Leo Valdez is one of
the characters is my book, The Mark of
Athena. Leo is the type of person to act without thinking. He is one of
those characters that people would say, “Gosh Leo , I love ya, but good grief…”
He is loveable but you are always wishing you could tell him when he should not
have said something. He is also very funny. Leo is not like the characters
Riordan usually portrays. He is more plucky and ridiculous, than heroic.
The
more I read my book the more I ask myself, why is Leo Valdez so wonderfully
irritating? He is not a villain. Yet he is not quite a nice person. He tries,
yet he says hateful things sometimes. I think that Riordan put his character in
the book to make the book have a sort of comedy. His character personality goes
with the comedy element of Playfulness. Meaning that even though the situation
the characters are in is very serious, Leo does not really treat it that way. He
is always making jokes about not funny things and not in a rush when the team
needs him to be. Also Leo’s character
follows the comedy element of Forgiveness. Meaning that even when he does
something that is not so good, he is always forgiven. This is shown when he
started bombing Camp Jupiter. Even though he did not know what he was doing, he
still did it and his team forgave him in a heartbeat.
I really liked the way you worded your question; "Why is Leo Valdez so wonderfully irritating?" I also really liked how you described Leo as "plucky". It's an interesting word that's not used very often!
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