S*langelo is not good rep and I’ll tell you why
It was obvious that after nico coming out rick wanted to get him into a relationship as soon as possible (because why would you have a queer character who’s not a in a relationship that’s like the whole point right?? 🙄 /j) so instead of developing Nico’s character and going into how he felt being a queer man in a time he was not familiar with after being forcibly outed in front of someone he had yet to fully trust, Rick decided to force him in a relationship with someone he barely knows.
Another problem with s*langelo is that it gets more credit than what’s due. It is one of the most popular ships in the fandom with only a few chapters of canon interactions. The fetishization of nico and will in the fandom is horrible. They are constantly being either sexualized or infantilized by the fandom and if you go back far enough to see the treatment of nicos character pre house of hades release and after….it’s jarring he went from the badass mysterious character that was never gonna be as a popular as Percy to an uwu smol boy being fetishized by straight girls in the fandom
Nicos coming out scene was disgusting in every way shape and form a force outing is definitely not the right way to go for your first ever queer character rick sorry but it’s not especially not a VIOLENT forced outing in front of other people
And will was definitely a character who even though we’d seen him before kinda just felt shoehorned into the story simply to be a love interest because let’s be honest as much as people love to say “wills not just a love interest!!” He kinda is… before being with nico he only had a few pages of canon scenes. He could’ve died in tlo and at that point no one would’ve cared and I hate to say it but he could’ve died at the end of boo and few people would’ve cared.
Idk this post was long and probably doesn’t make much sense I just feel like the only thing solangelo has going for them is fetishized fanon content
And the problem is that Rick can and HAS written much better lgbt rep (fierrochase) he just decided his first ever queer character gets the shitty relationship and storyline