That sounds a little bit as if you would still believe in the good in people. Are you an optimist?
On a side note: I thought of another reason for a character to prefer the loner strategy which I can’t believe I forgot about:
“I’m terribly awkward and have no idea how to deal with people without getting anxious. Send help! …eh but preferable in form of tools and the same, not personal, for obvious reasons.”
Hmm…in that case, use the essence to switch bodies with an immortal. You’ll have their immortal body, and they’ll be stuck in your old mortal body. This way you don’t need to make anyone’s body immortal. If they volunteered and you like them, you could then safely make your original body immortal and then switch back.
Exactly why I posted HeMan when people said it before.
Very true! But one small caveat! The MC will never know that using that much power would destroy their body, and since they start anew the follies of the past will never be learned. The only way your suggestion would work if an immortal helps out a previous ncarnation of yours, which has never happened yet…
Or if they had a vision of one of their past lives when they attempted to do exactly that and it failed…
In my mind, the Bearer can’t use their power to become immortal, because they’re so overwhelmed with the power. They aren’t already immortal, they’re in a mortal body…I imagine they live in constant pain until such time as they die or become immortal.
Imagine going from being a normal person to having literally all the power in the universe pushed inside your body. You will feel like you’re ripping apart at the seams, I imagine.
This is why the Bearer cannot just make themselves immortal. I imagine previous incarnations have tried. They’re literally too consumed with the pain to attempt to use the power. Or, if they use the power, it pains them further.
@Rohie, am I on the right track or nah?
I think this is like Baron Munchaousen legend you can’t escape from a well climbing your own beard. Because your beard is with you in the bottom of the damn well. So yeah, you have your freaking powers same as baron had his long beard. But you are still human and the immense amount of power you have inside can’t manifest without killing your flesh . That’s why you need be immortal in my opinion. As immortal your flesh can’t be totally wipe out when your powers unlock finally. We are a h bomb so we need to be immoral to handle the big Boom
Ahhh Baron Munchausen! The god of lies 
I love those tales.
If I had the heat of a trillion suns trying to burn their way out of my body I might not want to live forever.
No because if you’re immortal and master of universe you can make yourself whatever you want and you won’t suffering anything except you wanted it. Being all powerful means being ALL POWERFUL
But you’re not immortal. At least not yet. That’s the point I’m making.
Exactly. And it’s not entirely possible, in my mind, to make yourself immortal. If it was, a past version of you would have done it. I can’t imagine that EVERY SINGLE past version of you had no idea what was going on. They knew they had powers. They just didn’t know how to use them.
You would already be immortal if it was possible to make yourself immortal as soon as you gain the powers.
Of course that you can’t doing it yourself lol, same as Baron Munchausen can’t climbing his own beard. However, gods can give you that cool ambrosia and make you immortal.
If that were the case, I’d have expected touching Aeson in the flashback to have been a little painful too…
If the heat of a trillion suns were trying to burn their way through your body, they’d succeed before you could even form that thought. 
Why would touching Paris be painful? He only has half of the power–the awakened power. We had the dormant power.
Neither of us had the full power. Until the souls are combined, why would we feel any pain? We just feel a strange connection to Paris/Aeson.
The MC feels quite a bit more than a “connection” when they touch in the Troy flashback.
Hm, if you say so. I’ve been beta-testing so many WIPs that I’m starting to lose a little bit of my memory of ones I haven’t played recently lol.
Are we even sure that the promised immortality would work on us? Do we know that it wouldn’t just react horribly, killing us early this cycle (or, for that matter, keep us alive while we save the gods, and then “conveniently” run out when we start to become dangerous)?
Yes, totally sure. If you read old posts from @Rohie she said that we could win and become immortal at the end deciding the fate of all Olympus. So we can eventually. Never in all previous lives we were demigods and get immortality it is in the actual text.
There is also the fact that this life is the first time that the Bearer and the Bestower are demi-gods.
In the Troy flashback, MC is surprised about the magic within them, which was obviously dormant until they were killed. So we can assume that during most of our lifes before, we were oblivious about our own nature and powers. And thus even if our past-selves MC’s lived beyond they 18th birthday, they probably couldn’t guess the real extend of the things they could do.
In this life, we theoretically know what we are AKA the Essence. Our dad is one of the Big Three. And our mom doesn’t seem to be very human either. So we have more knowledge and power than ever before. Who knows what we can do?
The gods are so used to be unchallenged in their dominion over the world that they probably think they can use us and than betray us.
I guess what I want to say is that the possibilties are “infinite” for us in this life.
Edit : I feel like I must point out that Cronus is a ruthless, cruel, megalomaniac dictator. So maybe when he made the Bearer and the Bestower he must have felt like he should probably rule out the possibility of them ever teamming up against him and make themself the new superpower in the galaxy. He probably made it impossible for them to turn themself into anything other than humans.