Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

Brought to you by various slightly awkward moments in my first month as a teacher:

How comfortable is your character with talking about their family? Is it a favorite subject or would they really rather you didn't ask?

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[have_no_mercy]

Tess will give you short, borderline hostile answers that make no bones that she doesn't like her family.

Rose will get all weepy cause her parents are dead.

Sikozu has no family!

Kylo is Kylo Ren and has no family to speak of. Yes. That's right.

[forceimbalance]

Except when convenient for him to claim it.

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

Sahaal doesn't have a family, and he's fine talking about that.

[bjornwilde]

Sam and Hank would be open about it, while I, as their mun, would be nervous about it as canon doesn't give me anything.

Selina would give a look which would read as why do you want to know? She's not opposed to talking about her mom, but you'd have to convince her of your motivations.

Sabine would deflect and avoid any questions. She'd prefer not to be asked. She will use physical violence to stop the questions if she needs.

Ahsoka will gladly tell you about Anakin, Obi-Wan, and Plo Koon. What would you like to know?

Tybalt I am not sure of. I know he'd be happy to talk about his sister and her children, but modern canon hasn’t mentioned them, so I worry there’s a sad. He will likely get angry or terse when speaking of his father. He will be quite clear he was an abuser and tyrant, and that he is glad to have taken him down.

[just_cant_lose]

Jim will happily talk about his family! He just, y'know...won't tell the truth, probably.

[iprotectyou]

Ummm. I'm not sure? Baze's parents died when he was young, so he was raised by the temple. He counts Masters Sheotar and Cabaril as part of his extended family, and Eiko, too, but while he'll wax poetic about Sheotar, he's unlikely to mention the rest, as that way lies pain.

If the person wants to hear about Chirrut, though, oh, man, Baze can talk about Chirrut for hours.

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee is fine talking about being raised in a brothel. He has fond memories of the prostitutes who doted on him like mothers and big sisters. Beyond that, he doesn't know who his real parents were or what happened to them, and he's fine with that, too. No, really.

Pam hates her human family, so you will get a very short answer about that. Eric is her only family now. She could tell you how devoted she is to him to the point of making you uncomfortable.

Cassidy can get very maudlin about his family, but he'll probably only open up about them if he's been drinking a lot and/or if he trusts you.

Floki is absolutely fine with talking about his family and will probably go on to tell entertaining tales and anecdotes. He's a Viking after all, and those who've meant the most to him live on in stories.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian doesn't easily talk about his family. Its too personal, the times he has mentioned is only with people he trusts a great deal. He'd much rather talk about Kay who is basically his family at this point.

Charles will happily talk about other mutants and Raven but his parents were loving but kind of neglected him, so there's not as much to say.

Quentin won't mention his actual family due to his blind fosterage but he'll happily talk about Toby and his adopted family.

William's happy to talk about his family, even his father though that's not always simple.

Ivan will go on and on about his family, all of them.

Moist won't ever talk about his family.

Will S. will talk about his parents and his adopted family of the Merry Men.

Demeter is happy to praise her daughter and point out how messed up her family is before someone else does. She's known them for a long time.

Tumnus finds talking about his father bittersweet but he always will.

[sardonicynic]

Ben Wade is a highly selective sharer when it comes to talking about his family. Whenever he does, though, he's frank and no-nonsense: When Ben was eight years old, his father was killed over a shot of whiskey, and his mother abandoned him in a train station with a Bible on his lap.

Claire Temple is an intensely private person. She has a warm and wonderful relationship with her mother, as well as her aunt in Jersey City, but Claire holds even casual details close to the vest.

Kate Warner's family life imploded in an ugly, highly public nightmare when her younger sister used Warner International resources to help smuggle a nuclear bomb into the United States and committed an act of terror. So, um, it's complicated. Kate will only go into detail with people she trusts, and even then, it's difficult.

Raylan Givens would rather order more whiskey.

[cameoflage]

Aradia doesn't have a family in the human sense of "other sapients, usually close relatives, who you were raised by", although she does have a close genetic relative -- probably about the same amount of overlap as a sibling, since Damara has the same surname and Aries sign -- who serves as a bogeyman for trolls throughout history. She was raised by a lusus naturae, an Alternian animal specifically bred to act as a surrogate parent to troll children. Hers is a kangaroo-ram thingy, who she loved very much but who was unfortunately blown to smithereens when Vriska made Sollux blow up her hive.

