Later life headcanons:

  — JASON DOESN'T DIE!!!!!!!

  — Finn is perfectly welcomed by all of Camp Half-Blood and she gets along with everyone SO WELL there. She fits in perfectly

          — Cedar's crush on Finn does not cease to dwindle. He keeps trying to ask her out. He even tells Finn he's 16. Nico breaks the news that he's not.

                   — No one thought it was possible for someone to dislike Cedar St. James but Jason Grace has become his #1 hater

                   — Whenever Finn gets injured and has to go to the infirmary Cedar ENSURES he is the one to heal her, but he got banned from treating her after a few times because Finn got annoyed and. Well. The Incident ensued

                   — He asks Dionysus what's the best way to get Finn to date him and Dionysus says "I thought she was dating that little gay boy???"

          — Finn pranks people with Connor ALL THE TIME. Since Travis left to go to college, Connor needed a new pranking partner so Finn came in perfect timing

                   — They accidentally started a food fight during breakfast once. Chiron banned them from the dining pavilion for two weeks, so they just ate on the roof of the Big House instead

          — Finn and Pollux hijack campfire singalongs sometimes and just start belting musicals

          — One time Finn dressed Pollux up as Dionysus and they go up to Dionysus like that one scene "It's like looking in a mirror!" "No it isn't, Pollux." "Who's Pollux?" "I already can't tell who's who!"

          — Finn and Dionysus's dynamic is like that one scene "You gave into peer pressure, it happens to everybody. I mean, why do you think I wear these shirts?" "'Cause you don't care what you look like." "What? No. 'Cause, I–No! 'Cause I saw some other mortals wearing them, and I thought they were cool! Don't you think?" "...Yeah. Yeah." "What do you mean?" "I think they're... Yeah, they're cool..." "Ummm. Okay... It's just if they don't look–If they look stupid, I won't wear them." "No, they–Yeah." "Forget it!"

          — Finn isn't allowed to team up with Clarisse in capture the flag because they were too insane of a duo

          — She'll bring peanut butter cookies to Nico's cabin, and they spend hours debating about ghosts and whether Finn is one or not (Nico says she's not (anymore), Finn says she still is)

          — After Jason introduced her to the joys of sneaking out she starts sneaking out to Jason's cabin all the time and it gets to a point where Jason freaks out but Finn bullies him about it so he's like "Okay fine :/"

                   — Some nights she and Jason will just sit on top of the roof and eat PB&Js.

          — She put the vase that Jason bought her on their date in Mykonos in her cabin and Jason gives her flowers for her to put in it. She gets new ones every time the old ones die

                   — Sylvie is secretly the one growing these flowers, but she's such a big Jinley supporter that she keeps supplying Jason until the end of time

          — Finn grows surprisingly close with Leo in a way she never even had been on the Argo II. One time Jason visited Camp Jupiter for like 2 days and Finn and Leo had a bonding session and the rest is history

                   — He becomes to Jinley what Grover was to Persylv. Piper is their Annabeth

          — Finn has come back from the dead TWICE and she can turn water into wine so they start calling her Camp Half-Blood's Jesus. She thinks it's the funniest shit

          — A satyr accidentally introduces karaoke night to camp. It started fun but quickly turned into torture when Finn, Percy, and Leo team up for a show-stopping (and ear-shattering) rendition of "Livin' on a Prayer." Annabeth swears she'll never forgive them. 

          — The Hunters come visit camp for a few days and Finn FINALLY gets to meet Thalia. This is a friendship for the ages. 

                   — Thalia started off skeptical of Finn, especially since Finn comes from Camp Jupiter, but she saw Finn insult Jason ONCE and immediately decided Finn was her new best friend

                   — Thalia starts teasing Jason that she's going to recruit Finn to join the Hunters. Finn would actually fit in so well there that Jason gets REALLY panicked. Like he'll start freaking out and go up to Finn with, "Hey, you don't actually hate men, right? Like that's a joke? Like you're just messing with me?"

          — The whole Demeter cabin came to an agreement that Finn is the exact kind of person that Florian would've loved. They give her his old guitar because they know she would have done exactly what Florian wanted with it. Finn, although she doesn't know the significance behind it, keeps playing the guitar for him so that no one has to live without music in their life

  — Cedar ends up dating Clovis (from the Hypnos Cabin). Hyper boy x sleepy boy. Cedar's never had someone who really stays, and Clovis is someone who never goes anywhere. There's potential here. 

