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Daily Entertainment: Family Edition!
Helloooo, Milliways! It is a lovely day here in the wilds of New England, hope your day is the same.
Today's question, for everyone's edification:
What does your character think of their family? Do they have a close one? Is it biological or chosen? Would they just rather avoid the question altogether?
Today's question, for everyone's edification:
What does your character think of their family? Do they have a close one? Is it biological or chosen? Would they just rather avoid the question altogether?
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The usual suspects first:
Gene: Loves his mum, despite issues with their past. Mainly because of his father, who he did not like, but also loved, because that's what families do. Very close to his brother, who then went and died. He doesn't talk about it much - at least, the parts that hurt - but he'd do anything for his mother.
His chosen family are his team. They sort of choose him too, but he's not really aware of that. He's a family man at heart, only dead, so he can't have kids. His team take up the slack in that regard.
Bruce Wayne: cannot really avoid the question, as the world and his wife know that his parents are deeeeead. And though it kills him/has killed him/will kill him, he still thinks of his parents with great love. They were very close. Alfred is the only part of his family that remains, and he'd do anything for that man.
Except listen when he talks sense, or treat him very well, sometimes.Bruce Banner: absolutely avoids the question, at all costs. And this isn't just because I'm waiting to see what future!canon does with his backstory, if anything.
Current backstory is a tale of child abuse, murder, psychiatric hospitals and all-round nastiness. But he loves his mum! Such a shame his dad killed her.
Wtf, Marvel?And now, post-Hulk, he has no family, chosen or otherwise. There was Betty, but he can't risk being around her, and she's better off without him.Bring on Avengers canon, when I can say he's tentatively becoming part of the superhero family. *ruffles his hair*
Javert: Hey, guess what? Someone with a terrible background, but who doesn't love his mum.
Javert is the son of a convict, and a gypsy. He was born in a jail. He has nothing but shame about his background, and the reason he is the way he is, is because he wants to get as far away from it as possible. He grew up thinking that he was already an outcast by birth, so he might as well be an outcast that upheld the law, and therefore, rise above his beginnings.
He does not have friends, he does not have family. He has colleagues, and they probably even respect him. He has a patron, hence his ability to be able to better his situation at all. But other than that, he's a one man army against the lawbreakers of the world.
Or he was, before he threw himself off a bridge. We'll see what happens next.
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I think a prestigious, talented, beautiful, and very green lawyer from New York City might have something to say about that. (Well, not green in Movie-verse, but you know that they've probably considered She-Hulk for film. She's always been a fan(boy) favorite.)
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Helena never did like her family that much, other than Christina. Her brother Charles was as charming as he was brilliant, which is to say absolutely neither. His one redeeming characteristic was his prodigious moustache, which allowed Helena to publish her work. Currently, she's building a family with the people in the Warehouse, but it's slow going because Artie has a stick up his arse about her, and Pete's, well... Pete. She's quite glad for the quasi-sister thing she has going with Claudia, however.
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Good to know!
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(Dude made a deal with the Devil. Some of his stories get published in other worlds with other author's names attached, he still gets the royalty checks. What the hell, it covers the beer.)
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Knox is not close with his parents or his brother, and has little desire to fix that. He considers Rapunzel like a wife, so she is his family.
Cy was very close to his late mother. And is a good long way from liking his dad. The core Titans team is his family. Robin's his big bro, Raven and Starfire are sisters, and Beast Boy is the annoying kid brother you want to get rid of.
Howard cannot stand his father. This has created distance between him and the rest of his family. And is possibly one reason he never manages to say how he really feels to Tony in the future.
Gibbs has had nothing to do with his family since he left Bristol over 30 years ago. Pirates don't really have family.
And Kirk of course has the family he was born into and the bridge crew. Spock and Bones are brothers as much as Sam Kirk was. And Jim took after his dad (though I millicanoned it that his father was not a career Starfleet man) and always adored his mother, if rarely from close by. Jim also has three nephews he rarely sees but feels protective of, since he is the only uncle they have.
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Katya: Honestly doesn't remember her parents any more, other than a vague memory of the kind of coat her father wore, and the almost-recollection of the perfume her mother preferred.
Bones: Had some awesome parents - his momma taught him how to behave himself like a good Southern gentleman, and his father and grandfather taught him to love medicine and science, and how to have a good bedside manner.
Haymitch: His dad died youngish in the mines - old enough to start to see his son go through the Reap, not old enough to see the boy's Games. His momma, whom he adored (along with this younger brother and his girlfriend) died while he was on his victory tour.
It was not an accident.
Glorfindel: Has two rather lovely parents in Aman, who never left - their parting was bitter when he persisted in following Turgon even after kinslaying and the ships abandoning them to cross the ice bridge. He met with them briefly (for elves) after being released from Namo, but then he had to explain why he was taking his oath of allegiance so seriously and going back to Arda. It didn't go over well.
