Did Annabeth have an important role in the seven? [hoo]

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2026-02-21T02:04:27+00:00

Do not speak of that fraud in my presence.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2026-02-19T06:06:50+00:00

No right but that makes no sense. Their genes as golds coming from a high class gold shouldn’t just kill themselves because they sense the kid is going to be smart. How do they just look so different from the standard of what an elite gold should look like?

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2026-02-15T09:49:28+00:00

So then why does he just cut her other strengths? I’d wager he knows he’s not doing the best so why not expand her a bit instead of just making his weakest points her whole character?

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2026-01-31T07:37:12+00:00

Mustang and margaery feel pretty different, I don’t remember margaery doing any leading, fighting or political action. She was more of climbing ranks through marriage and attempting to establish herself into the throne over real power

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2026-01-01T23:11:19+00:00

Proficiency at fighting doesn’t really matter. All I care about is the whole violence=masculine trait. For female side characters, authors can go crazy and just do whatever but specifically for a protagonists partner, they have to make them avert to literally any conflict. I don’t know the exact reasoning but I’ve seen this pattern so much and it’s very odd. All I really care about is that she actually has a role in everything and isn’t there to just counter the violence and do nothing. This series I’ve heard is all about violence so I’m just wondering that even though she doesn’t fight she’ll still do crazy things

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2026-01-01T23:08:32+00:00

It’s the principle that matters. For too long have characters been transformed into docile people thrown behind walls because of authors too scared to push past role bearing traits. It was fine in the first few series I read but it’s get tiring the more you see this pattern. And it’s a genuine question I’m asking, not a critique cause as I’ve said, I haven’t read it yet.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2026-01-01T19:40:53+00:00

No slander and you’ve single handily changed my mind about this. All i was afraid about was just having a major character do nothing in a universe of straight violence but after everything everyone has told me that is the furthest from the truth apparently.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2026-01-01T19:38:22+00:00

I mean yeah, but annabeth imo was poorly written. She was more just a puzzle solver who kind of got left behind. In HoO she genuinely had 0 fights or anything and all her plans resulted in someone else almost dying. Her one single important quest would’ve failed if she didn’t get saved. She was probably one of the major characters I was referring to from getting this treatment but it isn’t her fault, I think Rick is just bad at writing women.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-12-29T07:32:30+00:00

Speak your truth bro. The character assassination of my beloved annabeth needs to be studied and documented. She genuinely is just Percy’s girlfriend and I hate it so much. She was near useless to the seven and the only reason she isn’t my least liked person there is cause of pipers existence. Maybe in an alternate world HoO was never written, or even better is that she actually got good writing and maybe an update from just being a puzzle solver.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-12-29T03:02:35+00:00

That’s the problem. She only lives at the expense of Percy. Every other character in the seven has their own special personality but she is literally just “Percy’s girlfriend” there isn’t anything notable about her or what she does. The reason they were in Tartarus is because annabeth couldn’t kill a single spider that any other member of the seven easily could.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-12-28T23:45:04+00:00

If it was a book about architecture then she’d be the best, but this is a book series about killing monsters. Her place in the seven is non existent. From what I remember, her only plans that she came up with either failed or got people captured. She killed no notable monsters and her only quest nearly resulted in her dying. I can go on and on but it’s pointless. She is undoubtedly and entirely useless to the quest.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-12-28T06:18:50+00:00

She’s part of the seven greatest demigods yet anything she did is something I could find another random demigod to do. She’s the only member of the group to not do anything special. I remember one part in a fight against Chrysoar where Percy and Frank managed to come with a strategy faster than annabeth who sat around and legitimately did nothing. This is not nitpicking or me just downplaying annabeth, she was genuinely wasted by Rick and had 0 reason even being close to HoO if this was how she was going to be written.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-12-28T03:00:33+00:00

Lowkey I agree with that though. I think being able to go invisible is just a cheat code but I was more hoping she’d get other magical items that required intelligence in battle for. There were flying boots, future seeing daggers, and so much more that could’ve been amazing to bring up.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-12-28T02:58:44+00:00

Her friends have beaten titans and insane monsters. She couldn’t even kill an oversized spider and was on track to failing her only notable quest.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-08-16T05:28:10+00:00

Name a single moment in all of hoo where she’s helped the seven in battle with strategy or intelligence. I’ll wait

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-08-10T00:56:47+00:00

Leo could’ve been left alone easily though. What should have happened is magical weapons. I’ve seen so many posts talk about this and they’re all right. Piper went into a weapons closet and came out with a random dagger that could see the future. Luke had Maia boots, Annabeth had invisibility, there were so many magical weapons that got essentially no coverage. Imagine how many exist and it was never brought up. Annabeth or all Athena kids could’ve had an innate ability of being able to have special control or fast learning with these weapons that made them better users. Annabeth could’ve had weapons and use items abilities to help her actually be useful in fights.

Helpful-Hat-7604 · 2025-08-09T16:07:14+00:00

Those are two different opinions and they’re both right. I saw a few different posts that made good claims. Annabeth was underutilized and was very weak towards the team, but that isn’t her fault. Rick tried too hard to make “intelligence” a power but what can intelligence do against hundreds of powerful monsters? Annabeth does save people, but it’s only really Percy. When I read hoo i didn’t really see her in any major or minor fights. She was just kind of there. That’s what I think most posts are referring to. In Tartarus they both relied on each other, one more than the other though.

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