exceptfebruary: a shadowed calendar man in full costume (Father Knows Best)
Julian Day | Calendar Man ([personal profile] exceptfebruary) wrote in [community profile] goshdarnspam2012-06-09 10:29 am

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.
viced: (The Great Machine | If you build it)

[personal profile] viced 2012-06-09 04:06 pm (UTC)(link)
MITCHELL does not have daddy issues because his mother killed his dad when he was a baby. AND I COULD TAKE THIS IN SO MANY ALTERNATE DIRECTIONS but uh. He had a father figure? And his father figure loved him a lot and helped him become a superhero, and then when Mitch decided to quit he spent the entirety of the series trying to get him back to being a superhero which went really, really badly. And then: Mitchell killed him. So he has issues with people getting close but we all knew this anyway.

TONY Oh god, Tony has some issues about his father. Howard was never necessarily abusive, and it's alluded that he really did love his son, but Tony was something of a handful as a kid, and not only that, but Howard wanted Tony to succeed, so he drove his son hard. Honestly? Their relationship was a pretty classic fifties father/son relationship. Howard did drink too much, and got Tony to do so a few times, but a lot of the issues are just that he was used as a plot device when Marvel wanted to put in an "evil" authority figure in Tony's past. I don't think he begrudges him, but I think his influence is probably one of the reasons why Tony doesn't...ever want to settle down.

OSWALD, HIS FATHER DIED WHEN HE WAS VERY YOUNG. (ha ha star wars reference) But his father's death pretty much cast a shadow over his entire childhood. Actually, it was his mother's reaction to his father's death. But ozzie suffered just the same.

JACK HIS FATHER ABANDONED HIM BECAUSE HE COULDN'T HANDLE HAVING A KID WHO KEPT SAYING HE WAS ABDUCTED BY ALIENS. Despite the fact that it was true. Kind of. But yeah, poor Jack.

SHADE, IT WAS LIKE ALMOST 200 YEARS AGO. I DON'T THINK HE CARES ANYMORE. aka I don't know, and Shade doesn't really....give any indication of feeling any effects from an abusive father. Everyone was an asshole in the Victorian era anyway.
viced: (idk my bff superman?)

[personal profile] viced 2012-06-09 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)


Everything about him is just depressing
Theo hold me
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[personal profile] hacktivist 2012-06-09 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
;; I can't say anything meaningful that isnt' spoiler ridden but damn right in my feels