#and Rick riordan sun and star

[chaoticfvckingdisaster]

Something I think about a lot is how Rick Riordan very rarely uses "girlfriend/boyfriend" to refer to Percy and Annabeth within their perspectives. They're so intertwined, even Annabeth says in hoh that the word boyfriend isn't strong enough, because Percy was a part of her. They are a singular soul, too wrapped around each others' fates that regular labels are far too weak for them. But, Rick Riordan uses "boyfriend" a lot in Nico and Wills perspectives, not because they love each other less than percabeth, but to show how much the word means to them. Nico uses it any chance he gets- "his boyfriend," "he actually had a boyfriend," because Nico has never been able to say that before. Their struggle with their queer identities mixed with Nico's catholic guilt and chronic everyone-hates-me disease makes the fact that he has someone to call his actual boyfriend so much more important to his character development.

[sound0fvenus]

y’all can’t tell me this isn’t the perfect casting bc wtf is this😭😭

[livlum]

So, many people have the image of Nico being a stereotypical gay femboy, emo with snow white skin, but;

He literally lived on his own from the age of 10, was manipulated and kidnapped. He learned to defend himself, lived in the underworld. He faced King Minos, he faced Chronos and convinced 3 gods to fight, lived on seeds for 5 days in a jar without oxygen, crossed the Atlantic traveling through the shadows with a 12 meter statue and 2 other people, and after that he fought Gaia, survived Tartarus twice and resisted Nix's manipulation. THE ghost king.

(I love these fanarts btw, cc on them)

Yes, he is gay. But he is not weak or fragile as they want him to appear, in that way they are only promoting the gay stereotype when Rick was trying to prove the opposite by creating a character as complex as Nico.

[riordanverse-madness]

THE DAM JOKES ARE BACK Y'ALL

[sevsalio]

Solangelo fanart

[toastesq-art]

just will, his bf, and the physical manifestations of his bf’s trauma

[attineilde]

squinting at fanart to see if its jean and jeremy or patroclus and achilles or nico and will or ty and kit or-

[thaliasthunder]

remember percy said boys and girls arent allowed to be alone in the same cabin? it makes me cackle that rule exclusively applies to only boys & girls when chiron literally taught achilles & patroclus in early chb and apparently it still never crossed his mind that one thing homosexuals sure have is audacity

[medievalatkinson]

sun and the star shoppin aft school 🌻🌻

nico put that toy sword down, wheres your stygian iron (he lost it)

[blink182times]

SOLANGELO FANS REJOICE

[astraeajackson]

MY WILL SOLACE HEADCANONS:

he has the absolute SOFTEST blond hair but ONLY lets a certain son of hades play with it

most people don't know he's from texas, but when things get rough in the infirmary his southern accent comes out so strongly even his fellow CAMPERS can't tell it's him

he was voted camp half-blood's hottest male blond of the year (jason was DEEPLY offended by this revelation)

during a blackout last summer chiron FORGOT to replace the emergency torch batteries so will was forced to crack his back MULTIPLE times during the whole ordeal and walk around like a fucking GLOW STICK

THANKS FOR READING I HOPE YOU GUYS LIKED IT!!!

[xixovart]

will solace before bed yipee

[eliotdrawings]

cocoa puffs

[frozenrose20]

I always found it funny that rick got help for sun and the star because he felt like he needed help expressing there situations as if he didn't just write five books in Apollo's pov... like the bicon himself. I understand he wanted them done justice but that wasn't the first gay book you wrote rick.

[lethalbutterfly]

So the general character arcs here are

Will:

I can fix him -> actually the atrocities are charming 🖤

Nico:

He can fix me -> I can make him worse 😈

And I actually love that for them.

[orbitsab]

one more time, because I haven’t seen anyone do them.