Ace: To be very very fair: Ace's parents weren't evil. They really weren't. They were just way too young maturity-wise to be having kids of their own, and utterly mishandled her - she turned out a fair bit brighter than them, and despised them in her teenaged way for not being able to keep up. And then the divorce and the drinking and things just went from bad to worse.
Balthazar: Was the third son of a minor lord - he loved his parents, of course, as once must, but he was taken very young as an apprentice by Merlin. His parents let him go because it was a good opportunity and it meant that while the boy would most likely stay safe, he wouldn't be a strain on the household or a unwanted threat to future inheritance.
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X has a mother that she tends toward neutral on, and who the Facility made her kill. She has her brother, Logan, who she quite likes these days, though their relationship is that of adult siblings, and not particularly full of snuggles and obvious affection. She has a nephew, Daken, who she would like better if he were not so self-defeating and arrogant and jerky. She has a cousin, Megan, that she was quite fond of (and still is), but she has not seen her or her aunt since she put them on a bus out of town to save them from being used by The Facility. That's it as far as family goes, and as she does not have any particularly cuddly feelings about family, she is not at all prone to classifying really good friends as family, or 'choosing' a family not of blood. Friends are awesome. Elle is awesome. Also Bruce.
Dean Winchester loves his family so hard, both biological and chosen. He will do anything for them, anything at all. This is true for Sam especially, but come on, you know Bobby and Castiel and Jo and Ellen and Missouri all count. Maybe not Sam Campbell, because having a Grandpa is still really weird (plus he was evil that one time) but.
Michael the Archangel loves her family, particularly her brother Lucifer. He and she were always close, and he was her favorite. How many people would you give up smiling for? Or cheat to let them find a way back home? Yeah.
Nynaeve loved her parents. Her father taught her everything she knows about woodcraft, and she always loved working with him on that. She has strong feelings about families sticking together in general. She also has very strong feelings about protecting people that she is responsible for, even if they are not 'family', which can shift them into something like chosen family to observers, but not to how she thinks of them.
Sam Tyler loves his mum and really mourned the death/absence of his dad. His feelings are a lot more complicated now due to remembering the girl with the red dress and the things he has seen, plus . . . you know. Seeing them again. So. Yeah. Complicated. He cares about his mates, too, but is not one for 'choosing' family. Except marrying Annie. But that's different.
Wonder Woman is all about family, loving them when they are with you, loving them when they are far from you, loving them when they make terrible choices, loving them when they do not love themselves -- yeah. Plus all women are her sisters, so.
Galadan has complicated family feelings. He resents his father still, for not coming to his aid with Amairgen back in the day (because he was a baby then, emotionally if not physically oh my god Galadan what), and he and his half-brother also have a contentious relationship because Galadan is a dick. Things are a little better now because Galadan is slightly less of an ass, but only slightly. He is also the ruler of his entire family, so that . . . adds an extra layer of protocol and viciousness, and sometimes they try to kill him. Still. He can handle it. No chosen family for this one.
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Lois in general loves her family, but they also drive her nuts. Chloe doesn't, and she still tries to make her mom proud, but genetic family: loving, but not close. And, of course, she very much looks up to the Kents as surrogate/adoptive parents and role models, and loves them deeply. At her point in canon, Clark is her best friend and almost a brother-figure. Except she's almost to season eight. That won't last.
Tavi adores his family. It is hugely important to him and he will go to insane lengths for them. The Calderon side (biological: Isana and Bernard; adopted: Araris) is very loving and very close, despite physical distance. Bernard and Isana are the only parents he's known; Araris is later something of a role model. Adopted (Ehren and Max) are like brothers and he is quite protective, especially of Max. Also loving, also close.
Kitai, of course, is already his only romantic interest and he can't imagine marrying anyone else. He totally B.S.'s a thing later about this to her to prove a point to her. Their thing goes a step beyond love.
The Gaius side, which he is totally unaware of: he doesn't realize how much he is broken by his father's death (which he knows happened, probably at First Calderon), but he has a vague, idealized love there. Once Sextus is dead Tavi hurts a lot over it, partly because love didn't have time to grow--but Sextus loves him in a Sextus way. In general the Gaius side is not remotely close, but more loving than they admit.
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Yugo's very keen on putting distance between himself (he's the proverbial white sheep of the family) and the rest of his family, but he does still love them very much - and moreover, does very much consider his father's kobun to be his brothers as well, so as far as he's concerned he has loads and loads of older brothers what the hell and probably a growing amount of younger brothers too.
He absolutely adored his mother, who was a florist and a much more prominent and influential figure in Yugo's upbringing than his father. She is, alas, quite dead now.
Atton used to have a very large family. Then his planet got bombed and they all died - except his younger brother, who he rediscovered a few years ago. He's a happily married zoologist. Their relationship is strained, but at least vaguely affectionate.
