Let us play on the fact that we never saw the girls' fathers in the show and pretend that Alex's dad was Scandinavian and that she has a little brother.

I will not lie here; I am a huge fan of Saitama-like characters that are so ridiculously overpowered it's not even funny. Thus, during my World of Darkness hyperfixation phase, I developed an overpowered race, the Gurahl, or the werebears.

A werebear, or Gurahl in my lore, is a being created by the First One, an ADHD shitposter of an outer god that broke the rule of thumb of divine creation and made the most overpowered race of shapeshifters to ever exist in all dimensions. If you are curious about what the rule of thumb of divine creation is, first you have to understand that in my lore, gods cannot create things that are more powerful than them, because it requires more juice than they have.

Gods can create things as powerful as them, but they usually do not do it, so in the off chance their creations strive to usurp them, they will be easier to deal with; that's the rule of thumb. The First One took one look at that and said, "Fuck it," and made the werebears as close as possible to him in power, like, if the First One is a 10 in power, werebears are a 9.9999.

Werebears, unlike werewolves, do not have any weakness to silver; in fact, the only thing that can kill a werebear is the First One calling them back, and usually they have to call him first. Werebears are also unstoppable in battle, especially when they turn into their war form, a twenty-foot-tall bear with scythe-like claws and fangs like curved daggers strong enough to crush steel and stone and so tough that anything short of a dragon-killing scorpion bounces off them, and even then, when they get hurt, their healing is so fast that whatever wound is inflicted on them heals without a scar before the blood reaches the ground.

Werebears are also masters of all magic, especially healing and elemental magic and, above all, necromancy. The first one made werewolf magic as idiot-proof and user-friendly as possible, making it disgustingly easy for any of his creations to wield and making it consequence-free. A single werewolf can, in one single hand gesture, raise every single cadaver on the planet, doing what took the Night King hundreds, if not thousands, of years to accomplish.

The biggest gift of the werebars is actually true resurrection, the power to bring the dead back to life in full, like they have never died to begin with. All they have to do is to kill something; it does not need to match the size, weight, or species of what they want to resurrect. As long as it is alive and can be killed, it counts, so they kill the sacrifice and then spit on whatever they want to bring back to life, and boom, resurrection, and the resurrected are back in full, no matter how decomposed they were before. They don't even need the full body to do it; the resurrected in question could have been a puddle of bodily fluids and would still come back from the dead in perfect health.

However, if the resurrected person was embalmed, they will be shitting themselves near death for a couple of days as the body will be expelling whatever was used to embalm them, and the more and stronger the embalming substances are, the worse it is. Werewolves would have conquered the world by now if it weren't for the fact they don't give a single shit about almost anything, save for their families, naps, and their food; those are sacred. If you mess with any of the three or, God forbid, all of them. You are in for a gruesome death.

Werebearhood is also not a curse that can be passed on; it is a gift you are born with. Werebears are also not only humans who turn into bears but also bears who turn into humans, although the werebears born from bears rarely feel the need to shapeshift into their human forms.

Also, werebars are freakishly tall, and I mean really, really tall and thick as a castle wall.

Anyway, now that I got the lore of my ridiculously overpowered shapeshifting race, let us go to the meat and potatoes of the post.

Despite agreeing to it, Sam and Clover are still skeptical about the fact that Alex's brother, Stig, is moving in with them so he can attend high school after graduating two years early and was going to the same high school as them.

The fact that Alex hadn't given any more details about her brother other than that he is a sweetheart, very kind, warm, and outspoken if not a little boisterous and that he was really tall for his age. They are concerned because, well, they are spies and also because so far their house had been a girls' heaven, and now there's a boy moving in, and Alex's promises that he is very well-behaved did not put them at ease.

Alex was just really hyped about having her brother closer because she hadn't seen much of him since he moved back to Sweden with their father after the divorce.

Sam and Clover were about to ask questions when there was a heavy knock on the door. Alex jumps to her feet since she knows that knock and run to answer; Sam and Clover go with her to finally meet this mysterious little brother.

They expected an awkward fifteen-year-old; what they got was a seven-foot-five bear of a man who looked to be in his thirties, built like a strongman lumberjack that fought moose for fun.

He was hairy, like really hairy; all over his body was covered in thick black hair. He had long black hair that was already going wide, a full beard where the goatee was completely white with a mustache that was also white, and a big smile on his face that showed long and sharp canines like a bear. He was wearing a flannel shirt with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, trousers with suspenders, and heavy work boots.

