#platonic valdangelo

[milomilesmib]

Nico: *violently pressing buttons on a controller and pointing it at Leo*

Leo: wtf are you doing

Nico: trying to put you on mute

Leo:

Nico:

Nico: oh look it worked

[the-only-way-out-is-through19]

Leo valdez hcs

braces!!!! he definitely has braces i will die on that hill

maaaaaany ear piercings- they are usually covered by his hair, but one day he pins it back and jason is absolutely shooketh about just HOW many piercings leo has

him and nico were weary of each other at first, but they eventually become friends. not super close, but they talk a lot late at night since both of them have awful sleep schedules

nico and leo mostly talk about their experience losing someone they love, and nico ends up helping leo with his mental health (bc lets be honest, leo’s mental health is below horrible)

listens to music all day long

wears loop earphones (earphones that block out echos and excess noise to prevent over-stimulation) 24/7, 365

aaaaand finally a question:

[daylightleha]

EXACTLYYYYYYY THATS WHAT I’VE BEEN SAYINGGG

I think that Leo and Nico should’ve been besties, like Leo should’ve adopted Nico and been like “look at my little introvert” yk? They could’ve been THE boy besties ever.

[marigold-solis-harp-player]

Leo: What's the most illegal thing you can do with one dollar?

Nico: Exchange it for a hundred pennies, put them all in a sock, and then beat someone to death with it.

[ryuusei-niu]

I think I found the phrase that perfectly sums up one of my favorite ships:

[sophplanetoflove]

Rating ships bc I’m bored,

Percabeth - 100000000/10 like obv

Jercy - 10/10 I love Jercy sm u don’t understand

Valgrace - 1000000000000000000000000000000000000000/10 all I write abt is them

Solangelo - 10/10 Jsjsjs grumpy x sunshine

Shelper - they seem so cute together so far so prob like 7.5/10

Jasper/Jiper - 2/10 Pipers fake memories were cute ig?

Jeyna - IF Reyna wasn’t aroace they could’ve been cute so 4/10 don’t ship it tho

Theyna - NO. they r both huntress of Artemis ??? 0/10

Pernico - disrespectfully jail xoxo -1010918282828/10

Jasico - same as Pernico just a little less minus numbers -291982/10

Valdangelo - they r so cute 8.5/10

Pipabeth - AAAA I love them sm !! 9.5/10

Rachbeth - I don’t read much of it but from what I’ve read it’s pretty cool !! 7.5/10

Perchel - I don’t like them together :c 3/10 the kiss was cute tho

Frazel - 9/10 bc the age is a bit iffy

Caleo - -179229682698729872692862/10 rot in the pits of Tartarus tysm!!

sanubis - -17198719816186881868816/10 same as caleo

Zarter - don’t rlly know bc it was kinda fake for a lot of the ship?? But they r not bad so 6/10

Fierrochase - YESSSSSSSSSSSSS 272987298272/10

Bliztstone - 161671816/10 it’s canon idc what u say /hj

lmk if I missed any u ship ??

[daylightleha]

hear me out. nico and leo.

What’s one underrated friendship or relationship you wish we could’ve saw more of in the PJO universe? Or gotten to see?

[rosesradio]

For the xmas, drabble can you do one wherr its Nico's first xmas at camp half blood

The cabin was full of so many presents.

Too many.

Nico didn’t know what to expect. He’d gotten so lost in his training and studies of mythology. He’d gotten so caught up in…hanging out with his new friends, living a somewhat normal life.

There was a mechanical skeletal cat from Leo; the creature blinked at him with ruby red eyes as it prowled the perimeter of the cabin. Piper had gifted him an entire collection of classic novels in a dyslexic-friendly font, bound beautifully with golden-edged pages. Annabeth had even gifted him skeleton patterned socks and boxers, which should have been embarrassing, though it really wasn’t—it was a pretty practical gift.

That was only some amongst the many. Nico was left looking out over it all, his face flushed as he took it all in. How was he supposed to begin to repay everyone?

There was a knock on his door, and Leo burst in before waiting on an answer.

“Merry Christmas, Neeks! I trust you’ve named the cat by now, and—“ Leo’s face fell, and he came to sit cross-legged in front of Nico. “Hey, what’s wrong?”

“I didn’t know,” Nico’s eyes stung as he forced a shrug. “I knew there was something going on, but…I didn’t expect this. I’ve never had…”

“Never had a Christmas…?” Leo asked, his voice barely above a whisper. “I get that. One time I spent Christmas under a bridge in Queens, playing hockey with a couple sticks and a rock.”

