Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31061080-20170116021657/@comment-25155763-20170524124905

TheViralSorceress wrote: I'd hate to heat up the argument when it just ended, but so what if Piper had a childhood that was easier as compared to other people in the Seven? Stop comparing her. A bad childhood is a terrible thing, and will always be a terrible that can happen to any child, and bringing in the fact that Hazel and the others had a worse childhood wouldn't make Piper's any better!

She was brought up with a dad who was always busy at work and barely paid attention to her, and you know what the result of that can be. She became selfish. She whined. She wanted attention from her dad, that's all she wanted. An ignorant parent(look, I'm not completely putting the blame on Tristan McLean, an actor's job is tough and very busy) can end up with an ignorant child. She "borrowed" those BMWs without realizing what she was doing. She was sent to the Wilderness School for that.

Look, at the end of the day, Piper is still a very flawed character. Her obsession with Jason is still wrong, I guess. I'm just saying that you can't blame her completely for her actions. And she's also improving as a character, so…

heh sorry for the rant guys But when was Piper's childhood actually bad? I mean by those standards nearly everyone has had a bad childhood. She was rich and got whatever she wants. Sure her dad was busy, but we never see anything that shows she was completely ignored. We only really get Piper's viewpoint, and going with what I know about psychology, Piper is an attention-seeker. And you can't count on an obsessive attention seeker's report of how their parents treated them. I mean, when did Piper start misbehaving? Yeah, we know she didn't know she was using charmspeak, but she certainly DID know that stealing was wrong-regardless of how your doing it. So maybe she didn't know she was using a magical form of persuassion, but she did know she was stealing-so know we've got an obsessive(which you even say), attention-seeking, thief. Actions speak louder than words, and PIper's tendencies certainly deny her ever-so difficult coming-of-age.

Sorry to burst your bubble.