Dead Parents

[tfmachad]

Funny you mention this, cawd0r, because that's one of the first details I've observed when I thought of Hans' story. I mean, you hardly ever see adventure stories starting with mom packing lunch for his kid before he goes out to kill monsters. Hans has both parents living. Ranov'la also has living parents, though I never really thought much about his mother. My trader has both parents dead, but they died of old age. Other characters of mine are just too old to have living parents.

My take is that this comes from lazy mid 80's computer game style adventure stories. It's hard to justify someone leaving a good house to go outside and roam the world killing everything. It's difficult to imagine a free adventurer having strings attached to home. This is somewhat why the main character almost always have romantic difficulties and ends up only hooking up with the damsel at the end of the story. Otherwise it puts too much responsibility in the hands of someone who should be free to go about and explore. How can you justify a father not coming back home at the end of the day to put his kids to sleep or be with his wife.

Now that I have to check applications for two factions I must admit it bothers me somewhat whenever I see the, "parents dead, revenge lust" variety stories.

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