will solace is pure ravenclaw energy.
Oooooh yes!!! I totally see him as the type who loves to learn, with a specific interest (obviously) on medical related things. Like more than just being one to learn everything about the medical field, he wants to add to it as well.
Taking Nico’s shadow-fading thing: I’d like to think that even though he tries to keep Nico from shadow-traveling at first, he’s smart enough to know that setting restrictions like that isn’t a sustainable solution.
So he spends forever just researching how to help Nico. Because apart from being heavily involved in actual medical procedures, he loves researching and learning. He’s more than just a doctor, but also a researcher.
He helps Nico slowly but surely work on shadow-traveling. It starts with small trials across Camp, maybe every other month. He makes Nico rest up a lot before and has things like unicorn draught on hand right after, but he uses these opportunities to also study what to do in worst-case scenarios, where Nico uses his powers and starts fading because his body isn’t expunging the shadows. I see a lot of fics portraying Will as very headstrong and pushy on Nico, and while I do agree with some of it, I think Will’s personality from what we have seen would mean that it would make more sense for him to trust in Nico to know his abilities while providing a sort of underlying guidance, only really speaking up firmly when Nico’s pushing himself too far.
But a n y w a y s, back to the Ravenclaw energy; I think the only thing that wouldn’t match is the competitiveness that some Ravenclaws exhibit. In that case, Will would probably take more after a Hufflepuff, mostly because while learning and growing as a person and in the fields he is passionate about is one of his goals, he also clearly wants to be able to help people and doesn’t think himself above others (everyone is equal thing IG??? IDK).
Dkjfhkjfd that’s all really. Sorry anon I just got really excited by this; but yes! I firmly agree Will has major Ravenclaw energy!
(Also, not sure if I got all the traits right. I used the wiki and my own knowledge, but it might be inaccurate, so sorry about that!)