#bianca and hazel

[princessofghosts-posts]

I read your Bianca post and I would love to know more about how Hazel is a better sister than Bianca

While Bianca cared for Nico out of a responsibility (and later on for her guilt complex because she abandoned him),Hazel took her time to get to know him and to appreciate him as her brother.

At the start of SoN when Hazel made Percy and Nico met,she commented how at the start she couldn't believe they were related because they were too different. So,not an impressive first meeting,and Nico didn't help his position at all with almost calling her Bianca (that was only because he finally had a sister and their bond probably felt like what he had before the Lotus). But both of them genuinely care about each other.

When Nico told her about his plans to find the doors Hazel got worried,when Hazel realized she could probably die after Thanatos got freed Nico got worried. They were worried about the other,but were still trying to be supportive.

Bianca? She left him the second she found out a loophole and went with the Hunters. And–this is not something I talked about in that post–if I recall correctly during their vogaye with Apollo she completely ignored him. Even with both of them knowing that was one of the few moments they could still have together,since once Artemis was back Bianca was going to stay with them forever. Bless Nico for being happy and supportive to her because she wasn't to him.

Hazel fought for Nico from the end of SoN to MoA and a bit in HoH. The second Gaia told Hazel she trapped him,Hazel was dead serious to get him back. No question asked,no consultation time with anyone else,nothing. She was going to get her brother back and that was final (which is kinda sweet if you take in consideration their first meeting and their talk in SoN).

In MoA Hazel was constantly reminded that her brother was trapped and slowly dying,and she was ready to argue with Jason (a friend she cared about before Riordan retconned it) and Leo (that has the same personality and physique of her ex-crush) to make them understand they needed to get him. And this was even before they realized that Nico was the "key" for one of their main problems. She didn't eve care they were going to be late on the roadmap with their stop to Rome,she just wanted her brother back.

In HoH Hazel and Nico spent most of their time together,talking about what was going to happen once they were in their father's temple. Nico was worried for her when she had to go,with Arion,to Hecate and once she come back he immediately took her away to talk. They went to Venice together with Frank (but I didn't like his attitude here towards Nico) and Hazel was poisoned,while he got turned into a plant because he was trying to make Triptolemus help his sister. Frank was extremely worried about Hazel and in the end saved the day,but Nico was also worried about her. He lost his cool when Triptolemus was delaying his help and payed the price for it. Nico is usually respectful or careful around gods (expect Cupid),and this was the first time he antagonized a god,a one that hated children of the Underworld just for their parentage,because his sister was dying.

In BoO,when he and Hades talked in that chapel his first though was Hazel. Even with so much things going on and the fact he was dying and fading away,his first worry is his sister and then everyone else. And after the war they both spent time together and talked about Leo's death,trying to understand what was going on with him. They learned to not fear each other while everyone else in both camps feared them for their powers.

Bianca knew what was happening to Nico in BotL and let someone else help him. She could have responded to his desperate cries and let him understand what was happening and it was her choice and fault she was dead,before Minos could act on his secret plan. She responded to him only when Percy was there,adrressing him first,and giving Nico a couple of lines before going away.

We saw at the start of the book how she could sent Iris-messages even tho she was dead and a ghost,so she could have done something for Nico. His mental state was horrible and it wasn't because of the Labyrinth he was in,but the fact he lost his older sister. He loved Bianca because she was his only family and now he was alone. Minos didn't help his cause,since he was a manipulative jerk that just wanted to use him and poison him against the others. Nico cared about Bianca so much that he tried to kill himself to have her back,and then decided to follow an insane ghost to become a murderer. Bianca didn't even cared to answer his summoning before shit it the fun.

Hazel stayed with him through everything,and fought with and for him,while Bianca abandoned him and didn't even tell him about her rebirth.

Nico wasn't going to bring her back since he already accepted her death,and having one last talk before she could go for rebirth was probably going to redeem her a bit,but Riordan didn't even think of that. Bianca was selfish in her choice again,even after what happened in TTC. She didn't learn and didn't trust Nico to let her go,knowing they weren't going to see each other again. Hades's didn't help at all in this since he gave Nico a lot more inferiority complexs about his sister,that he already had mind you. Nico was over her death and could have let her go,but then Riordan ereased that part of his character development and made Nico search for her again,even tho he already accepted,in BotL and during TLO,that she was dead.

I'm sure Bianca cared for him in her strange way,otherwise Percy was never going to know about Nico,and Nico was never going to know about their mother. But I can point a few moments where she was actually genuine with him,maybe at the start of TTC when the manticore attacked them,but that's it. Most of the time she ignored him and treated him like a weight she wanted to get rid of,not like a brother she apparently took care of for months. If she was really parentified she would have thought more about her choice,since she couldn't leave "her" child alone in a dangerous world. She didn't.

The only moment I can think of,about Hazel being a "bad" sister,is her talk with Frank in HoH. But that was completely OOC for her since she was disperated to get him back in MoA (she even went along with Gaia's trap to have a chance to get him back,mind you). Idk what Riordan was trying to do with the "I know he is creepy and all,but he is my brother so try to be nice to him." talk instead of having Hazel defend Nico,because she also was in the same potion not even a week before at CJ,and made Frank realize he was being judgedmental about him and by doing so he was also hurting her too,as both his sister and child of the Underworld.

But that's it,the rest of the time she was supportive of him and cared for him. These two would be capable of killing themselves if it's mean the survival of the other. Nico and Bianca weren't. She died because she felt guilty only after realizing what she did,and still decided to ignore him most of PJO's narrative,while Nico was ready to both die and kill for her. There are a lot of moment where Hazel handled the situation better that what Bianca did when it cames to Nico.

