User blog comment:Hyperborean/"The House of Hades" – official expectations blog/@comment-5774152-20130221034225/@comment-5774152-20130304224020

Well I definately dont think that Nico will not stay behind because it would just be too much. I mean, he already got captured and now he would stay behind in Tartarus. Talk about sad! And I dont think that Frank will help Percy make his decision. I mean, what is he going to do? Stand there and have a brief discussion with Frank on how Nico should go and not Percy. No. And I didnt say that Percy staying behind would be a permanent thing, I said that he would be captured by Gaea and saved later by his friends. And if he was stuck in Tartarus, he wouldn't neccesarily be dead would he?

^And how did that huge text wall convince you that Nico would be the one to stay behind? I think I said his name once or twice that whole entire thing.