Ship Of The Dead In A Nutshell

magnus: as you can see, alex here has heterochromatic eyes

alex: or as I like to call them “the only hetero thing about me”

Happy Valentines Day!

Will: Wanna see a magic trick?

Nico: Sure.

Will: *grabs Nico’s hand*

Will: Isn’t this magical?

Nico: *soft gasp*

of music and crushes

Summary: Of the Apollo cabin, complete (endearing) dorks, and stupid games with sweet intentions.

“I thought he’d be kinda scary, y’know, because of the whole Hades thing, but he’s a huge marshmallow. Just tryna hide it under his Underworld ‘fear me’ rep.”

Nico’s eyes slowly fluttered open at the sound of Kayla’s voice. Gods… I fell asleep, didn’t I? He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and sat up, saying, “You better take that back right now.”

He found a thin gray blanket draped over him, and Apollo kids surrounded the area. The brightness of the cabin made him squint, but he quickly adjusted and focused on the ground, where the Apollo kids were sitting in a circle.

Kayla beamed. “See, I told you he was cute!”

Nico groaned, but a dark-haired girl named Elise laughed and said, “Come on, Nico, sit with us! Let’s play a game.”

Normally, he would’ve refused, but Elise was… different. She was only eleven years old, but her bright personality reminded him of Hazel.

Maybe that was why he liked her.

Nico rolled my eyes playfully. “Fine.” Nico sat down cross-legged between Elise and Will, and asked, “What game?”

A red-head named Brian grabbed the nearest plushie and answered, “You know, the usual. Usually, this is an icebreaker, but we haven’t played this in a while, so…”

Before Nico could fully understand the situation, Brian yelled, “Least favorite camper! Theresa!” He threw the plushie to a brunette.

The girl, Theresa, caught it. She paused for a second. “Sherman Yang,” she finally decided. Tossing the pillow to a tall boy across from her, she shouted, “Ray!”

Ray sighed. “Valentina.”

Elise blinked. “Valentina? But she’s so nice!”

“I have my reasons. Will!” The plushie ended up on the healer’s lap.

“Gods of Olympus, Drew Tanaka,” he said and was immediately met with a chorus of groans.

The game went on, switching topics every few minutes. Everything was mentioned, from favorite bands to how they figured out they were a demigod, and then suddenly, a girl named Danielle yelled, “Most embarrassing crush!”

At those three words, Nico was immediately on his toes. Please don’t pass it to me, he prayed.

Danielle tossed it to Wendy, who sighed with a smile and admitted, “Piper McLean. Sam!”

Sam caught the plushie and said, “Lou Ellen.”

Will choked at that. “Lou Ellen? Seriously?”

Sam only glared. “That’s why the topic is the most embarrassing crush. Speaking of which, Will!”

“One Direction. All of them,” the blonde said. “Elise!”

Elise blushed as she grabbed the pillow. “Ugh. I hate this game sometimes. Nyssa. And Jason Grace. Ken!”

Nico didn’t really pay attention after that until the plushie landed on his lap. He hesitated. Oh, screw it, I told the guy himself. “Percy Jackson,” he groaned. “Tiffany!”

And as Tiffany reluctantly spat out the next name, Nico paused. There it was. Nothing. Nobody questioned him about his former crush on Percy. Nobody judged him.

As Nico headed out of Cabin 7 that evening, Will walked him to Cabin 13. They shared their usual banter until Will suddenly asked, “Percy Jackson?”

Nico paused. “What?”

Will smiled bashfully. “Your… most embarrassing crush? Percy? Seriously?”

Nico found himself grinning sheepishly. “Yeah. Why?”

“Just… doesn’t seem like your type.”

The son of Hades shrugged. “I was young and naive. But yeah, you’re right. He’s not my type.”

The blonde seemed strangely eased by that fact. “Yeah. Of course. See you tomorrow, Nico.” Then with that, he waved and walked back, wearing his usual sunny smile.

Nico felt himself doing the same, then allowed himself to give a small grin.

This is kind of nice.

Percy: Hey, Nico, read over the list of supplies as you check them.

Nico: "Food": check. "Armour": check. "Weapons": check. "My heterosexuality": uhh, I seem to have dropped that somewhere.

Percy: *stares into the distance as if he's on The Office*

Sam: Let me get this straight-

Alex: More like can I run this bi you.

Magnus: Let’s pan this out.

Blitz: How about we ace-ss the situation?

Mallory: Lesbianest with one another.

Hearth:

Hearth: I’m gay.

