The questions were all been asking our selves as of recent (only really me but it sounds better to not say that)

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I think the God Kings are pathetic precisely because they are gods. In some fundamental level, they are different from humans; they feel and process emotions in a way that is so different from humanity because of their immortality (like, imagine Zhongli's 6k years and Furina's 500 years. Zhongli might lived far longer than her, but he's arguably more stable than archon era Furina because Furina lived those 500 years with human brain and soul. The fact that her sanity is still intact is amazing), and when they actions would have larger amount of consequences because of their authority.

A man in grief would affect his house and close companions. A god in grief would affect his whole entire nation and their posterity.

Decarabian locked and tyrannized Mondstadt out of 'love' and 'concern' because of his on-going war with Andrius. Deshret incessantly worked to break free from the shackles of fate. Remus made the Symphony to challenge the flood prophecy. They all failed because they didn't understand humanity and their true wishes, like freedom, or in the case of Deshret and Remus, selfishness and greed (Deshret's absence caused the desert kings to take over and tyranized over the people; Remurians conquered and colonized ancient Fontaine's tribes and their wishes of subjugation corrupted the Symphony).

So basically, God Kings failed because they were not human.

You know who's the exception of this though?

OCH-KAN.

HE'S HUMAN.

"But he's a half-dragon--" his mentality is that of a human, and he's treated as one by his friends. Lianca, Yupanqui, Ahpub, you name it. He grieved like a human, he hated like a human, and he worshipped Xbalanque like a human is to his god.

And this makes his tyranny even more painful because unlike the other God Kings who were hindered by their inhumanity, Och-Kan's humanity didn't hinder him to do awful things. He ordered forced labor despite knowing the humans' limits; he ordered genocidal campaigns against the dragons not only because he viewed them as a threat, but because he was deeply insecure of himself (a painfully human notion), whom he considered lesser because of his draconic blood; he forsook his friendship and directly or indirectly murdered his friends despite knowing the warmth of human friendship, because they challenged him.

He was pathetically human in the worst way possible.

Okay, mayhaps we could flip it back; Och-Kan was susceptible to human failures while the God Kings, because of their godhood, should've know better. That's a valid interpretation too. Mayhaps I just picked Och-Kan because he was a human that was cruel to other humans without the veneer of godhood as the excuse of his inhumanity.

(And hey, he, Deshret, and Remus are the ones who somewhat 'redeemed' themselves through self-sacrifice, unlike Decarabian who was killed by the rebellion. Maybe it's a sign that Decarabian is the most pathetic?)