Parent Abandonment

princesszelda · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 5:42 pm

What's with all the parental abandonment in this game?

Ludus doesn't remember much about his life prior to his Nana taking him in and living in Lulukoko... what happened to his parents?

The twins have always lived in Lulukoko, but their parents left and never came back... what's with that?

Miranda split from Noel's father due to their own issues, so after that he decided to leave both the town and Noel?

Yuzuki... he went to live with his grandparents as a baby due to his illness... whether or not that was because Tsuyukusa has "cleaner air" you would think he would still be in connection with them, but he says he is not and that he even has a younger brother he doesn't know?

I can't recall off the top of my head any stories about Tigre's parents, but considering that he lives with and looks up to Haulani so much, I think we can guess...

Shan O 123 · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 5:48 pm

Wayne has family.....somewhere. I know he'd talk about his grandfather sometimes.

Celestrian · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 5:59 pm

When I clicked this, I thought this was going to be about how MC and their husband/wife leave the baby in the bed by itself.

ChaosAzerothCat · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 6:15 pm

Celestrian wrote:When I clicked this, I thought this was going to be about how MC and their husband/wife leave the baby in the bed by itself.

Honestly same.

princesszelda · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 6:41 pm

ChaosAzerothCat wrote:
Celestrian wrote:When I clicked this, I thought this was going to be about how MC and their husband/wife leave the baby in the bed by itself.
Honestly same.

LOL. Well.. that too, I guess?

sharp · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 6:47 pm

let's not forget the MCs family, who only come to visit twice and never return :'(

princesszelda · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 6:49 pm

sharp wrote:let's not forget the MCs family, who only come to visit twice and never return :'(

At least we can write them letters, and we receive them in return - they haven't abandoned us completely. The characters I've referenced seem to have no connection to their parents whatsoever.

Some of them have a backstory that can kind of explain it... (i.e., Yuzuki), but for the most part it's just a huge question mark. WHY did the twins' parents leave and never come back? WHY did Ludus go to live with his Nana, and why does he no longer have any contact with them? Who in the hey are Tigre's parents?

Shan O 123 · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 6:54 pm

sharp wrote:let's not forget the MCs family, who only come to visit twice and never return :'(

Lynn visits twice, plus the.....

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Which I didn't finish.

Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 7:27 pm

It's a lazy plot device to make the characters seem deeper.

Celestrian · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 7:52 pm

We just had a baby! Now let's go to work all day and leave it by itself. What can possibly go wrong?

duckeh22 · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 8:10 pm

Shan O 123 wrote:Wayne has family.....somewhere. I know he'd talk about his grandfather sometimes.

His grandparents passed away. They raised him because his parents were gone a lot because of work. Or something similar to that. But both of his parents are alive and he seems to have a decent relationship with them.

princesszelda · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 9:12 pm

duckeh22 wrote:
Shan O 123 wrote:Wayne has family.....somewhere. I know he'd talk about his grandfather sometimes.
His grandparents passed away. They raised him because his parents were gone a lot because of work. Or something similar to that. But both of his parents are alive and he seems to have a decent relationship with them.

Yeah, he mentions his parents at least once or twice. Same with Lisette and Hinata. They at least provide a backstory as to who their parents are, what their relationship is, etc.

The Ninja · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 10:03 pm

I'm trying to think of instances where characters talk about their parents.

Komari mentions that her mother travels the world a lot; it's actually the main topic of her pink love event, (which reminds me that it's been weeks since I updated the romantic transcripts thread. I really gotta get back to that...). One line in the text dump from Komari did stick out to me, though:

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And then there's this line, which is... um, okay. I feel like this could be interpreted very badly even though it wasn't intended that way:

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We don't know a whole lot about Kasumi's parents. We can, however, presume that she wasn't too fond of her father (her regular conversations only has one line mentioning him as opposed to the several lines where she talks about her mother, and that one line about her father is her talking about how he kept her from learning kanji because of her gender), and that she did like her mother a lot as noted by her multiple positive lines where she talks about her.

Aaaand I think that's about it for her. Although I'm probably one of the biggest Kasumi fans on this board I'm only going to look through so many parts of the text dump before moving on, sorry. I think I remember hearing some line about her parents getting her into an arranged marriage before Shizu stepped in and--okay I'm sorry to go off topic here but this is something that really confused me for awhile.

Starlight night dialogue when married to Kasumi:

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And a random piece of dialogue when talking to Kasumi:

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Yeah, so was it Shizu or Kasumi's governess that got rid of the arranged marriage? Is Shizu secretly living a double life as Kasumi's governess and we just never knew it? Am I looking way too deep into this and it was probably just a mistranslation?

...I'm pretty sure it's the last one.

Okay, sorry about that. I'm terrible with this. Anyway, how about Ford? Ford's a cool dude. Lemme see what I can find about his parents.

Well, not a whole lot about his parents is in his daily conversation lines. Except this.

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Yeah. So that line's a thing I guess.

Oh yeah, after going through the depths of a Ford Tumblr blog (why can't there be this much Kasumi fan-art /shot), I found an interesting line that got changed during the localization. It's really long so I'll just link the post

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Oh. I made another wall of text. Half of it didn't even talk about their parents. Sorry about that. Maybe I'll do more candidates later, idk. Hope you enjoyed.

Getaris · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 10:32 pm

Designing and programming whole families takes time and money.

Celestrian · Post Posted: Jul 16, 2017 10:35 pm

Getaris wrote:Designing and programming whole families takes time and money.

I believe that is the best way to put it. That or possibly what Anonymous Fish said. I doubt it's for any big complicated reason.