Tuesday DE

[inlovewithwords]

Following up on yesterday:

How does your character regard their earliest years? Was it a childhood or analogous, or do they not see it that way?

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[bjornwilde]

Ahsoka had less a childhood than a period of training with the Jedi. She was taken to the temple at such a young age, I'd guess 3-4 based on the on flashback, that I don't think she remembers her time before the Temple very well. This is not to say she didn't have a pleasant time as a youngling in the Temple. I know the Jedi had it's problems but mistreating children is not one of them and Ahsoka was willing passed to the Temple. I think she has fond memories of her youngling days but was very aware she was training to become a Jedi. It just dominated her awareness.

Sabine had a childhood and it seems like it would have been okay. Her family was high enough in the hierarchy that I am sure she never directly experienced the Empire's oppression. When she looks back now though, she sees all the microaggressions she missed and has trouble seeing the time as pleasant. Time with her family was pleasant, especially with her father and brother--mom was too sever for a child I expect--but it's tempered with the things Sabine's knows now.

Sam had a normal childhood and remembers it fondly.

Hank worried and stressed over hiding his mutation. Not fun times for him. Still learning was so much fun!

Danny had a loving family yet suffered abuse from the business partner family's son, who was a few years older than Danny. Think that asshole cousin who'd punch you or say mean things when you visited but never when parents were around.

[iprotectyou]

Baze had a fairly "normal" childhood up until age six, when he was given to the Temple of the Kyber in the hopes that he was Force sensitive. His parents died when he was eight, so he doesn't remember much about them. His brothers and sisters at the temple became his true family.

Autor's childhood was a happy one, until his fathwr started drinking.

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

Sahaal grew up in a Terran prison-sink. He doesn't remember his parents, or any family members at all, for that matter. Most of his early years were spent scavenging in ancient underground ruins, and he was enrolled in the brutal training regimen of the Eighth Legion for the rest of it. He never really had a childhood.

That being said, he doesn't really look back on it with horror or sadness. To him, it was what it was.

[quick_clean_pure]

He ain't ever gonna talk about it, and if you try to ask, he we will clam up so fast it'll make your head spin.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford hated his childhood, even as a child. It was full of a bunch of nosy busybodies bossing him around all the time.

[childofrebellion]

Cassian's childhood was tough though the ages aren't exact, canon hasn't provided how old he was when his mother and father died. My headcanon is that his mother was killed in an early bombing of Fest during the Clone Wars and that his father died near the end of the war. So most of his childhood was spent in a war torn country then after his father's death, he joined a Separatist/Anarchist cell until connecting with the Rebellion around age 12 or 13. He holds dearly onto his good memories and cooking the foods of home and speaking Festian is how he does that.

Quentin had a good childhood until he was sent away as blind foster to Shadowed Hills at age 12. Then he had some tough years and that leaving clouded some of his earlier memories because he thought he'd been sent away. There were reasons but its all spoilery.

Charles had a lonely childhood that improved hugely when he was about nine and Raven showed up.

Sameth's childhood was overall good but complicated with her parents often away and he and Ellimere were closer before growing apart. He was sent to school as a young kid, I don't remember how old and there he met Nick which was great.

Will S.'s childhood wasn't really one as he spent most of his time worrying about having enough to eat.

William's childhood was mainly lost to his father fighting in the Civil War and his brother being sick combined with having to work.

Moist's childhood was fairly good, his parents died when he was young but he liked his grandparents who took him in and trained lipwigzers, a kind of dog.

Ivan had a busy and strange childhood as lot of his time revolved around Miles and politics. It was a good one, but I think he doesn't always look back on it happily.

I don't think Demeter had a childhood.

Tumnus was a child when the White Witch arrived in Narnia, in my headcanon he was around 10 or so. The happy memories of the time before her, he held onto tightly.

[death_gone_mad]

Amascut might have not had a childhood, but there was a time when she was more... innocent? Naive? She still knew how evil people could be to each other back then, in fact she ate the souls of the worst instead of letting them pass along to the afterlife. In a way, she prevented hells from forming and kept heavens sparsely populated by offering resurrection to worthy souls. She was troubled by unnecessary killing and war (though what counted as unnecessary was pretty slim, because CAT GODDESS OF DEATH), but that all changed when the Zarosian Empire attacked.

[sticktothemission]

Gabe had a pretty normal, happy childhood. Teen years are another story.

For Khadgar it's never made clear if he was orphaned (likely due to a troll conflict if so) or if his parents handed him over to the Kirin Tor. Either way he grew up studying magic in the mage city-state of Dalaran and was known for finding secrets his teachers would have preferred stayed hidden (especially since they tended to be personal in nature). Basically he was a troublemaker but clever enough about it that he usually avoided reprimand.

That talent for ferreting out information is what got him apprenticed to Medivh in his teen years. And also out of the Kirin Tor's hair.

[for_everyone]

Kanan had a comparatively pleasant early childhood growing up in the Jedi Temple. He never knew his family, but this also never particularly bothered him. He never really questioned that he'd eventually become a Jedi. And though he grew up in child soldier training, he was largely shielded from actual war until he was in his mid-teens.

Hera, in my mix of canon and headcanon, had a much more difficult early childhood. Including her parents being busy as political radicals, growing up in her ancestral home in the Tann Province (which is beautiful, but also... in the middle of a desert), and then the Clone Wars lasting from when she was about six years old to when she was ten. The Wars for her meant living in hiding, as her parents and their followers led the insurrection against the Separatist invaders, which in addition to the constant threat of violence also meant living with frequent food and supply shortages. And it's my headcanon that her younger brother died during one of these shortages, succumbing to illness after nearly starving to death. So, as Thrawn says, Hera was "forged" by war.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Aradia's earlyish childhood wasn't all that unusual or unhappy by troll standards, but only the most negligent human parents would let a kid explore crumbling ancient ruins by themself and the baseline level of violence for an Alternian childhood (especially for a lowblood) would probably traumatise a human kid. Then as a preteen she started FLARPing, met the rest of the beta trolls' social circle, got killed as part of a FLARP-related cycle of revenge, and the rest of the plot of Homestuck happened. She's still a teenager as it is, so her childhood's arguably not over yet.

Bastion was never a child. Omnics do grow as people as they gain life experience, but their hardware is fully operational when they roll off the assembly line. The first five years of Bastion's life were spent fighting against humans in the Omnic Crisis; most of their memories of that time are awful and they have a lot of guilt and regret over it.