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Poll! In honor of Mother's Day, who are your characters' parents/parental figures, what are they like, and how good are your characters' relationships with those parental figures?
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HELGA IS ALSO COOL AND kind of scarier than thors and she's not dead but she's kind of not functioning very well atm :');;;;; and also I abandoned her in canon for my hateboner ssssso.
askeladd is a bastard and i'm going to kill him and fuck you he's not my dad figureitc thorfinn has good parent-child relations
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Judai had workaholic parents who were almost never home. For his birthday they gave him a murderous trading card, and then when he suffered a lot of trauma because of it and kept having nightmares, they decided instead of getting him therapy or something the correct answer was to wipe his memories.
A+ parenting
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Kozue's relationship with her parents is... strained. To be precise, she kind of keeps emotionally distant from them because having psychic powers get discovered results in pretty bad stuff. Like her father signing her up to get brain-damaged by his employers in the name of science, causing her to go crazy and almost kill a portion of her class!
...Kozue's mother is worried about her, but never presses anything. She kind of gets that she can never quite understand Kozue, so she just kind of... lets Kozue do whatever. And Kozue in turn spent most of her time vegging out alone in a mall rather than go to school.
...I guess she sort of has a parental figure in Sena's dad? Who she refers to as a dirty homeless guy. A DIRTY HOMELESS GUY WHO'S COMPLETELY AWESOME! ...But yeah, even then, she doesn't really spend too much time around him, just thinks he's pretty cool and probably talks to him about psychic stuff on occasion. And then he got killed by one of the antagonists.
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She has a son, though, who I am going to assume counts for purposes of this poll. Her son was rad and a badass general who started a war for her. And then he, uh, died… …and was reborn as a kind of wimpy kid who's easily bullied and overly polite. She loves him.
She also has orphans she takes care of who she counts as her kids, but not her kids, if that makes sense.
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Roxas is a magical construct. Parents are n/a.
Madoka, on the other hand, has amazing relationships with both her parents. Her dad stays at home and takes care of Madoka and her little brother. Her mom's a high-ranking businesswoman, whose stressful job often drives her to drink, but who still finds time to bond with Madoka. They are the world's most adorable family!
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TL;DR BASICALLY EVERYTHING KAITO DOES IS INFLUENCED BY HIS FATHER. I could essay on Kaito's daddy issues for weeks but I'll keep this short for everyone's benefit '-'b
ALSO KAITO'S MOTHER WAS A THIEF AS WELL! But I headcanon that he didn't know about this until after he took up Kid's mantle. She was the Phantom Lady of France, a thief with horror motifs who would steal famous artifacts and try to expose counterfeit artifact groups. She retired when Toichi entered the thieving scene as Kaitou Kid. She isn't at home much since she's busy traveling the world, but sometimes she calls Kaito and asks him to steal things for her to play "clean up" and he gets annoyed with her because DAMN IT MOM I'M BUSY CAN'T YOU TELL X( She's playful and teasing with him, and he gets exasperated by her but otherwise cares about her a lot! And even though she travels a lot sometimes she does spend time at home in Japan with her son, when she can \'-'/
Angie's father was a highly acclaimed researcher! He was very distant with his family though, and when Angie was younger she often would do things to seek his approval, even though she never really felt good enough for him. He actually wound up walking out on his family, leaving Angie and her mother behind, because he was blackmailed by a bioterrorist group (the group kidnapped Angie and threatened to use her in their experiments if he didn't go work for them). Angie grew up hating her father for what he did, but still longing to see him again so she could ask him why he left their family. EVENTUALLY she finds him again, and he's still working for the bioterrorist group that she is now very involved in taking down. He contracts GUILT, she and Dr. Stiles operates on him to save his life, and she's happy that his life was saved. Angie's father then turns himself in and accepts jail time for all of the lives he ruined by helping the bioterrorist group manufacture a deadly disease, and Angie forgives him for being a dick 8|a She cares about him! But she also recognized the gravity of his actions and is a proponent for him taking responsibility for them.
idk what Angie's relationship with her mother is like, we never hear about her, alas.
Garry's parents are never mentioned.
