Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-4531192-20131117155720/@comment-4132146-20131124052415

Shogun Oda Nobunaga wrote: ^

Some time it will fail and Annabeth will take a punch before finishing a sentence smartass. The gods had not defeated Typhon because Athena said he was not in a scrapbook and it should go back in Tartarus to subscribe. I mean, it's something I imagine Annabeth do. People act as if Annabeth was the own goddess of wisdom and war ... But then because she did not defeat Nyx in a fight? Or against Empusai? Because she is not very good at fighting. If Nyx and Empusai not want to listen to Annabeth, she would be dead. Talking nonsense can be a strategy lovely, but can not work all the time ...

I can even imagine. Clarisse: Prepare, wise owl! Annabeth: Hey, I know you? I was doing a tour at Camp Half Blood, but I never heard of you and ... * takes a punch in face * Clarisse: For me, talking is not a free action. Actually It has been mentioned many times during the series that Annabeth is a good fighter. The reason she prefers to confuse her enemies is because fighting first, without a plan won't always work. Aside from that a demigods goal in life is to survive so why would she put herself at risk of losing and at times dying when the situation doesn't always call for fighting. She talked her way out of fighting Arachne because she was injured and she knew the odds of winning were slim and being the daughter of Athena she is knew her chances of tricking Arachne were higher. The same happened in Tartarus. Annabeth and Reyna are both strong women and it's hard to choose between them but just because we don't hear so much of Annabeth's fighting skills but more of her strategy to confuse the enemies in the Heroes of Olympus series doesn't mean we should undermine what Annabeth is capable of.