rachel elizabeth dare falls into another dimension
is a series of crossover fanfics between The Camp Half-Blood Series and Percy Jackson and the Olympians (2023) by melimarron.
Rachel wakes up eleven years old again. But it's 2023, she should be sixteen. Her friends don't know her and aren't as she remembers them, in more ways than one. Her powers seem to have decreased. What's an oracle to do? The second book, A Great Favor, was first uploaded 4/5/2024.
Tropes
- Adaptational Badass:
- Rachel, aside from the one time with her hairbrush, was a non-combatant. Here she wields a Celestial Bronze discus, and is good enough with it to attack the Chimera.
- From Rachel's perspective, Grover since the Grover she knew wasn't a Guile Hero.
- Adaptational Early Appearance:
- Rachel, obviously. In the books she doesn't show up until the third book, and doesn't became a member of the main cast until book four. Here she arrives at Camp Half-Blood before Percy and is a member of his first quest.
- Silena Beauregard shows up in the third chapter, whereas she has yet to appear in the show and doesn't appear until the second book.
- Roman demigods appear in chapter 8 of Speaker of Riddles, a whole series early.
- Adaptational Relationship Overhaul: Silena Beauregard attempts to befriend Rachel, and even gifts her a protective charm before they go on the quest. In canon, they never met. It's later revealed her attempts to befriend her were manipulation, as she's working with Kronos.
- Adaptational Villainy: Silena Beauregard is actively working for Kronos instead of just a manipulated and blackmailed spy.
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Jason's blond hair is now dyed instead of natural.
- Adapted Out: Per the author, The Trials of Apollo is not canon to this Rachel's background.
- Alternate Universe: The events of the show are explicitly this to the books. Characters were born later and events played out differently even before the story begins.
- Berserk Button:
- Rachel is a living one for Luke. May Castellan was driven mad by her attempt to become the Oracle of Delphi and yet this twelve year old girl successfully became the Oracle which he also initially thinks this means she's met Apollo when the gods will never give their children the time of day.
- After the Great Prophecy and the previous Oracle's I Told You So, oracles in general are this for Hades. While Adaptational Nice Guy is still in effect when dealing with the rest of Percy and company, he hates Rachel on sight.
- Deal with the Devil: Kronos offers to return Rachel's abilities if she serves him, but she refuses.
- Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: Or rather, don't demand things of gods. Apollo warns Rachel of this, and she has to remind herself of it when she tries, and fail, to negotiate with Kronos.
- Have We Met Yet?: Rachel will sometimes accidentally talk about things she hasn't been told or refer to a character in a different state than they are currently (i.e. Thalia who is no longer a tree by the time Rachel joined the cast in the books).
- In Spite of a Nail: Downplayed. Rachel and the Spirit of Delphi try to invoke this as best they can by limiting the information they give about Rachel's version of events. However, not only are the version of events Rachel's experiencing different from how they played out in her own history, her very presence shifts things off course.
- By the end of "Speaker of Riddles", Rachel has basically stopped trying to invoke this since things are already going Off the Rails.
- Keeping Secrets Sucks: Rachel would like very much to be able to tell the new versions of her old friends everything, but she can't both because she knows, and her visions occasionally show, that it would end badly and the Spirit of Delphi prevents her from doing so.
- Loophole Abuse: A quest is always completed by three. Rachel points out she's a mortal, and thus doesn't count so she tags along on Percy's quest since they're going the same direction anyway.
- Mental Time Travel: Sort of. In the world Rachel is from it's also 2023, but everyone she's close to is in their late teens. While it's still 2023 in the world she ended up in, everyone is twelve or so.
- Metaphorically True: Everything Kronos told Silena is technically true, but it leaves out a lot of context.
- She dies for the gods after serving as a spy against them for years. This ignores that she died acting for her friends' sake and the gods mostly benefited as a bonus.
- Charlie (Beckendorf), her boyfriend, dies if she stays at camp and it's Percy's fault. Beckendorf dies because she stayed at camp... and therefore was able to report his plans as a spy. It's only Percy's fault inasmuch as he couldn't save the older boy after their plan went sour.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: After regaining his memories Grover calls Percy and Annabeth his best friends. Rachel is singled out as someone he thinks is a friend, but that he's suspicious of.
- Protectorate: Because of her oath with Hades, Bianca and Nico are going to be Rachel's.
- Prophecy Twist: Rachel experiences this with her own prophecy
- She assumes "Travel west, and face the father of outcasts" to be referring to Kronos, since he made his own children outcasts by swallowing them, but it actually refers to Hades. And it's later revealed she assumed this is partially because of the "protective" charm that Silena gave her. It made Rachel latch onto the idea and refuse to consider any other.
- She assumes "Wrongly trust one whose loyalties were foreseen" to be referring to Octavian, but it actually refers to Silena.
- Race Lift:
- Several In-Universe examples for Rachel. For example, the Annabeth she knew was white. She was briefly taken aback by the Annabeth of this story being African-American.
- Jason, for the brief moment he's seen, is African-American, taking after his father, Jupiter/Zeus. While he is still blonde, it's stated to be dyed.
- Retroactive Precognition: In addition to her abilities as the Oracle, Rachel knows things she shouldn't because she comes from a dimension roughly five years (of story at least) ahead of the current one.
- Secret-Keeper: Chiron is the only character, aside from the gods and other time/dimensional travelers, who knows that Rachel is from the future/another dimension.
- Spotting the Thread: Grover notices Rachel doesn't act like a twelve-year-old plunged into a world she doesn't understand and becomes understandably suspicious of her.
- Surrounded by Idiots: How Rachel sometimes feels dealing with twelve year old versions of Percy and Annabeth, who haven't grown into the great (and more experienced) heroes that were her friends yet.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Rachel can't stand Octavian, and the feeling is mutual. Unfortunately, they're the only people who remember the other world that are actually interested in improving things in the new one. Since he has nothing holding him back from changing things, she considers working with him better than having him as an enemy, but she's not happy about it.
- There Is Another: Rachel wasn't the only one taken from the books' universe to the new one. Octavian was as well, and unlike her he's not interested in keeping things on track.
- Turns out that Kronos also remembers the other world.
- Tongue-Tied: The Spirit of Delphi will prevent Rachel from giving information that it feels she shouldn't by making her physically incapable of speaking it. This can get very frustrating for Rachel.
- Too Dumb to Live: Apollo feels that the Oracle before Rachel was this for telling Hades I Told You So.
- True Companions: Where she's from, Rachel considers Percy, Annabeth, and Grover to be hers. The fact the new Percy and Annabeth don't particularly like her at the start of the story, and the fact Grover is later suspicious of her, weighs heavily on her for that reason.
- You Can't Fight Fate: Combined with Prophecy Twist. Rachel tells Annabeth that once something has been prophesized it will happen, no matter what. All trying to keep a prophecy from coming true will do is ensure that it happens in a different, and oftentimes worse, way.
