A Picture is Worth 1000 Words: A Multifandom Comment Fic Meme
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(The only time Percy ever beat Annabeth at Scrabble, he won with 'pescalator,' which she still won't admit is the best word ever.)
More puzzling is Annabeth's choice; they've pretty much been joined at the hip since the Second Titan War ended, and everyone thought they'd at least go to college in the same state.
When asked why she chose Mt. Holyoke, she cites the academics - she plans to double-major in Architectural Studies, and Classics, minoring in Greek. Percy's reason for not studying Greek was a good one ("I'd get in too much trouble blurting out how wrong the teachers probably are,") but Annabeth has more self-control than he does.
There's a lake out by the school's gym where, unbeknownst to their friends from camp, they meet every week; Percy can move through water as easily as Nico travels through shadows, and they're not going to let a silly thing like geography keep them apart.
Two weeks before both of them officially get their degrees, he shows up with a picnic basket and brings her back to the bottom of the lake with him; it's an unusually romantic gesture which she doesn't understand until he drops to one knee there on the lake bed and pulls out a ring. It's custom-made - a stunning bluish-black Tahitian pearl, set in a gold band designed to look like an olive branch.
When they show everyone the ring, even her mother approves.
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Also, for the edification of the readers: 'Pescalator' is a real word, a kind of Archimedes' screw. Wikipedia has this to say:
The Archimedes' screw, also called the Archimedean screw or screwpump, is a machine historically used for transferring water from a low-lying body of water into irrigation ditches. The screw pump is commonly attributed to Archimedes on the occasion of his visit to Egypt, but this tradition may only reflect that the apparatus was unknown before Hellenistic times and introduced in his life-time by unknown Greek engineers.
Archimedes screws are used in sewage treatment plants because they cope well with varying rates of flow and with suspended solids. An auger in a snow blower or grain elevator is essentially an Archimedes screw.
The principle is also found in pescalators, which are Archimedes screws designed to lift fish safely from ponds and transport them to another location. This technology is primarily used at fish hatcheries as it is desirable to minimize the physical handling of fish.
The Greek connection, plus the pure cuteness of the name, made it impossible for me to resist.
(You know I couldn't write Annabeth fic without including a lecture, right?)
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