#babygirl learn how incest actually works before you slap that on ships you dont like

[pandoratheprocrasticreator]

Weird how fandoms take a "found family" and immediately start assigning everyone nuclear family roles. That feels super restrictive to me. Like isnt the appeal of found family the premise that the closest people in your life dont have to be related to you by blood? If so why do we need to make everyone exactly like a traditional blood related family except some characters are Legally Adopted? Thats not the only family structure that exists.

#shut up pandora #like yes there are characters that are obviously parental figures to others #but sometimes a character is just...older... #and reducing their relationship to younger characters as parental misses a lot of the nuance #and reduces the older character to a stereotypical nagging mother #and infantilizes the younger character #especially when theyre poc like look what yall did to lucretia adventurezone #meanwhile sometimes characters do have the dynamic of siblings raised together #luz and hunter have the biggest sibling energy and viewing their relationship as not that feels weird #but also sometimes characters are just. a flavor of friends? #siblings get Like That bc when you have to see someone at dinner in an hour you quickly learn nothing you do to each other is a big deal #yall sometimes characters tease each other bc theyre friends #that being said i have some found family hcs that do assign nuclear family roles #but im not going around connecting everyones found family trees like a genealogy chart #ppl who decide characters have a sibling dynamic and then use that to tell others they cant ship something are REALLY fucking annoying #babygirl learn how incest actually works before you slap that on ships you dont like #idk i like jokes about how phoenix wright has like 8 kids #but most of them arent his kids theyre just his posse of weird little girls and thats a unique relationship dynamic on its own #i also like the characterization of maya seeing nick as an older brother bc shes used to being SOMEONES little sister and mias dead #my rule of thumb is the found family only has nuclear family labels when it adds to their characterization #wammawink centaurworld infantilizing her adult herd and calling herself their mother bc she protected them when most of them were kids? #that adds to her character #merle and davenport being the starblaster crews dads and everyone else being siblings and thats the only dynamic they have? #thats not canon and also doesnt add to their characters #but also nuclear family labels are also valid when its funny #wright and edgeworth are married and they collectively have 13+ children between them #also a lot of found families are queer and im sure lots of irl queers want to or are in nuclear families #but historically society has prevented us from doing that so queer found families are often like. close friends and community members #twisting that into legally recognized nuclear family units just feels like feeding into heteronormativity but thats just me #like we made the non conventional found family our thing but now we have to paint it in 1950s familial terms to Appease The Straights