forgottentales | {2nd Wave; Text}

Sender: Athon-Rajah (The Fish Prince) | Percy (Perseus) Jackson

Recipient: Everyone

I know this place is....different. I get that. And I know some of you have been here longer. Way longer than me. But....that doesn't make this any easier? Missing things like Christmas or New Years. Back home I'd celebrate with mum. With my new step-dad. With my girlfriend and the others. I might even miss my sister being born, being here. Or, however this works. I don't know. But...how do the rest of you deal with it? I guess it's kinda more of a sore spot for me since back home Hera erased my memory and sent me off to the other Camp and all, so I've dealt with everyone freaking out over me and me missing things for months.

Spoilers. It sucks. Would not recommend. At all.

Just. This time of year is the hardest I guess. Being without them.

[He'll probably regret admitting this stuff in the morning, but. Well. Percy can't really hide this. His emotions have always been obvious. And as quick to shift from being calm to raging and furious at the drop of a hat. Probably part and parcel of being related to Poseidon and all.]

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It's because I can fight that I figured I could help. It's not like I enjoy it exactly or anything. Prototyping?

Perigee? But uh yeah Christmas is a holiday back home at least. Big tree, presents and family and decorations and all.

NEITHER DO A LOT OF PEOPLE, BUT AT LEAST YOU DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT BEING KILLED IN THE BLINK OF A GLANCE NUGGET.
YES, PROTOTYPING.
BE GLAD YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
BACK WHERE I'M FROM WE PLAYED THIS GAME WHERE WE GOT A MAGICAL SPRITE THAT YOU COULD PUT ANYTHING, EVEN DEAD THINGS, AND IT GETS REVIVED AS A KERNELSPRITE.
ONLY, SURPRISE! IT ENDED UP BUFFING THE BAD GUYS INSTEAD!
SO AT LEAST WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT ALL THE INK MONSTERS MIMICKING OUR POWERS.

YES, A PERIGEE.
FUCK I FORGOT YOU HUMANS USE SUCH ARCHAIC AND DUMB TERMS FOR THINGS.
YOU KNOW, A PERIGEE, TWELVE OF THEM MAKE UP A SOLAR SWEEP?
BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE YOUR IDEA OF CHRISTMAS IS THE SAME THING.
ONLY I GUESS YOU USE A BIG TREE INSTEAD OF A BEHEMOTH LEAVING?
WEIRD, BUT WHATEVER, YOU HUMANS ARE WEIRD.

I've been put in dangerous situations and sent off on dangerous Quests from the gods and prophecies since I was twelve. I survived Tartarus.
No idea about the sprite things, that's new but the bad guys like to team up and all back home so it wouldn't surprise me.

You mean a month? I assume you mean months, twelve of them a year. Wait where do the behemoths come into it anyway?

COOL, AND I'VE SURVIVED FOR SIX SOLAR SWEEPS ON THE FACE OF A PLANET THAT WOULD CULL ME JUST FOR BEING BORN *AND* SURVIVED A GAME HELLBENT ON MURDERING US OR SENDING US TO A DOOMED TIMELINE IF WE SO MUCH AS SNEEZED AT THE WRONG TIME.
MY POINT IS, GET IN LINE, DIPSHIT. WE'VE ALL GONE THROUGH HELL AND BACK, SOME MORE THAN OTHERS. PARADOX SPACE SEEMS TO SINGLE OUT A SELECT FEW SPECIFICALLY TO SHIT ALL OVER, AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE THE LUCKY ONES CHOSEN THIS TIME.

SURE, I'LL ASSUME ONE OF YOUR ALIEN MONTHS IS SIMILAR TO A SWEEP IF ONLY TO CLEAR THINGS UP.
AND THE BEHEMOTH HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT, OTHER THAN TO LEAVE A GREAT, BIG, STEAMING LEAVING FOR YOUR LUSUS TO FIND AND DRAG BACK TO YOUR HIVE SO YOU CAN DECORATE IT.
WHICH, I GUESS MAKES US KIND OF SIMILAR?
ANYWAYS, THAT'S THE LAST HAPPY MEMORY I HAVE, TOO.
SO, I GET HOW THAT MIGHT FEEL LIKE BEING PERFORATED WITH A CULLING FORK.

I'm not saying others haven't had it rough. All demigods I know have, basically. And that's just back home. Not taking into account people here I'm just meeting since I got here.

I have no idea about most of what you just say but. I'll take your word for it being similar, sure.

IT'S FINE, I'VE BASICALLY GOTTEN WELL-VERSED IN THE IGNORANT NATURE THAT IS HUMANITY.
LOOK, POINTING OUT ALL THE ALIEN DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OUR TWO PLANETS ASIDE, THE POINT I'M LABORIOUSLY TRYING TO DRAG MY CARAPACE TO IS THAT I GET IT.
BEING HERE IS... A NICE BREAK FROM THE BULLSHIT, I'LL GIVE IT THAT MUCH.
WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MURDEROUS UNKILLABLE DEVILBEASTS OR YOUR BEST FRIENDS SUDDENLY GOING MURDER-HAPPY ON YOU IN YOUR SLEEP.
BUT IT'S LIKE...
I DON'T KNOW.
YOU'RE NOT DEALING WITH THE SHIT BACK HOME, BUT YOU'RE JUST.
STUCK HERE IN FAIRY LAND.
IT'S KIND OF LIKE A WEIRD LIMBO PURGATORY AND IT'S UNSETTLING IN IT'S OWN WAY.
BEING ALONE REALLY DOESN'T HELP MUCH EITHER.
ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE HERE FROM YOUR UNIVERSE, TOO?

