Cupid

I'm not shipping it cause I LOVE percabeth but what page does nico meet cupid???

“The story of psyche finally made sense to him— why a mortal girl would be so afraid.why she would risk breaking the rules to Look the God of love in the face, because she was afraid he might be a monster. Psyche had been right. Cupid was a monster. Love was the most savage monster of all.”

- THOH, pg.291, chapter 36-XXXVI, Jason chapter

No, Persassius; it's not I'm Too Sexy.

1. Smooth Crimina—Michael Jackson.

2. Dangerous—Royal Deluxe.

3. Boss Friends—Piles.

4. Bodak Yellow—Cardi B.

5. You Give Love A Bad Name—Bon Jovi.

This myth starts with Psyche, who was the youngest daughter, of an unknown king and an unknown queen. The king and queen also had 2 other daughters, Psyche's sisters. The princess beauty was indescribable, so indescribable it got to a point where the citizens (who were ruled by these beautiful princess parents) obsessed over her, they started worshiping her. Psyche was so gorgeous that the citizens of the city thought she was a human incarnation of the goddess of love herself, Venus (Roman form for Aphrodite). Citizens also started worshiping Psyche more than they worshiped Venus. Venus was infuriated with this act and wanted to ruin Psyche's reputation, so she called Cupid, her son (also known as Eros). Venus askes Cupid if he could ruin Psyche by making her fall in love with a low-society man. Cupid goes to find Psyche preparing himself by hitting her with his arrow of love and making her fall in love with this unknown man.

Back on land, Psyche was having problems with getting married. Her two sisters already got married but no man dared to marry her. She wants someone who truly loves her, not someone who only likes her because of her beauty. The king, aka Psyche's father, was so desperate to get her married, that he visited the god Apollo for guidance. Apollo tells him to leave Psyche in a rocky mountain so she could marry a serpent-like human.

Her father takes poor Psyche to the mountain. As soon as he leaves Psyche feels the god of the west winds lifting her to the sky. She lands in a palace where the god of the winds tell her that her husband was waiting for her inside the castle in the bedroom.

Psyche entered the room, which was so dark she couldn't see anything. She thought her eternal steps were leading to nothing until she touched the skin of her husband. She asked who he was but he told her that was the one question he couldn't answer and that if she truly loved him, she would never know.

The beautiful woman wanted to visit her sisters because it had been a while since she'd been missing. Cupid tells her no, but Psyche's incision makes him accept her request with a few rules. Firstly, she couldn't listen to anything bad about him, and secondly that they wouldn't discover his true identity. She agreed and Cupid told the god of the winds to let Psyche's sisters in. Despite gifting them with the most beautiful jewelry and with love, the two sisters complained about their husbands. The two sisters, jealous, decided to convince Psyche that her husband was a monster that was trying to kill her and that she had to kill him first.

Psyche, motivated by her sisters, at night, she lit an oil lamp and got near the bed where her husband was sleeping. There, she encountered the most beautiful man she had ever seen. Accidentally, the lamp dropped an oil drop on the man's skin, waking him up.

Cupid was finally exposed to his lover and tells his story. He fell in love with her because instead of shooting an arrow at a man that didn't deserve Psyche, he accidentally shot himself. He flew off the castle because Psyche and him, as he was a god, couldn't be together.

Psyche was heartbroken and wanted to commit suicide in a river, but the river god didn't want to be blamed for killing Cupid's lover. She tricked the two sisters that Cupid had told her he didn't want to be with her and that the west winds would carry the girls to the castle to marry one of them. This was false, but the sisters believed it and died doing so. Then, the princess was determined to find Cupid. She gave herself to Venus, who was desperately trying to find Psyche. The love goddess wanted her to complete 4 almost impossible tasks.

1. Psyche was told to sort a huge messy pile of seeds in a single night. Desperately trying to sort the seeds, a group of ants took pity on her and helped sort the seeds. Psyche completed the task.

2. Psyche's next trial was to bring Venus the fleece of the golden sheep which was almost impossible. This time, the river god shows Psyche how to collect it. She succeeded.

3. Then, she is told to retrieve water from the tip of the cliff where there were venomous snacks and was very dangerous. Once aging, someone sends help. This time it was Zeus, he sent a secret bird, an eagle to do it. She succeeded

4. Lastly, she was sent to retrieve from the underworld a dose of Persephone's beauty in a box so Venus could use it. This time, she gets the item without any help but makes the mistake of opening the box. When she opened the box, she was stunned to find that the box didn't contain beauty, but the sleep of Hades. As she opened the box, she collapsed in the middle of the Underworld.

Cupid goes find her because he couldn't stand being away from his true love. He travels to the underworld.

Hope you engoyed. Sorry if its long, took me 3 hours to do this.

Seriously people?

Why oh why do you not get how powerful Cupid is?

Okay; he's a jerk, a bully, and a mafia; but most importantly a mafia. He's got six other dudes+Hermaphroditus to watch his back; and even alone he'd kick the glitter out of Aphrodite.

Can we remember that Cupid is a son of the war god? Meaning at two he should've learnt how to use every single weapon past present and future. He can shoot a bow with his eyes closed; i.e his hobby. Forget what he can do with a M16, AK47, or the basic spear, sword, or bow and arrows. Also as Aphrodite's son he'd have the second most powerful charmspeak in Olympus. Did I mention that this person I speak of uses the gods for target practice?

Aphrodite sends him to do all her dirty work; that's how he got Psyche. And does anyone know about The Illiad where Diomedes chucked a spear in her wrist?

That son of Tydeus meanwhile, with pitiless spear, was chasing after Cyprian Aphrodite, knowing she was a gentle goddess, not one of those who control the flow of battle, no Athene, or Enyo, sacker of cities. So, when he reached her after his chase through the ranks, fierce Diomedes lunged at her with his sharp spear, piercing the divine robe the Graces had laboured to make for her, and wounding the flesh of her wrist near the palm. Out streamed the deathless goddess’ blood, the ichor that flows in ambrosial veins,

So by vote; Aphrodite, even though she definitely charmspoke all of y'all into it. But even though Cupid sucks; it would've been a clear loss for Aphrodite.

The answer is; NICO FOR THE WIN (Unless for two very, very, very tiny loopholes).

Against Piper, the only reason she would live would be because ma dude is a very nice person. He'll just force her down to the ground in five minutes and be all, ‘Good game; get up.’ with a hand to help her up. #angelo.

Because the thing about charmspeak:

1. People with strong wills or intentions are unaffected, and the more powerful the being, the stronger their resistance is. Nico a Hades powerful boss; so nah. Sorry, Pipes.

2. If someone is aware of a person’s ability to charmspeak, then it will have a reduced effect as they will be on guard in case they are the subject to it. And if you know Nico by now,he's got the best mental guard in Riordanverse.

3. Charmspeak only works if the person feels some kind of attraction towards the speaker. To start; Nico's gay. If Piper were to actually fight Nico, she could look like Beyonce for all I care; it don't work.

Piper is also less experienced

Against Drew; the girl is dead. Gone. Yeeted.

What if the girl is the most powerful charmspeaker; see above.st

Silena; Nico would just say “Begone, heroine.’ and she's back to the underworld.

Against Lacy; nuh uh. Two minutes and she's down.

The only people that stand the slightest chance are The Hottest Dude of Aphrodite Cabin and...

Cupid.

If they could train Hottest Dude to charmspeak; it's mostly all over for Nico. If it's Cupid; Nico wouldn't even go there.

"psyche had been right. cupid was a monster. love was the most savage monster of all."

- jason grace, the blood of olympus, pg. 291