Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-1636709-20180322172435

Individual Roman Demigods, like Jason and Hazel, we like. It was the best way of adding in new powerful Demigods with some justification and avoid the bumps Piper and Leo had, even if Jason could probably have had any other name than Grace and worked fine, possibly better.

Roman Gods are not a problem. Terminus is funny, Mars is an improvement over Ares, and Minevra could have made a good antagonistic god in many stories.

However New Rome and the Legion overall...what do they really accomplish? Help?

They are racist, dismissive of others for little reason (All the Riordanverse protags got some flack, but Percy violated a oath, Carter and Sadie's parents were criminals, and Magnus had a ominious warning hanging around him), self harmed their own quests, were antagonists, didn't really do anything against Gaea other than fling Octavian at her, and of all the MC character sources in the Riordanverse from the House of Life to the Valkyries...they are pretty much the only one that could easily transition to being Antagonists for another series.

I could see the Romans go attack Celtic MC, his werewolf twin friends, and the nerd who Warg Spasms into Irish Hulk. I can't see The House of Life doing that, or Camp Half Blood. (I could see Percy bringing them to CHP and making jokes about dressing Will in purple, getting himself a shield, and borrowing Lars Alhstrom to do some Avengers cosplaying, but that is besides the point)

It would have honestly worked better if Juno had told Jason to retire and go East (he had served long enough to do so, 12 marks and all), ask Hades/Pluto to do the same with Hazel, and steer Frank to New York. Sure the three would be odd and stand out a bit (imagine Frank in Cabin 5 for one thing), but it would have a lot less risk of a demigod civil war. Jason would be the only one who'd really be anything but an odd user of words when he slips his tongue, and he could easily be told by Juno to not point anyone to C.J.

Heck imagine P.O.V chapters of Jason comparing and contrasting the two from the start and coming to realization that being a hero is better than being a soldier. Pretty good stuff there I say. The only reason Hera and Juno did the swap around was to try and fix a lot of birds with a single stone, she could easily have dialed her ambition back.

So, am I crazy in thinking this? That 'a Roman Demigod is good, while Roman Demigods are Designated Heroes and antagonistic', and things would have gone better by only having Rome be fully shown by Jason's compare and contrast/memories, and Frank wondering why he's the only sibling who isn't into Death Metal? 