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[terra]

Hail traveler and well met, I come with more tl;dr-y questions. GASP, it is neither Halloween nor World Series related.

So, family. Who does your character consider their family? How are their relations with said family? Are their biological family and self-identified family the same? What are their feelings on starting a family of their own?

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[pluckyreporter]

Raph's family is easy: His brothers, his father. Casey is 'brother by another mother' and their bond is strong-- but will only get stronger over time. Still, Casey will eventually leave-- and return-- to the family and be welcomed back with all with open arms (even when he brings his infant daughter along). If he's willing to die for you? You've just gained family status. THIS HAS SOME CAVEATS -- Raph's willing to perform heroically and put himself at risk for a stranger, but if he'd trade his life for yours, that's different. Just sayin

[technophantom]

Well although Ghost's biological family is never mentioned, he's totally adopted the Thunderbolts as his surrogate family and anybody clever enough to get in under his defenses is likely to be added in to that category.

Orin kinda doesn't have a family (anymore), but he's got marine life and the other Atlanteans and that's as good. He's all circle-of-lifey.

Jon tried to kill his family and largely succeeded, so that's awkward... but he also seems to like angry young men so he's all for starting his own.

Arcade's mom is never mentioned but he murders his dad and hates kids, so I'm guessing he's not a family man.

[moirae]

CLINT ● His biological family was fairly neutral--his parents' names were Harold and Edith, and he has an older brother named Barney. However, his dad was alcoholic who beat his sons, and his mom was not very effective in stopping him, and both of them died in a car accident when Clint was quite young. You can make the case that since then, Clint's been looking for his self-identified family--he has a lot of false starts with mentors who betray him in the circus, but it's with the Avengers that he finally finds his family. Basically anyone he's on the team with for any amount of time becomes, in his view, like a psuedo-sibling/friend/ally all in one. Steve is the mentor finally gone right, and then other, younger Avengers become like cousins or nieces/nephews, depending on the relationship. But yeah, along with proving himself to the world, the Avengers are Clint's mechanism for family, and they have been for most of his adult life, which is why he reacts so viscerally to things like Osborne's Dark Avengers

[moirae]

DONNA ● Donna's family is actually pretty complicated, especially considering the amount of retcons her history has undergone! She has at least two human, earthly families--her biological mother Dorthy Hinckley, and her adoptive parents Carl and Fay Evans. In her 80s appearances those were her families, but they've been retconned to the status of "possible lives" for her now

[moirae]

her adopted mom's name was still stacy when she adopted her! but by the time donna found her she'd remarried and was an evans. c:

[moirae]

SHE TOTALLY WENT TO NEW NARNIA NO ONE CAN CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE
AND EVERYTHING WAS BEAUTIFUL AND NOTHING HURT

also the douche-bag dad, noneffective mom thing seems to be a trend. :|a

[terra]

Bucky's family looks like this: