#Nico and Jason

[sodamnbored]

Nico: No.

Jason, insistently: Come on. I made a double bet with Leo. You can’t make me look uncool in front of Leo.

Nico: Leo’s not cool!

Jason, to himself dramatically: He is to me.

[rueisblue]

Will: you and Jason Grace are friends?

Nico: yeah? Is that a shock?

Will, thinking about how Jason seems become friends with every short weirdo:.. nah

[yonemurishiroku]

Thinking about Reyna hugging Nico in front of a whole camp and Jason backing down in favor of Nico's discomfort but Nico allowed him anw. These two really pried the door to Nico's heart open..........

[asofspades]

Jason some days ago: "I don't know if we should rescue Nico, I don't trust him"

Jason now: "that's my little brother now, I've adopted him, he doesn't know it tho"

[poppitron360]

I'm reading HoH right now and we're finally seeing Jason and Nico interacting

[raphael-angele]

Things my brain decides to hurt me with at random moments Part 4

TW: internalized homophobia and use of hateful slur word

Nico, sitting alone in his cabin with his stuffie:

Bianca, knocks: Knock knock. Can I join you?

Nico: Sure.

Bianca, sits beside him on the bed: You okay?

Nico: Fine, why?

Bianca: Percy tells me you haven't left your cabin in since yesterday morning.

Nico: ...I just don't feel like going outside.

Bianca: ...ok. Are you lying to me?

Nico: ...promise you wont get mad

Bianca: I promise I won't react until you finish.

Nico: ...That quest...with the Seven. I had to go with Jason to this place to get Diocletian's Scepter. Cupid had it.

Bianca: Cupid? As in the God of Live for Romans?

Nico: Yeah. And we tried. We really did. But he wouldn't give it without anything in return.

Bianca: ...Nico, what did you do?

Nico: He made me say the truth...he made me say that I like Percy.

Bianca:

Nico, crying: Bianca, I like boys.

Bianca: ...*scooches over to him and hugs him tightly*

Nico, crying: I don't know what I'm gonna do. I'm scared.

Bianca: Shh, it's okay, it's okay. We'll figure this out.

Nico: I hate it. I hate this feeling.

Bianca: Nico, calm down. Why don't you tell me how you feel. Maybe we can figure it out

Nico: It's just that... I would get this feeling everytime I remember what happened. Since I realized, and I look at Percy, I feel...

Bianca: You feel what?

Nico: Like, there are these vines that are crawling on my skin and they get tighter and tighter until I can't move or breath. And there's this feeling in my stomach, like it makes me wanna throw up. I don't know how else to say it, I just...I feel so dirty.

Bianca: You're not dirty

Nico: Really?! Bianca, you don't understand! I'm gay! I'm a faggot! I'm not normal!

Bianca: That doesn't mean that you're worthless.

Nico: I just think that maybe I can find a way to make me like girls like other boys do.

Bianca: Hey, you know you don't have to change who you are for the sake of other people. Okay, you like boys, so what? That doesn't change you.

Nico: ...why can't I be normal just for once?

[elleeeine]

The relationship between Nico and Jason was very special to me

It destroyed me the way this ended

I am very delusional so I just think they both are alive and are having the time of their lives

I couldn’t finish TOA because it was too much for me😭

[readerwithsalt]

Rating the Differences In How People Reacted to Nico Saying He Would Not Be Accepted At Camp.

(Btw not a hater on percico, jasico, or solangelo in this post, this is just fact checking lol)

1. Percy

In Battle of the Labyrinth, Nico is 11 years old and Percy is 15. At the end of the book Nico asks:

“do you really think they’ll ever accept me here?”

Percy says nothing. An indication of - No.

Now a lot of people say that since Percy was only a child it’s not his fault that he didn’t try harder to make him stay, but this doesn’t make much sense.

Percy is a teenage camp counselor meant to teach and protect the younger halfbloods. He even calls himself a leader in the camp. In this book he’s gone overboard with trying to find Nico and feeling a large sense of protectiveness over him but doesn’t have that same energy with wanting him to stay at camp and allows this actual child who is eleven, to leave by himself because in Percy’s own words:

‘Nico would have to find his own dark path.’

