this is what’s so fucking juicy about them like objectively rio is more powerful. but she CHOOSES to bend to a mortal. a mortal everyone else has refused to love— death invents love in herself for her.
the way death fell in love with a mortal, so much to the point that they created life together, then bent the laws of the universe and the sacred balance for that mortal. death is the natural order of all things, yet she willingly buckled and kneeled at the behest of her beloved.