She also seems to understand that Nico has been sad and feels alone in the world.īrittney, Brittney, Brittney. Birttney: Unlike Nico, she's mortal and seems to really like Nico thinking he's dorky and cute and funny, surprisingly.He is the narrator of the story and has an infactuation with Brittney. Nico di Angelo: Son of Hades and Maria di Angelo.Unlike his foreshadowed attraction to Juniper in The Battle of the Labyrinth, Nico now actually has the nerves to ask this person out. Nico being a demigod child of Hades has finally found someone that he likes. Nico di Angelo's love story is exactly what it sounds like. Nico eventually shadow travels to Camp Half Blood, extremely fatigued and continues on to battle with the camp and is shown to have been at fault for Octavian's death.Nico di Angelo, son of Hades and Ambassabor to Pluto Along the way, Nico has to struggle with the burden of having to shadow travel the large statue and two other people.
Later on in The Blood of Olympus Nico has to travel with Reyna and Coach Hedge to bring the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half Blood in order to restore peace between the Greeks and Romans. After that, Jason can be seen forming a close bond with Nico. Nico forms a slight bond with Jason after Nico is forced to confess in front of Eros, and therefore Jason, that he has a crush on Percy. He also played a significant role in The Heroes of Olympus for when he promises Percy to be at The Doors of Death after Percy and Annabeth fall into Tartarus. Lastly, Nico brought Hazel Levesque, daughter of Pluto and his half-sister, back from the dead and helps her control her dangerous powers.
The seven demigod protagonists of the second series also undertake a quest to save him when he is captured by Gaea's forces. In addition, Nico was privy to the fact that there were two camps, one Greek and one Roman, before The Lost Hero, which makes him an important liaison between the two groups during the Heroes of Olympus series. Percy makes it his goal to find Nico in The Battle of the Labyrinth, and later undertakes a small quest with the son of Hades in The Last Olympian. Nico is important to the plots of both Percy Jackson & the Olympians and The Heroes of Olympus. At the end of The Blood of Olympus, it is implied that he begins a relationship with Will Solace, son of Apollo. Thorn in 'The Titan's Curse', which he considers embarrassing and tries to hide. From this point on until meeting Cupid in The House of Hades, Nico struggles with an attraction to Percy, developed when Percy first protected him from Dr. In The Battle of the Labyrinth, Nico contacts Bianca's ghost and, after learning that holding grudges is a fatal flaw for Hades's children, he lets go of his hatred. Nico initially blames Percy for the death of his sister Bianca. He makes many other characters uncomfortable, in part due to his powers over the dead and his unnerving weapon of choice: a sword made of iron cooled in the Styx called Stygian Iron capable of absorbing monsters' essences, rather than simply banishing them to Tartarus. Nico, despite being an extremely powerful demigod, is depicted also as extremely lonely due to his frightening powers and family reputation, much like Hades himself.
From this point on, he is usually described as pale and shaggy-haired, always wearing dark clothing. After Nico learns of Bianca's death in The Titan's Curse, he becomes moody and secretive. He enjoys playing Mythomagic (a Greek-mythology-themed card game similar to Magic: The Gathering) and can quote the fictional statistics of gods and monsters from memory. Nico is initially depicted as cheerful and childish, and described as olive skined and dark-haired. He undertakes a quest to discover his history, and learns that his mother was Maria di Angelo, the daughter of an Italian diplomat. Though he appears to be ten years old and therefore a violation of the "Big Three Oath", it is later discovered that he and his sister were born in the 1940s and, after having their memories wiped, stayed in the Lotus Hotel and Casino until the present day. At the end of The Titan's Curse, it is revealed that Nico is the son of Hades. Nico di Angelo is first seen in The Titan's Curse, when several other characters come to his boarding school to bring him and his sister, Bianca di Angelo, to camp.