User blog comment:SonOfZeus1200/Drew and Octavian, Tratiors or Not?/@comment-4515675-20111025153920

I'm going to just copy-paste what I've written in a topic from MN since I've debated this subject already.

I don't think Octavian will try to get help from Gaea or get manipulated by her. Why? Because he's too smart and too sneaky. He'll probably know that Gaea has no intention of keeping her end of the barging and will get rid of him with the first chance she gets. I also don't think that he'll try to betray his camp, more like seize power.

Once Percy and Jason leave for Rome, Reyna will be left as the only praetor so it will be the perfect chance for Octavian to become leader. I think he understands by now that Reyna will never support him so his only chance is to get rid of her.

I'm seeing the whole Brutus and Caesar story unfolding between him and Reyna. She doesn't trust him but then again Caesar himself started doubting Brutus' loyalty and was planning to send him away from Rome. Octavian might try to assassinate Reyna or make the people turn against her. Now assassinating her would actually be harder than forcing her to leave camp. She's always guarded by her dogs and it's obvious that she can fight well but the people are scared. Greeks have invaded their camp with a war ship and now they're being told that they have to work with them in order to stop Gaea from waking up and destroying the world.

There will be a lot of doubt and a lot of panic and I'm sure sweet Octavian will be there to manipulate the Romans and make them think that Jason and Reyna have betrayed them. I think if he manages to get rid of Reyna and become praetor his next move will be to attack camp half-blood. Then again how would he know where the camp is? Well since the Greeks know where camp Jupiter is he'll probably ask, or make the members of the senate ask so he doesn't look suspicious, about the location of the other camp. Percy and the others won't have a choice but to tell them so Octavian will most likely try to turn the Romans against the Greeks and there won't be anyone to stop him seeing as how the other major figures in camp are in Rome.

Funny how he seems to care so little about the gods and Gaea's evil plan. It's like even though he's so hungry for power and would probably sell his own mother in order to become the praetor, he doesn't seem to be able to get the whole picture. He's so obsessed with his own little schemes that the faith of the world is irrelevant to him.