Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4531192-20141008075409/@comment-25129156-20141022194429

@Himeyuka:

I was demonstrating that your argument doesn't make sense because it applies to your own assumptions too. You are making assumptions and stating they are canon when they are not. I have never said that he goes to CHB in the canon. Technically he doesn't go anywhere because the book ends. He doesn't tell us where he's going, your ideas about it have as much weight as mine. Except he does say he's going to let his friends know he's alive, so why you think he's suddenly not going to do that I have no idea, but it's certainly not canon.

I don't have the timeline confused? Nothing about the timeline refutes my points. Also: I already said that Calypso was priority. How does it make sense for anything else to be priority when literally the only thing Leo is capable of doing at that moment is taking Calypso away from Ogygia? Also, when he takes off with Festus they're stuck on an island in the middle of nowhere, until they manage to get back they can't have a destination in mind because nothing is there. They don't even know if they can get back, so of course what happens is unknown. This is not helping your argument.

None of your points about Solangelo have anything to do with the only point I made about them: you said that Caleo was sexist because the only reason Calypso was brought back into the plot was to be a love interest for Leo. The exact same is true for Solangelo, so by that logic Solangelo would be sexist against men then?

You can repeat yourself as much as you like, repeating something I've already refuted doesn't make your point any better. Also, none of what you say in that paragraph you've said before, so you're not even repeating yourself. Also: again, I am not comparing Solangel and Caleo at all. I am saying that your point about Caleo being sexist applied to Solangelo as well. That is literally the only point I make about Solangelo and while you might not like it, it's true. If Caleo is sexist because she was brought back to be his love interest, then Solangelo is sexist too because it is the exact same in that respect.

You've quoted the book, and none of it shows Leo not going back to see his friends. In fact he states himself that he 'has' to let his friends know he's alright, yet you think that somehow makes your idea that he never tells them canon? Come on. Quoting the book does not help your case I'm sorry to say. I don't think you get it: neither of us can be right or wrong because the book ends before we see them get off of Ogygia. Absolutely anything we might think happens after that is nothing but our own idea.

@Hyperborean:

Ah okay. I do think she was troubled though, she did seem pretty sad all the time. She seemed to be resigned to her fate though, and she'd never had any reason to think she would be set free, so why would she throw a tantrum about it, especially in front of someone who she wanted to make a good impression to since he was her only hope.

I think Calypso fell for Leo because he was the only demigod who cared about saving her. When Percy left her he forgot all about her, she wasn't important, she was just a girl he'd met on an island that had a sad fate. I feel like with Percy and all the others what she felt was infatuation: they were very attractive, they were heroes who needed her help and for a girl who has nobody to need her I think that would be hard to resist. But with Leo he doesn't need her, he does fine on his own, and at the same time Calypso has had the idea that she could possibly be freed and not need to be stuck on her island forever, so she doesn't need Leo either. I feel like the turning point is when Leo says he's going to come back for her, before that they'd been growing closer, but Leo is still to Calypso what all the other heroes have been: temporary and uncaring of her in the long run.

Maybe I'm based too, because I've got a very specific type of guy I usually go for, and I have once found myself liking a guy who wasn't my type at all. So I can definitely see how that could happen because of the circumstances.