saltnpepperbunny answered:
Ahh, Donphan mama, LL’s most hated character lol. Some readers really don’t fuck with her and I think that’s valid. A lot of people have parents like her, and that’s a very hard thing to deal with growing up. Her deal is with fear, unacknowledged trauma from a childhood where she grew up with extremely little, and wanting to make sure that neither of her daughters suffer the same fate when it’s their turn to look after themselves. She can protect her daughters from the suffering of poverty by making sure they have the grades to go far, making sure they have the grit and strength to take whatever life throws at them. She absolutely loves her daughters. She just puts that love on them in very difficult ways, and unfortunately, when it comes to plain feelings, she’s really not the best equipped to handle it. She grew up in a household that shut down feelings, so that’s how she’s chosen to run her household as well.
I wish I could’ve gotten more time to develop Donphan mom in the comic. She only comes in at the end, so there was like no time to properly bring out all these aspects of her character. The story just wasn’t really about her, ig, but this is stuff I think about with all my different characters haha.
