Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20160707163148/@comment-24067344-20160811022203

AACM12 wrote: ^^fair enough

for hazels mist to successfully work she has to make jason believe her, she needs to play on his strengths and the on his weaknesses, show him what he wants to see and finally show him what he least wants to see. If jason does not believe her for a single second the whole illusion will crumble, the question is if hazel will be able to come up with a reliable illusion to trick jason before jason starts his attacks because then it will be very hard to concentrate (i personally think she could, i actually believe hazel would win even if my latest comments didn't give that impression)

I'm sorry, but you're completely wrong. Here's why:

"“Just get on with it!” Sciron said. Hazel suppressed a smile. She’d managed to turn Sciron one hundred and eighty degrees, but he still saw the water in front of him, the rolling countryside at his back."

''"When the kick came, she flew backward, but she didn’t go far. She landed on her butt in the grass a few yards away. Sciron stared at her.

''“But…”

''Suddenly the world shifted. The illusion melted, leaving Sciron totally confused. The sea was at his back. He’d only succeeded in kicking Hazel away from the ledge." 

According to what happen here with Sciron, Hazel doesn't need Jason to believe in her mist, because Sciron didn't believe in Hazel's mist illusions, though to be fair he didn't know she had it. But that's the point. Hazel can change reality, she can make Jason believe that he is going to shoot a lightning bolt at her simply just by imagining, when he would missed despite believing he could hit her. That's the thing. You can't outsmart the mist, you can't outsmart the changing and bending of reality at every second and moment. Jason doesn't know if reality has changed, because in his mind, everything is normal and the same, even if he knows if he she can control the mist. That's what makes the mist extremely powerful. How does Jason know when Hazel does an illusion, like she did with Sciron? You can't be prepared to counter the mist, for the mist is unpredictable and unrealistic. Hazel doesn't have to concentrate to change and bend reality, she only has to imagine just like she did with Sciron, the Victory Goddess, all of the Giants in The Blood of Olympus, and against Pasiphae. Now, she did had to concentrate on Jason's illusion, but that was because he was so far away. I can't believe how many people are so under-powering Hazel's ability of the mist, like, it's so underrated. It seems most don't realize how powerful the ability is, especially since Hazel is basically Mist Master of the Riordanverse, only counting demigods.