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solangelo

cuddle timeeeee

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Time for a shameless promotion of my solangelo fanart, drawn on pencil and colored digitally. Might also show the og sketch

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Do people not have media literacy? BOTH the Underworld and Tartarus were literally KILLING Will just by him BEING THERE. His health started dropping as soon as they really got there. It wasn't outright stated, but that's what context clues are for. He's basically a flower, which is extremely ironic with Apollo's love history. Flowers wilt, and die, without sunlight.

Yeah, Nico is a child of the Underworld, and Will needed to accept that he didn't need to be constantly saved. However, it's in Will's nature to be against the Underworld in a mental mindset. He lost every single one of his siblings except for TWO during TBOL and Manhattan. Events we NEVER see him mention (probably because Rick is really bad at having characters that aren't a select few ever have their trauma brought up, but yknow) to anyone.

Will isn't the only one that had things to work on, though. If Nico hadn't thought things out rationally, hadn't calmed down before thinking, he could've been the indirect reason Will died in Tartarus. The thing is, Nico STRUGGLED to think rationally, and we see it when he lashes out on Will before thinking AFTER the fact.

Bottom of the line: Will isn't a bad person for not liking the Underworld. And it's something he says he's working on at the end of TSATS, so people shouldn't fault him for it. The entire point of the book was them both having problems & their relationship not being all sunshine & rainbows.

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Back in the day, Thanatos was actually a better swordsman than Zagreus By Hikari Toriumi, a story artist at Walt Disney Animation Studios

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OK but what if you're a baby animagus when you first do it and you need to grow into an adult form

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Aphrodite Child AU Nico sketchbook doodles ft Will and Jules Albert

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Robin's Solangelo Fic Recs

many of these fics are old or have a lot of attention already, but if you're antsy waiting for The Sun and the Star to come out, here are some solangelo fics to fill your brain with heart emojis!

double-crossed, star-crossed, fingers-crossed by orphan account - 2.2k - During their first kiss, Nico sees Will glowing, but keeps it to himself. Will doesn’t even know he’s doing it until someone else sees them kissing and gets very flustered. Soooo cute

echoes of lies that i told by demigodbeautiies - 29.9k - College AU, Nico agrees to be Will’s fake boyfriend for Naomi’s wedding. He curses himself later when he catches real feelings, assuming Will would never actually see him that way (spoiler alert: he would).

 My memories of you by Fl_utterby - 56.1k - Will is cursed by Niobe to lose his memories, including his years-long relationship with Nico. When he shows up at Camp Jupiter, Nico arrives to take him to Camp Half-Blood in a cross-country quest with Reyna. Bittersweet and soft with a happy ending!

 i could be your hero by sundaysabotage - 10.8k - a few years down the line, now that Percy Jackson is off at college, Nico finds himself in an unexpected position of senior authority at Camp Half-Blood. It’s not easy to reconcile with his own self-image. Light on the solangelo, mostly a Nico character study, but very good!!

The Rose of Paphos by Tundras_and_Taigas - 19.3k - The Aphrodite cabin unearths a magic item that indicates whether the holder has romantic feelings for someone, and discover that Will has a big crush on some person he won’t identify. Nico finds out about this and gets in his head about who that person could be. Feelings ensue! Also has a whole chapter for Mitchell/Connor if that’s your thing. Very cute and soft with a nice take on the Aphrodite cabin.

our lips set the sun by @thebhorror - 4.1k - a soft first kiss that Nico has spent 10 months agonizing over. In-character and sweet with a delightful payoff.

lich by @pinkerpickick - 2.6k - content warning for death, torture, injury, and suicide! Since Thanatos was chained while Nico was in Tartarus, he dies many times and always comes back still trapped in the pit. Also light on the solangelo and more about Nico, this is some seriously well-done angst. The follow-up fic, penitent, wherein Nico confronts Hades about the events of this fic, is also very very good!

i bleed for your love by flannelfeelings - 7.5k - Nico semi-unintentionally keeps getting himself hurt so he can hang out with Will in the infirmary, because he is too repressed to just ask Will to hang out. Super well written, heartwrenching character voice, and butterflies-inducing romance!

Austin’s Best Barbecue also by flannelfeelings - 3.8k - Will gets hurt protecting Nico from a monster, so Nico shadow travels against doctor’s orders to Austin to get Will some of his favorite comfort food from home. While there, he accidentally meets Will's mother for the first time. Super super cute and funny, this author has great fics!

 Falling for You (Literally) by peanutbutterapple - 4.8k - Nico is acting weird before he visits Hazel at Camp Jupiter. On his return, before Will can ask him about it, Drew Tanaka pranks everyone with a magic hat that makes the wearer feel their romantic feelings very intensely for everyone to see. So adorable and Nico’s reason for his weird behavior is the best thing. 