Leo Fudou had a small and quite isolated family: His mother was a Makai Priestess, his father was a very stern Makai Knight, the previous Flash Knight RODO, his twin brother Sigma is a psychopathic priest who has very disturbing issues with women and vaguely incestuous tendencies towards his brother, and his brother's girlfriend Mio was also a Makai Priestess. With the exception of Sigma, they are all dead.
It's kind of a shame, I think, that we never see more of Leo's family, because I really want to know how Leo came out so well adjusted and Sigma came out so ... so ... misogynist-incest-psychopathic-y. Their father did seem to be kind of a dick, but a well-meaning kind.
Leonardo da Vinci is a bastard, and his father is a lawyer! His father does not have much time for him. In fact, his father's new girlfriend doesn't know Leo exists! In fact, Leo didn't get an invite for his father's wedding while his teacher did!
Leo's father is an absolute dick of Piero de Medici levels.
Teddy Lupin's parents are deeeeeaaaaaad. He has an adoptive family in the form of the Potter-Weasley-Granger clan.
Seamus Finnigan's parents are alive and well and quite happy. He's an only child. So that's nice.
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Jack would rather just avoid the question altogether, but if pushed, because it inevitable leads to bringing up his dad, and he really doesn't want to have to talk about it. He has no issues with the rest of his family, his sister and her husband, and his mother, but he'd sooner not talk about his father, so it's easier to just avoid the question altogether. Also, work makes it hard to be a family.
Alfred has Bruce, who he regards as a son.
Erik doesn't have any biological family left, but he treats Jane as his, well, if not daughter, then at least niece, I think.
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(Headcanon: He youngest daughter eventually becomes an assassin herself, partly with the aim of figuring out where the fuck her mother ran off to. After the first awkward conversation I think they actually get along spectacularly.)
Sam: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Well. His mother was raped, magically mind-addled so she couldn't tell anyone who did it, left to raise the resulting kid on her own, and raped again when Sam was fiveish. He walked in on it and went a little berserk, and then some Guild members pulled him out of the fire (knocked-over lamp + tinderbox of a hovel).
He killed his father.
I think if his mother hadn't been mind-addled, she would have done Sam a lot of good, but not necessarily Good, as that's complicated with this canon. Played with that in Conversations With Dead People a couple years back. The quest group soooooort of became a family of choice? As much as it can when you trust maybe three of the other five people in the group at any given moment. Otherwise, the Guild still counts.
Claudia: Was seven when her parents died, so she doesn't remember a lot about them. And, well, once she figured out Joshua was there to rescue, she put her life on the line for him with barely a second thought (okay, four months of psych treatment is a big second thought, but still). Her foster parents weren't horrible but she also never really connected with them. Now the Warehouse is her family, and Joshua's part of it from that side, which is the Best Thing.
Apollo: It's Complicated.
Imp: Hasn't talked to his family since he left Llamedos. Doesn't really have a family of choice at the moment, either.
Regulus: Also complicated. Has what he considers a healthy fear of his mother and oldest cousin, and he's done quite a bit over the years to keep them happy, including talk the Sorting Hat into putting him in Slytherin (it wanted Ravenclaw). Sirius hasn't talked to him since his Sorting, and Regulus wants to untangle that knot before one of them (probably Sirius, at this point, as Regulus intends to stay out of the fight) gets killed in the brewing war.
At least he knows his father's on his side re: getting out of this alive and not a Death Eater.
Right now, the closest he has to chosen family is Narcissa; he considers her a sister. (He was a kid when Andromeda left, and he has no idea how that conversation would go, so for now he's not trying.)
Red: again, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Right now she's... more than a little peeved with her grandmother for keeping secrets that could have saved Peter's life if only Red knew. She also currently thinks her mother's dead (I'm pretty sure her father is, though I have no idea if he was also a werewolf or not; given her mother's appearance in canon I'm going with 'probably').
When she does meet her mother that will also be Complicated, and solidify how much Snow is her family of choice.
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Shephard's family growing up was Mom, Dad, older sister, older brother, Adrian, and the twins. They were good parents; Dad had his own business but always made time where he could for his family. Mom was a stay at home mom with a couple of beehives and a large garden/small farm, depending on how you looked at things. There were also quite a lot of uncles and aunts and cousins around. Unfortunately, they're almost all dead of aliens. Mom's alive and mayor of the Rowlesburg survivor community. His older sister Dana is alive, as is his formerly younger brother Dan. He makes a point of visiting them regularly because God only knows what might happen to them if he stayed away too long.
Medic was raised by a very strict grandfather and a moderately indulgent grandmother. He is very fond of both of them and firmly believes that Grandpapa might have been unpleasant at times but knew what he was doing, and does not hold that against him.
We know very little of Varric's family other than his relationship with his brother, which is moderately okay until Bartrand [SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER]. The words "You son of a bitch!-- sorry, Mother" were involved.
