User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-112.134.186.80-20121113170916/@comment-67.84.83.215-20121229212041

i personally think that his character wasn't portrayed as well it could've been, mostly because of the 3rd person narration.

and yeah, he is just afraid of suffocation

but I'm still sad that he changed so much from the first series. :(