Odysseus

It's the graphic novel! And I have to say, the art is awesome!

The five books of Percy Jackson and the Olympians resemble the adventures of five major ancient Greek mythology heroes:

• The Lightning Thief: Orpheus (Loses a woman close to them, being Eurydice and Sally Jackson, and ventures into the Underworld to retrieve her from Hades, both also temporarily having an Olympian’s godly item, being Apollo’s lyre and Zeus’ Master Bolt)

• The Sea of Monsters: Odysseus (Sails through the Sea of Monsters and has to fight the Cyclops Polyphemus, coming across and escaping beings such as Scylla, Charybdis, and Circe)

• The Titan’s Curse: Hercules (Fights the Nemean Lion along with other monsters and enemies, gaining its hide as a spoil of war and later is given the sky to hold up in Atlas’ place)

• The Battle of the Labyrinth: Theseus (Enters the Labyrinth and is helped by a mortal girl to navigate it, being Ariadne and Rachel, who they become romantically involved with)

• The Last Olympian: Achilles (Gains the Curse of Achilles from being bathed in the River Styx and is a major force in a massive city war, being the Trojan War and Battle of Manhattan)

205: Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods and Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes don’t address the Iliad and Odyssey by the Greek writer Homer, which are both significant events in Greek mythology, including various heroes and gods as the two books do.

206: According to Percy when he claims to be late for it, the Argo II have monthly reunion parties after their quest in The Heroes of Olympus.

207: To write Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes, the New York publisher promised Percy a year’s supply of free pepperoni pizza and all the blue jelly beans he could eat after he complained he was dyslexic, referring to his previous success with Percy Jackson's Greek Gods.

First, Percy...

I’d say his mythological counterpart would be Heracles. Percy has completed the feats of many ancient heroes, but none more so than Heracles. And they are the greatest heroes of their respective times.

Next, Annabeth...

Annabeth I feel mirrors Odysseus. Odysseus and Annabeth are both great warriors that lean on their intellect and trickery. An example of them mirroring each other is when they defeated Circe with the help of Hermes. Or the story of Polyphemus.

Next, Clarisse...

Clarisse is the blatant mirror of Achilles. The Last Olympian is the best example of this. Achilles/Clarisse feels that their honor is slighted and will not fight. Patroclus/Silena disguise themselves as Achilles/Clarisse and die in battle. At their death, Achilles/Clarisse is enraged and avenges their death. Afterwards, they drag the corpse of the killer behind their chariot.

Next, Jason...

Jason is Jason. Incredible, I know. They both lost one shoe. They both have the favor of Hera. And they both needed a powerful girl to help them succeed, Piper/Medea.

Next, Piper...

Like I just mentioned, Piper/Medea are mirror images of each other. They both help their respective Jasons. They both, in RV specifically, have charmspeak. And they both have their relationship with their Jason end, though Piper’s was much less tragic.

I could go on and name several more, but I think I’ll stop here.

Note: Heracles won't be part of this tournament, he's way more powerful than everyone else. He stalemated Apollo in combat....

Contestants:

Achilles

Bellerophon

Odysseus

Atalanta

Theseus

Ajax (The Greater)

Hector

Perseus

I would have more, but the numbers don't really work out, sorry

First round up

Theseus vs Bellerophon

Personally, I think Bellerophon, he slew entire armies... and I think the Chimera is more dangerous than anything Theseus ever faced

Ok so before we start, let me explain some stuff. The Iliad is an ancient greek poem written by a guy called Homer. It details The Trojan War, at least part of it. How did this all start? You guessed it. The gods

Also, this'll be a long post, but It's shorter than actually reading The Iliad, so there you go. If you like mythology, read on

So basically, I need to establish a lot of world building, ig you could call it, before I get into the actual plot. So basically, you might know Thetis. She's a sea nymph. Anyways, Zeus tried to have a fling with her. But The Fates prophecized that she would have a son twice as powerful as the dad. So Zeus, understandably, got spooked, and broke up with her, and married her off to some mortal guy, so that he wouldn't have to worry about being overthrown any time soon. The mortal guy in question is Peleus. Together they have a son named... (drumroll please) Achilles. Maybe you've heard of him.

