brace yourself

imagine they're nine and ten, both completely unaware of the tragedies in store for them, and they meet in the nerdiest shop in grand central, where nico and bianca are passing through and max is with his parents waiting on a train to the airport. max is eyeing the manga, nico is looking for mythomagic shit, even if bianca won't let him buy any more.

i think nico was excitable enough back then that he'd start the conversation just because his mind is on mythomagic and there's a kid about his age also in the shop. max is more than receptive (talking with any kid his age is a miracle atp). he admits he doesn't know about the game but that he'd really love to learn and when nico starts talking about the figurines, max pauses to dig around in his backpack to find the figurine jace gave him. it's not the same, but the connection is there.

Finally I can show my other pjo hockey team designs 🕺(ill post all the jersey designs later)