Only your OCs who are parents

Leyelle 2024-07-02 18:42:30 UTC #21

Hardcore siblings need a lot more love. It's really hard caring for your little siblings, and especially when you're still a kid yourself. I have a few of these in my series too, though they all have different reasons for why they are the primary caregivers for their younger siblings, and the amount of time they spent/spend in the role varies.

allisoncandraw 2024-07-02 20:02:23 UTC #22

It's a tough job that's for sure! They deserve all the credit

KevinReijnders 2024-07-02 20:36:10 UTC #23

In all fairness, Zack is very anxious in general

Leyelle 2024-07-02 21:17:09 UTC #24

oof, sorry I misspelled his name

skidiggy 2024-07-02 22:15:14 UTC #25

Shout out to "A Dozen Morning Glories" for leads with living parents. [checks story notes] Oof, not even half of my characters have living parents.

Leyelle 2024-07-02 23:15:14 UTC #26

yikes, but yes, sometimes living parents are nice to have

sophialyncoleman 2024-07-04 01:13:00 UTC #27

AWH! I’m a big believer in keeping parents ALIVE (with a few exceptions… I love my angst SUE ME) so I like this prompt!
This is Sadie and Andy
Sadie is an immortal fairy who adopted the very slow aging werewolf Andy in the 1800s!

They are my off brand magical Gilmore Girls! I love mother daughter dynamics and I wanted to rep more positive ones!

MarvinDziamski 2024-07-04 07:37:30 UTC #28

Magred the mother of my main characters best friend.

Meakashi 2024-07-04 10:32:01 UTC #29

The mother of the series' titular princess: Demon Queen Pelomyx. Lovingly called Maou-mama.

Leyelle 2024-07-04 14:11:33 UTC #30

I don't keep all my parents alive, because for me it always depends on what makes the most sense for my stories. I like writing lots of dynamics and I have a lot of characters with really sweet or loving mother figures, but they aren't all biological moms. sometimes adopted, sometimes aunts and grandmothers, sometimes much older sisters. etc. One of my favorite mother-daughter dynamics is in a spec fic piece I wrote recently.

Leyelle 2024-07-04 14:12:45 UTC #31

Ahh, I have a mother who is quite short too. Not a dwarf though, a little person, Melissa Xochitl.

Leyelle 2024-07-04 14:14:54 UTC #32

My chaotic-good and kinda crazy mommy, Melissa Xochitl:

“Yes…tragically, I have no adroitness in that arena. I studied interior design for a little while, but when it comes to fashion I’m a total wreck. Even my Drigo stops me at the door some mornings like ‘Mom, you’re not going out like that.’”

“Aish,” I laugh through the breathlessness. “I’m honestly the same way. My friend won’t get off my back about the amount of tee-shirt dresses and turtlenecks that I own, but it’s so hard to find anything cute in our size.”

“Don’t get me started. Everybody says, ‘There’s always the children’s aisle.’ Not when you’re a grown woman with a job there isn’t! Who makes blazers for 12-year-olds? That’s what I want to know. My boss isn’t about to let me show up in a pair of pants with flowers on the pockets.”

sophialyncoleman 2024-07-04 19:10:20 UTC #33

I’m a hypocrite because technically both sets of biological parents are dead… FOR THE PLOT but that’s what makes their story so sweet, pieces of broken families that found each other and made a whole
But I fully agree

Leyelle 2024-07-06 15:52:15 UTC #34

I do this quite often with characters being cared for by adoptive mothers, grandmothers, aunts etc

simplykit 2024-07-06 16:31:57 UTC #35

nize! heres mommy and daddy!

sophialyncoleman 2024-07-08 03:33:30 UTC #36

My beloved… found family🫶🏽

Leyelle 2024-07-10 15:30:47 UTC #37

This should be cheating, but Essence becomes the primary caregiver of Ayla during the story, so I'm counting it:

“Who’s that on your backpack?”

She smiles slightly shyly and hugs the bag tighter still.

“Prince Julian and Emily.”

She clearly loves this show.

I think these are the same characters from the show she was watching the other day. I watch the way her eyes brighten as I pick up her car seat from the corner behind the door, and she walks beside me down to the car.

