nico fanatic

LIKE OKAY HEAR ME OUT

Jason had been in the demigod world for 13 YEARS. 1 with Lupa, 12 with Camp Jupiter and the Roman Legions. He most likely has expertise in bare hand to hand combat, swords, knifes, spears and many other weapons.

Percy has know he's a demigod for 5 years I believe as of HOO. (This is my controversial take) The only reason people say Percy would win in a fight is because they're biased. And maybe I'm biased! But it wouldn't be entirely their faults.

Rick

I love him so so so much. BUT HOLY FUCK. He nerfed Jason so hard. It's like he knew Jason had the potential to be a stronger character.

-Grew up in an army.

-Son of Jupiter, KING OF THE GODS.

-A natural born leader, whether Jason likes it or not.

-Roman, a civilisation known for their strength and concouring of other nations.

But no. Rick took Jason and made him pass out 11 times (I heard this from somewhere else, may be the wrong number) over 4 books. You cannot convince me that's not him taking Jason out of the story because people didn't like him and he had the potential to be stronger.

If Jason had gotten back all his memories? Ooh boy everyone would be fucking scared that boy was trained within an inch of his LIFE.

My conclusion! Jason with his memories could beat Percy. Jason without them would put up a good fight, but Percy would win.

I remeber seeing a post of sm1 making a chart on how long Nicos hair would have actually been if he never cut it and it was so long 😭

Guys he could have had such long hair why do we draw him with short hair

To preface, this isn’t me saying Nico shouldn’t be gay. I think his queerness fits wonderfully with his character, I just wish it was done in a different way.

In both HoH and BoO—though mostly BoO—whenever Nico’s past and even current actions are mentioned, there’s frequently some kind of implication that his motivation has something to do with his feelings for Percy. For example, in BoO, Nico mentions that he got Percy to bathe in the Styx because he believed it would make Percy love him. I dislike this because originally Nico wanted Percy in the Styx for two reasons. One was that he genuinely wanted to help in the war because he does have a good heart. The second was that he was desperate for information on his dead mother and past that he feels constantly looms over him. It was a situation where Nico wanted to help but also couldn’t resist the urge to get some kind of information about his own life. I feel it really encapsulated the complexity of both his character and him and Percy’s dynamic. Then it was watered down to ‘I want Percy to love me!’

Another example is in HoO, where Frank says, ‘I guess we would do anything for the people we love’, to which Nico replies by looking at the ground bitterly and saying, ‘Yeah, I guess we would.’ This line was foreshadowing his crush on Percy, somewhat implying that he agreed to lead the seven to the House of Hades because Percy asked him to. Have we thought that maybe Nico did it because he knew it was right..? He knew that it would benefit the world..?

Also, ALL throughout Nico’s perspectives in BoO, Percy is constantly mentioned. He is constantly centred in situations where he should be completely irrelevant. I’m not saying I hate his characterisation in HoO. There are some parts I believe are absolutely gold, such as him killing Bryce Lawrence for threatening Reyna, gaslighting Percy in SoN because he knew it everything was about timing, the showcasing of his intelligence in both political and battlefield environments…. but gosh some of it is awful.

Maybe I’m looking into it too much, but it feels like Nico’s crush implied that he bases a large portion of his reasoning and morality on Percy. It completely takes away from the previous complexity we have seen in his decision making process, which was dictated by a mixture of desperation, cold logic, and grief.

nico’s crush on percy adds to his TORTUROUS experiences, life quality, and mental health in the first series, and adds complexity. he’s grieving his sister, trying to find his way in this new culture, trying to navigate this new time period, trying to survive as a demigod, dealing with being a son of hades (and the complicated religious thoughts, powers, and danger that comes with it), dealing with religious trauma, surviving as a homeless minor, AND now having to deal with him being gay and having a crush on the boy he blames for his sisters death. all while having little to no memory of his life before, of his own MOTHER, and mourning the life he once knew.

i think i remember reading the books and reading that NICO claimed to want perch to bathe in the river just because he liked percy and i was SHOCKED. i think i made myself forget it because i just didn’t like it. nico’s crush on percy is so much more than that and so much more than a child hood crush. it hurt both parties (nico idolizing percy wasn’t good and made him hate percy for liking him AND “killing” bianca, prevented percy from getting close to nico and making percy dealing with the guilt of “failing” bianca) and seems to have done irreparable damage to their characters fandom wise.

There are a couple of scenes in HoH and BoO where Nico explains to the others something regarding the roman influence in their current lives and informations that he,as a greek demigod,shouldn't be able to know since it's about the romans. Like,for example,when they were talking about Diocletian's scepter and Jason and Hazel were giving their opinions on him,Nico also participated in the discussion. I love these little details because it makes us understand that Nico si very smart and knowledged,but I just realized that it's also because he is italian.

Italy has a very long and rich history behind,the ancient roman empire is just one of the biggest parts of it. During elementary and middle school we study a lot of it in history classes,so Nico probably had to go through lessons about it when he was still going to school (I'm pretty sure he continues to research and acculturate himself on his own now). So it's totally normal for him to know. And technically,he should also have a lot of informations on the emperors in ToA too,if we follow the same reasoning. If only Apollo brought Nico with him on his quests,maybe it would have been easier to figure them out.

Nicos plotline. being forced to come out by cupid. it hit me as a difficult experience but now, more than 10 years later, rereading, this is so so unfair.

why did nico have to go through this? why couldn't he have chosen when and how? im happy abt will solace of course. but nico went through hell, literally, multiple times, and here he is being tortured into coming out and admitting to himself, a friend that is terrified of him, and a god, who he is.

you can't make percy magically one up jason, randomly knock jason out in every fight so that he doesn't get to use his abilities, and shoehorn every character commenting on their "rivalry" and call it a day.

even little things like percy getting the gorgon's blood and jason not getting his memories up until very late in the books show preferential treatment

They were not, in fact, nearly there.

So I did a thing for @alnair-jpg 's Sept 2025 DTIYS

(I like to think Nico could have just shadow travel them, but he won't cause he's having too much fun watching his boyfriend trying to figure out a map)

“Nico, your boyfriend—Wallace, right?—was looking for you.”

“Nico and Wilhelm are the most tolerable of all of the couples at this gods forsaken camp.”

Nico di Angelo is a poker king™️ and you can't convince me otherwise