Post by Nico Di Angelo on Oct 14, 2016 14:52:22 GMT -6
Nico(Di)Angelo
ABOUT SECTION
Name: Nico Di Angelo
Face-Claim: Art of Nico by Viria
Nickname:King of ghosts, Ambassador of Pluto,Son of Hades
Age:16
Sexual orientation: Homosexual
Which Camp: Camp Half-Blood
Family: Maria Di Angelo (mother,decesed),Bianca Di Angelo (sister,Decesed),Persephone (step mother,immortal) Hazel Levesque (step sister, alive)
Godly Parent: Hades (Greek)
PERSONALITY SECTION
Likes: Modern fast food, his sister Hazel,his boyfriend Will, Being accepted by the living, his alone time, Hellhounds.
Dislikes:Being made fun of for being gay,When Will is angry with him, overly cheery people, Veggies,being ignored,Percy and Annabeth being overly lovey.
Strengths: His knowledge of the underworld,diplomatic nature,his mastery over his powers, Knowledge of magical creatures,master swordsman
Weaknesses: Loner nature, Jealous type,has trouble with Modern day things, has trouble opening up,temper, daddy issues
Powers: Necromancy- is a powerful form of magic. It is used to call upon the power of the dead. Necromancers can summon skeletons, ghosts and mummies; all of which are undead. The spirits that they summon can attack people, defend people, answer questions. (Limits: Can only summon two undead in a fight at a time)
UmbraKinesis- is the ability to mentally generate and manipulate darkness,the absence of light.
, They can use darkness to create portals to travel from one place to the next (shadow travel)
Overall Personality:When Nico was young, he was way different then the way he is now. He used to be excitable and loved playing games (especially Mythomagic). He thought of Demi-gods as modern day super heroes and was way more outwardly affectionate then he is now thanks to the support of his older sister Bianca. This all changed when she died and Nico found out that he was a son of Hades. This caused N Nico to become grim and solitary, and definitely a considerably more powerful character, saying that "only the dead respect me...and only out of fear." His attitude change may have happened partially because of Bianca's death. This caused him to become quite vengeful and believe that he didn't belong at Camp Half-blood or with the living.
Over time after Nico made up with Percy, He becomes a bold,brave and strong ally. His biggest fear being that his Homosexuality would be discovered. Nico is plagued by incredible internal pain, mainly due to him being unable to come to terms with not "belonging" in the twenty-first century (due to the time he spent in the Lotus Casino), not being accepted by other demigods as a son of Hades, and, worst of all, his homosexuality (which he is desperate to keep secret). Some of his fears about not being accepted due to being gay, most likely come from growing up in the 1940s, where homosexuality was not accepted.
This all changed for young Nico during the quest to stop Ghea from destroying the world. Once his friend Jason Grace found out that he liked men thanks to Cupid and he became deeper friends with Reyna of camp Jupiter, the young son of Hades found that his friends were a lot more accepting then he had believed them to be. This all came to a head during the battle against Ghea where Nico met one Will Solace the son of Apollo. The twos personalities while drastically different, meshed well and the two began their new lives as a couple while letting Nico find some semblance of peace.
Over time after Nico made up with Percy, He becomes a bold,brave and strong ally. His biggest fear being that his Homosexuality would be discovered. Nico is plagued by incredible internal pain, mainly due to him being unable to come to terms with not "belonging" in the twenty-first century (due to the time he spent in the Lotus Casino), not being accepted by other demigods as a son of Hades, and, worst of all, his homosexuality (which he is desperate to keep secret). Some of his fears about not being accepted due to being gay, most likely come from growing up in the 1940s, where homosexuality was not accepted.
This all changed for young Nico during the quest to stop Ghea from destroying the world. Once his friend Jason Grace found out that he liked men thanks to Cupid and he became deeper friends with Reyna of camp Jupiter, the young son of Hades found that his friends were a lot more accepting then he had believed them to be. This all came to a head during the battle against Ghea where Nico met one Will Solace the son of Apollo. The twos personalities while drastically different, meshed well and the two began their new lives as a couple while letting Nico find some semblance of peace.
