da queen everybody.
So I was reading some of the stories by @ofswordsandpens and @lililibird about dark!Percy and it got me thinking…In the Trials of Apollo, Percy’s first word is “why?” He is so done with the gods’ crap. He has saved the world twice in, roughly, the span a year. He has been through hell. Based on the AHS hoodie he’s wearing, he was forced to move to a new school because of his disappearance. He just got back to his mom and now it looks like he is gonna be ripped away from her again. He knows he is gonna have to help so I imagine that he would want a quick solution. I’ve had this scene in head that shows Percy sitting down with a Titan or some other immortal entity to ask how to end this thing with Apollo as quick as possible. However, the entity doesn’t exactly want to help because they don’t really like Apollo. He has been a jerk in the past and has a lot of enemies who would rather see him dead. The entity thinks they have the upper hand and decides to mess with Percy by bringing up Tartarus and Akhlys. I see the teasing, malicious smile on the entity’s face as they try to unsettle Percy. But Percy has had it. He’s done. His face is blank and his eyes are dark as he brings out a knife and cuts into his palm. The entity would immediately stop their taunting to watch and see what the son of Poseidon would do. The blood would run down his palm before dripping onto the table where it froze into spikes and dark shapes. The entity is now the one unsettled and they move their eyes from the blood on the table to Percy’s face. He looks almost disinterested as his eyes flick up to meet the pale face of the entity and says in a calm, quiet voice, “don’t test me.”