Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4531192-20141008075409/@comment-25129156-20141022072700

@Himeyuka:

No I'm not. How would it have made any sense at all for Calypso not to have been very nice and sweet to Percy, when the only thing she could ever hope for in life at the time was for him to stay with her? I've read both her interactions with Percy and her interactions with Leo (I like Calypso quite a lot) and I really don't see the way she behaved as 'like a tramp' at all. She was doing all she could do to try and make her life better the only way she knew how. When she met Leo she was understandably different because she'd been promised a way out of how prison and had been forgotten, and then mocked with another hero she was meant to seduce.

I never said Leo didn't find her good to look at, of course he did. But her looks have nothing to do with her personality, which he was not attracted to at the start, therefor your point that her personality was changed so that Leo would find it attractive doesn't make sense. The only character he's been attracted to personality-wise before Calypso once he got to know her was Hazel. He was not 'fixated on Calypso's appearance. Most of his thoughts about her are about how he finds her weird and unkind, and then how she grows on him as he gets to know her and she shows a softer side of herself.

No, I'm saying that the exact point you made about Calypso being brought back into the plot in order to be a love interest applies to Solangelo too. Since when is musing comically about possibly future repair shops the same as planning weddings and grandchildren? It's really not at all. Leo didn't declare eternal love for Calypso, he promised to save her. Something none of the previous guys who Calypso had met had ever done.

Actually I have read the book, maybe you should take another look. Leo says that he needs to let his friends know he's alive, then he finds Calypso and says she's a priority and the first place he's going to take her when they get off the island is 'somewhere to fix my dragon'. Where do you think he's going to take his dragon to fix him if not CHB? He has literally nowhere else to go where supplies are readily available? Why would he tell Calypso he's taking her to CHB, she would have no idea what that means. You're assuming he's not going back, when there's no reason to think he's not. What actions am I trying to justify? We don't see where they go, you're speculating as much as I am. Except I think it's pretty clear by Leo's own words where he intends to go.

I never said the repair shop would be at CHB, nowhere does he say the place their going to fix Festus is where they are going to stay. The opposite actually. Also, again and for the last time, nothing is written about him not contacting his friends AFTER he leaves the island. Why are you asking me why there's no scene after he leaves, I never said there was or that there shouldn't be. He doesn't care and yet 'he would have to find out' about them. You can think whatever you want, but you can't change what is written in the book, and he worries about his friends whether you want to acknowledge that or not.

Everything that you're trying to use in order to make it seem like Leo doesn't care about his friends and is not going to tell them he's alive is just assumption. You have nothing canon to back you up because the fact is we do not see where they go after they leave the island. We know he is going somewhere to fix Festus and that he's worried about his friends and wants to let them know he's alive. These statements are canon. None of your assumptions have anything to back them up.