Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26468287-20150614010051/@comment-5471249-20150725120927

Moonlight Guidepost wrote:

In the first series? Annabeth never had any severe possessiveness of Percy in PJO nor any possessiveness at all. :/ I'm afraid that that simply isn't objectively true, so I'll just have to re-post that part for you... Annabeth instantly starts giving Percy a hard time due to him previously hanging out with Rachel in "The Battle of the Labyrinth". As soon as Annabeth sees Rachel running out of the school with Percy, “her smile melts and turns into a frown.”  She completely ignores Percy’s genuine and honest explanation, and is furious with him for telling a mortal girl about half-bloods, regardless of the extreme circumstances (which she doesn’t even bother to ask about!). Still, the  real   reason she’s upset is because Percy and Rachel briefly hung out, and that they’d meet before… Seriously, if she’s so upset about Percy hanging out with another girl (and they didn’t even hang out properly!), maybe Annabeth should have made her own romantic feelings for him more obvious, since Percy doesn’t understand obvious hints!!! Also, more importantly, Percy wasn’t her boyfriend at that point, and had the right to choose any girl that he wanted, so Annabeth being paranoid about making him love her and her alone, is very selfishly possessive, self-centered and disrespectful. Piper, on the other hand, was considerably more selfless, sweet and diplomatic in her approach, actually giving Jason a choice in the matter (when she thought that a photo of Thalia might be one of his real girlfriend) and not becoming possessive of him until it became clear that their romantic attraction was mutual, something Annabeth never did in her respective situation. I daresay that in Annabeth’s situation, while Piper would have been saddened by Jason hanging out with Rachel, she would first make it her goal to find out whether or not Jason loved Rachel before even trying to win him over, since she, clearly, cares about Jason being happy! Due to Piper being more perceptive of others’ feelings than Annabeth, this wouldn’t have been a difficult task for her.