User blog comment:Sky-Dragoon-Twilight/Weisslogia and Skiadrum, Alive or Dead?/@comment-7418318-20141208173058/@comment-7418318-20141209003537

I don't think they were just illusions when they raised the twin dragons. If they were, they could have fakes death by natural causes, rather than forcing/convincing their children to kill them. And it wouldn't have made them able to use Dragon Force at will to "kill" illusions.

But come to think of it, that's also a good argument against the death-faking. If they were going to fake their own death's, why do so in a way that's more traumatic to the child than an accident or death by natural causes?

Maybe to get the blood onto them, but if it was that easy as to spill a none-lethal dose of blood on them, why make any pretense in the first place. They (including the 1st gen parents) could just have said. "Hey come here and let me douse you in my blood to make you stronger."