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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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[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.

The Amazons are Donna's first family. She's a magical copy of Diana, who is always her big sister, and she's officially recognized as Queen Hippolyta's daughter. However, the other Amazons don't really like Donna all that much--she's a bit of an outsider amongst them because of she doesn't spend as much time of Themyscira as Diana.

Donna is also a "Titan Seed," or a magical child of the classic Titans of Greek myth. The other eleven seeds (of whom only Athyns remains alive) are siblings she grew up with. All of the Titans were their parents, but Coeus and Phoebe, who represent the heavenly axis and the moon, respectively, were the closest to being Donna's "parents." (And then she married Coeus after Phoebe had been dead for awhile. Greek mythology, what can you do). However, this Titan family is full of betrayal and mind wipes and craziness, so they aren't Donna's true family.

That role falls to the (Teen) Titans. From the beginning, Donna was the den mother, and she considers all of the Titans her intimate family. Dick, Garth, and Wally are her brothers, Roy was her first boyfriend and someone who's a friend now but also family. Kory, Raven and Lilith are her sisters, Gar's her kid brother, and things go on from there. The newer generation are like little siblings; Cassie is definitely Donna's little sister.

And, finally, Donna has been married and had a son at one point. Her husband's name was Terry Long, and the two of them were married when Donna was nineteen, with their son Robert being born not long after. She loved her family (which included Terry's daughter from a previous marriage), very much, but when they died in a car accident after Terry divorced Donna and gained custody of their son, Donna's faith in how normal her life could be was really shaken. She would probably be incredibly hesitant to try again, because of this.

[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]

yup! that's what it's like, super officially is! but i don't know how much ~legal~ sense that makes since we don't know if donna actually lived through those lives or w/e, but then again all her adoptive families showed up at her funeral so i guess they came back after all her identities collapsed back into one timeline.

seriously donna what the hell is your continuity.