#merel's stepdad gets so mad if anyone tries to downplay merel's bond to him. that's his only daughter thank you very much.

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you ever have that one recurring motif in your writing you didn't think was a personal trope until you really sit and think about it --

#mine is like??? loving adoptive parents??? idk a lot of my family got pieced together by choice both my generation and prior so like. #i always get kind of :c about media that wants to act like non-blood bonds are somehow lesser. i don't wanna do that in my writing. #like. aria adores her mom ashalle. she's the only parent aria has ever had and she considers that sacred. #merel's stepdad gets so mad if anyone tries to downplay merel's bond to him. that's his only daughter thank you very much. #merel in turn regards him as the only dad she's ever had. #vera took her stepfather's surname despite his being a latecomer to her youth bc he's the dad that stayed and loves her like. #a lot of my canon characters are also adopted or otherwise brought up by a non-parental caretaker. #idk i just. sits. anyone else have those tropes that you finally catch them at the right angle and go OH SHIT YOU DO EXIST.