Answer:
Ackerman makes a heroic, or better to say, a powerful figure out of love. While she attributes human characteristics to love, as it can "calm," "cheer," "fuel," and "bankrupt," the way she does this leave love more as a universal force, like nature or a God, beyond the realm of humans. And The tone she creates using this personification is a powerful tone because she shows how such a small word can do so much.
Because Pony was scared that they would split them up. He didn't want to be split up because they were family, and he didn't want to go to the home and lose his family.
