I've been told that the first drafts of Grimms *did* have abusive parents, but they changed that to step-parents and whatnot because they felt it would be distressing to children (and undermining parental authority).
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But of course it leaves children with abusive bio-parents bereft of representation when so much of our literature is "my sainted parents were Good and Kind, but they were replaced with abusive distant relatives".
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It would be very interesting, I think, to turn the trope on its head and have a kid who misses their sainted parents only to later grow up and realize they weren't perfect after all.
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I had a lot of feelings about that re: Series of Unfortunate Events, when someone (Violet? In the movie, I think?) pointed out that their parents didn't leave a proper will to take care of them. (Though I think that was double-twisted when we learn they did but it was destroyed.)
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And how often is a female character? It’s usually the step mothers or aunts but not nearly as often step fathers or uncles.
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Very often, yes. Harry Potter is a rare example of both.
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Ooooooof. Yes. You’ve now just given ME a lot of food for thought as child-me also wrote a ton of fiction and this resonates deeply with a lot of that.
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THIS THIS THIS. Sorry but like... Don't get me wrong. I related, hard, to Harry Potter because I went to school and everyone seemed fine and I'd never seen or read about anyone hurt like I was being. But there's exactly that like... Sometimes its your bio parents. OFTEN it is.
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you're so right, and so often even if it is a bio-parent they are later revealed to not be and that they in fact have a supportive bio-parent
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In Matilda her bio parents are the abusers and in George’s Marvelous Medicine it’s the grandmother.
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Indeed, you're right! Though in the case of Matilda, it doesn't sit quite right with me because they *feel* like a "switched at birth" sort of situation. :)
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