Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160820001629/@comment-38511280-20190320083104

Rubikxe11 wrote: Why would Rick Riordan put Percy in the book series as the main character if he can be defeated by most of the characters. Including his younger cousin. Water can be frozen into ice in some situations and can deflect many things. Like the grace family's lightning bolts. Percy can throw water and Thalia can throw lightning but if the water reaches closer to Thalia, water can conduct electricity meaning that the water can hold the strike and shoot back at Thalia. Water can Form anything and can heal Percy in the middle of any battle. How many people has hurricanes caused til now. MILLIONS! Also Percy has more experience Cousins don't really count on the godly side. Demigods, unless they have the same godly parent are mostly unrelated, as gods don't have DNA. Water can be frozen into ice but Percy doesn't really do that. It couldn't really deflect lightning bolts and throwing water wouldn't work. Water doesn't hold a strike. It could control where it strikes but children of Zeus/Jupiter can as well and they are largely immune to it anyway. The hurricanes you mentioned which caused millions of deaths were also considerably larger than Percy's. Although Percy does have more experience than Nico, this is not a direct indication of fighting ability. All monsters have been fighting for far longer than any demigod. However, many monsters could be defeated by any competent demigod, despite the lack of "experience".