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I agree with your wholeheartedly about there being some kind of bond. For a young child a parent is their whole world (parents become uncool when the kids are slightly older after all), so I can undestand Silver’s outburst. If he can speak this freely infront of Giovanni, then we can assume that it’s nothing out of odrdinary for them, and they’re pretty civil about each other.

In some previous ask I talked about gameverse Silver, who’s slightly different from Generation’s one. Personally, I interpet his ingame dialogue as full of anger. Generations gives us a different interpetation - Silver’s full of emotions and he’s more sad and disappointed than angry, which puts his relationship with Giovanni in a different view and lets us question it.  

But I’ve got a beef with Generations Giovanni. I really dislike his portrayal as emotionless, stone faced robot. Origins did him justice, and I wish he was more like his smirky, energetic, over confident and charismatic counterpart (who I believe would be a really fun dad, so seeing him give up would break my heart too). I’d love to see Generations Gio get slightly angry, or to see him show some disdain, or any other reaction when Silver ran off. Instead we got this unblinking statue.

Bless you German translator for giving us hope for these two. Though, if Giovanni and Silver really had had a close bond, I would be quite confused. Just seeing how easily they parted their ways can say a lot about the fundamentals of their relationship.

I'm not an expert when it comes to Japanese terms of endearment, so take anything I say with a grain of salt, but when Silver met Looker, he referred to Giovanni as "oyaji", which can be translated to something like old man or boss depending on who's speaking. You can say it's just an informal way to refer to a father - not very polite, and typical for teenagers, so under all these circumstances it's quite understandable why Giovanni isn't referred to as tou-san or at least oyaji-san by Silver, as their father-son bond is already severed.

And now throwback to our little wee Silver from the flashback, whose first word when he spots Giovanni is... oyaji, again. There are many ways to refer to your parent in Japanese, so why stick to this one? Why would a child refer to him so informally (especially when we know Japan is big on honorifics) at such a young age? (Maybe he heard someone from Team Rocket refer to their boss this way? :D) Was it the first time Silver referred to Giovanni so impolitely or is it a form of endearment they use?