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okay, so, Percy lowkey thrives in college
Why??? Bc New Rome’s university is specifically catered to demigods and any issues they have with learning. He’s not gonna have to deal with asshole teachers calling him lazy like…it’s a good setup for him okay
I could see him maybe transferring in like junior year once he figured out specifically what he wanted to do with his life but also we don’t know about their departments and programs…so maybe he’d just stay idk, we know from the fact there’s like ex-legion members that are still duty bound living in the mortal world that it’s probably like an Actual Good School, so idk. Not life or death specifics wise so headcannon as you will.
Anyway, Percy and Annabeth have an apartment in New Rome and Annabeth commutes to her school (what was the sweatshirt in sotd??? I can’t remember rip). They’re cute and in love yadayada
So anyway, Percy does really well in college but also he’s a masochist, so he decides to push his luck with a double major
Like. Okay. Percy never expected to really make it to college, so he never really put in a lot of thought of what he wanted to do with his life- but now he had to actually, you know, decide. What does he like??? Uh, basketball, skateboarding, and ocean life. Canon.
Like…the boy has literally snuck out multiple times in the middle of the night just to cut animals out of garbage or fishing nets, he’s not as outspoken as Grover but he always feels strongly about protecting the environment, that whole scene in the Atlanta Aquarium in moa??? Maybe he’d put off the idea of making a marine career at first because it feels cliché for the sea god’s kid, but he’s eventually going to figure out that this is what he’s passionate about
He’s gonna remember his promise to save those creatures from Atlanta and OH BOY
so his double major: Marine Biology and Environmental Education (with a focus in Oceanography)
He does pretty well as stated and gets a few internships at different zoos and aquariums in California to help him out (not sea world he’s gonna fight them)
So anyway by the time he graduates and everything he’s got like two relatively decent jobs bc he’s suspiciously great with the animals??? So he gets promoted from intern lmao
He keeps up there for a few years but then Annabeth gets a job offer down in Florida, right
And like…Florida isn’t exactly a Dream Land for two 26 year olds but there’s always a lot of building going on down there and this promising startup company wants Annabeth to head them which is like the deal of a lifetime tbh so she jumps right on it. They get engaged before they move there officially and Annabeth’s first paycheck from this place is enough for them to buy a spot of land for her to build their dream house like y’all….I love them
But okay back on track: it’s Florida. Percy doesn’t exactly have any trouble finding work with his degrees lmao
But he finds himself getting a little frustrated with the people he works with?? Like. He can’t just exactly say “Hey boss we need to warm up the tank temperatures a little bit the fish keep telling me they don’t feel well”. He can’t tell the vet that the dolphin is swimming weirdly because she’s depressed by the fact a boat propeller killed her baby. And he’s really fired up about the fact that like…the animals are being kept there indefinitely. Like he doesn’t think that’s right and he can tell the animals aren’t happy
And every now and then he’s reminded off all the drugged up animals in Atlanta and he is just….angry™
So who’s to say what was the actual tipping point for him but he decides to start up his own place
To the surprise of no one, Annabeth’s company handles the construction of the place
Some of the builders get a little confused because Hazel’s on site messing with the mist for a while but once everything is finished it looks hella great
His big plan is to run a marine life sanctuary/rehabilitation center mainly- he’ll let people in for aquarium tours while the animals are healing from whatever issues they have but he sets them free once they’re in the clear. Hazel was messing with the mist during construction because there’s an entire hidden wing of the place where they can also take care of any mythical sea creatures that need help
Obviously none of the mortal workers or tour groups know about this place but it’s fine okay it works out fight me
By this point Grover has started up his own wildlife/environment charity foundation so while Percy is still getting his sanctuary on it’s legs G-man sends some of his workers to volunteer there so that’s great
The mortal workers are all so,,,baffled by this fucking boy lmao
Like first they think he’s an intimidating boss because he wants everything done in Very Specific Ways and they’ll see him get pissed off at government reports of the ocean and shit but then someone will come into work early and find him in a pool stroking a fucking shark and softly saying “Shelia, you didn’t deserve any of that and I am so sorry you had to put up with his loser ass” asdfghhjl
The sanctuary tours become a small local success pretty quickly because Percy’s so outspoken about trying to get these animals better and it starts off as people going “okay we’ll go once and then feel good that we spent some pity money on a dolphins health” but like. When they’re just getting started out they only do a couple tours a day so Percy leads them himself and they’re SO FUNNY. All the kids love him and they’re actually Learning about stuff so when they keep begging their parents to go back no one can really resist.
