Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-1636709-20180518142108

It's something I've been thinking ever since the House of Hades, and two more books since have made me think so.

It started with Percy's negativity towards himself and his past actions while in the pit. While I do agree that reflection isn't necessarily wrong, it felt very harsh and more like the darkest way of looking at a character without the context needed.

Then we had Orion, who came up as a rather twisted take on his past self, a take that you'd think that Artemis would have noticed earlier and not had him around.

Recently we had Helios's remains, quite bitter and angry.

My theory is that Tartarus has a corrupting effect on most, if not all beings who are in it. For some it's more depressing, like Damasen, but for a lot it makes a being more evil and twisted. It's why there are so many Cyclopes on the bad side: they get killed and come back corrupted. Possibly the same with dead Centaurs and any other monster with good and evil counterparts.  