Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31393646-20170603124449/@comment-26455689-20170703182826

I think the main problem is that unlike Percy we really don't know that much about Jason's trials so he seems a bit alien to us so if Rick Riordan made a prequel showing us that whilst he is very Roman in his character he also had the same problems as Percy and going into detail with those problems rather than giving us a sypnosis if Heroes of Olympus series then we would feel more attached to him. Rather than having a slight uncanny valley syndrome where Jason is a Roman version of Percy and feels quite distant to the reader because Romans aren't nearly as fun as Greeks the same could be said about Reyna who feels a bit too fully formed like Jason when we meet her. The other Romans are seen to grow and have coming of age sort of stories so we feel like we are growing up with them where as Jason and Reyna feel as mature as Percy and Annabeth but we see less of their softer and fun sides of when they were young or with people they could open up with about those times. This is just an opinion but its just you hear that Jason did similar things to Percy but it feels unreal because we haven't experienced the full emotions he had whilst doing those things plus his more austere Roman way of doing things doesn't help with that feeling the reader has of being disconnected to Jason because they feel more connected with Percy. Of course we are unlikely to get a Prequel because Jason is to similar to Percy and his story is also that and most prequel seem to get into the most enormous amounts trouble unless they contain only a few or none of the characters of the series they are prequelling.