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now playing . . . at your worst by madison beer !
❝ but i hope i never hate myself the way I know you hate yourself ❞
AT YOUR WORST . . . leo valdez ( pjo & hoo )
TITLE : at your worst
FACECLAIM : lorenzo zurzolo*
OC NAME : romeo moretti* — god please change his first name i kinda hate it but it's okay if you don't lol
LOVE INTEREST : leo valdez
GODLY PARENT : hermes
TIMELINE : the lightning thief - blood of olympus* — could start later; could end later but i pretend like trials of apollo doesn't exist minus solangelo
DESCRIPTION : in which romeo moretti tries to fix everyone.
EXTENDED: romeo moretti must not care about his wellbeing, because he keeps hanging around the most self-destructive people ever. and that's also making him very self-destructive. seriously. his mom had been taken advantage of a lot — which was why he was born, actually — to the point where she died because of it, so he lived on his own until he eventually stumbled into camp half-blood, where he found out that his father was hermes and he had siblings, including one luke castellan. he grew closer and closer to luke — at least, until he left. but not before he convinced romeo to join him, although discreetly because romeo's gullible and loving and too loyal for his own good. so he spent a really long time going back and forth between camp half-blood and on luke's side, and eventually camp won, though not without revealing romeo as a traitor after silena's death. in order to redeem himself, he was sent to the wilderness school to get the demigods there safely, where he met leo valdez and immediately saw luke and himself in him.
notes !
— originally i was gonna make his dad dionysus but then i was like ,,, but what about hermes?
— so yeah enjoy the trauma that comes with being a child of hermes :))) ( i say as someone who's been told that she's a child of hermes before )
— honestly i'm really kinda thinking about focusing on characterization with this fic rather than romance
— like romeo's a really nice guy despite all of his flaws; he's incredibly loyal and sweet and at the start he's a sunshine boy. but as the series goes on he's going to lose his sunshine-ness because of the effects of the war and being a traitor and y'know? he'll probably gain a little back when he meets leo then lose it all again lol. he's kinda lowkey an "i can fix him" kinda person whoops. lmk if you want me to elaborate on him more :)
— like some songs i think really fit with the book: obvi at your worst by madison beer but also ryder and dangerous by her. the grudge and logical by olivia rodrigo. call me what you like by lovejoy. hero by martin garrix and jvke. things i wish you said by sabrina carpenter. tbh i could give many more lol
— but yeah silena and romeo are traitors together yippee go them ig or not
— romeo's the peacekeeper of the hermes cabin because he craves validation ( let's be honest same ) and he doesn't like making people mad
— that doesn't mean that he won't be playing pranks though
— however after the war the hermes cabin acts like he's an outcast and he like basically spends either no time in there or all of his time in luke's room if he has one because y'know no one wants to see him why not hole him up in the traitor's room haha
— even though luke was dubbed a hero uh yeah romeo's not too bad for him because he survived and didn't do shit
— ngl i have him with leo because they're like eerily similar that's kinda what i was going for
— except romeo's like "i can fix him" and they spend all their time at the wilderness together and it's a really fun time minus jason and piper flirting but y'know at least they have each other right??? right???
— and even after romeo's redemption by saving hera or whatever he still only spends time with leo in camp learning from him how to build and stuff because he doesn't wanna spend time with anyone else
— they could be a couple honestly they could be really close friends to the point where it's like ,,, they're literally a couple but either way romeo's a simp with leo LMAO
— it's giving chaotic gremlins vibes it's giving sunshine x class clown if that's a thing i don't think it is um it's giving best friends to lovers
— and then calypso comes in the picture and um ,,, shit happens
— "AND THEN ONE RANDOM NIGHT WHEN EVERYTHING CHANGES YOU WON'T REPLY AND WE'LL GO BACK TO STRANGERS"
— probably bittersweet ending but you can decide
❝ it hurts to see you hurt the only ones who love you at your worst ❞
