Board Thread:Percy Jackson & the Olympians/@comment-39214247-20190515230242/@comment-38639610-20190623200813

RubyLotus12 wrote: ok, look. You can't just like someone cause he/she is attractive. There are really attractive characters in books and movies that are horrible, so you can't judge someone by his/her looks. Rick Riordan is a good author, but he doesn't have many good-natured ugly characters. I'm not attracted to Nico. I just said that some people are. I honestly find him way too young to think of in such a manner. He's young enough to be my kid brother and that's how I see him. Like a kid brother. On that note, I think Reyna, not Will, was one the best things to happen to Nico.

Since he lost Bianca, he had been searching for a way to bring her back. Even in the Son of Neptune, it was revealed he went to the underworld originally in search of Bianca to let her out. In Reyna, he finally found the big sister figure in his life that he was searching for. And you know Reyna loves and supports him unconditionally and is not afraid to let others know it (her hugging him in front of the camps). To me, Nico's story has always been more about family than anything else. He spent nearly every book after Bianca's death trying to bring her back, was constantly searching for his father's approval and was trying to find out what happened to his mom. In my eyes, Nico's character arc concluded when he found his acceptance among Hazel and Reyna and, inevitably, the rest of camp who accepted him like family.

Unpopular opinion: I feel like the Will romance was rushed and was really only in there to keep up appearances because it'd look real bad if the gay character was the only one who ended up without a romantic partner. Which is fine. I still think Nico's search for family was much more meaningful than the last minute romance though.

Sorry, you probably weren't expecting or wanting to read all that. However, once I typed it, I didn't feel like erasing it all.

Tl;dr: I don't find Nico attractive, he's way too young.