History Fanfic / AnUndertowOfSand

* {{Adults Are Useless}}: As per canon, nearly all demigods are children because of their short life, additionally, we see Percy's father [=Dorian Stele=], despite being a lawyer and living in a [=New York=] penthouse, [[spoiler:having a complete break down after the Mórrígan leaves]].

The Celtics knew her as The Mórrígan, the Phanton Queen. The Egyptians consider its worship heretical: Horemheb tried to erase historical records of the pharaoh who adopted it; and by the time Ramesses II was in power, the period of its worship was described as "the time of the enemy".

And a peculiar man from Providence, who wrote wonderous and fantastical tales based on the vistas and visions he had in his dreams, described it as an evilly intelligent messenger of hidden and terrible powers.

->"A half-blood child of the eldest gods, shall reach sixteen against all odds." Who decided the sons of Kronos met the criteria for eldest gods? There are older gods. Elder Gods. And They have been watching. See with your mind, oh Child of Prophecy. For reality is a lie. Your very existence is a flaw. An anomaly. A bend in Fate. And if Fate can bend, then it can ''break''.

Percy Jackson does not exist. Poseidon never had a son. Our protagonist is Percy Stele, son of Dorian Stele, a lawyer in New York, and the god known by the greeks as Ananke, the goddess of compusion, inevitability, necessity, and ''fate''.

* {{Fate Worse than Death}}: Ananke, as the goddess of fate, invevitability, compulsion and nessecity, can dish out those whenever she wishes, as {{Lampshaded}} by Percy; her daughters, the Moirae, are in a similar position.

* {{Adaptational Nice Guy}}: Subverted. [=The Mórrígan=] is introduced as a good-humoured, pacient, and understanding individual. It is not until latter that we see what happens when things don't go according with [=Fate's=] designs.

** All gods have Names of power, but the Names of a Young God shape their focus. Artemis Agrotera (of the Hunt) and Artemis Paedotrphus (Nurse of Children) are both still Artemis, but as they have different focus they are comparable to different personalities of someone with Dissossiative Identity Disorder. Elder Gods, however, are different. They are always present, their names are not personalities, but avatars. Both the Mórrígan and Ananke are different masks the God Within Fate chooses to wear.

** All gods have Names of power, but the Names of a Young God shape their focus. Artemis Agrotera (of the Hunt) and Artemis Paedotrphus (Nurse of Children) are both still Artemis, but as they have defferent focus they are comparable to different personalities of someone with Dissossiative Identity Disorder. Elder Gods, however, are different. They are always present, their names are not personalities, but avatars. Both the Mórrígan and Ananke are different masks the God Within Fate chooses to wear.

* {{I Have Many Names}}: The gods. Names shape their focus and their domains, as a source of godly power. They are also what allow the gods to be in more than one place at the same time. Apollo Musagetes (Leader of the Muses) might be perfoming a musical piece while simultaniously Apollo Asclepious (of Healing) might be overseeing an operation at the hospital, while Apollo Agraeus (of the Hunt) and Apollo Hecatus (Shooter from Afar) are hunting animals with his sister, each name containing a slice of godly power geared towards a certain domain. They are still all the same god, however, and if necessity calls, Apollo can call all his names to himself, thus unleashng his true power.

* {{Jerkass Gods}}: The Olympians in general, as per canon and classical mythology, with several gods outside of olympus also fitting the bill [[spoiler:subverted in that non-greek gods are seemingly not as awful, at least to their demigods]].

The gods of historical mythology are real, if hidden, much like in [=PJO=] cannon, but additionally, the older gods, the protegenoi and primordials of historical mythology are one and the same with the gods described by the Cthulhu Mythos, they are just not called by those names; for names have power and the words Lovecraft coined to name the gods are not nearly old enough to get even a flicker of their attention, but the names of historical mythology ''are''.

* {{Adaptational Jerkass}}: Several of the nicer olympians are given a harsher treatment than they do in cannon, either by bringing forth their deeds in mythology or by scrutnizing their deeds within cannon. Artemis is [[spoiler:given an ironic punishment]] for [[spoiler: derelicting her duties surrounding the protection of children]] and is [[spoiler:pursued and/or threatned]] by other gods for her slights against them, specifically [[spoiler: Aura]] and [[spoiler:Khione]]. Athena on the other hand, is interpreted, per Word Of God, as a narcisistic psychopath.

* {{Adults Are Useless}}: As per cannon, nearly all demigods are children because of their short life, additionally, we see Percy's father [=Dorian Stele=], despite being a lawyer and living in a [=New York=] penthouse, [[spoiler:having a complete break down after the Mórrígan leaves]].

* {{Brown Note}}: As per cannon and per mythology, if a mortal sees a god's true form they will be incinerated. Additionally, however, in this story there are certain bits of knowledge than can provoke madness by themselves, such as the oldest names of the [=Elder Gods=].

* {{Divine Parentage}}: The demigods, as per cannon.