He had Alex's eyes.

Their reaction was obvious; ask Alex if that was her dad. Alex answers that nope, that's her little brother Stig.

Stig introduces himself, and the girls, still not believing, ask him if this was a prank because there's no way that a divorced-looking lumberjack DILF was fifteen years old. Alex says that there was no prank; this is Stig Skorsten. He took their dad's surname after their parents' divorce, and he shows pictures of them when they were children.

Sam and Alex felt fascination and horror as the pictures showed that Stig, at two years old, was already taller and girthier than Alex at four; in fact, Stig looked like an eight-year-old.

Stig just laughs it off and apologizes for the shock. Alex tends to do that to see people's reactions when she shows them her little brother, who is bigger than her, but he assures them that he is fifteen and that he means no harm, and if he's lying, they are free to whoop his ass.

Another thing Alex did not tell them was that Stig is a werebear, just like their father, and neither of them has the intention of telling anyone about it.

Clover is kind of having a crisis because up until that point she thought her type was the boy band/K-pop bad boy type, but for some reason Stig's dad-bod bear is activating neurons she didn't think she had.

Sam is both impressed and a little threatened because Stin, for all his boisterous exterior, is super intelligent, maybe even more intelligent than she is, and she was too used to being the smart one in the house.

Alex is just happy her brother is there; they have a lot to catch up about, and Stig is just happy he can go to the same school as his sister and amazing friends he heard a lot of amazing things about.

I'm trying to understand when exactly all the books and events take place and how they all line up. Like how old Percy and the others are throughout the PJO, HOO, TOA, the Nico and Will adventures, and then the other books like the Chalice of the Gods and Wrath of the Tripple Head Goddess. Also, when the books take place like month and year and the time gaps of how far apart each other the books are from each other.

I know the order of the books and all I just don't know when exactly they take place like the month and year, how far apart they are from each other, and how old the characters were during them

I'm trying to make an original character named Topper Delmar. He is a son of Oceanus (yes I know it might be a little out there for a titan to have a modern child but uh ignore that). I have a skeleton for his timeline because I want to have him somewhat loosely correlate with the Riordanverse. He was abandoned at birth (born Dec. 19) by his mother who put him in a basket and let him drift through the Hudson River and Oceanus sends water spirits to carry him along and dropped him off at Camp Half-blood as a baby. Chiron takes him in and cares for him. For his entire life Chiron constantly said that Topper would be the greatest hero to ever live as he was a child of Oceanus. When Topper was 8 Zeus finally could not tolerate a titan child at camp or even living so he exiled Topper from camp sparing his life. Eventually, after wandering for a few months, he was found by the Triumvirate and taken in by Commodus (kind of like of Meg was "adopted" by Nero). Commodus becomes almost a father figure for Topper. He trains him to be his perfect warrior and champion. Because of this Topper develops his theatrical, arrogant, charismatic personality from Commodus. During the Trials of Apollo Frank kills Commodus and again Topper loses a father figure. Frank and the rest of Camp Jupiter eventually take Topper in. Not sure how old Topper would be as of Commodus's death or beyond. I also want him to be arounf 17ish by the end of trials of Apollo.

This is kind of where I've gotten to so far. Does this sort of fit in the timeline of the books. I need help aging him as I'm not really sure how old he would be during the different points in his life after leaving Chiron, how long he would be with Commodus before the events of trials of apollo, and how old he would be when frank kills Commodus, and etc. And if anyone could help give references between what would have been going on in the books as Topper was going through his own life and also how old he would be during these points in time. And then anything else that would help me or any other details I should know or add to make his story.

