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Honestly can’t get over how obnoxiously useless Jaina’s mother was. Not saying her dad doesn’t have to own up to his bs (who tf even casts a sociopath spell on themselves anyway?!).
So dragons can only be born out of love, and she told Diarmuid this. She found out she was dying and to avoid traumatizing her lover over it, her grand plan was to make him think she was cruelly manipulating him the whole time, then pretend she tried to murder him since she got bored? Because that’s not traumatic at all.
And it’s even worse because she was pregnant. Whether she knew before the fake betrayal or after she’s still unbelievably shitty. The lie she told basically means that there’s no way Diarmuid would accept or believe he’s the father. If she found out after she left, she could have visited or sent him a message to at least try to explain.
She knew her relatives were shitty and wouldn’t actually care for a “halfbreed”, but she didn’t come up with any plan b to make sure her kid was at all protected or cared for. She also knew that as a half dragon magician it would be extremely difficult to live safely among regular humans or magicians.
She really just threw her kid to the wolves just to make sure her ex wouldn’t feel sad about her dying.