#powerful will solace

[mediumgayitalian]

“I want you to have this.”

“Will —”

“Nico,” Will interrupts, voice stern, “take it.”

He fiddles with the clasp of his watch, sliding it off and holding it between them. The Celestial bronze frame has long since worn smooth, leather straps molded to the shape of Will’s wrist after years and years of use. He can even see the indent on the side of the bottom strap, where the Ace bandage Will often fidgets with has worn a groove.

“Please.”

Nico glances up to meet Will’s wide, pleading blue eyes. They’re darker, in the setting sun; almost midnight blue. Like the Raleigh reflection that colours the sky happens somehow in the tiny rings of his irises, too.

He sighs, holding out his wrist. Will’s expression melts into something almost relieved, corners of his lips turned up in a grateful smile. He wraps his warm hands around Nico’s forearm and fingertips, flipping over his arm, and presses the cool watch face the the middle of his wrist, buckling up the straps. Nico’s wrists are thinner than Will’s, and the worn-wide hole third down from the tip of the strap is skipped for the long-forgotten fifth. The watch fits comfortably and snugly, light enough that Nico almost — almost — forgets it’s there.

“It’s nothing like Percy’s,” he says quietly. His hands linger on the skin of Nico’s forearm, blunt fingernails picking at the watch’s grooves. “It can’t protect you. It doesn’t have a shield or a sword or anything like that. It’s just a watch.”

Nico hums. Gently, careful not to shrug off Will’s hands, he brings the watch closer to his face, inspecting it. There are nicks and chips, as expected for a watch Will has worn longer than Nico has known him, but there’s not a flaw in sight. It even ticks, pleasantly, a sound almost musical.

“Beckendorf?”

A tiny, punched-out sigh slumps from Will’s mouth.

“Yeah.”

“I can tell.” He taps his thumb on the face. “He did good work.”

“He gave it to me when I was eight,” Will says softly. “I used to — freak out, a lot. My anxiety was a lot worse as a kid. I’d panic if someone was late to breakfast, if I woke up late and no one was in the cabin. I didn’t like not knowing when things were supposed to happen.” Will’s lips quirk up. “Set it on the table when he walked by me one day. Didn’t say a word, just mussed my hair and smiled at me like he didn’t just fix my shit better than Xanax ever could.” His smile turned wry. “I had the hugest crush on him for years.”

It startles a laugh out of Nico, the admission, imagining Will’s motormouth trailing after Beckendorf, his bemused indulgence.

“There’s no way he didn’t know, either. I am not a subtle person.”

His shoulders shake. Gods, what a sight. He’s almost sad he missed it — he’ll have to ask Clarisse or Annabeth about it. Hell, maybe even Chiron. Will even looks like he’ll allow him, wide grin on his face, red as his ears may be.

“Not a bad choice,” Nico agrees, calming down a little. The watch feels heavier, now, knowing the significance, and he looks at it, lips pursing. “You sure you want me to take it?”

Will’s hand drags down his his arm until it rests in the palm of his hands for one, two, three seconds; glancing up at Nico, glancing down, nodding to himself. He twists their fingers together, squeezing. Nico’s breath hitches.

“You know how my energy kinda — goes everywhere?”

Nico nods. Will has more healing ability than pretty much anyone the camp has seen — and the more power, the harder it is to control. He’s got a pretty good handle on it, but if you stand near enough to him while he’s healing it’s impossible not to feel the affects; the ease to your joints, soothing of your tense muscles, pleasant warmth over your skin. Nico has been healed of scrapes and bruises just by virtue of one of Will’s beaming smiles, he’s gotten so good. Nico only wishes it didn’t drain him.

“I’ve been wearing that watch over seven years,” Will says. His fingers twitch. “The bronze is magic, of course, but that leather — that leather was living, once. Beckendorf made the whole thing with his bare hands ‘cause he saw me struggling. As far as ordinary objects go —” Will shrugs helplessly. “Might as we’ll be a sponge. It’s been absorbing my magic nonstop for nearly a decade. It’s as connected to me as my eyes, my hair.”

