Nico di Angelo

**Nico di Angelo** is a fourteen-year-old Italian-born Greek demigod, the son of Hades and Maria di Angelo. He is also the younger brother of the late Bianca di Angelo. He is known in the Underworld as the "Ghost King" after taking the title from King Minos in the Battle Of The Labyrinth. He is currently in a relationship with Will Solace.

## Statistics

* **Name**: Nico di Angelo, The Son of Hades, Ghost King
* **Origin**: Riordanverse
* **Gender**: Male
* **Age**: Biologically 14 (Chronologically 84)
* **Birthday**: January 28, 1932
* **Classification**: Greek Demigod Son of Hades, Camp Half-Blood Camper
* **Blood Type**:
* **Height**: 166 cm (5'5.5")
* **Weight**: 47.2kg (104 lbs)
* **Skin Color**: Pale
* **Eye Color**: Dark Brown
* **Hair Color**: Black
* **Relatives**: Hades (father), Maria di Angelo (mother), Bianca di Angelo (sister), Persephone (step-mother)
* **Alignment**: Good
* **Status**: Active
* **Class**: **S-Class**
* **Notable Attacks/Techniques**:
* **Voice Actor**: Megumi Ogata

## Appearance

Nico is said to have black hair that always looks like he just got out of bed (messy and shaggy) and olive skin. By *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, his skin has paled to white, and he takes to wearing black clothing with skeletal designs, a Stygian Iron sword and a silver skull ring (by the end of the book). It was stated by Percy that Nico has his mother's eyes, but it has also been said that he has the wild glint of a madman too, just like his father. According to Percy, Nico's hands are "as cold as ice."

By the end of *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, he has a silver skull ring which was Bianca's last gift to him and is said to belong to his father (as stated by Hazel). He also has a Stygian Iron sword always by his side in his chain belt. He is also mentioned on several occasions wearing an aviator's jacket, most likely because he was originally from WWII.

## Personality

In *The Titan's Curse*, Nico is ten years old and enjoys playing with his Mythomagic cards that none of the others truly seem to understand. He is clueless and very inquisitive: he is curious and questioning and likes Percy a lot like a big brother (though it is later revealed that he has secret romantic feelings for him), and begins annoying Percy with his ceaseless questions, especially when he asks if Annabeth Chase was his girlfriend, which makes Percy consider "stuffing him in a meat-flavored sack and throwing him to the wolves." He is excited about finding out that he is a demigod (immediate response: "Cool!"), and starts to compare monsters to Mythomagic creatures. He feels abandoned when his sister Bianca, who practically acts as his parent, becomes a Hunter of Artemis. When she goes on a quest, Nico makes Percy promise to protect her. After her death, he develops a long-lasting grudge toward Percy for letting her die. Once he realizes that he is a son of Hades, he casts away his childhood interests and runs off on his own.

In *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, Nico becomes grim and solitary, and definitely a considerably more powerful character, saying that "only the dead respect me... and only out of fear." His attitude change may have happened partially because of Bianca's death and partially because of Minos' manipulations. He believes that he will never be accepted by the living, and does not belong at Camp Half-Blood, much like how his father Hades feels out of place on Olympus. Nico is also shown to be somewhat vengeful, as he wanted revenge for Bianca's death, something he blamed Percy for. However, Nico forgives Percy after Bianca's ghost tells him that it wasn't his fault that she died. He also accepts the small figurine of Hades that Bianca wanted him to have.

In the same book, he is shown to be very naive and gullible, being able to believe that Minos was actually helping him bring Bianca back from the dead. Nico cares much about his sister and the constant attempts to bring her back show that he would not give up without trying. Nico is shown to be very loyal to the Olympians, as he could have easily joined Kronos and the Titans, but chose to fight on the Olympians' side.

In *The Last Olympian*, he is quite sincere in wanting to help Percy with the prophecy and the war. However, Nico can be somewhat untrustworthy at times. This is shown when he tricked Percy into coming to the Underworld so he could gain answers about his mother, but Nico wasn't planning on Percy becoming imprisoned. By standing up to both Kronos and Hades, he is shown to be that he is very brave and bold.

While he tries hard not to show it, Nico is plagued by incredible internal pain, mainly due to him being unable to come to terms with not "belonging" in the twenty-first century (due to the time he spent in the Lotus Casino), not being accepted by other demigods as a son of Hades, and, worst of all, his homosexuality (which he is desperate to keep secret). Some of his fears about not being accepted due to being gay, most likely come from growing up in the 1940s, where homosexuality was not accepted.

Nico can be extremely dangerous as he is a son of the Big Three. He is very unpredictable, and due to his sister's death can be somewhat mentally unstable as demonstrated in *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, and Octavian even claims to see a decent amount of ruthlessness in Nico. He has a short temper, just like Percy and Thalia.

### Fatal Flaw

Nico di Angelo's fatal flaw is holding grudges, as Bianca's ghost tells him. In his case, it can lead to not wanting help or not asking to be saved in deadly situations because he simply doesn't like someone. Examples are his not wanting to be helped by Percy, even when Geryon was going to sell him to the Titans and not wanting to go back in the Labyrinth with them. Bianca shares this with him, as she also had the same fatal flaw in life, although this didn't lead to her death. Bianca also says that holding grudges is the fatal flaw of Hades' demigod children. In the fifth book, Nico tells his father, Hades, that he is holding a grudge that could end up killing the Olympians and the campers. Ever since *The Last Olympian*, Nico hasn't demonstrated this flaw any more, implying that he has learned from his previous experiences, and tends to avoid holding grudges.