HISTORY
Nico di Angelo was born sometime in the mid to late 1930's in Venice, Italy, before World War II. (before Hades and his brothers took an oath to have no more demigod children.) Since Nico was born in Italy and his mother was Italian (the daughter of a diplomat in Washington D.C.), he can speak fluent Italian. He had an older sister named Bianca di Angelo. Around the age of six, Nico visited Diocletian's Palace in Split, Croatia. One of his neighbors, Pietro, had been a veteran of Mussolini's African Campaign. In The Blood of Olympus, Nico sees a brief flashback from this time - his mother smiling down at him while they both walked by the Venetian Grand Canal. At some point near the beginning of World War II, Nico and his family left Italy for the United States, where they stayed at a fancy hotel in Washington, D.C. Their mother, Maria, died when Zeus struck the hotel they were staying in with lightning in an attempt to kill the siblings. However, they were protected by Hades as he erected an impenetrable wall of black energy to shield them from Zeus's bolts; Hades was not able to protect their mother in time. Afterwards, a devastated Hades ordered the Fury Alecto to take Nico and Bianca to the Underworld and bathe them in the River Lethe, in order to wipe their memories.
Bianca recalls that shortly after she and Nico had their memories wiped, they were returned to Washington D.C. and told by a lawyer (Alecto in disguise) that their parents were dead, and had left a bank trust for them. This "lawyer" would come by once in a while to check on both of them. During this time, Nico and Bianca were enrolled in a boarding school. During this time, Bianca familiarized herself with the city's subway system. In The Blood of Olympus, Nico sees a brief flashback from this time - his sister Bianca, laughing as she pulled him across the National Mall. After some time had passed, Hades, hoping that one of his children might one day become the "child of the Eldest Gods" (referred to in the Great Prophecy), decided to place them in the Lotus Hotel and Casino, and tasked Alecto with the job. Once again disguised as a lawyer, Alecto had Nico and Bianca leave the boarding school, and took them all the way to the Lotus Hotel, in Las Vegas.
After what the siblings thought was a month in the Lotus Hotel (which was actually approximately 70 years), they were taken out by Alecto, this time disguised as a different lawyer. Alecto drove Nico and Bianca back east, through D.C., and then up into Maine. They were brought to a military school called Westover Hall, paid for by Hades using what Nico and Bianca thought to be a trust fund left to them by their parents. It was later revealed that Nico had been obsessed with pirates even before he started collecting Mythomagic cards. Bianca mentioned that the summer before she left Westover Hall (during the events of The Sea of Monsters), she and Nico visited Washington D.C. once again, and were very surprised to see several subway stations that had not been there before. In The Titan's Curse, Bianca mentions that during their visit, several monsters (disguised as mortals) attempted to attack them in an alley. Nico also mentions seeing a bus driver (most likely a satyr in disguse) with ram's horns, though Bianca had not believed him at the time. In The House of Hades, Nico mentions that Bianca was the only one who always accepted him for who he was. This most likely means that Bianca knew about her brother being homosexual.
Nico was first brought to camp by Percy Jackson and Annabeth Chase,grover and Thalia, who saved him and his sister from a manticore. When the group returned Bianca joined the Huntresses and went off on a quest with the group. Sadly that was the last time Nico would see her alive. After the quest Percy explains to him that Bianca died to save the others on the quest. He immediately turns on Percy, telling him he hates him, and reminding him of the promise he made to keep Bianca safe. Percy tries to comfort him, and Nico claims he can sense her soul being judged. When the last four Skeleton Warriors appear in the camp, Nico, not wanting them to hurt Percy, tells them to "Go away!" and they are swallowed by a fissure in the ground that Nico creates by accident. Nico is last seen running into the woods at night. Percy then realizes that Nico is a son of Hades after slipping over on and finding the god figurine that Bianca told Percy to give Nico if she died. It was the only one he didn't have (in his Mythomagic collection). The figurine was Hades, Lord of the Dead. He left the Camp through Daedalus' Labyrinth, where he would meet Minos. It is later revealed that another major reason he ran away that day was love - his romantic feelings for Percy that terrified Nico, who could not initially come to terms with them.
The ghost of King Minos finds Nico di Angelo in the Labyrinth, and intended to manipulate the son of Hades into killing Daedalus in revenge for his unjust, however much deserved, death. In order to gain Nico's trust, Minos leads him through the maze of the Labyrinth, saved him multiple times, and trained him how to utilize his infernal demigod powers. Hence, it is most likely that Minos was also the one to teach Nico to shadow travel. Nico later mentions that while trying to master this ability, he initially kept running into walls, and made several accidental trips to China. Nico is first seen through the Iris message that Bianca sent to Percy. Nico tried to summon Bianca's ghost many times, but failed. Frustrated, he seeks to make a deal with his father by trading "a soul for a soul." Percy thinks that Nico is after him, but Nico is actually after somebody else.
