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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-02 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
1. Well, I'm getting a kitten, too. Hermione's cats had kittens and she thought I'd like one. I swear, I'm going to have a menagerie at some point, and I didn't think that would be possible.
2. You two would get along scarily well.
3. (That makes me sound super pretentious, and I didn't have a fun time at the House of Hades when I visited. So. Shadows it is.)


[Despite his starting to freak out, he can't help smiling a little.]

Your secrets are safe with me. At any rate, I don't have a whole lot going on in January, if you can bear to wait even that long. Where else is there you'd like to travel to? We can still go to Parrais, even if it's not the festival.
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-02 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
1. I don't think it's weird. It's not that it's bad to have one, it's just not what I'm used to. Animals usually run away from me or growl at me.
2. Will do.
3. (Why would I be Wasabi of all things? But yeah, there's an actual House of Hades. It's in Epirus, Greece. Pilgrims went there to try getting visions from the spirits of their ancestors.)

Well, I'd hate for you to die of boredom. I don't know how far specifically it is, and it definitely depends on where our starting point is.


[It'd be faster if they had magical flying horses, but Nico doesn't like them and they don't like him. So.]
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-04 03:05 am (UTC)(link)
1. For once, I'll actually agree with you because I've seen them.
3. (Gods I can only imagine what you come up with.)


[Nico sighs wearily, but...he's tired of arguing with Hiro at this point. He doesn't like it, not a bit. Regardless, there's nothing the son of Hades can do. So...he'll just have to make sure he trains Hiro hard so that he doesn't get killed. So that Hiro doesn't become another tragedy.]

I was hoping for longer than this. Hiro, are you sure? I mean this seriously and with no challenge. Are you seriously, 100% committed to helping me? Because you don't know the full extent of what I can do, and you'll be required to know everything so that you understand how my powers work. I can teach you how to ward off evil, and it'll work on even a mortal person, but, again, you need to be committed. Also, you'll be training hard with that dagger I gave you, too. I'm personally making sure of it.

[He has to make sure that Hiro's serious about this, especially since there's such an enormous possibility that this will mean the other boy may start to lead his life more like a demigod than a mortal. It's not something Nico wishes on anyone.]
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-05 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Hiro doesn't get an immediate response, but eventually Nico switches to audio as well.]

If you're not scared, then you should be. The ghosts in the Drabwurld aren't like the kind I deal with at home. I can make educated guesses on how to keep them from becoming too powerful for us to handle, but I can't guarantee anything.

[So. He's going to try Hiro. If the boy doesn't run from him or anything, then...then Nico will let him help.]

Alright, then. I can travel through shadows, and how much energy it drains from me is all dependent on distance and the amount of people I'm traveling with, if any. If I abuse any of my powers beyond my limits, then I start turning into a ghost myself. I can summon not only skeletons and zombies of humans, animals, and any other species I'd care for, but ghosts from good to bad to everything in between. I can put sleeping people into a deeper sleep if they're in range and if I care to do so. When I'm asleep, I can travel into the dreams of other people or they can drag me into theirs if they have a powerful enough dream. I can cause fissures if I get angry enough. If I need to preserve my life for any reason, I can go into a deathlike state, a "death trance," which can slow down any poison and I won't need to breathe as much air. I can even safely eat pomegranate seeds taken from Persephone's Garden that can sustain me for a full 24 hours.

[And now...the one power that he's not sure even Hiro can handle. The one power Nico doesn't want to use again if he can at all avoid it.]

If I'm seriously pushed over the brink, I even have the power to turn someone into a ghost and banish them to the Underworld.

[Nico pauses to let that and the implications of that statement sink in.]

So. Do you still think I'm worth it? Do you still want to go with me?
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-05 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
[It's not exactly the reason, and Nico knows that it's not. At the same time, he doesn't really want to get into it. That's a can of worms that he doesn't like opening for good reason.

Regardless...he's totally silent through the whole thing. The fact that Hiro thinks he's worth any of this is...a foreign concept for him, even after all this time. So, Nico gives in. There's nothing else for it. He'll just have to make sure he gives Hiro the tools and experience necessary to keep him alive.]


If you're as good at learning as you say and you don't find what I can do...disturbing enough, then...alright. I'll start training you after the holiday. Just promise me that you won't take any unnecessary risks, okay?

[After a moment's hesitation:]

I want you to make that a binding oath, too, by swearing on the River Styx. So, if you feel like you can't keep that promise, then I'm warning you to back out. Breaking that oath will mean a fate worse than death will happen to you.
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-05 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
Except that you've never before met someone who was a child of Hades or Zeus or Poseidon, or even their Roman counterparts. [Seriously, they're a different league altogether in comparison to the other children of the gods.]

No tricks, I promise. [He wouldn't do that to Hiro, as tempting as it is. Unless it's something that absolutely needs to happen, he just won't.] If it's for reasons like trying to prove you're brave or prove that you can do it, that's unnecessary. Being reckless will also fall under that category.
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-07 11:33 pm (UTC)(link)
...I suppose so. [He'll grudgingly give Hiro that much.]

Maybe because it bears repeating. [There's no venom or gentleness about it. It's just matter-of-fact truth.] Also, I very distinctly remember you angering a bunch of natives in Treun. So.
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-07 11:57 pm (UTC)(link)
And you neglected to give any sort of warning. [Nico's tone is innocent, and actually half amused.

There's silence for a moment.]


Alright. This trust goes both ways, Hiro. Also...you're going to hate me with the training I'll put you through, but you'll be able to hold your own at the end of it. I'm not going to be very fair.

[But, no matter what, Nico will make absolutely sure that if one of them has to make a sacrifice, it won't be Hiro. He'll give his life to make sure at least the other teenager will get out of it alive. He cares about Hiro too much to let that happen, if he can at all help it.]
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[personal profile] fell_to_hell 2015-04-08 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
[He's actually smiling a little bit, though Hiro can't see it.]

Yeah. [Just by continuing this conversation in general, he's made Nico feel able to trust him more. Not that he didn't trust Hiro before, but...this is different.] No, no, I don't think you're weak. I'm just going to be very tough on you. Real weapons, nothing blunted.

[Hiro will be perfectly safe with Nico's weapon, at least. The blade won't hurt mortals.]

Give me a call whenever you're ready.