Wednesday DE

[galen_erso]

Continuing this week's theme: what does family mean to your character? Who were their family when they were kids, and whom do they consider family now?

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[iprotectyou]

To Baze, family is someone you care about--who cares about you back--and who will stick by your side even when things get rough. His family as a child was first his parents, then the temple and Chirrut, and now all he has left is Chirrut.

[death_gone_mad]

My ideas are in flux about Fairy Fixit, as I am beginning to strongly suspect that her species is a lot more like social insects than I previously been assuming, due to conversations elsewhere. That means she has tons of sisters, both much older and much younger than her. It explains her loyalty to the Queen/her mother better. But how the males/Fairy Mafia thought they would rule without the Queen I don't know at all.

Basically, Fairy Queen/mother good, Fairy Godfather/Bad Daddy bad. She kinda has a second family amongst some of her coworkers at the Abyssal Services Department that are closer than some of her sisters, of course.

Amascut has the rest of the Kharidian pantheon as her family. As it is a supernatural family instead of a natural one, there's all kinds of oddities and drama about how new family members join the pantheon. She is... estranged from them. She still has some kind of love/hate relationship with her (semi-dead??) father, her mother is/was strangely absent, she despises her "twin" brother and his attempts to fix her and everything she breaks, and she's abusive towards her younger siblings. But, it isn't like they live under one roof, bickering all the time. The chaos of the Second and Third Ages drove them far apart, especially Amascut's mother, who was likely banished from the planet (and the moon, just to spare the fairies from the trouble) entirely. The united pantheon only lives on in the imaginations of priests.

Amascut hasn't even tried to form a second "chosen" family. Having the pantheon as a family already hurts enough.

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford has no family. He’s okay with this.

[oldmancreed]

Tess was born into the Luthor family, so she had her father, mother and Lex around. Then she was adopted out when she was five, so her family then became the Mercers. None of these people are considered family to her now. She has the League.

Rose was an only child, born to her parents. Since they've died, she really hasn't had any family and continues not to.

Kylo is the son of Leia and Han Solo. He also had his uncle Luke around and Chewbacca would have been considered family, too. Today his family is himself.

Creed had parents when he was young, though his mother died very early on in his life. He also has a half brother James Howlett (Logan). Creed still considers Jimmy family, even though he wants to kill him. Everyone else is long since dead.

[just_cant_lose]

Family means nothing to Jim. He left his behind with barely a second thought, and hasn't looked back. It wouldn't be right to say he's ambivalent; he spent his childhood furious at his parents for not finding a way to fulfil him, and then just washed his hands of the lot of them when it became clear they never would.

As for now - Sherlock, obviously. He never thought of the two of them as a family until Sherlock said it recently. Jim was reiterating his desire to never have children, and Sherlock said they were a family on their own, so it was fine. That was a bit of an eye-opener for him, in a good way. Obviously he has no doubt of their connection, but he's never put that label on it before. He quite likes it, as long as no one else is allowed in.