User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The House of Hades Official Discussion/@comment-24058332-20131016162724/@comment-4515675-20131016174345

First of all, you're correct in saying choice, because for both of them it was a choice and like I said they're doing pretty well. If you talk about Leo being independent most of his life then so was Thalia. Sure she later found Luke and then Annabeth but Leo found Piper and Jason and the rest of the camp. He's no more of a third wheel than Grover was for Annabeth and Percy. Again, he likes to play the victim card like Piper for example. I'm not saying he didn't have a sad life but some characters are not satisfied until they have everything on their plate. For Leo, well the girlfriend part was the only thing that was missing.

I think you're forgetting that only a few months had passed since the events from TLO. TLH happens in December and although yes, Percy should have checked, he had a lot of other things to deal with including the changes happening in CHB. He used his wish to free her, it was not his fault the gods didn't keep their end of the barging.

Urm what weeks? He was on her island for four days I believe? Because two weeks is what the whole book lasted and obviously Leo didn't spend the entire time there. Thus I yet again fail to see the large amount of time they had to know each other. Calypso doesn't know anything about Leo, not one little thing. She took one look at him and called him an insult because he wasn't handsome. Then she falls in love with him. Oh the shocker! You can tell me that she changed her mind but it's still no excuse as to why she was acting all tsun tsun towards him from the very start. Percy was not gorgeous when he landed on her island and he was badly hurt and she acted nice and sweet towards him. Her personality change was just RR trying to make her fit in Leo's type of girl.

He didn't connect with her on any level and he made jokes and was sarcastic just like with everyone else. He didn't tell her one thing about him and she didn't tell him one thing about herself. Does she even know his family name? It feels worse than Jasper and I never thought I'd say that about another pairing. At least they had months until they started dating, Leo makes an oath that could end his life for a girl he only just met and pretty much thought he hated until the very last day.

Not only that but why should Calypso end up with him just because he freed her from the island? See, it's insulting for her just as it is for him. If Percy freed her she owed him nothing but if Leo frees her then we can all expect the two of them to be together. I mean seriously if I were a 3000 year old immortal I would have liked to see the world and fall in love on my own accord not because of some twisted plot.

It is stupid, the world is ending, his priority should not be with Calypso. He knew what swearing on the River Styx would do and he didn't care at all. His mind is so far gone that he finally found a girl that kissed him that he just throws it all away. If he loses his life because of this then the world goes down with him since Piper did say that it was either he or Jason that could possibly die. Now he pretty much sealed the deal.

The problem with these couples is just this, they're too many. The seven are focused more on their significant others rather than the world and Leo definitely didn't need to join their ranks. It is a big difference when you see characters such as Nico and Reyna doing selfless things without hoping or wanting anything in return for it. Makes you wonder if Leo would have freed Calypso if the possibility of the two of them dating wasn't there. We'll never know because RR never showed friendship before romantic feelings.

Also, what does being a main character have to do with being with someone? Nico is more of a main character than all of the new ones and there are little chances of him being with someone. The problem here is with RR sending a very wrong message. Being single means being miserable, as shown by characters such as Nico and Reyna and it was the same with Leo until he got a love interest. He's doing little to nothing for these new characters outside their relationship and with one book left you know they won't get much character development. Bottom line, Leo didn't have to be paired with anyone, especially a character that had a personality makeover just so it could fit with his.