          — When THIS happens, Cedar goes up to Finn and is like, "Look, I'm sorry, but it's over, Finley. I've moved on. Now it's time for you to move on, too." "I HAVE A BF????" "Please stop being delusional I was never your boyfriend"

  — When Finn and Percy are together they share half (1/2) a brain cell so they're always fucking shit up and then they panic and scramble with each other how to fix it before Sylvie and Jason find out and yell at them but they end up making matters so much worse. They're the type of goons to say, "On it, boss," then fuck up instantly

  — Since Finn has "Wonderboy" for Jason, Jason starts using "baby" for her after he did it that one time on the Big House's porch

  — Now that the war is over Sylvie has to actually focus on fixing her eating issues. It's really hard for her and it takes a year of recovery. Looking back she hates talking about it as much as she hates talking about Tartarus because it was really rough for her, and the two things are sort of intertwined anyway

          — One day Percy walks into the room and sees Sylvie just sitting down willingly eating a whole bowl of cereal and he just sort of starts crying because he's so proud of her

  — The Nine make sure they see each other AT LEAST thrice a month. It's actually very easy for them because they're so trauma bonded that they've grown codependent on one another. Who cares if it's unhealthy, this is found family guys. 

          — They do Secret Santa every year even if demigods don't really celebrate Christmas

          — Their favorite thing to do is just cram themselves inside of Sylvie and Annabeth's dorm and spend hours being together

          — They all start learning how to use phones just so they can get a group chat going. The group chat is chaotic to say the least

                   — Percy: "who's bringing snacks to movie night tomorrow?" Finn: "i got it. jason's paying." Jason: "No I'm not??" Finn: "you will." Sylvie: "How's Finn typing in here? She can't read." 

                   — Percy: "serious question who would win in a fight me or jason" Jason: "We literally already fought once and it was a draw??" Leo: "my money's on sylv" Finn: "me too😛" Sylvie: "HOW DOES FINN TYPE IN HERE"

          — Sylvie invites them over to her dad's farm every year for Thanksgiving and they just spend a whole week there having the time of their lives (Nico, Cedar, Will, Reyna, Mickey, Phoenix, and others are invited too obviously)

                   — It turns into "Thanksgiving Olympics" with events like sack races, capture the flag, and pie-eating contests

          — The crew decides to go on a road trip in a "borrowed" school bus. Leo promises it'll "totally be fine." The bus breaks down in the middle of nowhere, leading to a night of stargazing, campfire stories, and Percy accidentally eating a poisonous mushroom.

  — Percy's always pulling up to the Duvall farm with Sylvie bc he is BEST FRIENDS with Conan Duvall but they learn Percy's hopeless with animals and Sylvie will never stop teasing him about the time a goat chased him across the barn

  — While Finn and Jason are technically in Percy, Sylvie, and Annabeth's grade, they hold themselves back a year just to give themselves a chance to actually be kids for once. So after this is junior year for them

  — Percy invites Finn to start living with him at the Jackson apartment. After sobbing her eyes out into Percy's arms, she does, and Sally adopts her. The Finn-Percy siblingsm has never been more real

          — Estelle totally favors Finn. Percy gets so whiney about it

  — Listen I'm not saying Sylvie is Camp Half-Blood's weed supplier, but... Sylvie grows weed and she's Camp Half-Blood's supplier. 

          — 15 year olds and up have a hidden area in the woods where they go and have smoke sessions. Yeah, it's epic. 

          — (Miranda grows the weed whenever Sylvie is away. This entire thing is a secret they keep from Katie and Cedar.)

  — Mickey and Piper decide to become co-counselors of the Aphrodite cabin. Mickey claims "it was too much work"

          — (Phoenix knows it was because she wanted to be able to spend less time caring for her siblings and more time with him)

  — Movie nights in the Poseidon cabin were 10000% a thing during Wildflowers times, and when Percy goes missing, Sylvie, Annabeth, Thalia, Grover, and others would still sleep in there every now and then and talk about how much they miss him

          — Cedar only went in a few times when Percy was there so the first time he went in when Percy went missing he was expecting them to be watching something so he burst in screaming, "HEY GUYS !!! WHAT ARE WE WATCHING TONIGHT ?!!! :D" and when he walked in he saw them all crying in the dark and was like, "Oh... I guess I'll come back later..."

