#The Mamas & The Papas

[bravesaboteur]

The more I think about it, the more Laios and Falin's different perceptions of their parents are a case of "same parents, different childhood".

Whenever someone asks Laios about his and Falin's family, he comments on how they treated Falin but never comments about how how their childhood affected him - in fact, he kind of glosses over it. It's Falin that everyone is rallying to save, it's Falin that's Marcille's friend, it's Falin that everyone has a positive opinion of - he's just the weirdo brother that gets to share some of her light sometimes. He's the one who's only tolerated when he's useful in a dungeon. Falin's treatment is a large part of the reason that he left, but it's the symptom of a larger issue.

When we see Laios' thoughts of his parents in his nightmares, it's all about the expectations that he's supposed to live up to: the expectation to stop being "childish", the expectation to get married (to who his parents picked) and have children, the expectation to take over from his father as the village chief, the expectation to adapt to something that he isn't able to be in the way that people want him to. And these are all things that he has had to be told in some way: he had to be told that Shuro didn't like him, he had to be told that told that the gold-peelers were taking advantage of him - these aren't thoughts that just appeared on their own, these are all failures that someone has explicitly pointed out to him and they haunt him. Some of the things he considers his biggest failures are his failure to provide for and protect Falin and those have very tangible examples he can point to.

We get a glimpse of what happens when he fails to live up to his father's expectations when Falin is born. He expects a certain reaction from Laios and when he fails to give that reaction he physically puts him down, dismisses him, and underestimates how much he understands.

And that's something that's shown to be a bit of a sore point for him - people thinking that he doesn't understand something because he doesn't express himself like people expect. The few times we see him snap at people are because people think he isn't understanding something because he isn't reacting "normally".

On Falin's side, the expectations seem to be a lot different - she's the younger one, for one, she's a girl, and she was so young when the fallout from her having magic happened. She too had an arranged engagement, but that was broken off when she was sent away to magic school and since then, their parents only seem to be passively involved in her life. She's mostly been freed of the expectations that their parents had for her in her village - she won't be coming back after all. She understands why they sent her away, she wasn't completely oblivious to the villagers treatment of her and it was, arguably, for the best so she is at peace with what their relationship is for now. But she still wants to go to her hometown and see for herself with adult eyes because she has never really had the space to do that.

I don't think their parents are inherently evil people - the truth is probably somewhere between Laios and Falin's version of the story, Laios' side tinged by too much cynicism and Falin's by too much naivete.

It just strikes me that when he tried to provide the "normal" way he failed, but given the space to do something similar to what people expected of him, but in his own way, he succeeded. He isn't perfect but his efforts are ultimately fruitful and he is able to carve out a place for himself, Falin, and others who had been ostracized like them to call home.

[kenchann]

doodling the shrouds fam cause i love them

[bogor-o]

if your lamb is called the mother does that mean Narinder would be like the angsty emo teenager of the cult

for the most part the adults refer to each other as sibling (name) type of titles but other than that its a little more lax, the kids tend to care a little more about calling everyone familial terms, but Mother is always Mother :)

[ryllen]

"ho ho i love how u always joke around about me killing you nonchalantly, Trey-san" [x] [x]

[soapyakships]

kanade fes killed me and burned my house down

[tsuyonpuu]

Izutsumi and Senshi are sharing a moment 🤲…and Chilchuck

[amysilvas]

Nicola Coughlan and Luke Newton in Bridgerton

↳ S03E08 - Into the Light

[bitchimasnake-sss]

loid truly won at life

like your super-hot-ultra-deadly-assassin-wife still manages a way to bring the conversation to you even when she's actively breaking someone's bones

this is the flex of the century

[roucaelum-art]

Day 7: passport (by Anya)

[sweetbunpura]

Jade, on the phone with his mother: Yes, Mother, Floyd and I are doing well.

Mama Leech: That's good! What about your love life?

Jade: Mother, please.

Mama Leech: What about, oh what was their name, Yuu! The one that gave you the courting gifts? Did you at least court them back?

Jade, looks off to see Floyd making a sea glass necklace and looks at his own seashell bracelet being made: Well...

Mama Leech: I'm still so surprised that they gave you and Floydie courting gifts~! How bold of them!

Jade: Yes, well-

Papa Leech, in the background: Bring them to the ocean, I wanna meet the one who got my sons.

[universalspycrab]

Mario & Luiwi - Mario Comic 1/1 + Extra

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[charlietheepicwriter7]

another misunderstandings au

Vlad goes slowly insane in space after Phantom Planet. He's finally snapped and is completely willing to kill both Jack and Maddie to get Danny where he wants him. He doesn't stay in space, eventually returning to the Zone and setting up shop in another dimension (DC Bludhaven; becoming a shady businessman once again) while keeping an eye on Danny.

Danny is having a great time. His family accepts him, he's a known hero, he's almost an adult. Sure, Dani destablized, but with his parents help he managed to save her! ...As a toddler. Then Clockwork dropped a deaged evil future self (as a baby) for him to raise. So it's not all great.

Then Vlad attacks. Everyone who Danny knows dies except for little Dani and Dan, and Vlad kidnaps him to a new dimension, where no one can help him. I can see Vlad not really recognizing the members of this new dimension as real and therefore, not a real threat. Danny is trapped in the penthouse bc of a ghost shield specific to his ecto-signature and forced to play house with an extremely unstable vlad who's willing to threaten the babies in order to force him to comply.

Then Vlad goes missing and Dick Grayson is assigned to the case

[intern-seraph]

gonna be real here, i kinda get why baul dislikes sebek's dad so much. like, aside from being prejudiced against humans, baul would see papa zigvolt as the man who will inevitably break his daughter's heart. not by any conscious action of his own, but by virtue of being human. mama zigvolt will outlive her husband (and likely her own children!) by a measure of centuries, not decades. by marrying a human, she has sentenced herself to centuries of grief. like, that's fucked up!! as her father, baul probably worries so much for when that time comes when his daughter will be alone again.

[popculturebaby]

Michelle Phillips and Cass Elliot in September 1966

[slime-sandwhich-nom]

Their Christmas family dinners are probably a blast