Before you start reading this, just know that there will be some spoilers from the Titan's Curse. So if you haven't read the Titan's Curse and you don't like spoilers, I'd advice reading this after you have read the book. Anyways, on with my "speech"......
So you may have seen someone hate on Bianca di Angelo, or maybe you have hated on Bianca di Angelo. But in my opinion, Bianca doesn't deserve any hate that the fandom gives her, and here are my reasons why.
Many people disagree with Bianca joining the Hunters of Artemis because she "left" Nico alone, then died, making Nico sad. People are blaming Bianca for Nico's depression which is kinda weird. But let's look a little deeper into this.
Bianca is a 12 year old girl who has been taking care of her younger brother who was 10 at the time for around 70-80 years, and she is 12!! Meaning she is still very young, and it is such a huge responsibility to be taking care of a 10 year old 24/7 at such a young age.
And as we see in the beginning of the Titan's Curse, Nico could be annoying and loud, which as we also saw, sometimes annoyed Bianca. So Bianca had the right to join the Hunt where she wouldn't be Nico's "babysitter" 24/7.
She wanted her own life. Which many people don't understand. Bianca really wanted to join the Hunt and people hating on her for doing what she wanted to do, is like a bunch of people hating on you for doing what YOU want to do. It makes no sense.
Second of all, people hate on Bianca for her going on the quest which really doesn't make sense. But when you really think about it, Zoë compelled Bianca to go on the quest when no one else did. And later in the book, Zoë even cries and blames herself, saying that she was the reason Bianca died because she was too anxious and really wanted Bianca to go on the quest. And we see that Zoë really wants Bianca to join the Hunt. So is it Zoë's fault? Should we be hating on Zoë? I don't think so.
The weird thing is that people even hate on Bianca for how she died!! Like, do you have anything better to do then to hate someone for how they died? Like wtf. Anyways, we all know that Bianca took a Mythomagic figurine from the Junkyard of the Gods for Nico, as is it was the only one he didn't have. And many people are like "That's so stupid!" but it's not stupid, it's really kind. Then she later admitted to her mistake and volunteered to take down Talos which she knew would kill her. That's called bravery, not stupidity.
Now, let's look at what would happen if Bianca didn't join the hunt....
So let's say Bianca decided not to join the Hunt, she declined Artemis' offer. The storyline goes on as usual. Capture the flag, the prophecy, blah blah blah.
Now when the prophecy came, we know they had a meeting, which is where the decided who the quest members are, we know Zoë would volunteer for her a Phoebe to go. But maybe she would also wish Bianca to go, we see that Zoë really wanted Bianca to join Hunters, and was trying to convince her not to go to camp instead. It is likely that she would've asked Chiron if it's okay to bring Bianca too meaning she could persuade Bianca during the quest to join the Hunt.
Let's say she didn't though. The prophecy prophesied that one would be lost in the land without rain, and none of the other Hunters that Zoë would have had any younger siblings that were obsessed with Mythomagic. But for the sake of debate let's say that someone did take something, and they weren't as nice to Percy as Bianca was, it is likely that Percy would go after Talos because in the books he mentioned that he should've gona after Talos instead of Bianca, meaning that Percy would've died. And I know that no one would want that.
And even if we could go back and tell Bianca not to join the Hunt, she would die soon anyways. The Fates willed her string to be cut at that moment, the past always mends itself. Killing baby Hitler wouldn't have stopped the war. So really, blame the Fates for Bianca's death.
There are many other reasons that I am too lazy to type and I'm in Spanish so I don't want to miss any important info. But if anyone agrees or has something to add, please boost this, or comment your thoughts!! have a nice day!!
