We all know that Nico can raise the death and the ghosts,and today my brain was thinking if he ever summoned a ghost of someone that knew him before the Lotus.
We are talking about friends,classmates (elementary school) and neighbors that he had during the '40,with also the starting of the war and the Holocaust in between. And image being in their shoes,the guy that usually played with you outside of school,that lived in that pretty big house with his mother and sister,disappear one day and the next time you see him,he look like 12 even after almost 70 years passed and he's your new king.
"Riccardo isn't that the rich guy that we went to school with? The guy that usually draw during lessons and that disappeared that Friday evening?"
"You mean...Nico di angelo right? I'm pretty sure he got taken,since his dad wasn't italian and you know how nazys felt about mixed nationality."
"He is literally there??? He is calling out souls like it's his job??"
"Now,Gerardo,this is crazy. That's a 12 years old kid. Form what I understood,he is the son of our lord. The new Ghost King after the other one. Di angelo pretty sure is like us right now,or during the last years of his life if the nazys didn't took him. It's been 70 years after all."
"I'm pretty sure that's him,tho. He is the same! Look! It's literally him!"
"I already told you that it's impo-God it's him!"
"I told you so!"
"H O W ?!"
"I have no idea!"
And Nico is having war flashbacks of his childhood because fuck,he knew them before and they were friends. I can just image the conversation they could have if Nico recognizes them.
"Alright,alright. Let's get moving that I don't have all day,the nexts in line are....Riccardo Valdi?...Gerardo Ranieri? As in the same people I went to school with? The ones I played tag with?....Ok dad this wasn't part of the job,what the fuck-"
"We had the same reaction not gonna lie-"
"Shut up Gerardo. I remember what you did to my ice cream back in the days"
"It was only one time thing!"
It's hilarious and probably heartbreaking (for Nico) at the same time.