It is pretty disturbing, yeah. And... *He hesitates for a moment. He prefers being truthful, but he doesn't want to spread his friend's secret around...but in the end, he decides Edgeworth seems trustworthy enough.*

...No, they were both born the same way. Their powers were pretty different, though. I'm not entirely sure what Gaignun could do, but Albedo's always been immortal. He was actually pretty harmless as a kid, actually pretty timid, even, as long as you didn't make him angry, but...finding out his brothers were mortal traumatized him. And then he was contaminated by U-DO, and contact with that can make even a normally stable person's mind break down.