Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930234352/@comment-5471249-20151003040732

SayuriDarling wrote: I don't get why you are calling Percy less intelligent? He's supposed to be the sarcastic guy and the reason he "mispronounces" words wrong is basically so the READERS understand how to say the name basically. Leo's also done the same thing as well. I mean, do you think Leo is funny?

Percy and Jason are equally immature. Jason is just better at hiding it, lol

Annabeth has a certain disrespect for everyone, not just for Percy. It's in her nature to be proud and that's simply how she is. I mean, I guess both are obnoxious? But not really. Percy most certainly is less intelligent, evidenced not only only by his penchant for making silly and rather ignorant comments at times, but also by him admitting to being able to understand only 10% of a rather simple explanation that Leo gave him near the end of "The Mark of Athena" (page 451), which requires no technical or scientific expertise whatsoever to understand. I actually do find Leo somewhat funny, as his humor tends to be considerably less lame than Percy's. And instead of mispronouncing those words, a better tactic on Percy's part would be to simply ask whoever said that word to repeat in again, a little thing, but one which would make him seem more intelligent as a result.

Ah, but we don't really have any evidence of Jason being nearly as immature as Percy! :)))

And that's somewhat of a double standard - simply because you like Annabeth you're excusing her flaws, while you go out of your way to highlight Piper's, even though they're no longer as prevalent as they once were.

Piper has developed a little... But she's still a self-centered asshole who only cares about her and Jason, and maybe Leo on a good day. Her whole entire world revolves around Jason and it's so irritating. They imaginary dated for like three months and just hearing her whine about that was never ending. And did it get better? Nope, she kept whining about Jason leaving her for Reyna and being so scared )): Just STOP Once again, you're blowing Piper's flaws out of proportion here. She's certainly no asshole, as in that case she wouldn't have disagreed with the way Drew was running their cabin and treating her half-siblings. She also went out of her way to comfort Hazel after Jason and Leo upset her, showing herself as both a caring and empathetic person.

And Piper clearly cares about more that just Jason and Leo, since she is said to have "shed quite a few tears" over Annabeth (and later comforts and encourages her in "The Blood of Olympus"), has also become close friends with Hazel, and Frank, greatly missing them when they left camp at the end of the series. Oh, and while she did remain somewhat jealous of Jason and Reyna, she also managed to empathize with her, and doesn't blame Reyna for having a crush on Jason ("Mark of Athena" page 272), and she was actually the one who offered herself to Reyna as a friend first in "The Blood of Olympus", indicating that she has developed past her jealousy completely by that point.