CB Theories/thoughts Part 5 (Did Prunella's Mom Actually Buy The Second Key From The Flea Market?)

Nico di Angelo is in love.

Unfortunately.

Not with Percy Jackson anymore. That would’ve been easy. Unattainable, sure, but at least he could’ve filed it away under Stupid Mistakes I Make When I’m ten. Curse you, Aphrodite.

He knows the feeling — that jittery, restless buzz, like waiting for the sun to rise after an all-nighter you know was a terrible idea. It’s an old enemy by now. Like most of his enemies, it’s winning.

Will Solace is light and butterflies and every other nauseating thing Nico pretends not to give a crap about. His laugh lights up the room — because of course it does — like the universe personally handed him a spotlight and said, Here, make everyone else look worse. 

His absurdly long fingers drum a rhythm on the table, like he’s starring in some indie coming-of-age movie nobody asked for. Nico included.

Every stupidly perfect curl, every freckle that looks like Aphrodite got drunk and decided to show off — it’s enough to make Nico want to set himself on fire. He wonders how much gold it would take to recreate this disaster. Everything in Hades’ palace. Twice. Maybe throw in Cerberus for good measure.

Will’s eyes crinkle when he smiles — soft and blue and filled with that unbearable, stupid early-morning light that makes you want to punch the sunrise and then crawl into a pit and die.

“Oh my gods, Cecil, please don’t—”

Will’s laughter detonates — loud, wild, full-body laughter — and Nico feels it like a bomb going off right inside his ribcage.

He bends over clutching his chest dramatically — Nico’s chest, technically, since that’s where the explosion hits.

His back curves like some stupid heroic mountain or whatever. It’s disgusting.

The first sound of his laugh practically plants flowers in the air. Actual, metaphorical, revolting flowers. Nico would throw up if he weren’t too busy mentally composing sonnets about Will’s jawline. He is a disaster.

“Yo, Death Boy, what are you staring at?”

Will waves a freckly hand in front of his face because of course he notices. Of course he has functioning eyes. Meanwhile, Nico can barely remember how breathing works.

“Nothing,” Nico says, dead inside. “Just the sunrise.”

And somehow, Pandora opened the box and you didn’t fall out. Miraculous.

“Sunrise? D’Angelo, it’s literally ten in the morning. And raining.”

“Cecil, shut up before I hand-deliver every skeleton middle finger we planted on the Ares cabin roof last night into your bunk.”

“Geez, Nico! Fine! Shutting up!” 

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{Transcript:

Day 1: Tumbling Love

Day 2: Heavy are the Resting Laurels

Day 3: Hope Breathed Alive

Day 4: Spiralling

Day 5: Through The Snake’s Lies

Day 6: In Friends We Trust

Day 7: Home, Hearth and Grief

Day 8: Echoes of Battle Cries

Day 9: Feast for the Gods

Day 10: Redemption of a Ghost

Day 11: Spring Rains

Day 12: Eyes that Glow Gold

Day 13: Rollback to Disco

Day 14: Pact from Our Youth

Day 15: Soul-Entwined But Forgotten

Day 16: Haunting Plagues

Day 17: Scapegoat / A Repeat of History

Day 18: A Single Drop

Day 19: Nurturing Seeds

Day 20: Untangling of A Secret

Day 21: The Gilded Cage

Day 22: Leap of Faith

Day 23: Failed Escape

Day 24: Gone Again

Day 25: Silence Before The Storm

Day 26: Something Wrong, Something Amiss

Day 27: Milkshakes and Confessions

Day 28: Under the Stars

Day 29: Reeled Back

Day 30: Sunset On The Horizon

/end Transcript}

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you can only reblog this today

Guys I just watched the stream on it I'm going to pass away before April.

OK so A long time ago I read these two solangelo fanfics that were both really good bt lso really sad and now I can't fins them

The first one was them getting in a fight and I think it was Will w ent to sleep on the couch and nico was really upset with that I think it was a happy ending

The second one was A smutty one. When they were doing it will went too far and nico told him to stop and will didn't and after that he felt really bad and called his mom to talk about it and they made up in the end.

If anyone knows what these two fanfics are.pls message me I would love to reread them again.

I long for every detail on the ptsd episode with Will. I know I will cry in so many different ways. I crave Will angst.

i would be happy to tell you. ahem. (be warned the concept is. a little ridiculous. nor do i know why i structured this like a poem but alas we carry on):

middle of the summer after the giant war.

something happens at dinner. who knows who started it (hermes cabin). there is a food fight.

someone gets WAY too intense and fucking. launches a watermelon at someone else.

they miss thankfully! but it splats on the stone

and everyone jumps cus the sound but then they’re back to laughing and throwing shit but will just.

freezes.

and starts to walk very slowly to the watermelon.

and tries to.

piece it back together.

and after a second people are looking like oh my god what’s going on what’s his deal….

and percy stands up and rushes over and he’s like hey, man. you okay? you good?

and the camp has gotten silent enough to hear a quiet, panicked i don’t know what to do, michael, what do i do, what do i

and percy gets this LOOK on his face this horrible look and he’s like will, it’s percy. can you look up at me? do you know where you are?

and he just gets increasingly hysterical. trying to put the pieces back together. red juice spilling down his arms and pooling on the inside of his elbows. michael what do i — michael! michael! it’s not working, i can’t — i can’t feel him! michael! michael —

there are very few people at camp who understand what’s happening.

but a handful of them.

know will is not seeing a watermelon right then.

percy is just holding wills wrists and clutching him tightly and just saying it’s okay, will, it’s okay, it’s okay over and over

crying himself

i don’t have an ending it would just be painful. i do however have the image of clarisse, watching aching and angry in the sidelines. i like to imagine her barking at everyone else to look the fuck away and mind their business. i like to imagine chris holding her hand, and her tightening, hard. her crying. the little kids in apollo crying, too, because they've never seen their brother like this before. maybe nico remembering a golden shroud and a boy around his age who couldn't stop sobbing.

Will Solace will not want to work as a doctor. That boy is so traumatized from being a field medic at such a young age and losing all his siblings.

He had to become Head of Cabin Seven and Head medic at 12 or 13, so he would have to be the person the campers go to when they're bleeding out or have a bone sticking out of their arm. He has all the pressure on him to save lives when he is just a teenager, and he should be living his life instead of having everyone in a camp counting on him to save others. So why would he want to continue to do so in the real world when he could be something else that's not so trauma-inducing

Will has a talent for healing, so I don't think he would leave the medical field

But I don't believe that he would be a doctor, but there are other opportunities that he could take, and not have to see gruesome wounds and people dying all the time

He could be a veterinarian. It can be gruesome at times, but I feel like Will loves animals and would love to take care of them, but he also gets to use his healing skills.

Or he could be a wildlife conservationist. Protecting Wild animals and wildlife. still doing some things in the medical field, but not as much as he would be doing as a Doctor

I have a strong feeling he would be a pediatric therapist (after healing his trauma), helping kids who have hard lives or those with mental disorders, because he wouldn't want kids and teens to go through what he went through when he was growing up

Thanks for listening to me yap

Credit to @onetiny-inkdropuniverse for the idea In the most recent chapter of Binary Stars

Oh good I know where I'm spending 2025

On the couch like it wasn't going to happen anyways.

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