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aroaceleovaldez · 2 years ago

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nico is actually confirmed catholic in ton

“And, through it all, he’d struggled with his upbringing as a conservative Catholic Italian male from the 1930s and finally learned to accept himself as a young gay man.” (chp 10)

I will take your word on this because I do not feel like checking my copy of ToN and also I have no reason to disbelieve you. Also, i'll be completely honest i do my best every day to try to forget literally everything that happened in Tower of Nero because of how awful all of it was.

ironically immediately after I got this ask, I got another anon talking more about how the troglodytes (introduced in ToN) are racist. And I think that's beautiful.

#ask #Anonymous #other anon I will get to you in a bit feel free to poke me if i forget #but know that i saw your ask and seeing it come in IMMEDIATELY after this ask was extremely funny to me #but yeah i'll be real by ToN i just kind of stopped accepting anything it said as canon. like. objectively its canon. but yknow.#and Rick gets so messy and inconsistent with Nico's backstory by HoO.#i dont like that we get exposition about Nico's life from a random third party he's barely interacted with before #especially since it's inconsistent information with what we've been told about Nico leading up to this point #cause we have no reason to believe Maria raised Nico conservatively #in fact we have every reason to believe otherwise because again he's specifically from Venice #and Venice during the war actually had a decent amount of anti-fascist stuff going on #not to mention just what we've seen of Maria she's like. cussing out Zeus basically. as far as we know she will not tolerate injustice #which tracks with her having had TWO kids with the god of the underworld #okay actually i did end up looking this up cause i hadn't remembered Rick ever explicitly using “gay” in the books to describe Nico but yea #anyways. ToN is out the window for me alongside the new book. mostly for the trogs but also things have just stopped making sense

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