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𝑨𝒌𝒊 (𝒔𝒉𝒆/𝒉𝒆𝒓) || 19 || 𝑱𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂𝒏 𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝒈𝒊𝒓𝒍 𝒔𝒄𝒓𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒏𝒆𝒕 || 𝑨𝒓𝒐𝒂𝒄𝒆 || 𝑺𝒂𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒖𝒔 || 𝑨𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓 || 𝑻𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕 || 𝑨𝒐3 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒆𝒓 || 𝑷𝑱𝑶 𝒇𝒂𝒏 || 𝑹𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒘 || 𝑲-𝒑𝒐𝒑 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒓 (𝑬𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒆 & 𝑹𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒍𝒖𝒗) 𝑴𝒚 𝑨𝒐3: https://archiveofourown.org/users/PrincessofGhosts

[patronsa1ntofnothing]

Rick Riordan’s switch up on Percy is so funny to me. In older books it’s painfully obvious that Riordan preferred him, with his constant insistence that Percy is the strongest despite severely under-exploring everyone else’s powers, every character speaking highly of him, and his insane feats. In recent books, Percy is both demonised and flanderised. He has been dumbed down to the point of being unable to do anything without Annabeth, he’s being called out and blamed for things he didn’t do, and he’s just being bashed at every opportunity. Literally what happened???

[princessofghosts-posts]

The fandom happened.

Authors genuinely shouldn't be close to their fans because they start to consider their "headcanons" as canon in favor of pleasing them. Fanon view ≠ canon view; there is a reason these two need to be separated because otherwise it creates this mess.

Percy being stupid and needing Annabeth for everything was born from Percy/Percabeth's headcanons that some fans had of him and their relationships. Stereotypes and tropes also added weight to this: the "dumb boyfriend × smart girlfriend" trope is very common,and since Annabeth is book smart (a lot of people view this as the only type of valuable intelligence) they dumb Percy down,forgetting that he is intelligent too but just in a different way. They also rely on the multiple moments where Percy is "slow" in the books,when in reality he just doesn't know what's going on half of the time because people around him don't talk clearly,or explain things to him only after they happen. It's not his fault he's clueless most of the time when Chiron doesn't do his job properly.

Riordan got too close to those headcanons and these are the results. And it's not even just Percy,other characters are undergoing the flanderization too. He lost the plot to headcanons that most of the time just mischaracterize his characters and now he's following the trend. I don't even like his heavy favoritism towards Percy,especially in HoO because other characters with a lot of potential to rival him or go beyond his levels are stranded,but I genuinely hate seeing him reduced like this after years of showing how capable he is,and can be,even without Annabeth around.

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Although he is a fit for all of them,if Nico di Angelo was sorted in any of Hogwarts's houses it would be Hufflepuff. We just aren't ready to accept this yet.

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I'm starting to think that Nico and Annabeth's backstories,and their evolving relationships with their parents,made me addicted to the "neglected parent that realize they fucked up and try to be better for their kids because they genuinely love them,while the kids finally find closure and start their healing journey" trope for family angst/fluff. The amount of fics I consumed with this premise is insane,and they also genuinely make me emotional too.

Ah,fanon non-flanderized Hades,they will never make me hate you.

Ah,Canon Hades and Frederick Chase,they will never make me love you.

[hadeslittlesouleater]

For my sanity, I like to think of HoO and beyond as an MCU type alternate timeline. Sometimes, I will imagine original Nico meeting this other Nico and genuinely hating him for being whatever the hell he turned out to be. Like, I imagine he hears Will hit on some chick and this other version of himself is like “Hehe, stop it with the bisexual chaos!!” and he genuinely cusses them both out and refuses to interact with them ever again out of sheer irritation and embarrassment. Real Nico would never allow himself to be disrespected like that. He literally ran away from camp because, and quote, “the dead are the only ones who respect me.”

But of course Rick says it’s because he was in the closet and not because he was rejected.

[nico-posting]

I've been thinking about how Nico's association as prince of the Underworld can be interpreted as a beautiful metaphorical connection to his dichotomous personality in general.

The underworld encompasses different region with of diverse natures - The fields of Elysium along with the Isles of Blessed represent the best, and the fields of punishment, tartarus and land of sorrow, in direct contrast, represent some of the worst things...

I don't have the words to articulate this well, but it can be read as an interesting parallel to Nico's own persona: he has great capacity for violence, destruction and a streak of ruthlessness, yet his PoVs are abrim with so much love for his friends, consideration and genuine good intent.

