User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-4737110-20121015073040/@comment-4515675-20121016143515

Percy would have killed Jason so I'm not sure how you can say she saved Percy's life when he was not the one in danger. Also, I've noticed something when Piper "saves" the others. Just like in Medea's shop when she sets the place on fire and Festus had to save them, it was in fact someone else who did the saving. I'm not saying she was useless but amongst the seven she is the one who does the least in the series and her power could be very helpuful if she actually had the brain to use it. Like I said with the Eidolons, she could have made them swear to leave them alone forever, instead she tells them not to posses them anymore and to stay out of the Argo II. I think RR wanted to have a laugh at her when he made the Eidolons to reappear a few chapters later and attack Leo, Hazel and Frank.

Also, never said that the Hercules thing was her fault, I've said that when dealing with Mr.B and Hercules she did nothing worth being the 7th member of the prophecy. Anyone with the least common sense would have been just fine. Not to mention how with Bacchus she actually didn't convince him to help at all so again she can't take any credit for that. With Hercules she kept going on how Jason is just so much better than him when he should have been called out for different things not that he's less than Jason because really that's not worth much coming from Piper who sees him as the perfect human being.

I think I've cheered out loud when Nico told them that Percy was the strongest demigod he knows and pretty much knocked down Jason off his high horse and crushed Piper's fantasies.