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Annabeth hated her parents for a lot of the series because they didn't understand her or her lifestyle as a daughter of Athena. After being bullied by her stepmom, she ran away from home at the age of seven and lived at Camp Half-Blood until the age of twelve. From twelve to seventeen she started a pattern of going home and then sometimes running away when she hated it or when her dad and stepmom were being particularly Parent-y and wouldn't let her go beat up monsters! Currently she lives with them during the school year in San Francisco, and goes on LIFE THREATENING MISSIONS every other time.
Also her dad flew a plane with specially equipped bronze bullets that kill mythological monsters in order to save her so he's pretty badass.
Yeine's dad was a pretty nice guy but he died unfortunately in a hunting accident (or maybe because he witnessed what the Enefadeh did to Yeine's mother?? I'm unsure on this point, it's mentioned differently in different parts of the book and too lazy to go back and look). YEINE'S MOM TRIED TO KILL HER WHEN SHE WAS BORN so that's sure something! Her mother is dead (murdered!! lots of murder in this family); BUT YEINE LOVED HER A LOT. So much that one of the central plots in the first book is "who killed my mom". Yeine was also raised by her grandmother who she has a generally positive but distant relationship with, considering you know, her grandmother basically hired a man to try and rape her in a womanhood initiation.
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Sally Jackson is his mom. Her parents died when she was little, and she was raised by her uncle, and she wanted to be a writer, but her uncle got sick, and she had to drop out of school to take care of him. When she was younger she was one of the few humans who could see through the Mist that camouflages everything magic from mortals, which is part of what got Poseidon’s attention, and they had a short fling and she got pregnant and then he bailed, because gods kind of suck. As Percy was growing up, she realized that monsters kept coming after him, and, because monsters come after demigods by smell, she married a guy who smelled so bad that it actually messed with monsters’ senses. (This is a horrible concept, and even more awkward in the movie.) He turned out to be a domestic abuser, but she stayed with him to keep Percy safe. Then she took Medusa’s head, turned him into a statue, sold the statute, and used the money to go back to school. Percy is a huuuuuuuge momma’s boy and gushes about how he can never feel bad when she’s around, and how her smile is so nice, and she never has anything mean to say, and he feels bad that he spends all her time worrying about him. Also when monsters invade Manhattan, she pulls a shotgun out of a cop car and starts shooting them in the face without having ever shot a gun before.
Gabe Ugliano was Percy’s step-dad and he was a degrading ass who made Percy’s life hell. (Not as much as he made Sally’s life hell, but, still bad.)
Paul Blofis is Percy’s second step-dad, and a very nice high school English teacher. Possibly too nice, because he lets Percy drive his car around New York without a license. He knows about demigods and monsters and whatnot and still loves Sally and Percy despite the fact that a pegasus landed on the hood of his Prius once.
Poseidon well, the entire premise of this series is that gods are sluts and also horrible parents. Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades were supposed to not have kids so that a certain prophecy wouldn’t come to pass, and Zeus and Poseidon… fucked up. Percy didn’t meet him until he was eleven, and immediately got mixed messages of “I’m sorry you were born… but I am pretty proud of you???” Percy has really conflicting emotions of wanting to impress his dad and being upset at having no parental involvement in his life in book one, which are shelved until he meets Antaeus, then they flare up again and don’t really subside until Poseidon goes “no it’s okay, I am glad that you don’t make people fight to the death for me.” By the second series, Percy is pretty secure in the knowledge that his dad is proud of him and loves him, even though they never see each other.
Phew!
Itempas was upchucked by a blob that randomly creates things then reabsorbs them. It tried to eat him the moment he was born/created, so he left really fast. It may or may not have realized Nahadoth was lonely and made Naha a friend to play with.
It came to visit Earth once and that sucked. Or, more accurately, Sieh and Nefa’s son summoned the Maelstrom to use Its power to turn himself into a new god, which would have destroyed the universe. Tempa, Naha, and Yeine planned to kill Kahl and have the Maelstrom use Tempa as the vessel to create new god, the hope being that Tempa could channel it to create a replacement similar enough to himself to keep the universe safe in its current form, though it would have killed Tempa in the process. Kahl turns out to be too hard to kill, and Sieh is the one who handles the Maelstrom. I’m not actually sure if Sieh dying killed It or only killed a small part that came to answer Kahl’s summons.. Anyway, Tempa is wary of blobmomdad.
