#hazel tries

[readingismypurpose]

Nico was tired. The seven had dragged him to yet another ball only to ditch him by the spiked nectar.

They had tried. He got it. But like every other ball, their eyes flickered over to him as their smiles became a little more strained until they left him.

Hazel had stayed with him the longest, but Frank with a quiet apology always turned up and brought her back to the rest of the seven.

He understood their hesitance, saw how everyone avoided him. He tried to pretend his heart didn’t ache.

This time, when it was Jason beside him and he caught him staring at Thalia, longing to be with his sister, that he was the one who chose to leave.

He quietly made his way over to the corner of the room. The shadows wrapped around him in an embrace as he stood there. He watched as they were happy, happy without him.

He doesn’t know how long he watched as he stood there waiting for someone to remember him, but they never did.

The darkness enveloped him in something like a hug as his vision went blurry. Wait, blurry?

Oh, he was crying.

Wait, that wasn’t a shadow hugging him, he looked up through puffy red-rimmed eyes to see his father, Hades.

Oh no, that means that he probably saw him crying and he is going to be embarrassed becauseIamcryingattheparty———

“Nico, breathe it’s ok, come on, in and out.” Hades’s voice broke through his anxious haze.

When he could finally breathe again, he looked up to see his dad trying to smile reassuringly at him. Nico burst into laughter. Dad —— Oh my gods, he had called Hades Dad (in his head, at least)—— looked at him amused before laughing as well.

After they stopped laughing, Hades snapped his fingers and a small couch appeared in the corner. Speaking of which, Nico refused to look at the party, he would die of embarrassment if anyone was looking at them.

A small poke on his shoulder had him look back up at his father who was looking at him like he finally seen him.

“Let me guess, you were dragged here and then they left you by yourself and so because everyone was avoiding you, you went to a dark corner to be out of their way and they didn’t even notice.” Hades spoke calmly, as if every word didn’t tear into Nico because that was the truth.

“How did you know?”, Nico whispered, too tired to pretend anymore.

Hades looked him straight in the eye and said in a voice that speaks of millennia of that awful feeling Nico had felt, “Because that’s how I always end up here.”

“Why—“

“Why do I still come? Why do I still try?” Hades threaded his fingers through Nico’s hair as Nico moved to lean on Hades, “I come because I love them because for one moment I feel a part of this family. I try for much of the same reasons. Also, I apologize, Nico.”

“You don’t have to—— wait, why?” Nico asked furrowing his brow in confusion about what would make his father apologize.

“ Nico, I am one of the most hated gods of Olympus, despite Hestia and I ‘s attempts, and by proxy all of those feelings towards myself are also given to you, the child of mine that is most like myself” His voice was tinged in despair and knowing.

“What about Hazel?” He asked, dreading what his father would say.

“She has no grudges and even with them, her time in the underworld has taught her to let them go. She is no longer an outcast and she knows how she belongs.”

”Oh.”Nico didn’t know what to say really and it didn’t seem Hades did either.

Nico looked up at the party to try to find something to say only to snort. Zeus had spilled wine on himself while flirting with a random nymph and Hera had seen the entire thing.

He pointed it out to Hades only for Hades to grin and point out Hermes who had gotten his flying shoelaces tied.

After that they spent the rest of the ball gossiping and pointing out amusing occurrences at the ball.

“Did you see Dionysus—-“

“Blackmail”

“Oh, look at Demeter, she’s covered in cereal!”

“Karma.”

“Did you know that the real reason we wear…”

By the time that the party was over, Nico had laughed more than he had since Bianca ‘s Death. He smiled at Hades and said, “Same thing next ball?”

“Sure, now go, I have a reputation to maintain.” Hades huffed while trying to hide a smile. Nico still saw it as he shadow traveled away, but what he missed was Persephone’s big grin at seeing the two interact.

Head empty just Hades and Nico attending an Olympus ball whatsoever and they know the others don’t like them, so they just find a quiet corner far away from the stage to chat and snack.

When Persephone finally comes picking her head in, the father and son would always be either laughing, relaxing, chugging wine or flicking olives at each other - completely at ease in their own world, separated from the Olympians.

[shrimpyjackal]

Oh yes I am so, so funny

I`m gonna explode into confetti-

[bunnieswithknives]

Dev thinks the Minecraft movie trailer is epic, I think.

He likes nfts and ai art too smh

[hazel-callahan]

"honestly, i feel like she's the underrated heartthrob of the film."   — ruby cruz on her character, hazel, sxsw 2023

[cubbihue]

“He knows Timmy will come around eventually. It's only a matter of waiting for his clock to run out. And HP is very patient.” Hey uh.. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN HIS CLOCK TO RUN OUT is he waiting for Timmy to become a full fairy (Pixie?) and when that happens Timmy forgets about being a human entirely?

Sometimes Timmy wonders why he has grudges against certain fairies. Some of them, he can understand- like his dislike of Dr. Rip Studwell. But other ones, like with Cupid, it's a bit of a blur.

He must've been a very very vindictive 10 year old! Ah, well! Timmy's learned that he has to pick and choose his own battles wisely.

And uh. Fighting with the man who decides his paycheck and vacation days is not a battle worth choosing. Talk about a hostile work environment!!

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[cornislost]

i just want dev dimmadome to be happy god dammit (ref under cut)

[livwritesstuff]

Hazel posts a tiktok that starts with her saying, “Hey can you watch my dad for a sec while I go to the bathroom,” as she props her phone up.

