Just finished The Power Fantasy #7 and it’s a really good look on both Eliza and the Second Summer of Love, and I’m so glad they didn’t just have the Summer be a cop out “the queen was just evil and everyone was too dumb to notice”
Well now I want to see someone experience “eldritch horror” where they just go “ooooooooh it all makes sense.” And that’s it, everyone else is freaking out and screaming but they’re just going huh yeah sure
People, especially games, get eldritch madness wrong a lot and it’s really such a shame.
An ant doesn’t start babbling when they see a circuit board. They find it strange, to them it is a landscape of strange angles and humming monoliths. They may be scared, but that is not madness.
Madness comes when the ant, for a moment, can see as a human does.
It understands those markings are words, symbols with meaning, like a pheromone but infinitely more complex. It can travel unimaginable distances, to lands unlike anything it has seen before. It knows of mirth, embarrassment, love, concepts unimaginable before this moment, and then…
It’s an ant again.
Echoes of things it cannot comprehend swirl around its mind. It cannot make use of this knowledge, but it still remembers. How is it supposed to return to its life? The more the ant saw the harder it is for it to forget. It needs to see it again, understand again. It will do anything to show others, to show itself, nothing else in this tiny world matters.
This is madness.
Different Stories Resonate with Different People
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College:
1. Annabeth attended Harvard
2. Percy went to the New Rome University (come on you guys our boy is smart but with his record this is his best shot)
3. I can see Percy becoming either a teacher. social worker, or marine biologist
3a. the school is for demigods so he doesn’t have the issue of dyslexia, he however has to study a lot, but if its marine biology he internally knows everything
3b. He is a diver for the swimming team because the speed thing would be cheating.
4. Frank and Percy are roommates during college
5.Frank and Hazel break up but get back together as adults.
6. Leo doesn’t attend college but opens his own mechanic shop.
7. Leo invents demigod friendly tech
Post College:
8. Annabeth and Percy made long distance work, but Annabeth’s careers makes her jump from place to place, Percy follows her around.
9. Because Percy moves in with Annabeth, Frank is by himself for a while.
10. Will is still going through college during this time because med school
11. I believe Clarisse and Chris become close friends with Annabeth and Percy because there are not that many couples that stayed together and they double date or something
11a. Clarisse and Percy hate admitting that they are friends and will deny it at all cost.
11b. They are constantly making jabs at each other
12. Clarisse becomes a detective (think of Rosa from B99)
Family:
13. @thejudgingtrash has posts that are amazing regarding parenting/ jobs
14. Will and Nico adopt (I don’t see them using a surrogate but I guess thats a possibility)
15. Frank and Hazel have two kids, they were both only children, and Hazel loves her brother Nico and realized how “lonely” an only child is so they decided on two. A girl name Nicole, and a boy name Fai
16. Leo decided to become a foster parent being that he was in the system and he wanted to have a safe space.
17. Percy and Annabeth have two kids as well, (see 13), they are working parents and know that they want to have careers but also a family and three kids are a lot of work.
17a. They were all planned pregnancies. They had their first at 27
17b. I either see them having 2 boys, or a boy and a girl. 2 boys, one with curly black hair but that is identical to Percy in the way that Percy is to Poseidon, and the other boy is Annabeth’s mini me but with straight blonde hair and darker grey eyes. boy 1′s name is James after Sally’s dad, and boy 2′s name is Adler because Annabeth got to name him and she couldn’t think of another name, and she didnt want to use Oliver because OJ, but also didnt want to use a name that had a tragic story. for my second scenario James remains but Adler becomes Allison (Ally), a girl with wavy black hair and grey eyes that looks a lot like Annabeth and Sally
17c. Percy is the stricter parent.
Camp(s):
18. New Athens isn’t a thing, the camp expands but the camp is designed to be a summer camp. so no city
19. As it turns out Zeus had a bunch of kids that started coming out of the wood works when the gang was at college (turns out Percy’s wish worked in his favor being that he had broken the pack)
19a. Hades didn’t have any kids cause he was the only one that was true to his word
19b. Poseidon always jokes about more demigod children but they never appear (he truly loved Sally and wanted to make her a queen- thats canon)
20. Will and Nico once took in one of the Zeus’ kids for a while
21. They all visit during the summer, but aren’t truly there as campers
22. On August 18 they celebrate Kronos defeat while also remembering the fallen heroes
23. The seven stories have become larger than life, and their personalities have been obstructed by people’s stories to the point where some of them are very far fetch (cough cough kinda like the fandom cough)
24. The old campers all tease each other with the far fetch stories
This is how the golden age of piracy ended.
I think (and i’m probably dumb) it’s supposed to be he splits the timeline then in one he leads into doing the coinflip and if he gets it right he follows it, in the other he delays and doesn’t flip so if he gets it wrong he just never flipped and he flips later, but the might be wrong and make less sense
IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE that coils power was able to make a coin flip the same every single time. he can only use 2 universes theres a 50% chance it’s gonna be heads. in his 2 universes theres only a 25% chance that one of the two flips will be heads. he gets double luck but theres no reason why it wouldnt be tails in both universes yeah. that doesnt make sense
Then war of the spark happened
Ever since the Mending, Nicol Bolas has had some kind of master scheme going to try and restore him to his former glory (and then some) but the steps he’s been taking have often seemed disconnected and random.
After Rivals of Ixalan concludes however, I think I have enough information to put together a theory that ties these things together.
Let’s start by taking a look at what he’s been involved in (that we know of in canon) since the Mending…
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