User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-1774984-20121013232910/@comment-5161556-20121015164649

Piper's not empty. Yeah most of her thoughts are all about Jason but you have to take into consideration that she is an Apthrodite child. Even though she doesn't act completely like the others. Yeah she is pretty useless in a fight but she does know that. And I kinda like not having a girl in the series who can't fight in the sense of like Annabeth and Reyna ( you know, sword, knife, spear, etc). There are more ways to fight than just one. But she isn't a complete damsel in distress, there are moments where she does fight but not in the physical sense. She uses other ways to get out of certain situations. It's a nice take.

Piper isn't my favorite character because I find her annoying sometimes but to me she's not empty. All the characters have their purpose.