As a side, I feel very few characters in the continuum have such a consistent, overarching and strong juxtaposition of contrasting traits as Nico does.

[princessofghosts-posts]

This altered my brain chemistry.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Sometimes I genuinely think that if the demigods were allowed to use guns a lot more,instead of just old-fashioned weapons,their problems would be less longer to deal with. Give Percy a gun. Give Annabeth guns. See how much shorter their quests would be if they were allowed to shoot monsters on sight. Give all of them guns and their conflicts would be solved in like 5 pages.

Don't give Nico a gun until he is mentally stable though,we can't risk him.

[green-plastic-starz]

posts you just know were written by an American

[princessofghosts-posts]

I'm italian 😭

[princessofghosts-posts]

Sometimes I genuinely think that if the demigods were allowed to use guns a lot more,instead of just old-fashioned weapons,their problems would be less longer to deal with. Give Percy a gun. Give Annabeth guns. See how much shorter their quests would be if they were allowed to shoot monsters on sight. Give all of them guns and their conflicts would be solved in like 5 pages.

Don't give Nico a gun until he is mentally stable though,we can't risk him.

[the-ivorytowerr]

jason grace is a sheep in wolf's clothing, not the other way around. he was a boy, a sweet, loving boy, forced into a soldier, a killer, a tool by those who found what he could do useful. a sheep follows, and that's exactly what he did. he followed the orders that he was told, did what he was supposed to, followed every rule, did everything he was supposed to, and he died.

jason grace was a sheep in wolf's clothing, and he died at the hands of a wolf.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Lou Ellen in the middle of the night: Hey....aren't half of the gods,like,inbred?

Clovis half asleep: Pretty much.

Lou Ellen: You think that's why they are so messed up?

Clovis: Probably.

Nico that just wants to sleep peacefully for one night: Not again-

[princessofghosts-posts]

Idk if someone ever considered it,but Nico working as a detective in the mortal world would be fire. Crimes would be resolved a lot faster too since he can talk to the victims directly,he just needs to gather proof and that also would be easier. Detective Nico AU where?

[princessofghosts-posts]

I was scrolling around and I saw something about how it was Hades that wanted Nico to go to Tartarus in TSATS and I was like "????".

He couldn't have sent his only son to hell??? Especially after he saw how physically and mentally fucked up he was in BoO during their meeting in the chapel,not to talk about his speech. Hades even told him how proud he was to have him as his son; he became a decent parent in canon after that,no?

Since I don't like not knowing I tried to find a good summary of the book (because I will die before my eyes lands on those pages again after that failed attempt) and I found a good one. I didn't read everything because I wanted to specifically find only that part to confirm or deny it myself,but I skimmed around enough and idk how to feel.

On the one hand I'm like "So many interactions between Nico and other cthonic gods Iike I always wanted,even if some wanted to kill him off",while on the other hand I'm crying inside. Half of what I read doesn't make sense,some of the information this book gives goes against pre-established lore (I'm talking about his first trip in Tartarus,I actually paid attention to that part because I was curious but now I wish I didn't),Hades genuinely thought that sending his son to hell to help Bob was a good move (he doesn't even give a shit about Bob in the first place). And he also pulled up the "I wish you are able to be happy in the future unlike all my other children" speech again apparently? Not to talk about how both Bianca and MARIA are there???

I knew about Bianca already and how they went over his grief over her death for the third time,BUT I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT MARIA. Bianca went for rebirth 3 years ago,she can't talk to him at all,and isn't Maria gone-gone? NICO COULDN'T EVEN SPEAK TO HER GHOST IN THE FIRST PLACE. Hades probably allowed it just for this time (which opened the plot hole of why he didn't allow it before this moment,since from HoO onwards he and Nico seems to be on good/decent terms). And I already said this,but I hate how every time Nico is the focus of something Riordan regresses his character and his healing journey. Having a regression can be understood if you write it well and intend in the first place to have that character fail their arc/development only for later on succeed and learn. Nico doesn't fall in this category. Riordan just regresses him when it's convenient for the plot,any other time other than that Nico is totally fine (if we don't count his power imbalance). And I just hate that because it's infuriating to see him being miserable all over again for the same thing he already accepted and healed from.

