User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The House of Hades Official Discussion/@comment-24308873-20131014175259/@comment-24055022-20131016170701

Some of you are right.

It's Rick's book, and he gets to write about any of the characters in it how ever he thinks of them and not be fucking judged on it. Though, I don't think that he came up with Nico being gay for Percy until he began writing the Heroes of Olympus books. My brother thinks that someone mentioned to Rick to make some kind of gayness in his book.