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SHE DOESN'T EXIST

sad trombone noises

DEAD MAYBE? attack on titan and disney have a high-mortality rate with mothers SPOILER: It's possible a serial killer is his father so you know things can't have turned out well.

i'm gonna c/p from last time because whoa there mother issues

so, trolls aren't raised by their biological parents, but by a lusus naturae, pretty much an animal from their world conditioned for the job. kanaya's was a mother grub, which looks like this. they're basically thirty-foot moths that serve as an intermediary in troll reproduction, basically incubators that the whole process is dependent on. they were close, she loved her mother a lot. when kanaya's lusus died shortly before their world was destroyed, she cut a matriorb out of its gut, which is pretty much an egg that will hatch a new mother grub, so that they can continue their species beyond nigh-extinction.

well, eridan destroyed the matriorb then killed kanaya. kanaya got better (and killed him), but without it her race is effectively extinct. the grub that would've hatched from it would have been like a daughter to her, the way her lusus was her own mother.

so, of the two trolls in game, if karkat is the second coming of troll jesus, kanaya is the virgin mary (who's his not-sister instead of his mother, it's a weird analogy), except she was a thirteen-year-old gay alien with a passive-aggressive streak and a terrible sense of self worth who had the alien equivalent of a miscarriage before becoming a vampire. it's been almost four years, but she isn't anywhere close to being over it. you can take for granted that she is avoiding the issue of what day it is entirely.

then you have her biological ancestor, the dolorosa, who left the alternian brooding caverns (where trolls of kanaya's caste served as stewards to the mother grubs and facilitated the hatching of their young) to act as adoptive lusus to karkat's ancestor, he grew up to be a quasi-messianic revolutionary before the empire killed them all. kanaya doesn't know anything about them, but she did meet the ghost of an alternate universe version of dolorosa, porrim. basically kanaya has a hot mom who's basically everything she wishes she was and she's a bit insecure around her, but they got along okay.

homestuck is horrifying

you ain't kidding

Dick's mom is deeeaaaaad, but he loved his family very much. That's why he's a tiny superhero now. Sometimes she's the reason he goes by Robin and sometimes not, and YJverse doesn't say either way, but regardless IT IS VERY SAD AND HE MISSES MOM HUGS.

Booster's mom is deeeaaaad in the 25th century but she raised him and his sister on her own! Her health condition is the reason he started betting on his own football games to make money. She disowned him for it and he never saw her again! YAY

MY BOYS DON'T DO WELL ON MOTHER'S DAY

welcome to batclub, here are your dead parents

Oh jeez where to even start...

OKAY so Hope's dad was a high-level government employee THAT MEANT WORKING 24-7 NO LIFE FOR YOU MISTER and also no family life either and for as long as Hope can remember his father's never been around so uh. Kinda feeling abandoned and neglected here dad. But thankfully his mom was housewife (or so i headcanon)! She's always around so that means she loved him! Not like that jerk!!

Cue turning into a mama's boy. Mom mom mom can we go here can we do this can i have pocket money so i can buy me one of those bomerangs all the cool athletes and hunters have? Yes son you can and btw it's MAY not CAN. So she did pretty all right, and Hope adored her and would have thought she hung the moon if Cocoon's sky wasn't generated by eldritch abominations. But then he started hating his own dad because... obvious reasons.

Then one day he and his mom went on a trip to the beach!! But the trip was cut short when another eldritch abomination, this time from the outside world, was discovered in the city and the military rounded everyone into trains in order to kill them all. His mom joined the resistance and tried to get him home but the platform she was standing on got shot by a gunship and exploded before crumbling to the ground which was a far way down. Some giant blond dude who's the leader of the resistance held onto her hand and tried to get her up but she was prety much dead at that point (but not before imparting her final wishes) and he fell too anyway.

Oh and Hope watched the entirety of this from his own platform. Yeah. He's pretty much scarred for life.

And there's his replacement goldfish mom/big sis, Lightning. That is an entirely new can of worms 8'| She took care of him, taught him to be tough, brought him home to his dad, took care of him more when they had unfinished business with all the eldritch abominations wanting to murder all the humans and then he remembers her dying even though she was actually just dragged into a dimension outside the timestream but his memories were messed with to make him think she died.

Aaaaaaand he spent the next thirteen years wanting EVERYONE BACK and is willing to do lots of things. Like change time itself.

/bows and exits stage left

ace is a dog he knew his mom for like seven to eight weeks and that's it

shockingly the same, doggie

will, r u sure u r not actually a dog?

one day someone will come over and there will just be an extra dog and no will

he's ascended

his final form

Kristoff's parents were dead some time before he was eight, and then he got a new mom who is literally an overbearing troll.

