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Samirah ara wrote: ^ Yay, someone that does not hate one of those three people! Yay! I love all of them too!

yeah, i really don't understand why a lot of the fandom hate them in particular. i love leo, he's probably on of my top 5 characters in all of rick's books. and piper's just as badass as annabeth. that charmspeak is super cool, i'd love to be able to do that. idk if that makes me a bad person, but whatever. and jason's pretty cool, it's just that he's kinda a stiff character, which maked sense, considering that he used to be a praetor and serious is kind of his job. he's gotta do what he's gotta do, right? but yeah they're good characters who make bad choices just like the rest of us. they aren't meant to be perfect. like frank and hazel are also newer characters, but they never get as much hate as Jason and Piper and Leo.

also another thing i want to mention is that people are saying that they made percy an immature child in HoO, and i can see why you would think that, but i think the reason it seems that way is because we aren't reading from percy's point of view anymore, we're reading from different perspectives. we've gotten so used to hearing percy's side of things that we can't seem to be able to handle any other character's point of view. i bet in PJaTO that many people thought percy was immature, we just didn't know that because we read the entire series through percy's eyes. percy is sarcastic and pessimistic - when he's talking to us, the reader. when he's narrating. much of his dialogue would be considered less mature than someone like Jason. and percy's just as mature, it's just that he prefers to be sarcastic and fun in his morbid, pessimistic way. which is fun to read. he's serious, it just doesn't seem that way because we're reading a lot of HoO in different points of view.