Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

Hello hello, happy Thursday!

So people talk about growing up and turning into their parents. Is this true of your characters? How do they feel about it?

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[camwyn]

Ellen would vastly prefer not to turn into her mother on the grounds that her mother lived exactly long enough to name her newborn child, then died of- well, something; in the intro sequence to canon Ellen's father announces that Catherine's gone into cardiac arrest, but Catherine is still actively calling out his name and I was always taught that if someone could talk then they were breathing and had a pulse. Either Dad really went off track due to stressful circumstances and started doing exactly the wrong thing, or the intro sequence needs to be considered unreliable, or Dad flat-out murdered Mom. Which I don't believe was the case, but Ellen doesn't want to become her father regardless, because she sees Dad as a man with great ideas and wonderful intentions and absolutely no sense of follow-through because there'd always be someone else to think of the consequences. As shown here, she really resents him for that, and has been making efforts both conscious and otherwise to take paths and do things that he would not have done.

[have_no_mercy]

Tess does not want to be any of her parents, although she seems to be going that way what with the drinking, bad parenting skills, and hardass business manner.

Kylo wants to be his grandfather, than you very much.

Sikozu doesn't have parents.

[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka is very much just like her two dads, although Obi-wan's influence doesn't really kick in until she's older.

[just_cant_lose]

Lol, no danger of that with Jim.

[forceimbalance]

Eriond is way more cheerful and mischievous than his Dad, and wr know little about his Mom.

Evelyn is more like her mentors in the circle than her biological family.

Artoo totally learned way too much from his humans.

Lois is definitely her dad's daughter, though she is loathe to admit this, and they have some fundamentally differing principles.

Tavi can show character traits extremely like many members of his family, both sides, but he is conscious of both the benefits and pitfalls and is making a conscious effort not to become either of his parents (or Sextus, the only model for a ruler he had).

Anakin is nothing like his mom. We don't talk about any other aspect of his parentage. Ever.

[mjolnir_retriever]

It's pretty true with Enjolras, although in this case that's partly because his parents are entirely Millicanon and that's the way I designed him. He's a lot like his dad, and he's fine with that. His mom died when he was pretty young, so he doesn't have as solid a sense of her personality and neither do I; he definitely got a lot of his looks from her, but I think she was also notably more gregarious and extroverted than his father, and he got that (in a quiet way) from her.

Cosette: well, she's sure not turning into Tholomyès! (That's her bio-dad. He's a pompous jerk.) She did get from him a certain talkativeness and ease with being the center of attention and the driving force of the conversation, but that's about it. She's got a whole lot of Fantine in her, but also some significant differences caused by a very different upbringing. Valjean has definitely had a lot to do with shaping her, but I don't think she's all that like him, except in a fundamental generousness (which Fantine doesn't lack, but never had the resources to really nurture in herself either, I think.) Mostly she's delighted by the chance to get to know her mother in Milliways. And she loves her father dearly, but I don't think she especially wants to be like him, personality-wise.

Thor, hahahah. Oh look, time for Thor's parent issues! Uh, he's slooooowly coming around to the realization that perhaps his father has some large flaws, after wanting all his life to be more like Odin. There's still a lot of Odin in him, for good and bad. That said, I think there's more of his mother in him than he realizes, too, and a lot of that's all to the good; he's got more of her wisdom and good sense than he realizes, to temper the arrogance and pride (and stubbornness and courage and willingness to sacrifice) he got from Odin, and he didn't get Odin's manipulative tendencies.

Kazul: presumably had parents, but we never see nor hear anything about them! Nor anything about dragon childrearing, except that it happens (somehow, by someone) and grandparents (or at least grandmothers) stay in touch! I'm going to declare off the cuff that she's a lot like her mother, and that she went through a certain UGHH I'M TURNING INTO MY MOTHER phase for a century or so several hundred years ago, but now she's pretty much fine with it. She does have a few habits still that she picked up precisely because they weren't her mom's habits thank you, though.

Doctor Dinosaur: Uh. ANSWER HAZY.

[merryeccentricities]

oh gosh I want Dr Dino's opinions of his parents XD

[merryeccentricities]

Gringoire would like to avoid being violently executed! It is high on his to-do list! ...and that's about all he remembers of his parents, so yeah, he doesn't want to be like them.

Joly sometimes hears the spectre of his parents in his voice, and it is Terrifying. He knows he's got a probably-unerasable streak of bourgeois, but does it have to be that obvious?? (He usually deals with the Existential Crisis by drinking something liver-melting and going to bed with a cute guy. This is also how he deals with it being Tuesday, so maybe he's safe after all. MAYBE.)

Bahorel gets a whole lot from his parents in terms of Life Philosophy and even temperament, but very different environments and lifestyles have left him without a lot of their mannerisms or obvious surface habits,except sometimes a trace of accent. (And the Early Morning Riser thing. He hasn't been able to shake that with decades of Dramatically Wayward City Living.) He's totally fine when he does show an echo of them, though; he gave up being embarrassed about his family completely as soon as he realized some people though he *should* be embarrassed.

[nolittlevoice]

bossuet is always happy to help joly with any crises of identity

[merryeccentricities]

Eyebrows, eyebrows.

(Miguel looks way too enthusiastic about this.)

[nolittlevoice]

miguel is also happy to help!

[merryeccentricities]

fresh

[harryhotspur]

Harry's father would have loved if Harry were more like him, or were showing any signs of it! ...he's not.

Marius's dearest most desperate dream is to be like his father, or at least like his carefully-assembled second-hand understanding of what his father was like. He's maybe, possibly, slowly starting to understand, however, that maybe that's not quite what honoring your dead parent is supposed to look like.

[hasthehighground]

Chuck is very aware of just how much he is like his dad, and all the places where he's not. He resents both parts -- the similarities and the differences. He also knows what parts of him his dad thinks are clearly his mother, but he can't see that himself. He only knew his mother from the perspective of a young son. I think he's more similar to who his dad used to be, as a young hotshot helicopter pilot (though I'd have to double-check with the mun before saying anything), with a dose of his quiet workmanlike attitude.

Clint is basically his father, except that he's more conscientious, and reacts to hurt by withdrawing quietly into himself (like his mother, except he's avoided drugs). His father and mother are 100% millicanon, and I feel weird getting into it because Clint would never explain, but basically: his dad was a "good dad" in Clint's words, because he hasn't quite figured out that a dad who is never around, buys his eight year old son a beer when he is, but is kind and speaks nicely and sends money isn't necessarily a "good dad". He worked in construction and contract killing. When he was arrested, Clint's mother ended up dying in a car accident (she was impaired at the time), and Clint went into the foster care system. Clint's never forgiven him for either of those things (though he does visit about once a year, now -- he didn't until his mid-20s). If Clint's dad hadn't been arrested for contract killing, and particularly for accidentally killing a non-targeted person during one, Clint may have gone the same route. As it is, he doesn't freelance.

Iii can't think of any of my others right now, especially as most of their answers are like "sort of, but also sort of not??"