#so that heartattack was fun 🙃

[omajishans]

What if the Lethe erased everything?

I've been thinking how does Nico and Bianca know they're siblings? I mean, they were dunked in the Lethe and then shoved in the Lotus Casino so probably, they only know they're siblings bc they were told so or something (by Alecto? or maybe Hades??) right after the Lethe

Then i thought, what if they didn't know?

Straight out of the Lethe, they're told their names and who they are but it doesn't occur to anyone that Bianca and Nico might not remember/realize they're siblings

They're never meant to remember what happens at the banks of the Lethe river anyway, so when they're separated as soon as Alecto drops them off at the Lotus Casino, they split up and quickly loose each other. Not realizing they were supposed to stick together

(After that I only have a general vibe for each?)

Bianca still joining the hunters, loving having a family so long after her mother's death but still feeling off for some reason

Not dying on that quest to free Artemis, bc why would she need to steal a Hades figurine to make up with a brother she doesn't have?

Spending years slowly figuring out her powers and realizing her memory had been messed with but never trying too hard to remember. She had a new family that needs her anyway

All the glimpses of memory she gets, show things she cannot have anymore. A mother, a life in Venice, being a normal mortal girl...

Its very painful for her to realize, against her will sometimes, what she used to have

What she tried to ignore comes back into sharp focus when she gets to see for the first time, the infamous Ghost King. A half-brother of hers, that'd actually got their dad to help during the battle of manhattan

A few years older than her and dressed in all black, he looked as serious and unyielding as she always imagined their dad to be

He gazes back at her with black sleepless eyes

All fo the sudden, she remembers that's Nico. Her little brother. Who used to follow her around all day when they were kids and show such love for life

Who she had refused to remember and seek out for years.

She cries

On the other hand...

When a satyr brought Nico back to something called camp half-blood, it had been the best day of his life

He ran around, cheerfully babbled to anyone that would hear about how things compared to his mythomagic cards and stuck with the Stoll brothers, who loved getting him into and out of trouble with them

It was amazing. And not being alone for the first time in months was good too

It soured when, during a capture the flag game, he accidentally summoned a skeleton

He loved it and was ready to show off to everybody. Hades was probably his dad then!

Only to turn around and see everyone's horrified expressions

Most campers treated him as if he had the plague from then on

And sleeping in the Hermes cabin was no longer an option, with how uncomfortable they were with him

Only a handful of people even got close to him after that, Annabeth, the Stolls, Clarisse...

He loved them and they'd always be his friends but all the stares, wishing he wasn't there, quickly became too much

He left

He spent a few years learning about his powers (thanks to Minos, tho he was a strict teacher, he was good) and unburying his memories

Minos then tried to sacrifice him to come back to life so he banished him and took the Ghost King title to himself

Every year was a new hardship

His dad loved open comunication as often as he did Demeter, people believing he had joined the titans' side, monsters trying to kill him, Zeus trying to kill him, then romans...

He grew to love his dad and match his stubbornness

He was always cagey about their family, his mom. He was used to it and did whatever he could to try and find her spirit. See her at least once...

During one of the visits to his friends at CHB, he caught sight of the hunters of Artemis. and one in particular, tiny thing of maybe 12 years, kept looking at him with black glassy eyes...

His world shattered a third time

"Bianca...?"

#bianca di angelo #nico di angelo #mlkoo wips #percy jackson verse #this got a lot longer than expected #ideas kept coming as i wrote #i feel it's not all that diff from canon #rip #also I almost lost the draft like twice #so that heartattack was fun 🙃