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Who: Mob, Viktor and others
What: december log catchall for my characters
When: december and potentially beyond
Where: around the trench

Content Warnings: in thread headers

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[mehanizovati]

Do I even want to know what a death trance is? [yeah, it sounds shit? it sounds shit. he can take a wild guess it was super shit.

talk about a complicated world. frankly it always annoys him when he hears of worlds like this where kids and teens are shouldering the weight of the world. as if it isn't hard enough, as though these gods couldn't maybe tone it down. he resists the urge to sigh.]

Well-meaning but invasive. [about jason's attempts.] I can't say I totally understand it. My world was rather unconcerned with sexuality, it saved it's bigotry for other matters. [maybe in those other matters he could understand pretty well though.]

What happened with this Percy in the end?

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[umbraportation]

Probably not? [ Nico doesn't want to know what a death trance is, even if it saved his life. ] Basically, I can use seeds from my stepmother's garden in my dad's domain to put me in a state close to death, like hibernation. Comes in handy if I'm trying to avoid a death by dehydration, starvation, or suffocation.

[ Or all three at the same time. He'd gone into it completely unprepared unlike the animals who would hibernate for the winter. Only the seeds keeping him from slipping fully into his father's world. ]

Like a metal sponge being rubbed on a salted wound. [ It hurt like that. ] Yeah, my world has plenty of other ways it's horrible and that's just one of them.

[ The bigotry still exists, just not as badly as it once was. ]

He and Annabeth managed to get out of the pit, she thanked me for being the reason they had help down there. We split off to do separate tasks, and I stupidly pushed myself to the limits of what I could physically handle. That's when Will inserted himself into my life, telling me off for using my powers when I'd nearly become one with the shadows. I could see it, that way people would pull back from me or were afraid of me. There wasn't any of that with Will.

[ There's the faintest of smiles on his face now. ]

He wanted me to stick around, not just camp, but with him. That was the moment I knew I was really over Percy, and I was able to tell him that. To be able to say it without being forced or pressured into it. Now Percy's off to college with his girlfriend, and I've got a boyfriend who can light up the darkness when I feel like I'm drowning in it.

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[umbraportation]

[ Nico lets that happiness sink in for a long moment. Before the smile fades and his eyes fix on something in the distance. ]

Jason became the first demigod friend I had, we saw each other whenever he was at camp. And then... I felt him die.

[mehanizovati]

[for a while it's a pleasant story- ok, not the whole death sleep thing but viktor admits he finds that rather fascinating. he wishes nico didn't, you know, have to hibernate that way but there's practical uses that-

ok, tuning down the Nerd. focusing on the rest.

nico mentioned will when they first met, perhaps since, and once again there's respect for the kid. positivity like that isn't exactly viktor's forte, if anything it reminds him a little of jayce, who could put things in a far kinder light. useful to have someone like that when you're prone to melancholy, and probably not for the first time viktor feels nico is a rather relatable young man.

of course things don't stay nice, because why would teens have nice things.]

... were you able to confirm his death? [a bit resigned, he's not holding out hope there.]