#but gods forbid he makes his allies uncomfortable! that will haunt him to his core!

[aroaceleovaldez]

yknow, i've said before i don't know what my favorite Nico scene is cause i like a lot of them, but i think the top two are probably Nico being introduced with "You can take your great army and shove it up your ass" and him killing Bryce Lawrence and the line of "That word ['please'] didn’t make sense to Nico. The Underworld had no mercy. It only had justice." because those two lines are core tenets of Nico's character to me.

He will tell his first monster to go fuck themself as a ten year old actively being kidnapped and he operates on a moral system based on the laws of the Underworld, not based on mortals. and that is so fascinating.

actually this is a lie the third top Nico scene is in BoTL, Nico's conversation with Minos where Nico goes "You're talking about murder" and says Murder Is Bad and Minos says "You'll learn differently as you get older." purely because that to BoO when he kills Bryce - character development. He's okay with murder now. Interesting that Minos was correct. Love that for him.

#pjo #riordanverse #nico di angelo #i do like in re-reading the Bryce scenes in BoO that. when Nico's discussing it #he does not feel remorse about Bryce! he does not give a single shit! #the only thing he feels bad about is that Reyna and Coach had to witness it. murder? fine by him. #but gods forbid he makes his allies uncomfortable! that will haunt him to his core! #does he feel guilty? yes! for potentially upsetting Reyna. he explicitly says ''I didnt want to ruin another friendship'' #guilty about the murder part? absolutely not. good riddance. #that is such an interesting examination of his morals