User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-7492541-20131112120826/@comment-24065371-20131115134449

i do not ignore his character progression, the reasoning makes sense if he has a crush on percy and he is older now thus being affected by puberty and then having to pretend not to know percy and then considering himself responsible for percy falling into essentially hell the brooding makes sense, plus he did a) go to tartarus seeing it truly and b) nearly die after imprisonment so he is entitled to not be a sociable goof