And I already knew about the cocodemons but I always ignored them and I will continue to do so until the end because that's rape. Not physically,of course,but Nyx literally fucked his mind. She took his emotions without consent out of his brain and created those things herself. And now Nico is a single father to his own negative emotions. Hell,he and Nyx technically went through the equivalent of which parents should keep the kids in a divorce,which is worse. And I'm sure all of that is just so Nico and Will can have their own "found family" or "children" to take care of because they can't have them on their own,and are also way too young to adopt and take care of a real kid. And even if we don't count this,it's still an allegory to rape. Like,no. That's fucked up to write even for Riordan's standard. Isn't he the one that fully believes that these books are for middle schoolers? PG-13? Nico can't literally catch a break even when he should be happy.

The only good thing this book gave was having Hades (he sucks) and Persephone confirm that they both care about Nico and the family dynamic they share. That's it. Which makes me a bit happy,because all of my headcanons on them are technically canon now,but I'm also crying about everything else that I skimmed over.

Being a Nico's fan in this economy is rough.

[princessofghosts-posts]

GUESS WHO'S BACK FROM THE DEAD?

Not Jason.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Since Jesus can be classified as a zombie,would Nico be able to order him around?

[green-plastic-starz]

Could he hypothetically bring about the second coming of Jesus Christ. How would he feel about that idea from a Young Catholic Gay Boy standpoint. Talk about having a complicated relationship with your religion, a 30+ year old Nico Di Angelo could ask the actual ghost of Jesus Christ his opinions on gay people and then kiss him on the mouth.

[green-plastic-starz]

What the FUCK was going on in November bro

[princessofghosts-posts]

I don't know man. Must have been something in the air.

[princessofghosts-posts]

I recently woke up and had a thought. We know that Percy is able to control the water,but would he be able to also control the molecular structure of it? And to also turn it into solid or gaseous states if he concentrates enough? I don't think something like this ever happened in the books (if it did forgive my horrible memory for this because I don't remember),so we don't have a real answer,but shouldn't he be able to? The potential for his powers are endless.

[princessofghosts-posts]

I need to understand if I'm the only one that got so much turned off by Will's character in TSATS that now is shipping Nico with someone else 😭

I didn't even reach Chapter 5 y'all,and I've been thinking about them ever since I tried to give it a try for my masochist heart. How can one single book achieve something like this in a couple of pages is impressive.

[princessofghosts-posts]

After rearranging my thoughts of the shitshow pages I was able to read I got to a conclusion.

I think TSATS doesn't work well because of how it tries to sell Nico and Will's relationship. They have been together for almost a year now,we didn't see them becoming a couple or their first phase of dating,we got to them when they were already together for a while in ToA. So,no Percabeth or Jasper type of trope. They are different from all the major ships of the universe. They should be more experienced and assured in their bond,especially after what happened with Apollo just a couple of days before.

The problem? TSATS try to sell them as a new couple,not people that have been together for a year already. And I don't know if it's just my view of it or not,but you can kinda feel it while you read it,or at least it's what I got from Nico's inner monologue. Since we didn't have the early stage of their relationship and how it came to be,TSATS is trying to give you that feeling. Because otherwise I can't explain the difference between how Nico and Will act in TON and here (other than the fact that their characters got murdered and they are super OOC because both authors dgaf).

For example: Will's adversity to the Underworld. This is something that they should have addressed months ago in the universe. How can you date the son of Hades and not bring it up in the first couple of weeks/months? After a whole year Will should have already overcome this,or at least went beyond it and made some progress. Instead it's like they never did. You want me to believe that Nico choose to date someone that didn't let him talk about his home because of their own negative view of it for a whole year?

It's totally ok for Will to not be fond of the Underworld,nobody except Nico likes that place,especially because of all of the people that he lost; but also it's a bit hypocritical of his part. Nico had to adjust to CHB all over again and probably felt uncomfortable a lot of times there,but he made sacrifices and went out of his comfort zone so that they could be together. And you want me to believe that Will,on the other hand,didn't even want Nico to mention the Underworld because he doesn't want to talk about it? Really? And that for a whole year they never solved this communication problem they have between the two? Really?

It's ok if the authors want conflict between them and want to clash their views and opinions,but this makes them feel like they just started dating when in reality it's been months. And the book doesn't help when it tries to remind you how long they've been together until now. It just makes everything feel more off between them.

The Percabeth and Jasper type of formula won't work for them,they need something different. And this....this is the last type of "different" that they need for now.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Guess who tried to read the TSATS ? And guess who didn't make it past page 2?

[princessofghosts-posts]

Nico I know you are in your yearning,honeymoon or whatever phase you are having,but this ain't you 😭

This whole paragraph is a nightmare to read. I know it's a solangelo-centred book and all of that,but erasing Nico's feelings before his relationship with Will is such a stupid move.

