Pedro's Point

[ErinFlight]

Any idea which parent would be a god? Or which god they would be?

Also, I love young wizards. It was my favorite series growing up, my absolute favorite.
I was so excited when there was a young wizards effulgence section, and when it finished I scoured the rest for it's icon and was so sad the story didn't continue.

[pedromvilar]

Zeus or some other god that granted shapeshifting maybe?

...oh my god, Tobias would be said god, wouldn't he, what a delight xD

[ErinFlight]

I was wondering that. I couldn't think of an easy way for Sadde to cause a god to die, and Percy's mother almost has that plot point already.
An all powerful Tobias is a terrifying idea.

[PlainDealingVillain]

If he's going to be Tobias, only Ares seems like the right kind of asshole. But I don't know if Percy Jackson has a different characterization than I'd think. Dionysus would be the most fitting for magic and personality, but he/they isn't an asshole at all.

(Zeus is an asshole, but really not the right kind, IMO. And Sadde in the place of Dionysus themself, though it comes with mom-killing magic and very appropriate magic and mythological role, doesn't match with my impression of the Percy Jackson series.)

[anthusiasm]

I don't think there are any non-asshole Greek gods.

IIRC Dionysus is a bit of an asshole in Percy Jackson canon, but not, like, overwhelmingly so, and not Tobias-flavored. But like most of the gods' assholery is scaled down in PJO because (1) can't have rape in a kid's book and (2) they're supposed to be Asshole Authority Figures, not the actual villains.

[Throne3d]

If he's going to be Tobias, only Ares seems like the right kind of asshole. But I don't know if Percy Jackson has a different characterization than I'd think. Dionysus would be the most fitting for magic and personality, but he/they isn't an asshole at all.

I'm pretty sure Tobias doesn't fit Ares too well, because Ares is all about war basically all the time (seeing as he's the god of war), whereas Tobias is only about war if he knows you're "trespassing against him", and otherwise puts up a normal front.

I'm really not sure which god Tobias could be, and my brain is kinda shying away from the idea.

[pedromvilar]

Also I mean, it doesn't strictly need to be Percy Jackson, the idea I had was Greek Mythology Is True and PJ was the first one that came to mind. Also, there are hundreds of entities in the Greek pantheon, it can't be the case that no one fits Tobias :P

[Ezra]

I can see Tobias as Jove if you're doing very late-model Roman mythology, when they started mixing in aspects of the Abrahamic God. But I don't think I like a world with Tobias on top.

I can definitely see Sadde as Dionysus. The parallels write themselves.

[pedromvilar]

Yeah I can see that, too. And I can also see Sadde a some sort of satyr/maenad/nymph thing, not the god himself but a follower/creature. Not the Percy Jackson type of satyr, though, too little seduction involved.

[PlainDealingVillain]

There are several Greek gods who weren't jerks. Poseidon basically only screwed over people when they deliberately and specifically mocked him (and by 'they' I mean Odysseus. And I think someone stole his cows or horses once) and had an open relationship. Hades sat in the underworld and was bland and bored, except that one time when Cupid messed with him. Hephaestus didn't do much of anything to anybody, except when he got in the way of his parents fighting.

Several of the minor gods (especially river gods) are odd but benevolent, too.