Board Thread:Percy Jackson & the Olympians/@comment-32674683-20170726163746/@comment-25155763-20170915171432

Ea225225 wrote:

Zandris Hugal wrote: If people call Leo a bully, then I guess they are referring to that scene where he questions Nico's loyalty. That one was very rude, considering how that was someone's dying brother.

Annabeth was being rude, yes. But think of it this way. It's during World War 2, and you are a medical doctor in the army. You are captured, and a German scientist gets a hold of you and "has some fun." You escape, but not before your best friend is infected, causing him/her to die.

Now, it is after a decade the war, and you meet a young German scientist from the same research department. Let's say you must work with him on a medical research project. He is pretty nice, but would you really give him a chance? Or would you just ignore him and be hateful towards him? I wouldn't call that bullying, Leo was just being insensitive, he's not a people's person, he works better with machines, and it's because of Nico's past wrongdoing, it IS logical to be a little mistrusting, and suspicious. He didn't mean it.

Also, for the German scientist thing, I would be more scared than angry, but wouldn't you TRY to hide that fear. People do it all the time, if someone sitting by you breath stinks, would you call him out or try to hide your disgust. Hide your disgust right? Because you barely know the person, and you don't want to be disrespectful. People do it all the time. I know it's different circumstances for Annabeth, but it comes down if you're going to hide your resentment, but Annabeth? She didn't even try. Do you know how insulting and cruel that is? Calling a person an 'it' and 'that' as if they are some kind of disease or a MONSTER. I never been called something like that, but I can't imagine how much that can hurt someone

Look, they were a lot of reasons on why Annabeth would be hateful, but there were a lot of reasons why she shouldn't

For example

She literally seen Tyson save Percy's life TWICE, so she knows how brave and selfless he is

She saw how innocent, naive, and young he is. So she knows how sensitive he could be

She also witnessed already, that Tyson had crap thrown at him already

But Annabeth was still rude. Agreed, Annabeth definitely knew better. But I think the Leo as a bully is more related to Frank, and either way, Leo had never met Nico, so that 'past wrongdoings' excuse doesn't apply(not to mention Nico saved Manhattan by convincing his father to fight, even if the gods had won, NY would've been destroyed by Kronos's armies). And not to mention Nico is just about the only one in the series who apologizes for anything actually important.