Troy's mom is never really mentioned, but there's mention on his dad having a girlfriend, so idk his parents are divorced. He doesn't seem to be super-close to either of them, but he also doesn't seem to have any particularly negative issues. Shirley is not his mom.

Laurie was conceived under manipulated pretenses due to her father's identical power-set of pheromone emission. He basically forced Laurie's mother, Gail, to love him, but the effects of his pheromones faded when she became pregnant. She left him, kept the baby, and worked hard to support the both of them. Laurie, who grew up largely isolated and very shy, is very close to her mother. When she started attending the Xavier Institute, her mother moved from Connecticut to New York so that Laurie would have somebody trusted close-by. Gail often attended school functions and was very involved by parent-of-mutant standards.

so he's a bit of a fixer upper
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who knows how long they'd been composing that sales pitch.

Popping in here with a rarity, which is a mother in comics who is wonderful, supportive, fully aware of her child's superhero career and alive! AW YISS.

SO BASICALLY, Jaime is a total momma's boy. Mama Reyes has taken great pains to make sure that Jaime knows how supportive she is of him, whether he's gay or straight or if he happens to be running around in a dumb blue bugsuit. It's only natural that Jaime responds to that kind of support with love and respect, and he ends up telling her (and his whole family) about the whole superhero thing as soon as he possibly could; she's an integral part of his life, and he refuses to include her only in one facet of his life. In fact, once he and the Teen Titans are about to face down an enemy that has a good chance of killing them all, Jaime's first response is to pack his things and go home to hug his mom beforehand. His reaction to missing the 'S' on Supergirl's chest is that his mother taught him not to stare, and his reaction to any bursts of rudeness on the field are quickly mitigated with 'please don't tell my mom I said that'. He's too cool for school.

(The respect, by the way, is completely warranted. One does not simply disrespect Bianca Reyes, a woman capable of cowing Green Lanterns, subduing vigilantes and just being generally awesome... when she's not participating in Reyes family group hugs.)

For mother's day, Mama Reyes would be the recipient of the traditional home-cooked breakfast and flowers from Jaime and his younger sister, something that she likely received since Jaime was old enough to walk. tl;dr jaime is an embarrassing mama's boy and his mother is 100000x cooler than he is.

jaime's family was always one of my favorite parts of the comic, and in a series with so much to love, there were some close contenders. i'm pretty sure the moment i decided to give up on the nu52 version (which was a decision i made later than i really should've) is when they basically wrote them out.

god bless bianca reyes.

Hahah god, I have heard so many horror stories about his nu52 version! The preboot BB is so close to my heart that I haven't even attempted to read it, because I like to keep my memory of this sweet, joyful canon the way it is. :') BUT YES, you have fabulous taste because the Reyes fam is probably my favourite part of the series as well. It's so nice to have a living, breathing, supportive family in fiction!

let's see how coherent i can be. SO LOKI HAD ONE MOM AND NOW HAS THREE MOMS. i could say a lot about loki and moms through the lokiverse but right now let's focus on the best moms, the all-mother. and also a little bit of farbauti.

farbauti was loki's birth mother and we see a little bit of her here and there and no one can agree on what she looks like (SURPRISE). basically he was a tiny sassy frost giant before he went back into the past and talked to himself and manipulated his father (laufey) into going into battle, dying, before he was then taken in by odin. mckelvie decided that she was crazy huge with big icicles for hair. there really wasn't much there aside from the little frost giant loki's unkind words about her (and everything else, tbh). and at a young age he thought he was better than everyone else, thank you loki.

so fast forward, and you have kid loki and his role and being blackmailed by the all-mother, the tri-head matriarch of asgard consisting of the goddesses idunn, gaea and freyja. they simultaneously had kid loki do some dirty work for the good of asgardia and took him under their wing as their son. so he was kind of a thirteen year old superspy diverting wars and getting sent to bed without supper. THEY LOVE/D HIM VERY MUCH, and he really cared for them. they were his acting mother, and kid loki didn't remember anything about his other mother. so he just integrated himself as part of asgard and acted as their son. of course until tragedy had fallen and loki wiped other loki away and took his role.

THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE a lot of loki's feelings about others stem from the role that he forced himself into. so while his other asshole self that technically took the role has little love for authority (mothers included), the combination of the role and kid loki's feelings for the all-mother shift his viewpoint into something completely new. he now has a quid pro quo relationship with her where she wipes part of his past to ensure that he's able to write his own future. ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. he no longer has much of a desire to un-throne anyone as much as he just wants to run around and be his selfish jerk self. so while he's still kind of taken under their wing (and it's debatable or not that he know about the shit that he's pulled), he's still their ocean's 11 (all of it. all ocean's 11.) and their acting underhanded agent. he definitely has some degree of hesitant affection for them where he definitely didn't before. (even though he's. himself. about it.) how strangeeee.

anyway, there's a little bit of rebellion going on because there's some issues happening where what he thinks she's doing isn't exactly right and it's starting to encroach on his freedoms ... fun fun fun fun.

