I think that Nico and Grover could've had such a great relationship.
Grover went to school at Westover with them for what, four or five months? - long enough to realize that they were demigods. Did he befriend them? He knew them - that line when Bianca turns to Grover and asks him "Grover, are you a demigod?" jumps out at me - she's confused, she's overwhelmed, she and her brother narrowly escaped getting kidnapped, monsters are real, gods exist, some girl just went off a cliff, and she's turning to the only other person familiar here to her besides her brother.
Did he feel guilty when Bianca was killed? Did he grieve? While it wouldn't exactly have been the same as when Thalia died, since unlike Thalia both Nico and Bianca made it safely inside camp borders, it probably reminded him a lot of it because it was a similar situation, a twelve-year-old girl dying to save her friends...Did he blame himself at all?
Could Nico have blamed Grover for Bianca's death? While he no longer blames Percy, he still blames the Hunters...did he blame Grover too? Was he like "I thought satyrs are supposed to protect demigods why didn't you do your job?"
There's also so much we don't know about his time at Westover with the di Angelos. How long did it take him to suspect they were demigods? Did he try befriending them? Did he ask about their parents in an attempt to figure out which one was the god, and backed off when they said they had no memory of either of them and only remembered growing up in hotels and boarding schools? Did he encourage Nico's playing Mythomagic in the hope it would prepare him for the mythological world that would soon be all too real to the two? Did he wonder why neither sibling mentioned any memories prior to the previous year?
Do Nico and Grover have any sort of relationship at all post-canon, even if it's just "Hi nice to see you bye" if they happen to bump into each other at camp and then going on with whatever they were doing?
I just feel like any dynamic between them has so much potential.
you bet your arse grover felt bad about bianca, hell, he knew her longer than thalia! I don't think he liked her --or idolised her-- as much, but he must've cared about the kid!
I honestly think nico was at a stage in which children blame the "authority figure" and by all means he blamed percy, and --to an extent-- thalia too, since, in his eyes, those were The Powerful OnesTM (poor percy and thalia, they can't escape that role).. after a while though, I do imagine nico would've been resentful, but not too much tbh? like does nico ever even mention grover?
I hc that nico eventually moves in with sally and paul, and by living with percy, that'd put grover in his life a lot more, so there's potential for any kind of acquaintance to develop
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