That's only the tip of the iceberg, if you can believe it.

[Hiro gets it. Maybe not exactly what Nico went through, but...there's enough that they can understand each other about it. How people avoid him or how much easier it is to just push people away rather than get his hopes up in finding a friend, a person who'll accept all the weird stuff and won't be scared of him. A person who won't reject him outright. It hurts less that way. Reject them before they can reject him.

Although, he's starting to change his mind on that. This past year and the war with Gaea has been making him reconsider it very strongly.]

For the most part, mortals don't know know the Greek myths are real. They forgot how to see the truth, I guess. Some see it, but not all and sometimes not for very long. So...for the most part, it's from other demigods. [Who should know better.] Not even most animals like me just because they sense my heritage. The more intelligent ones, like parrots, seem okay with me.

[Probably because they can reason a little bit better than, say, a cat.]