I realize Nico didn’t feel welcome and brushed Percy off a bit but honestly If my godly parent didn’t have a cabin I wouldn’t have felt welcome either. Percy should’ve petitioned the whole “maybe we should care about other gods besides the olympians” much sooner.

Rating 3/10 (maybe a 4/10)

2. Jason

The first time Nico insinuates that he is not welcome at the camp, he and Jason are on a balcony. This is after Nico’s forced outing and Jason is feeling different towards Nico than previous chapters. He is more protective and feels like he understands Nico a little more.

Jason says things along the lines of:

“maybe you should take a chance and come out of the shadows, it’s better than hiding.”

Nico gets quiet and very angry at the word.

“hiding?” He whispers.

And Jason gets frightened but stands his ground, even when the floor starts cracking under Nico’s pissed off boots. Nico ends up brushing Jason off and says that he’s made his mind up and for the moment Jason decides to not push further.

Until Blood of Olympus. At the end of this book Nico has already decided to give camp another chance (though I’m not quite sure what the difference is between giving camp another chance in this book vs the last Olympian) but Jason runs up to him, ready to give him all he’s got one last time. Pretty much:

“I know you said your leaving but I’ve got to try one more time-“

“I’m staying”

So this proves Jason was not going to force Nico to stay nor tell him camp wouldn’t accept him. But he was still ready to keep this boy at camp since he felt a connection with him, and cared alot, enough to offer his father food and prayers to help Nico.

He didn’t want to stand by and say nothing, nor did he want to gaslight Nico and make him feel dumb for wanting to leave. He respected Nico a lot here, and didn’t make Nico feel like his past experiences meant absolutely nothing….

Rating 10/10

3. Will

When Nico insinuates to Will Solace that he’s leaving bc he won’t be accepted, this is the very first interaction between the pair in the 8 previous books ever.

At first Will is surprised and then gets very angry. He begins telling Nico angrily that no one had ever pushed him away (incorrect) and that he’d completely pushed himself away (not quite correct).

He says Nico would see people want to be his friend if he ‘got out of his brooding cloud’

To say that to Nico, the most traumatized and lonely character in the books, is a slap in the face to the readers and the character. In my opinion.

He gaslights Nico in such an extreme way without even knowing him that it surprised me that some people thought this was ‘cute’. People have pushed Nico away out of fear and stuff. We know this because we’ve been in their heads. We’ve heard the offhand comments.

Will either knows what people say about him (which makes his statement even more rude and hurtful) or he turns a blind eye and pretends not to (even worse).

Some readers say that he only said this because it was true or that Nico needed to hear it but this is simply not true. Will solace is pretty much saying what Jason was but in the worst way possible.

I would have given this character the benefit of the doubt and say ‘hey, maybe he’s grown to understand Nico more’ but after reading a passage in tsats this year, apparently Will still thinks the exact same thing proving he still doesn’t quite respect or understand Nicos past experiences even by the end of tsats and even though he’s been dating Nico about a year….

I wonder if it’s toxic positivity or something….

0/10

extra. Hazel.

I just put her in here because she understands Nicos situation the most. They are both children of the underworld and are treated differently at their camps. Although, Rome doesn’t quite have the gated fence community that camp halfblood does (or did). Rome treats Hazel more of like her own person rather than the child of so and so. Camp halfblood seems to see Nico as just his parentage most of the time. Same for the children of minor gods.

So I was pretty surprised at BOO for having Nico try AGAIN at this camp that doesn’t quite deserve him instead of going with his sister to a place that made him feel a bit more welcome (even if Rome calls children of Hades and Neptune bad luck).

Hazel is kind of out of the loop about Nico wanting to leave but let’s be honest, if Nico had really left Hazel would be the first to run after him and make him stay with her lol.

I do believe Nico should have stayed with his favorite person that he cares about the most instead of a random background character that tends to gaslight a bit and a camp that looks at him differently for things he can’t control.

100/10 bc it’s Hazel~

End.

(Also read this new comic about an alternate tsats au on @nove-thee its going to get good I can tell lol.)

