Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26468287-20150614010051/@comment-5471249-20150724082859

I, for one, absolutely adore Piper (she's my 2nd favorite female demigodess, after Reyna), and have never really understood all of this popular hatred for her. She might not quite have Annabeth's impressive intellect, yet Piper is still more intelligent than her siblings (a fact acknowledged by her mother), her personality is much more pleasant than Annabeth's (who is such a pain in the neck to deal with if you think about it objectively!), her possessiveness of Jason is much less selfish and severe than Annabeth's possessiveness of Percy (in the first series), she completely destroyes the shallow and conceited Aphrodite demigod stereotype, and she's impressively perceptive of others' feelings, more so than any of the other Seven Heroes. Also, many, apparently, fail to appreciate what a prodigiously skilled swordswoman Piper is, considering just how much her skills improved in the last book after some training from Hazel, to the point of Piper being able to single-handedly defeat an entire flock of harpies! It saddens me, just how underrated Piper's badassery is! :(((