Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170317173745/@comment-36034377-20180706090611

Leo’s popularity has decreed since BoO but he still seems to be pretty popular. Then there’s Percy who no one seem to hate. Annabeth I’m more neutral on cause I’ve seen countless people depict her as a mean and prideful brat. Nico hardly seems hated. Reyna is a character who people seem sympathetic towards. Only people who ship Jasper hate her. Then again, people who ship Jasper are in a minority.

I agree with your reasoning for why Frank and Hazel are hated, even I was furious with Riordan for immensely sidelinging them during BoO, sure it was Jason’s and Piper’s time to shine, but Hazel and Frank are never in the spot light, heck they were hardly useful excpet for fighting off monsters which the feast handled well. Frank’s physical changes were unnecessary. I felt Frank was powerful, but his powers were never explained in detail except ‘he can shape shift, he needs to know the animal he changed into’.

The thing that makes Hazel powerful is the mist, otherwise, it is the fact that she is a child of the big three would be the only factor coming into consideration while placing her according to her powers. Heck even an immensely underdeveloped character like Thalia tops the list cause she is a daughter of Zeus ignoring the fact that she is a featless character whatsoever. Plus it has been mentioned in BoO that you can’t use the mist immediately or in a surprise attack. So she would be more effective with the mist if they had planning time, otherwise, her powers other than the mist would be the only factors into consideration.

Now into Rachel. I hate the reason why she’s hated so much. She wanted to be a apart of camp halfblood knowing for a normal mortal it is like signing their death warrant and planning their funeral before hand. She is a great character if you ask me personally. I loved her. So what if she interrupted their ship and yada yada yada? We literally knew Percabeth was the end game. She was actually a really interesting character too. In fact, she is one of the most hated characters I’ve seen. Of course, not as hated as Piper or Jason.

Onto Piper and Jason, firstly I’ll start with Piper cause there is so much to explain about them. Piper was hated since the moment we knew her, sure she was a little self-centered in the first book. But that would’ve given her room for development. But nooo, they were prepared to hate her. I agree, I didn’t like her much, but I grew to like her ample by the end of it. She was literally the best developed character out of the seven (exculing Percy and Annabeth and they were major characters in the previous series). We knew her backstory, why she liked Jason. Her parentage and her motives pretty well by the end. Another reason why she’s hated so much is Jason. People thought she was way too obbssessed with Jason. Especially throughout TLH, MoA and HoO.

Now to Jason. Where do I start? There were two threads about why he sucked alongisde Piper. One of the reasons why I think is cause people were way too attached to Percy. Another reason why I think so too is because we never knew much about him. His backstory was annoying vague and his love for Piper wasn’t very deeply discussed about either. We basically knew next to nothing about his time in CJ. Not to mention he did kinda rival Percy in power so people got way too paranoid. One thing I disagree about was how Jasper was underdeveloped. People totally seem to ignore the fact that they had a total of 8 months to bond at CHB.

Sorry for the immensely long post (I used the word ‘immensely’ a lot. I’ll stop using it).