Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35094745-20180504013804/@comment-35771246-20180614204203

Jason was such a great character that it is the most devastating thing to see him die from getting stabbed by Caligula. From a fangirl's point of view, I've become super attached to him and see him in this glorified light, because he's the Son of Jupiter - and who isn't a bit in love with him. From a reader's point of view, I totally understand the need to implement realism into the storyline, and prove that these villains are as bad as they say.

I'm in a bit of dilemma, and I don't really have a formed opinion on whether Jason should stay dead or get resurrected.

I've been a fan of all of Rick's books since the minute TLT was released, and I know it's irrelevant to point this out, but I'm also a fan of DC Comics - and if there's one thing that I've learned as a reader where characters have been constantly killed off and then revived - yes, it gets old.

The fact that a lot DC Comics' writers have chosen to kill off major characters, like Batman, have proven the need to show that death is real and can happen to your favourite superhero. And then to see Batman being resurrected (because if Batman died, how will they sell more comics), was once a relief. But after so many other almost equally major character deaths and seeing them revived, the angst and suspense decreased to a bare minimum.

However, in DC, there are only a limited number of ways to bring people back from the dead, and they made it pretty clear that it wasn't without consequences. One of the characters went straight psychotic, and have this twisted sense of justice - killing criminals so they don't cause anymore trouble.

There's some justification to it, but it is still a great argument against better morals.

Taking this train of thought and relating it back to how Jason's killed off in TBM, and how in Rick's books, resurrection comes so easily without any immediate consequences; it made me want him to stay dead, despite being one of the best characters to have been written by Rick. Because here, even if Jason stays dead, the storyline can continue to progress, develop other characters, and maybe even make TOA better.

However, taking into consideration how Jason's death feels like such an injustice, I also feel like Jason doesn't deserve it this way and not right now. It's true that people die all the time, and most of them have some unresolved business with the living. But, seeing Leo not-so-dead (no offense to those who love Leo Valdez), makes me wonder why Rick doesn't just kill Leo off, instead of Jason.

Because to think it logically, Leo is a less influential character in the series if compared to Jason, and Leo have even called himself the "7th wheel" in the dynamics between the main 7 heroes. But he's a big enough character to get the message of "realism' across to the readers. I feel like Leo's resurrection was pushing for Leo getting some form of validation as an important person, in these people's lives. And I was disappointed that this validation came from Calypso, instead of from his friends. If this is the main point that drives Rick into writing Leo alive than dead, then I think the permanent death should've been Leo instead of Jason. (No hate to Leo's fans^^)

I think there is way more potential to Jason's story, much more than Leo's, regarding to their futures. Especially since Rick's written a snippet of Jason's and Piper's future together, coupled with the fact that Rick might just risk the cliche, for the sake of not wasting the vast potential of developing Jason's character into something more. This makes a compelling reason as to why Jason should come back to life at some point in the series.

All these thoughts aside though, RIP Jason Grace -  I loved you, I'll miss you.