how much do the demigods really know about Percy?
Frank and Hazel first knew him as just a guy who showed up with a goddess on his back. everything he does from that point onward is equally bizarre, and certainly impressive, but perhaps not exactly legend-worthy. by the time they’ve won the battle against Polybotes at New Rome, their experience with him confirms he’s a badass, but the hints and jokes he drops about his past can’t all be real, right?
Jason, Leo, and Piper would have been showered in stories at Camp Half-Blood. did you know, Percy fought and killed a Kindly One and the Minotaur before he even got to Camp the first time? did you know, he was the first one on our side to suspect Kronos was rising? did you know, he revealed who poisoned Thalia’s Tree? did you know, he and Annabeth held the sky? did you know he crashed his own funeral? did you know he made a hurricane?
did you know, did you know, did you know?
but how many of Percy’s stories do the campers really know? what did Annabeth and Percy keep to themselves in their retellings? do they know Luke forced Percy to fight to the death in an arena? were they told Percy actively chose to be the subject of the prophecy to protect Nico, who almost certainly hated him at that point? do they know Percy was the reason Mount Saint Helens erupted? do they know he fought Hades and his army, and won?
the campers all think Percy is a legend, but when they find out there’s more? that’s when they start to think of him as a god.
It makes me happy when they listen
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Think about it. Sure there is the comedy of him being a Hellenistic pagan but what if he was literally any other kind of pagan.
Chiron: you are a demigod. The old gods abandoned by modern people are real.
Pagan Percy: old? Abandoned?
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Chiron: and now we sacrifice some of our food to the gods
Celtic pagan Percy: oh! alight! I sacrifice this to Danu!
Chiron: not like that!
Danu the mother of the Irish gods: something just happened.
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Annabeth: we need a god’s blessing to to do this!
Celtic pagan Percy: does it need to be a Greek god?
Annabeth: it was never specified.
Percy: *pulls out a candle and prays to Morrigan*
Morrigan the Celtic goddess of war: *shows up* yeah sure you have my blessing.
Percy: thank you lady Morrigan.
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Jason: do you respect any gods?
Celtic pagan Percy: The only one in the Greco-Roman pantheon that I respect is Hestia
Jason: why did you specify Greco-Roman
Percy: I respect the Celtic gods
Jason: the what?!?
Percy: (:
Jason: D:
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