the psychology behind jason grace.
tbm and toa spoilers‼ and ofc jason spoilers‼
we've all heard that jason is boring, has no build, etc. well here i come to explain why jason is actually one of the most complex characters.
he was raised by wolves from the age of 2, who taught him that to deserve eat, to deserve love, to deserve live, jason had to be the perfect hero.
jason took this very seriously, thus becoming the perfect boy in everyone's eyes, being that inside he was a disaster.
he tried very hard to be the perfect hero, he thought that this way he would earn the love of his father and everyone.
in the long run, jason ended up being someone who was based on being what others wanted, he never formed a personality of his own which was not more like "the perfect boy".
after being kidnapped, jason met piper and leo, who supposedly loved him for who he was, it turns out that it was never like that, piper "loved" him because in her mind he was perfect, and Leo "loved" him because jason was everything that he was never going to be.
in the long run they ended up loving each other like a little family, but that pair never loved the real jason, they only knew the perfect jason, not the mess that jason grace is.
on the other hand jason built strong feelings for leo and piper, jason took time to love them, but he did, he went through all the stages of love with that pair, unlike them who just woke up one day adoring jason.
all jason did in the heroes of olympus series was try to be the perfect boyfriend, the perfect friend, the perfect boy, the perfect hero, but he was never enough.
in the long run he ended up breaking up with piper, losing leo and ceasing to be a hero and going to boarding school.
the last thing jason did was being a hero, he would protect those he loves, he would save everyone, and so it was, jason grace died a hero, saving everyone, as he always should be.
this boy was taught that to win everyone's love he had to be a hero, and this led to his death.
jason's only purpose is to be the perfect hero, he is proud of that, because he achieved his life goal and that does not make him boring.