#this is paraphrased from tsats btw

[ruegarding]

"percy holds nico at a distance and only talks to him when he needs something" the distance between percy and nico is established by nico. percy is the one who initiated their friendship by approaching nico after the big battle in botl and talking to him. and he did this bc he noticed that nico didn't join in at dinner or the sing-along, bc, shockingly enough, percy pays attention to nico's well-being in every. single. book. after ttc. nico responds to this by essentially saying "hey, i can be useful!" but percy never asked for that. all percy ever wanted was for nico to be (relatively) safe.

#percy only asked two things of nico: get hades to join the war efforts and to lead ppl to the doors of death (which nico was doing anyway) #so the idea that percy only sees nico as a tool is unequivocally false #pretty sure it's nico feeling like he needs to be useful in order for ppl to care abt him #their issues exist because they never sit down and talk about their feelings. lmfao #percy jackson #nico di angelo #anti tsats #percy #nico #min talks pjo #this is paraphrased from tsats btw #i'm not @'ing anyone i'm just annoyed that a “canon” book had this sentiment in it