Anyways, before that, Peleus and Thetis have a marriage party. Now all the gods are invited, except for this one goddess, Eris. Eris is the goddess of strife and discord, so you really don't want her around. So she wasn't invited. Eris is pissed, so she gets a golden apple from who knows where, and she throws it into the crowd, saying it's "for the fairest." Anyways, Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite, all think they are the fairest. So they ask Zeus to solve matters. Zeus, despite his flaws, isn't an idiot, so he gets this mortal prince, named Paris to decide. So the 3 goddesses go in front of Paris, and they bribe him so they can choose them, so they can win the contest, and the apple.

So Athena offers him wisdom, Hera offers him control of Asia Minor, and Aphrodite offers him the hottest woman in the world. In typical idiot greek fashion, Paris chooses Aphrodite's offer. Anyways, turns out the prettiest woman in the world is Helen of Troy. So Aphrodite helps Paris kidnap Helen, and they run away to Troy

Note: In some versions, Helen goes with Paris willingly. Also, I find it ironic the 3 gods bribed Paris to win. Paris isn't choosing the fairest god he's choosing the fairest gift. Which is why the entire contest is pointless, imo.

Anyways...

Helen's husband, Menelaus, is understandably pissed his wife was stolen by some random Trojan dude (I forgot to mention, Helen was married to Menelaus when Paris stole her.) So basically, Menelaus, and a bunch of other greek kings who suited Helen when she was going to get married decided to go to war with Troy, over one dam woman. Smart, huh?

Anyways, they recruit Achilles from this island where he was disguised as a girl (long story) and also Patroclus. And then they go to war!

The Iliad is composed of 24 books, which are each basically chapters, so here we go.

Book 1

So basically, Agamemnon, the leading King of the greek (Achaeans) army, took this girl named Chryseis as his prisoner spoil of war wife. However, her dad, Chryses, who happens to be the Trojan High Priest of Apollo, wants her back. So he offers a bunch of money to Agamemnon in exchange for his daughter. Most of the army is like "yeah, let's do it!" but Agamemnon, in typical idiot greek fashion is like "TARTARUS NAH! SHE'S MINE, AND YOU'LL NEVER GET HER BACK! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

(He didn't actually say that, but you get the idea)

Anyways, Chryses is upset, so he prays to Apollo, and asks for his help. Apollo is enraged that his High Priest is being treated like this, so he comes down from Olympus and begins firing a bunch of Plague arrows at the Achaean (Greek) army. And they all fall sick

After a few days, They all call an assembly to deal with the problem. Agamemnon is forced to return Chryseis, but in return, he says he's gonna take Achilles's own woman spoil of war, Briseis, as compensation, cause that's how much of an idiot he is. Achilles gets mad, but he eventually relents, but he then says he will no longer help the Greeks in the war, and he storms off.

Then, he pulls an absolute $%# move, and prays to his mom, Thetis, to ask Zeus to give favour to The Trojan side, so that Agamemnon will realize how much he needs Achilles. Yeah. What a #$% move, am I right? So anyways, Thetis hears him and promises to ask Zeus to help The Trojans. She does so, and Zeus agrees, eventually.

Book 2

Zeus sends Agamemnon a dream, telling him to attack Troy. Agamemnon decides to do so, but first decides to test the moral of his soldiers, by saying that they're all going home. The plan backfires, and Odysseus has to stop a rout. The Trojans see the greeks coming their way, and rally their forces.

Book 3

The armies approach each other, but before they begin the fight, Hector, the leader of the Trojan army, basically bullies his brother Paris into fighting Menelaus in a duel, to end the entire war. Both sides promise to a truce, and swear to abide to the rules that whoever wins gets to keep Helen, and the war will end. However, there is a problem: Paris is a wimp, and he loses to Menelaus since Paris is basically useless without his bow. So Menelaus is about to kill Paris, but Aphrodite, in typical stupid Aphrodite fashion, interferes, and takes Paris away to his bedroom, away from the fight.

