it's not your act of creation

[beautifullies]

Who: Claire and closed starters + opens
When: September + October
Where: her house in Solvunn, the Horizon, will add more locations as needed
What: An open where Clarie discovers she can control bees (up to 30 ft), an option to bake bread or garden with her, eventual questing, a handful of closed starters and more!
Warnings: Will update as needed
Notes: Please feel free to match the brackets or switch to prose, tag with your heart. Assume wildcarding is on the table, just message me first or hmu on plurk @ babybananas w/any ideas!




look how cute, how adorable, how perfect

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[sophos]

[ annabeth is getting there. something permanent doesn't feel as out of reach as it used to. the idea of it is such a huge part of what helped her through tartarus; she can't give up on it now. ]

[ she knew, obviously, that admitting to claire some of the things on her mind would elicit some sort of response. perhaps she'd wanted one like this all along but didn't really know how to ask for it. ]

[ she isn't looking at claire as the woman speaks, but as she goes on, annabeth can feel a smile threatening to slip onto her face until it finally catches the corner of her mouth. she doesn't want to be her mother, for all the pieces she might still admire, and she certainly doesn't want to be her father, but most of all she doesn't want to be made of war. and she's been through so much of it already. she looks up at claire to meet her gaze and feels lighter, smiling back. ]

Yeah. You're right. I can and I will choose for myself.

[ she always tries to anyway. sometimes, maybe, she does just get a little too bogged down by war. ]

It's just hard not to worry sometimes, I guess, when there's been so much war. I really can't wait to leave it all behind one day.

[beautifullies]

I hope you're able to do that some day, I really do. You deserve not to have that burden. You're so young, it's important that you get to explore who you are and who you want to be, without war hanging over you.

[ Claire pauses; she hates this war, the uncertainty of it. She doesn't know who it will wind up impacting the worst, if there will be a dire need for medical attention, if she'll lose anyone she loves. ]

That said, it's difficult not to worry. I think I worry every day. The key is not to let the worry stop you.

[sophos]

[ annabeth sometimes does not feel as young as she is, but she wonders if that's just part of being a demigod, given she feels like she struggles more with the mortal part of her life when it comes to normalcy. she knows what's normal for the god side. ]

Sometimes I don't think war is ever really going to stop, but it would be nice if it didn't have to involve me all the time. That'd help with some of the worries.

[ and percy, and everyone she cares about, but the last few years especially have felt like one thing after another, probably from the labyrinth onward. ]

My parentage is a huge part of me. I can't really stop being a demigod, and I don't really want to give it up either, but...

[ she pauses. ] I want to be an architect. That's something that's all mine.