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I just finished rereading the entire PJO & HOO series and first of all, god I love these books so much. second of all, the ending of Blood of Olympus reminded of that time back in 2014 when it first came out and everyone was obsessed with that ending scene of Nico confessing his former crush on Percy and reassuring him he wasn’t his type. and everyone never shut up about it, ever. people are so hung up on the idea of Percy being shocked and unbelieving to the idea that he isn’t someone’s type. I thought it was just back then but I came back to the fandom and it was just the same, and I didn't see anyone else pointing this out. 

Percy doesn’t expect people to be into him. more than that, every single time someone expresses a romantic interest in him it takes him time to realize that and every single time he’s surprised all over again. with Calypso, with Rachel, hell, it took him like five goddamn years with Annabeth. 

I’ve seen people compare it to the scene in Mark of Athena when Frank, Hazel, and Leo come back from the underwater land of the fish-horse-people, and Frank tries to tell Percy that they couldn’t meet him because of sea politics or something, and it really bothered Percy. the difference is that Percy, as a son of Poseidon, always felt like he deserved to be welcomed in underwater... anything. in pjo, he’s pissed off that Tyson gets to work in Poseidon's kingdom, and that it took his dad so long to let Percy himself come there too. 

he doesn’t have that attitude with other things, certainly not dating. at all. I could never see him being seriously hung up on the idea of not being Nico Di Angelo’s type. he stuttered and mumbled something about it in that scene in BoO, but it won’t be a repeated thing. 

Percy was just surprised and shocked, this time more than usual, both because for the first time it was coming from a boy, and both because it was coming from Nico - a person whose his relationship with has always been complicated.

TLDR: shut up about the stupid “what do you mean I’m not your type?!” thing. 

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