Book 4

The gods discuss what to do, and Zeus decides to keep the war going. He sends Athena down to earth, and she convinces a Trojan archer (Pandaros) to shoot Menelaus in the heart and end the whole war. The archer does so, but Athena moves the arrow so it only hits his arm. And Menelaus is wounded. Then the truce is broken, and chaos begins

Book 5

A greek king named Diomedes is blessed and buffed up by Athena. She says that the only condition is that if he sees a god coming at him, he cannot face them unless it's Aphrodite. Diomedes kills a bunch of people. He kills Pandaros and almost kills this guy named Aeneas. Aphrodite tried to whisk him away, but Diomedes, remembering Athena's words, stabs Aphrodite in the wrist (hah, take that). Aphrodite drops Aeneas and flees back to Olympis crying, and Apollo comes back, and commands Diomedes to stand down, and then saves Aeneas, since Aeneas has very important future. Ares comes down and gets into the fight, but Athena helps Diomedes stab Ares, and Ares also runs back to Olympus.

Book 6

Nothing much important happens- all you need to know is that Hector gets some women to pray to Athena, incites Paris to fight, and then returns to the battle

Book 7

Hector and Ajax The Greater duel, similar to the Menelaus vs Paris fight. They fight each other until nightfall and stalemate each other, and they go back to their respective sides after congratulating each other. The Greeks dig a wall around their fortress, The Trojan talk, Paris offers to give back all the treasure he stole from Menelaus, but not Helen. The offer is refused, they burn the dead, blah blah

Book 8

In the morning, Zeus forbidden the Olympian gods to interfere in the fight between Troy and The Greeks, threatening them, and The Olympians promise not to. Zeus then helps to Trojans, because of Achilles's wish.

Book 9

The Greeks get desperate, since they are losing badly. Agamemnon relents, and offers Briseis, and a ridiculous load of other stuff to Achilles, but Achilles, in (again) typical idiot Greek fashion, turns the offer down, and says he will not fight, unless his own ship is threatened, cause yeah. So it doesn't work

Book 10

Odysseus and Diomedes go out to the Trojan lines, and wreak havoc in the camps of some allies of Troy's

Book 11

Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Diomedes are wounded in fierce fighting, and Achilles sends his best friend/lover Patroclus to go check on who is injured. Nestor, a greek king, moves Patroclus to pity with a speech.

Book 12

Zeus again helps the Trojans, and Hector breaks down The Greek's wall, and enter their camp

Book 13

Poseidon disobeys Zeus, and helps the greeks, but not to much, since he's afraid of being found out by Zeus. Many die.

Book 14

Hera... uh... distracts Zeus, and they both fall asleep. Now that Zeus is not watching the fight, Posseidon begins to fully help the Greeks, buffing up Ajax The Greater, and Ajax The Lesser, allowing them to kill a lot of Trojans. The Trojans are driven back.

Book 15

Zeus wakes up, and is mad at Poseidon, and threatens war with him if he keeps on interfering. Poseidon eventually relents, because fighting Zeus and risking Tartarus isn't worth it for some puny mortals, probably. That's my guess, anyway. Zeus sends Apollo to help the Trojans, and heal Hector, who was badly wounded by Ajax The Greater, and The Trojans gain the advantage. The battle reaches the ships

Book 16

Patroclus can no longer watch. He begs Achilles to help, but Achilles refuses. So Patroclus askes Achilles to let him wear his armor, so that The Trojans will be scared and run off. Achilles relents but sternly tells him not to pursue the Trojans, lest he take Achilles' glory, or even die. Patroclus goes off, and Zeus decrees that Patroclus will kill Sarpedon, a powerful Trojan warrior and drive the Trojans back, but will be eventually killed by Hector. This is exactly what happens.

Book 17

Hector kills Patroclus with the help of Apollo, and he steals Patroclus's (Achilles's) armour, and wears it himself, because you can't let that kind of Spoil Of War go. Fighting develops around Patroclus's body

Book 18

Achilles goes sick with rage and grief when he hears of Patroclus's death and vows to take vengeance on Hector. Bathed in a brilliant radiance by Athena, Achilles stands next to the Achaean wall and roars in rage. The Trojans fall back, and the Greeks recover Patroclus's body. Thetis begs Hepeastus to make Achilles a suit of armour, since Achilles doesn't have one, and he does so

Book 19

In the morning, Agamemnon offers back Briseis and a bunch of other stuff to Achilles, but Achilles doesn't care, and wants revenge. The gods give him some ambrosia and nectar to have, which makes Achilles strong and stuff. He dons the armour of Hephaestus and goes to fight.

