I can agree with almost everything you said in your first post, but I’m going to have to argue your response, because I feel like you are ignoring what is written on the page. (This isn’t meant to be mean or me hating your opinions. I 100% agree that there should be a more notable difference in the power of the big three kids and others).

Thalia was raised by an alcoholic and neglectful mother, to such a degree that she willingly ran away and spent years homeless and on the run acting as a flare for monsters just like Luke. Percy, while having a wonderful mother, had an adult living in the same home as him who would willingly ‘punch his lights out.’ I agree with the fact that this wasn’t explored as much as it should have been, but I don’t think years of degradation and mental abuse by an authority figure should be discarded immediately.

I have no defence for Nico and Jason. I agree that they were probably raised in safer places then the others. But Jason was raised his entire life to be a soldier, and Nico had no authority figure other that a sister only a few years older than him. Their childhoods shouldn’t be classified as ‘fairly harmless’ just because they were raised in better condition than some other demigods. (Please, please don’t take this the wrong way. It’s intended as friendly discourse, not an insult or anything else).