"I'm pretty sure he's just a guy with spider-themed powers," Nico said. "It's not like he's some kind of spider hivemind pretending to be a person. All codenames are pretty dorky; ours were too when we used them."

Then, before he could ask (because she knew he was going to ask):

"I was 'Sister Grimm', which was my instant messenger handle. Molly was 'Bruiser' or 'Princess Powerful'. Chase was 'Talkback', Gert was 'Arsenic', and Karolina was 'Lucy in the Sky'. Alex didn't use one. Like I said, they were pretty dumb."