Thread:Hidden-Gen-Z-Girl/@comment-47268048-20210126100826

It’s simple.

Because he's a major competitor to Percy.

I know, I know, it’s not like he was the only one. There was Thalia, first. But the moment she joined the Hunters, she backed off the main field, taking the role of a background character and then on since she was no longer significant to the prophecy, she ceased to be compared to Percy. In fact, it was more like she existed in a whole different world than Percy and therefore, no one cared if she might or might not have been more powerful than our beloved demigod.

Nico, while quite powerful, was just not in Percy’s league and given that he himself admits Percy to be the most powerful demigod he had ever encountered, no one cared enough to compare him to the son of Poseidon.

Hazel, again, same as Nico. Also, given the fact that she basically called Percy a Roman god helps too.

Now, I’m not saying these characters are liked only because of these reasons, in fact the reasons I have mentioned above have nothing to do with why these characters are loved by most of the PJO fans. But, these reasons might have helped prevent them from being hated by those very fans.

The same couldn’t be said for Jason. I believe most people hate him (then again, that is only my opinion, I could be totally wrong) because sometimes Rick might have implied (in certain instances) his superiority over Percy.

There I’ve said it.

One such instance could be his fight with Percy in Mark of Athena. The thing is Jason would have killed Percy if not for Piper’s charmspeak. And while some would like to argue that in the end it was Percy who would’ve killed Jason if not for Blackjack, it doesn’t change the fact that Jason got to him first. I assume many PJO and HOO fans must have been quite bitter about it, at least I was.

There was the time when Percy was caught in Polybotes poison trap and it was Jason who had to save him. And it would all have been okay, if it were not for the small detail that they were in water when all of it happened. Water is Percy’s element, so to be basically helpless in water for a son of Poseidon while a son of Zeus saves you is a big humiliation. Nobody liked that scene really.

Another time may be the ending fight with Gaia, where Jason basically told Percy that it was not his fight, so we were deprived of our very satisfying end where Percy would’ve kicked Gaia’s butt.

Of course, there was another ordeal, that was Jason’s point of views, where he basically assumes that everyone would expect him to be the leader, that he was responsible for them all because he was the son of Jupiter.

Piper saying that he was more handsome than Percy just put the cherry on the top of the cake.

Also, since most of us love Annabeth and take her views into utmost consideration, therefore her saying Jason was too perfect made us wary of him.

I, for one, didn’t like him for all the reasons I have mentioned above. It wasn’t the seriousness that put me off, I understood why he couldn’t be sarcastic like some other characters

In the end, the reason was as simple as that. He stole Percy’s thunder. And I didn’t like it. Not one bit.

Also the Fact that Jason thinks he is better than Percy [This is what I hate the most]

So this is my opinion for why I think people hate Jason. Please, bear in mind, that I by no means meant to offend anyone who might share different views regarding the same question. Nor did I mean to impose my views on anyone else. 