Book 20

Zeus lifts the ban of interfering, and the gods go down to help their respective sides. Achilles kills a bunch of people.

Book 21

Achilles drives The Trojans back, and fills the Trojan River Skamandros (Scammandar, if you will) with the dead. The god of the river gets mad, and tries to kill Achilles. Hera sends Hepeastus to boil the river with his flame, and the river god, agonized, promises to let Achilles go, and Hephaestus leaves him alone. The gods fight in combat (Athena vs Ares and Aphrodite, Hera vs Artemis, Poseidon challenges Apollo, but Apollo doesn't fight, and Leto faces Hermes, but Hermes says he will not fight her, since Hermes is way too nice.) Apollo shapeshifts into a Trojan warrior, and Achilles chases him around the city, to delay Achilles.

Book 22

Apollo reveals himself, and by that time, all the Trojans have retreated into the wall, except for Hector, who insists on staying outside to fight Achilles. When Achilles arrives, Hector's will fails him, and he runs away. Athena shapeshift into Hector's brother and convinces him to face Achilles, together. Hector does so, but then Athena leaves, and Hector realizes he's been tricked. He still faces Achilles, but Achilles wins, and stabs him through the neck. Hector reminds Achilles that he too will die, but Achilles says he welcomes death at that point. He then drags Hector's corpse around the city of Troy, dishonouring it.

Book 23

Patroclus's ghost comes to Achilles, and askes the latter to bury him, and carry out the rites. Achilles holds some funeral games with the Greeks to see who will win the Spoils of War.

Book 24

Zeus, pitying Hector's corpse and his father, Priam, decided that Hector's body must be returned to his old father. Hermes leads Priam into the Greek camp secretly, and Priam begs Achilles to return Hector's body so he may be buried. Achilles is moved to tears, and agrees, and returns the body (which was protected by the gods, so it wasn't ruined by the dirt and sun, etc.) After a meal, Priam brings Hector back to the city, and they all mourn

Wow, that took a while. Hope you enjoyed. Let me know if I missed anything or got anything wrong...

So The Aeneid, which details the adventures of Aeneas, who sort of kind of founded Rome... is extremely similar to The Odyssey and The Iliad. Aeneas is basically Odysseus and Achilles combined

So Virgil (writer of The Aeneid) basically plagiarized Homer (writer of The Iliad and The Odyssey)

Virgil EXPOSED

I bet he didn't even cite his sources :/

This is my review of The Odyssey, by Homer. If you haven't read it, READ IT!! Though you'll have to read The Iliad first.

That's it. That's my entire review

Nah I'm joking

Characters!

Odysseus

Let's save him for last

Telemachus

For some reason, I always remember this kids name as "Telamon." It's very frustrating. But for the actual person, he's okay, ig. I just didn't find him compelling. I feel sorry that he lost his dad, but I feel like the only importance he had was that he was Odysseus's son. I mean his entire journey to Nestor and Menelaus was useless, other than for Homer to tell us a bit of what happened after the war. I do feel sorry for him, and I'm not an emotional person at all, but when he reunited with his dad I just couldn't-

Penelope

Poor her. She seems like the best and most faithful wife you could have. And the thing she did with the sewing thing which fooled the suitors for 3 years? G O L D. And again, not emotional, but when I she got reunited with Odysseus-

Menelaus

He didn't do much, but he honestly seems like the only chill, cool, nice guy in Greece-

Happy that he got reunited with Helen though

Odysseus's Crew

Sigh... where to begin. Some of them were absolute idiots, but I feel sorry for the ones who weren't.

RIP the guys who were eaten by Polyphemus. RIP the guy who feel and broke his neck on Circe's island. RIP the guys killed by the Laestrygonians. RIP- I'm gonna stop here, cause If I don't, I'll be typing for hours. Let's just say

RIP everyone who didn't deserve to die but did.

