(Dark) Apollokid Headcanons:
☆ Plague powers - obviously. Using this ability to be able to cast any kind of plague or disease/illness on an individual or a group of people, depending on the Apollokid's exact scope of ability.
☆ Being the children of the OG doctor, the medicine and healing god, they all know exactly which bones to break or bend in a certain way, for it to be fatal for the opponent. Even those who are not medically inclined. They just know.
☆ Sun powers are GREAT! Until their powers are closely linked with emotions, because Apollo is the god of arts and art is usually all about expressing your own emotions, so when a pissed Apollokid is under or near the sun, the sun's heat is suddenly a million times hotter and JESUS IT'S 85 DEGREES!!!!! IT WAS 35 A SECOND AGO WHAT HAP- oh, (Apollokid) is pissed as shit. Never mind.
☆ Leading on from the above, unless there's is other magic at play here, to either downplay the kid's powers, or to counter their sun magic, anyone who comes in their literal path will become toast. These Apollokids are walking suns. And sometimes, they leave a trail of fire in their literal path. Grass burns, smaller water bodies evaporate, trees and plants are scorched.
☆ To avoid the damage in the above point, either a Water deities kid would need to be cooling down the Apollokid, or straight up the kid goes and sits in the sea (where their powers are not enough to evaporate all the water or goes for a swim).
☆ The way Poseidon kids can control physical bodies by manipulating the water in one's body, Apollokids can do the same with all living organisms due to their vitakinesis. It's usually not acted upon, as it's incredibly immoral to do so to a person who may not have consented. But the occasional deranged test subject comes along to an equally maniacal Apollokid… And y'know, sometimes it simply comes down to self-defense... Truly.
☆ If justice isn't served, then they will serve it. Idak where the idea in myths came from that Zeus is the god of justice tbh, bc he's one of the most unfair gods out there, mythologically speaking……. Makes more sense for it to be Apollo, since he's already the god of law, order, justice, etc. I have another post which states all his domains etc. I think it's under the Apollo cabin headcanons tag.
☆ They can cause deafness to specific individuals, using music/sound powers. They can make your ears bleed. And if done for prolonged amounts of time, they can make your body believe it was always deaf.
☆ They can also cause blindness due to their sun and light.
☆ They can use photokinesis to make illusions and use their emotion magic to mess with your emotions, thus being able to make illusions that screw with you psychologically. Sometimes, they may go That Far.
☆ Their blood literally heals. It's like vampire blood, but they have literal sunlight in their veins, so vampires can't even touch them, without burning themselves. Gloves do very little to help vampires etc lol. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for non-vampiric bloodsuckers. Where their blood heals, people oftentimes hunt Apollokids down for their healing blood, to use them as test subjects, see what happens if they mix X in the blood, or deprive the kid of blood or make incisions in their skin;
- Are they able to naturally heal themselves?
- Can they feel pain through anesthetics? [stupid one Ik, but their dad's the dude who invented healing and medicine, so some crazy nutters do ask this question]
- If they are deprived of blood, does their body naturally make more - enough to cover for the lost blood, bc they have a healing factor - is it extended to their blood too?
This is why most Apollokids live at Camp. Bc those crazy nutters can't get them there.
☆ Flower Gleam and Glow (Rapunzel's healing song) is the go-to song in the Infirmary to heal anyone if the Apollokids can't remember the exact chant or hymn or song to heal a specific injury.
☆ The songs will also vary even for the same injury, depending on the person they're healing. The healing song Has To Vibe with the patient. And sometimes a generalised song will do the bare minimum and they send that person off bc they're An Exhausted Healer Who Is Minutes Away From Collapse and just needs to hurry up, get through their patients lists then knock out.
☆ If you break the heart or mess with the emotions of an Apollokid or someone they hold dear. Oh boi. They can operate on you without anesthetics just to make it hurt. They can do any of the above (in the list). They can use their thermokinesis just to look at you and make you uncomfortable in your own skin literally. Their eyes hold the intensity of a thousand burning suns. Their hearts hold the capacity of loving you to the end of the world and back. Their eyes can also hold enough hatred to fuel another world war. Their hearts can also hold enough bitterness to take the life away (literally, if their powers were to go untamed) from every plant and living organisms in existence. You better check yourself.
☆ Asterokinesis. Stellar energy manipulation. They use this type of energy for pretty much anything, because their bodies are basically Cosmic StarDust. Star Dust or other starry names are common nicknames for Apollokids. They can manipulate ANYTHING to do with stars and do so effortlessly. Some have this ability stronger than others, but they all have this ability. For some, it's just being able to absorb this type of energy. For some, they can absorb and re-use. Others can absorb, Transmutation and reapply etc. It varies from person to person. The most powerful ones, asterokinetically, can do anything. They can redirect stellar energy buse it for constructs, absorption, transmutation, defense, attacks, etc you name it. They can implode themselves and others too, using the gravitational energy from stars.
