Board Thread:The Trials of Apollo/@comment-35757203-20180602185840/@comment-35757203-20180603013714

Dude... Yes. Just Yes. Thank you so much for saying this. Almost no one shares my opinion on this. You perfectly explained what i feel about it. Many people, like you said, believe that Piper’s reasoning for breaking up with Jason was valid because their relationship was indeed based on Hera’s lie so therefore all of it was a lie. I completely disagree with this. Like you said throughout all of THoO both Jason and Piper work so hard on their relationship and prove that they love each other dispite a rocky start.

Many people hate on Piper because she was too obsessed with Jason but i mean she is the daughter of the freaking Goddess of love, what do you expect? The way that Piper describes her feelings for Jason and Jason for Piper, just prove that their love is very real. Their relationship just grows and grows throught the series. The last thing we know of them in TBoO is them recreating the memory of their first kiss. This was basically like a big “Screw You” to Hera and it was proving that they were getting a fresh start with no lies and tricks, just their real love based on real memories that they made. The way that Rick just casually states they broke up when this was the last thing we heard about them, it feels so shocking and unnecessary. I feel like Rick just ceded to the whining and complaining of the readers who hated on Jasper.

Throughout TBM it is very obvious that Jason and Piper still love each other, Jason even stops himself from calling her “Pipes” and i mean the guy sacrificed himself in order for Piper to live. The completely gut wrenching break down of Piper in the beach in Malibu also proved just how much she loved Jason, both to the reader and to herself. I feel like his death made her realize like you said that she was being stupid and she loved him all along.

I understand that maybe she was having doubts on the foundation of her relationship with Jason, but for her to dwell on that sole fact was stupid. She could and should have thought about all the REAL memories she made with him. I also get that besides the ‘fake memory brought me and Jason together’ she may have wanted to find out who she was by herself without Jason. As soon as we meet her she believes she is with Jason and works to make that a reality. I suppose she never had time to be a demigod by herself and discover who she really was, but again like you said i really believe that once this little phase of doubt that she was having passed, Jason and Piper could very much have gotten back together. Jason never even wanted to break up in the first place.

I have hope that maybe by the end of book 5 of TOA, Apollo’s character Arc will become wide enough that by the time Zeus offers to turn him into a God again, he rejects this offer and with newfound humility instead asks for Jason Grace tk be brought back to life. With this demonstration of Humility, Zeus may decide to brin back Jason AND make Apollo a God again for learning his lesson. Maybe after Jason died like i said, Piper realized that she always loved Jason so if he comes back to life Jasper can be reunited. I know most people disagree with me given that Apollo repeatedly stated that the way Jason died meant “Permanent Death” but i shall hold out hope until 2020, Here’s to the dreamers 🤷‍♂️