#ericarina
ok honestly I felt like we were robbed of a good friendly dynamic between Nico and Annabeth. so here’s some headcanons nobody asked for
- if Annabeth was never kidnapped during ttc I feel like she would be the only one that doesn’t find little ten year old Nico annoying
- she probably sees herself in Nico when she was only seven and being introduced to the demigod world for the first time so she totally gets it
- like with all those hc’s that have the athena cabin and other campers doting on baby Annabeth, you can’t tell me she sees Nico and isn’t immediately like “yeah I’m totally gonna indulge the shit out of this kid”
- like when the hunters and Artemis arrive she just volunteers to watch him and listen to him geek out about mythomagic stuff
- Artemis: “I thought you wanted to be a hunter”
- Annabeth: “excuse me but I’m learning about Demeter’s attack points at the moment”
- Artemis (audibly): what the fuck
- Annabeth takes Nico’s side, more so than Percy, when Bianca joins the hunters because she knows exactly what it feels like to have your family abandon you
- let’s say if Annabeth goes on the quest, whether or not Nico makes her promise to protect Bianca, she subconsciously does just that to make sure Nico doesn’t lose his only family
- Bianca’s death is devastating and Annabeth takes it the hardest because all she can think about is how Nico will react and how it felt when Thalia sacrificed herself on half-blood hill or when Luke betrayed her and she couldn’t even keep someone else’s family together much less her own
- Nico’s reaction is still the same and he runs away at the end of ttc
- I feel like during the next two books Annabeth is a lot more worried about him and her and Percy are both just equally exasperated at this feral 11 year old roaming the country with some ghost
- she’ll insistently remind him of how he has a home and family at chb and this might change his feelings of ‘not being wanted anywhere’ a bit and make him less reluctant to stay after the war
- after the titan war she’ll force him to come sit with her down in the amphitheater and play mythomagic and it kind of becomes their thing
- Percy will be walking by one day and see Annabeth and Nico waving their arms around and arguing over game technicalities and he’ll just smirk and be like “nerds.”
- at the end of boo when he comes out to Percy and Annabeth, she gives him a proper hug to show her support
(because that high five was stupidok)- after the events of hoo they’re both so burnt out and traumatized but annabeth drags him out to try to play mythomagic with her again
- when he argues that he’s too old for it now she’s like “ok fine I’ll find something else for us to hyperfixate on”
- they find all these weird super complex games to play with each other and it almost feels just like old times
- neither of them admit it but it’s a nice way to escape and distract themselves from their trauma in tartarus
