Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29729973-20160914041006/@comment-28759193-20161016053455

VidiaPhoenix wrote: Okay then, debate it is. :)

1. If you can't be bothered, I can't either. To be perfectly honest, I'm not even sure which book it is Leo has his conversation with Leo. If it's House of Hades, I don't even own the book.

2. There is no way he could be sure he was the only one going to die. Nobody can read the future like that but the Fates. In fact, up until that point, everyone was convinced Gaea intended to kill two questers for the blood sacrifice (turns out, only a little blood was needed). He should've held on to the cure, not pretend to give it away.

3. One message is all he needed to do. His friends didn't even enter his mind. It was just, "LEO IS BACK FROM THE DEAD! I LOVE MYSELF!" then off to his girlfriend of no more than a few weeks. I'm reading the chapter over again, trying to find mention of his friends but he is only thinking of how hot Calypso is (especially if she insults him) and how awesome he is from bringing himself back to life.

Leo is a good character, but Calypso ruined him. Sorry guys for the wall of text, but this is important.

Strike 1- Okay, then we can just end that. It's the most invalid of all the three anyway.

Strike 2- I maintain this one. If they were convinced two were going to die, then they would have found some other way to bring the other person back to life. At the fight with the giants, I am sure if anyone died Leo would have landed and given them the cure because of how unselfish he is. But no one did, so Leo jolly well kept it. Since his friends didn't do too badly against the giants, some of them doing even most of the fighting, then who were the Romans and a few monsters, not to mention Gaia who he already knew he was going to destroy? His friends, Leo believed, Could handle it.

Strike 3- I maintain that the time between him waking up and meeting Calypso is minimal, so we cannot determine this. His reactions immediately after he wakes up- come on now, it had to be along those lines. He just died willingly, not sure if his dragon was even functioning properly enough to give him the cure, yet he still died. When he wakes up, his first reaction is going to be 'YES! I WOKE UP! I LOVE MYSELF! I'M THE (RANT ABOUT HOW AWESOME HE IS)' Then, he reads his GPS location and discovers that they are totally jacked up, which could only mean one thing- he was above Ogygia. What do you think would have come to his mind then?

Leo is an extremely good character but I miss the Calypso that Percy met in Battle of the Labyrinth. Bring Calypso back and take away this silly, mean person that calls herself Calypso.