades was just holding her for all those years, that she’s been trapped? That she wasn’t really dead? That the Gods were so cruel to him they kept his mother away from him when he was at his lowest because saving the world was not enough for them?

And so she’s back, but neither of them really know how to act. Percy desperately craves those warm arms to protect him, but he doesn’t know how to be protected without trying to claw on the cage that’s trying to protect him (he can’t tell if someone’s trying to protect him or trying to trap him anymore).

Sally is just as awkward, she’s missed so much of his life, her little boy has grown weary and tired and this entire time she couldn’t help him.

Sally being hesitant to give him love, not because she doesn’t love him but because it isn’t as easy as it was when he was younger, she doesn’t know him anymore. Doesn’t know if he still eats blue food, or likes her hugs.

Percy desperately wanting love but being too afraid to ask for it, too hesitant to receive it, to even ask.

Sally trying to be a parent but due to circumstances out of her control, she’s years too late to do anything.

And maybe one day they get into an argument. Sally trying to be a parent and Percy picking a fight with her, nearly yelling at her before just, breaking down. He tells her how hard it was without her, how desperately he wanted her.

So they start from there, atleast once a week Percy tells him something from his life, no matter how big or how small and they learn each other. They are both tired and weary, but not too tired nor too weary to love each other.

There are so many times I've thought to design a poster-style art piece of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde in a genre of a crime/murder mystery. Where Hyde and Jekyll are depicted as completely separate people until the very end, since the whole point of the story was that the fact they're the same man was meant to be a plot twist at the very end.

Also the transformation between the two identities is never 'seen', it's only referred to in third person in regards to the protagonist - only when Jekyll leaves a letter explaining everything is the duo-identify revealed.

I still find it funny how the book is probably earned itself the title of Most Pointless of the Classics to Read, since everyone, even mentioning Jekyll and Hyde, regardless of whether they've read the book or not, references the plot twist as the very first thing about them. Even early republishing illustrations and movie posters spoil the whole point of the story!

I'd love to see, not matter how pointless it seems, an adaptation that keeps to the genuine mystery the story had when first published. It would have to have a secrecy tradition like The Mousetrap, where everyone who's seen it can't talk about it.

tldr: Read Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and reeeeeaaally try to forget everything you know about it from pop culture. It's genuinely a good crime/murder mystery otherwise.

My Spider-Man au MIGHT be my Roman Empire rn. I’ve been writing it for like three days and I’m at 10K just finished the first arc (out of idk???)

And like everyones lives are so unnecessarily tragic lmao. The first arc focuses on Percy, but this second arc still focuses on Percy, but also slowly incorporates other characters too so I think I’ll have fun writing that, especially as Percy leans more into Spider-Man and basically stops trying to have a life as Percy. Essentially I can’t wait to focus on the side cast.

Eventually posting to Ao3, just have to add more to the first arc (eventually)

Percy and Jason’s relationship in my unnamed AU is so interesting to me as I’m writing it. Because they’ve met, there’s no Greco-Roman divide, atleast not to where they don’t know each other. Because keep in mind, before Percy was a Greek, he was a Roman.

Percy and Jason met at CJ and Jason did something so bad that hurt him and his chances of having a family at New Rome, because sort of flipping Percy with canon Annabeth here a bit but Percy just wants to be loved, to know that he’s not a mistake and his entire theme is centered around themes like family and loneliness. Every single person he’s met and touched and becomes friends with ends up ruined, destroyed, gone.

So eventually Percy goes to CHB and he doesn’t end up gaining a lot of friends, he has Bianca (who dies) and Nico (who in his mind for the longest time he “ruined”). Eventually he’s friends with people like Beckendorf, Silena, Michael Yew but by the end of the Second Titan War, they’re all dead. And Percy? He doesn’t know how to cope, not with this so the friends he does have, he pushes them away and digs a hole so deep he can’t dig himself out of, not alone atleast.

Then he meets Annabeth, he gains friends, then boom, he disappears.

Then he shows back up and sees Annabeth working with Jason. He thinks his family has been stolen from him again, which is the real motivation for the Red Hood esc arc he’ll be having. But he can’t exactly hunt him down because they found out there’s a greater prophecy at large and is stuck with Jason.

