User blog comment:Hermione Chase/"The Blood of Olympus" Expectations/@comment-23805352-20131209140927

Anyone curious about Percy's dark side that started to emerge in House of Hades?

I don't see many people talking about this issue on tumblr and this wiki.... For me, I still can't put together what Rick is really planning to do with this development, but from the books what we can gather about it are:

1. Percy resenting Dionysus in Mark of Athena and started thinking about how he could understand Luke's actions a little.

2. He's been feeling dangerously selfish lately, putting Annabeth above everyone else and having disturbing thoughts like wanting to abandon the quest altogether or willingly captured at sea, just so he and Annabeth can be together.

3. His fatal flaw (loyalty) caused him to fall into Tartarus with Annabeth --though we've yet to see how falling in there benefited Gaia (because all that happened in HoH didn't shed any light on Gaia's plans). But the fact is that he was still manipulated by Gaia, and think about worse things that could happen if Gaia takes full-control of his actions.

4. The poison scene with Akhlys. So he has the potential to blood-bend? Damn Percy, he'd probably make a dangerous enemy. Will he use this newfound skill in HoO? I know Annabeth told him not to do it again, but I can 't help but feel he's going to make a huge mistake by harnessing that skill again.

5. His thoughts 'I will kill Gaia with my bare hands' and 'Arachne deserved a worse death'. And Annabeth getting scared of Percy.

I just feel like he's going to do something he's going to regret in the last book, which will probably have something to do with his fatal flaw. Dark! Percy intrigues me, because it has a lot of potential for juxtaposition of his character flaws and views on morality.

Any theories?