Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29729973-20160914041006/@comment-25852705-20161213012459

Commander Tool Belt wrote: Excuse you, I was with your right up to 'and Leo became a beyond selfish....'.

Let's analyse, shall we?

If you say he yelled at Percy, you're going to have to rejog my memory, because all I remember is that when Percy mentioned helping with Calypso and apologised for not following up on her, Leo said something like 'Man, what is wrong with you?' and Percy was like 'So we're not cool?' Then Leo was all like 'Of course we're not cool. You're as bad as Jason. You're all blah blah blah, (silly rant about how Percy has awesome powers and stuff, similar to the Jason rant), and I'm just a lowly mechanic. How am I supposed to resent you if you go on apologising?' And I'm pretty sure Percy smiled and said something along the lines of 'I apologise for apologising', similar to what Jason said in the Lost Hero. Unless I missed something in that convo, I'm afraid Leo yelling at Percy is a strike.

Next, he lied about the cure. Oh, fantastic. He lied about the cure and only told Hazel and Frank because they were true Romans and understood the sacrifice concept, while he lied to the rest because he knew they won't allow it, and he knew if they didn't allow it, Gaia won't be defeated. And if Gaia wasn't defeated, he would die (as in permanently) and never see Calypso again. So, in my books, that is the direct opposite of selfish- it is unbelievably unselfish. Another strike.

Now, he 'abandons his friends without a word.' Wow, okay. This also tied to the above. He did not tell them because he knew they would never allow it. So, if you had a sacrifical plan to save the whole world and you knew if you didn't do it the whole world would suffer, but you also knew your family would never allow you, would you tell them? Would you be like 'Oh guys, I don't want to be rude by just leaving you all, so I'm telling you now, I'm going to die. Well, there's a chance I might come back, but I might not.' And their obvious reply is 'Absolutely not. You're not doing that.' Same concept. So that's a strike three.

I'm with you again of Jason and the Brick though, lol. In my opinion it would have been cruel to tell them that he had a plan to survive because if Leo didn't end up getting the physician's cure they would be expecting him to come back while he is actually dead.

He exploded, the odds still weren't in his favour for surviving.