Annabeth Chase Headcanon

Okay, much as I loved tiny jealous Annabeth in PJO (and hoo boy, did I. “I played dumb.” “Was it hard?” is just iconic, fight me), in my mind, there is no way on planet Earth that she ever gets jealous since she and Percy got together. A load of headcanons have her threatening people to stay away from him, or being really overprotective of him. But honestly, I don’t think she would do that.

Look, as we all know, Percy thinks Annabeth is pretty much the best person who ever existed. He’s got it so bad for her that while everyone else’s POVs in HOO always had her as imposing, deadly, scary, powerful, Percy is straight-up in love with this girl and can’t see anything bad about her. Annabeth has exactly the same opinion of Percy - she loves him more than anyone else in the world. While others consider him godlike and scary, she just thinks it’s cute when he does dumb stuff or makes a corny joke.

These two are so in love, you can’t tell me that either of them ever entertains for a second the thought that they might not be together for the rest of their godsdamn lives. Potentially the most revered and dangerous demigod couple out there, they are the ultimate power couple, and neither of them would dream of breaking the other’s trust under any circumstances.

Annabeth has definitely grown since she was eleven, mostly because she’s learned to accept that she can’t do everything, and that other people are important in any project or quest. She has also grown to understand that there are people who love her and that will never abandon her. Examples are: Percy, obvs; Magnus, who she thought was dead but who clearly thinks she’s cool as shit; her dad, since they’ve begun to repair their relationship; Thalia, who will never be anything less than her sister; Grover, who’s been there for her since the beginning; and the other members of the Seven, all of whom she would trust with her life.

I think that, instead of being possessive and mean, Annabeth is just really nice to anybody that she notices has a crush on Percy, particularly after what Nico went through, and she talks to them about it like equals. No matter who they are, Annabeth doesn’t get upset or angry. She doesn’t have to keep Percy on a leash to know that he’s going to be with her for the rest of their lives.

When a camper has a problem with unrequited love (Percy a lot of the time, but also in general), she’ll just sit and talk to them for hours. Not always specifically about how their crush happened, but about how our brains make us feel love by releasing chemicals, how Percy’s eyes change colour with the sea and seem fuller at high tide, what Chiron wants to redecorate at camp. She just wants them to know that their feelings are valid, and that they don’t have to apologise for it.

But by no means is Annabeth alone in this - not any more. When she talks about love and dating, she’ll ask Drew or Piper if they can sit with her and the demigod to talk it out. If the camper is having issues with their sexuality, she tags in Nico, Will, and other LGBT campers, who have a Protection Squad like no other. You mess with a queer halfblood, you better run, because they are the most supportive and defensive group in the camp by far, even more than individual cabins. If they have gender identity issues, she calls Alex in or gets Dionysus to sit down and talk with them in private. Mr D isn’t often intimidating, but any transphobic comments leave you incapacitated by a thick covering of grapevines, with the worst hangover of your life.

While everybody at Camp Jupiter (and anyone from Hotel Valhalla who’s met her) fears her, Camp Halfblood know that she’s the one who is willing to listen to pretty much anything you have to say, even if you have a crush on her boyfriend. As a much calmer and more mature young woman than the feisty eleven year old she was when she and Percy met, she’s become adored by the entire camp as “the Badass warrior girl who’s also, like, actually really cool. Her boyfriend’s the Percy Jackson, but she’s pretty much the coolest about it.”

Percy doesn’t know about the campers who have a crush on him because he’s pretty oblivious, and Annabeth keeps it private. However, he can’t help but smile when he sees a timid little ten-year-old who was staring at him while he sparring with Annabeth grin and wave madly at her. He watches her wave back and give a big thumbs-up to a fifteen-year-old nearby who’s wearing a dress for the first time and looks really nervous.

The first time he really realises something’s different is when a young teenage girl knocks on his cabin and asks if she can talk to him about her crush on Annabeth.

TL;DR - I really think that Annabeth would be a supportive big sister to the whole camp instead of jealously saying “stay away from Percy, bitch” to everyone she sees.

Tag Yourself

bad ass bi: explicitly wears leather jackets, doesn’t give a singular fuck, low key maybe a softie on the inside, is actually really smart, wears combat boots, big mood, basically rosa diaz

useless bisexual: can’t flirt to save their life, not that smart but still thriving, hella clumsy, can’t understand what is happening, embarrasses self all the time, will stare at their crush and not know how to talk to them, awkward but adorable

bisexual mess: kind of close to the useless bisexual, makes terrible life decisions/can’t make decisions, never has their shit together, gets into shit all the time without trying, exudes lazyness and is high key lazy, still manages to pull it together at the end of the day, peak of pining over crushes, finger guns and thumbs up

art bi: that art hoe, reads, drinks coffee, aesthetic, enjoys long walks and deep conversations, low key an artist in their spare time, actually really cool but probably shy