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Wow, I am late today. Sorry about that folks. Anyway, onto the fun.
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Where does your pup fit within their family? Are they the black sheep, the middle child, the favorite son or daughter, etc.? How did/does it affect their relationships with other family members?
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gavin62truck :Where does your pup fit within their family? Are they the black sheep, the middle child, the favorite son or daughter, etc.? How did/does it affect their relationships with other family members?
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Annabelle Newfield was the only child and absolutely adored and was adored by both of her parents. She lost both of them before she was 14, which is why she got to go on daring Adventures without anyone raising a fuss. She didn't have any aunts, uncles, grandparents or other relatives at that point that were still alive between disease, the First World War, and alcohol.
Dragons in Fireborn don't have 'relatives' in the sense we're used to, as they aren't born in a conventional sense. Kreyu calls her broodmates her 'brothers' because that's about as close as human language gets to a handy descriptor for their relationship. She's the youngest of the brood and her 'brothers' tend to dote on her a little.
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Brimstone must have had a biological family once but it is long gone, if he even ever got a chance to spend time with them. He is the patriarch of his found family and keeps himself distant from his adopted daughter so that she may have a chance at happiness. This doesn't work as well as he thinks it does.
Hank was an only child and was loved by both parents but they didn't really get him or just how much of a genius he was. They are still very proud of him and accept him unconditionally, even if he doesn't realize it.
Quin had a loving mother and father until they agreed to let him study with the Jedi Temple. This pissed off his Great Aunt, who had them murdered and then she tried to ruin Quin for the Jedi by giving him a necklace his mother was wearing so he could experience her death via psychometry. He's made a better family for himself now, with a wife and two children.
As far as Andrea is concerned she only has a mother. Her aunt's are dead to both her and the world. Her father is still a tickle on her emotional radar. She has a best friend/sister now and will build her own family in a book or so.
Mulan was an only child and very much loved by her parents. I am not sure of extended family. I think she has them and her choice to become a warrior is frowned upon but she hasn't seen them in years. She had a sword brother and a princess she cared a lot for but left them behind so they could build their family. Now she is alone but building a new family with Robin Hood.
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Apmeken, her kinda/sorta adopted sister, or one of her father's pets, or one of the split off aspects of her father, is sort of strange about her relation with Amascut. Amascut blinded, deafened, and muted Apmeken, but when Apmeken's senses where restored, she was very oddly unemotional about the whole ordeal, almost serene about it. And Apmeken is supposed to be the goddess of sociability *shrug*. She only said that Amascut would be 'dealt with' and left.
The speculation that Amascut's father Tumeken split himself up into Apmeken, Crondis, Het, and Scarabas lends an extra bit of crazy and angst to Amascut's hateful relationship with them. But Apmeken's lack of emotion and Scabaras' passive-aggressive way of dealing with Amascut's schemes lends a lot more weight to Amascut's "so small, so hard, so cold," comment about about the Kharid-Ib. D-:
I have no idea about her her relationship with mother Elidinis or her other two "step"-siblings, Het and Crondis, yet.
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Giovanni's father is dead and his mother alternates between doting and scolding him and his twin sister, but they are a close and loving family.
Sharpe... well, all his blood family and two of his wives are dead, except his children, and he's only getting to raise two of those three. But he's happy with what he's got.
Harry has a sister in Ireland who he's close enough to that he sent Nita to stay with her, but I don't think they actually have that much contact. I suspect their parents have passed, so now he has Nita, Dairine, and a whole intergalactic community of wizards.
Nancy has Jamie and her little flock of waifs, and that's about it. She is slowly starting to build something in Milliways.
Jonathan has Andrew. His parents are still alive but sort of distant these days.
Michael is the patriarch of a massive family and loves it, so much he'll take in other people's kids if need be as well.
Roshaun has every wizard in the universe, which is good, because otherwise he'd only have a scary (if well-meaning) father and a more doting mother.
Norrington still cared enough about his father's opinion to make sure news of the pardon got to him, but he's cut his ties now. His family is the crew of the Dutchman, plus Elizabeth and Will Junior.
Gavroche has only really ever had found family worth the name, apart from Eponine, and he's okay with that.
