After Tartarus, the wars are over, but the quiet is louder than any battlefield.
[“You are—” he muttered, fighting a smile, “—such an adorable piece of pancake pumpkin.”
Nico stared at him.
“…A what.” ]
Will is exhausted. Nico isn’t sleeping. Between nightmares, their own feelings, and the weight of everyone they couldn’t save, they keep pretending they’re fine, until they stop pretending and start holding each other instead.
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🟠 August
Somehow, Nico's life only gets more confusing after he defeats a primordial Goddess.
Will Solace accounts for about 90% of that confusion.
(A journey through August, and all its ups and downs.)
🟠 August (Will's version)
Somehow, Will's life only gets more confusing after he helps to defeat a primordial Goddess.
Nico di Angelo accounts for about 90% of that confusion.
(A journey through August, and all its ups and downs. But from Will's POV, this time.)
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🟠 The first lovers in the world
The sun is beating down on them, on Nico's exposed collarbones and the back of Will's neck, and for once, Nico learns to let it. He learns to let the heat seep into his skin, to accept it into his veins and into his soul, into the ragged surface of his scars and the deep brown of his eyes. He lets it build him as he grows, lets the light this boy brings become a core part of him.
Their relationship changes, from the way it was when they were fourteen, clammy hands and shy smiles, to how it is when they're nearing the edge of adulthood, working together to figure out what to do with all this love they hold.
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🟠 Don't you just wanna wake up, dark as a lake?
Nico di Angelo could be soft. Not just kind, not just quiet, not just kissing him tentatively. He could be a haze of scarred olive skin, shiny black hair that now grew down his shoulders and deep not-exactly-black eyes, surrounded by the white sheets of his large Cabinet Thirteen counselor bed. His smile could be warmer than the sun and the way the word 'love' slipped from his tongue could be melodic.
He stopped kissing Will goodbye every night in front of his porch: instead, he let Will use the Hades cabin like the space was their own. They were seventeen now and half of Will's wardrobe was on Nico's floor, and it's been months since Nico slept in any clothing that wasn't once Will's.
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🟠 The Nico Letters (I Will Love You):
5 times Nico does something for Will and the 1 time Will does something for Nico.
Or, how during camp's off season from fall to spring Nico is the only person inbetween Will and a long overdue mental health crisis.
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🟠 And i'll never go home again (place the call, feel it start)
Camp Half Blood holds a volleyball tournament every summer. This the first time Nico di Angelo has ever had a chance to participate, and on Will Solace's team nonetheless.
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🟠 The Anatomy of a Three-Headed Dog
“How many brains does Cerberus have? Do the heads think independently?”
Trust Will to have a mountain of questions about a three-headed dog’s biology. Then again, maybe it’s on Nico for not expecting that this playdate would involve a detailed analysis of Cerberus’s brain functionality.
(Post-canon fic in which Nico introduces Will to Cerberus for the first time.)
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🟠 Sanctuary
The Apollo cabin is destroyed when the Teumessian Fox tears through Camp Half Blood looking for the Hunters of Artemis. With his cabin in ruins, Will finds himself bunking in the Hades cabin for a week — a living situation that proves to be significantly more uplifting than he could have suspected.
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🟠 Mercy
When the Apollo and Ares campers run into a disagreement during a game of Capture the Flag, the situation quickly goes south and Will ends up as a patient in his own infirmary. Troubled, Nico visits Will in the infirmary and finds that his crush on a certain healer hasn't wavered one bit.
AKA: The time Nico finds out Will has a tattoo.
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🟠 I'm loving angels instead
When he entered the infirmary, the reaction was almost instantaneous. The moment people caught sight of him, the noise vanished like someone had flipped a switch. Patients and healers alike fixed their gazes on him, the unspoken question hanging heavy in the air. Which patient's condition was serious enough to warrant a visit from the son of Hades? Who was dying?
The only person seemingly unaffected by the heavy atmosphere, perhaps because he had technically caused it, was Will Solace. Nico heard the head healer sigh appreciatively behind him.
“–Silence, finally. I should've brought you in days ago.”
“–Solace,” Nico finally hissed through his teeth. “I'm freaking everyone out. I should just go.”
“–Don't you dare, di Angelo. You promised.”
