EARLY MORNING NOT-MEME

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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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PIETRO has a terrible relationship with his father. They have a habit of blaming each other for all the terrible things that have happened to their family. Pietro blames Magneto because he's Magneto and generally sees his children as an extension of himself rather than their own people, and Magneto blames Pietro because he's an impulsive ass who has a little bit of a victim complex. They're both... Kind of right about each other in their own way. It really makes Pietro mad that he looks like Erik, though. Like Wanda could potentially not be Magneto's kid, with Pietro there's really no question. Yep.

STEPHEN had a very typical relationship with his father. He's a very stubborn person and so toward the end of his father's life they had a falling out, but other than that it was pretty boring. His parents were apparently pretty disappointed in his "character" toward the end of his school career which makes sense. It was after the death of his sister that he really started his selfish, downward spiral so... They probably were noticing that.

VICTOR had a fairly good relationship with his father. He didn't have an especially low or high regard for the man and didn't obsess over him nearly as much as he did his mother. He valued Werner's devotion to his family, and understood that his evasiveness regarding his mother was out of a desire to protect his son. I think Doom would still consider him a "lesser man" probably not really fit to lead, but he wasn't an awful person. Just typical to his situation.

JASON's biological father was a thug and he's well aware of that, but he also grew up in Crime Alley where everyone was a thug, so I think he probably knows he can't really judge on that alone. He has a love/hate complex with Bruce that's pretty hardcore. On the one hand, he greatly respects everything that Bruce has accomplished, on the other hand Bruce failed him and continues to fail Gotham by not being willing to dirty his hands or get over his principles in the name of practicality. I think Jason probably wants to hate him, but there's a little bit too much ingrained respect and adoration there for that to really be true. I also think that it's probably hard for him to separate his feelings for Bruce Wayne, his adoptive father, from his feelings on Batman as an abstract concept.

OLLIE didn't have an especially good or bad relationship with his parents. They just were off being rich and doing cool things and then were killed by lions. No really.

AOI's parents are never mentioned in canon. My headcanon for them is that they were pretty typical, but he didn't get along with them super well because of his own neurosis and romanticizing of adolescent coming of age fiction such as Catcher and the earlier works of Fitzgerald.