#i kinda wonder if she & dad had a falling out LMFAO KAJBKAD......considering aunt says

[toestalucia]

@convxction

it is father's day. talk about granpo's dad. anything you wanna. maybe drabble ? the sky is yo limit desu

heavy gbf spoilers for arc3 but ive,,,,been thinking about these facts since the reveal,,,,and been wanting to write it out but i dont find the WORDS so im just gonna,,,,,,,TALK

but this is gonna be more so about gran’s dad rather than gran’s feelings toward their dad etc.

gran’s dad was found by gran’s mom’s parents as an orphan/baby. he was just abandoned in front of the island’s forest shrine which is a mystery in itself but that’s how he came to zinkenstill & came to grow up with gran’s mom. it’s stated they were best friends from day 1 so i….assume it was somewhere around toddler-child age. later, mom’s parents had a second child, meaning gran has an aunt too.

shortly after (dad & mom are teenagers i assume when aunt was born, to fit in with every other info we have) the current antag comes to kidnap mom for her powers, fails, and kidnaps aunt instead. in this battle mom’s parents, gran’s grandparents, dies.

this is when dad(&mom) first goes on his journey, and where he meets rosetta&walfried&baragona etc, considering theyre all p young when travelling with dad (and walfried mentions mom being around too). somewhere between this (the end of it) journey & dad leaving for a second time, gran is born. atm we don’t know why dad (presumably) leaves for estalucia, because the kidnapped aunt they were trying to save was a failed mission.

what we do know is that dad doesn’t want the singularity role to exist again due to what it entails (but im also p sure he’s already aware of gran being the singularity even before he writes the letter, due to them feeling dad’s aura when falling down to an island with messed up time, while dad is leaving that island) & that dad told zinkenstill not to tell gran anything to keep them safe, not wanting them to go after the man who kidnapped aunt.

as we can see, that didnt matter at all. there was also raised concerns whether it really was dad who sent that letter, because if he wanted gran to stay safe, why would he encourage a journey to a place most ppl don’t believe exists? (again the time-mess on the island imo, dad KNOWS, but! it sure exists)

but gran’s dad also saw the ppl who cared for him die. and he saw aunt get kidnapped. and that’s an awful awakening to how evil the world can be. ofc the first ‘save aunt’ journey had more reasons due to ‘messengers of god’ stuff but. i do think there’s some misplaced over-protectiveness when he asks zinkenstill to not tell gran anything. i assume the trip where dad leaves gran behind has a bigger reason than just ‘wanted to travel’, and that since he personally couldn’t keep gran safe, he did it in the only other way he could think of. the very few gran & dad interaction we have seen in flashbacks are good moments, so i do think that at the time he just wanted to shield gran from the horrors of the world.

this ultimately backfires & gives gran 45 emotional issues instead & a huge scar across their chest, and i sincerely hope that dad is aware of this by now too. asking gran to go to estalucia is rude and a bad take after leaving them behind, but with how gbf currently is giving more stuff to the entire thing i…really do wonder what they gonna do with it. i wouldn’t be surprised if they actually went the ‘it’s not actually dad who sent the letter’ way, considering its already been addressed as a possibility.

gran’s dad DOES suck, but i can see where the ‘dont tell gran anything’ thinking is coming from. dealing with the ppl who cared for you as you grew up die is bad, and then going on a journey & seeing more of it & learning how the world works in such unfair ways (baragona’s entire family tree & what he does in gran’s time, both him & walfried (having to) joining the man who kidnapped aunt….its an ENTIRE other topic).

i think gran’s gonna struggle with this stuff a lot too. arc3 has alrdy been bad for them (they basically died again), and now they have to deal with the fact that their grandparents are gone, mom is mia, dad is at estalucia Hopefully, aunt is still with the Enemy (assumingly, gran doesn’t know that For Sure). and that they can’t fully trust the letter anymore. and know that dad tried to protect them in the worst possible way, there was way better ways to conceal the actual truth, they should’ve just settled with saying that gran’s grandparents died in sickness or something. lying is still bad ! but gran ! spent so much time asking for their real family !

honestly there’s a reason the found family trope doesn’t work with gran imo, and its cuz gran is so firmly aware that they didn’t grow up with a real family. it’s stated they always asked ‘how come i don’t have a real family’ to which everyone replied that the village is their family. gran’s not looking for something family-ish, gran’s looking for their actual family. so any conclusion of “ur real family is the grandcypher” just. doesnt sit right with me? because thats just not what gran’s after. gran knows these things (grandcypher, zinkenstill) are their family, but they’re not family.

also it’s bs the old lady explaining all this stuff call gran an ‘emotionally strong child’. they’re not. they were forced to be.