Ignorant? But yeah. Yeah, pretty much.

And I am. The only one from home. At least so far that I figure.

ME TOO.
IT'S A REALLY UNCOMFORTABLE FEELING.
I MEAN, I GREW UP ALONE BACK WHEN I WAS STILL LIVING ON ALTERNIA, BUT I AT LEAST KNEW THERE WERE OTHER TROLLS ON MY PLANET.
EVEN WHEN I WAS STUCK ON THE METEOR, I AT LEAST HAD MY FRIENDS, AS MUCH AS I LOATHED THEM SOME DAYS.
BUT HERE IT'S JUST ME.
AND IT'S.
IT'S REALLY NOT ALL THAT GREAT, IF I'M BEING COMPLETELY FUCKING HONEST.

I might not get the specifics but. I can listen? Read? Whatever. If you need to vent. I mean, I get it. Being alone, without our friends, it's hard.

Even if we try make new friends here.

SEE? SOMEONE ON THIS STUPID PLANET ACTUALLY GETS IT.
SO.
UGH, I CAN’T EVEN BELIEVE I’M GOING TO BE SUGGESTING THIS WITH A HUMAN I’VE BARELY MET THAT I CAN’T EVEN TROLL THROUGH THEIR ENTIRE TIMELINE.
BUT I GUESS OF YOU’RE AS SAD AND PATHETIC AS I AM I CAN HUMBLE MYSELF ENOUGH TO EXTEND A SPONGE CLOT TO.
I MEAN WE JUST HAD A REALLY FUCKING TOUCHING MOMENT OF SOLIDARITY HERE.
SO, MESSAGE RECEIVED, I GUESS. AND ALSO SENT BACK AT YOU.

[It... SOUNDS like he’s trying to make friends?]

Sponge clot? I'd rather not be trolled?

But. Yeah. Sure.

[They have to stick together, right? Here.]

YES, SPONGE CLOT.
THE CARTILAGINOUS EXTENSIONS STOCKING OUT OF THE SIDES OF YOUR EARS THAT MAKE YOU LISTEN TO THINGS? I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU HUMANS CALL IT.
AND DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE TROLLING THING, IT WAS DUMB AND A STUPID IDEA ANYWAY.

YEAH.
UM.
I GUESS IF YOU'RE STUCK ON HOBBIES, YOU COULD READ SOMETHING? THERE'S NO MOVIES IN THIS GODFORSAKEN PLACE, BUT THERE'S A METRIC SHITLOAD OF BOOKS.
SOME OF THEM I MIGHT ACTUALLY RECOMMEND.

Reading is. Kinda difficult? I have dyslexia, comes with the whole demigod thing back home. It isn't as bad at least if it's in Ancient Greek but that depends on this place having books in Greek for that matter.

I can kinda manage with English but it is still definitely not my strong suit.

DYSLEXIA?
WHAT, DOES THAT MEAN YOUR GLANCE NUGGETS ARE BROKEN OR SOMETHING?
WHY NOT, I DON'T KNOW, GET GLASSES FOR THAT OR SOMETHING?

UGH, JUST GOES TO SHOW YOU HOW SHITTY THIS PLACE IS.
I COULD HAVE RECOMMENDED MOVIES TO YOU, BUT NO, THIS PLACE DOESN'T HAVE ANY TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE MOVIES POSSIBLE.
IT'S SO STUPID!

No. It means I have trouble reading. Words get jumbled or mixed up letters. No glasses are gonna fix that. My vision itself is fine. Unlike Jason's.

I'd say we could draw our own movie like those flip book things but. yeah it'd be a pain and take a while.

THAT'S A THING?
I THOUGHT THAT WAS SOMETHING MADE UP.

UGH, NO, THAT WOULD BE THE BIGGEST PAIN IN MY ASS TO EVEN ATTEMPT.
UGH...
WHATEVER. AS MUCH OF A TRAGEDY AS IT MAY BE, NOT HAVING ANY MOVIES TO WATCH ISN'T THE WORST THING I GUESS.

It's not. Not made up I mean.

Simple ones can be kinda fun. A whole movie one might take a while though.

YEAH, WELL, UNLESS YOU CAN GROW A HUSKTOP FROM OUT OF YOUR ASS, I DON'T THINK WE'LL BE MAKING OUR OWN MOVIES ANYTIME SOON.

grow what?

I don't know on making movies besides drawing some silly little things on paper you flip through. Or just pointing a phone at something to record or take a picture but obviously we demigods don't really do phones much if at all.

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