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[angry_friendship_wolf]

Does your character have siblings? If they do, what is their relationship with them like? If they don't, how do they feel about being an only child?

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[cottoncandypink]

Wilford has an older brother, Walter. Walter is an emotional black hole, and they have never got along. Wilford's spent most of his adult life telling people who bother to ask that his brother is dead (a lie he also tells about his parents).

Celine has a twin brother, Damien. She's older by ten minutes, which obviously makes her in charge. Even as adults, they bicker and snipe like crazy, but she literally defies the universe for him in canon. He responds by turning into a raging revenge monster for her. You know, standard twin stuff.

Nichola is an only child, and has never put much thought into it one way or the other. That's just how things are.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Arguably every omnic produced by the German omnium is Bastion's sibling, especially other mid-to-late-Crisis era Bastion units. The other way to look at it is that if Torbjörn is their father (either by virtue of being the lead designer of their model, or by adoption) then his kids are their half-siblings. The only other member of the Lindholm family they've personally met is Brigitte, his youngest daughter. They get along pretty well based on their in-game interactions.

Canon doesn't say much about Wilson's family except that he doesn't get along super well with them - he never mentions them in-game - but I gave him a younger brother named Albert (a shout-out to another Don't Starve fan's OC sibling) and one or two nebulously defined older siblings.

Thurlow likewise has no canon to go on regarding siblings so I made them a middle child as well.

Trolls don't have siblings under normal circumstances; adult concupiscent couples donate their genetic material to the Mother Grub who lays everybody's eggs together in one huge brood. Trolls who have the same sign are probably about as genetically similar as the average set of human siblings, but they usually aren't raised together and are more likely born hundreds of years apart and never meet, so they usually refer to each other as ancestor and descendant instead. On the other hand, monozygotic twins exist, and hypothetically a lusus might decide to raise two trolls at once and they'd effectively be adopted siblings. There's also the Scourge Sisters, who aren't related and didn't grow up in the same household but are childhood best friends/partners in crime/dysfunctional quadrantmates; trolls use the words 'brothers' and 'sisters' in the figurative sense probably more often than the biological sense. None of this really applies to Aradia or Cirava except that Aradia got the chance to meet an alternate universe version of her descendant/ancestor at close to her own age; they don't really see eye to eye but they don't fight either, they mostly just avoid each other

[have_no_mercy]

Tess had three half brothers, Lex, Julian/Grant Gabriel and Lucas. Julian died as a baby after Tess was sent to the orphanage and was cloned as an adult named Grant Gabriel. He and Tess never met, but it's entirely likely she was aware of his existence and ultimate death. She hasn't ever met Lucas, either, and she would like to one day. Lex is an extremely complicated relationship that ended with him killing Tess.

On the other hand, she grew up with no knowledge of any of this and was an only child. She was very lonely and withdrawn, so she might have benefited from a sibling at some times.

Kylo, as far as I know, is an only child. He grew up in a group setting and most definitely forged strong relationship with some of the other kids he was with, as they would follow him and become the Knights of Ren.

Creed has a half brother. You might have heard of him. Their relationship is volatile at best. He wouldn't have it any other way.

[dog_walker]

Dog has eight siblings, one of which is sooooooooooooooo annoying.

Ahsoka has no siblings that she's aware of. Certainly, some fellow jedi would count, but Order 66 and all.

Sabine has a younger brother who had the audacity to grow taller than her. The jerk.

Jessica is an only child and is more than okay with this. She would not want what her father did with her to have happened to anyone else. She did kind of have a bunch of sisters which her father made via cloning, but they were for HYRDA so she destroyed them all.

Hank is an only child and I think he'd have liked a brother or sister. I get the feeling he craves family and found it with the X-men.

Danny is an only child, but does have a sister and brother from another mother; i.e. the children of his father's business partner whom he grew up with. Like all siblings, things are messy between them.

Tybalt has one sister he loves dearly. He likely hasn't seen her in centuries. He used to have a second sister but their father happened to her, which drove Tybalt to kill him and become king.

[skyhigh_seance]

So, Klaus has six siblings. Though, technically he's an only child. Though even more technically, he's one of a group of 43.

But for reals, he has six siblings.

He and Luther have a... tense relationship. To put it mildly. Luther is firmly on Team Dad, and Klaus... isn't. And hasn't been for quite some time.

He and Diego have a more friendly relationship, in that they don't really understand each other but they've at least kept in touch (ish), though admittedly it's a very uneven relationship. Klaus is admittedly only out for his own survival at this point.

He and Allison.... well. They used to be close. Now she's a big Hollywood star and he's... not. They don't talk.

He and Five... well. They were friendly enough before he disappeared. He dreaded seeing Five's ghost, but it never happened. It does make him wonder if Five is really dead, because...

He and Ben get on great. Well. Ben now understands what Klaus' powers entail and the decided downsides, and has the thankless task of keeping Klaus somewhat sane and functional. The day Ben returned from a mission all... y'know... ghosty... yeah, that was not a good day.

