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What were your pup's parents like?
muji) wrote in ways_back_room2011-08-08 06:58 am
Pt. 1
Adrian: Poppa owned and ran a satellite TV business, because people in isolated areas will pay a lot for television even if they haven't got a lot to begin with. Despite being the primary motive force behind the business he made a point of spending time with his kids and family when he could- he was just a little distracted nearly all the time. Partly from the business, partly from the fact that he had five kids and the youngest two were surprise twins. Momma was a stay-at-home mom who felt that bringing up children right was not so much a job as a calling, and did not brook much nonsense. She had what was either the largest garden or smallest farm in the county, too, and she worked with that as much as she did with the kids. She was also a beekeeper, making some extra money to support the family by renting out hives to farmers around the area. When the kids misbehaved they usually got assigned extra work in the garden, but when they really misbehaved she made them work with her on the hives.
Ray: Ray's dad was a chemical engineer, and his mom dealt in antique books. Good people, very enthusiastic about their kids, but not really clued in to the fact that even a brilliant child is still not an adult yet. Didn't own a TV until Ray was five, didn't let him watch more than about an hour's worth every few days, weren't entirely clued in to the fact that he was not really very good at interacting with other kids (they thought the other kids weren't bright enough to keep up). Very proud of their boy and of his younger sister right up until they were killed in a car accident when he was at college.
Arcade: Arcade's parents are spoilers.
Varric: Oh, hell if I know, I haven't even thought about them yet. They were noble caste and got themselves exiled to the surface, though.
Ellen: Ellen's mom died the day she was born. Literally the first thing that happens in canon is Mom gives birth, gets told she and James have had a (boy/girl), says that (whatever the player chooses for the name) is a lovely name, and promptly goes into cardiac arrest and dies. She was an idealistic scientist before that if James' notes and Three Dog's speeches are to be believed, though. As for James, I originally referred to him as Qui-Gon Daddy because he's voiced by Liam Neeson, but over time I've looked at him as more like Obi-Wan- in that whole 'Well, no, I did kinda lie to you for years on end but from a certain point of view it was the right thing to do' way. Dad was a scientist with a powerful drive to make pure, safe drinking water possible for the people of the Capital Wasteland, but a stronger one to keep his only child safe, and he was willing to spend nineteen years in hiding, deceiving the living daylights out of the kid, working for a man he intensely disliked in order to ensure that his daughter grew up all right. And then he promptly turned around and left, again, for her own good. He had a habit of not filling people in on all the details of his plans, largely because, I think, he thought that he could make them all work out through sheer force of will. Didn't always work, of course. In the end he died trying to protect his project and his daughter, and even that didn't really work out- but hell, he tried.
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Karkat had basically the best parenting experience you can get out of a giant crab that lives in your basement! His lusus was irritable and ill-tempered but they not-so-secretly adored each other. He has a (terrible) scribbly picture Karkat drew of them megneted to the fridge and everything.
He and Karkat would bicker and wrestle with each other a lot, but he was too heavily-armored for Karkat to do any real damage to and he never really hurt Karkat, just pinched him and smacked him in the head with his claws when he was being an asshole. Karkat pacified him pretty easily with chilled roe cubes and he was always willing to serve as a durable punching bag when Karkat was having a tantrum, up to a point, after which he would cuff some sense into his ward.
He was very protective of Karkat when it came to beasts and other trolls and lususes, and prone to big sentimental gestures that they never acknowledged. And incidentally they have some of the BEST fanart.
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Also this.
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Pt. 2
Mordin: Salarians don't have human family structures. From the Wiki: "The salarians are amphibian haplo-diploid egg-layers; unfertilized eggs produce males and fertilized eggs produce females. Once a year, a salarian female will lay a clutch of dozens of eggs. Social rules prevent all but a fraction from being fertilized. As a result, 90% of the species is male. Salarians have photographic memories and rarely forget a fact. They also possess a form of psychological ‘imprinting’, tending to defer to those they knew in their youth. Salarian hatching is a solemn ritual in which the clan Dalatrass (matriarch) isolates herself with the eggs. The young salarians psychologically imprint on her and tend to defer to her wishes. During the hatching of daughters, the Dalatrasses of the mother and father’s clans are present at the imprinting. This ensures the offspring have equal loyalty to both, ensuring the desired dynastic and political unity."