* [[{{EitherOrProphecy}} Either/Or Prophecy]]: The [=Great Prophecy=], as per cannon.

* {{Offerings to the Gods}}: As per cannon and classical mythology, mortals can make these. Additionally, Young Gods can also do this for Elder Gods, as [[spoiler:Hermes finds out after Artemis is turned into a rabbit]].
* {{Prophecies Are Always Right}}:As per cannon and classical mythology. This additionally has the side effect of making Fate unable to lie, for her words are the truth itself.

* {{The Older Immortal}}:As per cannon, Aphrodite is far older than the rest of Olympus, and the primordials are far older than any of the gods of earth.

* {{Mother of a Thousand Young}}: Nyx, already an example of this in classical mythology, was merged with the Trope Namer here.

-->"My Mom also mentioned this one book that has ''everything'', but it’s dangerous.”

-->My Mom also mentioned this one book that has ''everything'', but it’s dangerous.”

* {{Psychopomp}}: Thanatos shows up shortly to bring Hypnos to [[spoiler: the [=House of the Night=] in [[Hell Tartarus]]]], as per [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Nyx]]'s and [[TheSacredDarkness Erebus]]' command.

* {{Psychopomp}}: Thanatos shows up shortly to bring Hypnos to [[spoiler: the [=House of the Night=] in [[Hell Tartarus]], as per [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Nyx]]'s and [[TheSacredDarkness Erebus]]' command.

''An Undertow of Sand'' is {{Fusion Fic}} [=of=] [[Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians Percy Jackson and The Olympians]] [=with=] the [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu Mythos]] (with bits of [[{{VideoGame/Bloodborne}} Bloodborne]] lore sprinkled on top) written by Shujin. The premisse of this fic is that the creatures, gods and monsters of the Cthulhu Mythos did in fact exist, but not precisely in the ways or by the names described by Lovecraft. Their existence did not go unnoticed by history.

* {{Always Someone Better}}: The gods do not have the same level of power. The gods of Olympus surpass the minor gods and nymphs in mythology, but [[spoiler:Aphrodite]] in particular, is noted by percy to by Percy to be "The only reason there was even a fight" when telling an account of [[spoiler:a rebellion within Olympus]]. The [=Elder Gods=], however, outstrip even the [=Old Gods=], for [=Elder Gods=] are gods in themselves, with no ties to humanity or mortals; their Names are merely masks they choose to wear -- yet, even among the [=Elder Gods=], there is a division of power. The [=God of Sleep=] is powerful beyond human comprehension, but even he is no match for the [[{{TheChessmaster}} God Within Fate]] or the [[{{TheDreaded}} God Beneath the Pit]].

* {{Always Someone Better}}: The gods do not have the same level of power. The gods of Olympus surpass the minor gods and nymphs in mythology, but [[spoiler:Aphrodite]] in particular, as an [=Old God=] surpasses the rest of the olympians, [[spoiler:for she is the [=Queen of Heaven=], the morning and the evening star, the goddess of love, sex, war, truth, justice and political power; she is [=Venus and Astarte, Šauška and Ishtar=]]]. The [=Elder Gods=], however, outstrip even the [=Old Gods=], for [=Elder Gods=] are gods in themselves, with no ties to humanity or mortals; their Names are merely masks they choose to wear -- yet, even among the [=Elder Gods=], there is a division of power. The [=God of Sleep=] is powerful beyond human comprehension, but even he is no match for the [[{{TheChessmaster}} God Within Fate]] or the [[{{TheDreaded}} God Beneath the Pit]].

** Third, [[spoiler:rabbits are animals [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit associated with the moon]] in many cultures, thanks to the shape and configuration of the dark spots that can be seen in the side of the moon that faces the Earth, thus the transformaation is a mockery of her lunar domain]].

** Third, [[spoiler:rabbits are animals [[{{https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_rabbit}} associated with the moon]] in many cultures, thanks to the shape and configuration of the dark spots that can be seen in the side of the moon that faces the Earth, thus the transformaation is a mockery of her lunar domain]].

The story is avilible on [[https://forums.spacebattles.com/threads/an-undertow-of-sand-percy-jackson-and-the-cthulhu-mythos.941042/ Space Battles]], [[https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com/threads/an-undertow-of-sand-percy-jackson-and-the-cthulhu-mythos.90629/ Sufficient Velocity]], [[https://forum.questionablequesting.com/threads/an-undertow-of-sand-percy-jackson-and-the-cthulhu-mythos.15568/ Questionable Questing]], [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/32244394/chapters/79914832 Archive of Our Own]] and [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13894611/1/An-Undertow-of-Sand Fanfiction.net]].

* {{Adorkable}}: Percy. Despite being a child of Fate and posessing knowledge untold, beyond the ken of mere mortal comprehension, he is still just a dumbass kid and acts like one.

* {{Word of God}}:Several aspects of the worldbuilding and the cosmology are reveled by the author ouseide the story, though with the expectation of them being revealed in-story eventually.