Quote Originally Posted by Brinne View Post
I just noticed an opportunity I missed before for WIFECHAT, the only topic that truly matters, so:

I get what Sanna is saying broadly, I think - and it's true that, and a part of my appreciation reflects that, a lot of the times, the motives for an "evil mother" figure is going to be directly, intrinsically tied to her motherhood, always painted as the core of her identity, whether in a negative or positive way. But Athena's actual reasons and motives for being evil weren't actually tied up in Erich himself - her cruelty towards him is in purely treating him as a mere method, completely incidental, disposal, and irrelevant to her internal world one way or another, which is also linked to the lack of where you'd normally see things like, yes, "womb symbolism" and the like. (Instead, Athena gets poison/parasite symbolism in Abyssos, which is absolutely awesome and I could freak out about it in an absolutely embarrassing way.)

In other words: yes, indeed. My wife is, in fact, perfect.
Yes that's was what I was aiming at. As a lot of the time if a woman wants a butt load of power even if said power isn't going to be used for bad stuff the "agreement with the devil" normally ends up with her needing to give up the ability to have a kid as most often adoption is never given any thought. But then why should she when that deal also made her a cold hearted, emotionless, Scrooge at the start of the book type of person. Or they also take away her beauty cause for whatever dumb reason beauty is tied into a woman's want for having kids. So, when Athena got power and had a kid and her emotional state was always like that? I went good they didn't go that route and then went oh damn I like her wings.