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Nick's parents are Cherise Gautier and Adarian Malachai. Cherise is an awesome, loving, supportive woman who chose being a teen mom over giving into her wealthy parents demands to give him up for adoption, and worked as a stripper to support him. Nick loves his mom. Half the point of the series is Nick Loves His Mom. He would literally end the world for his mom.
On the other hand, his dad is a convicted felon, a demon of ultimate evil, abusive and kind of an asshole. Spoilers make him a little more complex and interesting, and give insight into his motivations... which make him more sympathetic, but in the end, he's still an asshole who does Unforgivable Things. Nick hates his dad, and would love more than anything not to be anything like him. They don't have much interaction, happily for Nick.
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. . . He isn't terribly fond of them, I'm afraid.
Serah was too young to remember her father, and didn't have very much time with her mother. She appreciates them in a very distant way.
Persephone . . . ♥~
Dream may have hatched from an abandoned egg . . . Or that may be what he thinks on every alternative Tuesday, because it is a rather fascinating thought . . . . . .
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They do send him periodic care-packages of snacks and money because, again, normal caring parents!
Both are alive and perfectly healthy.
Sion had a very rich and pretty mother whom he loved and who was apparently a very nice lady. However she gave him over to a guy who raised him to fight in Death Chess (she didn't have a choice to be fair). Sion has a memory of seeing his mother die, but whether or not she's alive or dead is irrelevant since he never sees her again.
His biological father is never mentioned, and his guardian from age five on has older!Haruki's face and teaches him to kill people. Probably his guardian is not abusive, he's probably even distantly affectionate, so as guardians go he could have been worse.
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Mercedes' mother is the Queen, and she dies before Mercedes' first chapter is over, leaving Mercedes as the new Queen. Mercedes is full of love and respect for her mother and her memory is a great source of inspiration and courage for her. Mercedes' father, on the other hand, is never mentioned or referenced at all, even as to whether she had one that existed. (Possibly they used up all of the messed up parents for all of the other characters.)
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(Fun fact: "Richard" means "powerful leader" and "Sara" means "princess" in their root languages. Isis and Osiris apparently couldn't resist.)
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His dad, Ushiromiya Rudolf, is a shady womaniser who's very probably a criminal. From the time before Battler's birth, he was cheating on Asumu with his old girlfriend Kyrie, and married Kyrie almost immediately after Asumu's death. Quite understandably, Battler was upset about this. Because he is Battler, he was so upset he left the Ushiromiya family, went to live with Asumu's parents, and started using their last name. He stayed with them for six years until they both died and refused almost all contact with Rudolf, only ever visiting home for his little sister Ange's birthdays. At his granddad's funeral, when Rudolf got down on his knees to apologise and beg Battler to come back, he finally decided that maybe it was time to be reasonable. Around that time, he found out that Rudolf had been paying for all his living expenses and kept asking to come to his school events and such despite his refusals. After all that, Battler's feelings on his dad are pretty complicated! He still retains some of the anger and bitterness from his childhood and refuses to show absolutely any respect to Rudolf, usually calling him 'that old bastard', but under all that he does also care about him.
Battler's feelings about his stepmother Kyrie are also pretty complicated. Quite understandably, he never came to consider her any kind of mother figure, but he very consciously chooses not to blame her for any of what happened. Instead, he prefers to think of her as a kind of big sister whom he likes and respects a lot despite not being terribly close. His deeper feelings on her are a big lump of anger and hate and love that he generally represses like the boss represser he is.
tl;dr Battler has a lot of parental issues that have a huge impact on his personality and the events of his canon. And that's not even bringing up the spoilery stuff.
Oh and since Rudolf and Kyrie both get murdered, all his parental figures are deeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaad.
Asahina's parents are never mentioned.
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Ace had normal parents. He was taken away when he was a kid but has fond memories of them and doesn't really blame them for letting him be snagged by the game. ...It helps that he assumes they're probably dead.
Teresa same, I assume she had okay parents but they were bloodily murdered by yoma. Her subsequent caretakers sold/traded her to the Organization. When she deigns to remember them it's not...fondly... But whatever, that was another life.
Cat was a cat. His parents were cats. Alice seems to come from a fairly well-to-do family so I assume he has some kind of pedigree but...he's a cat. He doesn't care.
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Erika has no parents on account of being a constructed character.
