Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20161222000128/@comment-24067344-20170310225614

Oceanhalo12 wrote: Ea225225 wrote: Percy maybe unimpressive lookin next to Jason, but Jason looks like twigs with blonde hair next to Frank😆 Actually I always considered Percy the most impressive-being equal/stronger in power than both while being the shortest and least ripped(Although he's still pretty tall and lean).

When has it been implied or said that Percy is the least ripped of the 3? What we only know is that Jason is *about* and inch taller than Percy (but what's surprising is the fact that Piper mentions vaguely that he has gotten taller in The House of Hades, but doesn't seem to know how much taller he is), so honestly, when people talk about the appearance of the characters, they seem to talk about it as if it were in present tense within the series (before MoA or during the time of MoA), when it's actually in the past.

From what we know, Jason has gotten considerable thinner and taller, Percy has gotten a lot skinnier since House of Hades, but he physical appearance is rarely mentioned after his experience in Tartarus, while Frank is the only one who has gotten taller and buffer, yet the author nor the characters give us specific details on how much taller he is than the others, or if Frank is actually shorter than Percy and Jason (it could be possible considering Frank was and *wasn't* really in puberty or major growth spurt till House of Hades, since the main reason he was so big was because he had a ton of body fat, and not just muscle only.

He also had very little hair in his body and a baby face; this could imply that while he was very buff-looking, he might've not been the tallest, but then again these are just simply my assumptions and opinion of the character's appearances. So, TL;DR, I think it's better if we really don't assume which one is the taller of physically bigger since the author obviously didn't care about this, and well, it's hard to know about this since Frank is proably the most described and most mentioned about his build of the 7.

And let's remember, one of the reasons why Piper thought Percy was unimpressive was because ppl in CHB probably exaggerating his feats and since he was praised so constantly, Piper's expectations (and let;s remember she already had super high expectations for guys; tl;dr her perfect guy which is Jason, so the other pale compared to him since he already found her impressive Dude), and her expectations for this Percy probably rose a lot after all those stuff she heard about him, so it's a bit understandable why she thought he was unimpressive next to Jason, but in BoO she says somewhat the opposite (says he's really scary and strong in an interesting way). It's the same way Percy saw Hercules in his dream in The Titan's Curse: after everything he heard about him, well, he expected him to be bigger and stronger, so like, the same thing happened to Piper too.

Expectations can play a big role. So, honestly, I think Percy and Jason are rather similar in build, height etc, while Percy is far more powerful when it comes to accuracy and control of his powers, endurance and resistance of not only his powers, but physically as well. I can't believe I did another essay about this lmao. Same typical boring preachy Erick lol. Sorry for the long post.