Board Thread:Percy Jackson & the Olympians/@comment-24687156-20170125182248/@comment-27799899-20170627101926

^^ Chiron is a teacher, he is not a leader and he is not a preacher, his immortal duty is to teach demigods, not heroes but demigods, he does not decide what it means to be a hero. Heracles was a demigod who more often than not murdered those that where around him, and yet before Percy he is largely regarded as the greatest hero to ever live (I say before Percy because of the comment Poseidon made towards the end of The Last Olympian), he teaches that they shouldn't hurt mortals in the same way that most people are taught that they shouldn't harm those that are weaker than themselves. Nevertheless that would be an idealized version of a hero, Percy is not an idealized hero he does not go around preaching "truth, justice and the American way", Percy does not fight fair he is sly and treacherous when he wants to be, prone to acts of anger and violence, he respects Chiron's wish of not hurting mortals, but that is because he chooses to, there is no rule book for demigods to follow, he will face no consequences if he ever did choose to harm a mortal, because a mortal life is nothing to immortals, they hold their own personal loyalties for select mortals, but beyond that they hardly care.