Opportunity Knocks by nikkiRA - 35.5k - Nico tries to kiss Will, who freaks out and rejects him. Nico decides the same day to run away from Camp Half-Blood, but is intercepted by some meddlesome gods who trap him in a time-loop. He repeats the same day over and over until he can find out what it is he was supposed to fix about this day. I love a good Groundhog Day AU and this one is awesome!!

 constant craving (however hard i want, i never really get) by @thebhorrorr - 5.5k - another banger character study focusing on Nico’s unmet (and then met) need for affection throughout his character arc. A very believable and heart wrenching deliberation on Nico’s character arc and how his relationship with Will complements it! 

there are so many lives i want to share with you by penandblankpaper (@kiarrahatesboysys) - 8.7k (so far) -  still a WIP but a WIP that slaps, this is a post-ToN, pre-TSatS solangelo mini-quest story. Rachel informs Will and Nico that they need to take a journey with no goal before they go to Tartarus or they will die. Lots of soft banter and gentle familiarity with a bullet train of angst incoming! Please read it (for me) please please please

Bonus: Solace by solisaureus (that’s me!) - 73k - A Will character study to complement all these Nico character studies, this work spans the entire narrative across all three series. This is my longest PJO fic and the one I poured the most love into! Though the fic is about Will and his coming of age, there’s plenty of solangelo in here.  

I (and many of the other authors in this list) also write a ton of other PJO fics so do check those out too!! :) happy reading!!!

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I’ve seen a lot of people nitpicking the hell out of the preview, and here are the things I want to say.

I really need people to come to an agreement that fan service is not always a bad thing. I mean, sure, fan service is something you have to do carefully, but fan service just existing does not immediately make it bad. Even if you don’t like fan service… why are you reading this book? Because the entire existence of the book is fanservice.

This is not a first draft, but it’s most likely not a final draft either, considering how early these previews were handed out.

Some of you need to accept that YOU have been the one mischaracterizing Nico and Will… not the writers. Nico has never been characterized as low empathy, you guys just take some of his actions that were out of grief, as him being low empathy. Also Will has always been sarcastic, from the very beginning.

It does have a different tone compared to the rest of the books, but like… 90% of the first few chapters were centered around Nico’s trauma, which Rick sucks ass at writing, and part of that is because he sometimes doesn’t know when it is appropriate to pull out of his light hearted tone.

Also, saying Mark Oshiro is a bad writer, based on an early draft, based on these chapters, all because you’re disappointed in the tone and the characters is unfair. I think he did fine, but he isn’t Rick Riordan. They both have different writing methods and ways for writing characters. Personally, I think Nico and Will have gotten better and more in depth characterization.

If you haven’t read the preview, don’t let some saying they don’t like it get you down. There are a lot of people who are projecting their own interpretations onto the story, and nitpicking every detail. Yes, they are allowed to think whatever they want, but I have seen a lot of exaggerated details as well. Read the book and form your own opinions.

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How Nico reads his Darth Vader x Male!Reader fanfics at 3 am:

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Ok so Will knows this trick of how to delay his voice. He learnt it from Micheal, and practiced till he got it right.

Everyone thinks it’s super cool and he’s pretty proud of it

So one day, he did this to mess with Nico. And Nico was shooketh™️.

Like:

Did my boyfriend just lag?

Will taught him that later on.

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Who's mom?

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Will: babe!! babe do the thing

Nico: *genuinely smiles*

Will, breathlessly: oh my gosh

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Can I have some solangelo fic recs?

Sure thing! I picked some from a personal list I keep! Hope you enjoy!

fear is the heart of love, so I never went back by yrbeecharmer

Gods know nothing in Tartarus was comfortable, cause it’s basically literally hell, but at least the discomfort was all external. It was drinking fire and sleeping on hot, rough stone, not overcompensating smiles and velvet pews and memories.

like jigglypuff? by jkschanel

Will Solace never sings.

Nico always wondered why.

the awful edges where you end and i begin by thebhorror

It is senior year of high school, there is a serial killer on the loose, and Will Solace is devastatingly in love with his boyfriend.

Monstrous March Day 5: Humans- The Real Monsters

can't stand the touch of any other hands by thebhorror

If I didn’t know Will as an individual before the two of you became a package deal, I would think that he was born holding hands with you,” Kayla observed over breakfast.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Nico said, tightening his grip on Will, who was snickering into his cup of coffee.

Or, the various times that Nico and Will held hands over the course of a day.

would you wait for me as i long for you? by thebhorror

Will gave out a startled laugh in response. Nico felt himself pout a little. “Oh boyfriend of mine, I do adore you,” Will said, reaching out to ruffle Nico’s hair, a bright smile on his face.

“Don’t do that,” Nico said, already annoyed at a baseline at his own inability to make paper snowflakes, but now also feeling like he was backed into a corner. “And don’t call me that.”

Or the five times Nico didn't call Will his boyfriend, and the one time he did.

I’m also right now super obsessed with The Sign for Rainbow Rose by Gates_of_Ember!