Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-5896827-20160731081509/@comment-32546969-20180117213441

In a world where you can eat your children and you can regurgitate them fully formed.

In a world where you eat your exwife and she changes into thought and dissolves but leaves behind your daughter who grows up in your brain and one day you split your head open and she comes out fully formed.

Why can't Apollo give birth to Kayla?? The answer is simple...they're gods not humans.

Even in the original mythology they've done the impossible and the answer is just 'poof they're gods'.

Even humans had children with bulls and other animals and so did gods. So why can't they have children with someone of the same sex.

Also Apollo's true form is not a human male but just radiant energy...A humanoid male form is the one he prefers but he's not limited to. He can transform into a woman, animal, plant etc.

Just cos they look human doesn't mean they are or even their insides (eg womb) are...they're technically magic. They can do anything they want so it's not that crazy the 'male' gods can give birth should they want to.

Now about The Hazel Question...real answer is just that it's another plothole which RR doesn't want/care to answer.

As some people on here said, a good answer could be that Hazel identifies as black rather than mixed (some mixed people do sometimes just choose one ethnicity in real life). Or another could be when he first met Hazels mother, he chose to appear as a black man.

At the end of the day, they're gods and we need to stop applying human limits to them cos they'r beings of magic...Zeus changed Thalia into a tree and she was able to be healed, Zeus once transformed into a shower of gold and impregnated a lady.