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#and I love the way annabeth and Grover look at eachother then him#like yes baby you are the last to realize#bestie had other things to think about#like about the fact that hug that totally doesn’t have to be weird#Percabeth was percabething hard this episode already#Percy perpetually confused Jackson#percy jackson#percy jackson show#pjo#pjo fandom#pjo series#meme#percy jackson memes#pjo hoo toa#demigods#my boy percy jackson#pumped as always for tonight’s episode!!!#I will be looking scrupulously throughout the whole episode for my sliver of Italian children Easter egg#Nico and Bianca are the best
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ermmmmmm can someone tell nico stans that it's okay for him to not be the strongest demigod in the series and that they don't need to slander percy or minimize his abilities to praise nico <3
#percy jackson#nico di angelo#pjo#hoo#it's everything from 'bianca dying was percy's fault even though he was 13 at the time and tried his best' to#'nico is actually the most powerful demigod trust me (even though canon itself contradicts this)'....like give it a rest it's embarrassing#anyway....percy solos your fave and it's not even close!
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Something I love is that when there are ranking videos for the coolest/most powerful/loveable characters, Nico di Angelo always makes the top five. Like everyone thinks he's amazing, which he is. He's my favorite character and I'm so glad people can agree
#nico is the best riordanverse character#he's also the strongest in my opinion#he also was a gay boy in the 40s while shit was going down#he never felt comfortable around people except bianca#and then she dies#and he thinks his crush killed her#and then he get outes by cupid in front of jason#like dick move cupid#and then he goes to tartarus#TWICE#and he has the best boyfriend ever with anazing friends#and then jason dies#but like hey trauna builds character#pjo hoo toa tsats#nico di angelo#solangelo#will solace#jason grace#percy jackon and the olympians#percy jackson#pjo hoo toa#hoo#pjo#tsats
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Idc anymore; the Percy Jackson series is bad and I blame Ricks stubborn ass
#Percy Jackson#percy jackon and the olympians#Percy jackson series#Percy jackson and the lightning thief#pjo#pjo series#annabeth chase#rick riordan#percabeth#nico di angelo#Apollo#grover underwood#love the cast#they deserve better#this is so boring oh my lord#pacing is dogshit#“it’s made for kid! yeah middle schoolers not 6 year olds💀 have some action#show don’t tell PLEASE#best part of the last episode was the di angelos and they weren’t even in the shot#bianca di angelo
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i wonder if bianca or nico ever held each other after mass and wondered if they were too hopeless for even St Jude
#this took too long#nico di angelo#pjo#percy jackon and the olympians#heroes of olympus#bianca di angelo#hades pjo#trials of apollo#rick riordan#my art#not my best but idk#catholic imagery
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I might be giving away my age here, but one of the first games that got me into Greek mythology was Poptropica. (I did say that I might be giving away my age.) I haven’t played it in ages, but the Mythology Island quest was truly top-tier. And that mission where you have to rinse off the graffiti on the entrance to Hades’ realm?
“Hades is a deadbeat.”Â
After reading the Percy Jackson series, I can honestly say that out all the gods and goddesses, Hades is the least deadbeat parent. On the contrary, he might be the best parent out of all of them, at least according to godly parent standards.Â
#i finally watched the last pjo episode and i loved jay duplass’ performance!#i've always pictured hades as a not-so-morose severus snape#but i'm happy with jay duplass' yassified take too#anyway like i said hades might be the best godly parent out of all of them#i’ll never forgive him for telling nico that it would have been better if he had died instead of bianca#...but as long as that scene in the blood of olympus exists he is redeemable in my eyes#“My children are so rarely happy. I … I would like to see you be an exception.”#my entries#pjo#pjo hades#nico di angelo
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Hades hiding Nico and Bianca away so one of them could be the child of the initial prophecy never really made a ton of sense to me but the more I think about it him hiding them away after Maria's death to keep them safe like he promised. She didn't want her children to live in the Underworld and so he didn't do that, but also maybe at some point after she died and he failed to protect her he realized that nowhere would truly be safe for Nico and Bianca as the war raged on and he tucked them away in the Lotus Hotel because the safest place for them to be is at the end of the war. But then the pact was made, and he wasn't supposed to have anymore children and his brothers probably thought all of his were dead already because they didn't realize he'd hid cards up his sleeve, and so he just had Bianca and Nico in the hotel for all those years less because he didn't want them out, and less because he wanted one of them to be the child of the prophecy and more so because he was just waiting for his brothers to fuck up and break their pact and have kids so then he could be like "well if you don't want me to be mad at you and destroy your children your not supposed to have then you can't destroy my children either" kind of deal... also thinking about how Hades wanted Bianca to be the child of the prophecy, or maybe just expected it to be her, so he uses Nico more as a pawn and more as collateral which is kind of a whole thing in the plot.... idk if this is even anything
