Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20161016134842/@comment-32101831-20170912202329

Zandris Hugal wrote: Well, Riordan amended the Akhyls tear scene by saying that the rules were different in Tartarus, and Percy's scene with Polybotes in BoO shows that the jury is still out over whether he can actually do that on land (think of it, if Percy could do that, then Poseidon would be King of the Gods, not Zeus.

On the other hand, Riordan subtly makes it clear that Jason has the same potential with his electric powers. That is what I was discussing potential. Sparks fly off of him when he is mad, and in TLO he even blasted Khione like twenty feet away when he was uncomfortable with a static shock. It is just that he concentrates more on his wind powers, and most likely won't ever reach the level Thalia has with her electric powers (since she actually concentrates on them). But Jason clearly has the same potential. Especially since he has mastered lightning, the most difficult and draining electric power.

And even if not, creating a container out of air that kept the Primordial Goddess of Earth from dissolving into particles to escape or to blast her way out exceeds anything Percy has done, tbh. Are you forgetting the hurricane Percy made in order to fight the titan when he was 16? When he held up the river Lethe up with a poisoned shoulder at age 15? He shielded himself from the river Lethe so that he wouldn't lose his memories, and he threw a titan (Bob/Iapetus) into the river. At age 12 he defeated the war god with the help of the ocean... need I go on?