Like it’s very easy for him to make the educational lectures take on an entertaining spin, and he has an answer for almost every question ranging from Actually Informative to ‘what’s that manatee’s favorite color’.
So this soon becomes the Town Hotspot and the place starts Thriving
Most of his workers are marine vets, volunteers from Grover’s foundation, and young adult demigods who are in the ‘I Didn’t Think I’d Live This Long What Do I Do Now’ stage. He literally worked out a program with Camp Halfblood to send people down there if they didn’t want to stay at camp but also didn’t really know what to do, and since they’d mostly be working in the mythical creatures wing that Hazel misted up, they wouldn’t really have to worry too much about monster attacks while trying to get their lives together
Percy’s sanctuary makes it’s first splash in the news when he decides it’s finally time to Fight The Atlanta Aquarium
Grover’s foundation is a Pretty Big Deal by this point so when he gets Grover’s help on it the media lowkey starts following it because like…what is this little sanctuary doing trying to take on an accredited aquarium
But he’s too fired up about those drugged up creatures being forced to perform so he goes hard okay
And listen don’t @ me with Frank got those fish centaur guys to go rescue everyone like….that was a HUGE exhibit lead by two corrupt gods and was also situated on dry land like…nah. Plus Percy is pretty sure that if they were mistreating mythical creatures (that were literally the gods’ children), they were probably mistreating the normal animals too. So he won’t drop this fight and Phorcys and Keto can’t exactly just, kill him flat out now that Grover’s got the media involved because it would look to suspicious, and then fucking Poseidon hears about this and decides to Get Involved and helps Percy dig up enough receipts on them so he wins in the court of public opinion, and it’s a whole thing but they ultimately quit and hand over the animals.
And once they get all the animals there and situated…Woo Boy
Practically everyone’s working overtime because they’re ever so slightly short staffed on vets so he’s looking for new volunteers every day
They were f u c k e d by the amount of mythical creatures and there’s like. Not exactly a branch of veterinary school that covers them??? So he calls Frank down there, Grover shows up with a couple other satyrs and Poseidon sends a few Nereids to help out and they just gotta. Fucking help these animals withdraw from the sedatives and then try to get them to talk omg. It takes some time for all of them to calm down and actually trust Percy and his workers but it eventually works out.
Frank finds that as stressful as the whole thing was he actually really enjoyed helping out, and he’s been a little lost figuring out what he wants to do as a career so he just…lowkey doesn’t leave Florida and starts showing up every day lmao. Percy’s not exactly gonna turn him away, you know?