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Adrian was the middle child and second boy in a family of five. His family was pretty close-knit and tended to get on well; part of the reason Shephard joined the Marines rather than trying for college or a regular job was because his older sister and younger brother were both more suited to college educations and he wanted to make sure they had better financial chances. He was raised to believe that if you took someone under your roof, they were family, and that if someone was enough of a jackass you could declare them not your family any more. This is at least partly how he wound up adopting his universe's version of Chell as a sister, and also part of why he took it as badly as he did when he found out he was the only surviving Marine left after the Combine War, because that was a lot of brothers and sisters he lost. Most of the rest of his biological family is either dead or missing, but his mother, his younger brother, and one of his sisters are still alive (although I think said sister is more a 'presumed alive' case rather than confirmed- I'd have to go through old threads and check) despite the Combine trying. He has also taken on being a secondary lusus to two Alternian trolls and I am looking forward to the day when he introduces himself to somebody Norse or Asgardian or something, or gets introduced to same, as 'Shephard Trollfather'.
Ellen was her father's only child in Vault 101. Given that Dad came from the surface and spent nineteen years lying about it, and his tendency to go "Well, I'm done here- leaving now!" without warning, Ellen is not entirely sure she doesn't have other siblings somewhere. She views family as an obligation and an important one, though.
Varric has an older brother and is largely glad of this, because most of the obligations are on Bartrand's shoulders rather than his. He believes in a certain amount of family obligation, but he's just glad not to be the one with most of it.
Stacker Pentecost is the older of two siblings. His father was murdered when he was twelve; his mother died sometime after that. His only surviving family, Luna, was killed fighting the Trespasser on K-Day. His obligations lie elsewhere.
Edward James Kenway was born in Swansea, Wales, to Bernard Kenway and Linette Hopkins. There is no evidence of him having any siblings or biological children at this point in time. Obviously he eventually does, because Haytham and then Connor, but at this point in time, not so much.
El Santo may or may not have had siblings. He doesn't talk about it, and neither do I.
The only family Medic admits to is his grandparents. I suspect he had a younger sibling or two before the no doubt hilariously ludicrous accident that would've killed his parents and left him to be raised by his stern but not entirely unfeeling grandfather and much softer but potentially more demanding grandmother. He just won't say, but then again I'm not even sure I know his actual name, since I'm almost certain he lied on his BLU hiring form.
And Mordin... hu boy. Salarians don't do human style families. 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. Sexuality is strictly for the purpose of reproduction. Ancient social codes determine who gets to fertilize eggs, which produces more daughters to continue the bloodline. Fertilization generally only occurs after months of negotiation between the parents' clans, and is done for purposes of political and dynastic alliance. Approaching 100 members, the first circle of a salarian's clan comprises parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, and cousins. The next circle includes second cousins, etc., and escalates to well over 1000 members. The fourth or fifth circle of a clan numbers into the millions. Salarian loyalty is greatest to their first circle and diminishes from there. Their photographic memories allow salarians to recognize all their myriad relatives."
That being said, the only relative of Mordin's we ever hear about is a favorite nephew of his. Said nephew achieved university tenure at the age of 16 and was the relative Mordin made sure to contact before canon got to its most dangerous point.
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Trowa grew up without a family -- the closest he had was the mercenary troop who raised him, but neither he nor they called it that, and then they all died. His sister adopted him as her brother when he was around 15, in the midst of complicated anime plot circumstances. She was an orphan, so their family is a little two-person unit, and it means a lot to both of them. Trowa is technically younger, but it's only technicality, both because he had already been living solo for several years and because he doesn't even know how old he is anyway. They both sort of try to be the protective older sibling in different circumstances; Cathy socially and with nurturing, Trowa in anything dangerous or with what you might term street smarts.
Enjolras is the only son of a rich family, which is all we canonically know. Millicanonically, I have decided that his mother died when he was young, and he and his father are... fond of each other but not all that close, I guess is the way to put it? They have philosophical discussions but not a lot of day-to-day emotional connection, and then Enjolras went away to college anyway (and possibly boarding school before that). I waffle on whether I want him to have a much older half-sister he has very little in common with (except the tendency to focus single-mindedly, but on quite different things) or to genuinely be an only child.
Clare doesn't really remember her childhood family, but uh anyway they're all dead. Thanks, Claymore! So mostly her experience of family is being a traumatized orphan who didn't have one. Teresa sort of slotted into the position of mother and older sister for a while, though, and they both imprinted hard on that closeness, to a fairly codependent point.
River is the younger sister. River is, in her default approach to social situations, a little sister. She was the prodigy of the family, and fairly doted on, and she and Simon were extremely close as kids -- close enough that when she was trapped in the Academy, he dropped everything in his life (seriously, everything) to break her out even if it meant making both of them fugitives, on the strength of her coded messages. And then they had to become differently close, because she was traumatized and uncontrollably psychic and brain damaged (in an extremely Hollywood way, admittedly), and Simon was her doctor and protector and just about her only anchor. Things have stabilized, and nowadays they have more of a normally close relationship between adult siblings.
