Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35094745-20180504013804/@comment-38112203-20190116002502

VidiaPhoenix wrote: Samirah ara wrote: Inton Raiha wrote: Jason being brought back would be one of Rick's worst decisions along with letting Leo live again and giving Percy 0 Maturity What are you talking about?! Everybody loves Percy just the way he is, and the way he acts is part of it. If you changed Percy’s personality people wouldn’t like him as much, and he wouldn’t be Percy anymore. He would be someone different entirely. If you want a more serous character, Jason is your person. Oh wait, you don’t like him. Never mind. Who do you like then? Obviously not Jason. I suppose your happy now that he’s dead *sob* now that he’s gone *sob* If you feel that way so be it, I can’t change how you feel. I’ll go now and sit in my dark little corner *sob*. But Percy having 0 Maturity IS a change from the original books. Percy in the PJO series was pretty mature. He wasn't a big, dumb goofball like in the HoO. He was a troubled kid who grew up in an abusive household. His humor was very dry and sarcastic, even a little dark. While we as reader's took his narrative as humorous, he was actually pretty negative most of the time. In PJO, Percy solved nearly all his fights with intelligence. He outwitted Ares, led Antaeus up into the chains where Gaea couldn't heal him, beat Briares (a hundred handed one) at rock-paper-scissors, tricked Crusty into getting trapped in his own trap, etc.

Also, Percy is a serious character. Yeah, he joked in the original series but he was not silly. When he led Camp Half-Blood in defending Olympus, he took his role seriously, especially when it came to his fellow camper's lives. When his friend's are in danger, he takes it pretty seriously. When he makes a promise, he takes it seriously and does everything he can to accomplish it. He took Nico's running away personally and seriously. In fact, he was serious for the majority of PJO.

But yeah, I agree with Inton Raiha: Bringing Jason back would be one of Rick's worst writing decisions along with changing Percy from a 3-Dimensional, flawed hero to a 1-Dimensional goofy caricature.

I see what you mean. Percy was a bit more serious in the first series. He also had humor though. I’m always reading and then I’ll make a little giggle, and whoever I’m with will think I’m crazy. Percy does seem less intelligent in the HoO. Still, he is still awesome, and when we see things through his point of view, we see he does think about some more serious things. And I think it’s a bit harsh to wish that Leo stayed dead. He had to fulfill his promise. He had to give Calypso a chance. Plus, he had just fallen in love, and he needed to live to see that he doesn’t always have to be the third wheel. We couldn’t have calypso be abandoned again, to have her heart broken again. They need that happy ending.

As for Jason, I can’t help it. I love him. When he died I died to. Yep, I’m talking to you from beyond the grave. I’m an einherjar now. Anyways, Jason needs to come back. I know a lot of characters have come back, but we need Jason. Plus, not all of our characters have come back. In the Titans Curse, Zoë and Bianca died. Later Silena, Beckendorf, Phoebe, Celyn, Naomi, Lee Fletcher, Castor, Michael Yew, and many others died. Then you think of all the grief Jason’s death caused. Think of how much pain that must have caused for Piper, Thalia, Nico, Reyna, Leo, the other seven. Even little kids in Camp Jupiter that had heard of him and had made him their hero. I understand what you mean but for me, Jason’s death was traumatizing. If Leo had stayed dead that would have been too much.

Sigh, I suppose in dead now so it shouldn’t matter, but it still does. Very much so. I only have one friend so I get very emotionally attached to characters; they become my only friends. Anyways, that is all to say; I would like Jason to come back.