Yes Girl/ Guy/ Non binary pal! You preach your PJatO rant! Whoo hoo!
Nicercy 💕
I feel like I’ve given this rant like a hundred times by now. *laughs softly*
But, okay. Let’s turn this bitch into a coherent text.
I shipped Nico and Percy way before I was in the fandom or even in direct contact to the franchise, actually. I shipped them based off the wikipedia article.
Yeah. Sue me.
That was back when the Lightning Thief movie was first announced. I always stalked upcoming movies, every December I’d go through the announced slate of films for the coming year to see if there was anything interesting.
That was so early that the movie didn’t have its own article back then. The link on Wikipedia just brought me to the book series, so I read into the premise and, when I read it was about Greek gods and their kids, into the character list.
I immediately latched onto “Percy Jackson, son of Poseidon, protagonist” and “Nico di Angelo, son of Hades, one of the good guys”. That was, for me, the selling point for the series too. Hades, not a bad guy. His kids, not the antagonists.
And I immediately latched onto the scheme behind it. The underworld and the sea. My two favorite male gods. Water and darkness.
To say I shipped them from that moment on might be a bit of a stretch; it’s more that… I was hopeful that I would ship it. I was antsy to watch that movie, to meet those characters and I was hopeful they would have chemistry.
Then I watched the movie and while I loved Percy immediately, there was no Nico.
In the end, Nicercy is actually why I bought the books. Because I had spent months anticipating this movie to see if I would ship those two characters, but the movie didn’t give me both of them. So I bought the books to meet Nico di Angelo.
And I loved him.
And I loved the way he loved Percy. Years later, people would ask me how I could “predict” Nico’s feelings for Percy - but I didn’t, I just read the damn books and I read between the lines.
Nico’s love for Percy is dripping out of the pages of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians book-series.
I read the PJatO books within… holy shit. Literally a year. I read five books within a year. That’s a lot for me, fyi. But yeah, I read them in one go and the further I read, the more I fell in love with this ship.
At first I was put off by the fact that Nico was 10 when we first meet him, but he grew up so fast and the potential of what’d be after the series was glorious.
It was the premise of those characters that already set them up to be something I could love, but it was canon that sold me. Every single action Nico took out of love for Percy and the way Percy had chased after Nico, desperate for his forgiveness.
It was beautiful and I have been in love with this ship since 2010 now and I will continue loving it. Never have I stopped or even stuttered in my devotion to this ship, let’s see how much longer it will stay at my side.
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a short one-sided pernico fic based on the song adored by him by dodie
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He looks at him as he trains. Watching from afar. Never too close - one step over the line that Nico had drawn himself, and his life would come crashing down. Percy could never know.
Besides, she was right there. Percy’s one true love. Nico could never compare to her.
Still, Nico couldn’t help but fall in love with his perfectly out-of-place hair, and enchanting sea-green eyes, and the way he swung his sword as if it were a part of him. And even with Annabeth there, he couldn’t help but wish that he could be a part of that. He couldn’t help but wish he could be closer.
He knew that would never happen. This was Percy Jackson he was talking about. He… he didn’t even like that guy, all too much. It had been a couple of years, but there was still a part of him that resented Percy. For everything. For his feelings, for his life, for Bianca. And all of that had nothing to do with Annabeth.
He couldn’t hate her.
Sometimes, it just… hurt. It hurt that Percy would feel that way about Annabeth, the same way that Nico felt about Percy.
And he sometimes he wondered how it would feel to be adored by him.
Nico turned, and walked away. Standing there, watching the two lovers train wasn’t going to help. He was over Percy. He had accepted that it wasn’t going to happen.
Did he even want it to happen?
…no. No he didn’t.
There were other people who could be adored by him. There were plenty of other people who Nico could fall in love with, and who could also fall in love Nico.
And that person would come to him, no matter what.