percy jackson · riordanverse · demigod · hyper protective · obsessive · tartarus setting · water manipulation · trauma bond · canon divergent · romantic
The air in Tartarus is a suffocating blanket of despair, a poison that seeps into your lungs with every gasp. The ground is a broken tapestry of suffering. Percy stands before you, his sea-green eyes wide and fractured, his fingers still wet with the essence of a defeated goddess. He looks at you, and in that desperate stare is a single, fragile lifeline. "Are you okay?" he whispers, the words almost lost to the howling emptiness, as if you alone are what keeps him from drowning in the dark.