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🟠 He'll Know Tomorrow
While Nico sleeps in his arms, Will thinks of the future with his boyfriend.
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🟠 Is There Anything I Can Do?
Will and Nico are in charge of cabin inspections. Will hates it, Nico loves it, but their dynamic switches when they have to do the cabin check for Cabin 13.
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🟠 The skeletons in your closet
Will is a reasonable guy, an upstanding citizen, if you were to ask him, who has endless patience for the sheer volume of idiots he treats in the infirmary every—gods-damn—day. All that to say, it takes a lot to really get to him.
Afonso gets to Will. Irks him, you might say.
Afonso, the skull from some Bone Chapel in Portugal that Hades decided to gift to Nico and who has now taken up residence in the closet of the Hades Cabin. Will hates Afonso with a passion, and after a very frustrating week, he decides to take a stand.
Nico is not amused.
🟠 Your Cat’s Cute, and So Are You
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🟠 Take A Break
Will’s breath hovered over his ear as he laughed softly before slipping his hands downwards and wrapping his arms loosely around his chest before continuing to kiss over Nico’s neck. The Italian tipped his head backwards, forgetting everything but Will, even his English had slipped through some secret trap door, replaced with the oldest part of his brain that only knew his mother tongue.
Aka the one where Nico forgets how to English whenever Will kisses his neck.
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📢Human AU: Strangers to Lovers
There’s a cat on Will’s kitchen table. He does not own a cat.
Or, Nico’s cat likes to sneak into Will’s house
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🟠 All these others gonna tear me apart
📢 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse AU
“You are the son of Apollo?” the King asks.
“Yes, Your Majesty,” Will says calmly.
“And why have you come?”
“My kingdom has fallen,” Will tells him, “My family is dead. I have nowhere else to go. I heard of the graciousness of Olympus and how they are receiving refugees from what seems to be the end of times. I came to ask for sanctuary.”
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🟠 So please don't stop
📢 SoccerCoach Will x SingleParent Nico AU
"Hey, Cecil", he mutters a few hours later, blindly staring at the cop show on TV. He's only a little drunk, but he's warm and fuzzy and his mind feels light when he thinks about Nico di Angelo's polite smile and that jawline and those incredibly brown eyes. "Cecil, have you ever seen a man so beautiful you wanted to cry?"
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🟠 Deja boo
📢 Mortal!Will x DemiGod!Nico AU
Nico is a skeptic. Will is a believer.
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🟠 Of ties and significant annoyances
📢 Hogwarts AU
Nico and Will are trying to keep their relationship a secret, but they swap house ties by accident.
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🟠 Blinded By Your Light:
📢 Deaf!Will x Blind!Nico ¿AU?
Their morning argument was still on the tips of Nico's fingers, his wrists aching and his throat raspy with the vigor of signing and yelling, pleading and bargaining, convincing Will that the tragedy of their existence didn't have to be so tragic. But Will believed, with all his might, that he was hurting Nico.
What Will didn't understand was that he could never do that, even if he tried.
Or: Will's glowing when he experiences positive emotions has unintended consequences.
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🟠 Please Hold
📢 Mortal AU
Nico di Angelo loved his job and he was damned good at it if his ‘Employee of the Month’ certificates were anything to go by. His sole responsibility as a call responder in the Complaints & Feedback Department of Hermes Express, was to ensure no one ever successfully left a complaint. How does he do that? Simple, by pissing their customers off until they just hang up.
Will Solace was stubborn as a mule and some jerk in the Hermes Express Complaints Department was not going to stand between him and his missing parcel.
/OR/
Nico being a sarcastic shit who takes too much pleasure in putting people on hold, and Will is a masochist Swiftie who refuses to just give up. And is it possible to fall in love with just a voice over the phone?
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🟠 Wrong number, right person:
📢 Wrong number AU
Nico di Angelo's plan was simple: survive college with minimal human interaction.
Will Solace's wrong number text ruined everything. Especially when Nico realized he'd already met the human golden retriever on the other end of the phone.
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🟠 Part 1 : Linger in my Doorway:
⚠️ABO! AU
Nico di Angelo would sooner bear his teeth than his neck to any Alpha that dared to come near him when he’s in heat. He’d sooner attack than submit. Sooner run than be claimed. So why isn’t he running away from Will Solace?