Medic's parents died when he was very young and he was raised by his grandparents. Grandpapa was an extremely strict man who had no patience for failure or for lack of ambition, but who was also unstinting with praise for excellence, so there was always an achievable goal to strive towards. Grandmama was matronly and baked a lot. She's still alive and periodically sends him baked goods when he admits to being in a given place.
Fawkes has no idea who his parents were. Neither do I.
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X's mother -- Sarah Kinney -- is the doctor that made her, then was made to carry her to term as a punishment from Psycho McCrazypants aka Dr. Zander Rice. X's mother would occasionally read Pinocchio to her when she was supposed to be reading The Art of War, and she would let X lean against her for a couple of seconds before pushing her away because there were cameras watching. She worried about X's penchant for cutting herself as a child, but never did anything about it. She smuggled X away from the Facility base to save her niece from being raped and killed by a predatory pedophile. Then she took X back to the Facility. I don't think X has ever forgiven her for that. Eventually it all became too much and Dr. Kinney decided to break X out once and for all, but first used her to kill all the rest of the clones and blow up the base. Then X killed her, because she had been marked with the trigger scent. X does have the letter detailing all of Dr. Kinney's self-perceived sins and stuff as she also wrote a copy that she sent to Wolverine. She also gave X her name, Laura Kinney. You'll notice that X does not really use that one much. Conflicted clone is conflicted. Such is life.
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Kain never knew his mother. His father, Richard, died when he was young, and Kain doesn't exactly remember him as well as he thinks. To Kain, his father was a perfect military man and an exemplar of what a Dragoon should be; in fact, Richard hated fighting; one reason he joined the Dragoons, and eventually rose to the rank of Commander, was because their armor and reputation were so fearsome that he expected not to have to fight. Unfortunately, this was not the case.
Karis' mother is a complete unknown, at least so far. Her father is Ivan, a Jupiter Adept who helped Felix save the world at least once. He's smart, but not very good with emotions, although he can sometimes get hints by reading people's minds. He's also the heir apparent to the mercantile city-state of Kalay.
Fluttershy's parents, I most certainly hope, will be revealed or at least referred to at some point in canon. For the time being, there are some three or four fanon ideas about them competing in my head.
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Ult. Ben's mom is really only shown once and she seems a pretty awesome character. I get the impression she raised him on her own and instilled his moral compass. He is who he is because of her. His father is briefly mentioned by his mother when Ben talks about feeling not so special cause he wasn't the strongest. I haven't decided what happened to his father but I am assuming death was involved.
Jessica's parents were both scientists. Her father was either working for HYDRA to create a super assassin or innocently working independently on a super anti-toxin depending on which canon you go with. There have been some hints and suggestions that Viper, aka Madame Hyrda, is her real mother (and Viper supports this) but I haven't decided for sure. In the nucanon (the last solo series before Agent of SWORD) her mother disappeared so Viper could be correct.
Val's parents are either Susan Richards and Doctor Doom or Susan Richards and a Reed Richards trapped in Doom's armor/body. She never got the chance to find out for sure before she was erased.
Thalia's father is Zeus, as I am sure anyone who has talked with her knows. The girl does like to flaunt that. Her mother, on the other hand, she never mentions. She was a film actress whom Zeus took a shine to but she broke down when Zeus left her. She neglected Thalia, drank a lot and did other things which I can't mention without spoiling The Lost Hero.
Julie Finster's parents I actually don't know anything about as I haven't read the issue which spotlights them. I do know that are part of a larger, famous super powered family but I don't know anything about them personally.
Rincewind swears off any personal knowledge of his mother as she left before he was born. This is written on his Unseen University paperwork. He was raised by his grandfather and I don't know what happened to his father. I suspect heroes or heroing had something to do with it. You just can't trust heroes.
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All I know about Cosmo's parents is a vague notion that they were Holocaust survivors, and what they went through fed into Cos's changing-the-world thing.
Moist's dad brought home shady Soviet nuclear technology to try to cure his son's dry skin problem. SO YEAH. His mother admitted, a Conversations With Dead People or two ago, that she should have spoken up more on Moist's behalf, but thought she was doing the best thing by him by not speaking up. They both got picked up by the FBI when Moist was twelve; his mother died of cancer, and his father, the only person in the house who thought a radioactive humidifier was a GOOD idea, is the only person who hasn't suffered any ill effects from it.
