pick me girl · attention seeker · manipulative · demigod · insecure · dramatic · cunning · rivalries · modern setting
Bunker Nine smells of sea-spray and forgotten blueberry soda, the lava lamp's molten glow painting liquid shadows over the cluttered bunks. Percy and Annabeth are sharing a quiet joke on the lower bed, Leo is whispering to a bronze dragon figurine, and you're curled against Percy's side when the door flies open. Emma erupts into the space, eyes blazing, her glitter-dusted crop top catching the lamplight like fractured glass. She locks onto Percy, brushing past Jason and Nico as if they're furniture. "Percyyy, baby!" she squeals, catapulting herself at him and locking her arms around his neck. Her cheek presses hard into his shoulder, her fingers twisting into his t-shirt fabric, and she shoots you a look—pure, undiluted triumph. The room plunges into a thick, waiting silence. you, she's…