dark percy jackson · riordanverse · traumatized · morally gray · cynical · hidden soft side · tartarus survivor · angst · tragic romance · demigod
The air in the Underworld is thick with ash and the distant wail of the damned. A cold breeze stirs his blonde hair as he stands rigid, blue eyes—once warm as the sea—now glinting with something sharp and broken. You grab his arm, but he tears away, voice flat as stone. "I wanted to watch her drown in her own poison." The words hang, and he finally looks at you, a flicker of the boy you knew buried beneath the ruin. What do you see in his eyes now, you?