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Reminder that Nico's Stygian Sword is half his size

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glow in the dark boyfriend

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Happy pride or smth

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what if she was called chappell bone and instead of a singer she was a necromancer who raised strong as fuck skeleton warriors

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Will in his 19s

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"It was cupid. No, it was love. It was Will Solace."

Nico di angelo went from bitchless to dating the hottest guy at camp half blood and i love that for him.

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I love how it's canon that Apollo's aware of who his kids are dating and seems pretty protective of his kids. Like right here he's kind of wondering "is Nico even good enough for my little boy?". Idk, I just wanted to share something kind of wholesome as my first ever tumblr post.

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Underrated solangelo hc and dynamic: overprotective Nico.

You cannot look me in my eyeballs and tell me that the boy who has lost nearly everyone he cared about in one way or another would not deliberately protective over the people he has left. And, unlike most other people, Will isn’t much of a fighter. He’s no push over, but compared to say Percy or Hazel he would need it in a way they wouldn’t.

Imagine Nico getting the nickname “shadow” not because of his powers but because he’s literally 2 inches behind Will at any given time. Imagine the first capture the flag game they play he’s not even going after the flag because he’s too busy keeping an eye on Will the entire time (RIP to whoever manages to make a scratch on him, you are now on Nico’s shitlist for Life). Imagine Will going to visit his mother and Nico acting as his personal escort the entire time.

Will finds this mildly annoying until he realizes that campers (especially Ares) are listening to his advice more and arguing less because Nico is right behind him, glaring the fear of God into them every time they get snappy. Then he’s all for it and makes it Nico’s official role in the infirmary. Within two weeks the number of injured campers hits an all time low because people are 1) actually following medical advice and healing before doing more Dumb Camp Shit and 2) actually doing Dumb Camp Shit safer so they don’t have to face Nico in the infirmary again.

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i loooove the idea of Will going out of his way to do things for Nico that Nico otherwise wouldn’t be able to experience😞

Like I was thinking this in regard of flowers specifally: he cannot get him normal flowers, because they would wilter immediately, so he finds a thousands and more ways to circumvent that! He gets Nico Lego ones, asks Lou Ellen or somebody else from Hecate’s cabin to enchant some so that they don’t die, commissions the Hephaestus cabin to make mechanical ones, draws some on paper (though he’s really not that artistically talented…), gives him embroidered ones… he tries so hard guys he truly does because he knows that Nico loves and cherishes every single one of them 😞😞😞 im so emo like actually

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also to add on the previous post about flowers, I don’t think Nico gives Will traditional flowers either!!! I think he’d give him little vased plants!! (hello plant dad Will you are loved💖) he cannot give them to Will directly, of course, but he makes Kayla leave them on Wills bed, or in the infirmary or something, and Nico takes the time paint the vases himself before handing it to some Demetra kid so they can put the plant it!

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some sword and archery headcanons for solangelo week day 2

Nico is left-handed for writing but not for sword fighting. He used to have his hand tied to his back by the nuns in the 1930s but Bianca encouraged him to practice with his left, so he can write with both hands. In theory at least, because he hasn’t actually done it in ages.

He can also use his left hand with the sword which is one of the reasons he’s such a strong swordsman.

Will is a good archer. Average for an Apollo kid, which is basically amazing by any other standards. He’s the best healer there is though, and he prefers that to fighting. Nico tried to get him into sword fighting, but they soon realised what Will needed was a dagger. He’s now deadly with it – although he’s only had a few instances to prove it. Not that he’s complaining.

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Listen

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Yes, Will is a fashion disaster. But he also takes Dress to Impress DEEPLY seriously, and he is so offended EVERY TIME he doesn’t win, even though yes, he’s terrible at that too.

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Every time someone refers to Nico Di Angelo as a “token gay character” I take poison damage

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Nico and Jason’s relationship growing and blossoming enough that Nico is comfortable mentioning in vague detail that yes, your dad (loosely; I understand that Zeus is not Jupiter (also loosely; I understand that Zeus is Jupiter (also loosely… I could go on))) DID try to kill me, also that he’s pretty sure some of the unexpected challenges he encounters on solo quests are things associated with different Zeus/Jupiter mythos. Jason horrified. But Nico doesn’t mention that Zeus killed Maria — Jason either puts it together from other context clues on his own, or it’s sparked by somebody (usually Juno or Hera cause you know I love putting her and Jason together) dropping it casually in speech like “oh yeah you know how your progenitor zapped the hellspawn’s mother” and—

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nico di angelo, when faced with literally any blond man: heyyy this guy isn't will :/

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“Nico Di Angelo is a token gay! His coming out scene sucked!” babes I’m BEGGING you to remember 2013 gay characters were not allowed in children’s media.

Lemme say that again: In 2013, it was expected that gay characters would be censored in children’s mass media.

Remember Korra? How she and Asami had to settle for ambiguous handholding rather than a kiss? That was fully a year after House of Hades came out. Nickelodeon said No Gays, the Children™ can’t handle that. Too risky. And people said man that stinks, but that’s how these things go in 2014 America.

Gay marriage was literally still illegal in the vast majority of US states. As of October 8th, 2013 (House of Hades release date) Gay Marriage was only a thing in thirteen fucking states. California had only legalized it that year.

Gay people were still very much on the fringes of society. It was an acceptable political position on both sides of the aisle to be against the existence and equal rights of gay people.

Nico was legitimately a landmark character in queer representation. To my knowledge, there wasn’t before an openly gay main character in a bestselling ya/middle grade fantasy fiction series. It simply was not a thing. They didn’t exist. They weren’t allowed to exist.

I remember people crying. Finally. It was a watershed moment. Kids all across the world finally got someone who represented them. It was such a big fucking deal. And it was controversial!!! Not for the reasons it is today, but because people thought gay kids having representation was inappropriate.

Is Nico’s coming out a great scene? No, these days it leaves a lot to be desired. It’s not perfect by any stretch of the imagination and I’m sure Rick wishes he could change it. But the fact that’s the case is a wonderful reflection of how far we’ve come.

All of your gay heroes in children’s media have Nico Di Angelo to thank. It was important, and good. It deserves to be celebrated, even if we’ve progressed past it since.

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solangelo is actually quite hilarious because imagine being nico, half-dead and in the middle of a world ending war, and suddenly a very pretty son of apollo is asking you if you want to feel his hands from delivering a baby