Hello! I always knew there was something fishy with Nico’s age, but I was too lazy to calculate and actually figure out what the problem was. 🙂 But I never thought to compare his age with Hazel’s age!
Just writing out the facts here:
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– Hazel turned 13 on December 17th, 1941, as explicitly mentioned in The Son of Neptune (pg 144 of the e-book). That would mean that her birth year is 1928. It also says that this date was the last day she lived in New Orleans.
– Hazel mentions that she joined Camp Jupiter in September (pg 99 of the e-book). When Percy meets Hazel, it is closer to the end of June (pg 87 of the e-book). Logically, Hazel should be 14 at this point. However, earlier in the book Percy mentions her has “maybe thirteen” (pg. 47 of the e-book).
– According to Rick, Nico was born January 28th, 1924.
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– Another contradiction to Nico’s birth year is in The House of Hades, where Nico says that Hades and his mother met in Venice, Italy in the 1930s (pg. 222 of the e-book). He also tells Jason that he was “maybe six” around 1938, making his birth year actually around 1932, not 1924 (pg. 453 of the e-book). *Special thank you to @glassamphibians for bringing this point up.
– In The Titan’s Curse, Grover tells Percy that Nico is ten years old (pg 7). At the time of the meeting, Percy mentions that it was right before winter break (pg 1), which typically starts in the middle of December. Because Nico’s birthday is January, we can assume that he was either 10 or 11 at the time.
– In The Battle of the Labyrinth Percy says, “Nico was only ten, or maybe eleven by now, but he looked older.” (pg 40) This still makes sense, as Nico had not turned 11 yet when Percy last saw him. Percy sees Nico in the Iris message and makes this assumption in June (pg 1).
– The Last Olympian ends with Percy’s birthday, August 18th. Being that a year has passed since Percy’s assumption in The Battle of the Labyrinth, Nico should be 12 at the end of The Last Olympian.
– The next time we see Nico is in The Son of Neptune, which, again, starts in late June, almost a year since The Last Olympian ends. In accordance with our deductions so far, Nico should be 13 when he sees Percy again.
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*From these facts so far, Hazel is actually, as @thefangirlsnewgroove said, around a year and a month older than Nico physically.
– Later in The Son of Neptune, it says about Nico, “He was also a kid from the 1940s. He’d been born only a few years after Hazel, and had been locked away in a magic hotel for decades.” (pg. 166 of the e-book)
It would seem, with just the birth years alone, that Nico is in fact older by year than by actual age. This could be why Hazel referred to him as her older brother. However, this theory contradicts the piece of information in the last bullet, that Nico was born a few years after Hazel. That doesn’t mean he has to be a few years younger than Hazel, because we know both were taken out of time for quite a while. It also contradicts the fact that Nico could’ve been born in 1932 like it says in The House of Hades, or in 1924 like Rick said. If he was born in 1932 then Hazel is older by Nico in year.
The one thing I couldn’t find was the actual quote where Hazel calls Nico her older brother. If anyone can find me that so I can add it to the post, that would be amazing!
Thanks for sharing! This was so much fun to compile. 😉
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