User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-68.11.161.173-20121007114332/@comment-4515675-20121007165918

Yet doesn't that make her a hypocrite? Since she wants to be oh so different than the other Aphrodite kids. I think RR doesn't bother all that much with Piper, I actually can't see her first world problems as that important. I just have a feeling that in MoA he wanted to show how different Annabeth and Piper were and their relationships. There were a lot of Percabeth moments but Annabeth could prioritize and her thoughts weren't 99.9% about Percy. Piper's relationship with Jason also looks very shallow compared to that of Annabeth and Percy. I think it was more obvious in this book when placed back to back.