“Leo,” Nico started. “That’s…surprisingly depressing, coming from you.”

“Not as depressing as the fact that I lost to myself,” Leo replied. “Point is…it’s better to be overwhelmed by all the…Christmas joy and jolly crap like that than to have nothing, right?”

“Of course,” Nico said softly. “I’m just…not sure how to repay everyone…I’m gonna leave this cabin and not have gifts for anyone…”

“Oh, it’ll be fine,” Leo insisted, patting Nico’s knee comfortingly. “Everyone forgets at least one gift—plus, it’s your first Christmas! Leave it all to me, Neeks—I’ll take you shopping, teach you how to wrap gifts, and—“

Leo was cut off as Nico wrapped his arms around Leo’s shoulders, hugging him close. He had almost knocked him down in the process. Leo’s voice faltered as he wrapped his arms around Nico’s waist, settling into the hug.

“Before we get carried away, though, we could just…get some eggnog with the others?” Leo asked. “Or hot chocolate. The others won’t mind if the gifts are late, promise…”

Nico nodded and reluctantly pulled away. “Tell anyone about the hug, and you’re getting coal in your stocking.”

Leo laughed, then gave a playful salute. “Taking it to the grave—scout’s honor. Now come on! Let’s go have a snowball fight.”

[ambriel-angstwitch]

Leo: You have to learn to love yourself.

Nico: don't you hate yourself?

Leo: yes. but this is about you. stay focused.

[threemoonwatchers]

Leo: We gotta hit the gwiddy. Multiple times.

Leo: And also set fire to our enemies.

Nico, just now tuning in: What?

[maraudersarecanon]

I feel like they would be the totally unlikely friends everyone would be baffled by but they would actually be really good for each other

thoughts on platonic valdangelo?

hello, @wants-to-marry-sirius-black, 👋! thanks so much for the ask!

when I first thought of it and I'm sure other people will have that thought too, is 'no'. cuz everybody knows leo is this loud annoying guy and nico is this quiet introverted person who you, well, really don't want to annoy, yk?

but the more I thought of it, the more it worked in my brain. maybe not during the events of hoo, but maybe after tsats era they would totally be friends. they both have a very dry humour which compliment each other, along with their trauma which they can connect to (similar trauma of not finding anyone to love them).

I think that when nico is able to open up more, which he definitely would after all that happened, I feel like he would go from just tolerating Leo's humour to actually finding it silly and funny 😁😁

[livingponcho]

[poppitron360]

Does a ship count?

Because…

Welp...

[pjo-ship-polls]

Nico di Angelo

These are only for romantic pairings, not platonic.

The ships in the polls are the twelve (12) most popular ships for each character based on the number of fics on AO3. The fandom's top two ships (you know the ones) aren't included in these polls to make the results actually interesting (sorry not sorry).

F.A.Q.

Ship List:

Nico/Percy (percico)

Nico/Jason (jasico)

Nico/Leo (valdangelo)

Nico/Jason/Percy (jaspercico)

Annabeth/Nico/Percy (percicobeth)

Nico/Percy/Will (solangelson)

Nico/Thalia (thalico) 

Luke/Nico (lukico) 

Nico/Will/Leo (soldezangelo)

Annabeth/Nico (nicobeth)

Apollo/Nico (nicollo)

Nico/Jason/Will (solangrace)

[poppitron360]

Someone sent me an ask ages ago about my Valdangelo hcs, but it somehow got deleted? I’m really really sorry bc I missed a chance of a lifetime to infodump so I hope you’re reading this if that was you and you’ve been waiting for my response- here it is. Please please please don’t be discouraged I love it when people send me asks.

This also doubles up as the third instalment of my series about “Why Literally Any Ship Is Better Than Caleo/Deep-Dive Into My Thoughts On All Leo Ships”:

Pt. 1 Valzhang

Pt. 2 Valgrace

We were robbed of Leo and Nico’s friendship. I get that there are a lot of characters and so many arcs to give them, but I wish that Rick had given them more time to interact and spent less time on Caleo, because tbh we never really cared about Cal for any reason other than to develop the men’s arcs. Because Platonic Valdangelo has so much potential that just isn’t covered in the books, I’m gonna base most of this post on what COULD’VE been, from fannon and headcannons.

