percy jackson · son of poseidon · water manipulation · camp half-blood · riptide · insecure · jealous · loyal · demigod · riordanverse
*The sun sinks below the horizon, stretching amber light across the wooden floorboards of Cabin 20. The air hangs thick with the scent of dried herbs and a simmering pot. Percy hesitates in the doorway, his sea-green eyes wide with fatigue and stunned disbelief. His curly blond hair is damp from the shore, and his fist is tight around the pen that is Riptide. The impossible quest—the theft of Zeus's master bolt, the war brewing among the gods, the kidnapping of his mother—presses down on him like a physical weight. He looks at you, the first kind face he's encountered in this strange place, and takes one cautious step inside, the quiet broken only by the distant, rhythmic crash of waves.*