SunRazer
Back From The Dead
Originally posted by DarthAnt66
Not really. The Son and Daughter were apparently born as Celestials in the first place, meaning they weren't mortals when they went in the nexus'. Likewise, they had the power to not be corrupted by the energies (unlike Abeloth and other Sith who have went in it), and were rather transformed into embodiments of the Force. Abeloth isn't really a side of the Force - she's the opposite of it. She's like a cancer of the Force.
As the Bringer of Chaos, Abeloth is meant to be the polar opposite of the Father (Balance). It stands to reason that she's comparable to him in power, and since in his prime, he's the most powerful of all the Ones, meaning that Abeloth is indeed at least comparable to the Son.
I doubt the credibility of the Killik's in regard to that. It would be purely legend and myth with no way for finding out. In the very core of canon, only the Chosen One can subdue both the Son and Daughter. Suggesting Abeloth can too goes against a key element of the entire concept.
I believe it was also the Killiks who established that Abeloth was initially a mortal as opposed to a celestial being from birth. So if you're gonna deny this on the grounds that it comes from an unreliable source, you could frankly say the same about your entire first paragraph.
And the Father initially was able to control them for a time, as well. Besides, what the Father states is that only the Chosen One can tame his children, not defeat/contend with them. Abeloth, regardless of whether she could beat them or only compete with them, definitely won't be able to control them.
Fighting the most powerful light-side user for millions of years, indeed.
Right, because doing the exact same thing for millions of years with no greater success over time counts for something?
Except she doesn't. That's the core being of her nature. She has no skill. She's the embodiment of chaos - of unpredictability. She doesn't know how to control anything because control is not of her nature. I honestly consider her to be among the worst combatants in all of the mythos given the power she wields.
And yet remarkably, she was able to control the plants on her world. She was able to influence Luke's mind, conceal her presence from Luke himself, bend Lightning without even touching it, use Force-flash on ships across an entire star system, etc. - that's clearly an extremely high level of Force mastery.
Also, you can say the same stuff about Nihilus, except you seem to have no issues with his lack of control over his own power. Regardless, your claims seem more relevant to beings like the Bedlam Spirits than Abeloth, who has demonstrated masterful displays of the Force.
She doesn't know how to control anything because control is not of her nature. She could easily have killed Luke in a second, but she didn't. Why?
Because she wanted him to suffer? That's something that we term as PIS. Palpatine forgot that Vader cared foremost about his family when he tortured Luke in RotJ - and Nihilus, if the scripts and hype are anything to go by - should've snapped Mandalore's neck with a gesture or less, yet it never happened. Vitiate purportedly could've killed all the Strike Team members on Yavin IV, but that didn't happen either.
If we want to go this route, the Son's Lightning failed to kill Obi-Wan, and he had no reason to spare Obi-Wan either.
The Son and the Daughter are the embodiment of their respective sides of the Force - taking each to the highest pinnacle of mastery imaginable - and even then some more. They have control over their abilities, and are pretty damn straightforward.
They might be more masterful, but that's irrelevant to the notion that Abeloth can't compete with them in any area other than raw power, as you suggested. Her physical traits don't seem to be off theirs by much, if at all, her range of powers seems comparable, and in various individual powers, she does seem very comparable.