nicodi-angelo

[nicodi-angelo]

oflegaciesandstories‌:

@nicodi-angelo​

“you have got be kidding me seriously ?”

“What has you worked up.”

[nicodi-angelo]

rcsplendere‌:

“because college helps you get a job… at least that’s what i heard. where i come from you don’t go to college after you graduate you either become a professor, open a shop, get a job at the ministry, or start training for a higher level job.”

“I don’t intend to do any of that.  Though I can’t say I’ve ever heard of “the ministry” before.

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warofheartmuses‌:

“I agree with you there. Honestly, I think that a lot of people are freaking out because change is a weird thing for humans to understand.”

“I understand the panic, as it’s dangerous here now, but there has to come a time when we just accept things.  An if you aren’t human what are you?”

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warofheartmuses‌:

“Relax, no one scary, it’s just me.” Shesmiled at him. “I was walking around, I like to walk around at night. All the interesting stuff happens.”

“That’s a habit you should stop.  This town just stopped being safe.”  Nico slid his sword back into it’s sheathe and studied her a moment. “Sorry, for threatening.  A bit on edge.”

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fxckedupmuses‌:

Pam gave him a gentle smile and nodded. “It’s nice to meet you, Nico. I’m Pam.”

“It’s nice to meet you too Pam.  Again, I’m sorry to have bothered you.”

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“I really am a little tired of hearing the fretting.  The world changed again, there’s new danger, we’ll have to deal with it.”

@warofheartmuses, @fxckedupmuses (any)

[nicodi-angelo]

“Monsters are back, so at least things are interesting again.  Not sure how I feel about the people from this world...they must know who brought us here and why.’

@pctentiis, @scliivagcnt, @impcviidus, @lvmcn (Any blog or character)

[nicodi-angelo]

Finally.  Trouble had come.  There was something darkly satisfying about being right, the Chimera still dissolving into dust after nearly taking Nico out.  He’d been caught off guard, but his reflexes and power didn’t fail him.  Yes, he could’ve used some help and he was now standing in the woods bleeding and weak, but the monster had been defeated, and the demigod now knew monsters had made it to the world.  He’d need to warn the others, and make sure they were armed.  

Nico was still planning in his head when a twig snapped nearby, the man turning with his black Stygian sword raised at the intruder. “Who’s there?”

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pctentiis‌:

“really? what happens to anyone who is suppose to be in there? like the monsters?” she asked him. persephone knew there was an importance to the underworld, it helped to keep the human world safe, also there were titans down there.

“I don’t think this world has monsters.  We certainly haven’t been attacked by any while we’re here.  I’m sure there’s some sort of afterlife here but it isn’t our Underworld.”

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pctentiis‌:

bianca felt the weather change and knew it was coming from nico she listened to everything he had to say. not trying to interrupt him since she wanted to hear everything he said to her. “nico none of this your fault. you were the perfect little brother, something i never appreciated when i was alive. you listened to me, did what i told you. i was the one who sucked as a sister. when we found out who we were, i ran, i ran right into the hunters of artemis since i couldn’t handle it anymore. i felt like a failed as a sister since i got us trapped in the casino for decades. i shouldn’t allowed the man to take us out of boarding school and protected you, but i didn’t. and then when we got to camp half-blood, it was a place you would finally be safe, around people who were like us. but for me, i just felt like an outsider and didn’t feel like i would fit there. and i knew if i left you would’ve to. and i didn’t want you to, i wanted to be somewhere you were finally safe. you were meant to be a demigod, i wasn’t, i was never meant to be a hero in that way, the hunters don’t really make the legends except as people who helped the demigod hero. i knew i would never be the demigod you are. or that percy, annabeth, anyone else at camp half-blood.” she said to him. “and you may say it was a stupid statue, but to me it wasn’t. to me it was something my brother loved, the brother i love. and i didn’t show him enough how much i loved him, so maybe by trying to get him that. i could’ve showed him i didn’t abandon him, that i thought about him everyday and loved him everyday. and maybe i chose to reincarnate because i knew that as me, i could never be the perfect sister to a boy who deserved the perfect sister. i would just do something else to leave you since i just can’t get over all the failures i have done in my life. and knew that if you could finally stop trying to bring me back that you could move on, forget i ever existed or just hate me. and make new friends, find love. i didn’t want to hold you back anymore in life and knew that in death i would just not let you move on from me.” she said looking down.

