Rick Riordan: Let's make a new character.
Fans: Yay!
Rick: Let's call him Leo.
Fans: Okay!
Rick: We'll make him cute and funny...
Fans: Okay!
Rick: He'll be a son of Hephaestus...
Fans: Okay!
Rick: He'll be friends with Jason and Piper....
Fans: Okay!
Rick: Everyone will love him...
Fans: Okay!
Rick: We'll make his mom die...
Fans: Oka-wait what?
Rick: And he will blame himself even though it wasn't ever his fault...
Fans: What?!
Rick: We'll have him always feel like a 7th wheel...
Fans: No!!
Rick: And then we'll have him crash into an island and fall in love, the send him away to never see her again...
Fans: THATS TERRIBLE!
Rick: And then in the last book, he'll die.
Fans: you monster
