#it's the cutest thing and i love alois so damn much

[iturbide]

I counted, and there's like...3 good dads that make it to the end of 3H, nd thats route-dependent.

Theres Seteth (he's a good dad, if a tad overprotective), Alois (i know he has a wife, and I SWEAR he had a daughter), and Duke Goneril (he's only mentioned once but you will pry him being a good dad out of my cold dead hands)

Claude's parents...I'm admittedly iffy on them just because of that horse thing. But hey, they live!

Hey I’m pretty sure Claude has great parents the horse thing is semi-comic, something even Claude admits in his support with Hilda saying “there’s a trick to it” -- I’m pretty sure that his dad tied him into the saddle and then led the horse around because otherwise Claude would be running off instead of getting important instruction.  He is Almyran, after all: shirking on things like horseback riding lessons will put him at an extreme disadvantage in the long run.

(I’m biased, though, I’ve fallen in love with Claude’s parents and I think that he was going through something of a rebellious phase when he left for Fodlan, it’s only after being separated from them and stuck in a hostile land for a few years that he starts re-evaluating things and recognizes some of the wisdom in how they raised him -- even things like tying him to a horse).

But when it comes to 3H...I’m actually willing to count Leonie’s parents (unnamed but I don’t think they were dead), Count Gloucester, Margrave Edmund, and Count Ordelia in there:

Despite being an absolutely horrible person in general, Lorenz’ father did clearly instill some very good values in his son: once you strip away the pomp and attitude, Lorenz believes that he needs to use his noble status to help the commoners who live within his territory, even stating outright that rebellions are the fault of the noble in charge for not seeing the needs of the people met.  That’s frank heresy when you look at Edelgard’s belief that sacrificing the Empire’s people to the war machine is warranted.

Pretty much every single one of Marianne’s end cards state that Margrave Edmund trained her in diplomacy and statecraft after the war, which she uses either to help the von Edmund territory flourish (solo and certain platonic paired) or to help others (more romantic and some platonic paired).  Even though she has the impression that he sent her to the academy to get rid of her and doesn’t really care about her, she seems to project her own self-loathing onto others out of turn, and it really seems like he’s trying to help her.  The best example in my mind is the ‘Crest of the Beast’ she bears: she has so much insecurity about her Crest, believing it makes her ‘bad luck’ or ‘a monster,’ and we know from her supports that Margrave Edmund requested that her Crest not be certified -- which keeps it from becoming public knowledge at the academy that she bears the “cursed” Crest. 

Count Ordelia ended up getting in trouble because he was trying to help people.  When Hrym tried to rebel against the Empire, Ordelia territory offered aid -- and when that rebellion was crushed, the Ordelias suffered for that meddling by having their children experimented on.  Lysithea still clearly cares deeply for her parents, though, because despite intending to dissolve the noble House Ordelia, she wants to ensure that her parents are able to live out the rest of their lives comfortably, pushing herself in her studies so that she can beat out her limited lifespan and ensure she can achieve that goal. 

Basically the Alliance has a surprising number of good parents who live -- the only downside is that almost none of them appear in person.  Seteth and Alois are the only ones that do.