au where nico can be healed by his domain just like percy but he needs more contact so sometimes he just chills kinda buried in the ground with only his face peeking out
Headcanon that Annabeth talks Percy into playing Scrabble with her one day but underestimates how bad both of their spelling skills are. By the end of the night, Annabeth has made a few plays sheâs not quite sure are correct but is too prideful to check the dictionary, and Percy just starts making up words and swearing theyâre real (and enjoying the fact that Annabeth canât tell if heâs joking or not).
Hc that Nico has never seen a pride flag before so before he and Will date and theyâre hanging out in the Apollo cabin Nico sees a pride flag next to Willâs bed and is like âoh what country is that for?â
I see your Thalia and Percy friendship posts and raise you: Thalia, Percy and Nico are literal fucking besties.
This is gonna be a long one, kids. Buckle up. Iâve had to give some thought on how to ensure their friendship based on everything thatâs happened in canon and I think I got it.
Okay, imagine this: Thalia and Percy are hanging out in TTC and are having a lighthearted heart-to-heart. Towards the end of the conversation it goes...
Percy: You think all demigods are this much of a mess or is it a Big Three thing?
Thalia: Definitely a Big Three thing
Percy: We need one more to complete the trio of disaster
Thalia: Like the third member of our band. What would that even look like? I mean, they would need dark hair to join, obviously. Thatâs a requirement.
Percy: Of course. The eyes would have to be brown or black considering you and I took the blue and green ones.
Thalia: Uh huh. And aesthetic-wise I have the punk covered and you have the skateboarding look... preppy maybe? Ew. No. If we find a preppy Big Three kid then we condemn them.
Percy: Emo? Goth?
Thalia: OH MY GODS! Give me an emo or goth child of Hades to complete our trio PLEASE!
Bianca: Hey guys, whatâs up?
Percy: Hey, nothing much. Weâre just talking.
Bianca: Okay, bye (:
Thalia: Bye (:
Thalia: ANYWAYS! Percy, we have to find one-
Later on, they forget about the conversation until a few years down the road when Thalia suddenly IMs Percy at like 3 in the morning.
Thalia: Biancaâs little brother
Percy: What? Nico? Is he in a jar again?
Thalia: Heâs emo now, right?
Percy: Uh, he might just be depressed-
Thalia: HE IS EMO NOW, PERSEUS! WE NEED HIM!
Percy: I swear on to any god that is listening that I will hunt you down and break your nose. Thalia, he doesnât like us. Youâre a hunter and I... well, donât worry about why he doesnât like me.
Thalia: Uh huh and normally that would be fine, but we need him
Percy: We cannot force him to be friends with us
Thalia: Is that a challenge?
Percy: No
Thalia: Challenge accepted, jackass
Percy: Just let me go back to sleep
Thus begins Thalia and Percyâs quest to integrate Nico into the group. Percy is actually friends with Nico so he takes the lead and is kinda nervous bc theyâve had a on-and-off rocky relationship in the past. Thalia hasnât really interacted with Nico all that much yet so she only knows the bare minimum. Percy decides the best route is being honest upfront but he doesnât know how to say âI need you to be super close friends with Thalia and move past any residual awkwardness with me in order to fulfill a lifelong dream of having a disaster Big Three trio.â
He tries to suggest Hazel instead, but Thalia says she isnât emo enough to even consider. So Percy bites the bullet and has this conversation:
Percy: I want to do this ethically
Nico: ...I... are you talking to me? Thatâs not how you start a conversation.
Percy: Weâre still friends, right?
Nico: Sure?
Percy: How do you feel about Thalia?
Nico: Um, neutral, I guess? She isnât my favorite given she leads the hunt and is the daughter of the guy who murdered my mother.
Percy: Uhh understandable. Outside of that, would you be opposed to being her friend?
Nico: What the actual fuck is happening? I guess not? Sheâs Jasonâs sister, right? I like Jason.
Percy: Yes! Yes, exactly! He - oh my gods. Jason is the preppy one.
Nico: What?
Percy: I - THALIA! THALIA! JASON IS THE PREPPY ONE-
Nico: Maybe I wasnât even embarrassed to be gay. Maybe I was just embarrassed that I liked you.
So, Nico listens to this proposition and is just like âthat is the dumbest shit have I ever heard, but for the sake of curiosity on what you two even do together Iâm going to agree to this on a trial basisâ and thus begins the actual friendship.
Yeah. Nico gets suckered in real fast. Part of it is that he realizes Thalia is actually really cool and willing to work on stuff with him. Heâs uncomfortable with the hunters? Well, Thalia is the lieutenant and can make changes in some areas. What bothers him? More visiting time with mortal families? Done. You have to have trained for at least three years to go a quest? Done. Listen, the hating men thing only applies to some of the older ones and weâre working on that. Maybe if you visit more theyâll be more comfortable around boys. Nico slowly warms to them. Never completely tho. Thalia and Reyna are the only hunters heâs ever completely cool with.