Conflict Diamond's parents struggled for a long time to do the best thing for their family. I don't know if they ever had the heart to ask where the millions of dollars she gave them after her first heist came from; since they lived on so little for so long, they still have most of it (no need to change their budget, after all).
Cata has yet to tell me anything about her parents. She says they're not as important in her life as the Guild.
Sam also considers the Guild much more of his family than his parents. This isn't really his mother's fault; she was doing her best to raise her son with her brain magically scrambled, and then got raped and killed when Sam was five (which is why he makes exceptions to standard guild practice if he catches a rapist in the act). As for his father, highlight for spoilers: You know how I said his mother's brain was magically scrambled? Yeah, that would be because Mizzamir raped her, found out he'd knocked her up, and didn't want her to go telling anyone about it. Sam did not find this out until moments before he killed Mizzamir, and even if he hadn't been on a contract at the time, I think Sam would've killed him anyway, at that point.
Claudia doesn't remember her parents very well, but they did a good job of raising two very intelligent kids. I think Claudia was an oops baby, given the large age gap between her and Joshua. They died in a car wreck when she was seven; her mother made a point, last Conversations With Dead People, to say they didn't die of Artifact exposure or someone wanting them dead. And then Claudia did a lot of grieving that she didn't realise she still had to do (oops). I've said in a few things, mostly fic, that the Donovan family has a rather generous impulsive streak, so she comes by that honestly.
Apollo and Artemis are the product of one of Zeus's many, many, MANY affairs and very protective of their mother. He tolerates his dad the way you have to tolerate the head of the pantheon, for the most part, and does not get along with his stepmother at all.
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Shaz: Has some very lovely, if nagging, parents. It's noted that one of her parents is of Romani descent - I suspect the mother. Either way, she was brought up to respect the culture.
Katya: ... I actually haven't thought much about them, other than they are upper-middle classish, and didn't survive long after Katya became Other. Katya doesn't think much about them, so.
Glorfindel: Somewhere back in Aman there are a pair of very put-upon elves whose crazy son keeps galavanting off to that Arda place and getting killed. Poor parents. He probably forgets to write, too.
Laranth: They were decent, hardworking folk on Coruscant... who only knew their kid for an hour or so before the Jedi Order took her. Theoretically they're still decent, hardworking folk. Laranth may even have siblings she doesn't know about.
McCoy: Mamma McCoy was a firebrand, and Daddy McCoy was a local doctor, as was his grand-daddy. McCoy grew up in a very loving home, albeit a strict one.
Cal: ... Well, mom was nuts and he won't talk about his dad, so. >.>
Balthazar: His parents were minor nobles, with some land... none of which he saw much of once he caught Merlin's attention. I seem to specialize in pups that don't see much of their parents. Bizarre.
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Mia's father wasn't in the picture unless he happened to be one of the other Four Heroes that hangs around the Katarina Zone. Some fan theories state that she might actually be Dyne's daughter, which I suppose could've worked out in a friends-with-benefits way, but since he "died" and her only interaction with him has been as Laike, their relationship is more one of allies.
Ghaleon, whom Mia calls her stepfather in Millicanon for lack of a better term to describe their relationship, was always a somewhat distant man. Though he frequently made exceptions for Mia in the form of picking flowers for her and reading bedtime stories. Perhaps it was some sort of penance for what he knew would be unavoidable in the future. He has a strong sense of justice and always did what he believed to be right, even if he knew it would make him the villain. Accepting that, he plays the villain very well.
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ALEX'S PARENTS! This is going to get long, because he has actual parents, legal guardians, a godfather, and I'm totally throwing in Yassen Gregorovich for free on the theory that he totally could have been Alex's Other Daddy. And some other people.
Helen and John Rider; we actually don't know all that much about his biological parents, except that Helen was a nurse and John was basically the best spy ever (he canonically survived a lot of shit no one had any right to survive. oh mai, this sounds very familiar~). Alex inherited a lot of his skills and his luck and, I think, looks rather a lot like him, too. But Alex never knew his parents because they were assassinated when he was only a few weeks old.
Ian Rider; also a spy, this is the dude responsible for Alex's spy training. He apparently had a very boyish outlook on spying and thought it was pretty awesomely fun, and therefore he made sure Alex was equipped to do it, too. (Though you could argue that he was just hangin' with his kid in the only way he knew how.) While he was alive, Alex thought he was a banker; then he died and Alex's life went to shit. Siiiigh.