Mordin is from a species that does not have anything resembling a human family structure. 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. 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.
I honestly don't know about Santo's family, or whether there's any mention of them in canon. I'm inclined in the direction of him being an orphan raised by nuns but I'm holding off on making any decisions about that about that until I've watched more of his canon.
Ray's parents were pretty good folks, if a little eccentric (antique book dealer and chemical engineer, no television in the house until he was five, no more than an hour of TV until he was much older than that, etc.) Ray was very fond of them; they died in a car crash when he was in grad school, though, which is why he had to leave and Work In The Private Sector. His sensible, straightforward sister considered him an embarrassment for quite some time, at least until a few words from Foxtrot X-Ray and the sight of her brother shaking hands with President Winston on national television after the incident with Yog-Sothoth on board the International Space Station. She's happier about him working with his nephews regularly now.
Ellen's mom only lived long enough to name her. Ellen's father loved her and did his best to raise her safely and well and then up and left without a word when she was nineteen. She eventually tracked him down and yelled at him a lot and then they were okay for some time, up until the Enclave showed up and he died trying to hold them off. She has done her best to forgive him for nineteen years of deception and any number of other issues, but at this point she's come to accept that her father was prone to lousy personal decisions and has privately resolved never to name any child of hers after him.
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Asami's mother died when she was six, but she is very close to her father. I think she must also have some other relatives on both sides, whom she also loves, but she and her father are very tight-knit, with her hugely admiring and respecting him, and he as very proud and protective of her. So... when that totally implodes, her feelings on family may grow a little more jaded. The bottom line is, she won't view family as something you have to put first above all else, and that's going to matter. I think she may sort of shift into the idea of having a chosen family, but what happens with her father may make her more inclined to want to feel independent above all else.
Leslie's father died when she was ten. She loves her mother, even to an extent sort of idolizes, her, but she can also be a little afraid of her. She thinks of her coworkers in the Parks Department as her family more than anything, and of course, she loves her new husband Ben. She is happy to talk about all of them!
For Manny, I millicannoned that his mother raised him after his father left when he was very, very young. He loved her, but he was also pretty ready to leave home. At this point, he prefers to think of himself as independent and unattached to anyone, though I think underneath that his feelings toward Glottis become pretty fraternal. And in that last year he and Meche were probably acting pretty paternal toward the angelitos. So he's inclined to view relations through familial roles.
Marceline's father is the demon ruler of the Nightosphere, and while they love each other, they can have a lot of differences, like him being at a distance for much of her childhood, or not really being considerate of her feelings and eating her fries/trying to suck the souls out of everyone in Ooo. Or tricking her into wearing a pendant that transformed her into the ruler of the Nightospehre. Er. Things like that. The show's never really addressed her mother, though I don't think she was also a demon, as the Finn-created-AU wold seem to indicate she wouldn't have been immortal if she hadn't become a vampire. Aside from this, Simon Petrikov was a definite father-figure for her during/immediately after the Mushroom War, and now she thinks of the Ice King as sort of a kooky uncle/grandfather. At least, that's the most positive light for it. She's not overly close to any of them now, but her views on family are still relatively positive.
Katara's mother died when she was very young, as a result of a Fire Nation raid on her village. Her father subsequently left the village, and despite being the younger sibling, she sort of took over a mother role for her brother Sokka, and to an extent for the village generally, alongside her grandmother. She views family and her family ties as extremely important, though this tends to go beyond blood relatives to people she views as part of her community, or just in need of her help or protection. So, she considers anyone in the Southern Water Tribe as part of her "family," whether they're directly related or not, and that view extends when she travels and sees other people she thinks of as in need of her help. And eventually she marries Aang and has three children with him, and I'm sure is that annoying person who talks about her kids all the time.
Hiccup's mother died when he was very young, and he has a ... complicated relationship with his father, who is the Chief of the Berk and generally doesn't make it a secret that he's disappointed in him. Their relationship eventually improves, though. He's also a blacksmith apprentice to Gobber, who essentially acts as a second parent to Hiccup, often mediating between Hiccup and Stoick. And who also spends a lot of time with Stoick. I'm just saying.
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That is a slashfic no one wants to see. *shudder*
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Her father Tumeken... well... I tend to think of him as the type of guy who runs away from his family's problems, but that is probably influenced by the way Amascut thinks of him. Mythology says he was extremely disappointed that his son brought the Mahjarrat into the world and that his daughter was so mentally weak that mortals caused her insanity and that she was rampaging destructively through everything he had built. The constant fighting between Amascut and her brother eventually drove him away, but before that he reconciled with Icthlarin and put Ichtlarin in charge while he went on a vision quest of sorts. That probably angered Amascut a lot more but what she really hated was that on his vision quest, Tumeken raised a human, a monkey, a crocodile, and a scarab beetle to semi-godhood as a somewhat second, model family for himself. Amascut despises her step-siblings so much that she doesn't consider them siblings at all, instead thinking of them as her father's pets. Also, it has been recently confirmed that Tumeken has been largely absent for the past 2000 and some years.
