Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20161222000205/@comment-38511280-20191012211659

Housedunn wrote: GLAD YOU ASKE RYAN!!! Think about it If the divine form is a efficient way of why would none of the gods with killer intent in the series use it. Why wouldn’t ares use it on Percy? Why wouldn’t Atlas use it on Percy? Wby would Phobos and Deimos use it agains Percy and classice (excuse my spelling) or hades and Hermès use it against Percy so on and so forth? It’s used only to get the h*ll out of dodge and it’s extremely easy to counter: don’t look in the direction of it. The only time I can think of where it was used in combat was with Hera when he piper Jason and Leo were fight the King of the Giants and the only person who got hurt from it was Jason who was dumb enough to look at it. I pretty much infer that one has to stay stationary to activate it and since you can just close your dang eyes, it’s probably just easier to just the person you’re more than like physically superior in every way to.... Well, the divine form probably also has capabilities other than vaporising people who are looking. It allows them to actually use god-like abilities. Ares, Phobos and Deimos didn't use it because they didn't want to kill Percy and make Poseidon very unhappy. When Hera did it, it transformed the entire valley. Atlas probably didn't do it because you probably can't when holding up the sky and there is no point when you are fighting a goddess.