User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-68.11.161.173-20121007114332/@comment-4515675-20121008102515

Let me just say that calling someone a hater for having different opinions than yours is not acceptable. Please go into the corner of shame and come back only when you've matured enough to have a proper debate.

No one here hates Piper...well maybe I shouldn't talk for everyone but I for one think that disliking a character doesn't mean you hate them. I've looked forward into Piper actually gaining some character growth in this book. It didn't happen in MoA but who knows, maybe by the end of the series she will become better.

I keep wondering why ppl call her your average teenage girl and expect that to make it all better. Piper is not your average teenage girl because if she was people would get annoyed about her constant complaining. If this beautiful girl comes to you and tells you how she's pretty without even trying, how she has such a great dad who loves her, how she's rich, how she has the power to make everyone do as she likes and has a great boyfriend who cares for her yet she's still not satisfied and keeps looking down on herself you'd slap her. You'd call her a whiny brat who takes everything for granted and who never had to work one day in her life to actually know the meaning of receiving something because of your own merits.

Yet no one calls Piper this and we know that the other characters are aware of her jealousy and messed up priorities. Like when Jason was nervous when talking about his home and Reyna and Annabeth couldn't understand why and when the boys are in trouble and Piper screams "Jason!" and Hazel adds in an annoyed way "And Leo and Frank.". If she was a normal girl Jason would have argued with her or even dumped her after she constantly doubts him and makes him feel bad about his life in CJ. If she was a normal girl people would tell her that her priorities shouldn't begin and end with Jason. But she's not a normal girl and all through the series she is never called out for her flaws, instead she is placed on a pedestal and everyone keeps saying how smart and pretty and dangerous she is.

You want a good example of this? Leo gets possessed and fires on CJ. The others find out that it wasn't his doing but they still look down on him, they still judge him for it. Piper tells them that she hasn't tried very hard with the Romans, because she was afraid Jason would want to return to CJ, and they tell her how she shouldn't worry about it and how it wasn't her fault. So getting possessed was Leo's fault but refusing to cooperate with the Romans because of jealousy was not Piper's fault? She gets protected too much in this series, that's why she feels so flat and ppl can't relate to her.