Jack Starbright; canonically really more of a big sister to Alex, but she's also his guardian throughout the series. She's fun and silly and maybe not the best choice for guardian around
I am never forgiving her for That Thing in Scorpia Rising, but whatever, she's also one of the very few adults Alex trusts.Ash; was Alex's godfather. Originally, he was a good guy, but MI6 sort of screwed him over after an op went bad and permanently damaged him and Scorpia swooped in to pick up the pieces. SPOILER WHITETEXT
Yassen Gregorovich; not actually one of Alex's parents-peeps, but he was in love with Alex's father, and I am totally always going to make jokes that he is Alex's Other Daddy so. He was a contract assassin, but he firmly refused to kill Alex ever and managed to die trying to save his life, so what can I say. Most of the time, Alex regarded Yassen as a personal enemy for assassinating his uncle, but they were sort of on speakingish terms by the end.
MI6; is also kind of Alex's guardian. They are, by and large, jerks. The only two who aren't jerks are Mr. Smithers and Ben Daniels, the latter of which I sincerely hope went back to SAS after his short stint as a spy. Mrs. Jones is slightly less of a jerk, but only because she was the one who made it Definite that they were never recruiting Alex again. Aside from that, she was still an arse for getting Alex involved at all.
SPOILER WHITETEXT FOR SCORPIA RISING
MORE TO COME FOR OTHER PUPS LATER.
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It's not clear whether Strong Bad, The Cheat and Ryûk even have parents.
Rukia was separated from her parents in the process of crossing over to the Soul Society as a baby.
Obi-Wan had a birth family on the grassy plains of Stewjon, but that's all we really know about them. (He had a brother named Owen, who was identified with Owen Lars at some levels of canon, including the RotJ novelization, right up until Episode II officially jossed that prospect.)
My personal fanon is that Michael's father, Patrick Donighal, was one of Max Mercer's teachers at Harvard (the Adventure! rulebook says Max and Michael first met there). In a Mother's Day-themed Theatrical Muse prompt, I gave Mrs. Donighal the maiden name "Brigid Carey" for reasons that made sense at the time.
Aberrant doesn't talk much about anybody's parents, least of all Jennifer's. I haven't thought about them before, but I have to assume they were good people.
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Gibbs’ father was a shipwright, his mother a housewife with far too many children to care for. Gibbs feels no particular love for either and doesn’t have many memories he would care to share.
Knox’s dad was a salesman who retired to Florida at the first opportunity, wife in tow. He is cold and crusty, someone who had little direct bearing on Knox’ upbringing, and only an indirect influence on Knox’ cynical worldview. His mother is a gentler soul, a housewife who offered encouragement from time to time, and has a secret sense of humor that has aided her in surviving a difficult marriage. Knox isn’t really close to either, but feels more of a connection with his mother, unsurprisingly.
Cyborg’s mother was, in his eyes, a saint. Sweet, smart, resourceful, able to raise him on her own after her divorce. (This is my own take on animated canon, drawn slightly from the different version of his origin the Teen Titans Go! comic book told.) In fact, she was all those things but also able to hide her anger and sadness over the failed marriage and her ex-husband’s inability to be a good father. She made sure her son never saw the bitterness in herself or in life, which ultimately helped Cy cope with her death. His dad, on the other hand, is a distant genius, still unable to communicate with the son whose live he saved. Cy feels no great need to extend a hand to his dad.
I decided long before NuTrek that Kirk’s father was not, in fact, in Starfleet. That seemed too obvious. Instead, George Kirk Sr. didn’t make it in the fleet – too willful to follow orders – and ended up a civilian troubleshooter without any chain of command to hold him back. Otherwise, this is one of those things NuTrek got right. Heroism runs in the Kirk family. And Jim has always worked hard to live up to the standard his dad set. Winona Kirk was content to be a “Starfleet widow” while she watched her husband and then her sons head into space, staying in the little Iowa home her husband inherited. She was, however, also well known to many in Starfleet Command and her presence at social functions in San Francisco over the years was quite welcome.
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Sameth's parents are loving but rather neglectful. His father Touchstone is the king and he and Sam are fairly close, I think Touchstone was around more since his duties keep him closer to home. Sabriel is Abhorsen and not terribly good at being emotionally close to her children though she loves them.
