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Southern Lights wrote: Kronos300 wrote: That was another thing that I didn't like about the Heroes of Olympus. It took five books to establish Percy as a powerful demigod.

Then all of a sudden, we are introduced to a near perfect Jason Grace, whom Rick rubs into our noses that he is Percy's equal. We barely even know about his past.

I rather found Luke Castellan to be much more realistic.

What did you mean about Luke, Kronos300? How is he more realistic? I mean, we don't even know much about Jason's past. Like what monsters did he fight or how exactly did he beat Krios or what power feat did he do.

Besides, in The Son of Neptune, it is shown that the Romans are trained to fight in a group, whereas someone like Percy or Luke who is really skilled in solo fighting can easily beat the Romans.

That said, if Jason was trained at Camp Jupiter, he should be at a disadvantage, because his fighting style is not so suited to Percy's fighting style.

Yet people still think he is Percy's equal. Luke on the other hand, we know that he has been fighting monsters on his own for five years. Add to that, he spent five years at camp, training really hard to be the best swordsman in 300 years or maybe in 3000 years. Then he spent 4 years training in the Titan Army.

He trained Percy initially. So yes, it is realistic that Luke, despite being a Son of Hermes can beat a powerful child of the Big Three. Whereas, some random cardboard son of Jupiter shows up whom we barely know about, and is immediately touted to be Percy's equal or something. That is totally unrealistic.

To sum it up, Luke has 5 years experience and 9 years training as well as the powers of Achilles, the greatest warrior of all time.

Jason has only 12 years training, which we barely know about the details. And his powers suck.