Board Thread:The Trials of Apollo/@comment-40112776-20190928182907/@comment-39953712-20191014045329

I am One of Me wrote: Housedunn wrote:

3) the wakanda reference was absolutely hilarious, but it messes with the lore because infinity war came out in 2018 and the story should take place in 2010 so unless if there was a marvel comic with wakanda depicting something similar released in 2010 or infinity war came out in 2010 in the riordanverse, we would have some little timeline issues for us to debate in the future ( semantics I know) I'm not sure fortiusnitius existed in 2010 either.

Andrewh7 wrote: They could still bring Jason Grace back or make him a minor god. Hades COULD resurrect Jason in exchange for Caligula, maybe even the entire Triumvirate. I really hope they do. I love Jason and he's one of my favorite characters. Reyna being a Hunter makes perfect sense. She had difficulties in the romance department so she wants to never go through that pain again by becoming a Huntress. After the Tyrant's Tomb, it is now easier to resurrect Jason as it is no longer restricted by the "permanent death", because like Frank, he "took control of his destiny" and went to find Caligula, knowing that he would die. So he could have never died (which probably isn't the case, otherwise every life sacrifice wouldn't have resulted in anyone dying and they also found Jason's body), or he could have broken free from the "permanent death", which would make him much easier to resurrect.

There was the perfect opportunity to make Jason a minor god, by making the god summoning ritual just summon a god, without being able to choose who it was. "Summoning" could be interpreted as actually creating one, thus making Jason a god. Unfortunately, this did not happen. Really feel like that up to interpretation. What Frank did was pretty much sacrificing himself for the greater good , and is pretty much nothing different then someone making their stand on a bridge. You can probably draw some comparisons in fact to how Odin’s warriors are born (I know but I really don’t wanna try to butcher it’s 12 in the morning lol) but personally really really don’t like how it played out. Frank was saved from death because he faced his fears and he was willing to give his life for others (which is extremely awesome don’t get me wrong) but countless other characters is the riordanverse would of died or did die when they did. On top of that is the fact that it contradicted what was already established in the classical myths, and the previous series, and was terribly shoehorned in at the last second makes it one of my least favorite fake deaths ever and I would hate it if Jason does the same thing. Man, people gave Leo so much flack over his fake but at least he was actively planning for it for the whole book and it was supported by the classics.

Also if anytime that Jason was to become a minor god I would think it would be during his funeral. Some stories of Hercules tell that when he was killed a burned his body was burned up and his soul was transformed into a god and he ascended to Olympus. I would of thought that Rick would do the same with Jason to harken back to his older brother.

My final thoughts really is that if Rick was to bring back Jason, there was an 80% chance that it would of happened in this book. He could always bring him back by trading a life for a life (maybe one of the emperors or Apollo himself, tho him not returning to Olympus kinda defeats the purpose for me of the series), or MAYBE Apollo gains a boon for his adventure at the end, but since even the Seven didn’t get one at the end of HOO, i’m hesitate to say that Apollo would. I’m still one that doesn’t believe that Jason should be revived, and that there is way better ways to reintroduce him into the story (cough cough Jason Grace origin story cough cough).