Nico decides to find the soul of someone who cheated death and trade it for Bianca's, along the way, he summons the soul of Theseus for advice. Later, Nico unexpectedly meets Percy, Annabeth, Tyson, and Grover at the Triple G Ranch. He'd entered the ranch to discuss finding the soul he needed with Geryon. Angered, he threatens them, but is stopped by Geryon. Nico still blames Percy for Bianca's death, and tells him so. He is then tied up by Geryon to be sold to the Titan Army. When Percy offers a deal to Geryon to save him, Nico shouts that he does not want to be saved by Percy.
Nonetheless, Percy still saves Nico, and convinces him to try and summon Bianca's spirit again. It works, however, Bianca tells Nico not to be angry at Percy or hold grudges, because that is the fatal flaw of the children of Hades. She says to stop blaming Percy because it is really she that Nico is angry at for abandoning him. She also gives a warning about Kronos sensing Nico, and then she disappears.
He stays at the Triple G Ranch while the others leave. Nico is tricked by Minos into going back into the maze to save Percy, but is captured by two dracanae of Kronos'. In the battle at Daedalus' Workshop, Nico opens a fissure in the ground, sending Minos back to the underworld. He tells Percy that only the dead accept him, and they only do so out of fear.
He escapes with Percy, Annabeth, and Rachel Elizabeth Dare, who have to go back into the Labyrinth to find Grover and Tyson. Along the way, they see Kronos (in the form of Luke Castellan), and Nico, in a desperate attempt to save everyone, shows his true powers, by conjuring a wall of black stone that stops Kronos from following them back in to the Labyrinth but also making it known to Kronos that he is a son of Hades.
When they found Grover and Tyson, they also found the long-lost god Pan, and Nico notices that he is the only one that Pan doesn't talk to.
During the battle at Camp Half Blood, Nico summons many undead warriors to fight, and stop some rogue dracanae from reaching the cabins of the gods. The effort nearly kills him and he collapses on the ground, with his clothes smoking, at the end of the battle. Percy finds him and helps him by giving him nectar. He releases Daedalus' soul after that, who offers his soul for ransom, but Nico decides Bianca should stay where she is.
He feels out of place at Camp Half-Blood, and refuses to eat with the other demigods or join the singalong at the campfire. Nico summons Bianca's spirit one last time to say goodbye. He tells Percy that he will leave Camp Half-Blood because he feels that he doesn't belong there like his father doesn't belong on Olympus. Before he leaves, Percy gives him the small Hades statue that Bianca had given him before she died.
He appears again at the very end on Percy's birthday at his apartment, and offers a way to defeat Kronos, but is distracted by Percy's blue birthday cake, and Percy offers him some, and they both go inside to talk about Nico's secret plan to beat Kronos.
Nico is one of the three demigods along with Thalia and Percy who are summoned by his step-mother Persephone to find the Sword of Hades. Percy thinks it's a bad idea but Nico is hoping to achieve recognition from his father Hades. He tells Thalia and Percy why they need to go on the quest. To Percy's irritation, he comes up with logical reasons. His knowledge of the Underworld and its occupants helps them complete their quest. He remains in the Underworld afterward to discuss the upcoming Titan War with his father. Before his friends leave, he reminds Percy of his idea to defeat the Titans.
Nico's theory to gain an edge over the Titans is finally revealed: it is to make Percy invincible by having him bathe in the River Styx, similar to the myth of Achilles. It is later revealed that Nico had hoped that this would also make Percy fall in love with him. It is shown that after Bianca died, Hades believes that he has no competent child, repeatedly mentioning that Bianca could do a better job at fulfilling their father's demands. At some point earlier, Nico began preparing for his plan, and did some research on Luke's past, and had found May Castellan, his mother.
Later on, Nico is once more searching for information about his mother and childhood, a quest which brought him to Mount Othrys. Nico is first seen there in Percy's dream, using a chance to eavesdrop on the Titans Hyperion and Krios, as well as the imprisoned Atlas. It is later confirmed that this was true. Shortly after Beckendorf sacrifices his life to destroy Kronos's ship, Nico speaks to his ghost, and learns that Beckendorf will go to Elysium. Nico also heard the lines of the Great Prophecy, presumably from another ghost, or Hades himself.
Later on, Nico arrives at Camp Half-Blood by shadow-travel, which initially terrifies Juniper and Leneus, and he briefly discusses Grover's disappearance with them, after which he encounters Percy. Nico is finally able to persuade him to go through with their plan, and both of them and Mrs. O'Leary shadow-travel to Luke's old house to meet his mother,May Castellan. Afterwards, they briefly encounter the goddess Hestia, who greets them warmly and offers them food.
