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Percy Jackson
People constantly tell Percy that he’s heroic for laughing in the face of death, but he has never done it quite like the demigod before him does. When Percy laughs at death it's metaphorical, a challenge, angry and acidic. When Nico laughs at Death it is not an at, at all. Instead it’s a with. Literal in ways Percy can't begin to describe. The laugh is a joke shared between friends. It's heroic in its kindness. Something Percy will never be. As he watches Nico laugh with Thanatos he knows by the beating of his own heart that he’s screwed.
