Sequel Stuff and Q&A answers

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Hey, so not many people left questions so I'm mostly going to be answering some I saw in comments of other chapters...

Anyway, here we go...

Q: What made you start writing? ( nightshade128 )

A: It's a bit complicated and silly, but the main reason was: when I was in 6th grade, my English teacher had us do a mythology unit before we read the Lightning Thief. She had us do a project on one of the Olympians (I got Hades) then once we leaned more about the gods she had us write a short story about the Olympians. Mine was a bit of a comedy instead of an epic battle or something like that. This was before I read any of the PJO books, so the characters weren't exactly like the ones that were in the books. It was called: The Big Three's Epic Quest for Girl Scout Cookies! Zeus was a hippy, Hades was a cowboy, and Poseidon was a stereotypical gay man (I probably wouldn't write anything like that again, but this was before I was apart of the LGBT+ community) He used words like 'Fabulous' and 'Superb'. It was probably the stupidest thing I've ever written, but after I saw how much people liked it, I was inspired to write more. Fast forward to 9 years later and I'm still doing it!

Q: Is there any reason you chose this particular plot? ( nightshade128 )

A: Honestly? I'm not sure. I've read so many different Chaos Army books and a lot of them were all the same. Dead warriors, Percy is Omega, ends in Percabeth. I felt like there needed to be a change. Not that I don't like those stories, it's just a bit tiring reading the same exact story every single time I look for a chaos story, I mean, even I've written one of those stories before. Eventually, I stumbled onto a couple different books that were different. And those inspired me to write this one. I wanted everything to be different. No dead warriors, no omega, no Percabeth. (Or slight Percabeth I guess). I wanted to be free to make my own characters that I didn't have to stick to the main character points of characters that were already written in the Riordan universe. With my own characters, I could chose what they liked and didnt like, what they would do and wouldn't do, without disappointing long time fans of the original PJO-HOO Series. It's hard to write for a character you don't own or didn't create without points in your writing where they seem out of character for themselves. The Chaos AU leaves a little more wiggle room in that sense because it's an extreme scenario where events happening could change how characters act, but that doesn't always excuse complete character changes. But using my own characters means I get to pick their morals and basic character guidelines. For example, one of the main guidelines for Scarlett: If there is an opening for someone to make a sassy/asshole-ish remark, Scarlett would likely be the one to make it. I tried to stick to rules with each character to make them seem more believable. So choosing an AU where I had more room to do what I want, seemed like the right choice for me. As far as why I chose the whole Chaos AU, it was simply because I enjoyed the AU and I wasn't entirely satisfied with how my other Chaos book turned out. I really enjoy the Chaos AU's and I have another one (unrelated to this book or any sequels it may have) on the way eventually.

Q: Why didn't Percy/Apokirixye get his powers back?

A: I've seen this question a lot. To the point where people have raged in the comments that I made a bad move in not giving them back to him. I'd like to remind everyone that this is my story. And there is a reason why I do the things I do and write the things I write. The simple answer to this question is this; He wasn't right for the power. To expand more on that, The Shadow power is fueled by hatred and sorrow, and by the end of this book, Percy didn't really have that as much as he had when he thought he had been betrayed. In fact, once he found out that his friends didn't betray him and that it was manipulation on End and Albert's part, he began losing his power a bit, then soon-after transferred his power to Annabeth (then eventually to Nico). His powers were fueled by his betrayal, and once he found out that there was no real betrayal in the first place, he no longer had anything to fuel his powers with. Percy didn't have the betrayal, or the hurt he felt anymore. Ultimately, Percy wanted his friends back, even if he didn't show it very well, he had forgiven them, therefore losing what he had to fuel the shadow power. He also realized that the shadow power was keeping his grief present. Having the shadow power reminded him of the betrayal and hurt he felt. He understood that the power wasn't meant for him anymore and gladly accepted the water power in the end.

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