Nico deserves so much more than what canon gives him MY GOD. Like I swear literally no one in canon is worthy of him. Except Jason. And not because he didn’t hurt Nico. Because he redeemed himself by not being an asshole about Nico’s forced outing

But guess what ? Jason’s fucking DEAD. Because Rick HATES Nico for some reason.

And Will, I guess. He seems okay. And he hasn’t betrayed, insulted or hurt Nico in some way, unlike the others

Headcanon : Nico is actually an amazing singer, a fact that Apollo is extremely chuffed about. Hades ? Not so much

I love imagining a future version of PJO where all the Big Three kids grow to become even more threatening than their godly parents - like eldritch abomination levels of intimidation

Imagine a Percy Jackson who’s the lord of the Under-sea, all the things that lurk and crawl along the seafloor. With long, stringy hair that drips perpetually with dark, brackish water, and eyes that are less a comforting sea-green and more the sickly glare of an anglerfish’s lure. With teeth filed into points and skin paler than paper, webbed with black, sickly-looking veins

Imagine a Nico Di Angelo who’s the Keeper of the Dead, resembling a corpse more than a human, skin tinged with the blue of an asphyxiated body, eyes bloodshot, pupils blacker than midnight. Hair matted and stringy and mussed about his shoulders, frame scrawny as a scarecrow, body frail with malnutrition and yet carrying unmistakable power. And at his feet pool his faithful shadows like pet dogs, dark eyes blinking amidst the pooling black, tendrils of darkness reaching out like pseudopodia

Imagine a Thalia Grace who’s the Daughter of the Sky, with eyes like a thunderstorm, dark and foreboding, lightning crackling against her skin as she moves, hair streaked with white and blue and gray and all the shades of a storm-cloud about to blow. The bracelet of Aegis about her wrist, less like a piece of jewellery and more like a shackle keeping her in place. Her skin dark and buzzing with static electricity, stinking of ozone and petrichor

I feel like Rick Riordan’s characterisations and relationship dynamics would be more popular if he actually drew from Greek mythology for them, because writing them himself is making it glaringly obvious that he has one (1) dynamic and that is “serious and quirky”

Solangelo is the exception but also kind of not ? Like idk just with TSATS it feels like he’s trying to turn Solangelo into that dynamic too

Like remember how everyone was frothing at the mouth over Clarisse/Silena and their Patrochilles shit ? Pepperidge farm remembers

My headcanon is that Nico is the first person to give Chiron a hug since Achilles all those years ago

I genuinely HATE the way everyone treats Nico like he has a disease in HoO (also, bit iffy to do that to a gay character, Ricky).

Like there’s a reason I never liked Leo, Frank, Percy, Annabeth or Piper as much as I did Jason or Hazel, and that’s this. The scene that really cinched it for me was when they debated rescuing him in MOA

Reminder : Nico is THIRTEEN in the Mark of Athena. He is a BABY. A CHILD. And these fuckers are treating him like he’s a monster in disguise, like they have the goddamn RIGHT to call themselves HEROES after even CONSIDERING leaving a child to suffocate to death

Yes, Jason wanted to leave him as well, but I personally think he redeemed himself in a way no other character did

And that’s not even touching the many, many times in HoO he gets called “creepy” or “off-putting”, or the other characters are treated as justified for the way they treat him.

Again, THIRTEEN GODSDAMN YEARS OLD

Thankfully, some of this fades by the time ToA comes around, which is, frankly, a relief. And PJO never had this level of vitriol towards Nico, which is good.

And of course, my beloved fanon

I don’t like the idea that Nico was the first queer kid at Camp Half-blood because. This is an ancient Greek camp. An ancient Greek fucking camp.

Everyone should be at least some flavor of gay or bi.

It should be a rarity to be cishet, not the most commonplace thing, what the fuck

And don’t give me that “they’re from modern times” shit. They can read Ancient Greek and fight with swords. If they retained that shit, they can retain the goddamn queerness

Why is everyone so mean to Nico. Like they keep treating him like he’s some kind of monster, when he’s literally just a teenager

Small Writing Thing :3

The raven-haired man stepped forward, and like Moses parting the Red Sea, the horde of shades seemed to part before his steps, every milky, insipid eye in the audience turning to linger on him

Beside him, Percy stiffened slightly, the ubiquitous chill of the Underworld raking across his back like lashes from a frozen whip, ice-cold and splinter-sharp

Nico cleared his throat, and the noise resounded across the black plains of his father’s domain like a gunshot. The milling shades stilled, and went quiet, an eerie, unnatural silence, like the entire world was holding his breath, waiting for the Ghost King to begin speaking

“I am aware”, he hissed, his tongue flickering against the edges of his teeth, the sound susurrating through the shades like a breeze through the branches of a particularly crowded tree, “ that some of you seem to consider my lover lesser than me. Seem to think that just because he is not a child of Hades, you have the right to mistreat him”

The shades stiffened as one as his sharp gaze raked across them like the skittering of a thousand insects, like worms squirming across the greeting flesh of their corpses, high above on the surface

“Rid yourself of this notion”, his lip pulled back into a sneer, his teeth baring in an animal snarl. The shades shivered, though most of them weren’t even sure why, “This man”, he reached over to rest his hand on Percy’s shoulder, “is as much your prince as I am”

“This man”, he began again, emboldened by Percy’s eyes on him, widened minutely with mild surprise and more than a bit of admiration, “is as much ME as I am !! More, even !! This man, too, is the Ghost King. This man, too, is Nico Di Angelo !!”