Jane's father is a vicar and her mother its implied married below her station for affection in the movie. Her father is wonderful and kind while her mother is the one who worries more about money and propriety.
Moist's parents died when he was young and were apparently rather doting on him. He was raised by his grandparents who bred and trained lipwigzer dogs for those who can afford them. Moist ran away when he was fifteen as he wanted to see the world but they were good to him, he just wanted more.
Demeter was the child of Cronus and Rhea and was briefly devoured by her father. There isn't too much mentioned about Rhea and Demeter's relationship but in some versions of the myths, Rhea convinced Demeter to let things grow again.
William's father is Dan Evans, who's in Bar and currently dead. His mother Alice works hard and Dan and Alice loved each other but their world is tough on them.
Only Tumnus' father is mentioned in canon and he was killed while fighting the White Witch, Tumnus never wanted to disappoint him and didn't in the end.
The Pirate King is the son of an English lord but ran away at a young age to be a pirate. I imagine that he probably wasn't terribly close with his parents but enjoyed the benefits of being a lord's son.
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The Loompas never knew their parents, having been raised by the collective.
Not much is known about Aang's biological parents. Just that he was given to the Southern Air Temple shortly after being born. If asked he'd probably say that Monk Gyatso is the closet thing he's had to a father.
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This is partly because Sam's mom, uh. Sucks. When she's present, she's kind of a snob. She seems to look down on their town in general, refuses to let Sam go to their Halloween festival (which, seriously, what? It's like the only interesting thing to do there), and is pretty much an unpleasant person. But it's fairly clear from the book that she's actually not around all that much - the only scene set in Sam's house is when John comes over, at which point the author makes it pretty clear that she leaves him on his own a lot, so.
Basically, she never really gave Sam the support he needed (especially given the whole "MY DAD WAS KIDNAPPED BY ALIENS" thing, and Sam has something like zero problems running away from her at the end of the book. And, you know, he's fifteen, so yeah. All around fail right there.
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But yeah, they're not horrific, at least, so much as too distant to really know what's going on in their sons' lives.
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Her mother Elidinis... hmm... she was there. I don't think Amascut cares one way or another about Elidinis. She probably considers herself more a child of the desert than of the river now. From what I gather, though, Elidinis can be a jealous, vindictive goddess, going so far as drying up water wells and diverting the river Elid because people stop worshiping her. Well, it wasn't her who did it, but it was her fellow river spirits,. However, she didn't do a thing to stop them even though people were abandoning Elidinis worship for the religion of Saradomin, a god she was supposedly in alliance with.
Evil Chicken has multiple backstories, so I won't touch that.
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Plus, of course, there was his dad. Who was also tough, but not kindly, and used to drink a lot and abuse his family. By the time Gene was thirteen, he and his brother could take him but yeah, not the nicest environment to grow up in.
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Zelgadiss' parents died when he was extremely young, leaving him to be raised by Rezo the Red Priest (who is either his grandfather or his great-grandfather). Nothing is ever said about them.
Sunshine's parents split when she was six. She still sometimes wonders how Ms. Atilla-the-Hun-of-Normalcy got mixed up with Mr. All-That-Creepy-Magical-Stuff. Her parents were often happy together, especially at first, but her dad's work put them in danger, and her mother could not stand it. So Rae's mom took the kid and essentially fled. Rae never saw her father again, though he sent her postcards twice a week until he and most of his family disappeared in the Wars. Rae's relationship with her mother is not very good - they can hardly talk to each other. She's actually much closer to her step-father, Charlie, who shares her love of feeding people.
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I guess the main thing of Tyler's parents is this. They're honestly not bad people and would lay their lives down (if they were in any danger) to help out kids. And when he was very small, they doted and fussed over him just like normal parents, it wasn't until their friends kids started exhibiting powers that they really, REALLY started worrying about Tyler's development. He knows they care about him, and thanks to them, he's got a strong sense of what's right, what's wrong, and a goddamn texas sized sense of responsibility for others. No one's sure where the common sense came from in this genetic equation though.
Dot Matrix's parents were respectively a research scientist and an archivist for the second system of Mainframe. Welman Matrix was and is a kind and doting father, if a little absent minded. He's still around but there's no cure for being a null just yet. Mairi Matrix(the first) was an archivist(sprite equiviliant to a librarian) and instilled a great love of reading AND cooking in Dot while she was young. She's also the side where the terrible black day temper comes from, and sadly, her side of their family the women have histories of bumpy development terms, which resulted in her death not long after Enzo was born. Thus, Dot remembers a lot more about her mother than either of her brothers.
