Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31061080-20170116021657/@comment-26402117-20170308161924

Oceanhalo12 wrote: ^But that doesn't change Piper's love for Jason is an unhealthy obsession. Jason's POVs certainly lacked emotion-but while Piper did not express her emotions out loud-her thoughts certainly showed her possessiveness of Jason. And like I said, future books don't make up for it. If someone gets you hooked to drugs and months later they do drugs by choice, that doesn't change that you were hooked from the beginning. What I did mean, and I didn't touch upon before, is that their emotions are not really given a large ground and the development they deserved. And that they were "written" to be together from the beginning in a somewhat contrived way.

Sure, Piper spent most of the book under the trauma of her father being kidnapped. Jason suffers a loss of his Roman identity and demigod past. There are still many ways to begin explaining their personalities to the reader and give their POVs some depth, so they could have been better written. If I'm right, Piper's fatal flaw is possessiveness anyway.

Starsandsupernovae wrote: Piper and Jason's relationship is completely unhealthy and to me seems quite like a codependent relationship. Fifteen years old is still young. The only instance in which that deep of a relationship develops that quickly at that age are in unhealthy relationships. This is the classic Romeo and Juliet style which, while initially seeming sweet and romantic is actually an unhealthy infatuation and will only end in tragedy. It was true in Shakespeare's time and it's true now.

Maybe Piper's paranoia does stem from her father's kidnapping. But even if it is that doesn't make it healthy. It just explains an unhealthy characteristic.

Psychoanalysis of POVs that lack the depth you'd need for a fair judgement is not going to work well. Love comes to people of any age, but is almost always flawed like us. Demigods get chucked into near-death situations from just making phone calls or going outside. It is not surprising to be paranoid in the situation she was in during TLH. That's also proof that Piper doesn't lack emotions as a character and thus isn't a sociopath.

It's not like I care that much anyway. Their POVs improve, their writing gains depth and they build a real relationship. The series is still quite solid in itself despite that early blip.