Edited 2014-05-12 00:43 (UTC)

loki's moms are babes

yeah he has three hot moms. lucky loser.

also i'm glad you used that blushu icon

i thought about it and im like i need two. one of the hip cock and one of the close-up blushu.

time to use it inappropriately.

Sam only remembers meeting his mother twice.

Once, as a ghost haunting their old house who saved him and told him "I'm sorry" and nothing more.

And later, he time traveled with his brother and met her as a young woman, and she had no idea who she was.

Due to the pedestal his father and Dean put her on growing up, she's almost like a saint in his eyes. He tears up when he meets her as a young woman, because he's finally meeting the woman who's death his family has been trying to avenge for years, the woman who must be perfect in every way because his family said so, and she has no idea who she is.

Basically, Sam loves his mother, even though he was too young to remember her when she died. (Although, there may be some tension in his thoughts since she basically caused Sam to have demon blood as a baby in order for a demon to bring her husband back to life.)

Well, I mean, how would you feel if your son was a drug addict who once cooked meth in the basement of the house you were graciously letting him reside in for free when he's a grown-ass adult of twenty-five years? Jesse's mom pretty much hates him. I mean, she loves him as mothers do, but she's had to cut him out of her life in order to stop enabling him and to keep him from influencing his younger brother.

From Jesse's point of view, she's a total bitch who made him homeless when he really needed her, and before that she made his life a living hell by piling all these unreasonable expectations on him and criticizing him for, like, everything ever.

The truth is, she only ever wanted him to succeed in school and get a good job someday, and she was strict and overbearing, and she didn't quite pay enough attention to Jesse's strengths (art, for instance) or weaknesses (that he probably had ADHD and that's why he had so much trouble focusing in school and opted to self-medicate with stimulants).

There's a lot of blame to go around when it comes to this relationship. Anyway, she's disowned him now. But he did eventually blackmail her into giving him back his house. Jesse Pinkman: world's greatest son.

Once upon a time Kenzi was a mama's girl. She loved her mother dearly, looked up to her, spent a lot of time with her and helped her cook and stuff. But then her dad died and her mother remarried. The man she married was horrible and abusive, he would lock Kenzi in a closet for a little as laughing too loud. While Kenzi told Bo he never hurt, hurt her, her mother said something about beatings so either he did or her mother did.

Kenzi grew to resent her mother because she always took her stepfather's side, began running away when she was 14/15 or so. She always believed that her mother took her stepfather's side because she was just as afraid of him but later realized that no, it was because she's actually just as terrible a person as her stepfather.

Needless to say they don't talk.

Cyril is a total mama's boy. Even before his father died he spent a lot of time with her. After his father's death he spent even more time with her. He grew up trying to be the man of the house. His mother didn't really baby him, she loves him dearly but she didn't spoil the child.

She's the one that taught him how to be a witch and just about everything else he needed to know in life. She's the one he goes to if he's ever unsure about something. She's not that happen about her baby being a vampire but at least she's getting grandkids so that softened the blow a little.

Cy talks to her as often as he can on the phone since he doesn't get the chance to travel much. He really misses her here but it's not like he was dependent on her back home.

No mention is made of his mother, I assume she wasn't around when Erwin lost his father when he was young since she was never shown. But he gave up any kind of family ties when he decided to join the Survey Corps and so he never really had any other parent figures.

You can say the Survey Corps is like his family, family he looks after and then sends out on dangerous missions with a high morality rate. Fun times.

Kang doesn't know who either of his parents are. All he knows is that they are bronze dragons, and that the majority of metallic dragons entirely disowned (and killed out of pity) their draconian children after finding out about their creation. The draconians were then raised by some very not nice humans, and not treated very well.

If he ever ran into his mother, it'd be a very tense and awkward situation. It's not something he ever wants to happen.

Edited 2014-05-12 02:17 (UTC)

GIL's biological mother sold him and his younger brother to a freak show when they were kids. Needless to say, she was probably not very loving in the end. Vincent is the only one who can recount this story; Gil has no memory of their mother and isn't pressed to find out. Even when he finally regains his memories, I doubt he harbors any anger or grief toward his mother.

