[open] I was tame, I was gentle, til the circus life made me mean

[ordinar]

Who: Wilhelm & pals
When: June onward
Where: Thorne, Nocwich
What: Catchall for hot boy summer
Warnings: Will update as needed



Closed and open starters to follow. :)

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[sophos]

[ annabeth snorts. ] You're lucky. It's basically been my whole life.

[ she probably shouldn't have been told so young who her mother was, but it's too late to do anything about that now. ]

Most people don't even know the gods are real back home, so it's an extra layer of sounding insane.

I haven't seen him in person! But I've seen his art.

[ her attention snaps to him when he drops the royal mom comment, but she keeps her expression stilted. there's a reason he probably hasn't brought it up before now - he probably doesn't want to make a big deal of it. so annabeth won't either, not in a deeply serious manner at least. ]

Just the queen? [ she says it teasingly. ] That explains the rich kid vibes. I'm surprised you didn't do fencing or something.

[ that seems like a rich kid sport that could have taught him how to fight! ]

[ordinar]

[Wilhelm can only imagine what it's like to have a deity for a parent, but he knows all too well the pressure that comes with being the child of somebody powerful and important. So in a way, even though they've led very different lives, he thinks they can understand each other.

But right now, he looks mildly offended by Annabeth's comment about rich kid vibes. Such is the disappointment of discovering that he wasn't as camouflaged as he thought.]

Rich kid vibes? [He scoffs as if to say, excuse me?] For the record, I rowed.

[Which, he realizes as he says it, isn't any less of a rich kid sport.]

[sophos]

[ being the child of any god comes with different kinds of pressure, but athena's intensity is expounded by the pressure annabeth puts on herself in kind, to live up to her mother's very high expectations, as well as her own. she wouldn't want to be royalty - but yeah. she thinks there's overlap in understanding there. ]

You're not helping your case. We race canoes at camp, but it's always way more chaotic than coordinated.

[ he's lucky she isn't laughing, only grinning. ]

The schooling experience really gave it away.

[ordinar]

[Wilhelm won't bother to point out that canoes are a different thing entirely. He just concedes to her with a heavy sigh, hanging his head in defeat, from which he soon pops back up.]

Yeah, I guess that did it.

[A self-conscious chuckle. He would like to think that he has severed himself from his old life completely, but he supposes your past will always be a part of you. The way it has shaped you can't be undone completely.]

Not everyone who went to my school was super rich, though. There were some non-boarders too. [He shrugs and shakes his head.] But...yeah, looking back on it, a lot of my classmates were kind of assholes.

[sophos]

[ she is AWARE of the difference, gods. just trying to be hashtag relatable. ]

I should probably admit I've also done boarding school on and off recently, but they weren't fancy ones.

[ with her strange academic record?? no way. annabeth has had no regular school consistency. she spent five years attending camp year round. her boarding schools collected the so called troubled youth, and she never lasted more than a year. ]

There were tons of kids who weren't rich, myself included, so. Kind of a mixed bag with real fear of expulsion.

[ the chases might be wealthy, but annabeth is so far removed from any of them and certainly did not grow up within any of it. she has no attachment to her family, no connection, and no money beyond the time she spends visiting her father. ]