cerisicr:

tbh i almost shipped jasico before i got into hoo b/c one of my best friends is really into the ship and really into the series (or was pre boo l m a o) but once i read their key scenes and just the general feel (namely hoh let’s be real) i was just struck with how Good they are for each other
so many people have written amazing meta for jasico but the biggest reasons i love them together:

– jason is one of maybe three people in the entire series who genuinely cares about nico’s well-being and wants him to be happy
– jason is also one of the only people nico let’s in after a while (and with hazel it’s because they’re siblings so really what jason accomplishes with nico is incredible – on par with reyna)
– jason finds out nico’s secret through his forced coming out and immediately understands why nico is so withdrawn and jaded and Accepts him without question, going so far as to defend him to his closest friends (defending this kid who hasn’t exactly been nice to him when the kid isn’t even around like man i love jason grace okay)
– they’re both hella strong fighters and nico is two years younger so imagine them a little older like nico is canonically one of the strongest fighters but imagine him staying at camp and eating properly and maybe sleeping a little more and nico knocking jason on his ass during a sparring match b/c nico is just That Good and instead of jason being grumpy he’s just so SO impressed like ‘how did you get so good’ ‘i spent a lot of time fighting by myself’ ‘gods, nico. you’re incredible! show me how to do that!’
– jason is an over-sized puppy but he would so go protective guard dog if anyone said anything bad about nico like man okay and nico would be like ‘i don’t need you to fight my battles, grace’ and jason would be like ‘no, you don’t, but i want to fight by your side anyway’
– nico calls jason out on his shit and treats him like everyone else (when a lot of people put jason on a pedestal, nico doesn’t)
– they both have heavy family issues (including dead mothers and being abandoned by their sisters – though not by the sisters volition) so given the chance they could be so good for each other in supporting each other in that healing process
– they’re both children of the Big Three so they know the burdens of carrying the title (though they’ve had opposite experiences – jason was idolized and nico was demonized but both were just as isolated)
– canonically jason is the only person (other than his sister and reyna) that nico lets touch him…..
– jason respects nico’s boundaries and never belittles his mental health issues (unlike some people………)

k like honestly i could go on for so long i’m sorry about this but here are some of the reasons – basically this is My Ship b/c they are so so SO good for each other and had a lot of canon buildup and they are actually so similar and if given the chance they could support each other so well and i’m sorry this turned into an essay

pichesi:

some gentle endgame jasico thoughts for @sunnysbaudelaires​

– nico is 20 and jason is 22 and they split time between the camps and maybe jason tried university but found it wasn’t for him so he teaches sword fighting and leadership and builds shrines in his spare time, and nico goes to class when he feels like it and runs errands for his dad

– but they have a free month of summer and jason has an itch he can’t quite scratch and nico has learned to read jason’s quirks like a mythomagic play so they pack up too many blue brownies (courtesy of percy) and not enough pairs of underwear and set out on a roadtrip

– and it starts off okay. they drive across mountains and fight some griffons and grumble about being followed around by monsters everywhere they go but fighting for their lives has always kept things interesting

– until nico slows a little and leans forward on the wheel and turns deep-brown eyes on jason and asks “where are we going”

– and jason pauses his fiddling with an upside-down roadmap and thinks for a long moment while evergreen trees flash by their windows and then he says “i want to visit my mom”

– and nico just nods and noses the car west and doesn’t ask why because he knows jason has his own healing to do, jason has a lot of things he hasn’t faced yet

– nico makes snide ‘are we there yet’ remarks whenever jason takes a turn driving and they stop at cramped diners along route 70 and all the middle-aged waitresses with bad perms flirt with jason while nico glowers into his coffee cup

– nico takes naps in the backseat wrapped up in jason’s too-big hoodies and jason hums along to quiet radio stations and avoids the bumps in the road as best he can

– they get a flat in the desert just far away from las vegas to avoid the lights and jason offers to fly to get a new tire and nico argues that it’s much faster to shadow travel but jason reminds him that they agreed no shadow traveling because roadtrips are an experience and to enjoy the journey and nico rolls his eyes

– they end up spending the night lying under the stars on the hood of jason’s beat-up second-hand american muscle car (b/c maybe leo has rubbed off on him and maybe jason loves how flooring the gas and hearing the v8 roar is almost as freeing as flying)

– and they talk about their sisters and their parents and expectations and the camps and old loves and new experiences and how people change but ultimately it’s hard to run from your demons and it’s better to face them head on (jason makes a corny imagine dragons joke and nico huffs out a laugh and that’s enough)

– and maybe jason rolls on his elbow and looks at nico in profile and admires nico’s lashes lying across his cheeks and how starlight makes nico softer

– and maybe nico quirks his lips without opening his eyes and says “you’re staring, grace”

– and jason goes a little pink but doesn’t back down because he’s jason grace and he never runs from a challenge, and he says “yeah, i am”

– and then, maybe, in the dark on the cool metal of his car hood with nothing around them for miles and miles save for cacti and stars, jason takes a breath and says “you would be, too, if you could see what i see”