After getting a request to make a few more chapters, I decided, Hey, why not? So, I'm back, with a new chapter for you!
This one's about hating on people in the Lost Hero, like Reyna and Piper. Why, why do you hate them?
Percy - Let's get this straight off, I don't think anyone out there hates Percy. We know him like he's our best friend. I mean, we've spent five years with him, and now another third of a book in his POV, not including the newest book, The Mark of Athena. So, I think it's probably safe to say that none of us hate Percy Jackson, saviour of Olympus. Twice! 'Nuff said, I think. We love Percy Jackson, he's the greatest Hero that's ever lived!
Annabeth - A couple of people make Annabeth seem stupid sometimes... she's not. She's a daughter of Athena, the Wisdom Goddess! She's not stupid, or oblivious. She can figure things out when she puts her mind to it, which she always does! So no hate on Annabeth. We've spent five years with her too, not in her mind, of course, but we know her more than the other characters except from Percy. I don't see why anyone would make her seem stupid, because she's definitely not. Oh, and they sometimes make her seem very clingy to Percy, and she gets jealous whenever she sees another pretty girl within a ten mile radius of him, but honestly, she's not that insecure. She's pretty and she knows it, she loves Percy, he loves her. He's not going to be dumping her anytime soon for some random girl he just met, and she definitely knows that. She knows that he'd never cheat on her because of his fatal flaw, loyalty. So I don't think that she should be written like that just because they think that Percy is too good for her, or something like that. She saved Olympus with him, you know. Don't forget that she was on all but one of his quests with him, not counting the one with Hazel and Frank.
Jason - Okay, I admit, Jason is not my favourite character. I don't like him. The way I see it, everyone is comparing him and Percy, and lots of people are saying that he's Percy's Roman equivalent, and in some ways I agree with that, like how they're both great fighters, natural leaders, stuff like that... but I have to say, that he seems to me like he's pretty self-centered and selfish, not to hate on him but he's not my favourite. But when I write stories, I don't hate on Jason. He's not as great as Percy, that is for sure, but he's not the worst ever character. I mean, every character has to have flaws. Jason's are just that he's got a lot of Roman pride, that's just the way he was brought up, that's just the way he is. He likes to be in charge. So don't hate on him just because he's got a lot of pride and he's more serious than Percy is, he's just different. By the way, I know some people might class that as hating on him, I don't mean it like that, I just don't particularly like him. That's all.
Reyna - A lot of people hate on Reyna because of the Jason/Piper - Jason/Reyna thing. Okay, right then. Everyone has a different point of view. I don't particularly like Jason (see above paragraph) but I don't hate him, and neither is Reyna my favourite character. But she's not awful. Sometimes I actually kinda like her (when she's not trying to hit on Percy, that's just wrong, no offense Preyna fans). She's got amazing battle skills, she's a great fighter, and she's got a great brain, coming up with brilliant on the spot plans just like Annabeth. And that's another thing, a lot of people say that Reyna is Annabeth's Roman equivalent, and I honestly do see the resemblances, with the battle strategy skills, and fighting skills, but they're also very different. For examle, the whole Roman and Greek thing. The Greeks are just a lot more laid back, they're more relaxed. I think that's much better than training night and day, just making you exhausted before you go into a big battle that could mean the end of the world. The Romans (Reyna) are stricter, more disciplined, and she's got more pride. She doesn't like admitting that she's wrong, which, in a way, is kind of similar to Annabeth. Anyway, I think that's enough on Reyna!
Piper - Same as with Reyna, everyone hates on Piper because they're fans of Jeyna, so they make Piper seem spiteful and selfish in their stories, but that's just not how she is. She's had just as hard a life as the rest of them, with her dad ignoring her to gol shoot his movies, and stuff like that, and then she gets claimed by Aphrodite and is always underestimated as weak. She's nothing like a regular Aphrodite kid, she isn't obsessed with boys, and high heels, and dresses, all the girly stuff like that, instead she's loyal to all her friends, and she's never afraid to fight for them, even if it means she could die in the process of saving them. Everyone says in their stories that Reyna could have Piper down in a heartbeat, but the truth is that Piper would be able to hold her own against her in battle. She's good, but not everyone knows that. She feels like she needs to prove herself so that she can live up to the standards of any of the other demigods, not just some girly obsessed Aphrodite child. So don't hate her just because she likes Jason, Jeyna fans. Whatever happens, happens, there's nothing you can do about it. They're fictional characters, they can't do anything about it. It's not her fault.
Frank - No one pays attention to him and Hazel. They're always the ones left in the background. There is always a Leo/OC story somewhere, tons of Percabeth, and also lots of Jasper/Jeyna stories too. But only a few people pay attention to them. Have you seen any Frazel stories, specifically for them? 'Cause I haven't. A lot of people seem to hate on Frank, because their Lazel fans, or whatever and he's the only obstacle in Hazel and 'Sammy's' relationship. Like I said before, they're fictional characters. He can't do anything about the fact that he likes Hazel, or that she likes him back. So don't hate on Frank. Honestly, he's a nice guy, and he's a freakin' shape-shifter! If that isn't awesome I don't know what is.
Hazel - Lots of people hate on Hazel because she's messing with Frank and Leo's hearts, stuff like that. But that's completely out of line. Really low. Think of it like this: When she was somewhere around thirteen she fell in love with a boy called Sammy. Then she gets dragged away by her mother to Alaska, where she is forced to raise Gaia and the giant Alcyoneus. Then she dies trying to save herself and her mother, trying to send Gaia back to sleep for another few decades. She's going to go to Elysium, but takes some of her mother's punishment because she's just that nice. After seventy years of sitting in the Fields of Asphodel, bored out of her mind, wishing she could have a second chance at life, Nico shows up and takes her back up to live again, for which she is eternally grateful. She then falls in love with Frank, thinking that she has left the entire complicated part of her life behind. Then she is informed by Gaia that she and Sammy were meant to live happily ever after, and all that, get married, have a family. But then she died, leaving Sammy to wonder where the golden eyed girl he had shared one cupcake and a kiss with had gone. After going on a quest where she nerly got killed, which would be traumatic for anyone, she finds out that Sammy has been supposedly brought back from the dead as someone named Leo. So obviously she would have conflicted feelings, on one hand she loves Frank, he has helped her through so much and thinks of her as his only family left after his mum and grandmother died. On the other hand she finds an exact replica of the boy she once loved and was supposedly supposed to live happily ever after with. I mean, wouldn't you be confused?
Leo - I don't think anyone hates Leo. Who could hate him? He's amazing! He's got awesome fire powers, plus he can build practically anything with a wire and a spring. Even though he's always happy and cheerful, he's got this inner grief and guilt, thinking that it was his fault that his mother died. I mean, you can't help but feel sorry for him! In the books he's described as looking like an elf. So, whenever I think of Leo, I imagine him working in Santa's workshop, making toys for the little girls and boys (Ha, I'm a poet and I didn't know it! And all that...) in a stripy green, red and white elf costume. Cute, right?
Wow, that took a while. Thanks to everyone who reviewed for my first chapter, sorry to everyone who likes writing Pertemis, I totally respect that this is a Fanfiction website so you can do whatever you want, but that's just my opinion. Thanks for sticking with me for a second chapter! You get cookies!
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Have fun, and...
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Hope you have your tree up... that is, if you live in the UK, like I do. I know it's different in some places.
But Merry Christmas anyway!
(I hope to build a snowman! And Christmas carols! Rudolph the red nosed reindeer, had a very shiny nose... Come on people, sing with me!)
Sorry about that.
Peace, love, and snowmen!