Demigods React to Everything: Take Two

Son of Poseidon

What belongs to the sea

Can always return

What belongs to the sea

Can always return

"Oh, good. Percy's mom is back."

"Yeah, that is not what ghosts look like, so she is most likely being held as leverage by Hades, which is odd, but not unlike him if he is feeling threatened by his brother's imminent war," Hermes says with a winning grin at Percy, which clashed with both the preexisting tension and the words he had just gotten done speaking.

Prissy, again, control your face, and... thumbs up the messenger god. Great communication. If any of us make it out of this bubble tonight, it will be a miracle. Maybe we should have sent some people to bed. That way, we could have someone to forewarn the future generations to just keep having the gods ignore them. It's better that way. Then you don't goof up and be friends with them, you don't outright accuse them of things they don't want to take accountability for, you don't get disowned by a mad parent for something you said, and you don't get reduced to a footnote of casualties when the overwhelming tension meets dire sleep deprivation leads to a brawl in the barbecue sauce covered dining pavilion. Someone needs to make it out of this to warn them because it sure as hell won't be me.

Maybe we should leave a note, but instead, Hermes deflates under the pressure of everyone else actively looking at him like he's bonkers, and everyone continues on like nothing happened.

"It's a seashell." No... it's a gift from a god.

"Tone shift!"

It was only slightly terrifying how that table can simultaneously be that excited over an English term and still pay this much attention with Zeus literally storming in his little corner of the bubble.

I was grateful for where this song was heading, in any case. We were well past due for a win.

Maybe my dad was a screw up too

Yep, that's it. Through all the efforts of gods and demigods alike, we could not have boiled the tension faster than whatever is happening in this stupid Iris-message movie, and I was here for it. Once I get done dying laughing.

"Percy, ouch."

That just sent us and our coffee-buzzed and sleep-seeking bodies rolling with laughter again.

His best-laid plans always

Falling through

"You see, this is the type of comparison you don't want to do and definitely not while actively in death-inducing predicaments," Apollo tried to warn, with not much success. We were too busy riding high before the drop inevitably hit.

Maybe he did the best that he could do...

Maybe my dad wasn't always there

Maybe he never knew

How to care

"Nope, we have no idea what is happening either, Hades. Glad we're on the same page," Princess says at the same time Poseidon cracks up laughing.

Prissy is still alive somehow, so we're succeeding so far.

But hey, that's life, and life ain't fair

"Percy." Selina really threw on a mom tone there. She even has the don't-you-freaking-dare look down.

And I know right now things are less than fine

But I think my dad may have thrown me a line

"Is there anyone who didn't actively break the rules here?" Zeus gets out from behind gritted teeth.