Incorrect Steddie That’s Actually Correct

New Crow Time [I'm the artist. Not a repost.]

I like to think that pre-Oracle Rachel painted scenes from both wars, but she and Percy have no idea until they go back and reflect.

Percy notices, cause Rachel shows him her art, but he just rights it off as weird, even tho something doesn’t feel right.

Like, that’s DEFINITELY a replica Achilles mourning Patroclus. Only it’s two girls, one with flowing hair and a melted face, the other kneeling over her friend, face stricken with grief. He thinks her eyes look familiar. An immortal stands over them. Although they remind more of Ares and less of Thetis.

She has another painting that reminds Percy of a story from the Gigantomachy. Hera cowers under Porphyrion, about to be attacked. Only instead of Zeus and Heracles coming to her aid, it’s a guy with blond hair. His armor and sword is distinctively NOT Greek, but he opts to not comment on it. Rachel did a good job.

There’s more in her little studio, they both dismiss them as dreams. They make Rachel uncomfortable and Percy feels bile rise the more he looks.

He doesn’t realize until months later. It hits him while on the Argo. Him, Jason, Clarisse. THEY were the heroes in those paintings. Jason was the one coming to Hera’s aid. Clarisse was mourning Selina. He was fighting giants.

It all clicked into place, and he tried to remember what else her paintings for-told.

Just a reminder that adult self diagnosis of autism is completely valid; the tests are not geared toward adults and miss plenty anyway. For more, may I suggest Eric M Garcia’s WE’RE NOT BROKEN or Steve Silberman’s NEUROTRIBES.

You know yourself pretty dang well and that counts.

My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.

Virginia Woolf

"We are all born so beautiful. The greatest tragedy is being convinced we are not." - Rupi Kaur

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