Tobias Bloom

Tobi is adopted, Mr. Bloom wanted a child but figured it would be a lot better to adopt than to have his own.  When he was giving that thought, he actually asked to see children with a lower chance of being adopted.  Tobi was small, at the time sickly, already three, and a metahuman, foster care did not think it was likely that Tobi would be adopted anytime soon and he’d eventually just age out of the system.  Mr. Bloom took one look at Tobi and immediately knew he wanted to take care of him.

Bloom is a decent father. By the time he adopted Tobi he’d quit any overt criminal activity, but works as a partner for LexCorp, meaning he’s frequently busy.  To top things off he’s rather scatter-brained and will often forget small things. Tobi, as a result, tends to be the one who remembers important things, and their apartment is covered in sticky notes so if Bloom remembers something, he can write it down on a sticky note and put it on the fridge.  Their house is relatively clean and organized because if it isn’t, Bloom can’t find anything. It also has a lot of houseplants, Tobi likes his houseplants.

Dorothy and Pluto Crane

Dorothy and Pluto are generally occupying two worlds.  Being Diana’s children, they are technically royalty of Themiscyra and Diana is still part of the Justice League.  Dorothy is the same age as Damien Wayne and Pluto is between Damien and Jon Kent in age. They’ve grown up with those two about the same amount that they’ve grown up with Rogue kids.

As for Jon and Diana, they’re...good parents.  Jon is still a human trainwreck but he’s a lot better at making sure his kids get food and are taken care of than making sure he’s fed and healthy.  He also tends to forget to watch his language around the kids when they’re younger.  Diana is significantly better at balancing self-care and childcare, but still has some minor trouble with raising children because there weren’t any other children on Themiscyra.  The entire family spends at least a month every summer in Themiscyra, if not longer, and while there Jon and Diana get help from the rest of the Amazons.

Dorothy is painfully aware of the kind of space she occupies between hero’s daughter and rogue kid. She has been told by Damien that she is not one of the rogue kids, and while the rogue kids don’t feel the same way, there is a lingering insecurity in her that she doesn’t belong.

Pluto doesn’t feel this alienation, but instead feels alienated by the other Amazons.  Save for his father he is the only man considered part of Amazon society, and even then, Jon is still considered an outsider, Pluto is supposed to be at least half Amazon, but he doesn’t feel like he belongs, he feels like an outsider, and doesn’t like that feeling.

Ezekiel Dent

Here is where we get into very uncomfortable territory.  I do not know who Zeke’s mom is, but she is no longer in the picture.  Harvey is raising Zeke alone, which understandably has some problems.  Not that Harvey himself is an awful parent, he can be rather harsh with Zeke sometimes because he’s scared Zeke will turn out like him, but he does genuinely care about Zeke.

The problem is Harvey’s alter, who I’ll call Harv to distinguish.  Harv, needless to say, is fucking awful and should not be allowed near a child.  Harvey can’t control when Harv surfaces, so Zeke is constantly walking on eggshells around his dad, hoping he doesn’t switch while he’s still in the house/room/general area.  Harv beats Zeke regularly for minor slip ups, accidents, or just because.  Zeke regularly skips meals out of stress and is extremely thin and nervous as a result.  Harvey blames himself for Zeke’s poor mental and physical health, and is horrified if he sees bruises on Zeke after he dissociates (which can sometimes make him dissociate again it depends).  He doesn’t want to part with Zeke because he doesn’t want to lose the only family he has left, but at the same time regularly considers giving him up to either foster care or asking Bruce to take him just so his son isn’t in danger.

Evangeline Fries

Eva lives with Nora and her second husband, not Victor, but Victor is aware of her existence and has visitation rights.  He’s allowed to see her even if he doesn’t have custody.  Nora loves her daughter with all her heart but her second husband is a little wary of her, both because of her powers and because he knows she’s Victor’s daughter.  Given the chance he probably would kick Eva out but Nora would never allow it and he’d have to contend with Victor if she would.

Eva is aware of her stepfather’s wariness and dislike, but makes the most of her life with Nora. Nora herself is a great mom because come on it’s Nora, and Victor is...loving but distant.  He basically only sees her every once in a while.  It’s his choice but y’know, still.

Hunter and Ayah Jones

Hunter and Ayah were raised by their father, Waylon, their mother died soon after Ayah was born. Hunter and Ayah also have the same condition as Waylon, but to a lesser degree.  They have the reptilian eyes, the sharp teeth, but instead of full-body scales, Hunter and Ayah have slight scale growths on their bodies that didn’t show up until puberty.  Waylon feels extremely guilty about this and is very protective of his kids, perhaps a little overprotective.

Ayah and Hunter live in an apartment that Waylon pays rent for so they don’t have to live in the sewers, but he is still living in the sewers.  He takes care of them, but doesn’t feel like he deserves to live with them.

Aisling, Maxwell, and Niall Machin

So this is more uncomfortable town because Lonnie literally got Aisling, Max, and Niall removed from his custody.  Because he’s a shit parent and treated two of them like garbage.

Now Aisling, Max, and Niall all have different mothers, but all three were left with Lonnie as toddlers. Lonnie was kind of blasé about Aisling, he borderline neglected her and she ended up growing up way faster than she should have, something that became even worse when Max came into the picture.