Why, for the first time in his life, is he not afraid of an Alpha hurting him?
🟠 Part 2: Exist Outside My Dreams:
All Nico wanted in the world was to give his Alpha everything he could ever ask for. To be the Omega that his mate deserved.
And he wanted the one thing every Omega in the world wanted.
To have a family.
🟠 Part 3: Within A Treasure’s Time
Will had the power to scare Nico because it was given to him, because he was trusted with it.
Nico trusted him. More than that, Nico, who could have had any Alpha he wanted, loved him. Loved him enough to stay through sterility when all he wanted in the world was a child.
Loved him enough to believe a lie.
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🟠 I'm tangled between your little flaws
⚠️ABO! AU
Will felt breathless. He didn't know if that was an effect of the rut or of simply being in Nico's presence. Probably the latter. “You know, I was serious this morning. I'll die without you.”
Nico—who had previously clearly been lost in his thoughts, his sight unfocused towards the direction of one edge of the bed—then looked at him, softly, loving, from his big brown eyes and through the long lashes that framed them. He stayed silent for a couple of seconds, his face taking the usual expression he had when he was battling with himself over something.
“...Then why won't you bite me?”
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🟠 Weakness in Vulnerability
⚠️ABO! AU
Nico was raised to believe that he must hide something fundamental about himself for his own safety.
He is a male omega, and male omegas are violations of the natural order of things. To avoid ostracization and ridicule, he must never reveal himself; he must never give in to his instincts for risk of his life.
But things are different in the 21st century. No one bats an eye at a powerful male omega fighter who saves the world multiple times in only a few years (well, maybe at the 'saving the world part'). He even has a loving alpha boyfriend who accepts and nurtures both his stand-offish, sarcastic side and his kind and gentle side that he's tried so hard to hide. Will encourages him to find comfort in his instincts, to not shove them so far down inside, to let them out when it feels right. And Nico is learning to accept that part of himself.
But there must be a limit, right? Something too weak, too omega that he will do that will scare his mate away forever.
Popping in during a writing break to say the new covers of the special editions Nico di Angelo series that are availiable for preorder go so fucking hard
the rambles r so good and oomf helped me with this story (thanks to them <33) @notwooshie <33
what they have to offer…
“What if Nico is a rare case where he died very early on in the apocalypse, but when Will finds him, he's different than a regular walker. He's clearly conscious and aware, though he can move very little because he was trapped since his death. And he doesn't exactly look dead, not like a regular walker does. He looks like a very stiff, sick vampire.
What if the strain inside of him mutated, and despite Nico being undead, he's more alive than any other walker ever has been. What if Will finds a walker while he's clearing a building, and ends up discovering a miracle
He needs physical rehabilitation, because he can barely talk and move, so Will frees him and carries him back to his own apartment, and slowly helps him with physical therapy, letting him regain a little bit of motion every day and watching him become a little bit more himself every day while they try to understand what happened to him
They communicate through Nico tapping on things in tap language, because his fingers are the part of him that's retained the most motion after so many years sitting still
Something preserved his mind enough in a good enough location that he retained his memory and brain function, and the infection evolved to keep him alive somehow without wanting to eat people
He just lost all muscle function because of being trapped and not being able to move much for a long while, so Will has to carry him initially until Nico can move and talk a little bit more
I think the infection in Nico would mutate to keep him from just fading away due to being unable to move or feed as a walker. I think at first he'd have the same walker instincts as the rest, but as the pathogen mutates, he somehow evolves to feed through sunlight, similar to photosynthesis but not exactly
The pathogen will alter the cells to start their own mitosis and take in sunlight to form a sort of weak supply of energy. He'd need to drink water to be fully active and recover tissue, but the sunlight keeps him alive for long enough for Will to find him. Pretty much all of his organs have failed except for his nervous system, so the pathogen created its own system in their place, using his skin as a main circulatory system that goes deeper
Will was trying to get to his family in Texas when the apocalypse started, but he was considerably slowed because the highways aren't functional anymore, so he's been painfully slowly making his way there on foot. He found Nico on the way, and the two of them are determined to get to Texas so Will can try to find his family, but also because they've also heard that one of the last standing hospital bases looking for a cure is there.”