Almost absentmindedly, his free hand reaches out for Nico’s. He curls their fingers together, meeting them in the middle, and squeezes, hard enough to ground. Will blinks back into focus.

“I can feel you wearing it,” he whispers. “Your — heartbeat, vitals. Your life force.” He brings their clasped hands close to his chest, tapping right above his heart. “Here. I can feel you.”

Nico holds his breath. “Not just ‘cause you’re close to me?”

“No. I’ve never felt it like this before. Started the second you put on that watch. Focus for a second, can you feel it?”

Closing his eyes, he tries — imagining the click of the watch, gentle and soft, and the rise and swell of Will’s breathing. It’s in his hands, at first, every place they’re clutching Will’s, but in a second he can almost feel it pound — the ka-thump, ka-thump, ka-thump of Will’s heart, right next to his. The knot of anxiety in his stomach that isn’t his. The worry, golden and protective, spilling over him in waves.

“An empathy link,” Nico breathes. He stares at Will in pure awe. “You — you made an empathy link.”

That kind of life-force magic…you have to be deeply connected to the core of basically everything to access it. Satyrs have it easy, being nature spirits. Gods spend so long grappling with time that they can manage, too.

But mortals? Even half-divine ones?

Nico has spent a lot of time with the mythical, alive and dead. He’s met theoi from pantheons forgotten to every living soul, foreign to even most of the dead. He knows his history twice over and backwards.

He’s never heard of that before.

“Holy shit, Will.”

“Just — come back to me,” Will says. He tugs on Nico’s arms and faces him head-on, eyes now almost black that the sun has set down. “Promise me, Nico. Stay safe. Stay outta trouble as much as you can. Keep your head on straight. And —” He squeezes their hands together, to hide the tremble in his fingers. “I mean it, okay? Come back to me.”

Slowly, giving him time to pull away, Nico frees his hands, sliding them up to cup Will’s face. He pulls him down, standing on his tiptoes to meet him halfway, and lingers, breath mixing, warm, in the millimeters of space between them.

“I promise,” he whispers. “I swear it, Will, I’ll come back to you. I swear it on the Styx.”

Thunder rumbles above them.

“Good.”

Will closes the tiny stretch of space separating them, and their hearts beat in tapping harmony.

#i just think will has an insane handle on Actual Life you know #we could go ham with his powers not just nicos #pjo #percy jackson and the olympians #hoo #heroes of olympus #pjo hoo toa #nico di angelo #will solace #nico di angelo/will solace #solangelo #first kiss #nico/will #will/nico #soft #soft solangelo #powerful will solace #like…..let’s be so real #whipped nico di angelo #my writing #fic #100 ways #100 ways to say i love you #longpost

[yonemurishiroku]

I think we're overlooking a very fascinating fact.

No? i mean. Nico's the nephew Zeus tried to kill but failed. His father (Hades)'s power rivals Zeus'. Will defeats the only goddess Zeus is terrified of. His father (Apollo) was mortal-ized by Zeus twice. And these two kids are a couple whose love overcame Tartarus.

I mean. If I was Zeus I'd be pretty concerned----

#Not mentioning the fact that they have a Titan at their beck and call #also are the gods gonna just let Bob wander around like that? #A former Titan at that. hello? #are you sure he wouldn't just. change his mind and demolish the world or what? #nico di angelo #solangelo #pjo #hoo #toa #yone rambling #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #will solace #powerful will solace #the sun and the star #tsats #tsats spoilers #the sun and the star: a nico di angelo adventure

[lexyvey]

Thought I might try and write a Plague Will fic of my own after hyper-fixating on his character for who knows how long.

Anyway, Check out ‘These Are a Healer’s Hands’ on AO3 and Wattpad.

Chapter 1 out now

Summary:

Most of Apollo's kids would curse you into speaking in rhyming couplets for days — possibly weeks — if you angered them, but Will wasn't like his siblings. He never excelled at archery, his singing voice sounded like a dying pegasus, and he couldn't make people sound like Shakespeare when aggravated with them. Instead, Will inherited his father's healing abilities, and with it his power over plagues and diseases. So, on the very rare occasion that Will let himself become truly furious... well, Will doesn't talk about it.

