Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3542839-20140227002012/@comment-24750690-20140806181028

Amarok1 wrote: I don't have a love for dead-characters-who-come-back-because-idk-i-feel-like-the-fans-would-like-that. They are dead for a reason, and I do not regret Bianca or Luke. Let them rest in their grave... My point was that Riordan is using...or created...a world where all the previous footnotes and backlogs of previous adventures turn out to be the only thing separating the heroes from life or death. And because he's a writer who prefers to toy with peoples emotions, he'll build up to the death of certain characters (Luke) and make their demise huge dramatic moments.

It's been a while since I read Titan's Curse but I remember feeling like Bianca never got the send off she deserved, which was weird considering she and Nico seemed to be a part of a much bigger subplot in the book. Honestly, if I didn't think she had a huge part in the story, I wouldn't have cared if they killed her off and never really thought about it again. Which they did. (Okay Nico stormed off and got an awesome moment, but in the very next chapter they are joking with each other. WTF heroes. Someone just died.)

I'm okay with Luke's death. It was a bit of a twist, but inevitable and well played. I'm okay with Beckendorf and Silena. Secondary characters need to do that sometimes. I'm okay with Ethan Nakamura dying. Well, alright I'm not completely happy with that one. Anyone who tore out his own eye to offer to the goddess of revenge, aka his mother probably should've not spent his screen time running away, getting tired, and having a change of heart at the last possible second.

The point isn't really that I want Bianca back, it's that I don't think she was really played to her full potential. Honestly I can think of a few characters I'd be alright with killing. Heck, Rick can finish Percy in the last book. That would be alright with me.