Percy on the other hand... bless him. Heâs trying so hard to figure out how to make sure Nicoâs comfortable.
Annabeth: why are you googling âhow to be friends with your exâ? Are we breaking up?
Percy: no, but they donât have a wikihow article for âhow to make sure your âfriend who had a childhood crush on you for years without you noticing and was forced to admit it after a traumatic outing in which he had to pretend to hate you bc you couldnât save his sister but actually hated you bc of the feelings he held contempt for due to being raised in the 1930s and also because the 2000s can suck tooâ not feel uncomfortable with your friendshipâ so I had to improvise.
Annabeth: maybe try yahoo
This ends up being Thalia and Nicoâs biggest bonding moment at first bc Nico decides he wants to fuck with Percy once he notices him being awkward. It was only fair, right?
Nico: Percy! Donât do that!
Percy: Do what?
Thalia: Percy, what the Hades? Nicoâs gay. Whatâs wrong with you?
Percy: Iâm sorry! What am I doing?!?
Nico: I canât believe this
Percy: NO IâM SORRY! HOW DO I STOP?!
Thalia: Honestly the audacity is beyond me
Percy: Iâm literally about to cry. Just tell me what Iâm doing wrong.
Nico: you seriously donât know? Disgusting behavior. Annabeth is okay with this?
Percy: I donât KNOW, Iâm sorry!
Thalia: you should know better than to wear a shirt that brings out your eyes like that
Percy: ...
Nico: (:
Thalia: (:
Percy: I swear Iâm gonna kick both of your asses. Donât stress me out like that ever again. I did not live this long to be played like this-
Nico: Belligerently homophobic
Percy: STOP
Will is Nicoâs self-control. Thalia and Percy are the opposite of that. They try to outdo each other constantly. Thalia can fly? No big deal. Percy can use water to raise himself up into the sky. Nico decides heâs just gonna shadow travel into the sky at night bc technically âthe world is one big shadowâ at that point. It goes as well as you might think.
They all take turns holding the brain cells of the group. Usually it depends on the area of foolishness.There are times where none of them have braincells tho. This mainly happens when theyâre bored and want to try and combine powers to play games. Tag is a big one. Nico shadow travels to try and get away while Thalia uses lightning to keep there from being shadows. If Percy touches one of them with water then he wins.
Thalia and Nico bother Percy/Annabeth on dates and Thalia and Percy bother Nico/Will on dates. Itâs become a very serious game to try and crash the others romantic evenings.
Nico and Thalia are nervous around water bc Zeus and Hades are always very clear for other demigods to stay out of their domains. Percy is determined to teach them both how to properly swim. It is chaotic and they all almost die, but DAMNIT Percy taught them freestyle and nobody can take that from him.
Also, Nico is just like âidk guys. Nobody in ancient Greece really did that much of the naked stuff of my dad like they did for Poseidon and Zeus. Sucks for you guys tho.â and Thalia is sitting there like âOh... oh no, you poor thing. Have you searched your dad on the internet in modern time? Heâs either a loud dude with blue-fire hair or a sex symbol. Absolutely no in between.â
Ooh I had that one post about them trying to pin the âroyalty teasingâ that fits well here.
They all fight over custody with Mrs. OâLeary. It gets emotional. Thalia, as a hunter if Artemis, has a natural link with animals, so she claims that sheâs her dog. Nico says sheâs not even technically an animal, but a hellhound which is his fatherâs domain, meaning she is HIS dog. Percy gets very upset bc Daedalus gave her to HIM and YOU CANâT TAKE MY DOG FROM ME-
Disney movie marathons. Thatâs it. Thatâs all you need to know.
Percy claims heâs the oldest. Which, well, technically he is? Only Thalia and Nico arenât rolling with that. Thaliaâs age may have slowed down as a tree, and just bc she biologically stopped aging doesnât mean those years shouldnât count. According her birth year she is the oldest. Nico says according to HIS birth year heâs the oldest. They canât decide who the oldest is officially, but both Thalia and Nico voted that Percy is the youngest, which makes Percy super annoyed (âNeither of you have passed 16 years so I donât want to hear itâ)
Side Note: According to Annabeth, the order is Thalia, Percy, and then Nico, but only Thalia approves of that order.
Nico is determined to get Percy and Thalia to an actual therapist. Like, by gods he will do it.
Nico: It doesnât have to be Mr. D. I will summon someone for you. There are lots of great therapists who are dead-
Thalia: Get me Freud and Iâm in. I want to know wtf this âPenis Envyâ heâs talking about is.
Nico: Youâre supposed to talk about your problems.
Thalia: My problem is that some random guy has a mighty high opinion of penises to think we all want one.
