User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 525: Why Did the Emperor Never Love His Child?, Review/@comment-5303512-20170304145630/@comment-5303512-20170304235626

And Mavis who had consciousness and full awareness of the past events should have the same answers to do the same thing at anytime.

And Mavis would have been awake since she was still alive and that would make her fully aware of their child.

And you saw when Jacob hurt Mavis' ethereal body that it caused her physical body damage right? If there was any other spell, Mavis would have said instead of going straight to Fairy Glitter.

Irene did not give birth until sometime after 400 years, not a good example to use in comparison to Larcade.

But she would fall in love and that would activate the Preditory death.