Home Is Where The Heart(h) Is

Reflections

Hi, so this is the part where I talk a lot about the book, namely the screw-ups, plotholes, and other errors.

So, to start off, I will begin by writing the reasons why I started writing this book in the first place. I think I did say something about this in the AN on chapter 2 for ff.net and the AN chapter on Wattpad, but to repeat it:

One, I don't like the many unoriginal stories that plague both sites. A huge offender is the Pertemis ship, wherein the plot is usually as follows: Annabeth either dies or, more commonly, cheats on Percy. A broken Percy is then either directly becomes the Guardian of the Hunt or wins Chaos' favour. Obviously copying the two top stories on the archive for ff.net, Everlasting Promises and in some way, The Queen's Champion, though that includes Hera in the mix. Add or subtract some things like Hestia and Hades' favour, whether Percy's parents are living, or whether Artemis somehow was already madly in love with Percy (the worse kind). So it's just sad to see so many people copying an overused plot. If I'm not wrong, the author of Everlasting Promises, Starblade176 (i think?) even put in his/her AN that he/she didn't like other people "borrowing" his/her idea.

Now, I have nothing against Pertemis. It's honestly a nice ship and cool to see authors take a goddess who has sworn off men and apparently the best man in the whole universe and put them together. Frankly, it was one of the reasons I checked out ff.net more often. But as I got deeper, I realised the horrors that is unoriginality.

Therefore, I wrote this story to give a fresh idea on both communities. Inspire some new ships and stuff. Plus, I will admit, due to the lack of Perstia, I figured it was a good opportunity to start off since it was a ship that was nice but uncommon.

Two, I wrote this to convey my own thoughts on relationships. On the latter, I have no experience in them T_T, but it was just my personal opinion regarding the matter which I expressed through words. 2.5, I was also tired of seeing people get the characters all OOC and make them super jealous the minute Percy/Annabeth do something wrong.

I can hear the pitchforks already, but my opinions on love is not what I'm going to discuss now, so for now, just deal with my teenage, immature mind, alright? Thanks.

Three, I like Perstia. This may be borrowing a subpoint from no. 1, but I do like Perstia. It is not very common in the community or the fandom in general, and I have seen some which are nice, but I wanted to put my own spin on it.

Alright, so those are my reasons. Next, I'll talk about the plot. Here's what I wanted to happen, before I deviated so many times, and ended up with a mish mash of a thing called a story.

Firstly, Titan war ends. Hestia and Hades made Olympians. Hestia and Aphrodite disappear along with Ares campers. New demigod, Aelia, shows up and thought to be Aphrodite inside. Meanwhile, Percy starts to feel distant from Annabeth, where he feels like he can't keep her safe/lack of trust.

Percy then realises who Aelia is, both Hestia and Aphrodite, but others only see Aphrodite. He grows closer with Hestia. Until he is forced to leave with her. Around the same time, Olympus has gone quiet. No communication in or out.

When Aelia leaves, the spell that the whole camp is under disappears. Everyone immediately relapses, entering another cycle of shock of finding the Ares campers gone, but this time, they notice Percy is gone too, as well as Aelia, though that memory is faint.

Percy is tricked into leaving Hestia to find the fennel stalk, the same quest that Annabeth, upon receiving a prophecy, is doing as well. Hestia is then held captive for a while.

Here's the prophecy, by the way, I never ended up following it 100%, but it would be crucial in this plot.

"Wisdom's daughter walks alone,