The way Rick portrays Nyx is eyebrow-raising at best, head-bashing-against-wall at worst.
Let me tell you about Nyx. She's a Primordial-not even a Titan, a Primordial.
First Generation, so powerful that she scared off Zeus himself. And she resides in Tartarus, where even the most powerful of gods fear to tread. All the monsters never mentioned her name, only called her 'Night', ALL OF THEM were scared of, even the worst ones.........
And when Percy and Annabeth finally encounter her...........she's portrayed as this foolish, crabby, whiny, woman who can easily be fooled by two demigods.
Rick is notorious for building up something exciting and then leaving it to crumble, but this one might just take the cake.
If Real Nyx sided with PJO Gaia, then Percy and Annabeth would never have survived. She's a Protegenoi-a Primordial. More powerful than the Titans, and Kronos himself took a whole book to defeat. And then she calls all her children, and then they're portrayed as dumb too. The minor gods, Nyx'x children, each more powerful than probably most of CHB put together..........
You understand what I'm getting at?
HOO is full of horrible characterisation, logic and retcons and this is just another feather in its pillow stuffing.
(I made that up on the spot ok-)
And Gaea-well, she could have been the grayest character ever.
She had so many good reasons to rise up and take back what's hers. Humans were destroying the planet. They were suffocating her and Pan was already dead-
and instead, all we got was a rash, screeching, morally very dark gray woman who was apparently 'too proud and took on a physical form too soon'.
It took only a few pages to defeat her. The fight was so anticlimatic, don't even get me started. Piper, only a demigod, being able to defeat an awakening primordial?
Aphrodite should've used charmspeak. She would have been powerful enough to send Gaea back to sleep. Along with Drew and Piper-that would have been a nice bonding moment, provided that those two don't fall asleep first.
How Nyx and Gaea are portrayed is really eye-twitching head-banging stuff.
(This is shorter than the others-feel free to add your thoughts in the comments and reblogs.)