Amascut's mother... canon doesn't reveal much about her, but Amascut in my head is telling me that is because she stood by and did nothing while all this was happening. So... yeah...
On a lighter note, Fairy Fixit seems okay with her family/community. I am not too sure if the Zanaris Fairies are all one colony spawned by the Queen or just a tight knit community of mostly unrelated individuals but I lean toward the latter.
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His second family is his crew. He considers the guys at the firehouse to be his brothers and sometimes they're more a family to him than his actual blood relatives.
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One of the best ways to bring them to anger is to endanger or otherwise threaten a member of the family.
The family has expanded slightly since the turtles started going top-side. In canon there's April and Casey. In Milliways more than a few people have been given honorary "artist" names when adopted.
These days Mike views most, if not all, of Milliways as his family.
Aang there isn't a whole lot of canon on how the Air Nomads handled family, so until there is this is my headcanon:
If possible Air Nomad children were born at the Western Temple, where they stayed until they were weaned. Then guardians from the other temples would come and whisk them away to a life of training. There were meticulous records kept as to who fathered/birthed the children, but that information was not available to the children until they reached the age of majority. Kids lived at the temples until they too reached the age of majority in which case they were then free to come and go as they pleased.
For the most part Air Nomads traveled in large groups along with Sky Bison migration routes. Family structure was less "nuclear" than communal, with children referring to their parents by their names rather than honorifics.
The true "parental" figures of every Air Nomad's life are their guardians at the Temple, and any siblings would be the cohort they study with.
Aang was ridiculously close with Monk Gyatso, who was also best friends with his previous incarnation, Avatar Roku.
Aang also had chosen family in the other nations in the form of Kuzon, who lived in the Fire Nation prior to Sozin's Comet, and Bumi who eventually became King of Omashu.
Sokka was Aang's brother long before he married Katara, and she was his best friend long before she became his wife. Toph is also Aang's brother. Any argument to the contrary will earn you a punch to the shoulder. A hard punch to the shoulder.
I see Aang initially having trouble adapting to the Water Tribe family structure not because it's a difficult thing to adjust to, Aang loves easily, but because it's so different than what he was raised with and choosing it seems like purposely distancing himself from his ways. Plus...he's really nervous about being a father and being a father correctly. I imagine far more letters than necessary are sent to Hakota, Iroh, and Zuko regarding what a father is supposed to do.
Bumi's family is very close knit, even though they're scattered all over the world. No one messes with his family. No one. Bad mouthing his father is also a speedy path towards something bad happening to you. Bad mouthing his mother? No one in their right mind would ever do that.
The Loompas were raised in Wonka's factory where familial ties distracted one from the glory of the company. SO...they're a little messed up around the edges because of that.
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Will, I've been thinking about Will's family lately and might make some changes. When I first started playing him, I imagined him as the only living child of his parents since child mortality was an issue in that era. I'm going to keep that but scale it back as I chose an arbitrarily big number of 7, better to stick with say three. His parents are living in Nottingham and run a market stall, they're poor and he loves his parents and is more like his father than his mother. His mother is quieter while he gets his temper from his father, their family name is because somewhere down the line there was a Viking with red hair. He has also created a huge family of choice in Sherwood and Milliways.
Charles is confusing because canon wasn't as clear as I would have liked. His mother in my mind was English and so he grew up surrounded by English servants and was basically raised by his Nanny. The sort of neglect that happens when there's lots of money and a different idea of family, though when his mutation first manifested, there were points when he was almost institutionalized as he scared everyone. Raven came into his life when he was about 9 and he started building the sort of family he wanted, because Charles loves so much and builds families around himself. At one point in canon, there's a reference to his stepfather building the bomb shelter that gets used as a training room for Havoc but that's it. I sort of lightly handwave it all and at some point his mother dies because he inherits the mansion. His current family of choice is large and growing.
William is really defined by his family, when his father was killed, he became the one to take care of his brother Mark and his mother. He constantly worries about doing enough and doing things right for their sakes. He and Mark have a close relationship since they're only a year or two apart in age and in canon, its mentioned that Mark became sick when he was 2, William has spent most of his life caring for Mark. My read of canon is that William is much more like his father than his mother, they both have the same impulsiveness and push to do whatever they can. Alice and Mark are just as intense but due to their places in society, they can't do as much. There's a reference to them coming from the east to help Mark and I think Dan might have served with a Massachusetts' regiment in the War. My instinct is there's some family out there but not that close.