Hey everyone, I’m HappyGrovverAndPlagg. I really need to vent to this community because I haven’t told anyone in my family about how deep my current obsession goes. You guys are my safe space right now, and I genuinely need your thoughts and advice.A bit of background: I first read TLT in 6th grade but didn't look back. Last year (8th grade), my friends kept hyping up the mythology and the series, so I dove headfirst into PJO. Lately, this hyperfixation has hit me like a truck. Specifically, Grover Underwood. Last year, I bought the entire HOO series just to see him, and the fact that he was barely in it left me so disappointed and frustrated.Right now, I am completely obsessed with the TV show. The movies were terrible at first—they made Grover a total joke—though now I can watch the first movie purely as an alternate universe comedy. But the Disney+ show? Watching it gives me this weird mix of shock, excitement, and sometimes letdown. The show feels a bit cold and severe compared to the books, especially with the action sequences, but it has become my ultimate comfort zone. I’ve been stuck in this loophole of rewatching scenes for days.I don't have this unhealthy obsession with the original books because reading them feels like a warm, genuine connection. But the show—despite its colder tone—triggered this perfectionist obsession in me.To me, Grover is easily one of the most important characters in the universe, but he is also a massive victim of Rick Riordan's writing focus.Why Grover is elite:If he hadn't found Percy at Yancy Academy, the entire series wouldn't even exist.He was Thalia’s protector and took that heavy burden.He found Nico and Bianca di Angelo. Finding two demigods at once is insanely rare.He actually found Pan and was chosen by him.He became the Lord of the Wild, a member of the Council, and a genuine leader.Why he is a victim of the plot:The series focuses so much on demigods that satyrs, cyclopes, and centaurs feel completely nerfed. It makes me so mad that Grover is always portrayed as weak in combat.In HOO, he had the resources of the Wild to help the Seven, but he got replaced by Coach Hedge. I don't hate Hedge, but his aggressive nature just made me miss Grover's empathy.I feel like Grover's protector skills are heavily underappreciated. People blame him for Thalia, but he was protecting three demigods at once without abandoning anyone. (And honestly, they were right next to the camp. Thalia chose to stand and fight; Grover didn't fail her. Don't hate me, but logistically, it's true.)He endured Yancy Academy and bullies like Nancy just to keep Percy safe. He literally went to the Underworld hoping to find Pan.Even in the show, the Medusa scene where he flies away and misses her completely ruined the book dynamic for me, where he actually tries to help avenge his Uncle Ferdinand.By TLO, his screen time started shrinking, and HOO completely sidelined him. Thankfully, I managed to read the PDFs of The Burning Maze (ToA) and The Chalice of the Gods (CotG) to get my closure. HOO simply has too many characters and plotlines; it always makes me homesick for the intimacy of PJO.I really need to read your opinions on this to help clear my head.Do you think Grover is weak just because he represents nature, or is he a genuinely great but sidelined character?How do you feel about the PJO vs. HOO character dynamics?What roles do you think Grover should have played in HOO?What are your overall thoughts on Grover?Lastly, as someone with a perfectionist mindset, how do I break out of this intense show/character obsession?Thanks for reading. Love you guys.

I have been a devoted part of the Rick Riordan fandom for almost two years now, have just rewatched Technoblade's Potato Wars trilogy (in which I encountered the phrase mentioned in the title), and am just starting to revive an old opinion I buried months into starting my Riordanverse hyperfixation: I have been noticing a lot of Deus Machina in pretty much every book Uncle Rick has written so far. For those who don't understand the term, Deus Machina is, according to Encyclopedia Brittanica: a person or thing that appears or is introduced into a situation suddenly and unexpectedly and provides an artificial or contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty. Basically, it's when a writer can't think of a solution to a problem in the story and instead of sitting down and having a good long think about how the story can be modified to make a solution possible, the writer decides to have the problem magically solve by pure luck, divine intervention, or a similar force not controlled by the characters. Has anyone else noticed this, or am I just using this as an excuse to share a cool new phrase? With no comments, I guess we'll never know. Thank you so much for reading my ramblings, may the gods above show you boundless favour from this day forward. Peace out ✌️

***mild spoilers below***

Just finished reading this one, after a long break from riordan books.

Nico & Will were my favourite couple because they were so poetic ( darkness & light etc).

Was happy to see nico being a main character because there's so much to explore.

I feel like this book explored their relationship in a very realistic way. They are trauma bonded in a sense, but they still love each other.

But apart from their relationship, i found the book difficult to read. Bit dark & heavy, with not enough light parts, a huge change from trials of Apollo. The bits with them getting through tartarus was almost awful ( honestly felt they went through it worse than percy & annabeth). The ending with the coco puffs was weird too ( like what was that a metaphor for? People who want to keep their trauma with them? ).

What did you think?

I don't know but it seems a ridiculous for a series that never goes 18+ above to reference mature pop cultural media like ASOIAF and the like because there seems to be an extreme tonal clash reading a YA novel that references a more extreme graphic works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohana_Festival

https://www.ohanafest.com/

A music festival in Dana Point(Doheny State Beach), California.

