Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35094745-20180504013804/@comment-35684540-20180801124545

''Yes, except thus far they don't seem to be utter idiots. One main protagonist from a previous series was demised.''

Honestly, Caligula killed a main character, I can give a credit Riordan for that, but I do not think still that the other Emperors prove that they are not dumbs. Nero is so freaking dramatic- and not in a good way- he goes and plays cheap games when he could have killed much more characters (not just minor-minor ones), if he wasn't goofing around just like the cliche villains, and Commodus is worse than him.

I expect more of Caligula, I hope Riordan do write more of that him, and doesn't go and make Caligula some hilarious clown.

However, Leo would NEVER burn Frank's stick no matter how distant they are.

Villains's intelligence proves itself when this time comes. Of course no one would burn Frank's stick, Leo and the others; it's the same thing. They do not want to burn and kill Frank, logically. But, if the villains think something smart and plays with them and somehow they make Leo burn the stick- then it can happen.

Jason's dying was sad, but Leo's burning Frank's stick and killing him accidently with his own hands? That's more of tragic irony than Jason's dying when he was fighting with the villain. For Jason's situation, if Piper killed Jason with her own hands- accidently- that would be more tragic and ironic like, Leo's burning Frank's stick. Am I cruel?

And, I do not think killing the main characters shows that Riordan does write same as Hp. It's ridiculous. Killing the important characters happen everywhere and everyime in the other books too, it's up to the author's doesn't pull some safe zone on his/her characters.

Dumbledore was a main character, he was mentor of the others. Or Snape, Lupin, Sirius and Dobby. You can say that the characters like Cedric, Fred, or maybe Tonks were more minor characters but others were pretty major and main.

Anyways, in my headcanon, Apollo dies and I do not care. He can die when he tries to save others (Meg, Reyna, Hazel or Frank, someone.) and that would make Apollo looks like a hero, or whatever. That would be plot twist because none of the people would think that Apollo actually can die in the series of the book.