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  Life throws difficulties at everyone, but Nico Di Angelo got the shorter end of the stick. The amount of pain he has gone through, ever since he was a 9-year-old, I couldn’t even fathom experiencing. If there is a category for side-character-with-the-most-painful-backstory-and-angst-riddled-life, Nico di Angelo takes the cake. When I read about him throughout the Percy Jackson and Heroes of Olympus series, I could see his transition from a bright-eyed boy to a weary, closed-off teen. From losing a sister, being labeled king of ghosts, being ignored, saving the world and getting no credit, going to Tartarus, being trapped in a jar for months, and almost dying while delivering a 40 feet tall statue across half the world, to being shunned and bullied, Nico has been through everything. At this point, he has been through enough to be labeled as a protagonist and have 17 books written about him. Through the first couple books of the Percy Jackson series, it pained me to see how little ...

  The personality and development of a character is the most important part of the book, as it makes for the plot and affects their decisions later on. There is always a feeling of satisfaction at the end of the book when a character can do something they couldn't at the beginning, be it facing a fear, forgiving someone, or even a subtle change in their personality.   The main character of the book always has some sort of character development, but what interests me, is to see how the side characters have changed, how the people who weren't in the spotlight still had their challenges to face, and what kind of direct effect does this have on the protagonist.   This is why analyzing a side character is always interesting, as you do not have a reliable source to know about them, other than the main character's perspective, which can often be unreliable. To be able to separate the lead character's opinions from the facts about a supporting character always takes ski...