#didn’t actually talk abt the parents much… but I think the way they influenced ceroba is the more interesting part

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So the game is pretty vague about what Cerobas family was like but concidering they aren't in Kanako's life and from the way Ceroba acts I don't think her childhood was great so I'm interested to see if you have any headcannons on what Cerobas family was like?

Yeah thinking bout cerobas childhood is interesting. It’s a lot less clear what her parents were like and what she was like compared to starlo so obviously my take is gonna be different to other peoples. for someone so family oriented, cerobas parents are only ever mentioned once from what I remember, when ceroba recounts her meeting with chujin and how her mother sent her out. I wouldn’t consider this particularly strange until you also consider the fact that she’s pretty close to stars parents, organising picnics and appear to frequently talk even after chujins death.

Cerobas parents def feel to me like the kind that never really saw eye to eye with their daughter, and put a lot of pressure on her to conform to their expectations. It kinda coincides with my hc that ceroba was more of a rebellious kid: she disliked school (the “not by choice” line) and preferred more physical activities like martial arts (she’s extremely strong, even without magic. She still seems to value staying active going off of her gym membership line) and exploring the underground (she’s the one who discovered the garbage dump that star and her would eventually visit frequently, leading to him finding the tapes) (she also seems to enjoy the adventure through the steamworks, perhaps like she’s reliving the wonder of her childhood?). She could always tell her parents didn’t approve of her choices, that they wanted her to be a high achiever, but at this point in her life she didn’t care what they thought.

The pressure from her parents began to affect her choices later in life, though. Eventually, we know that ceroba “grew up,” and she places a lot of value on this fact. She grew out of her more rowdy tendencies (saying the feisty five are too rowdy for her) and started conforming to what her parents expected of her, being more proper.

Coming back to the whole “why did she fall for chujin so fast?” thing I was talking bout way back, I feel like ceroba was expected to rush into adulthood pretty fast, settle down with a husband and have a big family, because of her parents. Chujin embodied a lot of the traits she already was fond of in starlo, who she had considered as a partner prior (his kindness, most notably) with the main difference being that unlike starlo, chujin also wanted to “grow up”, like her.

Despite eventually conforming to her parents’ ideal for her to settle down and make a family, she never kept in touch much with them, and they never made much of an effort to be in her life much, either.

I could prob expand more later but I just woke up shdjdjdhjshd