#nico di angelo solos

[pjo-hoo-toa-freakazoid]

I made a discovery

If I’m correct I will literally cry

[luvingsolace]

“Why was Will so whiny during tsats he was literally fine” mind you they were in hell and then in Tartarus and my boy he gets sick from not being close to the sun not to mention all of his injuries… how was he fine???

[hyperfocuscentre]

tbh, hiss-majesty is basically just me. I would also wear a cheese hat simply because will solace wore a cheese hat.

[yonemurishiroku]

Extremely elated to see:

- Nico low-key subtly merely a little bit freaking out at whatever he’s pointing at. Perhaps a possible danger.

- William Andrew Solace giving zero care to that possible danger and only having eyes on his boyfriend.

Ahhh, to be young and gay at the bottom of hell.

[incorrect-riordanverse]

finally reading tsats here are my live thoughts (spoilers, obviously):

i’m so excited because some pages are darkly decorated and its so cool. still don’t vibe with the title though (the sun IS a star and its peeving me)

why are we talking about dating darth vader 😟 where are we rn (anakin is a yes, but DARTH VADER???)

maybe i’m too old but the jokes are not funny 😭

“this whole place feels like my soul. empty and dark. dark as the pit of the underworld.” <- i don’t care if he’s joking nico would never say thissss 🙏😭 we’re only 10 pages in but please stop butchering my fav character he’s not himselffff i am cringing so bad

i know i’m being dramatic but if they do nico dirty in this book i’m going to end it all

oh my god i don’t think i’ve thought about the words “significant annoyance” in so long. bringing back good memories for sure.

i can tell which parts were written by riordan and which parts were written by oshiro. i don’t think their voices are blending very well together…

also, maybe it’s because it’s the start of the book and they’re trying to familiarise new readers quickly with the characters but it feels like they’re making nico the caricature of ‘emo and shadow and ebony darkness dementia raven way 🥀⛓️🖤’ and will the caricature of ‘happy and sunshine and blonde and flower gleam and glow ☀️🌈🫧’ and i usually like this dynamic when it’s not blatantly pointed out every other page. i have faith they’ll show more complexity than this later on though. future yan will let me know by the end. (future yan here, im not at the end but the characterisation def does get more complex thank gods)

oh ok so it is bob the titan

since when was nico’s actual name niccolo??? how did i forget this detail??

“you have to listen if not you’ll share my fate.” “ominous much?” <- ok he’s finally himself again guys it’s all good

the one-sided beef nico has with percy will never not be funny

“cookie monster appeared over the mouth of the jar, reached inside and gobbled up nico like the chocolate-chip cookie he was.” <- nevermind i’ve gone back to hating this book again

“what was one straight boy when you spent your whole life longing for the impossible?” <- i’m reminded of that time a few years back where everyone made ‘having an unrequited crush on percy’ nico’s whole fanon personality, so i’m glad they addressed this somewhat. this boy has been through so much and people really thought crushing on percy was the biggest thing to focus on about ‘nico angst.’

“we made a mistake. you have to fix it.” <- call me a red flag but if i was nico i would do anything and everything to not go. i would medicate myself so highly on sleeping pills that i can’t dream (doctor bf can go kick rocks). i would track percy and annabeth down and haul their asses into tartarus instead to do it. and if i had to go i would only go in to kill bob myself for sending me those traumatic ass nightmares. no thx. bro willingly jumped in himself and now wants me to save him. nuh uh.

not cupid being will 😭 its like his aphrodite 😭 i am not well.

they always have a really good and emotionally moving scene and they ruin it with a dumb joke. let it be heavy 👏👏

something’s really fishy and i have a feeling that it might not be bob calling for him

if this whole “grumpy ball of darkness” thing continues i will actually lose it

you can’t tell me the percabeth pep talk was actually needed. i will forgive it because i miss them though

im sensing tension in the gap between nico’s connection to the underworld and his relationship with will and i’m here for ittttt. give me the dramaaa

who is the gorgyra girl and why is she in their business sm?

oh shit a will solace pov??? christmas came early 🙏

nevermind that whole nightmare sequence was so fucked up 😭😭

somebody HELP HIM i never thought we would get will angst (nico angst fs, but will???)

DONT JUMP IN THE STYX PLEASE

SOMEBODY TELL HIM HE’S HELPFUL OMG

nico strangling epiales in his sleep is so fucking cool he’s literally HIM he’s literally THAT GUY

[buoyantsaturn]

hey. hey. not only is that an outfit that will canonically owns. that is the outfit in which CUPID APPEARS TO NICO. this is Will in his MOST ATTRACTIVE STATE, in nicos eyes. we HAVE to start shaming him more for this.