Calypso

Calypso honestly seemed really nice, other than the fact that she wanted to sleep with Odysseus, which ig is understandable since she's probably super lonely on the island-. And she did help Odysseus and keep him alive

Circe

Circe was like Calypso for me, but worse, since she turned Odysseus's men into pigs, and only stopped when Odysseus told her to, and then got him to sleep with her, but I suppose she's not as bad as she is in PJO

Polyphemus

This guy I swear.... He really should've been more respectful to his guests. Also, Odysseus should NOT have revealed his true name to him. Seriously, what is it with Greek dudes and Hubris? They never learn, do they?

Suitors

The best thing about them was that they got killed

Odysseus

I honestly really liked him. I found his cunning and skills to be very interesting, as well as his exploits, and the way he handled the suitors. He did have a lot of help from Athena though. I did not like however, how he did choose to sleep with Circe and Calypso, but it is ancient Greece, so, it that's normal? And he killed those servant women which seemed sort of harsh. I would've just banished them from Ithica instead of murdering them-

I feel sorry for him for having a crew which (not all of them) basically brought riun to him, though it was through the will of the gods that happened. Poor guy though. The only person who's gone through more #$% than him is Heracles, I would say. Heracles literally asked Odysseus if he was living a life like he did when he was alive, when Odysseus went to the underworld. I'm happy he got back to his family though. Finally, a happy ending-

Plot

This story's plot makes a lot more sense than The Iliad's where the entire catalyst was some random women being stolen. I dislike Poseidon for delaying Odysseus, but it is sort of Odysseus's fault that he had hubris and taunted Polyphemus. Again, what is it with Greek people and Hubris?????? I found it immensely satisfying when Odysseus killed the Suitors, and when he got reunited with his son and later wife.

Anyways, I honestly did like this poem a lot. I won't compare it to The Iliad, since the two are very different books, I think. Maybe Odysseus's adventures could have been longer, and there was a lot less action in The Odyssey than in it's prequel. But I did really like it! Also, I really wouldn't want Odysseus to go through even more #$%

Now I have to decide whether I should read The Theogony or The Aeneid.

Thanks for reading

it's neither

Leo's name is Leopold.

hear me out

James Joyce wrote a book called Ulysses set in nineteen twenties Dublin and following the structure of the Odyssey, with Leopold bloom representing Odysseus. out of all the Hoo characters, Leo's arc is most similar to that of Leopold and Odysseus, and he also shares their characteristic of cleverness and trickery.

this is probably nonsense but I saw a link

don't read Ulysses if you're a minor

TL;DR AT END

So, I saw this post on this fandom while scrolling (Link: Here) and I immediately set to making a reply. I quickly realized that this was becoming more of a post than a reply, so my reply is now transferred to here and grew beyond just positives that are negatives in disguise. Basically, let's take a look at how everything that could possibly be positive about this ship takes an awfully negative spin once you look further into it, and a darker side to Calypso.

DISCLAIMER: This is just the way I see it. Feel free to debate and disagree in the comments. I may have the wrong perception entirely, but this is my perception of this ship's issues.

ANOTHER DISCLAIMER: I may remember some things slightly wrong. This is based off memory and wiki pages, I currently don't have the means to pull up the books for exact quotes.

A THIRD DISCLAIMER: This post will not be covering the following topics:

• Pedophilia

• The physical abuse Calypso administers to Leo

PART I: Leo

Leo. He died for Calypso. Surely such devotion and love is a positive trait, right? Not so much. In this section, you'll see why some of Leo's possibly more admirable qualities are much less admirable once you look at them from another angle. Let's take a look of two of Leo's more positive traits that tie into his relationship with Calypso, and how they're not as great as you think.

• Devotion: Leo is devoted to Calypso, despite having known her for only two weeks, to the point of dying for her. He dies for this girl who treated him like crap for most of his stay on her island. He's more devoted to this girl he likes because "She's not afraid to get her hands dirty" than to his friends, who were worried sick about him. Jason probably died thinking he'd meet Leo in the underworld, but never will, just because of Leo's selfishness and devotion to Calypso. So the positive of devotion here quickly morphs into the negative of Leo's selfishness. His devotion is to Calypso, and nobody beyond Calypso.

