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Daefaroth
Since: Jan, 2014
28th Jun, 2016 08:44:27 AM
If kids are wandering adventuring without adult supervision that probably best fits under Free-Range Children
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HeraldAlberich
(Before Recorded History)
28th Jun, 2016 10:35:16 AM
Edit: never mind
Edited by HeraldAlberich
eroock
Since: Sep, 2012
28th Jun, 2016 01:14:21 PM
Invisible Parents doesn't judge the parents. Their relationship to the children can remain ambiguous.
Edited by eroock
Pichu-kun
Since: Jan, 2001
28th Jun, 2016 04:34:19 PM
So if it's vague where the parents are then it's Invisible Parents?
What's the proper trope for when the existence of a characters parents is vague? Invisible Parents is for when they're explicitly off-screen while Parental Abandonment is for when they're canonically out of the picture. What about characters whose parents never appear but it's not implied they're orphaned or abandoned. It's just left ambiguous if their parents are just conventionally never shown or if they live on their own.