#the puffs are very much nicos trauma but i think it'd be interesting if they could recognize similar feelings in other campers

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I like to think that the Cocoa Puffs become the local cryptids in camp. Everyones making ghost-busting gangs trying to figure out the little guys for the first few months but then after that its just their friendly neighborhood ball of trauma. They scatter like dandelions across the camp grounds and it becomes commonplace to find one chilling under a bed or hiding in a boat or stuck in a tree. Sometimes they’ll steal food just for fun. They’re untameable.

There are exactly 2 ways to make a Puff go somewhere and thats by either a) having a really bad time with an emotion such as grief, anger, loneliness, etc and becoming enough of a catnip to the Puff embodying that emotion that they’ll follow you around like a storm cloud, OR, the more popular option, b) getting Will Solace himself to wolf whistle, which immediately prompts every single Puff in existence to scramble out of the woodwork like cockroaches and zoom towards him at top speeds. Nico doesn’t know if he should find it cute or be offended.

#tsats #the sun and the star #nico di angelo #will solace #solangelo #pjo #percy jackson #cocoa puffs #cacodemons #camp half blood #headcanons #ideas #pjo headcanons #text post #the puffs are very much nicos trauma but i think it'd be interesting if they could recognize similar feelings in other campers #and thus would follow them around if they were ever having those emotions. specifically the ones who are more open abt their trauma #there was a theme in the book about nico helping others by just being himself! his puffs can kinda help by being like #tiny emotional support traumas. like yeah maybe they dont make the person feel much better but its easier to get through it #when they have a little emotional support blob. or maybe the puffs just accidentally make it all worse and sort of feed off those emotions #but thats alright because then their friends can tell when somethings wrong and the puffs arent offended when theyre shooed off #once the person is comforted and calms down the puffs eventually just kinda wander off sensing there is no food anymore. their job is done #theyre physical forms of grief and theyre nicos but fck it its fantasy i can mess with them how i want and it think its cute n interesting #mostly i just love the idea of the puffs getting so attached to will he can just Summon Them like hunting dogs #YES will has sonic awful whistling but i think it would be funny if there was 1 whistle that made all the puffs get the zoomies towards him #i think itd be even funnier if this was found out purely on accident. will wasnt even like whistling under his breath he was just like #being a cringe boyfriend & jokingly wolf-whistled at nico. to which the puffs all BOLTED at him before nico could kill him #call that a new line of defense