Regan is an only child. And... honestly, I'm not sure, beyond that! I came up with some millicanon once but I've forgotten what it was, I think. *sheepish*
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Nolan Grayson loves his son. Mark's not sure what he feels about his father. He loves the memory of him, but the Very Bad Day gets in the way of that.
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Gibbs is the oldest boy of a family of seven, or eight, or eleven, depending on when you do the counting. He was somewhat close to one sister, but he hasn't seen any of them in decades, and assumes most of them are passed away. He felt absolutely no connection with his parents at all. That he ran off to join the navy probably makes him a black sheep, even without the pirate stuff. But no one was in a position to call him that.
Knox is the younger of two brothers, and the older brother Elliot is "my son, the doctor." There is an eight year difference in age that makes them very much of separate generations - Elvis vs. the Stones, Mickey Mantle vs. Tom Seaver, Frank Sinatra vs. Tom Jones. Knox perceives his big brothers as the favorite, but in truth his father isn't a fan of either, and his mother secretly disapproves of Elliot's wife but adores Rapunzel. In general, the family dynamic is a mess but no one seems to realize this.
Howard Stark's two sisters are younger than him, but always led separate lives from him. His disagreements with his father, which led him to flee to CalTech and to work with his grandfather instead, never spilled over into relations with the rest of the family. But leaving Detroit for LA essentially ended any close relations with anyone at home. Howard's mother is a distant figure to everyone, and Howard wonders just what she's up to outside the home, but will never ask. Again, a dysfunctional family, one that will no doubt spill over into Howard's relations with Tony.
Jim Kirk takes after his dad, of course, though in my head-canon his father was not in Starfleet proper for very long but served as a civilian troubleshooter. Either way, Jim adored his father but isn't inclined to talk about him much. Clearly, there was a distance between father and son that manifested itself in Jim's own willingness to stay away from his own son. Jim's mother seems to have played less of a role in his life, though I think her influence as grounding element was there, if subtle. And Jim was close to his brother for a time, but rarely got to see him prior to the latter's death. Jim has tried to be a good uncle to Sam Kirk's sons, but it hasn't come easily.
Cy's an only child, and was as close to his mom as he is distant from his dad. It's clear he saw the divorce as his dad's fault, and his dad being rather unemotional only reinforced that. Cy has never really been able to reconcile his dad's distance with his dad saving his life. I think that a reconciliation is overdue, but just because Vic and Silas Stone made up in both the old and new canons in the comics is no reason to think it will happen in this reality, too.
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Tom Riddle - only child, mother died at birth, murdered father and paternal grandparents as a teenager. Yup! The magic of Milliways gave him a second chance to get the family thing down, and he has raised Ingress and Gavroche with Door, as well as their son, Portico, and the baby on the way.
Ingress - parents and older brother murdered, raised by sister, Door, and Tom. Also has her Companion, Megwyn, and her found family of Heralds and Heralds-to-be in Haven.
Bela Talbot - parents killed by demonic deal she made as a teenager to escape an abusive situation. She does okay now with close friends, but she's pretty independent and on her own with all kinds of trust issues.
(I don't know about Gilderoy... But let's just say his parents are out of the picture, too.
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Glorfindel: Has parents back in Aman, but he hasn't seen them since before the Noldorian rebellion. He's... not entirely sure of his welcome, even if his lord wasn't part of the kinslaying.
Oswin: Is an only child, which probably helped during her year alone with the Daleks - she was used to entertaining herself.
Clara: Is also an only child, and her mum died when she was young - since she never went through the rebellious teenaged years with her mum, she still sees her mum as the perfect version of the person who was - not as a real person. She's taken on an older sister/parent type figure for the two kids she watches... not that they appreciate it most times.
William: Is the youngest son of three, in a time where the first born son is the heir of the estate, and the rest are spares and are expected to do something with themselves and not be a drain on the estate in the future. Luckily, being a sailor suits him right down to his shoes, and he's as happy as can be where he is.
Balthazar: Is also the youngest son of three, and he looked fairly doomed to be sent to a local monastery for training in the Church when Merlin showed up and changed everything.
Katya: ... I actually have two ideas of what her human life was, one I'm becoming more enamored with all the time... but I'm not sure if it's pure wish fulfillment. Right now, the Watch is her family. In Russia, she's the younger sibling - a bit of a parental favorite, less serious and more inclined to play pranks. With Skellig she tends to be a bit more mature... mostly.
