Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160527042231/@comment-25155763-20160825224413

Commander Tool Belt wrote:

Warriorfan123 wrote:

Commander Tool Belt wrote:

Warriorfan123 wrote: I disagree, I don't think they are outside parties, as it's Nico's demigod power to summon skeletons. Hold up.

Where did Nico summon undead warriors without the Diocletian scepter? Just asking if he did, just a question. Even if he did, The skeletal warriors are bound to him due to his father. It like if you are Royal and your father is the king the guards are bound to do your will because they serve your father. They are an outside party. In the Titan's Curse, he caused a fissure in the ground and they came from it, if my memory serves me right.

So basically Nico can barely use any of the abilities he inherited from Hades. ^ I'm sorry that instance isn't quite valid as those were sparti that followed Percy there, not summoned by Nico. UMM Nico has summoned skeletons so many times its scary you dont remember. Most of the battles he is in he summons them. His freakin demigod power is the power to control the dead. Thats like saying Leo cant use tools because they're not physically apart of them. I mean Nico's been in  arena fights before and HAS ALWAYS SUMMONED SKELETONS, so I really don't understand the controversy. Once again, Hazel's gems are not sentient nor alive, and only do what they are told to do, and are bound to her will. She's allowed to use them in fights. Percy's water is not sentient  nor alive, does only what it is told to do, and is bou8nd to his will. Percy's allowed to use them.

They are just an extension of Nico, just like Percy's water or Hazel's gems. They are only as strong as he is, it just doesn't seem that way because bones are naturally durable, and the fact that they cant die, just break apart. But if you had a sword strong enough to shatter bones, hurting them would be as easy as hurting a normal, fleshy, human. The only undead beings that are sentient are ghost and sorta zombies, as ghost know exactly what they are doing, are sentient as any other human, still have their souls(quite literally they are entirely souls) and have actual minds and thought process, they're just scared of him because he's Hade's son( and because he knows how to 'tame' them), not that they are specifically bound to him. On the other hand, Nico's skeletons are literally just regular skeletons that are capable of moving. When he falls in battle they collapse, when he's tired, their fighting is sluggish.