Character Building Number Two

[Bee Shepherd]

Parents.

What is your character's relationship to their parents? Do they get along? Do they hate their parents? Why?

[Pete Todd]

Pete:

Madison Todd (Mom)- Pete and his mamma have a very complex relationship. She raised him on her own for many years until Gary, Pete's stepdad, came along. After Gary and Madison got married, Madison wanted to put her painful past with Jason behind her. Unfortunately she would always have one constant reminder of him; Pete. Some days that's how she would see Pete; just a problematic reminder of Jason. Madison often tried to ignore Pete and instead focus on her new life with Gary and their new daughter Anna. Pete always resented her for that. Deep down of course Madison loves Pete but she has a very difficult time showing it. She would frequently kick Pete out of the house when he would misbehave as a kid and she has always been very opposed to the idea of him being a superhero. The two are often very hostile towards each other.


Jason Todd (Dad)- Nobody knows for sure why Jason left. He seemed to really love Madison and their baby boy. Pete has always blamed himself. And on nights where the fighting would get particularly bad, so did Madison. She was deeply in love with Jason so when he left her it turned her into an emotional wreck for a little while. Leaving them with no money, Jason damned Madison and Pete to a life of poverty. Jason is the main cause of any emotional scars Pete might have so naturally he hates him more than anything. Whenever his old man is even brought up, Pete gets tense and angry. His anger towards his dad covers up his feelings of confusion and rejection that Jason's leaving left him with.

Gary Ryan (Stepdad)- Pete used to hate Gary. Gary used to hate Pete. These days they share a shaky alliance. Gary is a detective at the GCPD and a big fan of Batman. He's not the nicest or most tender man but he's got a soft spot for his family (his family being Madison and Anna, not Pete). Gary was kind of a godsend to the struggling Todd family. He fell in love with Madison and took her and Pete out of the poor house and into his small home. At first, Gary and Pete never got along. However, the two started to bond after Gary figured out about Pete's activity as The Red Hood. During the early days of Pete's career, Gary showed him some fighting moves he learned at the police academy and loaned out some tools for his utility belt. These days, Gary serves as an invaluable resource and "inside man" to Pete when dealing with the GCPD. The two still treat each other like shit but in an almost playful way. Gary is the closest thing Pete has to a father figure.

Bruce Wayne (Grandfather)- It's weird putting Bruce on this list considering him and Pete have never met. Despite this; Batman has always been a very important figure in Pete's life. Growing up, Pete knew exactly who Bruce Wayne really was thanks to advice passed on to his mother from Jason. His own grandfather, richest man on the planet, was letting Pete and his mother rot in the slums of Gotham while he lived it up at his fancy mansion. Pete grew to hate Batman almost as much as Jason. Going into the crimefighting business, Pete made a deal with himself that he was going to be "a better batman". The only way Pete could see to get back at Bruce for not "saving" him from a crappy life was to be better than him. In Pete's life, Batman has always been a kind of god figure. Despite claiming to hate Batman, Pete just wants Bruce to acknowledge him.

[Alti Lokisen]

Sif - Mother
Alti loves Sif dearly and thinks his mother could do no wrong. Much of his life was spent hating Asgardians for not seeing her value or her worth. He thinks she did him a great service by raising him among the elves and would never speak an ill word against her.

Sif in turn has had a slow battle into motherly love for her son. Due to the situation surrounding his birth Sif see's Alti as a reminder that she was weak enough to be tricked and used. For the first few years of Alti's life Sif allowed her son to be cared for by wetnurses and the elven women, but as time went on she began to think of her son as a pupil and soon began to grow to love him as a mother should.
She does not condone his actions against Asgard and will try to stop him but she refuses to use violence against her son.

Loki - Father
Alti has a hate/tolerate relationship with his father.
He spent a few years with him learning magic and from this time learned of his origins. Alti does not want to become the evil that Loki has and does not see himself slipping into the same pattern of biterness his father trended.

Loki's view of Alti is much the same. He has a devilish sense of pride in his son that his own ruse brought about so many reprecusions, but at the same time he cares little for the boy in the fact that he cares little for Sif.
Loki thinks of Alti as a student and and not much more, he has taught him magic as Alti requested but offers little in the way of fatherly guidance. He does how ever fuel Alti's belief that Asgardians are all lazy lacivious lay abouts who do not deserve power. Loki hopes to use Alti as tool in using Asgard, or in being his own puppet king.