Jason on the other hand didn’t really mean to ruin Percy’s life. He was simply acting how he was taught to, groomed to. He gained respect and even when he faltered on the ideas of Rome after meeting and forming an alliance with the Greek, he had friends beside him, people who supported him as he begins to bring a new age to CJ. So most of Jason’s conflict isn’t actually related to him, but the impact of his actions as he’s changed and changing, the two most affected being Percy and Octavian. His arc is about being leader, what it takes. He also essentially learns the lessons that Percy learned in PJO, about how it’s okay to not always be a hero and learning to step back and dealing with his hero complex (which ends up reflecting in eariler situations, his need to be a “hero” to CJ and his mind framing the villain as Percy at the time) and overcoming it.

Percy on the other hand has most of his conflicts relating to him and his internal conflict. His fatal flaw and how it affects the people around him, and him being forced to step up and him unable to escape it. Compared to last time where Percy was always stepping up, having to handle everything himself because he’s the “hero” Percy is more willing to let everyone sort of do their own thing even if it’s detrimental to the mission at hand without even realizing it (Percy really really doesn’t want to be on this quest in this verse lol) but Percy being forced to be the hero this time, forced to face his fears.

Idk this is all kinda rough rn but Jason having a family, having everything Percy wants but everything is threatening to fall apart as he has to learn to be a leader but only a leader but a hero in his own right, even if it means stepping back and not letting his flaw getting the best of him (his hero complex).

And Percy not having family, trying to rebuild as he takes the lessons he’s learned to heart, he doesn’t have to be the hero here so why try to be? (There’s a reason there’s seven people on this quest after all right?) So he takes the support role, which eventually allows his fatal flaw to get the best of him. He has to learn the difference of when to step back and when to lead instead of heavily doing one or the other. He takes the prophecy into his own hands because this is his time to step up, this is his fate. Percy becomes not only a hero, but a leader.

Idk if this makes any sense and I’m still writing it, as well as how Percy’s backstory would affect his character but I’m trying to keep some of the characterizations I really liked such as Percy and Annabeth’s relatively the same. If i do another one of these i do want to talk about Annabeth’s character and motivations next (another one im working on lol)

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Thinking about my kinda sorta super hero pjo au (they’re still demigods, society just set them up as super heroes in a way to sorta keep them in their control) because I’m probably gonna have to make ocs for it. I’m not really a fan of ocs in Percy Jackson works from what I’ve seen (i think it’s my Percy bias talking) but I feel like there’s a lot of things I can do with ocs and explore different things.

One of my main ideas I want to play with is demigods with the name Perseus. Because 1. Names are powerful 2. Why not.

More specifically this idea with a child of hades. Idk what his nickname would be because I wouldn’t want to use Perseus (more Perceval lmao?) but it’s just an idea I want to play with.

Anyways that’s it lol

Had this idea for an AU eariler

Everything up to BoO is the same Percy awakens Gaea (but this time by getting a scar that looks like Luke’s) but this time, Percy ends up killing Gaea. He leaves and yk eventually he comes back. But he’s not the same and nobody can put their finger on it.

I can imagine getting these books in a third person pov with switching perspectives maybe. But the books would be Nico and Percy centric and the main theme would be about the cycle of violence. How Luke regardless if he knew or not passed it on to Percy, how Percy passed it onto Nico, how Nico broke free (or not?) from the cycle and how Percy thought he did, but really didn’t.

Percy basically becoming exactly what House of Hades set him up to be. Him not necessarily trying to overthrow the gods, but everyone’s concerned he’s getting to that point because of how similar he’s acting to Luke.

Nico noticing and trying to intervene, but of course Percy says he’s find, but Percy? He’s losing control. Now that he’s had time to process everything while he was gone, his powers have changed. How he can feel the blood of people and not wanting to. Maybe him getting help from a certain Titan: Oceanus to control it but Oceanus trying to do the same thing Kronos did to Luke, trying to control and manipulate him.

And maybe Percy is just too far lost in his own mind, in his own power he doesn’t even notice and now all the worst ugly parts of himself are showing.

And now? It’s up to Nico to help him. Because the other campers? They’re sort of scared shitless. Nico getting his first official quest and having to choose questmates that’ll stay with him till he end because Percy is just that important to him, to everyone.

I think maybe either a Nico, Will, Clarisse trio or a Nico, Clarisse, and OC trio would work.

Characters I feel like would show up regardless would be Annabeth sort of playing a supporting role as maybe the oracle was really specific on who was leading the quest so some of the main main characters who wouldn’t necessarily but scared of him have a reason to not be able to help him in the long term.

Idk I just think that the cycle in PJO is a fascinating thing and the parallels between Luke/Percy and Nico/Percy is too good not to get a book elaborating on that