Excerpt:

Beau had fallen from the playground stairs, scraping his knee badly. It was bleeding a lot, and Will dropped everything to help the boy. He didn’t know what he was doing at the time, just placed his hands over Beau’s injured knee and began humming some song that came as naturally as breathing to Will. It was entirely instinctive, and before either boy knew it, the scrape had magically healed itself leaving not even a scar. Both old friends looked at each other in complete shock before Will made ran away making himself scarce. When he was alone, he chanced a look down at his hands, studying them as if they were some kind of alien.

When his mom came to pick him up after school that day, Will told his mom all about the incident. Will had never been good at keeping secrets from her, nor did he ever really want to. It confused Will when as he explained what happened, his mom’s reaction was more worried than shocked. When they reached the next red light, she turned to face her son, smiling at him and reaching out her hand for Will to grab and hold.

“Will honey, I’m so proud of you. You’re such a good kindhearted kid and I couldn’t be luckier to have you in my life… but I’m gonna need you to not use these miraculous healing hands,” she told him wiggling their joint hands and eliciting a small laugh from the boy, “in public, ok? Next time, just help Beau to the nurse’s office, please.”

#plague!will #will solace plague powers #will solace #solangelo #powerful will solace #pjo fandom #hoo #pjo hoo toa #toa #apollo cabin

[biancabxtch]

will solace has plague powers. this should be canon. he's a healer, but that shouldn't be all that he his, since we canonically know that he cannot shoot a bow and arrow or play an instrument for his life. also, it makes sense. the poisoner should know the antidote. like. this is my fav tag on ao3 for a reason. itS SO COOL LIKEEEEEE just imagine. will solace, plaguing people he doesn't like with illness, then when they are taken to him for healing, he just pretends to do something while actually doing nothing. then you got nico. he meets will and he's like: why tf does this sunshine boy have such a sickly, death aura?????? and the plague boy with the death boy???perfection.

#will solace #nico di angelo #pjo fandom #pjo hoo toa #pjo #solangelo #will solace has plague powers

[that-weird-girl-in-the-back]

Will: Nico, what are you going as for Halloween?

Nico: Me and Hazel are doing one together. We're going as the only things inevitable in life.

Will: Pardon?

Hazel: Death *points to Nico* and Taxes *points at herself*

#percy jackson #pjo fandom #hazel levesque #nico di angelo #will solace #just me thinking how hades domain's essentially death and taxes (riches) and how Nico and Hazels powers are kinda perfect for that idea #solangelo #kinda

[mxnkeydo]

guys so i did something-

#tweet #pjo #percy jackson #annabeth chase #nico di angelo #will solace #percabeth #solangelo #I LOVE THIS #AHAHAHA #I HAVE POWER NOW

[saladbroth]

no because why did i forget that nico can silence the ghosts in camp jupiter by just putting a finger to his lips???? that's so cool??? this boy is so fucking powerful????

highkey will sometimes forgets that his boyfriend is not just a depressed loser who likes to cuddle and talk about games or whatever but actually insanely powerful and then they're walking around in new rome and the ghosts are being loud and overestimating and nico just goes hush and they all immediately cannot talk anymore and will is like damn bro how tf did you do that???

anyway yes because i keep forgetting will also forgets how cool his boyfriend is i don't make the rules

#will vs wow that rly isn't just a semi feral cat that's a powerful demigod huh #nico vs all the kisses and praise will drops on him whenever he remembers #solangelo #nico di angelo #will solace #pjo #hoo #heroes of olympus #percy jackson and the olympians #trials of apollo #the trials of apollo #toa #nico x will #unhinged hand in unhinged hand

[aroaceleovaldez]

i stand by that a better, more sensible, and more intriguing plot for TSATS would have been, instead of retconning literally everything:

Bob is dead (because he was very explicitly absorbed/killed by Tartarus Himself in House of Hades, alongside Damasen), and nobody is going into Tartarus to save him. He made his sacrifice and is gone. However. Remember how the Titans, including Bob, were just kind of kicking around for several years? Particularly. On a cruise ship full of mortals. And Bob happened to be kicking around in general for an extra year versus all the other Titans. And he mythologically sometimes has a mortal demigod son who partook in the Calydonian Boar Hunt (Dryas of Calydon). Yeah.