• Leo's no longer the seventh wheel: He cared more about finding some cute girl to date than his friends. He only felt like a seventh wheel because his friends all were coupled up with someone or the other, rather than feeling like a seventh wheel because of his lack of experience or combative ability. Essentially, the positivity of him no longer being the seventh wheel quickly gives way to show the fact that Leo feels more like an outsider for not having a hot girlfriend rather than feeling like an outsider for his abilities and what he did. Essentially, he's thirsting for love in the middle of a war, while any one of his friends have been kinder to him than he has been to them throughout the entirety of the series.

Looking through this view, Leo seems like an extremely selfish, solely romance-driven teenage boy. This is a lot of why I don't like him, but hold on. Leo is the least of our problems here. Let's take a look at his dear partner, Calypso.

PART II: Calypso

After writing this, I'm starting to think that Calypso is doing much worse than dating a child while being an adult in all but physical appearance. A look at Calypso's possibly twisted intentions behind something positive about her relationship with Leo shows a lot about her personality.

• Calypso can see the world: This may sound like something positive about Caleo, at last. Calypso can see the world, right? She and Leo can enjoy themselves and explore the world, something good's come out of this ship! But nooooo. Calypso seing the world... that's not a "Calypso + Leo" thing. It's a solely Calypso thing. Let me explain. The way she acts makes me feel like she only wanted Leo to return just so she could get off her island, and is playing Leo's feelings just so that she could see more of the outside world, and doesn't care for him beyond that purpose. Leo feels wanted by Calypso, for once, but Calypso's just playing him. At the end of ToN, Calypso and Leo are going through a rough patch, so they're not together. What is Calypso doing then? Off at band camp. Leo's actually doing something good (somewhat surprisingly), helping homeless kids out using Festus as a workshop. He's actually trying to care for these kids. You'd think that maybe Calypso would drop by to help out, despite the rough patch, maybe she and Leo could make up or at least co-operate to teach some children, but noooo, Calypso's off at band camp, ditching Leo. I don't share Leo and Reyna's confidence that the relationship issue is going to be sorted out. Now that Calypso is going to high school and band camp, she'd having the time of her life, out in the big wide world. Why would she need to go back to Leo, who was little more than an escape ticket to her?

Looking at this "positive" through this view, Calypso seems manipulative, greedy for escape, and willing to take advantage of Leo's selfishness and immediate loyalty to a hot girl, playing his heartstrings like a lyre. She's downright ABUSIVE to him until she realizes that Leo could actually get her off the island, which is when she decides to kiss him, fueling his infatuation with her more, which leads him to promise to come back for her on the River Styx. And oh boy, he fulfilled that promise. Calypso is shown to be an awful person in multiple ways in her relationship with Leo. But her relationship with isn't the only place where some of her more awful traits show.

PART II: The vices of Calypso

In the very same book where Calypso first meets Leo, we see how bitter she is to see Percy leave when Annabeth is cursed in Tartarus. Percy, unlike Leo, is extremely loyal to his friends, and even dreams about them in concern. He likes his time on Calypso's island, sure, but he leaves soon after he heals, and unlike Leo, didn't know that he had appeared to die, resulting in the mourning of his friends. But Calypso? Calypso just doesn't want to see Percy leave. She curses Annabeth to wonder why Percy left her behind. Now, it's possible that she felt as if Percy left her behind. But Percy was very clear about leaving, and Calypso fully knew that Percy had to go. She was far from just "left behind". Annabeth was struck with the feeling of Percy leaving her behind with absolutely no warning, practically abandoning her. Percy shows disbelief when he find out Calypso would curse Annabeth, which implies that Calypso lead him to believe that she was alright, even though she was disappointed, to see him leave the island. So you may be thinking, "Calypso must have abandonment issues, right? No wonder she'd be bitter". First of all, I'd like to say that as bitter as she may be, she had no right to curse someone just for being the object of her crush's affection. (And I'd like to say this should apply to anybody.) She didn't even know that Annabeth liked Percy back at the time. In any case, another thing I'd like to point out: Calypso was extremely possessive of Odysseus in the Odyssey. Let's be real here: She hadn't been "abandoned" before Odysseus, yet she's bitter and possessive from the start. Maybe I'm being too harsh on her. I'm not sure whether this interpretation is a part of the Odyssey, but I remember seeing several interpretations saying that Calypso imprisoned Odysseus on Ogygia, just so he could be her husband. Odysseus was FORCED to stay on Ogygia for 7-10 years (Somewhere in this timeframe, I'm sure), until either:

A) Calypso got bored of him

B) Odysseus finally convinced her to let him go back to Penelope.

