And that was the end of my second ever Percy Jackson fanfiction, which I didn't actually write for the sake of writing fanfiction but actually for Butch.
If you've read my other Percy Jackson story (Post Potter Depression, currently ongoing), you may have noticed that Rick Riordan's character of Butch was mentioned quite a few times. (More times than you'd find in the books themselves, at any case.)
My love affair with Butch began the first time I read The Lost Hero. His name was Butch; he was big and macho and had a face like a pile of bricks, while at the same time being the son of the goddess of rainbows. He also happened to be one of the camp's best equestrians. "Rainbows and ponies," as Leo put it. And his name is Butch. This guy is one of Riordan's best creations to date, in every single book he's ever written. To me, he's right up there with Percy.
I love Butch so much, I even made a website about him. You can find this website by typing in butch-appreciation-life dot Tumblr dot com. (Hopefully that sort-of-but-not-really link works.) The website isn't complete yet, as I had to disconnect my home internet a month after I started it, and it's temporarily in the hands of a friend of mine who is not quite as enthusiastic about the character as I am, but once we get some more submissions, we'll be up and running and good to go. The website contains (or will contain) pictures, GIFs, stories, jokes, headcanon and all other things inspired by Butch. People who are a part of this appreciation life are called "The Butchachos" and our motto is "We appreciate Butch with our lives."
This story is going to be the first fanfiction submission to the website. We haven't quite got any of those yet, and I'm hoping this story is going to encourage some of our Butchachos and others outside the group to make up their own stories inspired by Butch. I really enjoyed writing this story, and I hope other do as well.
I'm putting this story up on fanfiction dot net because I can. And I hope that you, the readers, are encouraged to write your own stories about Butch, whether it be a one-shot about Butch's life at camp or a fully-fledged, thirty-two chapter long novella involving Butch on a quest to find the magical vase of drachmas at the end of the rainbow which he needs to return to R.O.F.L before his mother throws a tantrum and makes it rain gluten-free cupcakes over all of America.
Ninja out. Peace.