Bones: Is an only child, and he had a close relationship with his dad and his grandpa - both of which were doctors themselves, and took him as a child on their rounds. Despite his close relationship, Bones is more apt to talk about his granddaddy than his dad - the circumstances around his dad's death aren't pretty, and he's still not okay with them.
Sam: Is the only daughter of a vicar, with a couple vicar uncles. Since she is currently being something other than the circumspect daughter of a vicar, she's considered something of a rebellious child. She's just fine with that, actually.
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He's the eldest of six children. His mother was a controlling, manipulative alcoholic, his father was an emotionally abusive alcoholic...but, hey, they were family! Tommy's dad treated him like shit not out of actual hate, but an inability to show affection like a normal parent. He was never supportive of Tommy throughout his childhood (never went to any of his baseball or hockey games, never said he was proud of him for anything), so Tommy still harbors a deep-seated resentment toward him.
Tommy's younger brother Johnny is their dad's favorite son -- smarter, more straight-laced, a better personality ("He always could light up a room..." *eyeroll from Tommy*), so there was always a fierce love/hate rivalry between them, yet they were still very close. Tommy is also close to his sister Maggie, the eldest Gavin sister, because she was a true wild child on par with Tommy. She claims that she was the only kid their dad hated more than him.
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Charles was a pampered only child, son of a well to do family with in my headcanon a British mother and Nanny. He loved his mother and I think at some point his father died since a stepfather is mentioned but canon is unhelpful on details. He was mainly raised by his Nanny with his mother appearing to teach him what it means to be a proper Xavier. Then Raven appeared and he easily moved into an older brother role though biologically Raven's probably older than him as mutants are weird.
Ivan is an only child, his father died the day he was born killed in the midst of a Barrayaran civil war. He and his mother have a complicated relationship as her ideas of who he should be and his own don't fully match up, but they love each other fiercely and try and look out for each other. He's always avoided politics and is happy to be a bachelor following the mainly expected path, but in comparison to his various age mates; Miles, Gregor and Elena, he's lived a safer and more boring life. Also his familial nickname is Ivan, you idiot, because he's not clever or smart in the same way Miles is. I could go on more, but the last book Captain Vorpatril's Alliance made me happy because it showed that Ivan does do well what he's chosen to do.
Moist is an orphan, his parents were sweet and died in a carriage accident. He was raised by his grandparents who bred Lipwigzer dogs. In my mind, they're still alive and he liked them but at one point got bored of feeling trapped in Uberwald and left. His family has some noble/gentry blood somehow since Lipwig is the name of a region in Uberwald.
William is the older brother of two, his younger brother Mark is about three years younger than him and through most of his life was sick with consumption. A huge part of who William is comes from being an older brother to a sick brother that he couldn't fully fix until Milliways. His mother loves and worries about her two sons and she frets that William is going to end up like his father, working himself into an early grave. Dan Evans was shot when putting Ben Wade on the 3:10 to Yuma and before that he and William had a rocky relationship as they're both very alike and want to do the best for the rest of the family. As Dan is sometimes in Milliways, he and William's relationship has improved, they'll never open their hearts a lot as that's not how they work, but things are better.
Jane loves her father and her sisters and brothers. She's the second oldest daughter and third oldest child in the movie universe which isn't exactly the same as reality. She has an older brother Henry, her sister Cassandra with whom she's very close and another brother who's name I always forget. Her relationship with her mother is tough as they both have different ideas on what happiness means. Her mother prizes security while Jane prizes happiness more.
Sameth is the youngest of two and at times very much a younger brother to his sister Ellimere. At times she bosses him around and is made for being the Heir to the royal family but Sameth hasn't always fit in the way he's meant to. For a good part of his life, it was expected for him to be Abhorsen even though he was scared of Death, but he couldn't let his mother down. He has a complicated relationship with his mother as for most of his life, she's been away being Abhorsen while his father has always been more present. Though neither of them were around that much and for a while, Sameth and Ellimere were incredibly close but they grew apart. Now they're all trying to mend their relationships and figure out how to bring Lirael, who's Sabriel's half sister into their odd family.
Demeter is one of the twelve major gods and is a sister to Zeus, Poseidon and Hera. I need to double check how everyone's related as they've all mainly slept with each other too. Demeter currently doesn't live on Olympus, after Kore's kidnapping, she left and hasn't returned. She is closest to her daughter but a major part of what makes their relationship work is that they have a big enough house and garden that they can ignore each other at times.
Tumnus was an only child and his father was killed while rebelling against the White Witch. His mother died some point before that and a lot of how Tumnus defines himself is done in comparison to his father.
The Pirate King according to canon is the son a lord but he happily left that life long ago to be a pirate. I imagine him being pampered and getting bored of it all.