They had to stop tours while they were getting all the new animals in and figuring out what was wrong with them, but once they open their doors again the people are WILD
Because of the press and everything. Suddenly their little local fish rehab was saving animals from bad people in other states!!! Everyone wanted to see the new animals!!! So that ended up bringing in a lot of money
And then people from out of state were coming in because they really wanted to see if the animals were actually being treated better
So suddenly Percy’s little sanctuary is like. On the Map™
And Percy has never been fond of being in the spotlight or anything, but he’s not a dumbass- he knows that the more well known the place gets, the more money they’ll make, which will lead to them being able to help even more animals
So he makes a point to donate some percentage of all money to Grover’s foundation
Starts getting vocal on social media about the EPA and everything going on with the environment and stuff. One time he very passive aggressively @-ed trump in a bunch of tweets about climate change and it trended for like a week lmao (’Percy….you can’t just do that’ ‘I have literally looked Zeus in the eye and told him to go fuck himself before, the president has no power over me’)
Every now and then the place will host protecting the planet seminars for like, preschool or kindergarten classes on field trips like they’ll talk all about things they can do to Help Out and he’ll tell them all about how marine life is effected by what humans do and he’ll go out of his way to show them animals with injuries from like those plastic six-pack holders and shit it’s a whole thing
I’m sorry I’m just imagining Percy taking a tour group into a huge amphitheater with a pool in the center and going ‘and this is where we’d keep and show off our whales….IF WE WERE ASSHOLES’ lmao
Like yeah, they do get an occasional injured whale but he always gives them top priority when that happens bc he doesn’t want them there too long. More than once he’s discreetly used some ~sea powers~ to try and get them out in under a day. They put trackers on the whales though- the mortal vets believe it’s just to make sure they make it back to their pods when released, but it’s really so that if a dolphin or something swims up to Percy like ‘hey bitch whatever your guys did the other day stopped working come help’ he can find them fairly easily lol
One of the Hip Young Teen Demigods™ working for him convinces Percy to make those trackers into one of those fun apps where anyone can go on and see where certain whales are and learn some little fun facts and shit. Annabeth sets that up and adds a little feature where like each month there’ll be a new quiz and depending on how well you do you could get like cheaper or free tickets for the tours and stuff
Sorry I just imagined Percy taking Estelle on a behind the scenes tour and letting her swim with some dolphins and now I’m crying
She comes down to visit whenever she can….we know this
One day her teacher is covering current events and is like ‘the government wants to get rid of the Environmental Protection Agency’ and she’s like ‘my big brother Percy said he and Mr. Grover are gonna get in a fist fight with the president if that happens’ asdfgghj
Oh my G o d she reaches the little mermaid phase that every child has so he takes her to the mythical wing to meet some actual mermaids- there’s a few staying there because after they got captured by the Atlanta place they were too scared to go back to the open ocean and he and the other workers haven’t managed to talk them down about it yet. They REALLY liked seeing Estelle though and went out of their way to make her laugh. Estelle loved it and told Percy it was much better than the mermaid actresses the aquarium her school went to had and Percy was like B O I.
So he’s been feeling bad about these mermaids being stuck in one tank anyway so he talked to them about swimming around with the other animals during tours (you know the mortals would just think they’re just actresses bc of the mist…like damn they though Mrs. O’Leary was a poodle lmao), and the mermaids are a little nervous but decide to do it
It’s a HIT with the tour groups and it works out really well!! because!! The mermaids start socializing with other ocean creatures again and get used to everything, so after a while most of them finally feel comfortable going back to the actual ocean!!
ALSO this DOUBLE works out because the mortals just see them as actresses and whatnot but every now and then Percy or one of the demigod workers will hear a kid be like ‘but they have gills!!! that one’s skin is blue!!! look at their teeth!!!’ and they’ll notify Chiron to send some satyrs down
All in all Estelle saved the day there lol
Do you think this boy’s not gonna fight Sea World??? please
Honestly if he finds anything sketchy out about any aquarium, like, anywhere, he makes a point to try and liberate the animals
He’s obviously very hands-on with the actual care of the creatures
Like asdfg I’m just imagining the vets being like ‘this shark is dangerous and agitated we need to sedate it to find out whats wrong’ and Percy just hops in the fucking pool and starts petting it and is like ‘he’s afraid of needles Carson just come over here and help me clean out his gills’ lmao
A sea lion that’s been there for a few weeks is acting weird and won’t let the Vet get near it and the vet‘s freaking out but Percy strolls in with a bucket of fish going ‘She’s upset that you forgot her birthday, you dick’ lmao
“MR. JACKSON THATS A TANK FULL OF MAN O’ WAR JELLYFISH YOU NEED TO GET OUT OF THERE IMMEDIATELY”
Percy, holding eye contact with the vet as he deliberately strokes the jellyfishes: “Some of us can handle it”
“WHAT THE F U C K”
Like the vets are just constantly so exasperated and mildly terrified by his actions but like…they all work, for no understandable reason, there’s no reason this BUFFOON should still be alive, why do all the teenage workers keep laughing at them whenever Percy pulls a new stunt???
lmao the demigod workers get the biggest kicks out of the mortal vets freakouts it’s so funny to them and sometimes they wanna talk about Percy’s abilities at work so instead of saying ‘son of poseidon’ they’ll call him ‘dr. dolittle’ but that spurs the vets FURTHER because he’s not even a doctor!!! he doesn’t have a veterinary degree!!! what the fuck!!!
