Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4503464-20141028191901/@comment-4503464-20141028200509

Annabeth and Percy wrote: Why? So that we can know exactly how crazy he thinks in his head? Because he was made off to be soooooooooo evulllllzzzz in the last book just because we needed a mortal jerkass prick at the end of the series. He went from being "A Jerk" to "Morally Ambiguous" to "Sliding Down The Slippery Slope to "Omnicidal Maniac" to "Nominal Hero" from each book, with the last two being in BoO.

RR basically wanted another Luke, a bad guy who still got to be a good guy at the end while dying in a 'really cool' but 'actually really cliché' way. "He looks like Luke," Percy said. He was freaking Luke all over again.

Which is why I think he should've gotten a POV. His personality changes were disheartening and saying that 'Gaea' did it is not amusing. RR could've done that whole thing better, and giving him at least one POV before he decided to launch himself into the sky full of burning explosive magickal weapons would've been better for me.