Moist's parents died when he was little as there's a great canon line about leaving him with an unfortunate name. He was raised by his grandparents in Uberwald and I think of them as poor gentry. His grandfather raised Lipwigzers, which are fancy attack dogs and Moist is incredibly comfortable with dogs. He left home at age 16 to find more out in the world and has never been in contact. I imagine that some of his family is still alive, maybe not both grandparents but I'm not sure. In canon, its clear that Vetinari sent someone to find out about him so someone's alive to know. Though Uberwaldians do have long memories. Moist has good memories of his grandparents just not of Uberwald and he doesn't like to get tied down.
Jane loves her family, her movie family is a little different than her historical family. The mix of siblings isn't the same but I play by the movie with some historical input. She's closest to her father who's a vicar, her brother Henry and her sister Cassandra. She and her mother have a difficult relationship as in the movie there's the implication that her mother married down to her father and it hasn't been easy. They're both stubborn and love each other but its tough.
Demeter ignores most of her family that's not her daughter and a few other relatives due to Persephone's kidnapping and arranged marriage. My headcanon is that after the agreement was made with Hades, Demeter settled in France, which was at that point one of the farthest places you could be while still being in a place with Greek roots. Milliways has helped her reconnect with some of her family but especially her older brothers, she avoids.
Sameth's family has issues, they all love each other but don't know how to talk to each other. His mother was away being Abhorsen for most of his life, so he's closer to his father. You can see that in how he refers to them in canon, Sabriel is mother, Touchstone is Dad. He worries about disappointing them and so hid from them how much the cricket attack hurt him and how he wasn't suited to be Abhorsen. Sameth and Ellimere used to be closer, growing up they were closest to each other as no one else in Belisaere was like them though they had friends around the castle. Then they went off to school in Ancelstierre and their schools were far from each other, but I can see them staying in touch and teasing. Though somewhere before the cricket attack, I think they were already starting to drift apart more especially as Sam realized he wasn't going to be a good Abhorsen. They're still working on fixing things, because the entire family isn't good at talking. None of them really have practice with it as Sabriel's father was absent and Touchstone was a royal bastard.
Tumnus is an orphan. Its not clear when his mother died but I think probably when he was quite young and he was raised by his father. Then his father was killed by the White Witch and Tumnus cut himself off to keep safe until Lucy came into his life and changed everything. He would do anything for the Pevensies as they gave him hope and love and saved Narnia.
The Pirate King according to canon is a Lord's son, but he ran away from home to be a pirate. He has a soft spot for orphans and considers his pirates his family. Ruth is their Nanny and various other things. He wants to start a family in the near future though his way of going about it isn't the best.
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1. Grace. Danny's daughter, and the light of his whole life. There is nothing he wouldn't do for her, including moving five thousand miles from everything he loves. She is his entire world. If you ask about Grace, he will talk about nothing else for hours. (He might do that anyway.)
2. Matty. Danny's younger brother. Matty was instrumental in getting Danny through his divorce, and it's clear that the two brothers are very close. Danny is fiercely loyal to his brother, and tells off two Feds following Matt for embezzling, but investigates on his own only to find Matt really has been stealing money from his clients. Even then, Danny tells him he'll help, if Matt comes clean, and is heartbroken when Matt instead decides to run. Thus far, we have gotten no further updates on Matt and Danny doesn't mention him.
3. Eric. Danny's nephew, who shows up for a day of fun and ends up tagging along on the job. Danny views him as irresponsible and idiotic, but admits he was much the same way before becoming a cop.
When Wolfwood was eight years old, he shot and killed his abusive adoptive father.
Caspian survived an assassination attempt from his uncle. His mother and father were both murdered by the same man. However, he was a loving husband and father, and views Miraz more with pity than fear or hatred. He's unlikely to ever bring up his family situation: Miraz because he feels it's too personal and isn't looking for pity, and Rilian/his wife because it is still too painful.
Jack is hated by and hates his father, to whom he has always been a disappointment. He will, however, talk about his father. It's couched in jokes, but the resentment is there. He himself tries to be a good father, but is continually overshadowed by his father-in-law, and his attempts to be a good husband sort of fall flat, the way they do, if you're in love with someone who isn't your wife.
Emma doesn't know her parents, but sways between wistfulness about them to resentment and depression at being abandoned. In reality, her mother is her best friend. She's leery of the whole topic, but is open enough about having grown up in the system, which didn't work well for her. Currently, she's developing a fierce love and loyalty for Henry, which is entirely unexpected and something she doesn't quite know how to deal with, leading to several (MANY) poor judgment issues and three steps backwards for every step forward. And then everyone in canon was related and SERIOUSLY, that would be the most awkward family reunion/barbecue of all time.
Nathan has a complicated relationship with his father, and compartmentalizes Garland Wuornos into professional and personal selves, referring to Garland as "the Chief" when it's about work, or "my father" when it isn't.
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*eyes Orpheus*
*eyes the Greek pantheon*
*backs away*
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Stiles also has Scott, who isn't really his brother, but may as well be. They're stuck together on the bottom of the Beacon Hills social pyramid, but who needs popularity when you've got an awesome bro you can depend on to go along with your crazy "let's go look for dead bodies in the middle of the night" schemes.