She walks away to reveal Eddie sitting on the couch with his Steve’s 2nd gen iPad with a cat curled up in his lap.

Eddie looks up, eyebrows raised as he watches Hazel leave.

Eddie: Watch me?

Eddie: *gives a half-hearted wave to the camera*

Eddie: Wait – who’s watching me?

He leans forward, squinting at the phone. When he realizes he’s actually being filmed, he just sighs and sits back.

Eddie: I’m Ed, Hazel’s dad. 

Eddie: *waves again*

Eddie: Well…now I’ve waved twice.

Eddie, pointing at his iPad: I’m playing Clash of Clans.

Eddie: I used to play it with my daughter until she abandoned me.

Eddie: Not Hazel.

Eddie: One of the other ones.

Eddie: I don't remember her name.

Eddie: *pauses, replaying that in his head and remembering his daughter is probably going to put it on the Internet*

Eddie: I promise that's a joke.

Eddie: *sighs again*

Eddie: I own this house. Been paying the mortgage for, like, twenty years. Not sure why I need to be watched.

Eddie: And yet here I still sit.

Eddie: I could just leave.

Eddie: Actually I can’t.

Eddie: *gestures to the cat asleep in his lap*

Eddie, pointing to the cat: This is ZZ.

Eddie: We’re getting old.

Eddie: Haze clearly trusts me with you guys so she probably won’t mind me telling you that when we adopted ZZ she cried so hard she made herself sick. 

Eddie: Right in the middle of the shelter.

Off-camera, Hazel can be heard coming back into the room.

Eddie: Look who’s back.

Eddie: I was just telling everyone about how we adopted ZZ.

Hazel, picking up the camera with the cheekiest grin on her face: Thanks, guys!

[aroaceleovaldez]

Nico and Percy's dynamic through the series is eternally funny to me, because it's just. like.

Percy's having a constant mental struggle between his fatal flaw of loyalty with a promise he made to Bianca to protect Nico, versus his Big 3 kid desire to maim other Big 3 kids / Poseidon descendant urge to totally maim Nico specifically. He hates Nico so so much. He thinks Nico's annoying and weird at best, and creepy/sketchy when he's older. The only positive thoughts Percy has towards Nico are "He's Bianca's brother and Bianca was my friend and I owe her/He's Hazel's brother and Hazel is my friend and would kill me if I was mean to him," "He's a powerful asset and useful ally (if questionable)," and "He's kinda pathetic and I feel maybe a little bad about it." Percy has multiple occasions throughout the series where he strongly considers - and on one occasionally actually goes through with - throttling Nico.

Meanwhile, Nico is following around Percy like a lost puppy. He explicitly can never bring himself to even dislike anything about Percy no matter how hard he tries. He has a whole bit in BoO where he's mentally going "UGH he's so stupid BUT IT'S ENDEARING HOW DARE HE." He's totally smitten. He's making deals with his dad for Percy. He's making convoluted plans to help Percy stand a chance against Kronos. During the entirety of BoTL it's like he's playing tsundere - "I'm helping NOT PERCY SPECIFICALLY with this quest! Me helping Percy would be SILLY because I DEFINITELY HATE HIM." Then he proceeds to show up to Percy's birthday party to basically ask him on a weird date and spend the entire next book scrambling around trying to help him or protect him or impress him. And Percy could not give less of a shit.

Just. That dynamic is so funny to me. Percy is the founder of the Nico Protection Club in that he's the one they're all protecting Nico from and meanwhile Nico is throwing himself at Percy to the point where the literal god of gay love calls him out on it.

[linipik]

Jason Grace from the old sketchbook for @somewhereincairparavel. Thank you, really.

I always thought he was one of the fandom sweethearts bc he has always been one of my faves.

[poimtedpossum]

Them?!

[witchhazelevesque]

Do you think Leo’s tool belt could provide work clothes? Like could he have pulled out some work coveralls for Frank to replace the clothes he stole for a diversion?

Imagine the plot from Mark of Athena on is exactly the same except that Frank and Leo are wearing matching coveralls.

Maybe Hazel too since technically, neither she or Frank would have had any thing packed when they had to flee New Rome. 

[lonely-fried-art]

i like 2 put them in fun outfits (please click on them for higher quality)

[wonderfull-star]

I don't know why, but the more often I re-watch some moments, the more I begin to feel bad for Dev, and Peri reveals a worse side.

Like so many people basically portrays Peri as a better father to Dev than Dale himself, although he himself probably never even said that he "cared about him" until the finale. Unlike Hazel, who showed more care for Dev than his own father and fairy combined.

Dev doesn't even need fairy, he just needs care and love.

[peteytheparrot]

GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN

[artisthoi]

leo but his outfit is LESS ass and also some random romans for some reason

this is honestly the first time ive drawn frank or hazel so i will take constructive criticism

[purpleshadow-star]

Imagine if Nico could learn to control when he turns into shadows.

Like, in The Blood of Olympus Nico would start fading after shadow traveling too much, and sometimes Reyna and Coach Hedge wouldn't be able to touch him, and one time he even accidentally walked through a tree. Imagine if he learned to control that intangibility.

Imagine if he could just turn parts of his body into shadows. Imagine if, in a fight, someone swings at him, and he knows he can't dodge in time, so he turns into shadows for a second so the weapon goes right through him, and while his enemy is confused he uses the distraction to land the final blow.

Imagine if he could just walk/reach through walls and doors and stuff.

I just think that, for someone with the title of ghost king (and as a child of the Underworld), he deserves more ghost-like powers.