Darryl's parents are both still alive, living currently in Florida, but having raised him in two different hippie communes, they ARE the people to blame partially for his weirdness. Or his lack of cleaning skills at least.
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They divorced early - I think the books say shortly after Rachel's youngest sister was born, which I'm thinking puts Rachel around 6 years old when it happened. It was a less than happy divorce, evidenced by Rachel and the middle sister getting immediately suspicious whenever their parents are nice to each other.
Naomi is a lawyer - criminal, based on the few instances where her job was featured in the books - and if she's not at work, she's on the phone about work, or working at the dinner table telling her daughters not to watch TV while they eat - ineffectively. I wouldn't call her a bad mother, though. She lays down the law and makes sure the kids know the rules. She makes sure she knows everyone's schedule to the T and that they're always taken care of. She knows her daughters' friends (and which of them keeps convincing the youngest that she NEEDS a new Barbie, Mom, NEEDS ONE). And in the end, she would fight a fullgrown grizzly bear armed with a briefcase if it kept her kids safe.
(canon - she didn't know Rachel was the bear at the time)
Dan is a TV weatherman. Rachel adores this man. While he's often working, too, he makes what little time he's allowed with his daughters personalized - he and Rachel go hiking, watch sports, sit in on gymnastics meets, he takes the little ones to circuses, movies, carnivals. He's very charismatic and friendly - and very good at hiding how much he misses his kids, most of the time.
Dan's visitation was one weekend a month. Early on in the series, he's asked to take a job halfway across the country. He almost made the Olympic gymnastics team when he was younger, was the one to get Rachel started in it, and asked her to move with him, where he'd already set up an appointment for her to start training with an Olympic coach. He's canonically told his wife, during her third pregnancy, not to worry about having a boy. "Who needs boys? I've got Rachel!"
Basically, Rachel grew up with two very strong, very charismatic, very convincing, very LOUD, very independent adults as the foundation of her family. Their constant physical absence, I think, has made her extremely loyal to duty and and responsibility, and their constant affirmation of how much they love their family really cemented that.
Naomi and Rachel's sisters are still alive. When the Yeerks discovered everyone's identities and targeted their families, Rachel got them out - with a lot of difficulty, Naomi's kind of a stubborn bitch... and/or lawyer. She wasn't pleased to find out her daughter was a "monster" (her words - I still cringe) but she's able to recognize that she raised a girl who was capable of rising to a monumental challenge.
She also approves of Tobias, if the last book is any indication.
To be honest, I can't say for certain what happened to Daniel. Canon never goes into it. But because the families were rescued in the late 40s of the books and the series didn't end until 54 and Rachel never says a single freaking word about the father she idolizes and adores... I'm like 99.99% sure he was killed shortly after the discovery of Rachel's identity. And she knows it. If he'd been infested, they'd have used him to taunt her the way they did with her cousin's parents.
I could talk about Rachel's family AAAAAAAALLLLLLLLL DAAAAAAAAY but I'll spare you and stop this novella here. <<
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His grandfather was nominally in charge of looking after the children, but this mostly translated to looking after Atton's brothers and sisters. His grandmother was something of a local hero, and was generally called upon whenever wild animals were threatening the village (Kazic III being a planet where the wildlife is without exception out to kill you.).
Atton's father died when he was quite young, and was never around very often before that, and most of the village viewed Atton with intense suspicion (powerful Force-Sensitive = Weird powers, after all).
All in all, not a terrible family situation. With the exception of Atton's brother Lyman, they all died when his homeworld was bombed. Atton and Lyman have a - strained relationship at best.
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Clem's mom is an ex-flight attendant cum stripper/prostitute named Trina. She and Clem have an extremely difficult relationship due to Trina's constant absence in Clementine's childhood and their eventual rivalry over several different boyfriends when Clem hit her mid-teens. They are currently estranged because Trina's still a prostitute and Clem's had to pick her up on stings more than once, which she, obviously, finds extremely embarrassing.
A village raised Dixie, as explained in her Milliwiki bio - first her bio-rents, then someone within the Cherokee village, then the Mennonites who took her in, and finally the convent's sisters. I think she considers the Mother Superior at the convent her mother figure.