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KrspaceT wrote: Thomeus Skywalker wrote: KrspaceT wrote: Well a certainly thought out interpretation, even if I personally do not think the Gods are nearly this bad. You do have a few mentions of hang outs and interactions post Heroes o O of Percy and Poseidon after all: the Ship of the Dead for one.

Though if you wanted to deal with the 'bad gods' of this scenario, might I suggest the once prophecies Son of Metis and Zeus. Percy and Poseidon hadn't actually conversed in The Ship Of The Dead. Percy just mentioned one of his past conversations with Poseidon. Past, meaning, prior to The Heroes Of Olympus Pentalogy.

The gods are already hated through their mythological characterization. Only due to their characterization in the Riordanverse did some fans actually like some of the gods. There are a gajillion evidences to prove that the gods were evil in the myths. But I wanted to prove that the gods are evil in the Riordanverse too. Two things: One is the distance between Blood and Ship is a good chunk of a year: six-eight-ten months or so. Plenty of time for something, and given that a solstice party, a birthday, and a war meeting is not the time to go 'hey Percy, your half-brother sleeps with his conch', such a talk only makes sense to occur after that point.

The other is length itself: Poseidon and Percy having conversation gaps for a while isn't unusual. Correct me if I am wrong but after they met at the end of Book 1, the next Percy heard from him was the letter at the end of Book 2, a year later. Then six months to the Winter Solstice, then six month to his 15th birthday, then a year to The Last Olympian.

The period of time between Last Olympian (August) and Lost Hero (December) is a fairly short gap of no communication, and then Percy's conked out for eight months more until Hera lets him out. Heroes is a shorter time span than the first series, meaning that while Percy does mention that Poseidon has not talked to him in that time, it's far from an unreasonable length of time as per the other series. He was also asked that directly, so it wasn't something he himself was too thinking about.

Look are the gods jerks, yes.But let's try to ask where the jerkishness is and isn't. Dionysus not really interacting is  a case of Percy not being at camp much from Last Olympian to Lost Hero where he was recalled: the two stories in that period of time take place out of camp.

It's easy sometimes to correlate story elements onto the gods, and also the actions of those around them to themselves. I can't keep track of how many fanfics put the way the Hunters are around men to Artemis, who while certainly no super fan, doesn't spend her time glaring at them, for one example.

Poseidon had, until The Last Olympian, been an important part of Percy's life. He appeared at the right moments and guided Percy. But he had not even conversed with him once - like he did in the first series - after he had faced some of the worst moments of his life - Tartarus, memory loss, etc. Also, it is clear that no god directly conversed with any demigod till The Hidden Oracle, like the gods used to do in the first series, since it is said that no one heard from Apollo since Gaea's physical death. And if no one heard from Apollo, it was because no one had heard from the gods themselves. And after The Hidden Oracle, till The Ship Of The Dead, I am sure that Poseidon would never have conversed with Percy, since if he had, Percy would have definitely brought up something about Apollo. And Zeus did not permit any god to aid Apollo in any way, which Poseidon would have inadvertently and indirectly done.

Even when Dionysus had some other important jobs to do in the first series, he still found time to talk to Percy, while, in the second series, this was not the case.