Soon after, the three enter the Underworld, where Nico, who was tricking Percy all along, has the Furies carry them to Hades' Palace. It is revealed, that in order to gain information about his past and his mother, Nico had to bring Percy to Hades in exchange, though Nico had no ill intentions, and only did it after making Hades promise not to harm his friend. His father reveals that the lawyer who removed Nico and Bianca from the Lotus Hotel and Casino was the Fury, Alecto, in disguise, but refuses to give him details on his mother's death. After Hades still imprisons Percy in his dungeons, Nico helps him break out, apologizes, and still follows through with his initial plan of having Percy bathe in the Styx and gain the Curse of Achilles.
Later, Nico attempts to summon the ghost of his mother, but Bianca's ghost appears and tells him not to. He sees the scene of their mother's death in which Zeus blasted the hotel she, Hades, and the children were in to pieces. Hades, who realized what was happening too late, only managed to save Nico and Bianca. He then orders Alecto to wipe the memories of the children in the Lethe, including their mother's death.
By viewing this scene, Nico finds out who his mother is and, in the end, is able to convince his father Hades to help the campers in battle.
Nico is the first to join the Battle of Manhattan, and fearlessly yells out a challenge to Kronos himself. Nico is soon joined by Hades himself, and they both summon wave after wave of the undead soldiers, who confront, and eventually overwhelm Kronos' forces. After the Titan Lord is defeated, Nico accompanies his father to Olympus, and sits at his father's feet when Percy and his friends are receiving gifts from the Olympians. Apparently, Nico, through his unwavering loyalty and bravery in battle, has finally gained his father's pride, as Hades pats Nico on the shoulder, and, according to Percy, this is "the happiest he's ever seen him." Since Hades is now accepted on Olympus, and Nico is accepted at Camp Half-Blood, Rachel is finally able to break Hades's curse on the Oracle, and become the next Oracle of Delphi herself. Apparently, almost all campers are in awe of Nico's fighting in Battle of Manhattan, as "even the Ares kids considered him cool." Nico is last seen when he orders undead workers to build the Hades cabin, made up of solid black obsidian walls with a skull over the door. There are torches inside that blaze with burning green fire that will never extinguish. Sadly, Nico's popularity only lasted a few weeks. After that campers did whatever they could to avoid him and forgot he was at camp. (Though a year or so later Will tells him this never happened, he himself isolated himself). The fact that Percy had begun dating Annabeth did not make Nico feel any better. As a result, Nico takes to only showing up at Camp from time to time. Some time after the Battle of Manhattan, Hades gave Nico a French zombie chauffeur, Jules-Albert, for his birthday.
in the September following the Battle of Manhattan, after Thanatos had been captured, and the dead were returning to the world anyway, Nico had gone to the Underworld in hopes of rescuing his sister Bianca, but was unable to do so, because she decided to be reborn and thus couldn't be brought back to life. Instead, Nico found his half sister Hazel Levesque in the Fields of Asphodel, and felt that she deserved another chance at being a hero (Gaea said that he had selfish reasons for doing this, but it is unknown if he had any or for what selfish reasons did he do it for). Hades gives Nico directions on how to find Camp Jupiter, explains why the Olympians have kept both camps separated for centuries, and forbids him from telling anybody about it, as the time isn't right. Hades also advises his son to introduce himself to the Romans as a son of Pluto, telling Nico that it is important for him to make this connection. As stated by Dakota, Nico took Hazel directly to Camp Jupiter and requested that Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano and Jason to take her in. Thus, Nico became the first Greek demigod since the First Demigod Civil War to learn about the existence of Roman demigods, and to visit Camp Jupiter. He accepts a role as the Ambassador of Pluto to the Romans, and becomes involved in the camp's political life as a Senator.
Nico meets Percy at Camp Jupiter, where he is visiting his half-sister, Hazel Levesque. When they meet, Nico is shocked but easily regains control. He poses as a son and ambassador of Pluto, and even though most of the campers see him as harmless, Hazel knows that Nico is more dangerous than Reyna, Octavian, and maybe even Jason Grace. Nico tells Percy about the return and defeat of Kronos (referring to him as Saturn), and about Gaea. Nico later tells Hazel, after Percy leaves with Frank Zhang, that he knows Percy, but Percy must regain his memories by himself, since he needs to find his own way at the camp and Nico can't interfere. It is later revealed that Nico was forbidden to do so by Hades himself, since the time wasn't right yet. Hazel and Nico had a time to talk when he mentioned about Bianca he's sister who died, he mentioned that he missed his sister and he wanted to see it.