I'm not sure if Aradia's actually done much grieving for her lusus, since she was devoid of emotion around the time when all the other Hivebent trolls' lusii were dying. She didn't get to put her rammom into her kernelsprite like the others did with theirs, either. She doesn't particularly want to associate herself with the Handmaid/the Demoness, but I'm not actually sure if it's common knowledge on Alternia that the Demoness is an Aries and thus whether that question would have come up before.

Dr Thurlow has a canon that doesn't set anything about your character's immediate family in stone, though there are options for adopting the occasional child and for being illegitimately royal. You do, however, always have a story featuring your wild party-animal spinster aunt. Thurlow is alternately fond of their aunt and embarrassed to be associated with her, but they do consider that familial bond important. As for their parents, I decided that Thurlow never got along with them very well even in childhood but it didn't get worse than that; they would find their immediate family to be an unpleasant subject, but not a downright painful one.

Bastion was made in an autonomous factory and depending on your perspective has either no family or a family of thousands of murderous robots, almost all of which are dead. They don't think the concept applies to them, and while they do feel some kinship with other Bastion units made in the same omnium in the same time period, they'd be skeptical about whether that's particularly similar to being part of a family in the human sense.

Later on I could see Torbjörn Lindholm treating them as a member of his family, since he played a key role in designing the Bastion series of omnics (someone on tumblr described the Binary comic as "a bitter father reconnecting with one of his three million murderchildren") and rescued Bastion from a town of people who wanted them scrapped, but at this canon point I don't think he's warmed up to them enough. He's just kind of hovering distrustfully over them and would never admit to any paternal feelings.

[clayforthedevil]

Steven Universe is generally happy to talk about his family, to best of his ability! which may not be an ability that explains things to strangers very well, but he doesn't really notice yet. There are things he doesn't know, though, especially about his mother, and it makes him feel awkward and sometimes a little defensive if conversations touch on that too much.

Bahorel loves talking about his family, they're great! And he has lots of stories about them! He sometimes turns distinctly maudlin about them, but that doesn't bother him, however awkward it might be for a listener.

Joly is generally willing to talk about his family, though he's less enthused about it than Bahorel. There's a bit of distance there, and they weren't as much a part of his life once he moved out, over the distance and all. But he doesn't mind and won't dodge questions.

Gringoire is also happy to tell people about his family, and how they died horrible bloody violent deaths! :D Yeah, the discomfort isn't on his side.

[feminine_menace]

YT will happily talk about her mom. If the subject turns to her dad, her responses are fairly terse - "He left when I was ten. Which is fine because he's an asshole." It's hard to get more detail out of her.

Abe no Seimei will happily talk about his family, although they're all long gone now.

[genarti]

Enjolras finds talking about himself to be a fairly boring subject, which includes talking about his family, but it's not a sensitive subject or anything. If you ask, or if it seems immediately relevant, he'll answer readily.

Thor... uh. It's slightly complicated! Both because of recent developments (HI LOKI) and because his parents are also his lieges and he's always at least a little bit in a diplomatic capacity, basically anywhere but at home with close friends (and sometimes even then). So: he will talk very readily about the basic facts of his family, and how awesome they are. Until recently, he would also have talked very readily and at length about how great his brother is! Now... uh... I mean, he still thinks Loki is generally pretty great, but there's a lot more It's Complicated going on that he doesn't really want to talk about with most people. So comfortable-but-surface-level, I guess.

Cosette is happy to talk about how her father is basically a saint! And happy to talk about how amazing her husband is! And nowadays, happy to talk about how her mother is wonderful too! Any tension, awkwardness, little facts about her complicated birth-out-of-wedlock-and-illegal-adoption, etc, are getting thoroughly and chatteringly glossed over DO YOU WANT TO HEAR MORE ABOUT HOW WONDERFUL THEY ALL ARE.

Kazul is not particularly gushy, but she will chat about her family, sure! She probably has an enchanted portrait of her grandkids around somewhere, if you really want.

Doctor Dinosaur has no known family, and if he did they probably all tried to conquer each other with crystals. But they're totally back in the late Cretaceous anyway and DEFINITELY NOT A TEST TUBE IN A PITIABLE MAMMAL LAB IN THE FILTHY AGE OF MAMMALS nope. (So, no, he has no interest in talking about this subject in any case.)