1. They are Trauma Twinsies. By that, I mean they are both metaphors for different ways of coping with loss. Nico pushes others away from himself, not wanting to get close to anyone. Leo pushes himself away from others, hiding behind an idealised version of himself. Both believe that letting others in would just lead to rejection, and so they shut everyone out to protect themselves. But I feel like Nico copes with it a lot better than Leo does. He has an outlet for it- being emo. As someone who dabbles with emoism myself, I can tell you that, for me, wearing those clothes actually makes me incredibly happy. Nico is owning his pain. Leo is bottling it all up inside and then hiding it behind the jokes and the smiles. I feel like Nico could teach Leo to let it out a bit.

2. Also, their backstories match in more ways than one. Both their moms were killed because of a prophecy about them- leading them both to blame themselves for their deaths. Both have been treated as outcasts because of their powers, Nico by CHB and CJ, Leo by his family (and probably CHB as well, though we don’t really see how he was treated after revealing his abilities). Both ran away because of that. Both probably have religious trauma. They’ve both lost everyone they’ve ever cared about. They’re both being smothered with love and affection by Jason and the rest of the fandom. They both cope with feeling alone by spending more time talking to things that aren’t alive, Nico to the dead, Leo to his machines.

3. So imagine how they could seek comfort in each other! They’ve both been through similar things, so they understand each other’s pain way better than the others. I mean, Jason means well, but he’s never truly known what it’s like to be an outcast- he was held aloft on a golden shield and pronounced Preator. Neither of them would try to “fix” the other, and they wouldn’t try to “one up” the other either. They just share, and when the other says “that sucks”, they know that they really mean it. I imagine they sit five feet apart and just cry. No talking necessary, just silent understanding passing between them. They keep each other company, because they both know what it’s like to be alone.

4. They are both autistic (headcannon). Thank you to @aroaceleovaldez for opening my eyes to this one, and in fact making me realise a few things about myself and why I relate to Leo and Nico so much (pls go check out their posts on the subject, they do a much better job at explaining it than me). But it’s true. I don’t know if Rick did it intentionally or not, but I henceforth hath claimed them both as my kin, alongside Hephaestus himself (“I don’t understand organic life forms”- me neither, man, me neither). Leo and Nico communicate on the same wavelength, something Caleo doesn’t do. Calypso explodes at him for not fitting the “hero” stereotype, for being different. She has no patience with Leo when he does a social fuck-up, something I personally find incredibly frustrating. When he does something wrong, she just shouts at him, and doesn’t take the time to explain what he should do differently. No wonder Leo immediately got defensive! Here was this random woman yelling at him because he broke her table, and he didn’t understand what he did wrong.

5. They are both tiny- much like how Leo and Frank’s physical appearances symbolise their differences, Leo and Nico’s symbolise their similarities. Because all sad people are short, apparently. Valzhang is the yin and the yang, Valdangelo is just two yins excitedly info-dumping about their special interests, (Mythomagic, Machinery/Dragons). Their shortness could be metaphors for many things that they have in common, but I think it best symbolises their loss of childhoods. Nico has changed a lot since he was that happy little ten-year-old we first met in ttc, but Rick never lets us forget that he’s still just a kid. Leo always lacked the physical advantage in fights, so he’s had to learn from an early age to use his brains and his wits to defend himself. As a result, he grew up way too fast, but he still projects that silly, hyperactive little-boy energy as a way to mask. Calypso ridicules Leo for his height and his scrawny appearance.

6. Nico could let Leo get closure on his mom. Think about it. He’d be able to summon her, let him make peace, and let him realise that she does not blame him for her death. Nico could console Leo, reassure him that it wasn’t his fault, because Nico understands more than anybody what Leo is going through. This helps Leo on his arc way more than Calypso could, help him get closure, and learn to accept himself and his powers.

So, the summary of all these points is: They can understand each other on ANOTHER LEVEL. More than Cal and Leo ever could.

Like I said in my Valzhang post, it doesn’t have to be romantic. I hate that everything revolves around romance. Platonic relationships are important, y’all! We all need them, especially Leo, considering how insecure he feels about being the “seventh wheel”.

What ship should I do next? These are all the ones I actively ship, but anything’s better than Caleo. Liper could be fun, or Perleo. Maybe, to prove that literally anything is better than Caleo, I’ll do Leo x Octavian? Lmk in the comments.

[rosesradio]

valdangelo (Leo/Nico)

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