          — After the war with Gaea, with their new friends added, they start movie nights 2.0 up in Cabin Three

           — They decided whoever chose the first move they watched was "whoever did the most in the war against Gaea" and then everyone promptly burst out into an hour long debate of who did the most work. I'll let you imagine how that went

  — At NRU Annabeth makes strict study schedules for she, Sylvie, and Percy, complete with charts. Percy tries to follow it but ends up sneaking off with Sylvie for snacks or a break

          — Sylvie taking Nemo's powers literally gave her super-memory. Like now she remembers EVERYTHING she retains so school is an absolute breeze for her. She helps Percy study all the time, and tbh she tries helping him cheat bc she really doesn't care that much, but Percy feels too bad about letting Sylvie do it that he threatens to tell Annabeth

          — The dorm washing machine's are Sylvie's biggest enemy. She either breaks them, gets stuck in them, or it swallows her clothes up. Percy finds it hilarious. She does not. 

          — Percy is horrible at waking up for his classes, so Sylvie starts being his personal alarm clock. She does stuff like dumping a cup of water on his face or summoning vines to tickle him awake. Percy swears it's harassment. 

          — Sylvie and Percy LOVEEE going to Insomnia Cookies together at 1 in the morning. It has become a problem. Annabeth needs to cut them off. 

          — Percy's a total frat boy I'm so sorry. You know that Marcello Hernandez Jane Wickline SNL skit? Yeah that's Persylv

  — Finn and Jason go to NRU together too :( and Jason's all like "Are you sure you don't have to go back there we can go to some normal college and do normal kid things" "Shut UP Wonderboy we're going to NRU and that's final"

          — When they actually do go to college, Jason is THAT student with color-coded notes and a planner, while Finn convinces him to ditch a study session to go explore campus. Jason caves but spends the whole time muttering about how he'll "never catch up"

                   — Finn writes little doodles and funny comments in the margins of Jason's notes and Jason keeps every single one of them because it makes him so fond

          — Every time one of them aces a test they go out for ice cream together

          — Finn's never in her own dorm. She's always wandering into Jason's to the point where he started buying her favorite snacks and keeping them in his cabinet

                   — Listen everyone thinks Sylvie and Percy are the codependent ones (well, they are) but it's honestly Finn and Jason who are ALWAYS with each other. They've known each other since they were seven AND they're each other's best friend AND they're Camp Jupiter trauma bonded.

          — Finn's a social butterfly so she'll be walking down the street with Jason and it's just like "It was a good movie, b–Hey, what's up? It was a good, but–What's going on? It was a good movie, but I feel like they could–Oh, hey!" "Okay, do you know all of these people??"

          — I'm just imagining them in his dorm and Finn's wearing his sweatshirt and they're content and happy and it is :( so cute y'all :(

  — Cedar is Solangelo's third wheel. He always has been and he always will be. They are THE trio ever. 

          — With Cedar's crush on Finn, Will's like, "C'mon man give it up :/" and Nico pops out of nowhere like, "Yeah, it's hopeless for you lmfao"

                   — But then Cedar goes in on Nico for his crush on Percy

          — Their dynamic is basically Cedar and Will are sunshine healer best friends. Cedar and Nico are make fun of each other/sibling best friends. Will and Nico are adorably in love soulmates

  — The Persylv wedding is such a beautiful thing you must know that

          — Poseidon was ECSTATIC. Like scarily so

          — Connor contemplated objecting JUST to piss Percy off but ultimately he didn't want to ruin the moment

          — Sylvie had a bouquet of wildflowers

          — Her maid of honor (Annabeth) and bridesmaids made flower crowns to wear and they surprised Sylvie with an all white one and they weren't perfect but Sylvie cried because of the effort they put into them

          — Percy broke down as soon as he saw her in her dress and wouldn't stop complimenting her the whole day because he couldn't help but be in awe that she's his wife

          — Sylvie made Leo ring bearer as a joke

  — Finn and Jason obviously got married too, but everyone got so drunk that it's really just remembered as The Great Hangover

          — Finn was the only one sober, because she hasn't had any alcohol since that day Percy and Sylvie fell into Tartarus :)))

          — Their wedding had THREE SEPARATE AFTERPARTIES, one of which Leo accidentally set on fire. Finn has the whole thing on video and plays it every time Leo annoys her

          — Since Finn was sober, she got to deal with Jason's drunken ramblings "You're so beautiful, are you single?" "I can't believe you're my wife :D" "Lalalala Finley Grace is my wife lalalala!!! Finley GRACE!!!!" "Seven-year-old me would be SO ecstatic right now" and Finn thinks it's the most adorable thing ever but she pretended to be disgruntled about it

  — Persylv has three mini Persylvs in the future (2 girls, 1 boy of course)

          — I'm envisioning their house along the coast of a beach??? Or maybe near a forest that also has a beach???

