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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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[liquidsky]

For different reasons, neither of them were very well equipped to raise me right.

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[wyverns]

How old were you when they died?

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[liquidsky]

Around 19 and 33. My father's death is a fairly recent event, by my account.

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[wyverns]

Then you had the experience to know they were terrible.

[Gerome doesn't even question the idea of hating one's parents. Until very recently, he thought he did as well.]

Still. That doesn't make it easy.

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[not_sasuke]

What's got you so curious?

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[liquidsky]

My mother tried, but she might have been better off never trying at all.

I killed my father. That did make it easier, actually.

[wyverns]

[WELL THEN.

Just

well.]

Why?

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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.]

[liquidsky]

He had outlived his purpose. It wasn't revenge, though it could have been, but necessity.

[wyverns]

I see.

What did he do?

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[not_sasuke]

So you're trying to gauge what a normal family might look like.

Well, usually the father goes to work and earn money to support his wife and child while his wife stays home to take care of the kid. Or at least, that's what most people think of as the "perfect family."

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[wyverns]

Yes, civilian families often worked on farms or in taverns. Though in my experience the wife and children typically work as well, if they are able.

[liquidsky]

A lot. Personally against me, he held me captive under mind control for around 12 years. Among other things.

[wyverns]

[Wow that sounds vaguely familiar.]

Then he deserved it.

[liquidsky]

I'll say.

Why are you asking?

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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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[not_sasuke]

In my world, the hopes and dreams of the parents are put on the child. The father works to support the household, so the kid's only job is to study hard in hopes of getting into a good enough school so they can get a good job as an adult.

That, or learn the tricks of the trade from their parents, depending on the situation. In some families, even the mother will work if it means being able to pay for her kid to attend an elite school.

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[wyverns]

Then they are both devoted to their child.

Is there a military in your world? What if the soldiers have children?

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[wyverns]

I don't know who Ward Cleaver is.

1993?

[wyverns]

It's been on my mind. My parents died young and one of them is in Asgard now. I wanted to know how most parents and children acted toward one another.

[liquidsky]

I think there is very often a difference in how a family presents itself to others and what it's actually like to be part of it.

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[modernmarvel]

He's the dad from an old TV series from the 50s and 60s. About the 'perfect' family.
And yeah, all that existential "daddy never loved me" angst was over with grunge rock.

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[not_sasuke]

Kids might follow in the footsteps of their parents, but it's not necessarily required. I mean, unless they force you to enroll in the National Defense Academy, but that's probably limited to families that are pretty gung-ho about it.