Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26468287-20150614010051/@comment-1466878-20150715052820

"Levels of which" are compared to other characters, so let's evaluate these other cases of "inconsistency".


 * Leo is a child of Hephaestus who is the god of invention and fire. Khione is a goddess of ice and snow. Even if it's a freaking match vs a pile of snow, it's the snow that's going to be taking a hit, not the flame. The flame is just going to go out because it expends energy, not because the snow "put it out". Technically it's just that the fire runs out of energy equired to keep going. If I'm firing a machine gun through  drywall and I run out of bullets, did the drywall "beat" the gun? Now, all this especially in combination with the fact that Khione is just Khione... Just the fact that she's a goddess is irrelevant. You act as if she's to be compared to Zeus or something. You see the connection here?

The above aside, Leo didn't beat Khione into the ground. He knocked her back with fire and she teleported elsewhere when he was going to slam a hammer of fire down. That's not a defeat, she just left. I'm sure you've seen enough media to know that just because someone leaves a fight they're engaged with someone in doesn't ever necessarily mean that they're acknowledging that the other character is stronger than them or anything.

Piper outright beat an Earthborn. By the wayside, no, she didn't lack "prior combat-training" and it wasn't her first combat experience.


 * This was explicitly said. It happened in the book lol. He was given the blessing of Mars. Not sure why you're mentioning this. Even if it wasn't explained (aka: if it was purely plot), dunno how it's relevant or helpful to the conversation at hand. We're talking about unexplained inconsistencies in abilities that exist in an absolute mess aka: simply for the sake of plot.


 * Hazel's curse doesn't fall under that. Even if it had been a huge thing in subsequent books, how would that help her as a character? The fact that it isn't a big thing anymore doesn't exactly do anything for her either. It's been explicitly said that the curse would be washed away by a descendant of Neptune. Both Percy and Frank were with her at the end of SoN and we haven't heard of it since. Seems pretty legit. Not sure what you're problem is..


 * Being able to manipulate the Mist is just an ability that you either do or don't have. We've known this. For example: Thaila has it, but Jason doesn't. That's a world dynamic, not an inconsistency unexplained by the author present simply for the sake of plot. Heck, it's not a plot point at all.


 * I understand that you bring up Percy bc people brought up Piper's craziness with Jason, but that's a weak point because Percy's obsession with Annabeth holds ridiculously little water in light of everything else he's done for the cause.

You never had the mic to begin with. ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)