Calypso's always been possessive of potential husbands. And when she found someone who was "unattractive" (Leo), and literally makes loud and rude remarks upon his lack of "hotness", she uses him and pretends she loves him just to get off her island.

PART IV: Calypso: A new threat?

So, this is going a bit into theory territory. Now, I know this is extremely unlikely, but it'd be interesting if this happened, so let's get into it.

So, Calypso's out in the real world. Might never return to come back for Leo. And, last time we saw her in TDP, she was regaining magic. She's extremely pretty, said to be "twice as bright as the stars" and is said that her beauty "far exceeds that of Aphrodite". Now, earlier in this post, we went over how easily Calypso played Leo's feelings, right? Well, with that ability, along with her magic... let's just say that Calypso could be a threat to the world. Now, obviously, Calypso is painted through the series using a romantic light, rather than being shown through a harsh, truthful lens. Rick won't make her any level of villainous, right? Probably not, but after all we've seen about Calypso in this post...

In the unlikely event that the next enemy the heroes are facing is a 2000-year old sorceress with magic, especially control over air spirits, stunning looks, a talent for manipulation and a name starting with a C and ending with an O, possibly with a few lovestruck young soldiers doing her bidding...

At least I can say I called it.

TL;DR: Leo is extremely selfish, Calypso is manipulative and vengeful, Calypso may pose a threat to the world.

Ok, so. I kinda liked Calypso in PJO, she seemed nice and kind of sad and I felt sorry for her. I like to give hugs to fictional characters, which is a bit weird but they need them. Anyway, if I could've given her a hug, i would've. But then. HOO. I didn't really like her in this. Not gonna go into too much detail but yeah.

Now, her love interests, for me, are ridiculous. Like she would fall in love with anyone that rocked up on Ogygia. Like according to her page she had 4 main love interests:

1. Odysseus. He was a straight Hero through and through.

2. Drake. An English PIRATE

3. Percy. Our cutie who we shall protect at all costs. Anyway he was really young and while he was a hero he was a sweetheart.

4. Leo. The other cutie (i don't personally like him but most of the fandom does so i shall speak highly of him) who just doesn't know when to be serious because he uses laughter as a coping mechanism.

They are literally all so different. Like she goes from falling in love with Odysseus, to falling in love with a Pirate. Like they couldn't be more different. And then from a pirate she's like "oh Percy's cute. He seems serious but also kind and gentle, imma fall in love with him". And then when Percy doesn't work out she falls for literally the opposite of Percy, Leo "oh he's funny and sweet and cute let's fall in love with him". Like they just aren't similar. None of them are similar to me. The only thing they have in common is being called a "hero". This is why i don't think Caleo works. Leo deserves someone who loves HIM, not someone who will love whoever she meets.

Anyway, she just annoys me that she just loves whoever she meets. Like i get that she's on a deserted island and so what else is she gonna do but fall in love with anyone who rocks up so she doesn't have to be alone for eternity. But i just think that she uses them.

Anyway these are my thoughts feel free to respectfully disagree in the comments or agree, i like when people agree. But no hating

* Everyone keeps saying that she was cursed to fall in love with them. She wasn't. But they only sent people she would fall in love with (she didn't have to, but she did)

Naturally, I would go with these people

Odysseus. A skilled navigator, he would be very helpful in the game

Achilles. Best warrior as mentioned in the last book of the PJO series, he would do well on the offense

Hercules. Massive streghnt and power, he would be a solid yes

Sciron. Magical weapons are allowed, and his skill would come in handy.

Last one

Theseus. His skill comes with his intelligence, and if in any situatiion, he could make the benefit and best out of it.

What are your opinions, please comment below....!

Calypso and Leo, or Calypso and Percy, or Caleo and Odysseus

I say Caleo!