#I will always be mind-boggled at any reading where Piper is so opposite to how shy or quiet she tended to be tbh

[malrie]

whoever authored the Piper page on Riordan fandom how does it feel to be a WINNER. A real Piper warrior IJDIJJEUND like “she is inherently lonely and looks for completeness and happiness in her life” that’s what I’m saying…and the last sentence of this being written in complete defense of how Rick wrote her….showstoppign beautiful out of this world. …

I feel like people are sensitive calling any girl character written by a man as “boy crazy” but the reading of that is still true. It’s sooo okay that piper is cringe… she literally is isolated in so many aspects of her life at that point it’s literally fine and realistic and not endangering feminism if you read it this way! In fact it endears us to her struggles! Im also struck with how much this inherent loneliness aspect is so prevalent with the tlh trio specifically. They really would be sooo good as villains ummmmm anyway wiki writer co-signs this

I really do find it fascinating that her canonical personality traits really do depict her as shy, mature, calm, intuitive, and nurturing (always an alarming word to use on a teen girl character written by a guy but alas..), but also very very self-conscious bc of her low self esteem from aforementioned isolation and very specific rejection [in regards to femininity]. I always rmr that scene in the start of moa where Piper is trying so hard to practice the words she’ll say beforehand to the roman crowd and is so nervous abt it.. it’s the anxietyyyyy. Its typical to depict her and Leo as the more outgoing ones compared to jason but it really is the absolute opposite where Jason may be better equipped to speak with strangers or acquaintances bc of how he grew up whereas Piper and Leo would easily retreat lol.