[miraculousbumbble]

God! Nico where it's your usual "everyone prays to Nico because they think he's a God" shtick but since he's dating Will, a lot of people think that "huh, will must be a God like Nico!"

Meanwhile Nico, who's trying his best to be the next Percy because of course when Percy went to College he left Nico with the stupid horn but didn't tell him "it's symbolic, like passing of the torch! Your head camper now!", and Nico has no idea. He's just happy he gets to sit with SOMEONE instead of at the Hades table all alone. Sure it's Mr.D and Chiron but it's better than being alone.

But it's funny because since Nico's doing a whole lot of stuff (even after he turns 18 and just decided to help around because let's be real. Kids should not be in charge of their other kid siblings and Nico and Will do not want anymore deaths or mishaps in camp) like he's gotta help Will with the infirmary paper work every once in a while and for some reason Nico has to do all the camp paper work every Tuesday? But ok sure, eventually someone finally told him that he's the only "main three" around and is a war vet. So yeah, he's got a lot of experience and the younger campers love him.

But they have no clue that Nico and Will are not two humble gods just watching over their mortal family members. So they pray to them. A lot. And you know the drill, eventual God hood strikes.

[hyacjnthus]

Cupid trying to blackmail Nico and Will in TSATS

Cupid: If you don’t give me what I want, I will release proof that you are a homosexual

Nico: You outed me a year ago.

Cupid: Gods damn it. You’re impossible.

Later…

Cupid: If don’t help me I will release proof that you are bisexual.

Will: I already came out and I’m dating Nico.

Cupid: Agh! Come on you can’t blackmail anyone anymore!

[sandersgrey]

"Nico solo book should be a tragedy" disagree.

Nico was Rick Riordan's first canonically queer character, and the first book queer character a lot of my generation knew about as kids- it would be a huge slap on the face of his audience if his story ended as a tragedy, and Riordan knows that. Thats why solangelo has such a solid, healthy dynamic in the background of toa.

Of now, he's also one of very few pjo-verse characters to be basically confirmed mentally ill, and he's also really disabled in the text, whether its said or not.

Nico is a queer orphan who's entire storyline til toa was just tragedy after tragedy after goddamn tragedy, and who has JUST begun to heal. He deserves a happy ending.

More importantly, the audience- the queer, disabled, mentally ill kids who see themselves in him- deserve to see him be happy at the end.

To make his story a tragedy would be to validate Nico's (and Hades') belief that kids like him don't get a happy ending. That all we're made for is tragedy.

Rick Riordan first wrote The Lightning Thief so his adhd son could finally see himself in a hero. He keeps writing after his son is grown because he knows how much other kids need those stories- his students, even. He knows.

It's even in the narrative itself: it tells us upfront that Percy's mother called him Perseus because he was the only greek hero who got a happy ending.

Nico is the queer kid's original Perseus.

The reasoning follows that he must be happy.

[faytears]

ermmmmmm can someone tell nico stans that it's okay for him to not be the strongest demigod in the series and that they don't need to slander percy or minimize his abilities to praise nico <3

[ethannku]

plot twist nico says #OnBrand because leo taught it to him

[pjo-hoo-toa-freakazoid]

Waiting for the day we read Tsats and loose our shit as Will pulls out his revolver and shoots a monster right in the head before it can attack Nico.

And Nico looks at his Ray of Sunshine of a boyfriend. Stunned but beyond impressed.

“Where’d you get that?” He asks, with a hint of excitement in his voice.

“Oh! My grandfather gave me Susan before I left for camp” Will smiled. “Now that I think about it, maybe giving a nine year old a revolver wasn’t really the safest parting gift—”

“—Wait…Susan..?”

“Susan!” Will nodded as he raised the gun.

Nico gave out a chuckle. “I like Susan”

[luvingsolace]

“Tsats is so cringe🤬🤬” are y’all fine pjo has been cringe those books are for middle schoolers

[gutsybitsies]

one of my hobbies is scrolling through poc character tags on tumblr and reporting posts that don't have anything to do with said character spamming the tag :D

it's important to tag properly but also its in bad taste to spam poc character tags with posts of your white faves

guys, be better

[hazellvsq]

when thalia and bianca and hazel’s bodies are never found and never buried and those who love them (luke nico sammy) cannot lay them to rest and quite literally shape the trajectory of the world through their grief and in their absence. luke poisoning thalia’s tree nico resurrecting the wrong sister the trajectory of leo’s life and sacrifice being shaped by a girl who died a century ago because they could never stop grieving what was lost. you CAN resurrect the dead but at what cost?

[elliosfuego1]

Headcanon

A trait that Reyna and Nico shared was what the campers called their "war smiles". The two never usually smiled, but when in battle and determined to win, they would let a savage, dangerous grin spread over their face, which basically meant you were doomed.