## Power

As a son of Hades, Nico is an extremely powerful demigod. He is considerably more trained in using his powers than most children of the Big Three, such as Thalia and Percy, due to his time spent in the Underworld and he states that he trains with the dead.

## Abilities and Equipment

**Demigod Physiology**: As a demigod son of one of the Big Three, Nico's already demigod traits are already above those of the average demigod.

* **Geokinesis**: Nico can control the earth - levitating rocks and making them deadly, black, and extremely sharp. Nico can open fissures in the earth that can swallow up creatures and trap them in the Underworld. He can cause earth tremors so powerful, they can shatter the pillars of a mountain fortress. He can also control the black walls of the Underworld. His geokinetic abilities are only surpassed by his father, Hades.
* **Necromancy**: As a son of Hades, Nico has control over the dead, as well as many monsters native to Hades' realm, such as the Furies.
	+ **Power Over the Undead**: Nico can reanimate skeletons, summon Skeleton Warriors, put them to sleep, and destroy them. In *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, Nico was able to permanently banish Minos to the Underworld. In *The Last Olympian*, he was able to summon a large army of undead soldiers all by himself. It is unknown how much he has increased in power since then. This is an extremely powerful ability as it literally allows him to have an army anytime he wants. However, summoning too many undead warriors at one time can cause him fatigue.
	+ **Summoning Deceased Souls**: as shown in The Battle of the Labyrinth, Nico can summon souls of the deceased by digging a pit, filling it with food (though animal blood can also be used), and chanting in Ancient Greek.
	+ **Releasing Souls**: as shown in *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, Nico can release the souls of people that should have died but had somehow managed to cheat death, such as Daedalus.
	+ **Sensitivity to Death**: Nico can sense death as it happens or when it is coming; when a person close to him dies, it comes as a ringing in the ears. In addition to that, he has a deep knowledge of the Underworld and knows when a person's life is being judged in the Underworld. Nico can also sense when an immortal is fading, as in the case of Pan in *The Battle of the Labyrinth*.
	+ **Life Aura**: Nico can sense someone's life aura (he sensed it when Rachel Elizabeth Dare's life aura flickered in *The Last Olympian*.
	+ **Power Over Ghosts**: As the Ghost King, Nico can physically manipulate ghosts, such as taking hold of them by hand or forcing them to be silent with a gesture.
* **Umbrakinesis**: Nico has control over darkness and shadows for various uses such as solidifying it for attacks and to hide in it.
	+ **Shadow Travel**: Nico can use shadows as a way of transportation; however, great distances tend to wear him out. The first time he shadow traveled, he passed out for a week. He has said that while learning to use it, he ran into walls and made accidental trips to China.
	+ **Darkness Generation**: He can shoot solid bolts of darkness, and surround enemies in pitch-black clouds of lightless space.
	+ **Darkness Shields**: He can solidify shadows into virtually impenetrable shields.
	+ **Invisibility**: He can use shadows to cover himself in darkness to become invisible.
	+ **Umbrakinetic Healing**: He can heal himself and others using darkness (minor injuries).
* **Thermokinesis**: Nico has been shown to generate extreme temperatures to the point of combustion and freezing. However he has yet to control the fire and ice he generates.
	+ **Pyrokinesis (limited)**: When Nico swallowed up the four skeleton warrior attacking him and Percy in *The Titan's Curse*, "flames erupted from the fissure." However, it is not known how powerful his control over fire actually is.
* **ADHD**: Like most demigods, Nico possesses inborn supernatural battle reflexes and senses that he uses to analyze the fighting style of his opponent.
* **Dyslexia**: Nico's brain is "hard-wired" for divine Ancient Greek instead of modern languages.
* **Ancient Greek**: In *The Battle of the Labyrinth*, Nico demonstrates his ability to summon the dead by chanting in Ancient Greek.

**Master Swordsman Specialist**: Initially, Nico shows more skill with his powers than his fighting skills. However, this might have been due to his lack of formal combat training at camp. In *The Demigod Files*, he did show decent combat skills when he was able to keep up with Percy and Thalia when they fought a group of Keres. Not only did Nico emerge unscathed from the battle, but he easily defeated the Keres he fought. Later, he even fought the Titan Iapetus alongside Percy and Thalia (but he was quickly incapacitated). In *The Last Olympian*, Nico fights in the Battle of Manhattan, and emerges unscathed, implying excellent fighting skills, which impress even the Ares demigods.

**Nico's Sword**: Nico's main weapon choice. It is three feet long, and in *The Last Olympian* is described as being "black as a nightmare." It helps Nico to channel his power to control and summon the dead, and it can also drain souls to give the sword more power. Only Hades, his children and Clytius can use Stygian Iron for their weapons.

## Weaknesses

Nico's molecular structure can fall apart if he overuses Shadow Travel and using his powers for extended periods of time tires him out at a faster rate.

Suffered from incredible survivor's guilt and an inferiority complex due to the death of his sister and was terrified of letting his homosexuality come to light due to being born in a time when such a thing was grounds for being ostracized.