So turns out, Bob/Iapetus leaves behind a demigod (demititan?) child. And because Nico was pretty much his only friend, he named Nico his child's godfather. And while he's not being left in charge of the child, as a son of Hades and godfather to this kid, Nico is duty-bound to fulfill Bob's last will and go find this like 2 year old to make sure they're safe. So Nico has to undertake this very unusual quest (that raises many questions, such as "demititans are a thing?" and "DOES THIS MEAN THERE'S POTENTIALLY MORE-?!" and "SHOULD WE BE CONCERNED ABOUT THIS?") and is kind of freaking out because. He's the son of Hades! He's notoriously bad with living things, and animals, and definitely small children! Even if he does find this kid and assure they're safe, he is the last person who should be undergoing any kind of quest involving even potentially having to babysit. Fortunately, his boyfriend is the human embodiment of sunshine and calmness and good vibes, and also once helped a nymph give birth, so he feels Marginally More Confident in theoretical demititan babysitting and offers to come along on this Epic Journey of Figuring Out What In Hades' Name Is Up With This Demititan Baby Business.

Proceed with wholesome epic shenanigans quest of Nico and Will scurrying around trying to locate this random OP baby while Nico has an existential crisis about the nature of his powers because he doesn't want to let Bob down! Both for Hades Kid Honor Reasons and because Bob was his friend! But what if he's destined to fail this quest just because of who he is? Because he's simply not built for hanging out with the living/mortals? And Will reassuring him that He Will Probably Not Traumatize The Weird OP Titan Baby And It'll Be Fine, and simultaneously getting a peek into the weird other life Nico leads hanging out with immortals much more than the average demigod, which Nico considers his norm. Bonus shenanigans of both of them getting caught off-guard and culture shocked from where each other's respective worlds (Nico's mostly-immortal versus Will's mostly-mortal) cross over and learning to navigate those for each other - Nico finally starting to make some mortal connections and get glimpses at modern mortal American life, and Will trying not to get his brain literally incinerated while Nico's happily casually catching up with some of his old friends who happen to be literal gods.

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #long post // #LISTEN I JUST THINK WE DONT NEED TO BE RETCONNING THINGS WHEN THERE IS A HIGHLY INTRIGUING MYTH RIGHT THERE #listen. *listen.* Iapetus in myth has a demigod child? and we're in the series? that's all about demigods? #and had titans running around for 4 years? some primarily on a giant ship mostly full of mortals? #and Iapetus himself was running around for closer to like 5 years? #I AM JUST SAYING. that is enough time. and the right conditions. that there are perhaps demititans now. #that alone is a fascinating plot set-up that ties in basically all previous series inherently and has a reasonable starting point #of *course* Nico would be named Bob's child's godfather! #of *course* Nico would consider it a very important personal duty to see out Bob's final will and go on some quest about it! #and under those conditions it makes *perfect sense* for Nico to want to bring Will along! and that he would be very helpful on said quest! #bringing along a lot of skills and abilities in areas that Nico lacks! that are crucial for a quest like that! #also then immediately the plot becomes Will reassuring Nico about his powers being cool and not evil and him being spooky is okay #while Will is also trying to not literally have his brain melt cause Nico's casually introducing him to a trio of death gods or something #forgetting that Will cannot look upon a god's true form #and Will's dragging Nico across the US while Nico is struggling to keep up cause Will forgot that Nico's not American and not from that era #its cute! it's interesting! it immediately begs the question of a next-gen series focusing on a main cast of demititan kids #dont go back to Tartarus that's lame and overdone and ruins a ton of stuff. dont retcon everything that also ruins a ton #give us the fluffy roadtrip comedy that they clearly wanted to write instead anyways #you can even keep the elements of Nico feeling out of his depth and Will constantly on the verge of death. except it makes sense this time. #and it's kind of funny cause Nico's just freaking out over babysitting and it highlights how much tankier Nico is vs Will #even just in casual interactions. yeah Nico can casually look upon a god's true form. dont worry about it #meanwhile Will is slowly collecting sunglasses the entire trip and layering them up for whenever Nico introduces him to another deity