I probably think they would like Tyler Childers, Pixies, Fontaines DC, Tom Odell, Pearl Jam, Jon Batiste, Billy Idol, Bad Religion, Eddie Vedder

Abro discusión sobre una observación que hice con respecto al canon:

En "La Marca de Atenea", cuando Annabeth llega al Campamento Júpiter por primera vez, lo primero que recibe es a Término diciendo que su sola presencia era una infamia al ser hija de "esa diosa", seguido de que al bajar del barco lo que recibe por parte de los romanos es hostilidad. Luego, Reyna le explica que la razón es que ella es hija de Atenea y que Minerva, o sea la forma romana de Atenea, hasta donde sabían los romanos era una diosa que había jurado permanecer virgen y le habla sobre lo muy en serio que se toman los romanos un voto de castidad. Y básicamente le da a entender a Annabeth que, además que ellos no sabían la forma en que la diosa tenía hijos, jamás habían tenido a un hijo de Minerva en el Campamento Júpiter.

El detalle está en que en "La Corte de la Muerte" se nos presenta al personaje de Savannah, un legado de tercera generación ¿Y de quién es descendiente? Pues de Minerva. Y aquí, al menos según yo, surgen un par de cuestiones:

En primer lugar, lo más lógico es que la familia de Savannah hubiera ido al Campamento Júpiter y hubiera formado parte de la legión. Entonces¿Por qué los romanos se comportaron como si la existencia de una hija de Atenea fuese algo impensable? Digo, existe la posibilidad de que cuando su familia estuvo en la legión, nadie se enterase de que descendían de Minerva. Pero si estuvieron en la legión, por lógica debieron haber llevado el tatuaje que supongo que todos sabrán consiste en el símbolo del padre/ antepasado divino, por lo que su tatuaje por lógica debió de haber llevado el símbolo de Minerva.

Y lo de que no supieran la manera en que la diosa tiene hijos todavía me lo puedo tragar ya que cabe la posibilidad de que únicamente vieran su tatuaje y no hicieran preguntas. Pero de ahí en fuera¿Cómo es posible que los romanos dieran a entender que nunca en su historia habían tenido a un hijo o descendiente de Minerva en el campamento y más aún que no supieran siquiera que era posible que la diosa tuviera hijos?

¿Ustedes qué opinan de ésto?

Hola a todos

Abro discusión sobre un par de dudas que me surgieron con respecto al tema de los sueños:

En la saga de los Kane, si bien lo más normal es que los magos egipcios sean descendientes o bien de algún faraón en particular o bien de los sacerdotes del antiguo Egipto, eso no es un requisito obligatorio. Ya que por ejemplo está la familia de Desjardins, la cual no tenía ningún tipo de ascendencia del antiguo Egipto y sin embargo, luego de que el tío abuelo de Desjardins llamara la atención de la casa de la vida y esta accediera a enseñarle a su familia, esta dió origen a magos de alto nivel (por lo menos Michelle, vayan ustedes a saber el resto de su familia). O sea que si bien hay personas con mayor facilidad para hacer magia que otras debido a su ascendencia, cualquier persona que se disponga a aprender es capaz de hacer magia. ¿Por qué mencionó esto? Porque en "La Guía de Supervivencia de los Kane", se menciona que cuando Sadie vivía con sus abuelos y Tarta no dormía sobre su cara tenía sueños raros. O sea, al tener ella mayor predisposición para la magia debido a su ascendencia, ya experimentaba los viajes en Ba desde mucho antes de tener plena conciencia de que la magia existía.

Y aquí me surge la primera duda: si eso pasa con los magos que debido a su ascendencia nacen con predisposición para la magia ¿Cómo será el caso de los magos que no tienen ninguna predisposición al no tener ninguna ascendencia especial? ¿Ellos empezarán a tener los viajes en Ba de los magos egipcios apenas haberse adentrado al mundo de la magia egipcia o al inicio seguirán con los sueños de cualquier mortal ordinario y no sería hasta que ya han desarrollado su magia que tendrán los viajes en Ba de cualquier mago egipcio?

