concept of home and family.
CHARACTER HEADCANONS. accepting!
for cheyenne, home is a far away concept, some sort of ideal that’s present in her memory as a warm and welcoming place but somewhere where she can never return. she has fond memories of her childhood but to her that’s all they are: memories. her family, such as it is, is found among her fellow soldiers, but even that is precarious and easily shattered. depending on the verse, she conceptualizes her new home as a ship or a base, but even that is secondary to being with the people there.
betl travels a lot, even though she used to be pretty stable, but she typically has a small research vessel to call her own. she’s gone through a lot of uprooting in her life, first when she was a very young child, then when she moved away from her family, then when she married her husband, then with her divorce, and then with her new job. even though she has had support over the years, she’s had to rely on herself for a lot of things and to make her own way, especially with all the turnover in her life. her family was big, loud, and shared everything, so she often got lost as an individual, and then her own attempt to start a life with her husband didn’t work out either. she thinks of family as something that she’s constantly working towards, for that sense of belonging.
home for lizzie is a bad feeling in her gut—familiar and unpleasant. she had a markedly horrible childhood and was neglected by her parents, so she doesn’t trust anything that looks like comfort. any real home that she had was in the woods where she played as a child, where she could make some kind of belonging for herself. she doesn’t like to get attached to people or places, let alone long enough to call them home or family.
