Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31061080-20170116021657/@comment-27265101-20170523050203

Okay so this...is just pure Chaos. Sure Piper is shallow but she's not a bad character.

The OP stated correctly that Piper has trust issues, but realistically that makes a lot of sense. She was abandoned as a child by her mother, who up until the series she just figured didn't want her. Her father because of his work and the pain of her mother sent her away when all she wanted was for him to stay around. She craved his attention and did more and more drastic things to get it. She isn't a perfect person, she's the charmer, the manipulator, the one who knows exactly what to say when it needs to be said, that was her purpose as a character. Hate her all you like but she isn't a bad character, she works incredibly well.