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Delariona wrote: ''Yes, except thus far they don't seem to be utter idiots. One main protagonist from a previous series was demised.'' Honestly, Caligula killed a main character, I can give a credit Riordan for that, but I do not think still that the other Emperors prove that they are not dumbs. Nero is so freaking dramatic- and not in a good way- he goes and plays cheap games when he could have killed much more characters (not just minor-minor ones), if he wasn't goofing around just like the cliche villains, and Commodus is worse than him.

I expect more of Caligula, I hope Riordan do write more of that him, and doesn't go and make Caligula some hilarious clown.

However, Leo would NEVER burn Frank's stick no matter how distant they are.

Villains's intelligence proves itself when this time comes. Of course no one would burn Frank's stick, Leo and the others; it's the same thing. They do not want to burn and kill Frank, logically. But, if the villains think something smart and plays with them and somehow they make Leo burn the stick- then it can happen.

Jason's dying was sad, but Leo's burning Frank's stick and killing him accidently with his own hands? That's more of tragic irony than Jason's dying when he was fighting with the villain. For Jason's situation, if Piper killed Jason with her own hands- accidently- that would be more tragic and ironic like, Leo's burning Frank's stick. Am I cruel?

And, I do not think killing the main characters shows that Riordan does write same as Hp. It's ridiculous. Killing the important characters happen everywhere and everyime in the other books too, it's up to the author's doesn't pull some safe zone on his/her characters.

Dumbledore was a main character, he was mentor of the others. Or Snape, Lupin, Sirius and Dobby. You can say that the characters like Cedric, Fred, or maybe Tonks were more minor characters but others were pretty major and main.

Anyways, in my headcanon, Apollo dies and I do not care. He can die when he tries to save others (Meg, Reyna, Hazel or Frank, someone.) and that would make Apollo looks like a hero, or whatever. That would be plot twist because none of the people would think that Apollo actually can die in the series of the book. Well, they seemed to have cause some amount of damage as in they took some time (some time as in they were harder to defeat compared to other Riordan villains) to defeat. Not like the villains alongside Gaia, they were real idiots. I expect a lot more from Caligula than from both Nero and Commodus combined since Caligula was hard to defeat unlike Nero and Commodus. Rick seems to have made an effort into making his villains darker, Medea was much more effective in this book and was a pretty good villain, Caligula was slightly arrogant with Jason, but he did seem to put some effort into it with slightly less goofing along the way.

Yes, the villains might burn Frank's stick, but now that I think about it more, I don't see how they'll go after Frank unless they wanna hurt Hazel, Frank's death might not mean anything much to Apollo unless he died trying to save them and not die through the burning of his stick. Leo burning Frank's stick now sounds way too dark for a Riordan book. He'd never do that! Plus it might be tragic, but he could just kill of Meg mercilessly or kill Reyna to make it more tragic. People seem to like Reyna a lot more that Jason or Frank anyway. I'm sorry if I sound a bit obsessed with the thought of Reyna's demise.

Well, you are slightly cruel in sticking to the idea of making Leo burn Frank's life span. But then again, I want Reyna to live and die, at this point I'm positive I don't make much sense.

Dumbledore dying didn't have much feels on me. Like. . . I seriously never felt sorry for him and just shrugged it off. Only Harry's reaction made the death 10 times worse otherwise I would've overlooked it. I wouldn't count Sirius, Dobby, Tonks or Lupin as major characters more like they occasionally come but when they do, they play somewhat of a major role.

Even I don't care about Apollo's death. Let him die, idc. I never liked Apollo anyway, the only good thing about Apollo is he's different from other main characters. He is not brave, or selfless, particularly good looking or even humble. That makes him unique.