Later, Nico is shown to be observing the War Games from afar using a pair of binoculars. When Mars appears, Mars glares at Nico while mentioning that people will no longer be held to death, implying that he knows about him saving Hazel's spirit. Nico is later shown in the meeting, where he is present as a Senator in a black toga, and the Ambassador of Pluto. Nico supports Frank, Percy, and Hazel by telling them about the first Gigantomachy, Alcyoneus, and Thanatos, all of which makes Reyna suspicious. However, Nico doesn't say anything when Octavian protests and wins the argument. Nico leaves Camp Jupiter before Hazel to see if he can locate the Doors of Death from inside the Underworld.
During his search, Nico (believing he could go anywhere in the Underworld) comes too close to Tartarus and gets pulled in by the dark gravity the pit generates (similar to a black hole). He was presumably forced to drink liquid fire from from the Phlegethon in order to survive. At some point during his horrifying journey through Tartatus, Nico encounters the goddess of misery Akhlys, who was impressed at how much sorrow and pain the son of Hades carried, claiming that there was little more that she could do to him. Though he fought back, Nico was eventually overwhelmed and defeated by the sheer number of Gaea's forces down in Tartarus.
During the quest for the god Thanatos, Gaea mentions that when she used Hazel, she was at least honest about it, unlike Nico who she claims was lying to Hazel. Gaea also says that Hazel should be happy that she captured him, and that he is now somewhere in Rome. Gaea later tells this to Percy and he promises that they will find out what happened to him.
When they free Thanatos, Hazel asks if Nico is alive. While Thanatos doesn't say if he is alive or dead, he does say they will find the answers in Rome. Later after Percy regains his memory, he calls Mrs. O'Leary, much to Hazel's surprise. He tells her that Nico could tell her the story before realizing what he had said. On the way back to Camp Jupiter, Percy fully regains his memory, and is quite angry at Nico for not telling him about his past. After Polybotes is defeated, Hazel mentions that Pluto is turning a blind eye to her to let her live and she feels that he wants her to find Nico.
Even though Nico is a son of Hades, he barely survived the trip into Tartarus, and almost went insane. Gaea's forces went down there and overwhelmed him almost instantly, since they are extremely powerful in Tartarus. Afterwards, in order to lure the seven heroes into a trap, Gaea had Nico transported out of Tartarus through the House of Hades (an underground temple in Greece), and taken to Rome, where her twin giant sons Otis and Ephialtes sealed him in a bronze jar, similar to how Ares was once held captive by the two giants.
Percy sees him in his dream, imprisoned in the jar in a coma-like state. He had marked three scratches on the wall of the jar, one for each pomegranate seed he had eaten. The seeds are a last resort food, which only children of Hades/Pluto can eat. Hazel explains that the seeds last for up to one day and put him in a death like state so that he doesn't use up all his air, something Hazel calls a death trance.
Despite knowing that it's a trap, the Seven head to Rome to rescue Nico. After getting there, Hazel, Frank, and Leo try to find Nico, which leads them to the Pantheon, but they are lead into a trap, and are almost killed by eidolons. After defeating them, Leo realizes that Hazel was trying to track Nico by using his sword as a beacon, which they find lying in the workshop.
Instead, Percy, Jason, and Piper come to Nico's rescue underneath the Colosseum. During Percy and Jason's battle against Otis and Ephialtes, the jar Nico was held in breaks open and Piper McLean manages to pull the incredibly weakened Nico to safety. Later back on the ship, Nico tells them how he was captured and what he now knows about the Doors of Death. Nico had found out that the Doors of Death have two sides: one in the mortal world and one in Tartarus. The mortal side of the portal is in Greece, at a temple called House of Hades and it is guarded heavily by Gaea's forces. Nico then says that the other side of the doors are in Tartarus, a place not even the gods go and that is why Hades has not been able to close the doors. Not even the god of death, Thanatos, would go near Tartarus.
Leo guesses that the seven heroes will have to go to Tartarus and close that side of the portal, but Nico says that it would be impossible, not even they would stand a chance down there. Percy then says that they can set sail for the House of Hades, defeat Gaea's forces, and close the doors on the mortal side. Nico however says that it is not that easy and that the Doors of Death have to be controlled on both sides to be closed, as they are like a double seal. He says that maybe all eight of them working together could defeat Gaea's forces on the mortal side, but that they would need a team fighting simultaneously on the Tartarus side; a team powerful enough to defeat a legion of monsters in their home territory.