Lonnie does not like Max. Right now. I’m not sure why but Lonnie hates Max and was determined to make him absolutely miserable.  Max had an extremely small room (think the broom cupboard from Harry Potter small, in fact he probably lived in a broom cupboard) that locked from the outside.  Max could not lock himself in his room for privacy, but Lonnie could lock Max in for however long he wanted and enter whenever he wanted.  Essentially Max was confined to a small space and had no privacy. To make things worse, Lonnie beat him if he disobeyed or did anything Lonnie deemed “disobedient”.  Max skipping meals out of stress was disobedient, for instance, which probably wasn’t helped by Max refusing to obey ridiculous demands and snapping at Lonnie.

And then there was Niall. Basically, Lonnie’s precious baby who can do no wrong.  He spoiled Niall rotten, never punished him for doing anything wrong, never told him no, but Niall wasn’t grateful.  He wasn’t ungrateful because he was a brat; he was ungrateful because he saw the huge disparity between Lonnie doting on him, neglecting Aisling, and abusing Max, and he knew it was wrong.  Niall was the one to tell the police what was happening and get the three of them away from Lonnie.  Max and Aisling have no idea that it was Niall that took them from Lonnie, Niall never told them, and he doesn’t plan to.  He doesn’t want either of them to know that he remembers vividly how Lonnie treated Max and Aisling.

Now they live with Abigail Curtis, her twin brother Jasper, and Jasper’s boyfriend Basir.  Aisling tends to still act as a mother to her younger brothers, and she and Niall are happy to see Max happier in the Curtis household.  I’m not sure how Lonnie responded to losing his kids, but considering he didn’t really care about Aisling or Max, he probably is only upset about losing Niall. Abigail, Jasper, and Basir do a much better job raising the Machin siblings.

Andrea Monroe

So Andrea’s home life is relatively happy and she and her mother are on very good terms, but there’s something that I want to bring up that is important: Andrea’s hair.

Andrea’s hair is not naturally blonde like, say, Sarah or Barbara’s.  Andrea’s hair is naturally brown like her mother’s.  Andrea dyed her hair blonde because she noticed that every time someone told her she looked like her mother, her mother would look upset, because Paige does not find herself beautiful but does think her daughter is beautiful.  So, Andrea dyed her hair blonde so people would stop telling her she looked like her mom. This is a running part of Andrea’s personality.  Because her mother is often melancholy or morose, Andrea forced a sunny disposition because she felt that if she was happy, her mother would be happy.

Barbara and Todd Quinzel

To make a very complex issue simple, Todd nearly died when he was born.  The birth went fine and everything but Todd was barely breathing when he was born and extremely frail.  He was rushed to NICU and one doctor, a poor soul who was nearly killed, had to go over to Joker and tell him his son might die and that he was weak.  Todd survived, but Joker was internally reliving losing Jeannie and his unborn child and nearly had a nervous breakdown.  He also nearly killed a man so, you know. Nevertheless, Joker, from that point on, was extremely protective of Todd.  He lets the reigns up slightly but will regularly get very upset if Todd does anything dangerous.  It doesn’t help that doctors attributed Todd’s albinism, asthma, and hypotonia to possibly being Joker’s fault (the theory goes that the chemical bath Joker underwent damaged his biology so it was very likely that the conditions Todd suffers from are a result).

Barbara is the princess of the family at times.  She’s pretty, can easily match her parent’s energy, and clever.  Not that Todd isn’t any of those things, but Barbara is louder so it’s a little more noticeable to other people.

Harley can tend towards being a bit distant with Todd and Barbara.  When she is around she takes care of them and loves them but if Joker and Harley have a fight, Harley will leave for a few days and either come back because she’s over the fight or because Joker ended up in Arkham and the kids need a parent.

Leon Sanchez

So considering Leo is the way he is I think it’s a given he does not have a great home life.  Bane’s still an active villain and for a good portion of Leo’s early childhood, he was being looked after by either Zsasz, which is the #1 worst choice for a godfather ever made GG Bane, or Bane’s men, most of which took decent care of Leo but were occasionally not exactly nice to him.  He was never hurt by any of them or at least, the ones that did didn’t live long afterwards, but generally Leo was a kid in a place kids didn’t belong and Bane’s men were sure to let Leo know. Bane didn’t call Leo anything besides Leo for a long time, and Leo picked up the habit from his men of calling Bane “jefe”.

This kind of mildly uncomfortable and strained relationship was not the kind of relationship Bane wanted to have with his son, and when Leo was twelve, he started calling Leo “mijo” in hopes that Leo would pick up on the action and return the gesture.  It took Leo time to transition from “jefe” to “papa”, as in two years, but of all the problems in Leo’s home life, his relationship with his father is a lot better than it was when Leo was small.  The other problems, like Bane’s men being a lot more aggressive toward Leo as he got older because they realized Bane may rise to defend an eight-year-old, but he isn’t going to defend a thirteen-year-old, and Leo literally living in a drug den, aren’t so easily solved.

Gwendolyn Tetch

So Gwen does not live with Jervis, she lives with Barbara Gordon, and this is because when she was born, her mother didn’t want to keep her and Jervis was to mentally unstable to care for a child.  Jervis is aware of Gwen and even got to name her, but Barbara Gordon has custody of Gwen, not Jervis.  Gwen is aware of why she cannot live with Jervis but is extremely upset about the fact that her mother didn’t want her.  Barbara does what she can, but doesn’t feel like she’s an adequate substitute for Gwen’s real mother.

Marcus Wesker

I’ve talked about Marcus a bit before but I want to go over it again.  So, when Marcus was about four or five, his parents left him with Arnold Wesker, his grandfather, effectively abandoning him.  Marcus was old enough to remember it, and still has abandonment issues as a result.  To make matters worse, while Arnold was, passable as a caretaker and Marcus liked him fine, Scarface is a different story.