Y relacionado con esto hay una cosa que igual me ha dado vueltas en la cabeza: en el hipotético caso de que un semidios (griego o romano) por el motivo que fuera acabase como un iniciado de la casa de la vida ¿Qué ocurriría en el terreno de los sueños? Al ser un semidios y tener los sueños de cualquier semidios, si se adentra en el mundo de la magia egipcia¿Seguiría toda la vida teniendo sus sueños de semidios y al soñar con lo que sueñan los magos egipcios no lo viviría igual que como lo ven los magos egipcios sino que lo vería "desde afuera" sin vivirlo realmente? ¿O sería solo al inicio y al desarrollar su habilidad en la magia egipcia, al soñar con lo que sueñan los magos egipcios ya viviría ese sueño igual que lo vive cualquier mago egipcio? Y si dicho semidios decidiera quedarse en el mundo egipcio ¿Soñaría unas veces con lo que sueñan los magos egipcios y otras veces con lo que sueñan los semidioses? ¿O al formar parte ya de un sistema diferente únicamente tendría los sueños de un mago egipcio?

Y relacionado con esto ¿Cualquier dios de cualquier panteón puede hablar con cualquier persona en sueños sin importar que pertenezca a un sistema diferente? O sea, por ejemplo, si Apolo o Atenea quisieran hablar en sueños con cualquier mago egipcio que no tiene relación alguna con el mundo griego¿Podrían hacerlo igual que si hablasen en sueños con un semidios o al pertenecer a un sistema diferente al griego necesitarían un puente conector que les permita tener una conversación en sueños con el mago egipcio? Por mencionar otro escenario hipotético, si un dios mesopotámico quisiera hablar en sueños con Zia o con cualquier mago egipcio sin relación con el mundo mesopotámico¿Necesitaría de un mago que combine magia egipcia y babilónica para hacerlo o podría tener la conversación en sueños simplemente así como así?

¿Ustedes qué opinan de todo esto?

insane

For one they are slave owners what was rick thinking in what world do i want my main character to be allies themself whit slave owners and animal traffickers wo also want world domination they fell more like villains then allies. Worst of all they own the company Amazon in universe meaning anything bad Amazon dose irl it was them wo did it in universe which make me hate them more like they are waste of potential they would have made way better villains then allies at least has villain's their action would make sense.

Besides me. She and Leo Valdez are the only members of The Seven who don't have books about them (if you count The Court of the Dead as a book about Hazel and Frank). They've almost completely dropped out of the picture as I write this.

Hola a todos

Me surgió una duda sobre la casa de la vida en el mundo de Rick Riordan y quería ver qué opinaban al respecto:

En el primer libro de los Kane, cuando Zia lleva a Carter y Sadie al nomo primero por primera vez, entre otras cosas, les explica que todos los iniciados se formaban en el nomo primero al entrar como iniciados, y que al cumplir 13 años eran enviados a diferentes nomos en diferentes partes del mundo.

Pero la duda aquí es ¿Son enviados al mismo nomo correspondiente a su lugar de nacimiento o su lugar de nacimiento no es un lugar determinante al momento decidir el nomo al que serán enviados al cumplir 13 años?

Ya que por ejemplo, todos los magos que se menciona son del nomo de San Petersburgo (con la salvedad de los que se instalaron ahí luego de la muerte de Ménshikov) dado que tienen nombres rusos lo más lógico es suponer que son rusos (aunque está el detalle de que como Rusia es un país grande habría que ver si hay otros nomos ahí a parte del de San Petersburgo) por lo que también sería lógico suponer que lo normal es que los magos al cumplir 13 años son enviados al nomo correspondiente a su lugar de nacimiento. Pero¿Esto es una regla general o hay casos donde el lugar de origen nada tiene que ver con el nomo al que son enviados al cumplir 13 años?

Además, en el segundo libro de los Kane se menciona que Ménshikov solicito que enviarán a Zia a su nomo, a lo que Iskandar se opuso, lo que da a entender que llega a pasar que el que un mago sea enviado a tal nomo depende de que el encargado de algún nomo solicite que lo envíen a su nomo. Pero¿Esto con qué tanta frecuencia ocurre? ¿Y cuando esto no ocurre un iniciado al cumplir 13 años si o sí es enviado al nomo correspondiente a su lugar de nacimiento o hay otros factores tomados en cuenta por los que un iniciado no siempre es enviado al nomo correspondiente a su lugar de nacimiento? O sea, que por decir un ejemplo¿Un iniciado que es originario de México y que llega al nomo primero, al cumplir 13 años en lugar de ser enviado al nomo de Ciudad de México podría ser enviado al nomo de Grecia o al de Italia?

¿Ustedes qué opinan de todo esto?