In Arachne's lair, when Percy tries to save Annabeth from falling into Tartarus, Percy catches hold of a ledge just in time. Nico tries to help, but he is out of reach. Annabeth tells Percy to let go, but Percy says that he will not lose her again. Percy tells Nico that they will see the rest of the seven and Nico on the other side, and makes him promise to lead the others there. Nico promises and Percy lets go, allowing the dark gravity of Tartarus to pull him and Annabeth in. During a meeting on the Argo II, Nico admits that Percy is the most powerful demigod he has ever met and with Annabeth there with him, he is sure they will be safe. He assures Leo that both Percy and Annabeth are still alive.
The Argo II is being attacked by numina montanums, or mountain gods, who are attacking with boulders. As they attack, a boulder hits the mast, causing it to collapse, and Nico, who was in the rigging, falls with it. Hazel Levesque runs to help Nico up from the debris, but he tells her he is fine. When Leo complains that masts don't grow on trees, Nico corrects him by saying that masts are made from trees, which only serves to annoy Leo further. Leo is forced to retreat again and the three try to think of an alternate way past the Earth gods.
Nico explains that they don't like them because children of Hades or Pluto get under their skin but adds that the Athena Parthenos was most likely attracting more attention. When it is suggested that they take the Argo II around the mountains over the water, Nico explains that going that way is longer and without their sea expert, Percy, it might be too dangerous. Nico also complains that he is too weak to simply Shadow Travel the ship across the mountains. While coming up with ideas, Hazel tries to think of a way to help, not wanting her only contribution to be removing a dangerous obstacle Nico had told her was in the House of Hades. When Hazel prays to her father for help, Arion appears, running towards them. Nico asks who Arion is and is told by Leo that he is Hazel's horse.
When Jason and Nico go to retrieve Diocletian's scepter in Split, Croatia, they meet the god Favonius has been watching Nico and hints at Nico's secret crush, commenting, "The one you care for most...plunged into Tartarus, and still you will not allow the truth?" He then leads the two boys to Cupid. Cupid forces Nico to admit that he had feelings for Percy, in front of Jason Grace, in order to get Diocletian's scepter. Jason attempts to comfort Nico and promises to keep it a secret, but Nico brushes Jason away.
Later Nico confronts Jason about leaving the palace of the Lord of the South Wind. Jason attempts to talk to Nico about what happened previously, saying that the others won't judge him. Nico becomes angry and claims that as a son of Hades he would never be accepted anywhere and always judged. In his anger, the ground opens up and Nico seems to shimmer with ghostly light. Jason then challenges him by saying that he should take a risk and believe that Jason really is his friend. As the scene reaches a climax, Nico tells Jason, "I'm going to honor my promise. I'll take you to Epirus. I'll help you close the Doors of Death. Then that's it. I'm leaving- forever." The son of Hades then disappears back into the shadows. Jason has stated multiple times that Nico di Angelo scares him when he gets angry.
At Epirus, Nico leads the group into the underground temple. He works with Frank Zhang to summon and control the dead legion against the group of monsters after the temple collapses and separates the group. The group reunites, and finds Percy and Annabeth Chase purged from the Doors of Death. They work together to fight Clytius and when he is defeated, Nico and Hazel shadow-travel the group to safety as the temple caves in. Upon arriving at the surface, Nico and the group meet with and share a meal with Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano before Nico leaves to rest due to his future plans to Shadow Travel with the Athena Parthenos, Reyna, and Coach Hedge to Camp Half-Blood to help Reyna stop the impending civil war between the Greek and Roman camps.
Nico shadow traveled with Reyna and Hedge to Albania and something humiliating occurred. Two days later, he shadow travels himself, Reyna and Hedge into the air above Mount Vesuvius, and they nearly fall in, but Reyna lends him enough strength to shadow travel down into the city of Pompeii, after which he sleeps for about a day. When he finally wakes up just after sunset, he wolfs down a sandwich and talks with Hedge and Reyna about Reyna's dreams. He mentions that he thinks he could make it to Spain when Gaea possesses Hedge and sent dirt-encrusted ghosts of Pompeii to attack them. Reyna tells him to summon dead legionnaires to their aid with Diocletian's scepter, and he does so, but the scepter starts smoking and then explodes in his hands. He straps himself into the harness on the Athena Parthenos, carrying Hedge, while Reyna holds the ghosts off and shadow travels away just moments after Reyna grabs his hand
Nico passes out after shadow traveling. While he is out, he dreams about his life in Venice, Bianca and him in a mall in Washington, D.C., and Percy shielding him from Dr. Thorn. He is pulled to Hypnos' Cabin by the dreams of Clovis, who shows him that day's war meeting at Camp Half-Blood, which shows that the Greeks are cornered in by the Romans and preparing for the invasion. After telling Clovis to pass a message on to Thalia Grace, he is woken by Coach Hedge thirty-six hours after passing out. Hedge informs him that they over shot Spain and went to Portugal instead, and that the Athena Parthenos was on top of a temple. Hedge then tells him a ghost is asking to talk to him. Nico goes to the ghost, who leads him to a church that is decorated on the inside with the bones of deceased monks. There he meets his father, who tells Nico that his quest is hard and he might not survive the trip. He also tells him that Orion and his pack is hunting Nico, Reyna, and Hedge and that one of the seven will die. Before Nico can ask more questions, Hades vanishes. He goes back to the temple and has lunch with his companions. Suddenly Lycaon and his pack surrounds them. He informs them that he is going to kill them for Orion; however, Orion wanted him to detain Nico. Nico summons bones from the ground to imprison the wolves momentarily while the three run towards the Athena Parthenos. When the werewolf breaks free and attacks Nico, Nico stabs him in the chest with Reyna's silver knife, getting clawed in the process, and uses the shadow left by Lycaon to shadow travel away.
