Open Thread: Oracle Hotline

[mithen]

--Describe your most recent POV character’s mother.

Oooh, this gets into awkward territory for me, and this is why wrestler's families very rarely enter into my stories, because while Kevin Owens is fictional, his mother is not, and has never appeared in canon to give a plausible fictionalized version of herself. She seems a nice woman, very supportive of her son; she's French-Canadian and I assume a little shy about the fact that English is not her first language, based on the fact that she doesn't appear on Kevin's DVD even when his father does. I do wonder what Kevin's kayfabe parents think of the fact that he makes the life of his former best friend--who seems like something of an adopted son to them--a living hell. I know people have caught his father being chummy with Sami on Twitter, to Kevin's OTT chagrin. :)

Classes start next week, so not much writing this week. I've promised myself that if I can just finish prepping for Monday's classes, I get a treat of being allowed to work on fic for an hour. I have two more to go... Wish me luck and I hope all your characters have mother-issues that are interesting to the plot!

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[luciferxdamien]

Aaah... Mothers. XD for Saitou, I have no information on his mother, not even a name I've been able to find, so. XD And then Sanosuke, all I know is that he left his parents at around age 8 to join the Sekihoutai buuut I haven't read that far into the manga yet so. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ If I were doing Loki this week (like I should be) this is something I could actually answer! Alas, I am not writing what I should be.

I got a tiny bit of writing done this week, but it was also Comic Con this week so... Very busy with finishing things up. XD And of course, my back went out Monday cause I didn't already have enough stuff to deal with! At least I was able to enjoy the convention, even if we didn't go to the third day, but there just... wasn't a whole lot I wanted to see and we bought everything the second day! But here's to hoping I can feel better and get back to writing.

[mithen]

Missing mothers alert, ahoy! Especially when you’re dealing with historically-based things where there’s probably an answer but no one gave enough of a damn to think about it... D:

I finally got some good writing in, of a story where my favorite character is a red panda given human form through the Power of Love. And I just realized that DANG IT, it’s Kevin’s POV again. I GOTTA WRITE A DIFFERENT POV SOMETIME. The other story I’m working on is ALSO a jerk who betrayed his friends. I guess I really love my betraying jerks...

[navaan]

I'm writing movie Diana. So... There's not much I have to say about her father, but so much to say about her mother. XD

I really loved the glimpses we got of the Amazons in the move and I loved Hippolyta and how she was both queen and mother and how there was so much conflict in only that origin story part.She seemed to want the best for her people and the best for Diana and despite her need to protect her daughter she let Antiope train her in the end and in the end let her go. That mus have been so hard.

I'm also - as always it seems - writing Tony Stark. With Noir!Tony there is such a history tying in with hid dad, but we know literally nothing at all about his mother. Which is something that I should explore in fic somewhere. I can't let that stand!

And finally I'm writing MCU Steve POV and his mother we never get to see in the movies, but she must have been such a huge influence on him. A memory comes up in the fic and I know I've let myself be influenced by 616 knowledge of her there. In my head she is this hard working woman who wants the best for her child and Steve has a lot of her in him.

I feel like I'm writing a lot and yet am not making any progress. I have no idea why that is, but things are just so busy right now. -.-

[mithen]

With Noir!Tony there is such a history tying in with hid dad, but we know literally nothing at all about his mother.

Ooooh, that's always such an interesting situation! I hope you can find a way to work her in there!

And yesss, Diana's relationships with her mother and the other older Amazons are so tempting and amazing to write! There's a real pleasure to it...

I feel like I'm writing a lot and yet am not making any progress. I have no idea why that is, but things are just so busy right now. -.-

I know. I know! For me canon has suddenly just gone BERSERK and I simply can't keep up with the amount of relational and character development we're getting. Why couldn't this storyline have happened in the spring, when I have more time...

[prince0froses]

Rorden's mother was a human farm girl, seduced by a long line of wastrels - Rorden's father among them. She gave birth to him right on the fields of the family farm. She's almost a stereotypical 1800s literature 'fallen woman', and after too many children out of wedlock she ended up going mad and was sent, with kind intent, by her brother to an asylum in the City. Rorden never saw her again - the capital city was the first place in his homeland to fall to the demons.

Sian's birth mother died giving birth to Lyrican, so he knew her only for a few years. He grieved for her deeply at the time, but it happened when he was so young that he has moved on. He and his brother inherit their red hair from her - their father is a brunet. His stepmother is his own age, which horrifies him - is father essentially took a midlife crisis trophy wife. Sylgi Tarsdottir is the daughter of a queen but not a princess (in the land she hails from royalty is gained by trial by combat, not hereditary, and their children only get the honorific Tarsson or Tarsdottir and no special status) and a mad inventer, alchemist, and brewer. She invented a machine that makes perpetual ale. Sian's father married her not just for her good looks (she's basically like an incarnation of the St. Pauli girl) but because her ale singlehandedly saved his inn.

Mary's mother and Rorden's mother had a lot in common, but just one wandering man was her downfall. She was left by her lover, and gave birth in a cave alone, where the drow of the underdark too her and most of her litter. Mary survived because as the runt of the litter, she went unnoticed when she hid. Her father heard of what happened, came to the cave, found Mary alive, dropped her off with her mother's parents, and that was that.

[mithen]

I just have to say that Sylgi Tarsdottir is the most amazingly charming character I have ever seen described in a few sentences only. :D I want a whole series just about her and her amazing perpetual ale machine.

I will get to the rest of these soon(erish), with any luck! I'm enjoying them!