Prompt from Brackenfern: Percy is mistaken for Tony Stark
It starts with jumbled assortment of talking, a few heard statements. "Whoa! Look at that cosplay!"
"I told you RTX would have been cooler. I'm organizing the event-planning next year."
Nearby, Annabeth is heard. "How is this thing organized?"
"There are panels with different people… It depends on what you're looking for."
"I promised my Dad that I would get a picture with Nathan Fillion."
"What's he acting in?"
"Beats me."
"Hey, guys?" That's Nico, his voice very close to the camera. "Can we stop by that Marvel panel?"
"Uh, cinematic-Marvel or comic-book-Marvel?" Percy, his voice muffled as if he were looking down. "They're on nearly opposite sides of the convention, so pick one."
"Are there other comic book stands near that one?"
"You can't eat any of them, Grover."
"I know, Annabeth." Grover's voice turns indignant. "I just want a new Teen Titans one, and I want to know if DC would be nearby!"
"It is," says Percy, bemused.
Some shuffling, and noises from passing fellow Con-goers.
Thalia's muffled voice: "Hey, Percy, grab the camera."
"I'm managing the map!" Offended and said in a whisper.
"I gotta get a selfie with that person dressed as Master Chief… I'll be back in like, two minutes."
"Whatever. Pass it here."
More shuffling, some static. "Just be sure you catch up."
"Like I could miss Grover's three-foot-tall foam hat."
It's quiet for a while, if the constant chatter surrounding the group counted as silence. Excited voices fill the audio, remarking about "They really should have used that storyline in the films" and "I wonder if they have Bucky and Natasha get together in the next Captain American film…": they arrived at the stand.
"Look," says Nico, still very close to the camera. "They have issue sixty-three…"
"Hey, look at that poster."
"Hm?" says Percy.
"It's of Tony Stark, but it really resembles you." Grover sounds amused.
"Is that your way of making fun of my goatee? Because I told you, I'm working on it, just wait a month–"
"No," says Thalia, from behind the camera.
"Ah! Don't sneak up on me like that!"
"But Percy, you really look like that picture of Iron Man."
"Mm… Stark looks cooler," is Nico's addition.
"And a little better looking" is Annabeth's, told through a smirk.
Percy's "Hey!" overrides the quiet "I disagree there" nearby.
A sharp "You!" covers the ongoing argument. "Are you supposed to be Stark? Cause my friend says your cosplay is awful but I disagree and–"
"I'm not Tony Stark! I look nothing like him! Thalia– take the camera back– I'm outta here."
A quiet "Hey, here's ten bucks– go tell that guy his Iron Man cosplay is the best you've ever seen... Yeah, in the black tank top…" comes from behind the camera.
Silence, for several beats, then–
"EVERYONE HERE IS CRAZY!"