Quite conflicting for me. When Gaionia was shown to test Zenus' child by offering him poison, lying that it was the medicine brewed from the arm (blood and flesh) of his mother, the child though saddened chose to drank it. In a sense, I could understand why Gaioni might think that way. A child, that drinks the flesh and blood of their parents, would betray them later on because it could be taken as if they take their parents lightly.
However, in this case, the sacrifice was already done. The child was in no state to be making sane decisions as it was threatened to make a choice about a cause that cannot be reversed. Zenus' arm was already brewed into medicine, and the worst part is, this whole situation was fabricated by "curiosity" and doubt of Gaionia about his children's cherished ones' loyalty over them. If Gaionia had not used his children's desperation against them, they wouldn't have made such a drastic choice . That's quite ironic that to test them, he drove them to a corner in the worst way possible.
If I was the kid and heard my mother sacrificed an arm and a leg to keep me alive, I would have drank it too although maddened by sorrow and guilt, because I wouldn't want to waste my mother's sacrifice. This is just how complex human's emotions are. Gaionia wouldn't ever come to understand as they are a being that don't possesses the instincts and emotions that comes from survival since they are, well, immortal. Since they do not struggle and do not understand that concept of pain and sadness, they won't ever fully grasp the ordeal their children went through. The thought of loss is foreign to them except the "love" and "betrayal" of his children.
But bueno, what happened already happened. Gaionia is an immortal selfish apathetic fool who has brought their own "misery".
Quite conflicting for me. When Gaionia was shown to test Zenus' child by offering him poison, lying that it was the medicine brewed from the arm (blood and flesh) of his mother, the child though saddened chose to drank it. In a sense, I could understand why Gaioni might think that way. A child, that drinks the flesh and blood of their parents, would betray them later on because it could be taken as if they take their parents lightly.
However, in this case, the sacrifice was already done. The child was in no state to be making sane decisions as it was threatened to make a choice about a cause that cannot be reversed. Zenus' arm was already brewed into medicine, and the worst part is, this whole situation was fabricated by "curiosity" and doubt of Gaionia about his children's cherished ones' loyalty over them. If Gaionia had not used his children's desperation against them, they wouldn't have made such a drastic choice . That's quite ironic that to test them, he drove them to a corner in the worst way possible.
If I was the kid and heard my mother sacrificed an arm and a leg to keep me alive, I would have drank it too although maddened by sorrow and guilt, because I wouldn't want to waste my mother's sacrifice. This is just how complex human's emotions are. Gaionia wouldn't ever come to understand as they are a being that don't possesses the instincts and emotions that comes from survival since they are, well, immortal. Since they do not struggle and do not understand that concept of pain and sadness, they won't ever fully grasp the ordeal their children went through. The thought of loss is foreign to them except the "love" and "betrayal" of his children.
But bueno, what happened already happened. Gaionia is an immortal selfish apathetic fool who has brought their own "misery".