[batterycows]

Funniest part about reading tsats was wondering what Nico and Will’s plan to get out of Tartarus was, and then finding out they also had no fucking clue

#they walked into Tartarus with nothing but Will’s sun lamp the power of love and a dream #tsats spoilers #tsats #nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo

[cosmicjiver]

Will. Plague power Will. Powered up Will. Yes.

#artists on tumblr #fanart #cosmic jiver art #percy jackson #pjo hoo toa #pjo fanart #solangelo #will solace fanart #will solace #plague will is so awesome #I need to see Will use his plague powers and be ANGRY #he is so right #I forgot to draw his trans and matching w Nico bracelets fuck #trans will solace #cis Will DOESNT exist I only know trans masc will <3 #I liteterally disappeared for like half a year but here #will is so pretty tho #he’s my favourite Apollo camper ngl

[batcavescolony]

Nico Di Angelo was born around 1932. the beginning of WW2 was 1939, this is probably about when he came to the USA. Do you know what else happened in 1939? Detective Comics #27, now you're probably wondering 'batcaves why does this random comic matter?' It's matters because that comic is the introduction of Detective Comics newest story, following the adventures of 'The Bat-Man'. It is fully possible for 7 year old Nico DiAngelo to have read the first few issues of Batman comics, do with this what you will.

#also the comics he could have read were BEFORE Robin. Robin doesn't come in for another 11 issues in 1940 so Nico wouldn't know Robin was #batmans sidekick. plus thise first few comics are different then alot of mondern batman so imagine him going to a batman movie and being #like 'wtf is this?' who is Alfred? (because he didnt exist either) why isnt Batman car red? (it was red in th first comics) #comics #dc comics #batman #bruce wayne #detective comics #nico di angelo #percy jackon and the olympians #heroes of olympus #will solace #trials of apollo #pjo #pjo fandom #idk if my dates are correct so correct me if im wrong #my fixations have crossed over #and he could read comics cus he said 'with great power comes... great need to take a nap' which is an altered spiderman quote #will is a starwars nerd. nico is a greek mythology and comic nerd send tweet #percy jackson headcanon #head canon #rick riordan #if you want me to tell you whats in those first comics i will #i can also tell you what else was in those first comics because it wasnt just batman it was abunch of other detective stories #first issue came out in May 1939. WW2 started in September 1939 so 5 issues then once a month till Hades takes them to lotus casino #when ever that is. if you wanna know exactly the dates. #also nico and bianca could have watched the Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland in theaters it came out on August 25 1939

[your-stranger-halfblood-things]

You know what would be nice? Will Solace being able to heal himself when close to death with Nico's help

#or like his and nico's powers mixed together can help people who are really close to dying be brought back to health #they are a power duo #solangelo #will solace #will solace headcanon #nico di angelo #pjo headcanon #pjo hoo toa tsats #tsats #hoo #toa #heroes of olympus #heros of olympus #trials of apollo #the sun and the star #percy jackson #percy jackon and the olympians #headcanon #rick riordan #rrverse

[yonemurishiroku]

Sorry I found it hysterical that TSATS felt the need to give Will 'dark' plague powers after going on and on about his sun powers because we literally had an entire book about how dangerous and violent and destructive the sun can be. That was definitely a theme in The Burning Maze. When Nico's upset the air around him freezes and when Will gets upset it should get uncomfortably hot to the point where his touch burns. Normally he can calm people down by making them feel like standing in the sunshine on a nice day but he can also make it sweltering and stifling. If Nico feels too dead to the living then Will should feel too alive to the dead. Will doesn't mean to make Nico uncomfortable with his light- but it often means there's no longer any shadows for Nico to fall back on; there's nowhere for him to hide or reach out to for comfort.

