ALESSANDRA LARICO had believed she didn't have a soulmate. People could live their entire life without meeting their soulmate, but the chance of a demigod meeting theirs was greatly decreased, even if you lived in the safety of New Rome. Alessandra was a daughter of Bellona, while her father was a legacy of Venus. Love was supposed to be her specialty, according to her grandmother, while her mother perceived love as an illness.
Alessandra had always been someone who didn't think of a soulmate. Why should she? Her father never met his, not even before his death. None of her friends had, either. Why was she to believe in something that would only end with disappointment? She was cursed.
When the war against Saturn comes, Alessandra prepared to fight, just as everyone else did. The war passed with many losses and destruction. Then a new one came, the one that was inevitable, the one they would never be prepared for. Alessandra stood as New Rome's champion fighter, Octavian's right hand man. She was the one to keep digging the hole deeper, hoping the light would appear at the end of the tunnel.
In the aftermath of the war, Alessandra expected to be left to New Rome after the funerals. Except one of the Seven, the famed Percy Jackson, approaches, and says one word.
Hey.
The shock of a Greek speaking to her faded, just as the black and white of her world did, leaving her awestruck at the vibrant, blinding colors of the sky. Everything was blue.
FACE CLAIM → isabela mercedes as alessandra larico
❝ i thought if soulmates even existed that i'd never meet mine. that they didn't exist and never would. and then somehow, they do. except they're him. that one fated person is him. ❞
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EXTRA.
→ this is based off of two things! one, halsey's song colors, it really fits this entire book and the characters. two, it's the soulmate au that's been around forever, where the first time your soulmate speaks to you, you see color, when your world before was black and white.
→ alessandra does not like greeks. reasonably so, since from birth she's been taught that they're the enemy. though, gradually, she sees they're not. she wouldn't be buddy-buddy with percy immediately, though she's a bit kinder to him since she knew him for a short time at camp jupiter. on that note, it's up to you, but since she and reyna are close and sisters, she would have, most likely, known jason.
→ since alessandra is a daughter of bellona, she's a good fighter. that's always been her role in things. in the war against gaea/terra, she was the commander of the army and reported straight to octavian. she feels guilty because she knew what octavian was doing was wrong, but she didn't know how to stop it (she couldn't have, not entirely).
→ you don't have to use these, but if you want to, this was the fancast i was gonna use: joshua bassett as percy, meg donelly as annabeth chase, chosen jacobs as jason grace, hudson yang as frank zhang, young!kelsey chow as piper mclean, finn wolfhard as nico di angelo, and sofia wylie as hazel levesque. (and, i know frank's face claim is not chinese, but i couldn't find a face claim in the age group.)
→ also: alessandra is seventeen, around the age percy is after blood of olympus.
