It's a rite of passage for every riordan fan to pick one random minor character that appeared in like one book and adopt them as if they where their child. We will also defend our little blorbos till they die even if the characters themselves are dead.
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Possibly a hot take, but I think the Tartarus trip actually helped Will a lot. Obviously I have my disappointments with the book, but we do not only see Nico healing from the copious amount of trauma Rick fit into him; we get to see Will come to terms with darker parts of himself.
It's canon/very heavily implied (I can't remember and don't feel like looking it up) he came to camp at a very young age, younger than campers that aren't deemed "powerful" or have a strong scent. Despite Will thinking he isn't strong, he is the best healer Camp Half Blood has seen in, what we can assume, at least a century. He's a year-rounder, so he hasn't experienced life on the outside in years. Hell, until Trials of Apollo, his godly parent hardly took notice of him.
His older brothers and other siblings were his biggest supporters and motivators. They looked out for him and took care of him in place of a parent, specifically the older kids (Lee and Michael.) And he lost them during the Dark Prophecy - less than 2 years apart from each other. He didn't even get to search for Michael because Percy took him for a joyride across Manhattan on a motorcycle to help Annabeth.
Even after all of that, its implied/seen that he's someone who is always looking on the bright side of things, never making anything about himself, always helping others, etc. He's a ray of sunshine in everyone's life, never allowing himself to show anyone that he's hurting or suffering because he feels like he just can't. After all, he's Will Solace. He is the head medic, the infirmary can't just stop running. He's the counselor for cabin, his siblings need him to be strong.
He represses his negative emotions, even admits to it in Trials of Apollo. I think he represses them to a point he can avoid/ignore them or pretend they aren't his. It's easier to be a ray of sunshine in people's lives if the negativity and darkness you feel are projected onto someone else.
These tendencies are also something that causes strain in Nico and Will's relationship, because Nico doesn't understand how Will can't see how hypocritical he is. When in reality, Will does know, but it's easier if he avoids it. Ignorance is bliss after all. This doesn't mean Will doesn't work on trying to let Nico in, because he does, sort of.
On bad days, the days when he wakes up and wants nothing more than to curl up in the arms of his older brothers, he would go to Nico's cabin. However, his only explanation would ever be, "im tired." It frustrated him just as much as it upset Nico. He wasn't even sure if his boyfriend could tell. (Nico could, but that didn't mean it hurt any less.)
In Persephone's garden, he was forced to face the fact that there is darkness/negativity/hurt inside of him. He can't deny it when it's right in front of him, so he finally has to stop repressing everything, stop running away, and face his pains.
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just remembered all the percy jackson fanfics in like 2014 where Annabeth and Percy had kids and they were always named some mad shit like
Luke Charles Lee Ethan Jackson and Selina Bianca Zoë Jackson
as if those two wouldn’t want to name their kids something that is as far away as possible to the people closest to them that were murdered horrifically… they’d be giving themselves panic attacks just by calling their kids to dinner, bloody hell
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i’m not the biggest will solace person but like. why don’t we actually talk about how much he went through?
wasn’t his cabin numbers essentially cut in half during the titan war? didn’t he lose an older brother at 11? didn’t he lose another at 12? didn’t he become head counselor at 13 too? wasn’t he the most important medic?
like will lost half of his cabin. half of his siblings. the apollo cabin was the biggest or second biggest and then they became one of the smallest, right? he lost lee and who knows how his cabin grieved. he lost michael and imagine him coming up to percy after the meeting on olympus, asking if he can try and feel his brother in the water and bring him back. imagine will in the infirmary and someone tells him that there’s a head counselor meeting and he says, “michael’s not here” before realizing he IS the head counselor. will SAVED annabeth from what looked like the brink of death, lord knows what would of happened if he hadn’t. he’s admitted that he’s not the best on the field and that means he was probably a combat medic, which can mean he sees awful, awful things.
all of that before he turned 14. what the fuck. (all of that to say he’s more than this sunshine character who’s happy-go-lucky and more than just nico’s boyfriend/eye candy. please give him the respect he deserves, idc if he’s not real)
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EMPORIUM OF HANDS
FINALLY IT'S DONE. RadioRose ticklefic, complete with fear chases, horror, exploring their deranged and complex little relationship, and overall just being really self-indulgent. It turned out being too long for Tumblr to conceive its thiccness, but Ao3 is here to save the day.
Hope you all enjoy! This was my big project and now I can focus on some smaller and fluffier writing pieces ehehe :>
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