#Cherry was the main bread-earner in the family

[karimationkat]

Purple Family headcanons

(Warning for domestic violence)

• Cherry was the main bread-earner in the family,

in the avm ep 29 we see how Cherry cares about Purple and disapproves of Navy's actions, yet, only later she steps in. Personally I think that Cherry didn't know that Navy's training escalated, which is why she didn't get involved sooner. Navy however was shown predominantly in Purple's childhood which is why I assume that he was mostly at home, training and teaching Purple. We barely know how stick-society works, but it seems similar to ours. Cherry was a busy and hardworking stick earning the money, which is why she didn't find out about it. (Also because Purple was too afraid to tell her about it and lied about how they got the bruises and all)

• While Navy was the house-spouse,

Since he is shown to "prepare" Purple for the world, he taught them a lot of other things to be self-sufficient like basic cooking, cleaning, sewing and so on.

• Other thing is that Navy is a minimalistic utilitarian

And is also very strict with the resources, the type to use something till it's completely useless. So, slowly annoyance from little Purple being messy and sloppy with work because they're literally just a CHILD turn into frustration and then to aggression to the point of getting verbally and physically abusive towards Purple, which both Purple and Navy considered "normal" because it wasn't like Purple wouldn't get hit in training.

• Cherry completely cut off contact with Navy to protect Purple

While Navy left on own accord, it was Cherry who after finding out how Navy treated Purple who more or less forced Navy to do so. She was afraid of Navy too because she now knew of what he was capable of. And even though Navy raised his hand in the heat of the moment, he then realised what he was doing and decided to leave. Not only because he almost hurt his loved one but also because said loved one rejected him and that left Navy heartbroken. Cherry made sure that Navy wouldn't ever come close to Purple with what he had done to them but didn't tell Purple anything about it. We only see their backstory through Purple's POV. Because of that Purple believe it was all their fault for the falling apart of their parents and how heartbroken Cherry was, though, it was because she believed to have failed Purple as a parent.

Note: While I use she/her for Cherry and he/him for Navy, it's not because I think of them as female and male but to have it be easier to understand. Personally, I don't see them being any gender because it doesn't matter.