#have always been the solangrace thing

[yonemurishiroku]

This excites me more than it should.

nico and will on their trip to tartarus or w/e and during it nico opens up to will a bit about his relationship with jason, how jason had been basically his first real friend outside his sisters and was never dissuaded no matter how much nico tried to push him away and how he was so mindful of the fact that nico doesn't like to be touched.

at which point will is like "you don't like to be touched????" and they have to have an awkward conversation. it's not exactly will's fault since nico never said it outright – nico having been reluctant to make things difficult with this first boyfriend and all that – but will had definitely ignored some obvious signals along the line, or at least interpreted them as playful grumpiness or smth. so nico has to explain to him that people touching him just makes him anxious a lot of the time, given how he can kill plants around him when upset and whatnot. it's hard not to think of what could happen to people in the worst case scenario, and the stress of thinking about that usually just makes it worse.

nico tries to brush it all off by saying it's easier when he's comfortable with a person. but then will asks if nico's comfortable with him and nico hesitates for a second and then it's awkward all over again.

and all is made so much worse when they actually find jason's ghost while on their quest and nico immediately hugs him. and jason was always down for nico hugs to begin with, but he's also been dead for a while and hasn't been able to touch anyone so he's even clingier than normal and nico's fully willing to take advantage of that hades kid ability to touch ghosts just to give jason some comfort and they're holding hands constantly

so will's stuck between "being understanding of nico's boundaries and not begrudging jason this small comfort" and "EXCUSE ME–"