pjo prompt: percy and jason have to go on a quest together, so they both decide to bring their respective partners (annabeth and leo). during the quest, they get kidnapped by monsters and percy and jason wake up in an arena. the monsters explain that they have their partners and in order to save them, they have to fight to the death, with the winner getting to leave alive with their partner, while the other is killed. however, the monsters are very shocked when percy and jason sit down and start calmly playing cards with each other. they’re not worried about their partners. instead, they’re worried for the monsters. they trapped annabeth and leo together, two of the smartest demigods. the girl who redesigned olympus and the boy who built a warship in six months. they were toast.
i can’t stop thinking about damian potentially growing out of vigilantism and pursuing medicine. he was born surrounded by violence, raised to be thrown into battle. an assassin, a weapon, the last robin in a long line, and the first to take off the cape on his own terms
happy birthday to mr bad boy supreme
all da ladies luv leo INDEED
Jason getting glasses is actually so symbolic of his duality imo. You know how there are idioms that go 'look behind one's lens" ?? That applies perfectly to Jason.
He also had a coin for a weapon, maybe representing that he has "two sides of the same coin" ??
Jason is absolutely terrifying if he's driven over the edge, something that doesn't happen often (thank you Rick for showing us how much you hate making jason interesting or powerful) like when his fingers started sparking after he realised Piper and the others were on the argo ii when some kind of creatures starts attacking the ship, when Caligula broke Piper's jaw ultimately setting Jason off, or when he and Percy chose to unleash their full potential of storms in MOA together.
He can be legitimately SO cold, ruthless and indifferent if he wants to, till the point where it shocks his friends, like how he didn't trust Nico and didnt feel keen on saving him, saying in an abnormally casual way that it was perfectly okay to leave him to die at Rome in FRONT of the said boy's sister, causing Hazel to start being really scared and paranoid to be alone with Jason (I know this is widely used a reason to hate him in the fandom, but I find his nonchalant coldness towards the Nico situation extremely realistic considering how he was brought up in Camp Jupiter. Camp Jupiter is always attack and not defend, and they're ruthless in nature, so much so till the point where that amount of cruelty is considered very normal, and even a desirable quality for a perfect roman. Hazel obviously wasn't exposed to this as she was only in CJ for a very short period of time, so she took it as a shock. And considering that Jupiter is Jason's dad, you can't expect any sort trait of Jupiter to NOT seep onto his son right? Thalia can be extremely ruthless and merciless too, like when she had no hesitation in wanting to go against Luke in TLO even after Percy showed Luke sympathy after he saw Luke's younger memories) and notice how coldly Jason talked to his enemies (sciron for example).
His eyes are even considered ’cold and calculating’ and even Annabeth, the number one intimidator, felt personally intimidated and said that Jason made her extremely nervous and uncomfortable simply with the way he was looking at her like he knew too much information/was hiding many things. Annabeth knew that Jason was smart in a very dangerous way and that he could use information against her, that's coming from the daughter of Athena herself so you could imagine how genuinely threatening jason could look.
But he could be the sweetest guy ever?? Jason goes up to Nico's cabin bc he wanted to give him a hug and constantly kept reassuring Nico that he wanted to be his friend even after Nico's indifference in HOH. He took Piper on a secret get away date on his cabins rooftop, breaking the rules to make her happy, genuinely thinks that he would turn into a tree like his sister had because he thought it was customary for all Zeus kids, so much so that it made Annabeth laugh, etc.
hhh ok the prompt was a bit of a stretch since it's really just the audio vaguely related to summer but I mean that whole quest was during summer so it counts riggghhtt??
JASON! XD Man has no filler
“Get your twink ass moving” Piper grumps, giving Leo a little shove so he will keep going down the tunnel
Leo scoffs, dragging his feet “I'm not a twink I'm bi”
“No, I'm bi today” Jason cuts in without missing a beat, pinching Leos ass as he strides out in frount if him
Leo full on stops in his tracks, buffers for a second, then perks up to jog to catch up to his husband
“Yeah your right” he concedes, lacing his fingers with the blond
“I kinda hate that they do that” Will lowly complains
Nico shrugs “Could be worse-”
“They could still be pinning” everyone else finishes together
Leo goes pink in the ears, Jason perks up like someone shook the treat bag
“Shut up!” Leo snaps, turning his head to look behind him at the rest of the group
“I'm still pinning” Jason confesses to the air, Piper groans
“We're married!” Leo complains
Jason tilts his head in question “I can't pine after you and also be married?”
“Yes!” Leo hisses “Pinning is for things you don't have”
“I don't have you in bed right now” Jason says like he's talking about the weather, Leo flushes darker and darker still, Will gags theatrically
“Please stop” Piper thankfully cuts in “I would like to keep my lunch down thank you very much”
THIS. LITERALLY I WAS SO ANGRY- The fact that camp Jupitor did it to- I just- OOOOO the hate-
Once again I am expressing how much I hate the punching line gag.
Leo, a character that's been canonically abused his whole life and struggles with major self worth issues, who'd died to save the world and has spent the last few months in the company of a person that treats him like dirt, finally comes back to the one place he felt a smidge of comfort an safety in after years of instability and hardships, and what greets him...?
A guy so mad that he didn't discuss his suicide with him first (despite him properly coming up with the plan after said guy had left the Argo) that he organizes everyone in the camp to line up and hit him, even people he doesn't know.
And he has no choice but to just laugh it off, because it's clear that no one has any sympathy for him. And Leo realizes this place rejected him too.
I was thinking about that idea where leo is found by luke and join kronos army and then i realised...
ITS LITERALLY SILCO AND JINX FROM ARCANE
Think with me leo acting like jinx but more childish and insane and luke acting like silco but more unhinged
Jinx with shimmer = leo with a fragment of kronos soul
Piper and leo being childhood friends and having a fight and leaving leo right before the accident with gaia happens
Piper being part of camp-halfblood
the way you sent my brain into 10000 ideas to use as stories to tell myself when I am bored-
Will you ever make a fanfic based on that Leo is the son of Nero AU you had talked about?
I really want to, I can tell you that much.
I have quite a lot of ideas for the fic that I haven't mentioned and as the moment it's a scattered mess of scenes in my head that I know for a fact I could weave together in a coherent narrative if I just sat down and focused on it for a few days.
But out of the 23 Leo Valdez fic Ideas I got in my docs at the moment, this one I feel would be on the long long side of things. Like, longer than any fic I've written before as there are layers to this thing, and a lot of it would be a rewrite of stuff from pjo and the entirety of hoo and toa.
Not only that, but I decided that I was going to focus on finishing my one-shots as soon as I have time in my personal life to get back to writing fanfics (the one I'm currently posting is pre-written) since I am unfortunately incredibly busy all the time now. So I'm sorry to say that it may be a while until I actually write the fic, but rest assured, I will not forget about it, and I think it would be an incredibly fun concept to tackle, especially with all the twists, turns, betrayals and inevitable friendship and healing that would happen. I've had multiple people express interest thus far, so who knows! There is a very good chance it's the next long-fic I'll decide to write when the time comes.
If there is anything you are curious about though feel free to send me asks about it! I am definitely willing to answer stuff about the au that doesn't directly spoil major plot beats or anything like that!
So I'll leave you with this then: A while ago when I was trying to quickly finish a broken sketchbook, I decided to draw on each page a quick sketch of every Leo Valdez fanfic Idea I got.
This is the Leo son of Nero page: