User blog comment:Iluvpercy/The heroes of olympus/@comment-4515675-20111119082622


 * I think they might clash in the beginning but if you look at their personalities, they're not prideful people. Both Percy and Jason tend to be kind of selfless, they would not endanger the whole mission with their bickering. They might not see eye to eye from the start but they will eventually learn to cooperate and maybe even become friends. They are two of the leaders of the camps so they way the act towards one another will reflect on the other demigods. They know too well their importance in uniting the two camps so they won't do anything stupid to mess it up.


 * Yes and no. I think that readers really want Annabeth to be the 7th so they take every little thing that the gods say about her and somehow twist it until it seems like she's the 7th hero. Up until now what we know is that Annabeth will most surely cause trouble for this quest. If she is the 7th hero, why would she do that? Her fatal flaw is her pride so whatever determines her to cause trouble will directly be an attack on her pride. Which is why I presumed that the 7th hero might be someone else and Annabeth won't take it lightly. Telling her that she's not the strongest child of Athena/Minerva would be the biggest blow you could give her. We also have to keep in mind that it could be a child of Minerva. Just because the book is called MoA doesn't mean that the 7th hero can't be from her Roman side. In SoN we technically only have Arion who is truly a son of Neptune, Percy and Tyson are from Poseidon and so is Frank's legacy so the name MoA could just be a twist.


 * This is really hard, like Sayuri said it depends a lot on what you understand by good characters. From my point of view, neither or them are that great. Jason lacked personality but maybe that was an effect from losing his memory. What bothered me about him was that everyone saw him as this perfect guy who could do no wrong. Aphrodite thought he looked already so good that he didn't need any change, Hera/Juno told him that he will be the greatest hero, he seems like quite a ladies man without every trying, he's way overpowered and so on and so forth. He seemed to me like your cliche type of hero: fight all the foes, look awesome while doing it, get all the girls to fall for you, have your own funny sidekick. He's not a bad person, he's just a not so well written character. I hope that once he starts getting his memory back he'll start growing a personality as well. As for Piper...I don't have many good things to say about her because she was a major disappointment to me so I'll just stop here.


 * She did save Jason and Leo, kept Gaea asleep and pushed Jason through the DoD in order to save him. That's what she did but are any of these things heroic? To me being a hero is not about how many foes you defeat and how many times you save the life of others. Being heroic means doing something very selfless, she kind of did that with her father when she decided to erase his memories. Then again she went back to her usual self when she claimed Jason as her own which isn't very selfless so I don't know what to think anymore.


 * Most Romans thought that Jason was dead and some even hoped for that to be true. There's a huge difference between Percy and Jason and their disappearance. The Greeks knew after about a week that Percy is going to Camp Jupiter but the Romans had no news about Jason for 8 months. This just shows how much of a...unfair goddess (I'm going to refrain myself from using a bad word) is Hera. Most of them had given up hope for Jason to be still alive after almost a year. I think the only ones who still thought he might be were Reyna and Hazel but to Reyna especially this was a taboo subject and she didn't want to talk about it because it probably hurt.


 * Hmm I have mixed feelings. A part of me wants Annabeth to be the 7th because unlike the rest she's not overpowered. However, I don't want her to be the 7th because it would be too obvious and because I'm kind of angry at RR for saying that Percy and Annabeth won't play major roles in this series yet Percy is already part of the group. I kind of don't want him to let himself be influenced by the fact that so many of his fans want Annabeth as the 7th and just do what he planned on doing in the beginning.


 * My post is getting extremely long haha. Well both I guess. The way I see it neither of them is really fond of being in the leader position but they have no choice. We've only seen Jason on one quest and he often doubted his decisions and was worried about the choices he made, however, he also didn't know who he was and what he could do so in a way it might be normal. Fact is, Jason will lead them because Hera wants him to.