In later years he was adopted by the Nightray dukedom, so Duchess Bernice Nightray is his adoptive mother. They have no relationship and the adoption wasn't out of the good of the Duke's heart. They needed a contractor for Raven, plain and simple. It's depicted the adoptive Nightray boys got physical with Gil at least once (maybe a couple of times), but Bernice was never in the picture to intervene and I doubt she would have cared much. I don't imagine Gil's ever sat down and had a proper conversation with her and anyway, after some of the murders she joined a cult (yes really) and lost touch with reality, I doubt it was ever possible. She was killed (accidentally intentionally) by Elliot and while I imagine Gil feels a bit sorry, it's more of the situation than actually caring about her personally.

Hans: no fucking clue
Connors: no fucking clue
Starscream: no fucking clue

THE LONGER ANSWER is that Hans probably has an absolutely shitty relationship with his parents because youngest of thirteen/he has major issues & Starscream doesn't have a parental figure because Transformers is complicated and I'm still not entirely sure how/if robots grow.

and, of course, no fucking clue for Connors

KARLA: murder.
JUNE: likely not murder let's not assume

Karla...

it's unfortunate, it was like an "i don't want you to see the person your daughter's become and be ashamed" deal
so she y'know
sigh

congrats june you're losing the which doctor is more horrible race for once

Crematia's mother is the chaotic goddess of conquest, and the leader of the evil gods. Crematia's relationship with her mother is both twisted and actually pretty positive. When Takhisis emphasized on cruelty and power, it comes to no surprise that Crematia aspires to such traits and actually killed all of her siblings with no protest from her mother. In fact, it's been more than implied that Takhisis is proud and fond of Crematia, mostly because she's basically a female version of Furyion, the first red dragon and Takhisis' favorite dragon.

~~lust the similarities are uncanny~~

But no mom in the picture. SORRY ...

PEEJ's mom exploded back on Krypton. She has no memory of her and in some ways, is now kind of accepting of her mother (and father's) terrible fate. It's the whole universe being erased and losing her extended family that tends to be her issue.

Earth-2's Lois Lane was her maternal figure... then she forgot about her for a while, it's complicated. While Lois was her cousin-in-law, she acted as more of an aunt/mother figure and Peej was very close with her. She loved Lois and was conflicted when she discovered Lois was sick and dying and the only possible solution was to bring back their original universe. It seems they got along for the most part and Lois never appeared to pressure her into thinking the shady plan was the right thing to do. So when Lois (and Superman) died, Peej took it hard. All she wants now is for Lois to rest peacefully in her grave, as much as she misses her.

what is a mother, this human reproductive stuff is bullshit >:T

what is a robot, this mechanical spark stuff is nuts

um wow mechanicalist

runs off with all the sparks

Kaworu is his own mother!

Adam, the first angel and the Mother of all Angels, one day was found by humans and humans fucked everything up; they destroyed Adam's body that reverted back into an embryonic stage and grabbed Adam's soul and placed it inside a vessel (half human, half angel) that is Kaworu Nagisa aka Tabris.

he does want to return to Adam (fuse again with the embryo, so he can have his body back) but it's all very instinctive rather than feelings being involved. he has no love for "Adam" (neither his siblings) and works on "things are the way they are" and "things must be the way they are meant to be".

AKA. wtf evangelion

Well T'Challa's Mom kind of died giving birth to him unfortunately. BUT! He has a step-Mom! Who T'Challa thought left his Father for another man. But hey it turns out that wasn't the case at all! She was just kidnapped by a white supremacist and kept locked away in his mansion for some odd years.

DON'T WORRY THOUGH. He eventually saves her or something and all is well again!

lol orphan.

Yeah, we have ZERO INFORMATION on Shinjiro's mother, only that he was already at the orphanage when Akihiko arrived (When they were like three or four.) So I assume she's either dead, or she was super young and gave the kid up, who knows.

He's not terribly broken up about it. :T And has no desire to look for any records that might have survived the fire or whatever because wow what a bunch of unnecessary bullshit, okay. Like hell he wants to bust up into someone's life and be like "Hey I think I came out of your vagina and then you left me with a bunch of strangers almost two decades ago, sup."

blood relations are not a big deal to him.

Ruka is so close to her parents, we only see them twice - and both times they're standing over Ruka's comatose body. One is in the framing of a newspaper photo, and the other is Ruka's sort of in-body/out-of-body awareness of what was going on in the hospital room while she was in a coma (while simultaneously in another dimension inside her head, kinda. Card game animes are weird).

Her mom is a blonde, she travels for work a lot, she's wealthy as fuq, and in Ruka's memory her mom's face is shadowed out and indistinct. End series canon has Ruka and her twin brother Rua moving out of the country (presumably to England) at age 13 to live with their parents.

In the manga, her mom is dead (so's her dad) and the twins live on the streets.

mama always said

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LINKING TO A MILLION PANELS bc I can't help myself

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