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[wyverns]

What were your parents like? What are they supposed to be like? What makes for a good mother or father?

Henry- I'll stay with you, if that is what you both want.

[[ooc: unfortunately, Gerome has been dropped! If anyone wants to continue a thread let me know, but otherwise, please don't worry about tagging this post <3]]

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[liquidsky]

I liked them better once they were dead.

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[wyverns]

And why is that?

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[not_sasuke]

What's got you so curious?

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[wyverns]

It's just something that I have been thinking about recently. My parents died when I was very young.

[And now his father is in Asgard but didn't recognize him, doesn't remember loving his mother, is engaged to someone else, and is basically a psychopath.

So. There's that.]

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[modernmarvel]

Disappointed for about 10% of the time. Absent for the other 90%.
Describes my father pretty much precisely.
As far as the ideal father, I'd have to say Ward Cleaver. Maybe fewer sweater vests.
But I'm over it. Dads leave all the time, not a big deal. Besides, daddy issues are so very 1993.

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[wyverns]

I don't know who Ward Cleaver is.

1993?

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[made_4_ritsuka]

Well they're really nice. They always makes sure that I'm doing what I'm supposed to, but also makes me smile and does things like help me make jams or teach me how to knit. They also hold me close anytime I'm upset and comforts me, but also makes sure that I do my chores and my homework.

Mom and Dad work a lot so we can afford everything we have, so Yuiko's a latchkey kid, but whenever they get home we always have dinner together. And we take trips together when Dad can get off of work.

[wyverns]

That sounds... quaint. You get along with them well?

permatext;

[sufferably]

They're not supposed to be like anything, really.

[wyverns]

What does that mean?

private text!

[averagemedium]

It's definitely what we want, if you're sure you and Minerva are both alright with moving.

We'll just need to get a bigger place, but that won't be too much of a problem, I think- fairly sure it's affordable enough for us, and really, it'll do Minerva and the cats all some good to have more room than the apartment's got.

Private text!

[wyverns]

I can find someplace to work if that would ease the strain.

t e x t why gerome, he hates this mode of communication

[bythewaves]

My mother was gentle and yet unyielding, firm and steady - Nerdanel the Wise they called her. She was a sculptor of amazing skill, whose statues they said seemed almost alive. Father was... [ how do explain Feanor ] he was brilliant. The best of all our people at everything that he turned his hand to, in craft or lore. He was fire to mother's stone, a blaze that drew all to himself. But also one that consumed us all in the end - my mother, my brothers, my people, and even himself.

I love them both.

because gerome is an antisocial butt

[wyverns]

I am sorry to hear that. It seems so often that fire and madness fall together.

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[cyborg_cop]

[Oh, hurray, pop quizzes now? This just gets better and better, this place. ]

My dad was the reason I became a cop. Was he a good father?


He was committed to the job, to something bigger than himself. To something that mattered.

[That's about as close as he can come to an answer.]

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[wyverns]

Was he?

[It's contemplative.]

Such goals are admirable, but when they come at the expense of family- was he a good father?

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[splendid_solitude]

Mom killed herself when I was five years old, she was crazy. My dad didn't care for the most part, he married another woman a short while after mom died.

I can't really judge if they were good parents, because they were barely parents to me at all

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[wyverns]

They abandoned you then.

Are either of them here in Asgard?

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[neverbedded]

My parents were incredibly kind. My mother taught me all I needed to know about being a lady, and my father always made sure I had the best in life.

I would say what parents are supposed to is love and provide for their children.

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[wyverns]

Good. And if they fail to do that, what should be done?

video;

[galvanist]

My mom died when I was young. My dad...well, let's say that our relationship wasn't the best. [their relationship sucking hard is a way of putting it nicely.]

video;

[wyverns]

[Gerome responds in turn with video and Whale gets what can only really be described as medieval Batman. Mask and everything, though he's abandoned the black armor for a nice leather jerkin and a collared shirt underneath.

Still black, of course. He's nothing if not predictable.]

Do you ever resent your mother for dying?

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[necrowmantic]

Yay! You can move in right away.

[What do you mean there's no space he will make it work. At least until they find somewhere bigger.]

private text;

[wyverns]

I'm sure everyone will need a few days to get their things in order first.

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[discrepant]

[The questions about parents and family will have Soushi feeling curious over the reason for it, but he was more concentrated in thinking of a proper response. It'll take a while.]

A good parent are those that love their children more than anyone else in the world. They'll do everything they can to protect them, motivate them, educate them, and make absolute certain they will live a well-balanced life filled with happiness and hope. Of course, a true parent would prepare their children, to the best of their abilities, for their future -- be it a fortunate or unfortunate one.

At the very least, I would do my utmost to offer everything listed to my own children.