#extremely serious

Four men are raising a little girl.

That’s Significant. You have any idea how significant that is? Most places question one man raising a little girl. Most places have very critical judgements against just one man raising a little girl, even if he was the biological father. Even if he was the best person that ever did parent, ever, of all time.

And it gets better, it gets starts getting powerful, as the details are added.

The fact that two of the men are disabled, either by being severely wounded (Echo, who without his mechanical legs, would have no legs, and who still does not have a right arm as of this writing) or possible brain damage (theorized by the fact that Wrecker took something explosive to the face / head / skull, and high percussive damage like that is bad for delicate brain tissue), and they’re some of the most loving and caring of the group. That’s powerful.

The fact that several of them are theorized to be neurodivergent (The main person I tend to see in fics and posts is Tech, but there are others), coming out of a media made by a real-world culture that stigmatizes several neurodivergencies. To a point that limits lawful and social function unless you fit a false role or persona, what someone else thinks you should fit, inspite of what it does to your health and livelyhood. These characters, theorized to be neurodivergent, and yet are living the best they can as what they feel is most comfortable? And succeeding? That’s powerful.

The fact that there is a distant uncle or possible parent, living or forced to live in a bad place with either neuropsychiatric illness (the chip as a brain tumor) and or mental illness (Crosshair’s forced enhancement of the chip, causing a number of effects that would severely affect the health of the brain, thus the conscious perception of one’s self and reality around them, effectively worse than shock therapy cos now it has voices and can actively control your actions).

 But the rest of the family seeks connection and have a desire to help that parent / family member find their health and happiness? That’s powerful.

The fact that these men were consistently ostracized by their family (regular clones, both before and after Order 66), by their health providers / doctors (Kaminonians, and the less said about that for now, the better for this specific post), by their government (Again, the Kaminonians, and then the Republic, then the Empire), by their first job (As soldiers, being placed in constant suicide runs), from the job they had to take when everything failed them (being placed in constant debt, giving the bare minimum to survive, and getting more and more health threatening, mind threatening, life threatening work loads).

And yet, are still trucking, still trying the best they can, to raise a little girl. So that she will not be forced to live in the hell they had to survive all their life?

That’s powerful.

Because reality is cold, and people and society are messy, and its complicated on an unfathomable level.

But, that four men, four People, four characters, all with a punishing history and the scars to show it, and they are trying to raise a little girl to the best of their ability, in order to ensure her health and happiness and future. So that she can live the best life she can? As whoever she wanted to be?

I don’t know about you.