Board Thread:Percy Jackson & the Olympians/@comment-32674683-20170726163746/@comment-29068459-20170915235333

Speaking of which, I always wonder why Percy trash talked Nico like that. I mean, I doubt the Olympians would have won without the Underworld army. Not to mention that without Nico, Percy would ever have been blessed by Styx. If Percy told Jason and Leo about it, he probably told several people at Camp Half Blood, which is part of why people may have driven him away.

Now as for Annabeth. Yes, we as the reader see Tyson as a person who shouldn't be degraded to an it. We see him as Percy sees him. But Annabeth had no experience with him. She just saw a Cyclops, Cyclopes being a race of cannibals. The only good Cyclopes in mythology were Arges, Brontes, Steropes and their four sons. All the others were like Polyphemus and Periphetes (son of Hephaestus from Theseus myth): cannibals and murderers.

Don't forget, Percy tried to distance himself from Tyson, and tried to say Tyson was "a half-brother twice removed". If Percy was humiliated, think of Annabeth. Luke, her former best friend and crush, poisoned the tree of Thalia, her other best friend. She must go against Luke to save Thalia's Tree, the only living remnant of a girl who died in no small part to a Cyclops, with a Cyclops. Annabeth was probably wondering what gods hated her...