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sora-of-uranus

1 year ago

Can’t lie Dido’s suicide is the best thing to happen to both Dido and (kinda) Aeneas. Cuss like listen okay Dido lusting over Aeneas is not his fault! It was the Gods work and then Dido’s sister that convinced her to act on her divine feelings.

Is Aeneas still kind of an ass? Yes. He still took her univera status from her, allowed her kingdom to collapse since she was following him like a duck, and then go on to denounce their (tbf unofficial) marriage . These aren’t great things but they also wouldn’t have happened without Juno, Venus and Cupid.

Anyway the reason why it’s good is cuss Dido gets to be with her husband- her one *true* love. The person she swore off men for. The person who even in death she craves to be in his arms! Like sorry but her suicide is what allowed her to return to him. Not to mention it’s what broke cupids spell AND brought her so much sympathy from Juno (who yes… is to blame) that she sent Iris to cut her life thread short. Ya know. BREAKING FATE! Her death is horrible but it’s also the kindest fate she could ever have once the Gods caught sight of her.

For Aeneas it’s not so much her suicide but the leaving, he does it for his son! It’s not even for himself he doesn’t care, mercury ‘manipulates’ Aeneas using his fatherhood and leader role against him to not only force him out of Carthage but to leave THEN and there. I mean come on, Aeneas isn’t pleased with Didos death, in book 6 he uselessly reached out to talk to her and in book 11 he buries his surrogate son, Pallas, in robes SHE gifted. He doesn’t forget her. Her last mention is with the son that he could never truly have. The family he could never have *because* of Rome. It’s depressing.

But it’s better than loving a man because the Gods forced you. It’s better than watching your kingdom slowly crumble around you and you not having the ability to care. It’s better than failing as a father and the carrier of your cultures future. It’s better than ignoring the call of the Gods.

Tattoos and whatnot

OkAY so Will’s tattoo in Tower of Nero got me thinking about the 7 getting tattoos aaand then I digressed SO...

-The Greeks absolutely start getting bad ass tattoos after seeing the ones that Camp Jupiter have

-Will, Rachel, and the Stolls run an underground tattoo parlor and campers sneak down to her cave and come out looking like the baddest of asses with their tattoos

- Annabeth gets a little Delta tattoo on her wrist in honor of Daedalus

-She also gets one on her side under the arm to honor Luke with the year he was born and the year he died

-Piper gets lyrics of the Cherokee songs her grandpa knew she would one day sing across her back

-Also she gets a lip ring, like the ones that go through the middle of your bottom lip uGh yes

-LEO leo Leo LEO he gets the coolest tattoos man, he gets one of the Morse Code patter he and his mom tapped to each other on his collar bone

-Also he gets the words FLAME on one foot and the word ON on the other no I will not elaborate

-SO many piercings all self given cuz he get BoArd this boy has piercings in his belly button and his nipples and his nose and his ears and his eye brow and like just in his shoulder cuz fuck it but he never wears any of them

-Until people ask him to put all of them in and he is literally 10 pounds heavier

-He has a tongue ring and he always wears that one its so good man

-Ok hear me out Frank gets sO many tattoos like all the way up his arm and chest-- think Maui from Moana

-He gets one to represent his mom, and one for each of his friends, and like all of the animals in the WOrLd and also the Canadian flag cuz he can

-Now Hazel doesn’t get any tattoos but don’t for a minutes think that she doesn't help design all of them

-OK so Nico has actual bad ass piercings, like he has the coolest gauges cuz he’s our emo boy and three above his eye brow and all three nose piercings that he cycles through

-I don’t know if Nico has tattoos but what I DO know is that he is fabulous at makeup, in the mornings sometimes Will asks him to do his make up and he does the most fabulous blended eye shadow and wings and inTenSe glitter on the cheekbones cuz he lives vicariously through Will

-Now Jason might not have started wanting any tattoos cuz he’s Jason but, again hear me out, he goes to support Leo getting a tattoo but leaves with a big ass lighting McQueen tattoo on his pectoral all the way up to his shoulder with the words Kachow right above his neckline

-He loves showing it off and at any given moment it is his pride and joy, people ask about the Kachow above his shirt and he IMMEDIATELY takes have his shirt to show off his lightning McQueen

-And then he escalates to the point that Piper dies blue lighting bolt streaks in his hair and that’s the end of that

-PERCY gets tattoos every time someone is scared about getting one, so he has the most random and at the same time meaningful tattoos

-He has one about the Dam bathroom and one on the small of back where is Achilles heal was that somehow involves Annabeth and so many disney tattoos, oH and one that says you drool when you sleep

-ALSO he has a ton of ear piercings cuz when he was growing up he thorught the way his mom had so many ear piercings was so cool and wanted to grow up and get them just like her

-They have SEVERAL matching earrings that he always wears with piercings all the way up his ear

-This boy is a jewelry boy, he and Annabeth have cheesy matching friendship bracelets that say Seaweed Brain and Wise Girl and Tyson makes him the coolest earrings, bracelets, and rings in the forges

-AND and and he wears nail polish all the time, he and Annabeth paint their nails together and he has the coolest blue colors to do it

-Not to make you cry or anything but when he loses his memory he refuses to take off his earrings or let his nails get at all chipped cuz he knows they’re important to him and he’s afraid if he chips his nail polish off he’ll forget Annabeth completely

Lmao this was long as shit but all of this plagues my mind at ALL TIMES and it gives me much serotonin