#niccolò “nico” di angelo

[holly-natnicole]

Thalia: "You know what really gets my goat?"

Leo: "El chupacabra."

Thalia: "...No."

Reyna: "That reminds me, my mind was recently blown when I found out I'm older than its legend."

Will: "...Pardon?"

Leo: "The rumours about el chupacabra first started in March 1995."

Hazel: *excited to finally get a chance to use modern time terminology* "El chupacabra is a millennial?"

Nico: "..Are we sure it's not a monster in disguise?"

Piper: "...Leo, Reyna, Will, and I will start asking around. Which part of Mexico did the legend originate in?"

Leo: "Don't look at me!!"

Will: "I'm a Colombian who was born in Texas, so I know even less about it than you, Leo."

Reyna: "I'm a Puerto Rican who spent half my life either at Circe's island or Camp Jupiter. I have no idea where to start looking."

Piper: "slaps her own forehead* "Lets just look it up on the Internet!!"

Reyna, Thalia, Hazel, & Nico:: "What's the Internet?"

Will, Leo, & Piper: *gapes in horror*

[1800-lemon-boy]

Ok so, I’ve talked about names having meaning in the pjo universe but rn I’m gonna focus on Nico Di Angelo.

Background context first

We all know that Percy got his name from Perseus, a Greek hero with a happy ending.

We also see how characters with other mythological names share the same fates (even minor characters like Castor and Pollux)

Percy spends the first five books reliving other Greek myths, (the first one I always think about is The Sea of monsters -> The odyssey) he’s retelling stories that have already happened before.

In a weird way he’s kinda proving Luke right- (that’s a rant for another day)

My actual point

What about Nico?

Nicos character signifies change, we are told this in tsats.

There is no Nico in Greek mythology. There is no Niccolò in Greek mythology.

The name Niccolò actually means “victor of people” or “people’s champion”.

Nico is in charge of his own story, unlike many of his camp mates, he’s not doomed by the narrative.

It’s his own story for the making.

A story nobody has told yet.

While we can guess what happens to others characters due to their namesake, with Nico we will never know.

All we know is that he will be different from the rest, he gets to write and tell his own story.

Nobody else’s.

Just Nicos.

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[random-brain-dumps]

Many children don't know what cassettes are because they're not used very often anymore. Nico di Angelo doesn't know what they are either; not because he's young, but because he's old

[half-shadowgalra]

Nico fanart (Found Heaven by Conan Gray)

I love neeks so much!

and I love Conan

:3

I’m very normal about this drawing right now

[solangeloismysoul]

Just a friendly reminder that Solace means comfort or consolation in a time of sadness or distress. <3

[dupaminotaurav2]

Solangelo headcanon (posted this on tiktok and my other blog)

Nico can communicate with the dead as we know, so whenever Will remembers his dead siblings and gest sad, Nico talks to them for him eventuslly summons them. Isnt that cute.

[luvingsolace]

Died in

Born in 1940

Welcome back Padme Amidala💗

[jowiszsmasher]

the pretty italian boy

[raiinnnnm]

Waoh.......... torment...... and a pomegranate....

I need a pomegranate emoji 😠stole the pose from AI😜🤞

[daliyla]

I'll say it once (1) and never again

It's "Niccolò" not "Niccolo"

[holly-natnicole]

Luna (Bianca's reincarnation): *runs into a meadow at Camp Jupiter* "I found a spider in my bedroom!! What do I do?!"

Nico (who hung out with Annabeth yesterday): "Kill it."

Hazel: "Let it outside."

Reyna: "What type of spider is it?"

Hylla: "Eat it."

Luna, Nico, Hazel, & Reyna: *stare wide-eyed at Hylla*

Hylla: "What? Sprinkle some spices and cooking oil on it, and roast it over a fire; it'll be a delicious snack."

Reyna: "...I am never eating with the Amazons ever again."

Hazel & Nico: *nod in unison*

Luna: "I have an idea!! I'll keep the spider as my pet."

Hazel: *gets up* "Good choice, kiddo!! I'll help ya find a terrarium for it."

[yourlovelyarrowace]

I just love how all the pjo fans here in Italy (at least, the ones I know) have decided to ignore Rick and have collectively chose to call Nico Niccolò with the accent.

[1800-lemon-boy]

Friendly reminder that a lot of the characters that blatantly show autism traits are overlooked (Will, Jason) or seen as strange/scary (Nico, Leo, Annabeth)

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[wild-flowerhoney]

little preview of my first (english) pjo wip-

Ed è l'odore dei limoni

Here, by some miracle, the war

Of conflicted passions is stilled,

Here even we the poor are owed our share of wealth

And it’s the smell of the lemon trees.

(Qui delle divertite passioni

per miracolo tace la guerra,

qui tocca anche a noi poveri la nostra parte di ricchezza

ed è l'odore dei limoni.)

-Eugenio Montale, I limoni

The memories come back to him slowly – colours and sounds and feelings, piece by piece, until Nico can push them together and just barely glimpse the bigger picture.

The language comes first, like an old friend, rolls off of his tongue as if it’d never left. It makes it weird to speak English, makes the words and sounds clumsier – once, he stumbles over half the words in a single sentence and thinks this entire thing might reveal itself to be more inconvenience than gift, after all. He wonders, briefly, if this is how he used to speak English as a child. If it used to be even worse.

He doesn’t seriously struggle to speak but sometimes he’ll find himself thinking, it doesn’t feel natural anymore.

And, immediately after, because knowing it doesn’t make it mine.

Some part of who he was has been unlocked and it clashes with who he is, the constant war between what was his from birth and what has been forced on him throughout the years – what he grasped onto when everything that used to be his was taken away, erased by a God who could not fully understand the concept of belonging in a single place. Could not understand the importance of roots and family and history, not in the way mortals do.

And whose fault is it, anyway? A million mortal lovers could not teach Divinity how to be human. It's to be expected, isn't it? It would be against his very nature.

Nico is angry, all the same.

It's not new, this anger.

(actually italian nico making peace with his past and where he comes from my beloved)

[half-shadowgalra]

Nico doodle

I love him :3

[acemdzsfan]

Consider:

Itty bitty Niccolò di Angelo all dressed up for Carnevale.

He was like six when he left, right? So tiny Nico all dressed up for Carnevale with his family.