“Prince Julian is a prince who came from another realm. But now in a strange world, he can’t get on by himself,” she says theatrically, and I get the feeling she’s quoting the theme song.

I just realized I have no idea whether the car seat is supposed to be fastened in some way, and if so, how?

“He fell through a portal in his mirror and appeared in a little fish pond on Emily’s family farm. And it was so funny because he was all shivery and wet, and when she saw him for the first time, she thought he was a water monster.”

I think it’s fine. There’d be a harness on it of some kind if I was supposed to secure it, right?

I’ll just drive slowly.

“But when the prince got cleaned up, and put on a pair of Emily’s dad’s clothes, he was so handsome. And he got a job working on their family’s farm, and he goes to Emily’s school. But he doesn’t know anything about animals, so he has trouble working on the farm. But she teaches him and learns how to take care of all of the animals. And he’s so handsome and nice.”

She’s lighter than I expected, and I have no trouble picking her up and putting her in her car seat. She keeps talking the whole time, smoothing her frilly tutu the instant I set her down like a little lady.

“It has sparkles on it,” she tells me, as if I couldn’t see that. “See?”

She points out one of a thousand little pieces of glitter for me to look at, and I resist a sigh but lean forward to admire her tutu.

“It’s pretty.”

“My daddy bought it for me as part of a costume for Emily’s dress. Mom says it’s not supposed to be worn unless I’m playing dress up but Daddy says it’s okay. Do you like playing dress up?”

I almost laugh at that, but just shake my head as I buckle her in, “Not really. Grown-ups don’t usually play dress up.”

Not for fun anyway.

“When you were little like me did you play dress up?”

I didn’t really do that either, but I avert the question, smiling in a way I hope is sweet, “How little are you?”

“Five years little,” she laughs, holding up one of her chubby hands, “Everybody says ‘years old,’ but I’m not old, I’m just a little kid. I’m younger than everybody in my grade, but my mom said I’m smart enough to go to first grade and argued with the teachers until they let me in.”

Leyelle 2024-07-31 14:25:53 UTC #38

Emelia Howard, also a mom. hopefully she's nicer to her daughter than she is to Alicia:

“Here we are,” Juana smiles, shaking hands with a very tall, very thin woman in square glasses and a pristine suit that smells like it was just ironed.

“I’m not late am I?” She laughs through a slight Georgia accent, “I tried to leave early, but the roads are all slick, and you know how I am about driving in the snow.”

She waves her hand with a distinctly “belle-ish” gesture, catching sight of me for the first time as she does. I’m standing awkwardly, one of my small hands held out as I stare up into her large face. There’s a flicker in her expression, like when a cloud races by the sun.

“Charmed, I’m sure,” she smiles gingerly, shaking my hand, but her face is painted with confusion as she takes the seat beside mine.

“This is the artist?” she addresses her question to Mrs. King rather than me, “But she’s so young…”

“I don’t think so,” Mrs. King says with a twinge of surprise, glancing over at me, “Young for me maybe, but you two are nearly the same age. About four years apart I believe?”

I look up at Ms. Howard, twice my height even when sitting. She stares straight ahead at Mrs. King as she speaks and says nothing, but there’s something about that in and of itself that makes me feel like shrinking into my shell. I feel dwarfed by her shadow - and maybe it’s just the reminder….

Leyelle 2024-08-07 15:55:40 UTC #39

Verner George: He's a very friendly and encouraging cheerful dad. He spends most of his time working, so he doesn't talk to his kid, and harbor kid, except for in the evenings and on weekends, but he tries to be emotionally present and spend as much time with them as possible when he has time, even during boring things like cleaning the garage.

Therese George: is the ideal sweet and pretty housewife. She loves cooking, she keeps the house clean. She's always sweet and affectionate and pretty, if not a little tired and anxious about the kids. But you really have to be white-picket fence for the Sanctuary to let you harbor phant, so that just makes sense. They're kind of too good to be true.

Rai_Muffin 2024-08-10 00:58:49 UTC #40

Mariko Ikazuchi.
Seen here greeting her son, Keanu home.
Also proof that his bangs are hereditary.