          — Annabeth feeds them things like alphabet soup and makes them spell words with them before they could eat

          — Finn teaches them curse words and blames it on Jason

          — For some reason, Jason is ALL of the kids' favorite and no one knows why cause he's just over there like, "Oh uh hey guys🙂" and they're like "UNCLE JACE!!!"

          — Leo invents them crazy shit and Sylvie's like "You are NOT giving my children JETPACKS"

          — Percy surprisingly ends up being the over-careful parent who's always worried about them and Sylvie's somehow the "Eh, they're fine!!" parent because she was raised on a farm and she dgaf about boundaries, she lets them run wild

          — Hazel's always sneaking them little hand-made trinkets and blames Frank if Percy or Sylvie get suspicious about the kids being spoiled

          — Sylvie grows flowers in their backyard, but the kids keep "helping" by picking all of them before they bloom. Sylvie is frustrated, but Percy just laughs and says it's sweet

          — Demeter and Poseidon try and outshine each other as the best grandparent, which is hilarious because Conan lets them ride all the animals when they're at his farm, and even then, no one can beat Sally. The kids go over to Sally's every Sunday for dinner and she's SALLY

  — Jinley end up accidentally having triplets and it's ALL THREE BOYS LMAO

          — These triplets are too chaotic. They inherited Finn's mischief and Jason's authority and it's such a dangerous combination

                   — Alvin, Simon, Theodore come to life???

                   — One of them is a mini Jason, complete with a tendency to lecture his brothers about following the rules, which they completely ignore

                            — He's secretly the mastermind of their schemes

          — Their favorite uncle is absolutely Leo, which Leo holds HIGH over Finn and Jason's heads because he'll still never stop teasing them about how he caught them almost kissing

          — Sylvie is the favorite aunt of course

          — Nico reluctantly agrees to shadow-travel with them occasionally but only under strict supervision. "One wrong move, and we're staying here" but the triplets think it's the best thing ever

          — When the triplets get old enough for camp, they start a "Capture the Flag Mafia" and charge other kids for "protection" or the sabotaging of plans. Finn is impressed but Jason gives them a two-hour lecture

  — Annabeth is somehow the only one who can wrangle all the kids at once

  — Frank is somehow more protective over the kids than their own parents?? He's their unofficial protector. Constantly making sure theyre not doing anything too dangerous 

— Piper loves storytelling she'll gather the kids around a campfire and tell them exaggerated adventures of her quests 

  — Leo tried babysitting all six kids at once one time but it ended in a mini uprising. Leo barricaded himself in a closet while the kids chanted for cookie cake

  — Movie nights 3.0 expand to include all the kids. The Persylv and Jinley kids are introduced to the adults' favs like Cars and The Little Mermaid

Okay well hey, y'all :(((

I've been trying to think about what I was going to say here for a while. I already said most of it in the author notes of the last chapter, but I'm seriously SO thankful and SO full of love for you people. I hope you guys felt as happy with me as I felt happy with you. Both Wildflowers and Wildfires have been such an outlet for me and knowing I could come here and feel the support from all the readers, commenters, and voters alike just meant the world to me.

I started off this entire saga with just the idea "country kid of Demeter meets city boy son of Poseidon" in mind and we have actually come so far since then. Like idk it's so bizarre to me that we got to this point. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

I wasn't really planning on continuing this series, because the thought of putting Sylvie or Finley through any more shit kind of hurts my heart LMFAO, but honestly who knows what will happen in the future!!

Regardless of whether this is The End or just the end, I hope y'all enjoyed the wild (see what I did there) journey as it went along. From Sylvie being "the timid Demeter kid" to Finley being "the alcoholic disgrace of Rome" to both of the girls being so incredibly happy and loved. I am just YAY!!

Anyways. Again, I love y'all. I'll finally stop yapping now