[Considering the fact that he and Nico met because he was running away from angry natives he scammed, maybe they aren't entirely wrong for distrusting some Shardbearers. He's not going to make that mistake again though. He's genuinely interested in getting some of them on their side and not actively killing him or his friends, thank you very much.] So…sort of a neutral option. We're either all bad or we're all okay. I could get behind that.
[And it's true. He's had a lot of time to think about the whole neutrality thing but he hasn't readily accepted that they're all in this together. It's kind of the way he doesn't realize that the Unseelie Court really does have the upper hand, but that comes from a skewed perspective and "you ruined everything."
But he can't really blame Nico. Not exactly. Sort of. Ehhhh not to his face and as time goes on, much less blame lies in the son of Hades himself.]
She sounds pretty cool. [He idly thinks that he might actually like Hermione very much if he ever had the chance to meet her. He pulls them away from the cart they're at though, moving to explore another. This has actually become a scene from a Disney film where one has been locked in a tower of isolation and is now dragging the other to look at everything. Yes, you know exactly which one.] I don't really know any witches, but I know a lot of people that know how to use magic. And a god. [There's a short pause.] …I don't know if I'd call these guys family, but it's pretty close.
[He doesn't say anything as he absorbs that. In a way it sorta makes sense. In another way, it's pretty damn sad but he doesn't say so.
Instead, since he doesn't know all of the details, he carefully phrases his next sentence.] All of the friends I've made back home were friends with Tadashi first. He introduced them to me…they were his best friends and so after everything happened they became mine, too. [That is to say that he doesn't make friends easily either, Nico.]
If he's immortal, he'll come back. Not coming back kinda goes against the whole idea of immortality, don't you think?
[And he shouldn't say this, but--] And if it helps, I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna die anytime soon.
[i.e. you're sort of stuck with him for as long as you feel like letting him stick around, di Angelo. Deal with it. (Also there're actually no promises he won't die anytime soon because he keeps doing dangerous shit, but whatever. Nico doesn't need to know that.)]
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[And it's true. He's had a lot of time to think about the whole neutrality thing but he hasn't readily accepted that they're all in this together. It's kind of the way he doesn't realize that the Unseelie Court really does have the upper hand, but that comes from a skewed perspective and "you ruined everything."
But he can't really blame Nico. Not exactly. Sort of. Ehhhh not to his face and as time goes on, much less blame lies in the son of Hades himself.]
She sounds pretty cool. [He idly thinks that he might actually like Hermione very much if he ever had the chance to meet her. He pulls them away from the cart they're at though, moving to explore another. This has actually become a scene from a Disney film where one has been locked in a tower of isolation and is now dragging the other to look at everything. Yes, you know exactly which one.] I don't really know any witches, but I know a lot of people that know how to use magic. And a god. [There's a short pause.] …I don't know if I'd call these guys family, but it's pretty close.
[He doesn't say anything as he absorbs that. In a way it sorta makes sense. In another way, it's pretty damn sad but he doesn't say so.
Instead, since he doesn't know all of the details, he carefully phrases his next sentence.] All of the friends I've made back home were friends with Tadashi first. He introduced them to me…they were his best friends and so after everything happened they became mine, too. [That is to say that he doesn't make friends easily either, Nico.]
If he's immortal, he'll come back. Not coming back kinda goes against the whole idea of immortality, don't you think?
[And he shouldn't say this, but--] And if it helps, I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna die anytime soon.
[i.e. you're sort of stuck with him for as long as you feel like letting him stick around, di Angelo. Deal with it. (Also there're actually no promises he won't die anytime soon because he keeps doing dangerous shit, but whatever. Nico doesn't need to know that.)]