Quote Originally Posted by EaraGrace View Post
On the one hand merging souls has to be very intimate experience, leaving those involved with feelings and desires that could irrevocably change a person. This would in theory necessitate extreme action if one really wanted to isolate and remove those influences, justifying Lahabreas decision.

On the other hand, the Eden raids showed a similar event happening with Gaia and Mitron, which was resolved without said splitting. While one could argue that Gaias memory problems protected her, she would in theory have the memories of the merger and thus still would have been impacted by Mitrons desires right? Yet her rejection of him, and embracing of Ryne, was enough to completely undue that, suggesting it isn’t as clear cut as Lahabrea made it seem. I think this suggests that there’s a more complicated picture unfolding here than simply Lahabrea vs Athena and he was a lot closer to becoming Hephaistos than he’d like to admit.
That's a lot murkier. For one thing, it was a very Sundered and highly damaged Mitron attempting to do that, and not long into the merger, we try to stop it. We don't succeed from him trying to delete some of her memories of Ryne, but we do stop the total destruction of Gaia's modern memory.

And in the end, she only rejected the present version of Mitron. She did not reject Mitron in total, because she is still in love with him. Promising once her life with Ryne is over, she'll come find him again.

Compared with Lahabrea, no one is there to assist him in breaking the merge. He had to break out of it completely alone. There is also no second love there for him, either.