After Portugal, Nico shadow travels to a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic for a day, where he discarded his aviator's jacket due to the damage it took, and Reyna patched up his gashes. He then travels to San Juan, Puerto Rico, ten feet above a restaurant. After he goes to sleep, Reyna puts her back pack under his head. However, her hand passes through his head on her first attempt and lifts it the second. When Nico awakes to find Reyna gone and a note from the hunters, he tore the note up in a fit of rage. Later he and Hedge put on new colorful tourist shirts- much to his annoyance- before joining the fight against Orion. Once the two meet up with Reyna and Thalia, Nico, Reyna, and Hedge retreat to continue their quest.
Two days later, the trio shadow travel to Buford, South Carolina. While Nico and Hedge go to the Zippy mart for supplies, Reyna stays behind to watch over camp. When the boys come back to base camp, Hedge goes to write letters while Nico and Reyna talk. She tells him about her father and family history. In return, Nico told her about his relationship with his father, and that cheered her up a little. Just then Bryce Lawrence shows up and summons British redcoat skeletons to apprehend Reyna and kill Nico and Hedge. He threatens to torture Hedge to death and taunts Reyna about her secret about her father. This infuriates Nico, whose temper explodes. He proceeds to unleash all his painful memories since falling into Tartarus on the others at the camp, revealing his secret in the process. As the temperature drops to freezing and the skeletons dissolve, Nico marches over to Bryce and opens a fissure beneath the other boy's feet, and as Bryce sinks into the ground, Nico turns him, body and all, into a ghost and sends him to the Underworld. After that he collapses, nearly fading away because of overuse of his powers, and wakes up with Hedge and Reyna bandaging him. They had managed to save him through Hedge's sports medicine and nature magic. They tell him what happened with Bryce, and to his shock, they tell him that they still trust him. Moments later, a flock of Pegasi arrives to help them take the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood, led by Pegasus himself.
The flock flies Nico and his companions to Camp Half-Blood by the pre-dawn of August first. They land on a yacht, and Nico sends "some strong dreams" to the mortals below deck, much to Reyna's awe. Soon after, Michael Kahale, Leila from the Fourth Cohort, and Dakota from the Fifth Cohort come to arrest Reyna and bring in Nico to be executed as a enemy spy. Hedge attacks the son of Venus to little success, but then the people on the boat hear the voice of Octavian, saying he had come to see to the arrests himself. Seconds later Tyson, who presumably had imitated Octavian's voice, and Ella knock out the first cohort centurions. The other two centurions decide to help Reyna and declare their loyalty to her. They tell Reyna what their base camp is like, and she sends them to get their cohorts to leave Octavian and Nico to sabotage the legion.
