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Gods do not follow the same moral system as humans. If you read any of the myths used in the book, this is basically a given Duan Town As a whole; gods are often depicted as being largely human, without the same limitations as mortals, but with many of the same motivations. This is on full display in this episode, which focuses on how little Freya cares about how what she does affects other people. She had one goal, and one goal only: to make Belle Cranell hers. To do this, she doesn’t care who she hurts or tramples in the process.
One of the best examples is also one of the most understated. Hedin is a high elf in her family and has shown a willingness to work around Freya from the beginning of this arc. His decision to teach Belle how to treat a woman properly was entirely his own, and Freya was clearly not entirely satisfied, but the more notable moment of the week was when he asked for permission to make Belle his special project. He wanted to be the head of Bell’s training, although he didn’t fully explain why. He makes the other brass think he’s trying to make Belle a more worthy consort for their goddess, but I think there’s more going on. Hedin seemed to be more lucid than the rest of the family, and he seemed less than pleased with the goddess’s actions. As he stood in the hall after basically chasing Horn away, he sounded like he was trying to convince himself that everything he was doing was for Freya… but it felt a lot like he was doing it for Belle – or The entire Freya family does it all.
Freya had deceived everyone in Orario from the beginning, and perhaps Hedin was at least vaguely aware of this. As we see from her interactions with Anya and Ryu, she doesn’t see anything wrong with it – she tells Ryu that everyone lies about something, while Syr just she lie. But that doesn’t acknowledge what Freya’s lies actually meant to the people of Aethil. Judging from Anya’s interactions with the goddess, she doesn’t have a favorable impression of the goddess; she may even feel that Freya stole her brother, which is a symbolic precursor to what Freya is trying to do to Belle. But for Anya, Syr is her savior, someone she can trust. Ryu probably thinks so too; after losing her entire family, she found a place of her own in the tavern, and Sil played a big role in that. It’s shocking to go from having a close friend to having a guy with the face of a friend provide her with a threesome and/or orgy. Yoo was many things, but hedonist wasn’t one of them, and having someone she’d previously believed knew her well making such an offer felt like a betrayal in itself. Now it’s revealed that this person has been lying to Ryu’s face and Kidnapping her friend/lover was an unimaginable blow.
But gods and mortals operate on different systems. We may not always understand this well, as Hestia is the most human of the gods we’ve ever seen, and she’s also the main deity in the story. All the other gods are after something, whether it’s Hermes completing his plan, Soma making his wine, or Freya stealing Bel. Freya is more open and less secretive about what she does, but that doesn’t mean her selfishness comes out of the blue. In fact, she might just be doing the same thing as Ishtar, just in a different context.
what is that about Omori FujinoThe view of the Goddess of Love and Fertility is another article. What we should be worried about now is how Freya will react if she can’t “break” Belle, and it looks like Hedin might side with Belle, which would lessen Freya’s chances. We all saw what happened to Ishtar and Apollo. Maybe Freya had better stop thinking so hard and start reading some history.
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