The moment in MOA when Piper is actually debating whether or not to let Jason kill Percy is truly insane like bonkers level insane and it's wild to me that it's like written off as a little lapse in judgment that's insignificant. She's the original hater and you know what valid but Piper girl that was crazy
honestly I love her for that like this is one of Piper’s absolute worst moments and that is what I love about it. I think the narrative should have leaned into it MORE, it makes her a much more compelling character and unique from all the other Selfless Hero characters.
Jason comforting Piper later that it’s okay that she kind of wanted Jason to kill Percy and telling her not to be so hard on herself…. like alskdjfa;lskdjf NO IT IS NOT! IT’S NOT OKAY AT ALL! It was super dark and twisted and messed up and she was tempted by it! And that’s what makes it so good!!!! Even wilder is later when she reflects on this moment she feels guilty NOT because she gives a crap about Percy’s life, NOT because it’s INSANE to offer Percy up for the slaughter to Gaea, but because “how could she stand to see Annabeth in that kind of pain if Percy died?” which is like askjfdkljf PIPER GIRL THAT’S STILL ABOUT YOU. she is an extremely selfish character and i honestly wish the narrative had allowed her selfishness to actually cost something heavy. We could also explore how the trait she hates the most in her parents is THEIR selfishness. Instead Leo is the one who gets the fortune-cookie-sacrifice plot, and Piper’s ending is that she gets to be a Girl Boss like annabeth. I’m sorry but it is so BORING
Would've loved all of the 7 being worse and messier.
- Give me selfish and hypocritical Piper
- Give me Leo who's too traumatized to use his powers until he's using them to sacrifice himself
- Give me Jason who's fanatically loyal to Rome and the gods and would kill his friends if Hera or the senate told him to
- Give me Percy who cares more about his friends than about his morals
- Give me Annabeth who knows her fatal flaw but still can't distinguish it from justified confidence
- Give me Frank who really does have anger issues and he had them mostly under control but now he can turn into a bear
- Give me Hazel who still feels like she's in the wrong century and that she didn't deserve to come back
When I read HOO, I remember disliking how romance focused everyone and everything was, how sanitized and free of meaningful flaws everyone was, how the drama felt toothless and bland.
You have all these characters with screwed up backstories in the seven, and yet they feel so domestic.
I don't know, I just think that, with all the neglect, abuse, loss, endangerment, conflict, trauma, other mental health issues and the general teenagehood, that these characters would be a lot more feral and dysfunctional.
Yet it feels like these problems aren't really all that focused on in any meaningful way. Don't know.
I feel like everything was there for me to love these characters, yet Rick took everything in directions I found really uninteresting.
Especially the girls. I swear, the girls have such cool character traits and details and backstories, such potential to be interesting and flawed characters.
Instead, you just get a Rick's attempt at making well-written female characters- which is meh. It smells like the type of person who thinks feminism is shaming girls who still like stereotypically feminine and girly things, who treats female characters as already perfect and mature and stuff so they don't have to bother writing or fleshing out said characters and who prefers to position girls as caretakers.
Admittedly, I might be exaggerating.
But also, I just want my dysfunctional female characters to make ships out, and Rick's can be so boring.
