Comment on hot tea

  1. zeniksnina Tue 07 Nov 2023 03:01PM UTC

    HI!!! OH MY GOD LOL!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SWEET COMMENT <3 <3 im so glad you enjoyed my (own) version of a silly little project 😭

    jeyna is just So.. like they are just so..their friendship means everything to me, dude. like, during mark of athena where reyna and jason get to see each other again right after the percabeth judoflip...that was my roman empire, it was just so, so, good. also, the little bit where reyna and jason have that back and forth about his disappearance was such a fun piece to write! reyna and jason's dynamic is incredibly nuanced and i think they deserve to have their silly banter every now and then.

    thalia and jason and their sibling bickering!!! ever since taking them in, hotch was more than grateful jack had stayed an only child because those two are relentless. the choice for reyna to be the one she goes to for her worries on hotch and her background was actually scrapped by me at first, but then i thought about how reyna like, as a character, would want to open up to somebody she feels comfortable with already especially in an environment where essentially she's being exposed to something that she (believes) could potentially harm her/cause trouble.

    jack!! i love jack!!! i think he's just this very cool kid who wants to grow up to be exactly like jason, but also have thalia's mannerisms and it gives hotch an intense amount of headaches each day jack proclaims this future. leo! and the team!! ugh this au means everything to me <3

    more on the hotch perspective, i've actually never written in hotch's pov before, so i was going into this blind. i'm incredibly delighted that you liked how i portrayed him!!! due to the nature of how he's met most of the demigod teens; he doesn't want to approach them as case files or victims, but it's more or less as you said background shaping. like, he grounds the people he knows by what he can gather from their pasts since that's just how his job as inclined him to think, and inherently there's nothing bad about it but it does give way to a more unique way of how he views reyna (esp. as an outsider to demigods alike) it's Like. there's this part of reyna that constantly is anxious about what would happen if any of the federal agents found out about her past, and then here comes hotch who just knows everything about her and it's supposed to rip her raw but instead he does none of that, and is just strikingly understanding with her while acknowledging what she'd been through.

    (p.s. glad u noticed the connections between the survival line and the 'we've all been there' from hotch. i just think its a very neat detail lmfao)

    thank you!!!! so much!!! for all your insights!!! im so happy i could expand more on your au, and im extremely glad i could bring you joy from this fic!!!!

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