I love this question as one of the reasons I chose to play many of these characters was due to their complicated family relationships. I have a fic in the works about Charles and Raven as their siblingness is great, have written at least one fic about Sameth and Ellimere, another about Tumnus and his father and heh, yes, messy family dynamics are fun.
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In rehearsal, the dancer playing Zeus had to keep reminding himself that Demeter "is my sister! She's my sister!" so that he wouldn't be putting too much romantic energy into the subsequent pas de deux, which I found HILARIOUS.
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It's a new piece! It turned out very beautiful but I don't know that it did the story justice. Like, there's something wrong with a story about Persephone that doesn't include a single pomegranate.
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Bruce Wayne - his parents are deeeeeaad.
Bruce Banner - TRAINWRECK. He's an only child, and comic book canon is typically brutal on his background. I'm not officially adopting it until I see if the MCU addresses it in later movies, so I'll leave him for now.
Javert - could not be more of a black sheep in any way at all. He's the product of a convict and a 'bohemian' (do not get me started on the fandom row about that), born in a jail, and there is no mention of any siblings. Born of the underclass, he should never have been able to leave it - and he hasn't, really. He just stayed on the right side of the law; this keeps him outside society still, and almost as hated as criminals are. He has nothing to do with his background whatsoever; Hugo states that he would turn in his own mother if she broke her parole. Safe to say, family is not his thing.
Valjean - had a sister who was several years older than him. He never really knew his parents. His mother died from a milk fever when he was very small, and his father fell out of a tree and died. His sister raised him, and had seven children of her own. Then her husband died, and Valjean had to provide for them, which he did until things got really desperate. He stole the loaf of bread to feed the children when the whole family was starving, and that was that. He heard of his sister only once more, four years after he was caught - she had gone to Paris with her youngest - and that's the last he ever heard of any of them. His family now is Cosette.
Robin - 'abandoned to the world of men' when he was six years old. There's no mention of his mother in canon. His father has his head cut off (n front of Robin) for inciting the people of England to demand rights of their own. He's been pretty much fending for himself ever since, and he remembers little of any of this at the point he's at right now. Canon reveals more. But yeah. Another loner with a bad history. :\
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"Black sheep" barely even covers it. He and Prometheus refused to take part in the Titanomachy with their brothers and father, so strike one against being part of the Titan family; Epimetheus refused to help Prometheus steal fire from Olympus, so strike two against being part of what's left of his family; and then he kind of hung around resenting the Olympians for a while because they fucked over all his brothers, so strike three on being part of that branch of the family tree.
So, yeah, Epimetheus sees himself as fundamentally the forgotten one, the out of place cousin nobody really talks about because everyone thinks he's a screw-up. He gets along decently well with one or two of the Olympians, mostly of the younger generation -- he likes Artemis, and Dionysus is an okay dude -- but he definitely considers them a very separate group from himself and his brother.
Nita is the oldest of two girls, and she frequently gives Dairine a hard time, which is her job as a big sister. But she knows that Dairine is in some ways a lot smarter than she is, and she loves her to death: she will literally go to the ends of the universe to help her. She'll just also translocate Dair's stuff to Pluto if Dair is being a brat, and not feel a hint of remorse.
Carmela, on the other hand, is a middle child. This might go some way towards explaining why she spends so much time on flamboyant clothes and exuberant flirtation. Not that she was ever really starved for attention, but Kit was definitely the smart kid -- and the only boy -- and Helena was the oldest kid and got solo attention from their parents for a few years before Carmela came along.
Kim has no biological family that she's aware of. She must have parents somewhere, and there's a possibility she has siblings somewhere too, but she has no idea who they might be. Her family has always been makeshift and not terribly stable, until she gets adopted by Mairelon.
... Now I'm really tempted to plot out something where a dude claiming to be Kim's half-brother shows up after she's achieved stability as a wizard and wife of an aristocrat.
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Man, I should, like, do an EP. It has probably been the obligatory eight million months since I did my last one. >.>
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Eriond: He is the baby of the family! Among his... uh, 'spiritually accurate' family--I don't know that biological is the word--he is the baby but also kind of came to it full-grown. Among the non-Gods who raised him, he was the baby but even before he ascended had kind of become the quiet child they almost forgot was accompanying them unless he did something Spectacular, and he is probably a distant cousin/uncle figure to Garion's kids. So I guess the baby who grew up and moved away but checks in.
