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Can we please keep the the Saber love confessions private?
God, even in RL, it's annoying to hear guys who talk about their GFs. Remember how annoying Tom Cruise was?
Anyways, Medea was a young princess of a non-Greek country. Her ppl has a high affinity to magic. Her family is descended from the nymph Circe (the immortal witch who imprisoned Odysseus), hence her elf ears. She is of mostly human blood, though.
Jason (a young hero patroned by Hera the queen of the Greek gods) and his Argonauts came to her country to get the golden fleece. She fell in love with him, and helped him steal the golden fleece from her father's possession. She also helped him escape the pursuit of her father's navy. Hence the flashback of her sailing on the Argo (Jason's ship). She killed her own brother to help Jason escape. Depending on who tells the story, it was either an act of desperation to save Jason, or a coldly calculated act to maximize Jason's chances. Either way, she did it.
If you watched that NBC TV mini-series "Jason And The Argonauts," you know the story.
So, she gave up her family, her birthright, and everything she knew, to be with a young hero who she loved. This was a young woman who believed in true love with all her heart and soul.
It's important to note that the fleece quest was do-or-die for Jason. His success in life was entirely dependent on Medea's help at a critical low point in his life.
Medea and Jason had 2 children. But Jason changed. Or he was never such a great man to begin with. He decided to marry another princess in order to gain political power, and to ditch Medea. Oh, and he wanted to keep the kids.
Medea would have nothing left. She didn't even have a home to go back to. She did confront Jason about his betrayal. He had the nerve to tell her "I don't owe you anything. I owe my success in life to love (the concept)."
So she killed her own kids, and flew away. This was a time before divorce lawyers. In the fury of a woman scorned and stripped of everything in life, she took her revenge the only way she had left.
She remarried somewhere else in some backwater kingdom. She was dumped AGAIN by that king, when his son (a young hero patroned by the Greek gods) from a previous marriage came back home (a power struggle thing). At that point, she went back to her own country.
Everything that was soft and light, died in her when her children died. Back in her own country, she helped her uncle retake the lost throne by killing the usurper who had stolen power from her royal family. She lived the rest of her life in relative peace. She never remarried.
Examining her life story, it is easy to see why she holds heroes and their talk of justice and righteousness in utter contempt, why she disdains morality. Medea is a woman betrayed by her heroic and romantic ideals of youth. Just the sight of someone righteous like Saber must give her the urge to pluck all their limbs off like an insect. It also explains why she is so devoted to someone like Souichiro, a man who is completely amoral, and because of it has no priorities higher than her.
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