#also i read a fic where hades told nico he'd “saved the best for last” as in he wouldnt have anymore kids after nico#because of the pact and stuff but also that nico was special to him and had sort of out preformed his mortal children previously in everyway#and i just kind of thought it was sweet and so different from him originally telling nico he'd wished bianca had lived instead#like a full circle moment....#idk#pjo#nico di angelo
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bianca di angelo really projected HER fatal flaw on her brother and we all just accepted it.Â
#if we had just gotten a little bit more about her we would have seen her holding grudges like no other#she would have resented so much about the demigod world and HADES omg daddy issues girl#ok maybe nico also holds grudges but i think to a lesser extent and TBH his main grudge has always been the one against bianca#other than that ???? percy???? that was certainly a thing but it was so tied to his grudge against bianca that well it IS about bianca#and i mean. an argument can be made about nico being more forgiving bc bianca WARNED HIM but i don't buy that completely#i think he can have tendencies towards it but it's not really him and at the end of the day he can take a step back and see the big picture#but the bianca situation was MASSIVE he needed years to be able to take enough steps back to finally understand and see what led bianca to#her choices#anyways. nico di angelo ur fatal flaw is not grudges.#stubborn maybe??? jealous??? he's a lot actually idk what word would encapsulate his character best#i think he would meet his end bc he's stubborn tho. i think he doesn't know when to stop and THAT will kill him.#but i think all of this ties to the fact that he feels guilty. even in tsats they discuss this and i do think that is truly the core of nico#he feels guilt over what he has done and didn't get to do and even for others#can guilt be a fatal flaw?? if it can i'll take that one for nico
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I hope we get to blatantly see Nico when the trio goes to the Lotus Hotel.
#I don't think the actor they use for Nico should continuously be Nico#honestly I think the best actor for Nico is still in second grade#but I think just flat out showing Nico and Bianca on screen would be great#my post#percy jackson#pjo adaptation#nico di angelo
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Thinking about my old Bianca Lives AU again lmao... like she’s implied to both have some sort of memory/dream manipulation powers and also Hellfire so tbh her powers would be fucking awesome to see expanded on
#nico and bianca competing to see who can be the best older sibling for hazel#bianca di angelo#pjo#riordan universe
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People hate on bianca but if i was given the chance of being immortal AND not having to be with my sister 24/7 i would absolutely take it some of you don't have any siblings and it shows
#i rlly related to bianca in that moment and then ppl were hating on her for it and it broke my heart#i love bianca even tho we barely got to see her#also like she is her own person not only nicos brother and she may have hurt nico but that shouldnt have to be her way of making decisions#people usually complain that ''she didnt think of what was best for nico'' or that ''she abandoned him the first chance she got''#1) nico shouldnt have to be the center of her world even if it sometimes hurts him#2) shes a literal 12 year old#3) good for her i would totally want to join the hunters#also like. she was being offered a life free of all the responsabilities she'd had till then with girls who wanted to be her friends#look at me in the eyes and tell me you wouldnt take it#even if your little brother may feel a bit lonely before making friends in this camp that also sounds pretty cool#even if its not quite as cool as what youre getting#bianca di angelo#pjo#mine
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haha okay I just wrote something and it's bad but I did it so here it is
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It breaks my heart just thinking about how Percy has been trying so hard and done do much for the world & people around him but there are still people saying he hasn't done enough *sighs*
#like about bianca/nico/calypso/bob/michael etc etc#i know i know they're hurt/dead partly because of him#and he can be neglectful and careless sometimes#but like#he is just a kid who's dealing with so many things AT THE SAME TIME#it's normal and natural for him to just overlook some things and make some mistakes in the process#may i remind you it's NEVER his responsibility to save the world & care for everyone he knows#yet he tries his best#yet some people are still like “nuh uh you're not doing good enough percy”#not to mention he's never the true cause of those problems#how come instead of blaming the ones who really should be blamed (the gods/kronos/monsters)#you choose to target a kid#...you know what I'm not even angry anymore I'm just tired#percy jackson deserves peace after all the shit he's been through#so does every other child soldier in this series#anyway my tag rant stops here#keep scrolling#percy jackson#percy jackon and the olympians
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Percy and the whole camp’s so fucking lucky that Nico didn’t run into Luke during Battle of the Labyrinth, literally all Luke would’ve had to say was that Nico could get revenge on Percy and boom, he’d join Luke no questions asked.