“all i wanted to do was to see my baby brother smile, and the past year of my life, i never saw a smile hit your face. and i just knew it was my fault.”

“You didn’t run, you wanted a life where you weren’t running.  You tried to get me to a safe place and then went to live your life.  Hades trapped us in a casino for decades, not you.  You were twelve.  The things your trying to take the blame for is shit.”  He ran a hand through his hair, shaking his head again at her words “I knew you loved me.  Even when you left me to go on adventures I didn’t doubt for a moment that you loved me.  But I never needed perfection Bianca. I needed you.  And just because I couldn’t bring you back didn’t mean I ever moved on.  I’m 21 and my greatest failure wasn’t saving you sooner.  Hold me back in life?”  Nico laughed darkly, steeling himself to verbalize his own self loathing.  “I’m nothing without you Bi.  I’m angry, cold, and creepy, and any warmth or need for connection I had died with you.  I don’t have friends, I want to laugh at the idea love will ever happen, I don’t even live in town because I don’t want to make people uncomfortable.  You died a hero, wheras I’m the creepy kid with a useful skill-set.  I’m a pathetic nothing, and it should’ve been me and not you who died.  You...”  

Nico’s fists clenched for a moment, struggling not to lose anymore control beyond just the random cold.  “I wasn’t enough.  And I’ll never be enough.  I’m just a useful monster.  And you..thinking you were the failure? It’s...it breaks my heart.  Even though your life ended at twelve it was so much brighter and worth so much more than mine.  It should’ve been me.”

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pctentiis‌:

“i know i would be reincarnated, but that wouldn’t be me in that little person’s body. i would’ve had a different childhood, a different name, probably even a different personality. there is a reason i wanted reincarnated, i never wanted to cheat death or have anyone mess with death to bring me back.” she knew nico probably hated her for not wanting him to bring her back to life, but she wanted to look out for him and not have him mess with death since he would already have a hard life being the child of hades. “and that’s great that it worked out for her, but she wanted to be alive again. but i didn’t nico. and while i’m happy i get to see you and be with you, i didn’t want to be alive, i made so many mistakes in my life and never had a good one. i hoped that being reincarnated would give me another chance of life, not one where i just suck at everything, suck at being a big sister, suck at being a demigod, suck at being a hunter.”

The temperature of the air around them suddenly dropped a few degrees as Bianca spoke, Nico’s strong reaction making his powers flare.  Quickly stepping down an alley, he walked to the end as far away from the random bystanders as he could before he turned to face Bianca.  “You didn’t suck at any of it Bianca!  You were twelve!  You hadn’t had any training in any of it, and you die murdered by a crazy robot getting a stupid statue for your stupid little brother.  You didn’t even know you were a demigod a month before you were dead, and you were the only person in my life who I can ever remember loving me.  Saying you chose to be reincarnated in hopes you didn’t suck the second time through is bullshit, because you were and are amazing.  And no shit you would’ve been a different person, you think I don’t know that?   You don’t think that the moment I found out I’d lost you again I knew you were dead to me all over again and now I was truly alone?  I know you don’t want to cheat damn death Bianca, but you didn’t choose to be here!  You haven’t cheated anything, and if there’s some consequence I’ve no doubt you’ll gladly fall on a damn sword so you can ensure death gets you so you can escape me all over again.”  Nico shook his head, not even noticing he was crying as he looked her in the eyes.  “I may not be able to remember our childhood, but what I do it’s of you.  Your smile, the way you’d distract me when bad things happened with one stupid game or another.  You may not have ever had a good life Bianca, and I’m sorry for that.  I’m sorry I wasn’t nearly as happy and good for you as you were for me.  I’m sorry I wasn’t good enough at communicating how much I loved you or how amazing you really are that you would think so low of yourself.  I’m sorry your here and not re-living your life as a normal child with some perfectly happy family cause that’s what you always deserved.  You always deserved more than me.  And yeah, nothings ever hurt me deeper than when you chose dying forever over breaking the rules and being with me.  But I understood why.  Still do.There’s...there’s a long list of other people who’d do the same.”   

Taking a shaky breath, Nico took another step back and turned away, looking for the best shadow to travel away in. “I..I’m sorry.  I didn’t mean to lose it.”  