He and Vanya... welp. He doesn't have many bad memories of her as kids - she was sweet, and quiet, and her music made the ghosts quieter. But... well. That book, man. That book was brutal. They don't talk.

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Yamato has a younger brother, Takeru, who he adores and dotes on and is protective of, possibly to the extent of being a little overbearing. In 01, when they haven't really properly seen each other for some three years, Yamato ends up tying up a lot of his identity in the idea of being a good big brother, with fairly disastrous consequences -- but by Tri, they see each other more, and while Yamato is still very doting and protective, he's less plagued with anxiety and insecurity over it.

He also has a tendency to just adopt other people and start acting in a somewhat brotherly fashion to them, as well. His older brother instinct is just ... very strong and tends to bring itself to the forefront very easily.

Eden has no siblings, and actually isn't entirely clear on what siblings even are. Nobody has explained them to him.

[i_am_your_host]

Emcee has no biological siblings that he knows of, and didn't grow up feeling close to anyone he would consider a brother or sister. As an adult, he doesn't really think about it or consider it important to him, but I think it's shaped how he deals with being by himself. Alone but not lonely, which he rarely ever feels (or chooses not to feel?). He also rarely feels any sort of sibling-like camaraderie toward anyone because he just isn't familiar with it and can't reciprocate it if someone feels that way about him (with perhaps the exception of Sinric, but their relationship rather defies definition).

Cassidy had an older brother, with whom he was very close, and they had a close relationship with their mother as well. In the comics, Cassidy looked up to him and never wanted to disappoint him. Speculating on both the comics and the TV show, I would say that his brother got his ass out of more trouble than he can count. Ultimately, Cassidy left Ireland to protect his family from the truth about what he'd become.

I believe Pam was an only child as a human, which is why she was such a huge disappointment to her aristocrat parents. Most likely why she was also used to being spoiled. (I think in the books she had a brother? I have no idea where I'm misremembering this from. Disregard if false.) Anyway, as a vampire, she was a single Progeny all her life, the center of Eric's attention...well, until Sookie came around. And until Eric released Pam (meaning, Pam was no longer bound to him). And until Eric decided to make another vampire without her knowing. Pam did not like Willa and was pretty pissed at Eric for turning her because it was a pretty brash and not-well-thought-out idea.

Floki is most likely an only child, but given viking society and the time period, he might have had siblings that died at birth or very young, and during an age when he was too young to remember. The closest thing to a brother that he ever had was Ragnar Lothbrok, who befriended him when they were children and when Floki was probably too weird for anyone else. I think his sibling-less upbringing in a society where large families were encouraged affected his adulthood, in that he preferred to live a more isolated life far away from the main village in his own little hut by the water, with only his hippie witch wife for a companion.

[inlovewithwords]

Eriond has six living siblings and one who passed before Eriond really encorporated. His sibs pretty much all went into retirement and left Eriond to mind the store, but he is very fond of all of them. Even if Belar's the most fun, more or less.

Evelyn has some siblings. She doesn't really know them. Some of her friends in the Mage Circle are closer to siblings than her blood is. One of her brothers ends up a Templar.

Lois is a big sister. She adores Lucy and tries to look out for her. Lucy can sorta take her in physical combat at this point, but Lois is very much an emotional role model to her. They're close in some ways and not in others and care lots. Their relationship may grow more fraught with time, but there's always a lot of love (even when there's not a lot of like).

Anakin definitely has no siblings. Lars doesn't count in any way, and... well, he and Obi-wan are complicated; Obi-wan might think 'brother' but Anakin leans towards a different word. Ahsoka is almost a little sister to him, though. And he has a sister-in-law!

R2-D2 probably has some other units of his model out there. But, like. R2. I guess he has an adopted sibling in C-3PO.

Tavi has no biological siblings or siblings-in-law. However, when he was little and growing up on his uncle's steadhold, his cousins were around his age and functionally little sisters. He was devastated when he lost them and I suspect learned to lie to his mother around then partly to try to make sure she thought he was okay and partly to hide as he got creative and acted out a little out of grief. I think he always sorta wished he had actual siblings, or that the girls had lived. He would have been the fiercest protector--and bullying of them (as in my head if they lived one of them would have been left blind by the illness that canonically kills them, she is basically Toph) would have sparked some character traits in him that otherwise don't turn up until adulthood. Mainly really nasty, ruthless, devious revenge.

Desiderius will eventually have three rather younger siblings, twins 8 years younger and one 10 years younger. He is a devoted and protective older brother, and sometimes feels he has to stand in for his parents if they're busy, so there's definitely some awkward points where he's a little full of himself with that. But, on the other hand, they also know he's semi-stand-in for his parents and doesn't have the same capacity to decree punishments, so the little ones sometimes come to him with problems hoping he can solve it without going to their parents or help them get in less trouble. He adores his siblings and some part of his sense of responsibility definitely comes from taking care of them.