Percy: Freudâs theories have actually all been pretty much dismissed anyways. He doesnât hold any real credibility in the psychology community.
Nico: ...how do you know that?
Thalia: NERD!
Percy: No! No, it was just something Annabeth said-
Nico: Nerd
Percy: NO-
Thalia: I canât believe youâre a nerd
Percy, holding back tears: This is why I need therapy
Nico: Literally half your life is a reason for therapy and yet you choose this moment?
One year they all decide to dress up for Halloween. Thalia turns up as an ear of corn, Nico shows up as guinea pig, and Percy shows up as a pine tree. They all collectively announce they have dressed up as each other.
Another Halloween comes by and they decide to dress up like their dads and impersonate them, which was real fun until Hermes popped up and told them that Zeus was getting offended.
Hunters of Artemis vs. CHB Capture the Flag is really just Nico and Percy trying to beat the shit out of Thalia while she orders literally all of the hunters to forget the flag and instead attack Nico and Percy.
Nico is the sugar-friend of the group. He buys them shit all the time. When Percy fondly points out that Hades does the same thing to Nico he freaks out lol. Thalia immediately prays to Zeus like âyou can try and buy my affection if you want. I would like the following-â
They get into an argument like.... three years later and Nico loudly proclaims his trial period is OVER and he will not be continuing on this stupid friendship. Percy and Thalia are so pissed off by this that they follow him around for a solid week saying that the trial period ended after the first year and he doesnât get to not be friends with them. This goes on for weeks. At one point, Thalia threatens to get lawyers involved.
Side note: They all get into arguments A LOT. It is a constant thing, but it hardly ever affects their friendship. Usually they get pissed off for like a day and then the next time they see each other its fine. Common arguments include: the right way to eat tacos, who the best spice girl is, who has the coolest powers, stuff about the hunt, being called out on various things, whether water is wet, and between Percy/Annabeth and Nico/Will who is the cuter couple (and btw it was not Nico and Percy who had that last argument lol. I will leave you in confusion on that one).
Some of the hunters try to criticize Thalia for spending so much time with two boys... some of the hunters are going to have to deal with Percy and Nico roasting them for an hour. Artemis is too tired to stop it.
Nico and Thalia are both good friends with Annabeth, so Percy and Thalia decide they need to be good friends with Will too. It, uh, is an adventure. Will doesnât know whatâs happening, but he does fear for his life when two Big Three kids kidnap him for âbondingâ time. Nico has to come rescue him.
Thalia and Nico went to Percyâs graduation wearing âGraduate Squadâ shirts with Percyâs face on them. They also brought some for Sally, Paul, and Annabeth who gladly wore them as Percy walked across the stage lol. Poseidon may have also showed up and made himself a matching shirt. Thalia and Nico lost their minds over it.
Every year for Thaliaâs birthday, Nico and Percy take her to abandoned buildings so she can just smash the shit out of it. It is a lot of fun for them to just demolish a house together and sometimes it is the only reason Thalia still celebrates her birthday at all.
Thalia and Percy are both groomspeople for Nicoâs wedding and they take this VERY seriously. Reyna is technically the best woman, but she doesnât have the plan anything bc Percy and Thalia are all over that shit. They also both cry when Nico gets married.
Bonus if you like bi-Percy...
Percy: soooo.... yeah. What do you think? Obviously, I love Annabeth and donât want to break up with her, but Iâm not really sure if that means I canât like boys too?
Thalia: Nah, you can. Sounds like you do. Congrats. I will still slit your throat if you cheat on her with a guy tho.
Percy: You know I wouldnât. And thatâs... not a problem? Nico, thatâs okay, right? The boy thing?
Nico: (: no! (: Iâm happy you felt comfortable to share this with us (: I wouldnât want you to feel like you canât tell me this kind of thing over a silly crush forever ago (: and if you any questions I can always help out (:
Percy: Thanks, Nico! I have to go talk to Annabeth. See you guys later!
Thalia & Nico: Bye!
Nico:
Thalia:
Thalia: ...you want to let it out?
Nico: what
Nico: the
Nico: F U C K
Thalia: there, there. If it makes you feel better I was thinking... if I didnât have my oath to Artemis then I would totally ask Reyna out-
I hate adhd cause I don't know where I put my keys, my sister is asleep and can't text me back about them, and now I can't sleep cause I can't remember if I left them in her car, left them in my apartment, or if I even locked my apartment. now I have to stay awake and suffer
Underrated Nico thing is that he just knows everyone, he's such a deus ex machina. The Romans? Nico has an in. Titens? He's pretty good friends with one. Overlooked gods? They take him out for lunch on Fridays. A hat wearing frog race that live deep underground and haven't been seen in thousands of years? Not only does Nico know them, he speaks their language.
He seems closed off but the boy will make friends with literally anything that will have him