Quote Originally Posted by Yuella View Post
Venat needed to be a loving mother goddess, otherwise her character would fall flat. It made her decision to sunder the world even more difficult. If she was just like "You guys are a bunch of whiners! We're not going to beat Meteion with you guys! I'm sundering this world! Get wrecked!" then the story wouldn't work as well. The song Answers would lose its meaning.
I feel like there's people who think this is some kind of put-on and she's not really like that. Which I also think is completely false; in Elpis she's still very motherly, it just comes off more like 'the group's resident Mom Friend' in large part because of the context. She's around equals that she knows she doesn't have to protect and who can take care of themselves, so she's a lot more relaxed than she was in... well, every other time we've ever seen her. She's still very supportive and caring, you can see the character we know from other scenes coming through, it's just more in the background.

Meanwhile, Athena's kind of always in Mom Mode, she's just an extremely awful mom.