Like SO LUCKY that miraculously didn’t happen.
But also someone write a fic where Nico does join Luke and CHB has to slowly win him over again or maybe he finds Camp Jupiter on accident, meets Jason and switches to their side and basically becomes Roman despite being greek. That boy is Italian, no one would’ve questioned him unless given a reason, say Nico running into Percy or someone from chb while he and Jason are on a quest and all of a sudden he has to come clean about being greek, being on the titans side because he blames, (blames, not blamed) Percy, and the Hunters of Artemis, for Bianca’s death still.
Like, Nico could’ve done so much, imagine he’d dropped off the face of the earth after the Battle of the Labyrinth where there’s like a shit ton of hints and Percy has dreams about him and then he comes back in Son of Neptune and Percy doesn’t know who he is.
But we do, we remember, and we need to figure out how and why Nico’s in Camp Jupiter and loved by everyone, no one’s scared of him or scared that he’s a son of Pluto.
And once the people at chb come and everything goes to shit.
the entire camp half blood is literally just fucking lucky nico has a problem with sacrificing himself for the people he loves because if he was actually vengeful and grunge holder as rr claimed him to be, they all would not have lasted a fucking day in the battle of manhattan after he had decided to join luke
#reblog#like you can't tell me that wouldn't be the BEST thing ever if Nico introduced himself aand when Percy gets back to camp jupiter#he basically begs Nico to tell him how and why he's there since everyone assumed Nico was long dead#It's be so soul crushing for Nico to tell Percy about him joining Luke and the months it took for him to barely be able to trust Jason and#everyone else at camp jupiter#and learning that Nico still blames him for Bianca's death#and maybe here there's no hazel#there's no new sister#no second chance#but still he's so much happier here then he was in chb#he has friends#respect#he's not an outcast#nico di angelo#camp jupiter
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Having the whole plot between Nico and Percy be resolved simply with “You’re not my type” in Blood of Olympus was such a huge disservice to both characters
They are pivotal parts to each others journey. No person in PJO influenced Nico as much as Percy did, aside from Bianca, and no person represents Percy’s guilt and the responsibility he had to shoulder more than Nico does. The writing for both characters really suffers through this lack of a real satisfying resolution.
First to talk about what Percy represents for Nico:
Percy, first of all, represents Nico’s introduction to the mythological world
He is the first demigod Nico ever came in contact with
He saved him and Bianca from the manticore (somewhat)
Nico stated in Blood of Olympus than Percy had reminded of the heroes of his mythomagic game come to life
Nico wholeheartedly believed that Bianca would be safe, if Percy was with her and created this image of the perfect hero in his mind, putting Percy on a pedestal
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In Nico’s mind Percy is irrevocably intertwined with Bianca and everything that happened to her
Despite Nico naively believing, that Bianca would be safe if Percy were around, he was instead the last person to ever talk to her, and present when she died
Percy informed Nico of her death (Dead silence. I stared at Chiron. I couldn’t believe nobody had told him yet. Then I realized why. They’d been waiting for us to appear, to tell Nico in person, Titan’s curse)
Nico turned him into the scapegoat for her death, so that he could let all his grief and anger and bitterness out on him
Bianca sent Iris-messages to Percy, so that he would find and help Nico (“Percy has been worried about you, Nico. He can help. I let him see what you were up to, hoping he would find you.”, Battle of the Labyrinth)
Her ghost only appeared to Nico when Percy was with him
Percy is the only person Nico knows of, who also grieved for Bianca (“Bianca,” I said. My voice was thick. I’d felt guilty about her death for a long time but seeing her in front of me was five times as bad, like her death was fresh and new. I remembered searching through the wreckage of the giant bronze warrior she’d sacrificed her life to defeat, and not finding any sign of her. “I’m so sorry,” I said. Battle of the Labyrinth)
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Percy is the person who protected and cared for Nico more than anyone else in pjo
Tried to convince Bianca to think more deeply about her decision of joining the hunters, especially thinking of him (“Biance, this is crazy,” I said. “What about your brother? Nico can’t be a hunter.” (Titan’s curse)
Searched the woods in the dark for hours after he had disappeared (Annabeth and Grover helped me search the woods for hours, but there was no sign of Nico di Angelo.)
