Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930233157/@comment-10353303-20160404014406

8th Hero of Olympus wrote:

Sonofchaos2222 wrote: 8th hero of olynpus percy is beter with sword and we all know jason has nothing on percy power fighting skills and aditude jason is boring percy is not That's ultimately all a matter of subjective opinion - I, for one, consider Jason considerably more appealing and interesting than Percy (whom I consider an obnoxious idiot), and, as I said before, there is ultimately no proof of which one of them is actually the superior swordsman, as we have seen Percy's style overpower skilled Romans, we've seen Jason's style overpower a highly skilled Greek, and they both seemed evenly matched in their duel until Piper got involved and distracted them, one at a time (allowing first Jason, and then Percy to gain the upper hand). As for powers, that too is up to debate, since while Percy has some very impressive water-based powers, Jason, on his side, has some very impressive air- and lightning-based powers. It's a close fight, but I'll give the edge to Jason 6.5/10, due to the advantage his flight, aerokinesis (allowing him to easily shoot Percy high into the air, making him break his back and/or neck on the impact against the ground), and static electricity bolts (allowing him to fatally electrocute Percy through any water) give him. Jason ftw - Jason rules, Percy drools. The one thing I enjoy about these never ending threads are how they keep going in circles.

1. By your logic, assuming Percy is just there standing around for Jason to toss him up, Percy could also channel all of the water inside Jason and make him the living Sahara desert, depriving him of water inside his body. That or a bubble of water around the guy. We both know that none of these are really going to happen, so it's a moot point. Both of them are at least strategically competent enough that they would not fight in a location considerably favourable to the other party.

2. There's air everywhere? Great, there's water in pretty much everywhere there's air too. Just look at how in TLO (one of the PJO books, I can't remember) he draws water from grass. Theoretically, he could do the same with air and  clouds (which are essentially comprised of water and all air molecules have water molecules attached to them). Again, moot point.

3. Electric bolts? Great. I point out again that there are water molecules attached to the molecules making up the air around us. Percy has a particular ability where underwater, he can create oxygen bubbles around him and/or others. I reference this ability to mention that it can possibly be applied in a similar fashion. While diminished in scope compared to underwater, it would be no less formidable if used above water. Oxygen itself is a poor conductor of water, and would insulate against these bolts. However, this is assuming Percy will just stand there waiting for a lightning bolt to hit him.

4. While you seem to pride yourself in reminding others of the general rules of science, I will give a friendly reminder that only water containing impurities will conduct electricity (not "any water" as you claim). When water mixes with these impurities, there are plenty of ions with which the electrical charge can be "carried".