Lois: Her mom died when she was six and Lucy was four, and Sam was not prepared to be a widower father to two little girls. Lois tried to be older sister and mom at once but also was treated almost like a son when she really wasn't (their relationship is even worse in the comics). She at once tried to live up to that and rebelled by being a slacker, drinking, smoking, and stealing tanks--simultaneous with trying to appear responsible to her younger sister. Also, being the wild one left Lucy to be doted on; it might have been a weird form of protection. She also feels like an older sister to Chloe. Lois kind of tries to fit many different roles--mom, older sister, rebel, guardian, screw-up while being held to be The One Who Must Be Responsible Or Else Is The Weak Link--all at the same time, even when they contradict each other. Of course, Jonathan and Martha treat her as the daughter they never had, and all she has to do is be herself. That helps.
Tavi: the much-beloved first-born child and only son and, for the majority of canon, the family's only future. When he was a kid, he was the only boy but had two younger cousins and he was probably a highly protective older brother, as they were raised together. Of his dead relatives, his aunt Alia died to save him and his mom, his paternal grandmother probably would have lived if she'd known about him, and Septimus... complicated but love-pride-protection-sacrifice-etc. Living relatives, Bernard says outright Tavi's the son he didn't have, Isana is obsessively protective, and Araris doesn't have children of his own and was basically ordered to be stand-in father anyway. With Amara--Bernard's second wife--Tavi's a little more like a little brother or cousin, one of the few for whom he doesn't just slide into the role of Oldest/Only Child and Heir.
Sextus and Tavi are incredibly complicated due to the incomplete knowledge, inability to express Feels, the baggage of the empire and the past, and that Tavi and Alera's future are inseparable. Everything is more or less subsumed in grooming Tavi to rule and in trying to hide that Tavi is his hope for Alera's future, but there's a lot of respect and even occasional indulgence--and though no one realizes it, love.
Book six and post-canon have him graduate from treasured only son. Calderon family's still its own thing with Bernard as patriarch, but Tavi and Kitai are firmly heads of their own family.
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Fluttershy has no family. She and Scootaloo are the only major characters to not even have any implied family members, and Scoots at least has a bedroom that looks like there's some kind of family behind it. *is not bitter at all, honest*
Kain's parents are dead, and I'm unclear on whether they're actually his - he's somewhat equated with an adopted boy in FFII. Either way, Cecil's the closest thing he has to family, and that relationship's... complex. Made moreso by Cecil winning the love triangle they shared.
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For most of her life, Elle's only family was her father, whom she loved and desperately wanted to prove her value to. He had a way of being both indulgent and condescending with her, meaning she could get away with a lot, but he very rarely ever showed the kind of emotional interest or expression her that she craved. As he purposefully kept her away from any other family, her interaction with them is nonexistent. So since her father's death, she essentially has no family. (She doesn't push friends in to the "family" mold because her only real notions of what family is – her father and some distant memories of living with her mother and grandmother, don't really lend much to that. Calling someone an adopted sister or whatever has no meaning for her.)
Asami's only depicted living relative is her father. Both her parents were loving toward her as a child, but after her mother's death, Asami and her father became extremely tight-knit, the sort where a parental relationship starts to blend to a "best friend" sort of one as well. I'm sure she must have other relatives on both parents' side, but they may not live in Republic City, and I don't think she would be as close with them. Growing up she also had the sort of exposure to other adults that meant while she didn't have a lot of peer-age friends, she had an overabundance of adult/parental-type figures, and so can be kind of inclined to attach to those.
Katara is the only one with a sibling, her older brother Sokka. They both grew up during a time when their village was suffering due to the war, and both seemed to attach to and felt drove to emulate their mother and father, respectively. After their mother died and father left to fight the war elsewhere, even still having their grandmother there, Katara really had to start to fill the empty space her mother (and, I'd argue, her father) left. While Sokka's the older sibling, their dynamics are much more toward Katara taking care of him and others, and often taking the "leading" sort of role. And I tend to think that the Water Tribe is very family-oriented, to the point that she does use the family construct in her other relationships (which can put her at odds with people like Toph, who have not had the same experiences with family and don't want to engage in that construct). But that she became a leading caregiver in her family - meaning both her brother and grandmother as well as the Southern Water Tribe generally - has really defined who she is and how she acts toward others. (And one of my favorite moments of the entire franchise may be when Sokka tells Toph that he can't remember his mother's face, and instead thinks of Katara and no I don't tear up whatever.)
