Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31393646-20170603124449/@comment-29729973-20170617200359

Commander Tool Belt wrote: Let me add some CTB to this discussion, if I may.

The Greeks are like alcohol. The Romans are like really strict parents. What does that mean?

When you drink a lot of alcohol and get drunk, you don't do an awful lot of crazy things to you. All alcohol does is compels you to do things that you would have done eventually anyway. So if you're quiet, but you have the tendency inside you to be a whore, when you get drunk and sleep with somebody, it is not a totally strange concept cause you always had the tendency to be a whore. Alcohol kinda brings out the real, untamed you. I have never taken alcohol I'm 13 XD

With really strict parents however, this personality, the wild untamed you, is compressed so much, that even when released of them, it takes a while to get in touch with that side of you. When you are released of strict parenting, and you taste alcohol for the first time, what happens? You fall in love with it.

So Jason was with the really strict parents (Romans) compressing his personality. When he went to the Greeks, he just became more of himself, what he would have been. Hence, he fell in love with the Greeks.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

For me, it is bad. I feel like Jason needs to be Roman for the balancing of the crew. What do I mean? Leo, Piper, Percy are the typical Greeks. Frank and Hazel are the typical Romans.

That leaves us Jason and Annabeth. Jason has so blended with the Greeks, that by the BoO, Leo doesn't consider him a true Roman.

Annabeth has never blended with the Romans, but she is more serious than the average Greek. If Jason isn't a true Roman, we can say Annabeth is not a hardcore Greek. Generally the Greeks are reckless and risk takers. When Piper takes a risk in BoO, Annabeth doesn't approve, and she's a greek. So, you get my point.

To the Romans, everything is logic. To the Greeks, you take risks and improvise. If the majority of the crew is standing in Greek, then it could see them (if they ever do reunite as a questing force) acting a lot as Greeks, generally, meaning more of their actions could be risks and reckless.

Jason needs to be Roman to kind of balance it out, not completely but at least make it fair.

From a totally not logical angle, I do not like tbh that Jason is becoming more and more like Percy. They need to be different. They are the two powers on that quest and it is only fitting that one is greek, one is Roman. And then of course the captain is greek, which is okay. The two planners, Annabeth and Frank, again sees it shared equally. But if Jason becomes more like a Greek.....and I just found my self talking logic again. Exactly. So it seems like most people are agreeing with me. The Seven are alike in many ways, but they have their own personality. Piper, Leo, Annabeth, and Percy are the 'troublemakers', the ones who talk back and disrespect a god, demigods who gets in trouble a lot at school, and take risks. Jason, Frank, and Hazel are the logical ones, the usual rule followers, the respectful demigods, and think before they act. So the Seven is supposed to be an even mix of risk takers and logical thinkers. But now Jason is more Greek, the only real Romans of the Seven now are Frank and Hazel. Which leaves a bad taste in my mouth.