Lost Hero Reaction Post: Part Two

[greenconverses]

I'm finished now, so you can hit me all with your squee or RAEG or tears of despair, whatever. As always, spoilers under the cut.

Comments

[grayx3eyedsoul]

I'm on my iPod so I can't capslock but

What?!!!??!!?
You don't get Percy at all?!?
What is this?!??

[tatooine]

No Percy

No Nico

No Grover

[grayx3eyedsoul]

...

i don't even have words.

[tatooine]

Does this mean we're going to be getting a reappearance from Luke at some point?

Aw hell naw. Luke's going for the Isles of the Blessed; his soul is in some baby somewhere.

As for Percy turning into a dick -- I am thinking not. And praying not. We basically got books and books of Percy not letting people bully him around. He has an intrinsic Percyness and personality that will still be there after he loses his memories. I'm thinking more that his wilder personality will clash with the "expansion, conquest, discipline" nature of the kids at Camp Purple, because Percy Jackson does not take to being disciplined, no sir. He will emerge as the alpha male/general/leader figure at Camp Purple because of his sword-fu, but then be like "k everyone needs to chillax and shoot some hoops. mandatory s'mores time." Which brings me to another thing... I wonder if Roman kids have the same ADHD that the Greek ones do? The Roman orientation seems more oriented to produce more legionaries than heroes, and they'd need discipline more than hyperactive

[greenconverses]

What inspired the "Percy turns into a amnesic dick!" theory was the one line about Jason's nice personality being caused by the Mist or something. Also for maximum Percy/Annabeth angst. But you're right, he probably won't. I wonder how much of his ~loyalty~ flaw will come into play with all of this; I'm thinking it'll help forge the bonds quite a bit.

[tatooine]

I will not tolerate such such Percabeth shenanigans do you hear me missy.

[greenconverses]

i've already started writing the fic *hides*

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, OF COURSE NOT

[saturninepen]

I don't really like Jason and Piper as characters =/ Piper's character felt contradictory to itself to me, plus it annoyed me that she'd known she was a demigod for all of like a day and suddenly she's pulling out this power strong enough to rival Medea's and it's like it wasn't even difficult for her to do.

And Jason...he's just, I don't even know. I like his relationship with Thalia, but that's about it. I know I've ranted this elsewhere, but the stuff he's done just seems kind of overkill to me. I have a hard time buying into it, and a hard time buying into him as a character.

I like Leo the most; he's funny, I like (not the right word, but you know what I mean) his back story, and his crushing on every girl he just can't get (ever) is hilarious, but even with him, sometimes it was just like...I want Nico back =/

If Riordan doesn't bring back some of the old characters (namely Percy, Nico and Annabeth. And moar Rachel), I don't know that I'll be able to like this series as much. I mean, yeah, I liked The Lost Hero, but I just

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I feel like that by identifying Percy as the leader of the Greek camp, it's solidified his place as part of the seven. I can't see Annabeth going anywhere without him although I'm afraid RR's gonna kill her off :S but between her and Nico, she'd probably get kicked out. It'd be more interesting, imo, if she was the only one out of the three that became part of the seven.

I definitely like Leo the most out of the three new kids. My affection for Piper comes and goes, but I think the reason I'm annoyed with Jason is because he's automatically awesome and we don't get to see that. We get to see Percy develop into awesomesauce over the course of five books; Jason did all that developing in the background and is just remembering that it's happening.

[saturninepen]

That was my reasoning as well; if Jason's going, I don't see how he can leave Percy behind which is also why I want to see Percy have had to go on some sort of quest or something, too, but anyway.

With Nico, he's already said he plays a major role, which I mean yeah, doesn't have to mean this team of seven, but what else is it going to be? Besides, Doors of Death + ancient-supposed-to-be-dead Greek guys...there's lots of dead/death stuff going on, so idk.

Annabeth is my weak one. Like you said, I can't see her going anywhere without Percy, especially after he's gone missing like this. That and Jason asked for her help at the end, and she agreed she would go with him, but still...I agree that she has the most chance of being left behind.

IF RIORDAN KILLS HER OFF, SHIT WILL GO DOWN.

It would be more interesting, but I don't know that it'll happen =/

IA with Jason just kind of popping up and being immediately BAMF "I WILL KICK YOUR ASS WITHOUT BREAKING A SWEAT!" But really, I just can not get into these guys. I don't know what it is

[greenconverses]

I'm really interested to see how the dead breaking out of the Underworld is going to go down with the Hades family. I can see some awesome tantrums from Hades about this.

I wonder if Nico will be able to control the "souls" of the dead that have escaped because technically they're still dead, right?

[artemisrae]

PERCYS NOT ABOUT TO GET SOME ROMAN GIRLFRIEND IS HE?!

[greenconverses]

OH JESUS CHRIST, HE BETTER NOT

NO MORE LOVE TRIANGLES FOR HIM

[artemisrae]

APHRODITE DID SAY TRAGIC.

[greenconverses]

FUCK APHRODITE AND I SAY THIS AFTER THIS BOOK MADE ME LIKE HER A LOT MORE

[artemisrae]

ALSO, DOES ANNABETH APPEAR AGAIN AFTER THEY RIDE OFF ON THE DRAGON, OR SHOULD I JUST STOP READING HERE?

...What? /wrong priorities

[tatooine]

yes

[artemisrae]

LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIES. Mostly.

[greenconverses]

KEEP READING, IT IS STILL INTERESTING IN A FRUSTRATING WAY