Will canonically only knew his father growing up. He never knew his mother, which based on his phrasing I'm guessing means she left shortly after he was born. My headcanon (based pretty much entirely on him being described in the show/book as following his father when they moved during his childhood) is that he and his father were like two lines running parallel to one another that only very occasionally bent to intersect. Will already has difficulty with social interaction (which was worse when he was younger, I made up), and his father was a gruff and reclusive sort of person who with rare exceptions treated him more like a long-term roommate. Will in canon says the concept of "family" is foreign to him, "like an ill-fitting suit." I've... also used the term "long-term roommates" in my head to describe his stray dog collection, though it's slightly cozier than that, in that he actively feels comfort from their company. And then there's Abigail Hobbs, but that. Um. More complicated than I need to get into here.
Marceline had parents at some point, but when she was very young something happened to her maybe-human mother, and her demon father kind of left her topside during the Mushroom War while he was down in the Nightosphere I guessss, so. Abandonment issues everywhere!!! Simon Petrikov was also a father-figure to her when she was young and they tried to get around messed-up-war-aftermath land together. And then he became the Ice King and even more issues. So now she tries to avoid the being attracted to the whole thing, and fails.
Hiccup's only family is his father (yes I've seen the preview shhhh), whose example he is constantly failing to live up to, so. Eventually they have their I-can-accept-you-for-who-you-are grand finale, but Hiccup is always, to some extent, the Odd One Out not only within his own family, but his entire community. It just sort of becomes... in a good way.
Leslie lived with her parents, though her father died when she was ten. Given that her mother tends to be rather intimidating and even kind of cynical, I imagined her father was where she got a good deal of her more whacky sweetness and optimism. So that even once he was gone, though Leslie and her mother are very different, they each had qualities the other admired or loved in some way. The degree to which Leslie loved her mother but found her intimidating meant they weren't that close when she was growing up (I like to think maybe that subsided a little once Leslie found her own success), but it did give Leslie a lot of drive and ambition. And now she has a husband! Whom her mother also flirted with. Errrrr.
Manny (total headcanon) lived only with his mother growing up. And she consistently provided for him and he loved her a lot, but he also couldn't wait to get out of their home. The desire to get out of his home, and his mother's encouragement of his entrepreneurial side, partially contributed to his ambition, and his father having left helped make him extremely cynical.
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Merlin has no siblings, and lost his father during the course of the show. He was very close to his mother, even after leaving their village to move to Camelot. I've never been quite clear on his relationship to Gaius--sometimes it seems they alluded to him being Merlin's uncle?--but Gaius is at least a father figure to him.
Lydia's parents are divorced, and she has a close relationship with her mother. Also no siblings.
Jack has a twin sister, Michelle, with whom he had a closer relationship when they were children than they do now as adults. He's also close to his mother, and has a severe love/hate relationship with his father.
Cecil has a brother he doesn't remember, and hasn't seen his mother probably since he was a teenager. He hasn't mentioned his father.
Sadie has a sister, Lucy, and is very close to her parents, who are quite wealthy and indulged her accordingly.
I don't think we know anything about the Ice King's family, aside from his pre-Mushroom War fiancee, Betty.
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Sam: Only bastard child; his mother died when he was five, pretty horrifically. He killed the people responsible (yes, even though he was five, this is canon) and promptly got scooped up by the Guild, which was far more of a family to him than his mother ever had a chance to be. That wasn't her fault, though, seeing as she was magicked into being too out of it to do much good for anyone. The less said about his father, the better. He's dead, and that is quite literally better for the world.
Claudia: Doesn't remember much about her parents, but she was as unplanned of a child as Joshua. Loves her brother and will do anything for him. Considers the Warehouse her family now.
Does not have a sister, in Millicanon.
Apollo: Greek god family life is complicated, yo. He has a sometimes-strained relationship with his father and a permanently strained relationship with his dear stepmother (but then, that's Hera and like, all of her stepchildren). Loves his mother, and harasses Artemis because it's practically his job as her twin - but if you hurt her, you've earned his wrath.
Imp: Very much the black sheep, what with wanting to pursue music rather than haul rocks around.
Regulus: The House of Black is almost as complex as Greek gods, in its way. XD He has not and never will get along with his mother, and he's finally reached the point of not wanting to endanger himself because it'll please her; he can toe the line long enough to leave school and secure his place as heir, and then have the family's weight behind him to Get Shit Done. It helps that he knows his father has his back. His relationship with Sirius may never be what it was when they were little, but he's hoping they can at least get to a place where they can talk regularly again. He considers Narcissa as good as his sister, is afraid of Bella (healthily so, he maintains) and was never super-close to Andromeda before she left, due to the age gap between them.
Red: Only child, as far as she knows. Never met her father, but given her mother's attitudes I can't see him not also being a werewolf. Her mother is dead now. Currently on the outs with her grandmother re: a treasure trove of information that might have saved lives if she'd been fucking told it, but they'll mend that fence eventually.