“And this man !!”, he beat his fisted hand against his chest, the sound resounding out into the silence like a drumbeat, “Is Perseus Jackson !! Understand ?!!”

Not a soul dared to stir. Percy leaned into Nico’s touch, the corners of his eyes softening with something resembling love

Nico fought down the blush threatening to blaze its way across his features. That wasn’t intimidating at all, and he NEEDED to look intimidating right now

“And you will obey him”, his voice dropped to a chilly, sibilant register, the slow hiss of a rattlesnake ready to strike, “or I will make Tartarus look like Elysium. Am I understood ?”

The shades drew in a sharp, unnecessary breath, like a collective gasp of surprise. Surprise at the thought that their Prince had fallen in love

And with a surface-dweller, at that ? Truly, he was his father’s son

And then, all at once, their voice came, from throats pierced and choked and frostbitten and waterlogged. From voices thin and loud and boisterous and reedy

“We will obey”

The corner of Nico’s lips twitched into the faintest ghost of a smile, “Good”

Percy leaned closer to him as his shades dispersed, his breath ghosting across Nico’s earlobe, leaving a trail of burning warmth in its wake.

Nico turned slightly towards his boyfriend - and even thinking that word made the smile he shot him come out slightly giddy with excited joy

“Well, well, well, Mr. Ghost Prince”, Percy teased, his voice lilting a bit as he spoke, though the fond smile playing at his lips betrayed his true emotions, “Quoting Alexander the Great now, are we ? Gonna try to conquer the world next ?”

Nico shot his lover a small smile, one that made Percy feel almost lightheaded with adoration, “Not like I could fuck it up more than it already has been, right ?”

“Yeah”, Percy rested his head on his beloved’:s shoulders, and felt the gentle coolness of Nico’s skin start to ward away the unnatural frost of the Underworld. His breath quickened slightly as he continued, “I’d like that”

“Hm ?”

“ A world ruled by you. You’d do a better job than the current heads, that’s for sure”

“Do you WANT to be blown up, Percy ?”, Nico shot him an amused look, “In case you forgot, we’re in a domain ruled by one of those heads”

“ Well, maybe if I die, you could order me around”, he hummed lightly, “That’d be nice”

Nico just stared for a long moment, before whining slightly, “ And people call ME morbid ?”

The fact that Nico never got to choose anything in his life - not his parentage, not his sexuality, not being dragged out of his time , not even being established as an ambassador to Camp Jupiter and certainly not being dragged through Tartarus- except who he fell in love with

The fact that Nico has been rejected from the very beginning - for being gay (he came from Fascist Italy, something tells me they weren’t very supportive of him), for being the son of Hades, for being darker and broodier than most people like - except by this one person, this one person willing to shoulder the weight of the world to stop it from falling on his shoulders, who sees Nico as his responsibility, unlike everyone else who simply sees him as an annoyance at best and a liability at worst.

Will is great and all, and y’all already know that Solangelo is my jam, but there’s something so sweet about Percico. Real “Like Real People Do” vibes

Always love it when demigods are characterized as something more than human. Uncanny valley incarnate

Perseus’ skin is moist to the touch at all times, even when it should be bone dry. You look into his eyes and you feel like you’re drowning, the endless green of the sea pressing down on you

Nico’s skin looks like it’s hanging off his bones, just a bit too loose, a bit too grey. His skin is ice-cold to the touch, and the brown of his eyes resembles a corpse covered in dirt more than anything

And so on and so forth

Someone please tell Nico angst fans that he is a gay man born in Fascist Italy.

What I’m saying is that Nico vs Internalized Homophobia is extremely underused, considering the fact that logically, it’s literally canon

I am not a Solangelo shipper or a Percico shipper. I am a Nico X Happiness shipper

I find it hilarious that Nico is constantly referred to as "weird and creepy" in the PJO books, while characters like Luke and Percy are clearly meant to be attractive,

and then you enter the fandom and literally everyone is fangirling over Nico (including me)

Why does every fic I see make Nico a emo, UwU smolboi.

Like yeah, I get the whole "he was raised Conservative and probably struggles with himself" thing, and that's a perfectly fine headcanon to have

But this is Nico fucking Di Angelo !! Prince of the Dead !! The Ghost King !!

The one thing he is not is "pathetic" and "small". It's fine to write him that way, but why is every single fic containing him written that way ?

Plus, we're writing fanfiction !! Why restrict ourselves to canon ?

Give me savage, bloodthirsty Nicos who get drunk on the gore of the battlefield

Give me flirtatious Nicos who know they're attractive (overage, of course) and aren't afraid to flirt with others

Give me insane, rabid Nicos who are one inch away from killing someone

Nico di Angelo could snap my spine like a glowstick and I'd thank him send post

Percy Jackson looks like he could crush a watermelon between his thighs. If he can’t find a watermelon, my head is the same size please and thank you

Nico di Angelo should snap me in half, light me on fire, and roast marshmallows over my burning body