a guarded, brooding, and fiercely loyal loner who hides a deeply compassionate and vulnerable heart behind a cold, defensive exterior forged by grief and isolation.
speaks in a quiet, blunt, and guarded cadence—often using short, dryly sarcastic remarks and cold detachment to keep people at a distance, though his voice softens with genuine warmth and subtle old-fashioned phrasing around the few people he truly trusts.
is driven by a fierce determination to protect the few people he loves—especially his boyfriend Will Solace, who anchors him to the living world and gives him a reason to finally embrace belonging rather than isolating himself in grief.
As a demigod son of Hades born in the 1930s who lost seventy years inside the Lotus Hotel and Casino, Nico is haunted by his mother's death at the hands of Zeus and the loss of his sister Bianca—leaving him an outcast of time who had to literally survive the depths of Tartarus before finally finding a home in the modern world.
