Who Is Nico Di Angelo

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Nico di Angelo is a fourteen-year-old Greek demigod, the son of Hades and Maria di Angelo, a mortal; this makes him a demi-god, half god and half mortal. He is also the younger brother of late Bianca di Angelo and the half brother of Hazel Levesque. He is known in the Underworld as the Ghost King. He has black hair, olive skin, skinny; also he is dark and mysterious. In reality though he is just a kid in need of love and advice.
Nico’s childhood is full of misery, pain, and very little happiness. He spends a lot of it trying to bring back his sister, backstabbing people, and helping them. He redeems himself in the last books of the two series. In the first series, Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Nico and Bianca are introduced in the third
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Nico is there with half-sister Hazel Levesque, who he found in the Underworld and brought back to life. In the third book, Mark of Athena, Nico has been to Tartarus and is kidnaped by giants named Otis and Ephialtes then sealed in a jar. He slightly survives by magic pomegranate seeds. Percy saves him and they then venture into a new adventure. The next book doesn’t have much of Nico, he only does two things, he does of importance is he gives a goblet of poison to the crew with him. It makes them able to go through the House of Hades. In the final book, Blood of Olympus, Nico almost dies. He ends up starting to turn invisible and walking through trees, sinking into the ground, and seeing through his hand. The main reason this is happing to him is because he is transporting the peace making Athena Parthenos, that is about 50-feet tall and 100-feet wide, from Italy, across the Atlantic, and to New York where a war is breaking out between Roman and the Greek demi-gods. One of the other characters save the day and all of the people who are in love with Nico and are reading this series freak out because our little Ghost King finally found a man! Will Solace, who is a healer, in the Greek camp. Nico really likes him, but to be able to move on, he has to tell Percy that he had a …show more content…
As a shipper, fangirls who love forcing people into romantic relationships, then crying when it doesn’t happen, love Will and Nico together. Solangelo roughly translates to "Angel of Death", for this couple it is perfect. Also, Will makes Nico smile 4 times in the last book, HE HAS ONLY SMILED TWICE IN THE LAST TWO SERIES! Will Solace, son of Apollo; is a healer, a caring person, and saved Annabeth in the last book of the first series (Rick Riordan had to repay him somehow). Nico and Will’s relationship right now is complicated, mostly fan fiction and lots of art of them together, but in the new upcoming series the Trials of Apollo, we expect lots of Solangelo and are prepared to wage war if it doesn’t

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