As Much As I Love The Idea That Jason Grace Has No Idea How Fucked Up His Childhood Was, My Personal

As much as I love the idea that Jason Grace has no idea how fucked up his childhood was, my personal headcannon is that Jason knows exactly how messed up his childhood was and is completely numb to it.

That would not stop him from trying like hell to make sure nobody else goes through what he went through

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okay so post epic odyssey where odysseus and Penelope have surfaced from their room finally and he and diomedes are catching up I'm imagining the conversation going something like this

Odysseus: so then I gave up being merciful and became the monster.

Diomedes:....you tried being merciful?

Odysseus: Yes?

Diomedes: you did? You tried being a good merciful person? You?

Odysseus: Yah okay fuck off it was polties dying wish. I had to try.

Diomedes:.....90% of the war crimes in the Trojan war were suggested, planned out, and carried out by you. We literally stoned to death the guy you had a personal grudge against. We framed him for treason and stoned him to death. 70% of why Athena liked you was because she thought she knew all the ways to kill someone and then you'd suggest something insane and I'd see her taking notes. You literally gave Ajex a psyoctic break just being yourself.

Odysseus: shut up

Diomedes: I'm not wrong. Did you tell Penelope about your attempt to be a good person?

Odysseus: What? Of course I did. I told her everything.

Diomedes: did she laugh?

Odysseus:...shut up that's not the point

Diomedes: she did didn't she!!!

Odysseus: ANYWAY eurylochus wasn't appreciative of my return to monsterhood and he started causing problems so I

Diomedes: killed him? Yah saw that coming. No shit. I'm so shocked.

"Hey, Will?"

"... hmm?"

"Name one child of Hades who was happy."

"..."

"You can't."

"I can't."

"... I'll tell you a secret."

"Tell me."

"I'm gonna be the first. Swear it."

"Why me?"

"Because, you're the reason."

"Swear it."

"I swear it."

"I swear it."

Solangelo × The Song of Achilles, by Madeline Miller

Canon

What if Will could see death auras as part of his healing abilities as a son of Apollo? What if the first time he met Nico he saw his aura as a child of Hades and thought he was like actively dying? Will, of course freaked out, trying to make Nico sit down, to tell him what happened, "how are you even standing up right now?!" and Nico's just standing there all confused because for once Nico's not actually injured and he doesn't really understand why this pretty boy is panicking over him.