User blog comment:BlueLantern1995/The Prophecies: What We Know and What is Logical/@comment-89.211.164.112-20121227100603/@comment-6266020-20130216035853

A) It would be very bad for publicity to kill off Percy. I mean, the Heroes of Olympus has really gotten its own steam, but some people only read it because they like Percy, and the reason lots of people picked it up was because Percy was still in it.

B) I think Rick likes Percy too much. If he didn't have a soft spot for him, he would not be in the book series at all.

C) If he's trying to make us see that everyone else is equal to Percy, why did Nico have his little tid bits in MOA, "Percy Jackson is the most powerful demigod I've ever met... If anyone could make it out of Tarturus he can."

D) Percy did see his life flash before his eyes in TLO, and I believe that was Rick's way of reassuring us that everything will be ok. Rick is not the type to kill off his main character (even if he was the main character in a past series). He is the Happy Ending type, though it is not easy to get there, and does not come without a cost. (ie Selena.)

E) Percy is mortal, and he will die eventually, so we all just need to move on with the idea of him never dieing.

F) I may just be grasping at the last straw, but I feel as though Percy has come to represent Rick's son Haley in some form. I imagine that as a child, hearing from his dad, in the form of Percy jackson, that even though he is different, he can still amount to great  things meant a lot and helped him with his self worth.\. With this in mind, I think it means too much to symbolically kill his son/his dreams, especially when it is something that helped them so build a father-son relationship. Why would you ever kill off such a deep thing like that?

This may sound a little weird, but I write myself. I have completed two books, and have thought through many more. I believe, as I have noticed with other friends of mine that are in the habbit of frequently creating stories, that one tends to have a gift at guessing plots, and being able to reason with possible plot lines, though I do acknowledge that others can do this as well. But something tells me that Percy will not end the series as a casualty. I may be wrong, but that is what my gut is saying, and it has rarely been wrong. If Percy dies, there will be zero closure, which is something that Rick excelles at. ps keep in mind that Percy's fatal flaw is losing his friends. If he dies or stays behind, in the defense of his friends, this does not test him at all. To really test him, which I predict, someone close to him will die instead.