Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170108025358/@comment-32243101-20170615195540

LucasVerBeek wrote: Ea225225 wrote:

TheViralSorceress wrote: I don't get the hate between Octavian and Drew. Every good series needs such characters. I know, but I still put Pocahontas above them. Back up, did you just call Piper Pocahontas? Cause if ya did...that's kind of racist ya choffer.

@SPQR has a parent ever walked out on you? Or have you ever believed that one of you parents didn't love you enough to even stay around in the first place? That is a special kind of terrible feeling right there. So take a look at Piper, a girl who believed one parent had given her up and another that was having less and less time to spend with her that wasn't inside of a spotlight she never desired to be a part of in the beginning. Piper has flaws, like every character does in this story. But she isn't Drew...she's so much deeper than a Mean-Girl, Heathers-expy. I get that, but it just isn't realistic. Some people may go out stealing cars and getting kicked out of schools just to catch their parents' attention, but most people don't. I don't particularly hate Piper's character, because, as you said, she is deeper than Drew, but she isn't exactly a complex character like the rest of the Seven are, in my opinion. Her father doesn't pay attention to her, big deal. Jason's and Thalia's mother went crazy off alcohol when Zeus and then Jupiter both left her. Thalia ran away with Luke, while Jason was torn from her at the age of three and was raised in an army all alone but you didn't see either of them risking going to jail just to catch some attention. Even if they did, their reasons would be more understandable than their dad/mom ignoring them, because at least Piper had a mom. Or look at Annabeth. Her dad and step-mom basically shunned her for years before she started staying at CHB full-time. She didn't go around stealing cars.