History Fanfic / TheyllNameACityAfterUs

Tropes contained in ''they'll name a city after us''

** Zeus constantly suspects and verbally abuses his brothers and sons out of paranoid fear that they might usurp him.

** All the gods treat their demigod children as expendable pawns if they are not actively hostile towards them. A vast number of the demigods joined Kronos even though it would result in their godly parents being subjected to AFateWorseThanDeath in Tartarus should Kronos have won.

* StockholmSyndrome: Apollo seems determined to invoke this on Percy. [[spoiler: It is slowly working.]]

* WomanInBlack: Percy dresses in black when she wants to dazzle and impress. It is very effective.

* UnequalPairing: All god/mortal pairings are by design. But in the case of Apollo and Percy is UpToTheEleven since he has kidnapped her and trapped her in Delos, which is practically an extension of his will.

** Her legal first name is Perseus, the feminine variant of Perseus but also the name of the Oceanid that married Helios, the original sun deity. So another daughter of a sea deity marries a solar deity.

* NotSoDifferent: Percy despises the gods but she is closest to being them than any other demigod. Both Apollo and Aphrodite point this out to her.

* StalkerShrine: Apollo has a ballroom sized room full of paintings of Percy. It utterly unnerves the demigod when she finds it in Delos.
* StalkerWithACrush: Apollo to extreme levels. Being a god allows him pretty much watch Percy every single moment.

* AdultFear: Sally and Poseidon's daughter disappears from the place where she was supposed to be the safest, and they have no idea where is is. Poseidon is searching for his daughter desperately, and is terrified that one of his many, many enemies might have her. The only assurance that they have that their daughter is even alive is Nico's regular reports that Percy is not in the Underworld.
** Apollo's abduction of Percy and him confining her in Delos, a place that can only be accessed with his permission is in part due to a fear that one of his own many enemies might kill her or worse if they realise just how much she means to him. Since one of those enemies is Eros, he does have a point.
** Prior to Percy's abduction, Sally was terrified that one of the male gods might take a sexual interest in her daughter and she ordered Percy that if it happened she was to immediately go to Poseidon for protection.

* MercyKill: Given by the flashback of Medusa's monologue to Percy, is likely that Medusa was trying to kill the daughter of Poseidon as a twisted act of mercy. Percy is very beautiful and just the type to attract godly attention, Medusa likely thought that killing Percy before she could be sullied and turned into a monster would be getter for the demigod.

* FemmeFatale: What Circe tried to turn Percy into. Percy does benefit a bit from Circe's lessons to turn the tables on Apollo a bit.

* HasAType: Apollo tends to go for dark haired people that are hard to get and are mortal or at least killable.

** Aphrodite advises him not to be a {{Yandere}} to avoid scarring Percy off, but Apollo wants her to love him for his true self rather than an act.

* BiTheWay: Percy is definitely attracted to both genders. Or at least gender is no issue for her. [[spoiler: It is the same for all gods that are not sworn virgins.]]

* DreamingOfTimesGoneBy: Ever since being brought in Delos Percy has been dreaming about Apollo's life. She has dreamed of Leto pregant and being driven away, unable to give birth. Of Leto granting leave to Apollo to fight the Python. Of Apollo insulting Eros and then being struck by a love arrow. Of him chasing Daphne.

* TraumaButton: Percy's kidnapping is this for Demeter,reminding her of her own desperate search for Persephone. She deeply empathizes with her brother Poseidon's anguish, rage and despair to find his own daughter. Is pretty much guaranteed that in the upcoming DivineConflict Demeter will stand by Poseidon.

* {{Yandere}}: Apollo kidnaps his love interest and locks her up in Delos, his personal divine island. He also sends a team of demigods on a mission to find her into a deadly trap.

* YourCheatingHeart: Coronis cheated on Apollo. He asked Artemis to kill her. So far Apollo has refrained from cheating on Percy, even if their relationship is one sided.