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Merlin has his mother, but people like Gwen and the Knights of the Round Table, and for a long time Morgana, are like brothers and sisters to him, too. And he and Arthur... more than friends, more than master and servant... exactly what they became to each other depends on how opaque your slash goggles are.
Bilbo has kin and cousins, some of whom he likes, some he doesn't. He loves Frodo like a son, but his closet chosen family are the dwarves of his adventure and Gandalf.
The Ice King has Gunther. Marceline is a sort-of daughter, but he tends to forget that.
Steve has a brother-from-another-mother in Bucky. As an orphan, he didn't have much else, but the Howling Commandos and then the Avengers became his found family. (And then there's Orpheus, who is his chosen family.)
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
*clears throat* Sorry about that.
Helena and family is very complex. When she was 8 her entire family (anyone bearing the name Bertinelli) was murdered due to their Mafia connections. Helena was spared.
She idolises her mother and definitely puts her on a pedestal, which is easy to do when someone is dead. Later she finds out about her mothers infidelity and her faith in her perfect mother is tarnished a little.
Her father she hates for his Mafia connections and the way he treated her mother and brother (he was abusive).
Then there is her Uncle's family whom she has very mixed feelings about: her Uncle Tomasso (her mothers brother) who is again Mafia connected; her cousin Monica, whom she feels she needs to protect despite not really liking the girl; and her aunt Graziela/Grace.
Her adoptive family - distant relatives - who took her in after her family was murdered. Her uncle was again abusive, her aunt - a broken mess of woman worn down by a life of being a Mafia wife. And her cousin Sal, whom she loves beyond measure. Sal took a lot of abuse on behalf of Helena and taught her how to be strong and how to defend herself.
Her biological father. Tried to manipulate her in to being an enforcer for the Mafia and blames her for her mothers death, despite him being the man to give the order.
Despite all of that, because of the Italian heritage she has a real sense of honour and duty to family, particularly where her mother is concerned. Blood cries for blood is something of a motto to Helena. It's what causes her to seek out revenge for the deaths of her family and ultimately led to her becoming the Huntress.
Later she gets thrown together with the Birds of Prey and they become her family in a very real way. They are her sisters and her friends and you don't mess with them because Helena will kill you or die trying (Lady Shiva, take note!)
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Her biological family, if she lived a mortal life, has been utterly forgiven because Star is an Aquarian Symbol that lives in the promise of the near-distant future. That said, she loves all of her siblings dearly.
Marian and her dad have a complicated relationship. He's a long-game man, and he trained that into Marian, but he's also a pushover where she's a silent, faceless activest. They're both pretty much willing to sacrifice everything for each other, but they don't see eye-to-eye much once he knows she's taken his childhood trainning become The Nightwatchman.
All of these things remain true pretty much to Sir Edward's messy end.
Not much is 'canonically' know about Marian's mother. She died when Marian was young, but there's no clue to when or how, and people simply refer to her as "The Good Lady Kate."
Jean's biological family actually isn't all that complicated. They were actually incredibly supportive of her gift, her working with charles Xavier and of what they knew of her being an X-Men. Except. You know. There is that massive problem of The Shi'ar tracking down her mother, father, and sister and killing them, to make sure they couldn't be carrier's of The Phoenix.
Outside of biology Jean regards Charles quite often as a Father, or Mentor. She's best friends and sisters, basically, with Ororo Monroe. Plus, she's headmistress of the entire school. And kind of the heart of the group often (whether it's the four other boys, or the whole sets of other teams).
Oh. Right. And there her boyfriend/husband/exhusband, who has fallen in love and gotten engaged to (married/had kids with) in some combination every version of her made (cloning and universal copying). Plus, she raising the of son genetic clone, who was married to Scott, in the far futue. Oh, and her daughter from a completely different other future came back. And then an alternate universe version of her/not-her/her-clone's son.
Yeah......so. Marvel. Right.
He doesn't remember much of his original family now. But it's implied he had a rathere golden upbringing, was taught to play piano, lived an middle-upper or lower-upper class life, and wanted to find glory in the war. But instead he caught the plague and nearly died.
He's unbreakably loyal to his current family. He esteems Carlisle to a point that no one else in the world touches. His sister Alice is like the other side of his coin and his head.
Esme, who's younger than him barely, is his mother, and they dote on each other, in a way that doesn't get seen much in any other way, because Edward was her first child after the baby she lost. His younger brother, Emmet, is The Older Bother of the family. And Rosalie. Well. Rosalie is ice.....witch.
(Also. Possibly the most like him out of all of them.)
Complicated like oy?
Jo Harvelle loves her mother and venerated her father, was also raised by the hunters (/ "uncles" based by her journals) coming in and out of her parents bar all her life. Her father was a hunter and her mother was bound and determined to do anything to keep Jo from it.