[forrpercyy]

the daughters 💀⚡️💎

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The Death Siblings. Past, present and future. Inspired by Sargent’s artwork “the children of a. wertheimein”.

[alluraswifey]

Apollo be like:

Apollo: Don’t speak to me, my daughter or my sons ever-

Nico: And me I have a doctors note.

Apollo: OR MY SONS BOYFRIEND EVER AGAIN!

[siminiecricketart]

Daughters of the Big Three 💎⚡️💀

[redroses07]

I miss the old PJO fandom. Ever since the show came out everyone has been so toxic. I honestly don’t even wanna interact with the fandom anymore cause everyone is so damn mean. Stop cancelling everyone and freaking out about fancasts. Kind PJO fans moot me! This is a safe space!

[justaz]

amnesiac!percy being super, super, super protective of hazel to a concerning degree but he brushes it off as maybe she reminds him of someone from his life before. when percy explains his plan of drinking gorgons blood, hazel offers herself up to drink the blood. she’s died once before, she can do it again. percy has something to do, he has people to find. he can’t risk his life for something like this. hazel can do it. chances are, with the doors of death open and thanatos locked up, she can find her way back as a child of pluto.

percy refuses. he won’t let her get a word out. she insists. he refuses. their argument crescendos into him calling her bianca. its draws them all up short. percy is confused, he has no idea whose name that is. he has no idea why his chest hurts so bad. hazel does. hazel knows. its her dead sister’s name. nico’s real sister. the one he lost years ago.

she knew that percy and nico knew each other, nico pretty much confirmed it but he refused to elaborate on any of the details. percy must’ve known bianca. that must be where percy and nico knew each other from. she has grown somewhat used to nico calling her bianca, she had been a substitute, a consolation prize from the underworld. nico couldn’t find his real sister so he settled for a shadow of her. she had thought percy, someone she had grown to think of as an older brother, would be different. yet here he is, with no memory, calling her the name of a ghost, someone she can never hope to live up to. someone she can’t compete with. someone who will always be better than her.

[wing67896]

Why do I feel like every cabin has a really big purpose in camp, e.g. hephestus for the swords, athena for strategy, apollo for archery except from the big 3? Like, Leo's always off making something, Will's always in the infirmary, and Annabeth's always practising, but Nico and Percy just kinda walk around without any purpose.

[nicodiangeloing]

i think we deserved to see more of nico and bianca as siblings. like im talking 3am in the hades cabin, theyre arguing and hitting eachother over what cheeto flavor is the best. they have eachother as babies as their lock screens. they learn what escalators are together. nico appearing at the foot of bianca’s bed “i frew up☹️.” theyre laughing hysterically in a quiet room to the point they cant breathe. theyre gossiping in italian while walking out of school. theyre filming stupid tiktoks together. nico cheered the loudest at bianca’s graduation and vice versa. they swore they were never going to speak to eachother again after disagreeing over what voltron character is the best but broke after two seconds. “will, if you want to date nico, you’ll have to get the sister’s blessing first.” just. theyre siblings ok.

[greencatalystcomet]

im a little less than halfway through son of neptune and i just gotta say. theres no way nicos real fatal flaw is holding grudges because i would kill percy jackson myself before i let another of my sisters go on a dangerous quest with him

[notgwenzx]

will solace's favourite t shirt

[aroaceleovaldez]

the dynamic of demigods thinking which other demigod is the most powerful is always amusing to me because. like, we know the big 3 kids are all the most powerful. That's just a fact of their universe. And then we know nearly every character views Percy as the strongest demigod, and most people are very rightfully intimidated by him.

and you look at the powers of the Big 3 kids and there's Percy, but then you realize Nico is just kind of objectively more powerful than him but simply chooses to hang out in Percy's shadow like he's Percy's scary dog privileges. Like, the two of them are pretty equally capable of causing multiple different apocalypses. Nico just also has like four different instakill powers and it's not like he doesn't use them. He very much uses them! Not infrequently, even! And they don't seem to take a significant amount of energy from him! And other demigods are pretty intimidated by both of them! But Nico makes a conscious point to keep his cards close to his chest and not let on exactly how dangerous and scary he can be if he wants to. People are already scared enough of him without knowing anything about him and he doesn't like that. Percy doesn't think about that nearly as much, and so usually just goes in guns blazing and that's part of why he's considered a wildcard. And then Nico himself puts Percy on a pedestal, so those who do know more about Nico's abilities then presume Nico knows something they don't about Percy that implies Percy is even stronger than him.

And even on a meta level Nico's narrative role requires him to be functionally more powerful than Percy, because he very often serves the purpose of getting Percy out of situations he can't handle on his own. That's just part of his function as a character! But also narratively he can't overshadow Percy so he just takes a backseat of his own accord and that's very amusing to me.

[forrpercyy]

big 3 kids

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children of the underworld in a wall on the palace of hades

I was listening to King by Florence and The Machine and the lyrics "I need my golden crown of sorrow my bloody sword to sing these empty halls to echo with grand self mythology" made me remember them

[yonemurishiroku]

Percy and Nico are so funny. Nico trusts Percy, going so far as to reassure his sister Hazel about it, yet doesn't think Percy trusts him in return. On the other hand, Percy trusts Nico enough to leave convincing Hades to him, but he also believes that Nico has lost faith in him since the time he let his other sister, Bianca, die.

There is so much trust and yet no trust at all. Absolutely spectacular.

[kandii000]