Kotetsu's mother is still living and present in the show! She's very practical and does a lot of gardening and takes care of Kotetsu's daughter while he works as a hero in the city. Sometimes she gives him lectures over the phone. He cares about her a lot and their relationship is pretty good! We don't know anything about his father that I recall.
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Sakuya's parents ho boy. I WILL SPOILER TEXT ALL OF IT: [Sakuya's real father was a leatherworker in Japan, and his mother was a Japanese noble! Unfortunately she caught the eye of M. Le Bel, a French noble, and he had his father killed and dragged his mother to Japan to become his newest wife. HE HAS A LOT OF WIVES. Yuuya, Sakuya's full blood brother, came along for the ride. His mother laid Sakuya's egg (fathered by the murdered Sakazaki) while in France, and M. Le Bel immediately knocked her up again and she laid another egg. M. LE BEL WAS NOT HAPPY ABOUT THE EGG HE DIDN'T FATHER and ordered her to smash it; Yuuya said he'd do it and smashed the egg he DID father instead, leaving Sakuya alive.
SO YES Sakuya's father tried to abort him, ended up aborting his own child instead because Yuuya happened, and now thinks Sakuya is his son and raises him as such. He "loves" him by which I mean he emotionally abuses him and indoctrinates him to completely set aside his own emotions and desires in the name of becoming a carbon copy of him to carry on the Le Bel family line.
His mother loves him and is a very sweet and kind woman who tells him very wrong things about Japan. It's lampshaded by Hiyoko that no one knows why she does this; she could genuinely believe all the bullshit she tells him, or she could be fucking with him deliberately, either for his own good or IN THE SADDEST CASE SCENARIO because she's bitter at his existence considering the events surrounding his birth. But no one wants that to be true :(]
It's all pretty terrible okay
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Her fake mother is a cruel and vain woman who emotionally abuses her all the time and keeps her locked up in a tower because Gothel wants Rapunzel weak and afraid and dependant on her. Rapunzel dearly loves Gothel and while Gothel loves Rapunzel too, it's a very selfish love focused on what she can get out of Rapunzel. She loves her like a possession, not a daughter, and will deliberately place her in danger and traumatise her just so she can appear to save the day and get Rapunzel back. GOTHEL IS NOT NICE.
Taisuke accidentally killed his parents with a soda can when he was young.
Yeah.
We don't know anything about them, I don't think he actually remembers them too well, but they were good parents and he loved them and the guilt from causing their deaths is the very foundation of his character and enables him to overcome all the horrible alien mind control and deus ex machinas because they simply cannot handle how sad Taisuke is, it's too overwhelming to control. Touching on his parents or his guilt issues is a dangerous minefield, just ask Allen Walker how well it works out.
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Then at age 12, Velma lets her powers get out of control on a class field trip to the museum, and her parents are quite happy to give custody to The Super Patriots Inc. in exchange for a generous portion of Velma's salary and endorsement contracts. It's implied that Vel doesn't see much of them until she leaves The Super Patriots Inc. and she calls them for a ride home. Which comes with her parents telling her that she ruined everything by leaving and how will she support them now?
It's stated during her period of shitty mundane jobs and trying to learn a skill that's not superhero-ing, her parents are blackmailing her so they won't release her secret identity to the tabloids. Once she gets employed as Portland, Oregon's official superhero, she stops paying her parents and they sue her for back wages based on her old contract with The Super Patriots Inc. that gives them a cut of her superheroing income.
Velma recognizes her parents are horrible people, but the last time she saw them, she still hasn't quite gotten over the desire to want loving parents who do things like comfort you when you lose a job/break up with your boyfriend/etc. She's finally accepted she'll never have that, and the healthiest thing is to just cut them out of her life.
As for surrogates, Velma's handlers were interchangeable in her and her teammates' minds, and didn't do any of the nurturing things parents did. For a while, Santa Claus at least tried to give Vel a taste of a happy childhood, but Velma finding out he wanted her to come work in Winter left kind of a bad taste in her mouth. Damn it, why can't any adult love me without expecting me to do something in return? (TBH, Vel probably knows Santa would have cared about her anyway, because that's the kind of person he was, but wouldn't have been able to spend as much time and effort showing it.)
TL;DR Velma's parents are generally selfish, horrible people, and she really didn't have that many good replacements.