Which mostly meant at the end of long years of fight Jo went off to be fighter at the cost of her family, and all the resource and sanctuary her home provided hunters.
He doesn't want to talk about his parents, okay?
His mother left him black and blue through his life, and his father wasn't much for speaking up to stop her tempers. The last time he saw his mother was the day he left for 74th Hunger Games. She told him the district would finally have a winner. She meant Katniss. And his father never came. Because he went to see Katniss instead.
So. Yeah.
There's reason he lives alone in Victor Village.
Complicated is complicated. Is SUPER complicated.
Previous Generation Edition! Snow parents loved her, but her mother died from poisoning (which she still doesn't know, and she carried childhood guilt for a long time for not being willing to use magic and kill someone else so her mother would live). Her father then remarried to Regina, whom Snow venerated with awe and love.
She, also, accidentlly killed Regina's One True Love though an act of The Best Intentions while being manipulated by the bigger bad of the day (Regina's mother). It's about ten or fifteen years before Snow finds out what happens to Daniel, or that it was her fault. Which is sad for her becaus in that time Regina kills her father and they brands her a traitor, trying to kill her or have her killed several times while Snow has no idea what or why.
Next Generation Edition! Snow gives birth to Emma who is taken from her arms within about fifteen minutes or birth, by Charming, whom she next finds slain on a floor and her daughter gone entirely, and the next time she happens to be herself at all the world is beyond messed up and tangled.
Her grown-up daughter (who was raised in a savage, unhelpful system) is now sherrif of Storybrooke and her best friend, and her condifant in matters of love, sex, everything else about her dad (who also happened to be married at the time, to a princess he didn't marry in fairytale land).
Oh. And she has a son. Her daughter, not her. Who happens to be being raised by her step-mother, who is the mayor of Storybrooke. And who she's been teaching how to build bird houses and taking a special interst in for more years than she even has any idea. Also. The father of her grandson? Yeah. That turned the world upside down, too. Because of that lineage, too. As Charming pointed out, Thank god they don't have Thanksgiving's in Fairytale land.
So. Yeah. Uh.
Steve McGarrett had a charmed and perfect life. He had two wonderful parents, one a teacher and the other a cop/navy man. A little adorable, bratty sister, and he played quarter back for his high school. Oh, and he lived in paradise, Hawaii. And then a car bomb went off and his entire life changed.
His mother was dead. His father became withdrawn and drank more. Then, he and his sister were shipped to different corners of the Us. It would take two decades before Steve would find out a lot of important, even worse things.
The car bomb wasn't an accident. Someone murdered his mom. Possibly the same person who murdered his dad. Oh. Right. And his mother, who's been dead since he was 15, who was murdered and who's death ruined every other member of the McGarett's -- she's not dead. J/K, they were just joshing.
Also. She's a super!spy to the CIA. With more blood on her hands than Braveheart, people only know her code name as a whisper to be afraid of or, you know, like torture Steve for, and she's totally cooler than cool and more awesome than her son. Likes to lie with every breath out of her mouth, torture people in abandoned warehouses, and even hide disastrously dangerous objects under the floor boards where her children were sleeping and leave them there two decades
And she doesn't at all seem, to understand why her hard up third-generation Navy SEAL son and her delicate, spunky, can't stick to anyhing daughter (who didn't even see each other between their mother's funeral and shortly after their father's, over 15 years) don't trust her or believe her. What can you do?
Aside from hope she trips and dies on her own Superness.Except not Mary. Mary can stay. The Littlest McGarrett is made of moxy and amazing. Steve loves his little sister incredibly, even if he's missing nearly twenty years of having a little sisters which makes it harder to, you know, have a sister and treat her like your sister. But really not that hard to be willing to (let Danny) beat the crap out of anyone who kidnaps her (....because him touching them would be bad).
So. SEAL in a nutcase, I mean, nut shell. Of course, I did.
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Of course, at the start of canon, Enzo's family consisted of his sister, his dog, and Bob, and they had to take family members where they could get them. Between canon and Millicanon, the family has expanded to the point where we now refer to them as Clan Matrix: he now has two siblings (one by cloning), two in-laws, two nieces, one semi-resurrected father, said dog, his girlfriend, his girlfriend's family, and assorted friends both sprite and Milliwaysish who are more borderline cases, but he will accept any close friend as family to some degree. (Even Clem, code help him.)
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Dixie: lost both parents in a wagon accident very young; bounced between foster homes before landing in a convent. Considers the mother superior there her mother.
Juliet: has an awkward relationship with her father, who is a con man; her stepfather is similarly a con, but Jules' mom doesn't know that. Has an older brother she worshipped who turned out to be a criminal.
Pinkie: Has a family back on a rock farm; they're not particularly close, and have generally accepted Pinkie's need to spread her gospel of joy. Considers the Cakes and their children, Pumpkin and Pound, to be her family.