[ Nico opens his mouth to try to explain and thinks so hard that there's a couple of intakes of breath where he might be gearing up to speak, but just ends up blinking hard repeatedly. ]

I don't know. His dad is two people at the same time - maybe? Not in Janus way, or Greek and Roman aspects, but there's the human and the black gooey tentacles. They... usually? take up the same space and take turns in the body or... something. I think sometimes they're two ... people. Don't know if the goo is a people, but it talks and thinks.

[ Nico is aware how rambling and insane this must sound. This is not going to help Nico trying to live his life without concerning others too much. ]

The goo half tried to give me a cupcake plushie and said he outranked me because I didn't have any prizes. We got into an argument and he tried to kidnap me with his tentacles.

[ Such is life. ]

I didn't kill him, though.