Woolly: Fourth child of five, third and youngest son. Was closest to his younger sister of any of 'em, and greatly relieved that she got married before his oldest brother could run the family business into the ground. Considers Helena another sister.
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Leela: Leela lost her mother and her sister at a young age (according to the Past Doctor Adventures). She greatly admired the courage of her father, and they were able to endure this loss together. He taught her most of what she knows about hunting and fighting.
Kane: It's not directly stated if he even has a family. If you go by the "biblical Cain" theory of his identity, then...well, the dude had some issues with his family.
Caius: In my headcanon, Caius was the oldest of two sons within his family, though he had an older and a younger sister. He intended to follow his father into the Legion, but was redirected by the higher-ups into the Blades. He doesn't get on with his younger brother very well, but he does have a strained and distant admiration for his late father.
Garyn: Hoo boy. The mer's got issues on top of issues. To start with, he never knew his biological parents - he doesn't even know who they were. The old drillmaster who adopted him was never pointlessly cruel to him...by the standards of a drillmaster. As a father, he was an excellent drillmaster. Consequently, Garyn's feelings about the Old Mer are terribly confused. On the one hand, he took him in off the streets and taught him everything he knows. On the other hand, the man was a disciplinarian whose expectations were such that he never was quite satisfied or proud of what Garyn did, but encouraged him just enough to keep him seeking his approval. And then he died before Garyn became advanced enough that he could claim Garyn's accomplishments for himself. Garyn would become his "masterpiece." Then, and only then, would he be good enough for him. Garyn knows that the Old Mer's motives for bringing him in were largely selfish ones ("brought up for your glory, sera"), and a hidden part of him always hated himself for seeking his approval. But he sought it anyway. He's not sure if he still is.
Marge: Came from a stable Midwestern family of 2.3 kids. Gets on with her folks just fine.
Thenardier: Character relationships in Les Mis, especially the book version, really do require a chart. Still, Thenardier's relationships with his own family are comparatively simple by this canon's standards. We know nothing of his parents (at least, nothing that I can recall). His relationship with his wife is probably better understood as a business partnership than as anything having anything to do with love. And his children are his wife's problem to deal with as far as he's concerned, though they can occasionally be useful. Not a whole lot of love in the Thenardier household.
Sheogorath: It's not really a family as you and I would understand it. Anu and Padomay are basically disembodied forces of nature rather than things you can talk to. But like most Daedra, he loves him some Sithis. As for the other Daedric Princes, he gets on well with some of them and not so well with others. Sanguine is fun at parties. Malacath is not.
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Helena is the youngest of four (taken from history). Her relationship with her brother Charles is tempestuous, but as people have pointed out to her in the past, if he really hated her as much as she thinks he did, he would have thrown her out when she got pregnant. She doesn't talk about her parents much, but I think she liked her father much more than her mother. She's also very much the scandalous member of her family, having charmed more than half of London, and not just the men.
Valentine is the sometimes forgotten middle child of her family, and she rather likes it that way. Most of the time. Peter's taking over the world, and Ender's saving it.
Fantine basically has no family other than Cosette. Book-canon says that she was pretty much a street child from the beginning, and I mostly roll with that.
Mark has a very overbearing Jewish mother (Mark, are you there, are you screening your calls? It's Mom! I hope you like the hot plate, just don't leave it on, dear when you leave the house.) and two older sisters. One canon, Cindy, and one milli-canon, Rebecca. He's actually not the black sheep of the family, just the baby.
Peter is an only child son of a blacksmith. When he was little, his grandfather lived with them, but he was a bit overbearing
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Dixie is an only child, though she considers one of the girls she met at the convent, Dolly, her blood sister. They fight like cats and dogs, tho.
Pinkie is the middle of several children. Her older sister, Maud, is dour and eccentric but loves Pinkie deeply. We don't know very much about her two younger sisters, Limestone and Marble, but it's presumable they get along and Maude is Pinkie's fave. By her colors alone, it's presumable Pinkie might be the black sheep of her family, but this is PINKIE we're talking about here -she's extremely anti-exclusion.
Juliet too, is the youngest of several brothers. She felt that she had to compete extra hard to be seen as valid with all of them, except for Ewan, her clean-cut brother. He inspired her to be a cop but it turned out he was secretly a double agent.
Eponine Naturally has a baby brother, Gavroche. She did a lot of the practical raising and caring for him in my headcanon, but he ran off as soon as he was able to live on the street. Nevertheless the seem to be fairly close to each other and were both equally swept up in the protest that engulfed their friends.