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@73.Anon.52

Given that her characterization of being relatively mild and motherly going so far as to chide Watts for insulting Cinder, to her subbordinates in Volume 4 shifted out of nowhere so drastically to table-throwing and threatening everybody... I don't see why her having coming to regret murdering her biological children over the course of thousands of years is such a outlandish leap in logic.

In the moment of killing her children the first time, I do find it difficult to imagine even she- furious as she was- would've directly targeted her own children. I imagine they simply got caught in the crossfire. If Salem had unwittingly killed them by accident in the fight, perhaps having not noticed amidst a blind rage towards Ozma, then it could lend credence to her trying to revive them however she could. I am not saying Salem is a good mother. Far from it, in fact. Given that she was possibly reckless enough to accidentally murder her own children in a blind rage, she is clearly about as competent and sensible a mother as Raven. But, love her or hate her, that does give her some intrigue.

Let's be frank, Salem's characterization has been a bit inconsistent across the volumes, so I say its best to keep with a more "motherly" nature in spite of her evil than just have her be the hammy bitch she was to Hazel.