Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-27091614-20151023205843/@comment-31636400-20170404020718

Rhaeroga wrote: My favorite is Reyna, but if I'm going to objectively rank them, I'd say it's:

1.Nico - No other character has half as much character development. He is leaps and bounds ahead of the others.

2.Frank - I don't care for him particularly. He's just not the type of character I like. However, he does get his own character development, good backstory and unique abilities that we've never seen before.

3.Leo - He had some development of his own, and he's really likable. However, he is NOT as likable as people make him out to be. He was an asshole to Frank for no reason and left his friends for a girl he only knew for a little bit. He didn't even know her favorite color smh

4.Reyna - At first she was this tough macho girl. Then we learned about her insecurities. She wouldn't be this high on the list if it weren't for the time she spent with Nico.

5.Gleeson Hedge - Basically what I said about Reyna, except he didn't have a backstory we can sympathize with.

6.Annabeth - Only because of The mark of Athena. She was a whiny bitch throughout PJ and the Olympians. She either prevented Percy from beating Luke or got captured and had to be saved. She had nice development in TMOA, but it's just not as good as the development of the ones above.

7.Percy Jackson - In the original series, I'd say he's the second best character. (Nico was the best written in that one, too, but Percy was right behind him.) In Heroes of Olympus, he was completely unnecessary. He was no longer the main character, so he wasn't as important. He also had absolutely no development in these 5 books. The only thing preventing him from being further down this list is the first 5 books.

8.Piper - She gets a lot of hate she doesn't deserve. Personality-wise, people complain about her whining, but Leo was much more whiny, and he gets sympathy for it. That said, she wasn't as necessary as the other characters, her backstory was hyped up to be something tragic, yet it wasn't, and she was just made to be the poster-girl. Not much interesting about her.

9.Hazel - Her personality is bland and boring. Her power and backstory are unique, which is a plus. Her fight with Pasiphae was hyped up throughout the whole book, yet it was NOTHING. It lasted only a few minutes, and Pasiphae only got a few lines in. Overall, she didn't develop much.

10.Jason - Golden boy. Never struggled much. Good looking, strong, smart etc. Complete waste of a chance to get a good new character in.

Honorable mentions:

Thalia Grace - Didn't do enough throughout this series.

Octavian - He was an effective villain, but he had absolutely no reason to be evil,so...

Khione -.A better Octavian, but not important enough to be on the list.

Gaea - First she helps the gods beat the titans, then gets mad at the gods for beating the titans.... Bitch, make up your mind. Still, her villainy was more impressive than Kronos'.

Rachel - Didn't do enough.

Will - Did hardly anything. It looks like I'll be putting him higher on the Top 10 Trials of Apollo characters list.

Bob and Damasen - Didn't do enough.

Dishonorable mentions:

Arachne - Terrible villain.

Pasiphae- Same.

All of the giants - They had so much hype, but overall, even a single titan would be able to beat them all. Pathetic.

Zeus and Hera - Just because they suck. Piper is obsessive with Jason, is like Jason this Jason that just shut up already.