Autistic Nico Di Angelo - Tumblr Posts
it’s canon cause i said so
autistic Nico my beloved….
Tbh I have stood by Nico and Will (and Leo tbh) being autistic for so fuckin long-
Nico, who’s autistic, going through overstimulation and not knowing how to accommodate. And Will, who is also autistic, knowing how to help him.
Then they both just chill in the med bay in silence to help with the overstimulation.
Thank you :DDD
It’s one of those headcanons that I forgot aren’t canon bc of the amount of fics I read lmaooo.
Nico, who’s autistic, going through overstimulation and not knowing how to accommodate. And Will, who is also autistic, knowing how to help him.
Then they both just chill in the med bay in silence to help with the overstimulation.
Friendly reminder that Nico Di Angelo as a child, loved pirates and Greek mythology.
Imagine a 10 year old Nico getting excited that the Greek gods exist, then finding out that he gets to learn how to sword fight just like pirates do. (He was so excited he ended up cutting his leg resulting in a scar)
And now imagine all that excitement disappear when he learns that he can never show his big sister what he learnt.
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Imagine 10 year old Nico info-dumping to Bianca about pirates and Greek Heroes.
Now imagine HOO Nico on the Argo 2, looking back at it all and realising he’s basically now a Greek hero AND a pirate, but he isn’t able to info dump to Bianca like he used to. 💀
Imagine him going to tell Bianca before realising-
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One of the most important things to know with Nico’s character is he is, in this order:
1.) An extrovert who cares SO MUCH about EVERYTHING, ALL OF THE TIME and thinks so highly of his friends and gets sad and lonely when he’s not around people and doesn’t want anyone else to feel sad and lonely. When he’s not around people he talks to the dead to fill in that gap. He’s surprisingly self-assured but is sensitive to what other people think about him (ex: has no qualms against murder and doesn’t regret it at all but is concerned he scared Reyna and Coach/made them uncomfortable by killing somebody in front of them).
2.) The world’s most awkward nerd. He loves card games and struggles to not infodump about his special interests at inopportune times and wanted to be a greek hero/pirate/possibly an aviator growing up, but also that was like Two Years Ago and he doesn’t wanna talk about it.
3.) Thinks of himself as judge, jury, and executioner on both a metaphorical sense but also he is literally that. Like, that’s literally his job position as Ghost King/son of Hades and he takes it very seriously and he will straight up murder somebody if they are breaking the laws of the Underworld (unless he’s giving somebody a pass because they’re his friend/family because see: bullet point 1 <3). And it directly ties into his powers (seemingly being able to judge people’s souls while they’re still alive and then also like. just. rip people’s souls out or turn them into skeletons).
So do with that information what you will.
Friendly reminder that a lot of the characters that blatantly show autism traits are overlooked (Will, Jason) or seen as strange/scary (Nico, Leo, Annabeth)
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(Will who is also diagnosed and completely understands why Nico is confused bc most the time he is too)
Nico: (describes a very specific and particular experience that he often has in clear confusion as to what causes it)
Will who is holding back from asking him if he’s ever been assessed for autism: yeah?
“I know what you are” solangelo situation but Nico is internally panicking about being clocked as gay and Will is just thinking “autistic”