After they arrive at a private dock and haul Michael Kahale out of the boat, they wonder who will drive the SUV, and Nico volunteers, much to their shock and nerves. He then summons Jules-Albert to drive the SUV through Roman ranks. When they arrive they see that the legion is out numbered by monsters. Dakota and Leila get out to get their cohorts to switch sides, while Nico goes to sabotage the siege weapons. When he gets to the top of the hill, he is startled by Will Solace, Lou Ellen, and Cecil, who are trying to sabotage the Romans. They were successful in sabotaging half the weapons before being spotted. Octavian then comes out with the First Cohort. Nico states that he is helping both camps, and that he will leave once the war is over. Will is upset by this and tells Nico that a lot of campers want to be his friend. Dakota and the Fifth Cohort arrive while the rest of the cohorts are surrounded by monsters. Moments later Camp Half-Blood is lead to battle by Clarisse La Rue, Grover Underwood, Tyson, and Chiron. They are all stunned by Will's whistle, and Nico speaks of peace as Reyna flies the Athena Parthenos into camp as a peace offering. Which works until Gaea awakes
As the Seven come back to camp, Nico is helping fight the monsters. During the battle, Will comes over to him and whispers "Octavian" in his ear before leading him to an onager, where Octavian is preparing to blast Gaea. Will and Nico try to talk him out of it, noticing that the Imperial Gold he's wearing seems to be attracted to the loaded projectile, but he refuses to listen. He then fires and gets dragged along with the shot. They witness Leo's sacrifice, but Nico senses that Leo's death was strange. He talks with Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Hazel and Frank at the Big House, where Frank and Hazel explain Leo's plan tearfully. Chiron asks him to perform the final rites for the fallen demigods, and Nico agrees. He also avoids Will, thinking the son of Apollo would think Nico a monster for having let Octavian die. Later he sits by the camp fire and listens as Chiron explains how the two camps have become friends, and that they can visit each other's camp. Then Reyna tells the two camps about Nico's part in saving the camps, brings him out of the shadows, and hugs him, and he tearfully returns it. The next morning Jason knocks on his door telling him that he will stay at camp half blood. Nico is then called over by Will who angrily tells him that he does not think Nico's a monster, and then tells him to stay in the infirmary for at least three days. Nico then sees Percy and Annabeth and walks over. They tell him they will attend college and live in New Rome. Nico then tells Percy he had a crush on him and is now over him, earning him Percy's shock and a high-five from Annabeth before Nico goes back to Will.
Several days after the deaths of Gaea and Leo, a parchment scroll with a holographic message, sent from the resurrected Leo, came fluttering into Camp Half-Blood on the wind, with Nico being the one to keep it (in his jacket's pocket) after the other campers had finished re-listening to it. While extremely relieved after learning of Leo's survival (due to him having blamed himself for Leo's death and unable to forgive himself), Nico is also enraged at hearing the news so late, so he resorts to keeping the scroll after everyone else has finished re-listening to it, with Nico looking at the scroll whenever he wants to get angry at Leo.
At some point during the ensuing months, Nico finally comes out and confesses to Will Solace about having a strong crush on the latter, and the two begin dating. In order to sit together with his new boyfriend during meals, Nico claims to Chiron that he somewhat looses control of his infernal powers while sitting alone at the Hades' Cabin table, and so he is therefore given permission to sit at the Apollo's Cabin's table instead, as Will produced a handy fake doctor's note, and Chiron decided it wasn't worth arguing about.
By September, however, most of Nico's friends temporarily leave camp, with Percy and Annabeth returning to New York to spend their senior school year together, while Jason and Piper depart a month later (spending most of September searching for Leo), to spend their school year in Los Angeles (with Tristan McLean), also taking Gleeson Hedge, Mellie, and Chuck along with them. It can also be assumed that Nico is rarely visited by Hazel and Frank, as he describes them being busy "doing the Twelfth Legion thing” at Camp Jupiter.
Nico is currently Happy helping his boyfriend Will in the medical center in order to change camps views on him. Thanks to his boyfriend the young King of Ghosts is ready to step into the light and help the next generation of demi-gods.
Roleplay Sample
Nico was so gonna kill his boyfriend! The young son of Hades had barely managed to get about five hours of sleep thanks to some horrible nightmares and so when he got up he forced himself out of bed just so that he could be with his son of Apollo boyfriend! He forced himself out of bed for nothing it seemed as when he arrived at the mess hall, his boyfriend was no where to be seen. Determained to know why he was being stood up, Nico silently walked up to the Apollo Table and tapped one of Will's brothers shoulders causing him to jump. When the boy turned around, Nico was greeted with the usual reaction of shock and surprise. Nico just sighed and rolled his eyes.
"Where is Solace? He's late."
Nico tapped his foot as the child of Apollo in front of him began to stutter out of nervousness and began to say that Will was stuck in the Infermery because of a child of Ares had gotten seriously hurt in the arena early that morning. This caused Nico to growl a bit out of frustration but he decided as to not further scare the Apollo table he turned his back to hide a small smile.
"Thank you. I'll be at the Hades table. Send him there when he walks in."
With that Nico walked silently over to his table of Solitude to wait for his always late better half. Although Nico didn't talk much out of choice, when his boyfriend showed up, he was gonna give the blonde bastard an ear full.
OOC section
What do we call you:Jazzy
Best way to contact: skype
RP experience: 14 years
Series experience: 3/4th through trials of apollo
Timezone: Pacific standard time