it’s just a whole Thing
“I’m gonna sue Sea World” “Why” “…Because I hate them”
Oh my God Percy in the middle of giving a tour but Poseidon is in the fucking tour group and keeps shouting out facts before Percy can finish a sentence and Percy is just like father,,,,,,,I will ban you from the premises if I must, and they banter the whole time and the rest of the tour group thinks its fucking hilarious
someone films them arguing over Fun Octopus Trivia (’Son you CANNOT POSSIBLY be trying to tell me I don’t know what I’m talking about!!’) and it fucking trends because they’re so fucking heated about ocean facts like nerds
“I notice there’s not a single statue of fountain in the likeness of the god of the sea, even though this is an aquarium? Odd design choice.”
“DAD I WILL CALL SECURITY.”
Poseidon finally pushes Percy too far when he tries to correct his speech on sea turtles and Percy, knowing damn well his father can’t just reveal he’s a god to this group of mortals, goes “Hey, Dad…remind me again, which one of us has degrees in this field??” and Poseidon’s jaw DROPS and the tour is like oooooohhh shit!!! lmao
This leads to like a solid 15 minutes of kids going “hey yeah Percy’s saved so many sea animals!!! What have YOU ever done!!” and Poseidon is just completely flabbergasted he finally concedes and lets Percy finish in silence lmao
this was on the video,,,,,there’s a viral video of Percy letting the god of the sea get shredded by 10 year olds that think Percy’s the coolest dude around,,,,iconique
Rachel Elizabeth Dare??? Being the sanctuary’s biggest benefactor??? It’s More Likely Than You Think
We know she’s gonna spend most of her money donating to charities and foundations and her two favorite are Grover’s thing and Percy’s sanctuary
Every now and then one of the demigod workers will decide they Actually Like What They’re Doing There so Percy will write them college recommendation letters and help them figure out what they wanna major specifically in and if they’re staying in the area he’ll work their schedules around their school hours so they won’t have to worry about finding a new job/going back to having to worry about monster attacks 24/7
Some of the others might only be there for a little bit while they figure things out but either way it’s a safe place and relatively enjoyable work so most of them are pretty happy so the program he runs with the camp is like. Highly recommended. A lot of the kids view it as like a gap year
So what I’m saying is…it’s a sanctuary in more ways than one
Every time people try to rate like, the safest aquariums and whatnot his is always at the top of the list
He’s highly praised for how quickly and thoroughly his team is able to rehabilitate animals
They’re always providing educational information about marine life and the environment and once they get Big he’s able to start funding programs to clean up the ocean and stuff
Remember Frank was hanging around??? Percy eventually puts him as the lead on-call doctor for the mythical creatures wing. Do to Percy, Frank and the demigod workers constant working to help these guys get better there’s a significant drop in demigod-ocean-death numbers
Got shipwrecked??? Man some mermaids saved us!! A thirty foot long sea dragon winked at me!!! Some fish centaurs gave me some brownies!!
Like,,,the word gets around, you know? It’s rad
Oh my God sometimes Bessie pops up and Percy’s like ‘you know damn well you’re fine’ but she misses him asdfgh
Tyson showing up every time Rainbow gets a cold
Imagine Percy giving tours and all the creatures raptly follow him in their tanks and the group is flipping their shit but he hardly notices
baby chase-jackson growing up around all this
crying
takes the kid to work with him all the time I’m…..
some of the mortal workers thinking Percy’s not actually THAT good with the sea animals, he’s just good at showmanship or whatever but then they’ll sneak into work when he’s supposed to be the only one there and he’s just hand feeding an elephant seal and saying “TELL ME ABOUT IT, Janet” asdfgh
His fucking toddler is a few feet away in a pool, petting some electric eels but completely fine….these poor mortals honestly lmao
All in all though like….Percy as an environmental activist who runs a marine life sanctuary and rehab. This is what I support. This is what I’m about. This works very well like I could keep going if I wasn’t falling asleep presently
I love and miss Percy but anyway…this is canon like I’ll call Riordan myself if I gotta
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