Ikr?

I mean. Yeah it's great that Rick went for the "opposite but actually complement" and I like Plague!Will as the next person but like. There could be more to the originial Dark & Light dynamic - which happens to be the one major thing about them.

Especially considering the fact that - as you've mentioned - part of it has already been established. Gosh Rick needs to keep notes of his canon materials. There're also abundant materials to work with, as well! Those you sent^^^ for example. Brilliant representation. I'd take it anyway.

I guess Rick thought Plague is a somewhat resemblance of Nico's Death-thing so it'd be a figure of their Death vs Life dynamic. And in a way, it is! I'm just disappointed that we could have had so much more, you know?

Among Apollo's children, we have Kayla as the archer, Austin as the musician, and Will as a healer. We have yet to have any child with his Driver of the Sun Chariot status - which, as it is, turns out to have the most potentials to be downright destructive if you play your cards right (I mean. look at Hyperion).

Though, in hindsight, I suppose we might be a little bit delusional to put Will in that Sun category. I'm not sure. Rick plans to have Will as the healer - who inherits Apollo's healing talents, not a fighter who supposedly embraces his Sunny side, so maybe that's why our ideas don't align.

(Also? Forever salty that Will's plague power is brushed away like it's nothing. The guy gave the primordial of Night hay fever for Tartarus' sake. Srsly the next step should be wrapping him up to avoid spreading and treating him like a biology terrorist)

#will solace #powerful will solace #nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #toa #yone rambling #percy jackson and the olympians #heroes of olympus #trials of apollo #solangelo #plague will #the sun and the star #the sun and the star: a nico di angelo adventure #tsats #tsats spoilers #the burning maze

[queen-of-weird-girl-nation]

Perfuma, white knuckling in the bathroom at 3 AM: but I stay silly :3 but I stay silly :3 but I stay silly :3 but I stay silly :3

#spop #she ra and the princesses of power #she ra perfuma #i love her so much #CALM AND POSITIVE CHARACTERS WHO ARE ON THE BRINK OF LOSING IT #MY BELOVED #this also applied to Will solace btw

[thaliasthunder]

leaving jokes aside do u guys realize that will getting plague powers in tsats is not likely to happen bc he's been already established to be the opposite of nico being a calm and healing presence in his life and giving him powers that are based in destruction and death is the complete opposite of that, right?

#dont get me wrong i LOVE the plague powers!will hc #but its really unlikely...... #will solace #solangelo #mark oshiro #nico di angelo #pjo #hoo #tsats #rick riordan #riordanverse #percy jackson #pjo/hoo #jason grace #hazel levesque #piper mclean

[death-himself]

does shadow travel just cause hypoglycemia? Because in the first ToA book, Nico shadow travels and passes out, and Will's response was to give him gatorade, which has a shit ton of sugar in it. And then in another ToA book when Nico shadow travels, I think Will gives him a kitkat bar or something, which again has lots of sugar

symptoms of hypoglycemia/low blood sugar are fast heartbeat, shaking, sweating, anxiety, confusion, hunger, and dizziness, which I feel are some of the things Nico was experiencing during BoO when he was constantly shadow travelling I haven't read BoO in a while tho so I'm not sure

if this is the case, how did he and Will find that out, because I can't imagine Will deciding to do a random blood glucose test on him, and they would probably just assume all those symptoms are just caused by shadow travel or something else Nico was dealing with. But they had to have figured it out at some point because why would the camp doctor just give him gatorade and not actual medicine or anything

#pjo #heroes of olympus #percy jackon and the olympians #nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #shadow travel causing hypoglycemia is a cool concept regardless and i am adopting it into my personal canon #i just really like it when magic powers have biological side effects i think it makes them a lot more interesting