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pctentiis‌:

“especially since i don’t know if this place has the underworld or anything. and if it doesn’t what will happen in the fall when i’m suppose to go there?” while the underworld grew on persephone. she would enjoy this place a little more if she didn’t have to go there and could stay on earth.

Nico softened a little, glad he could at least help her with that knowledge.  “There isn’t one.  At least, not in the same sense as at home.  I still have my powers and the ability to summon and control the dead, but nothing happens when I try to go there or when I try to sense it.  I don’t think anything will happen here Persephone.  This is a different world.”

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pctentiis‌:

“well i mean not everyone is from where we are from.” the demigod stated. “so who knows how death will work in their world. and i’m sorry, but for me i feel like i should still be dead. like i’m so happy i got to see the handsome and wonderful man that you turned out to be. but i died, i never wanted to come back to life and now that i did i feel like i did something wrong.” she said honestly. “maybe nothing beats you, but things do beat me, i did die.”

Nico stopped moving, her continued desire to still be dead being repeated over and over just feeling like being stabbed again and again.  “Bianca, even if we were back in our regular world you wouldn’t still be dead.  You’d be...8, 9 years old?  Have a different name and life and you wouldn’t be my sister anymore.   Whatever this town is pulled you from the underworld, or from right before you could be reborn, and brought you here.  You had no choice in it so don’t worry, you aren’t breaking any rules.  I don’t sense any death in you, or a sense of imminent death.  You’ve been given life.  I don’t understand how or why, but it’s happened.”  He shrugged and started walking again, his expression more guarded again as he slid his hands into his pockets.  “If it makes you feel any better, Hazel had been dead for decades when I pulled her from the Underworld, and neither Thanatos or our father didn’t take her back.  Let her live her life without some dire  consequence.  I don’t think you have anything to worry about.”

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pctentiis‌:

“while persephone was jealous and angry with how much hades loved the boys mother. she knew that she couldn’t hold it against nico forever, especially since he didn’t have any control over it. “i’ve been decent, not exactly understanding this place. how have you been?” she asked.

“Good good.”  He fell quiet, her question not fully registering till he finally caught on and realize she’d asked about him.  Nico looked over at her with surprise, not expecting even polite interaction.  He nodded a little, not about to pass it up.  “I’ve been alright.  I think I get it a little, but there’s still missing pieces for me.”

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pctentiis‌:

“pretty much.” she felt like no matter what her and nico did, neither of them could ever live a normal life. there was always some force out there always trying to ruin their happiness in anyway possible. “you never know, it’s why i’m not really getting too comfortable, maybe thanatos isn’t here yet and once he is something will happy.” death was always in the cards for children of hades it seemed like. “i do have things to worry about, i don’t want you to face any consequences for me, you may look older, but i’m still your big sister nico and i will protect you.”

“If he’s here then he won’t bother.  The gods that are here are having to operate differently.  And you aren’t the only resurrected soul.  If there were any consequences, trust me, I’d know.  I’ve been studying and watching a lot about and in this town.”  Nico looked away as she threw out the “protective older sister” card.  It had worked when he was little, but once she left him for the Hunters it had stopped feeling true.  And everything afterwards had proved that nothing could protect him but himself, or his level of usefulness.  “I survived Tartarus, I can handle anything this town throws at us, trust me.  We’re children of Hades, nothing beats us.”

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pctentiis‌:

“you are right about that.” persephone said to nico. persephone had been trying over the years to get along better with nico and not let her jealousy with hades love for his mom allow her to dislike nico forever.

At this point Nico assumed most people didn’t like him, and in Perephone’s case he assumed she hated him.  Despite that, she was one of the few dieties he liked, so he checked in.  And especially here, Nico was keeping an eye on her.  “How’ve you been?”

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rcsplendere‌:

“it’s going pretty good, you know have to adjust to the time a little bit, but it’s not like i haven’t had to do that before.” she said with a soft chuckle. “weird to be alive again, in my own body.. makes me feel like i cheated death a little.” bianca was worried there would be consequences for her being alive again. “yeah, me either.”

“Adjusting is a DiAngelo specialty at this point.”   Nico nodded with agreement before rolling his eyes.  “You’ve not cheated death.  Trust me, Thanatos would’ve already been here demanding some sort of fix before now.”  Nico quirked an eyebrow at her before shrugging.  “If there’s some other sort of consequence I’m fairly good with these things, so you’ve nothing to worry about.  And I suppose we’ll just have to enjoy the new experience.”