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RANDOM HEAD CANON THAT MAKES NO SENSE TIME!
Alright! So, Apollo; god of music, the sun, medicine and way too much gods-damn stuff. Is completely tone deaf and can’t sing good without godly magic to save his life, has Demigod children who are all amazing singers and who all have a siren in their life in one way or another who taught them to sing. Why a siren you may ask? Because Poseidon never wanted to hear someone as bad as Apollo sing ever again, so he sends sirens in a human form to teach Apollo’s kids early on to sing properly, and no one notices. They just think ‘What a great singer! Must be Apollo’s child!’ And then Poseidon is just there, happy that there isn’t a off tune voice singing ‘Sweethome Atlantis’ again 
OLYMPUS: a collection of playlists inspired by greek gods and goddesses
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I love memetic communication when it gets to the point of being incomprehensible because can you imagine showing someone this picture
And asking them what Greek god it represents
I think Apollo from toa is really autistic-coded, both as Lester and as godly Apollo. That thing that he does where he lies even tho it goes his natural instincts, yeah, that's masking I've decided.
One of his domains is order and structure? Autism.
Has a bunch special interests as domain then has a domain specifically for 'knowledge'? Autism.
God of prophecy? That's practically pattern recognition. Autism.
God of truth? Autisic folks are known to be brutally honest.
Autism.
Gets especially attached to objects and things? Autism. (Cows, instruments, ext)
Talks really formall with a mix of slang? Autism. It does not matter that he is over 4000 years old this is how I speak so autism.
We all know he has a strong sense of justice that he ignored too often as a god.
Forgets things as Lester? ADHD. That's right. He's actually Audhd-coded.
Why is this so cute???? I love them
The Homeric Hymn to Hermes is so fucking funny of an origin story. It really just goes
Maia sighing about this whole baby nonsense and going back to sleep: I did not ask for this
Hermes running off to kill a turtle invent a lyre and steal Apollo's cows before noon: alright good timing Apollo will notice any minute now
Maia waking up: why do you smell like beef -_-
Baby Hermes born twelve hours ago: Mom we are Not living in this cave anymore
Maia: What's this we shit you stole Apollo's cows that's a you problem get lost ! (she literally tried to kick him out of the cave right before Apollo shows up)
Apollo: Hey you ! I know you stole my cows !
Baby Hermes: ME ! But I am just a little baby in my blankies who wants my mother's milk how could I so weak and new born have stolen anything
Apollo: real babies don't talk dumbass let's go see Zeus
Zeus definitely laughing his ass off: Well Hermes what do you have to say for yourself
Hermes god of Lies: I can not tell a lie not to you who claims to be my father. Now you see I never took those cattle... across a threshold. And I will confess to my blame nesses
Zeus and Apollo very much aware he didn't swear to anything just then: Okay just show us the cows kid
Apollo walking with Hermes thirty hours old now a young boy not a baby: You are growing very fast I am actually terrified for your power when you're full grown, slayer of Argus.... don't worry about who Argus is
Hermes singing on his brand new lyre: Okay. Hey do you want this Apollo I knowww you love music
Apollo taking it: YES !
Hermes a normal amount of pleased -> literally in the text highlighted that this is the moment he started loving Apollo forever now: Okay awesome we should go tell Zeus we're besties now and you're totally cool about the cow stealing
Apollo: Yeah about that little thief. If you swear to never steal from me again I'll love you forever and hold you dear to my heart
Hermes nodding his head and very obviously avoids invoking the styx becuase you never know when you'll want to rob big brother again
Apollo: ... Good enough I promise to love you forever and give you lots of good gifts like this golden staff here enjoy !
Zeus sending his Eagle down to oversee this bond of brotherhood: Most successful sibling bonding exercise I have ever done well done Me
Hermes: I'm still going to swindle people all of the time to be clear
Apollo: I know I'm going to sing about you a lot !
I LOVE and hate that the gold bands around his wrists remind me of chains
Post TOA - referance not mine, credit goes to unknow Artist on pinterest
I think about apollo and artemis so often. apollo is physically and emotionally abused by his father and his support system is basically non-existent, the only person he could've talked to is artemis because she knows how to deal with victims of abuse, she has been doing this for centuries but artemis unknowingly contributes to apollo's abuse by the nagging/lecturing (boo)which makes apollo believe that his father is in the right and the problem lies with apollo and this renders apollo even more unable to speak up. they're literally so special to me.they slowly drift apart because of the facade apollo puts on as a result of the abuse. artemis starts being constantly annoyed at her brother's presence because apollo now acts even more impulsively and triggers zeus' wrath and he's just an idiot in general who flirts with her hunters but she still gets worried when apollo doesnt drop in at the hunt atleast once every 3 weeks but tells herself that he must be fooling off on olympus with the other pompous fools or persuing some mortal. apollo doesn't listen to his father, doesn't pay attention at olympian meetings, calls her little sis despite knowing she helped delivered him and this all just makes her madder at him but he's her brother so she tolerates him. she thinks he's an idiot but is unaware of the fact that her dear little brother is an abuse victim, that too at the hands of their father. there's no way artemis has corelated apollo with abuse because cmon, apollo is an olympian, one of the most powerful beings, what creature would dare hurt him? and even if any did, he would take artemis' help because they're meant to fight side by side, as siblings, as they did against typhon and all the enemies of olympus.plus,apollo is very dramatic and expressive so either he'd tell her or she'd find it out herself.artemis is a daddy's girl, she knows that zeus is sometimes hard on apollo but it's because apollo was being an idiot again, and her father was just doing his job as king. apollo and artemis slowly drift apart as apollo tries to sheild his sister from the dark parts of his life and artemis is blissfully ignorant to the abuse happening behind the scenes and apollo thinks he's succeeded but he's left with loneliness and a constant sense of despair. he thinks his sister hates him because she never attends any of his concerts and she snaps and bickers with him whenever they meet and never has anything to good to say about him (ttc, boo) and doesn't want him around. as godlings they were so close and told each other everything ̶ ̶(except the truth about the python incident) and had secrets they kept from their mother but now they hardly have any meaningful conversation and all they do is bicker which is why artemis never told apollo about moonwater and the waystation. artemis never even defends his name in front of others (boo->its athena that steps in).
I love artemis unknowingly contributing to the abuse. themz<3