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EARLY MORNING NOT-MEME

This one is really simple:

WHAT IS YOUR CHARACTER'S RELATIONSHIP TO THEIR FATHER?

You can also talk about mother/lusus/creator/whatever if your character doesn't have a father, but ANYWAY

Father's Day is on the 17th, let's talk about DADDY ISSUES.

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Ghost had headcanon a supportive older mother and father who were tolerant of their only child's then-mild eccentricities and sloppy hygiene in view of that he was clearly the absent-minded professor sort. I don't think they discouraged him from following his dreams (though maybe they should have) and they clearly raised him to be kind, gentle, and thoughtful of other people. He never mentions them and from the way he doesn't gravitate to leadership in any way shape or form, I can only conclude he has a strong enough sense of self not to want or need the direction of any father-figure stand-in.

Walker had a dad who instilled in his son unswerving values of faith and optimism--and Walker clearly adored his father from even the brief on-panel time they shared. Right up until his dad fell to his death off a rotten bridge and they had to bury him. Walker's awareness of his dad's belief in him spurred him on when he needed it the most.

Jon has generalized abandonment feelings. He points out his dad was a cold motherfucker to abandon his mother and his then unborn-son and swan off to parts unknown, and circles around several years later to torture and hopefully kill dear old dad. He never had any strong male figures in his life, save for a professor at Gotham University he ended up killing, who prior to that he had clearly replaced his father with (but who failed to stand up for him when the board fired him, a betrayal he viewed as inexcusable).

Piper has serious father issues. He says he felt neglected from the get go, even though his parents spent a ton of money on his hearing (when they finally noticed he was deaf) and his dad was not supportive of his composition when he finally started playing music around the age of ten. If Hartley was anything as a child as he is as an adult, he trolled for response, maybe even harder, and got into numerous fights with his father. He also used his music as a way to separate them or pretended he couldn't hear his dad, and generally displayed the kind of cruelty and pettiness only frustrated teenagers can manage towards their parents. Finally when he dropped out of the upteenth college, he outed himself to his dad, had a roaring argument, stole some money and left.

Then after he Rogued, and his parents did everything they could to cover up his crimes (to "protect the family name", Piper observed with disgust) he adopted the Rogues as a new family. Barry Allen died. Piper realized suddenly that life was precious and time was finite, and returned home to beg his family's forgiveness, older and wiser. (He still joked, "it's your bad penny of a son") and it was evident he was rebuilding his relationship with his parents through good works, patience, forgiveness and open apology for his angry fiery childhood.

Then he murdered his father and mother under hypnosis.