Didn’t tell Chiron about Nico’s parentage to protect him from the Gods. (I don't think Nico understands who he is. But we can't go telling anyone. Not even Chiron. If the Olympians find out—") Titan’s curse)
Decided to completely commit to the prophecy, solely so Nico didn’t have to bear that burden and go trough any more suffering(It was the last thing I wanted, but I didn't say that. I knew I had to step up and claim it. "I can't let Nico be in any more danger," I said. "I owe that much to his sister. I… let them both down. I'm not going to let that poor kid suffer any more." ) Titan’s curse)
Searched for Nico in the months after Titan’s Curse (Now, six months later, I hadn’t even come close to finding him. It left a bitter taste in my mouth. Battle of the labyrinth, chapter 3))
Saved his life on Geryon’s farm. (“Either way, you get my friends,” I said. “But, if I succeed, you’ve got to let all of us go, including Nico.”)
Always offered Nico a place at camp half-blood to the best of his abilities (“We missed you at dinner,” I said. “You could’ve sat with me.”“No.”“Nico, you can’t miss every meal. If you don’t want to stay with Hermes, maybe they can make an exception and put you in the big house. They’ve got plenty of room.”, Battle of the Labyrinth)
Invited him to join him on his birthday (“Is that… is that blue birthday cake?”He sounded hungry, maybe a little wistful. I wondered if the poor kid had ever had a birthday party, or if he’d ever been invited to one. “Come inside for cake and ice cream,” I said. “It sounds like we’ve got a lot to talk about.”, Battle of the Labyrinth)
Reminded him that he was still a child (I smiled. “Maybe it’s okay to still be a kid once in a while.” I tossed him the statue, Battle of the Labyrinth)
Helped him to get the sword of hades back to impress his father (Then I looked at Nico. Unfortunately, I recognised the expression on his face. I knew what it was like wanting to make your dad proud, even if your dad was hard to love., Sword of hades)
Acknowledged everything Nico did in The last Olympian and is one of the main reasons why Hades has a cabin at camp. ( “But your children should not be left out. They should have a cabin at camp. Nico has proven that.”)
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Percy was Nico’s first, and after Will, his biggest love
Nico had feelings for Percy, which didn’t leave him for around 2 1/2 years, and accompanied him throughout the most challenging parts of his life.Â
Feelings, which were so deep, the god of love personally acknowledged them.
Favonius even called Percy, the person Nico cares about most in House of Hades.
This was more than just a mere crush
Percy is so completely intertwined with most aspects of Nico’s character arc, in both PJO and Hoo, be it his feeling of ostracism, his relationship to Bianca or him coming to term with his own sexuality, that them not having a final interaction, makes his writing feel shallow and unfinished. Especially Nico coming to terms with his crush on Percy opens up the opportunity for a really heartwarming conversation and a moment of character growth and maturity for both of them, instead of it being wasted on one throw-away line.
And it’s the same the other way around. Nico is also a huge part of Percy’s journey.
He especially represents Percy’s biggest failure.
The first five Percy Jackson books are characterized by Percy having to take up responsibility and him being afraid of not being able to fulfill them. Be it responsibility for camp, the world, Bianca’s death, the prophecy, his friends, teh unclaimed demigods, or everything else. Most of the time, Percy was able to make sure everything turned out fine. He saved camp, he saved Olympus, he finished his quests, made the right decision for the prophecy, and he made the gods swear upon teh styx. But there’s one exception. And that is Nico.
