Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29729973-20170427014916/@comment-25155763-20171031205455

HamilcarV wrote: The entire point of the last book was that Percy wasn't the hero mentioned in the Great Prophecy, the Demigod who turns sixteen could have just have easily been referring to Thaila or Nico, as shown multiple times through the series the offspring of the big three had little to no impact on Luke's choice to kill himself, that was always his​ choice. Now I don't want to come off as hostile but if you think that the hero of the prophecy could be changed thus  making Luke be unimportant and the prophecy just being an outline of what would happen take a look at Adepus Rex, No matter how hard you try to fight a prophecy it will happen. Now I don't expect anyone to believe this, it is after all just my opinion, but you can replace all of the characters with other people, Percy with Thaila, Annabeth with Malcolm, and so on but one character will always remain the same and the hero of the Great Prophecy, Luke.

^Yes, but its not about the prophecy. Percy defeated Kronos and got his dad to help fight Typhon Both event literally saved the world. While Thalia or Jason may have been able to due the first, the latter was a task for only Poseidon's favorite son. Nico or Hazel probably wouldn't have been able to do either. So no, Percy's not just some hero by chance and random happenstance.

And Percy did play a part in convincing Luke, just not in the immediate situation. But without Percy, none of the events that led up to Luke deciding would've happened(or at least not in the same way). For instance, if Thalia had been the hero, she might've sided with Luke, been tricked by Kronos into stealing Annabeth's knife and killing Luke. On another note, Both Riptide and Kronos's scythe could be considered 'cursed blades.'

Actually once Thalia stopped aging, the 'child of the eldest gods' had to be Percy. If you look back, we later find out that the Titans had ben planning the attack for the time period it occurred-long before Nico would've turned sixteen.

Thinking about, Percy still would've aged to sixteen even if he stayed trapped in the Underworld and thus would've still been the 'child of the eldest gods' who reached sixteen 'against all odds.'