[livsoulsecrets]

Sometimes drinking poison is all about the friends we made along the way

Nico drank from the chalice, then offered it to Jason. ‘You asked me about trust, and taking a risk? Well, here you go, son of Jupiter. How much do you trust me?’

Frank wasn’t sure what Nico was talking about, but Jason didn’t hesitate. He took the cup and drank.

[susanoois]

You know that you who are in the fandom can hate jason grace, you can hate the ship with nico but : They can do what they want and the truth is they can't deny that jason is important a part of nico, however they interpret it. Nico loves jason and jason was his friend until his last moment and forever. Nico has few people on his side and the most precious he conquered jason is there. The fandom makes a non-existent rivalry in relation to Will for some comments that do not come down to anything, not jason, not a jasico ship, not will and not anyone. That's all i'm saying is that jason and nico are friends, they're love, soulmates and that's more than proven in canon. Will is the person who loves and protects nico, is the couple canon ship, they two are a couple under all circumstances does not diminish or increase the importance of jason to nico or will to nico. I'm tired of people mischaracterizing jason, making fun and hate of his friendship with nico or for ship between the two. Making up lies about Will,Nico and Jason all to make a truce ridiculous. this is all ridiculous, that they distort and do this about one another to invalidate what they want and what they don't accept.

So I end here by saying a canonical part of the books regarding jason and nico:

I'm staying. Nico said

Jason blinked - What ?

At Camp Half-Blood. The hades cabin needs a head counsellor. Have you seen the decor? It's disgusting. I'll Have to renovate.and someone needs to do the burial rites properly,since demigods insist on dying heroically.

That's- that's fantastic! Dude! Jason opened his arms for a hug, then froze. Right. No touching. Sorry.

Nico grunted. I suppose we can make an exception.

Jason squeezed him so hard Nico thought his ribs would crack.

[writelikeurruninoutoftime]

Grover: and what do we say when we feel like this?

Percy: that’s show biz baby

Grover: NO

inspired by this post

[sodamnbored]

Nico: *grunting unhappily*

Jason: What’s up bud?

Nico, sighing, rubbing his chest absently: I’m having feelings again. Like some kind of fourteen year old kid or something.

Nico: I mean, you remember feelings, right?

Jason, mildly concerned: Yeah…I have feelings every single day of my life.

[were-wolverine]

their friendship means sm to me

truly a severely underrated duo

also the fucking. jason being an exception to nico’s touch aversion SOBBING and he’s so respectful of nico’s boundaries

[yonemurishiroku]

Akdhwkhdajhdajhdqjxha——-

The fic (Jercy HP AU, minor Solangelo)

[nerdthatsiriuslylovesteaxx]

A letter from Nico to Percy

[huiyi07]

THIS ONE HURT SO BAD it made me type out this mess

Percy and Nico are good friends, but of course Percy did kinda lack in that department at least before.

Now maybe, Percy being one of his only friends at the time, Nico must have ‘lowered his standards’ for his relationships because he thought, well, if the great heroic Percy Jackson himself doesn’t like me enough to at least check in on me sometimes, then I shouldn’t expect anything more from others as well as the son of Hades, right?

Then Jason comes along, and Nico is surprised when he treats him wholeheartedly with care and concern as his friend. He even tries to push him away, and intimidate him, but the son of Zeus dares to confront someone as ‘scary and disgusting as him’ and basically tells him that no, Nico, you are my friend, and you need to stop trying to push people away because you think it’s what you should expect.

Imagine that. The golden son of Jupiter, standing up for someone like him, even defending him from Piper and Leo when they make an offhand comment about Nico.

Jason and Nico formed one of the strongest relationships in the entire series imo, and that friendship was taken away so abruptly and painfully from Nico, because Jason, trusting, foolish, kind Jason, who worked to make absolutely everyone feel like they belonged, died too early and ripped out Nico’s heart again.

You can count on one hand the people Nico would crave affection from, because those few people have made the effort and have been willing to give real kindness to him. But with the sun and the star, it dawned on me that there’s now one person less from the too-small list.