Percy did everything in his power to make sure Nico would be spared any more hardships. He took up the burden of the prophecy, explicitly, so that Nico doesn’t have to go through any more hardships
He searched for him after Titan’s curse, kept his identity a secret and even risked himself, Annabeth, Grover and Tyson dying if it meant saving Nico
Still, Nico is one of the characters, if not the character, who has suffered the most in PJO and Hoo, even partly because of Percy (though, of course, Nico having a crush on him was not Percy’s fault at all)
He lived alone at 11 years old on the streets and in the labyrinth, while getting manipulated by an ancient evil spirit
He was isolated and ostracized at camp half-blood
He experienced the horrors of Tartarus completely on his own
He got captured by the giants and slowly suffocated to death in a small jar
He had to deal with internalized homophobia and his complicated feelings regarding Percy
He has been a vital part of two wars at only 15 years old
Had to admit his crush involuntarily in front of Jason, etc. Â
One of the things Percy battles with in Heroes of Olympus is this overwhelming sense of guilt. He blames himself for almost everything that went wrong over the last few years. Be it for Iapetus, Calypso, or especially Nico. Having Percy acknowledge this complicated relationship he has with him during House of Hades, but not allowing the two of them to talk it out is genuinely baffling to me, and one of the (albeit many) reasons why I really don’t like most of Percy’s writing during Heroes of Olympus, despite the fact that he is my favourite character by far. This could have led to a moment of character growth, where Nico helps Percy to aknowledge that he feels guilty for things he had little to no control over, while Nico himself realizes how important he actually is to Percy.
They are also so similar in terms of who they are and what they’ve been through, that even if you ignore their history with each other, it seems insane, that they didn’t interact in any meaningful way: Â
Both were ostracized at camp half-blood because of their parentage, and so far are the only two half-bloods we know of with that experience
They are (together with Hazel) the most powerful demigods in the Riordan verse, and have feats which far surpass anyone else’s
Both are in some way afraid of their powers
Both went through Tartarus
Both have relatively similar relationships to their godly parents
Both have gone through immense trauma and loss
And if you read heroes of Olympus, it actually very much seems to build towards a final resolution of their relationship
Percy and Nico were, aside from Frank, the two people closest to Hazel; both saw her as a little sister, and Hazel treated them both like her brothers
Nico was the first person Percy met from his old life
Percy was the one, who received the visions of Nico being captured
From everyone present, Percy trusted Nico to lead the others to Greece in his moment of greatest desperation
They both had introspections about the other in house of Hades, Nico having to deal with his crush and Percy with his guilt in Tartarus
But, in the end, after they met again, nothing happened. The only scene we really got was the “You’re not my type” line and Percy being surprised by it for a couple seconds. That’s it.
We saw no meaningful conversation between the two of them, no acknowledgement of what they’ve been through together, no lasting feelings. Nothing.
In regards to their relationship, Percy acknowledging everything that Nico has been through led to nothing. Nico acknowledging his feelings for Percy and finally letting go of this pedestal he had placed him on led to nothing. You could argue that their entire relationship, which has been built up since Titan’s curse led to nothing. And considering that they are so important characters for each of their character arcs, their characterization very much suffers from this writing decision.
The two of them, together with Hazel, are my three favourite Riordan verse characters by a long shot, but some very important aspects of both of their characters fall so flat to me through this lack of a satisfying resolution.
 Both of them deserved so much better. Â
They are the friendship with the most missed potential in the entirety of the Riordan verse and probably the most fleshed out and nuanced relationship Rick ever wrote.
R.I.P. Â Nico di Angelo, and Percy Jackson, you will always be brothers in my mind.
#rant is over#I could talk essays about their relationship i fear#thank god ao3 exists#percy jackson#heroes of olympus#rick riordan#pjo hoo#percy jackon and the olympians#rr crit#hoo crit#nico di angelo#house fo hades#blood of olympus#the brother who never were#my roman empire
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hades
he put nico and bianca in the hotel to protect them from Zeus yes, but he also knew what could happen should they reach 16 so by putting them in the casino he offset the prophecy for as long as he needed
and then Zeus broke the deal. And Thalia started getting dangerously close to safety where she ran the risk of unknowingly starting war just by getting older. Anyone can admit that attempted kidnapping and murder was excessive, but he got what he wanted in the end. Thalia was “dead” she couldn’t turn sixteen and the world was safe.
with the helm and bolt missing, he probably figured either the Percy problem would take care of itself on the quest or after. But then he met the kid, and he heard about Kronos and you can just almost see the panic moment thinking about his own children locked in the Lotus Casino and the girl in the tree. All of the sudden it’s “i have to stop this i have to stop this i have to stop this” but the sanctuary was rejected, the boys left and now Kronos will rise
but not without Hades doing his best to stop it
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