User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Mark of Athena Official Discussion/@comment-4430596-20121009000557

Heres something to consider in the Piper debate:

First off, Piper is not a wholly bad character. She has many good qualities. However, one thing I've noticed when people try to point out Piper's qualities is that they say things like helping to save Percy, or wanting to protect her friends from harm, or things in the same vein as those. While those are good qualities, I think those types of things are, for lack of a better word, expected from the 7. What would you think if somebody in the series let Percy die, or didn't care about their friends? This describes zero protagonists in the series. I think we are setting the bar to low for Piper.