"Nico had assumed he himself did not have a heart" ??? HE IS LITERALLY THE CHARACTER WITH THE BIGGEST HEART OUT THERE- Other major characters wouldn't be here if it wasn't for his kindness.

"But then came....Will." This is just so wrong on all the sides because it's thanks to Percy,Will come later. And even if we don't want to acknowledge his crush anymore it's still Percy the first one that showed how love was. Jason too. Both of them were platonically there for him (even if for Jason it was too rushed/forced,and Percy and him have a complicated relationship to this day). Not trying to say that Will isn't important for Nico on that level,because he is,they are in a relationship after all,but he wasn't the only one.

Also the line: "Love didn't find people like him." genuinely pissed me off BECAUSE IT'S NOT TRUE. YOU FEEL IN LOVE BEFORE WITH PERCY. AND (if we want to say fuck you to the romantic pairs and focus on the platonic relationships) YOU LOVED BIANCA! AND HAZEL! AND JASON! WHY ARE HIS OTHER CONNECTIONS NOT GETTING ACKNOWLEDGED??

THIS IS JUST PAGE 2

[princessofghosts-posts]

I REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT WAS REAL AND NOT NICO TRYING TO SPEND TIME WITH WILL EVEN WHEN HE COULDN'T 💀

[princessofghosts-posts]

I'm pretty sure that Hypnos would be a bigger fit to try and understand the dreams he is having. It would have been cool to see Nico asking for Clovis help for this,or just asking some advice from Hypnos himself.

The whole conversation is so stupid because Nico is aware of how Dyonisus is,he has been in therapy sessions with him already. And he even treats him better than most. And the last line is actually murdering me right now. Nico is not like this with the gods. He acts respectfully towards them. It's when he gets a grudge that he explodes. This is more Percy's behavior than Nico.

Why am I even going on with this 😭

[princessofghosts-posts]

WTF IS THIS-

First off,Maria is gone,Nico has known this for years. He literally overcame this and faced his reality already,and now they are re-using the same arc?? It's too hard to ask for something new for him instead of recycling? Using Bianca again wasn't enough,we needed Maria as well to reopen wounds already healed.

[princessofghosts-posts]

YOU DO! YOU FUCKING DO! YOU HAVE BEEN MANIPULTING DREAMS FOR YEARS.

I'm starting to cry,how can people even try to defend this and say it's a good story? 😭😭

[princessofghosts-posts]

The fact that Riordan and Oshiro were able to write almost two whole chapters on Nico being trapped in his dreams,where he undergoes all the trauma he had from TTC to now,and makes the whole sequence completely boring and useless is something else. You need talent for that.

To sum it up:

Nico: *going through his trauma while asking for what's going on*

Everyone else that appears in his dream: YoU nEeD tO lIsTeN.

[princessofghosts-posts]

WHAT DO YOU MEAN THOSE WHERE JUST THE FIRST 4 CHAPTERS???

I don't think I've ever been more pained in my life than now-

And all of this just made me realize that Nico has been ignoring the prophecy for days,and....that's not Nico at all. Like it or not he would already be long gone on his way. Nico literally went to search for the Doors the minute he could,even without wanting to really do it,because they needed someone to find and close them before it was too late. And you want me to believe he would try to avoid his responsibility? I'm not doing this.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Ok,what the hell is the problem with this book? Why are they making him anything but Nico? First his conversation with Will about Dyonisus and now this. Nico would never. Does Riordan need to remember that each of his characters has different mannerisms and not the same type of sarcasm or attitude? This is why you need to keep notes.

I probably won't last much longer but at least I tried.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Does this mean he got kicked out of his home? Is this another reason for why he decided to stay at camp? Hades I thought you were trying to be a better father to him 😭😭

[princessofghosts-posts]

This is the FIRST TIME in 5 chapters that he actually feels like Nico. Which is upsetting because why did it take so long to have him act like he usually does???

[princessofghosts-posts]

Anddddd the next page he is OOC again. Yay.

Also,me and you both Chiron,me and you both.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Genuinely when was the last time we had a real 3-people-quest? 4 years ago? At this point you can go solo or with a group of 50 people and nothing will happen. We should also abolish the "Big three kids can't be near each other" rule too because they become both useless after HoO.

[princessofghosts-posts]

Yeah no,I'm done.

To whoever was able to read beyond Chapter 5 and go past this type of shit: You are a legend. I don't know how you did it but you are an absolute legend,your strength will be remembered.

To whoever likes this book: Why? Genuinely,how can you read this and appreciate it?