Board Thread:Percy Jackson & the Olympians/@comment-24687156-20170125182248/@comment-5896827-20170626170600

Blazenite104 wrote: Personally I disagree with killing him. the problem I have mostly is how it's just glossed over in the scheme of things. before Percy leaves camp, he is told a hero should NEVER harm mortals. what's the first thing he thinks of after finishing his quest and seeing his mum? killing a mortal. he doesn't but, gives his mother (a rational adult who should know better.) the means to do so and it's just glossed over and used as a reference later on. you would think there might be some reflection on it later on. whether or not he would have decided to do the same thing again is irrelevant. I just think the fallout from those actions should have been far greater reaching. it could have been a character defining moment where he has total control over the life and death of something evil and ultimately decides not to outright kill them. heck it could have been used as a thought buzzing in his head when he confronts Luke for the last time and let's him kill himself. Fallout? What fallout should there be in the death of an alcoholic, abusive gambling man that beats women and children? Besides, Gabe himself pushed them into a corner, threatening to press charges against Percy is he didn't leave home and not come back (which, he would've been able to do despite Percy not being in the wrong). He kicked a twelve year old boy out onto the streets (at least as far as he knew, he didn't care if Percy lived in the sewers, as long as he was gone). He kicked him out for no other reason than spite.

He is scum of the scum.