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The Theme of Familial Issues
- Jidan has been missing for 6 years, leaving Yoko to raise Arusu alone. It's not his fault, however, because the warlocks have imprisoned him against his desire to find his son.
- Menow abandoned Sheila to stay with her warlock husband; the warlocks live away from their daughters by custom. Sheila resents her mother for it before their reconciliation.
- As revealed in "The Secret of Dragon House", Eva used to live alone with Dragon until she became housemates with Sheila.
- Qoo and Nito live alone with their grandparents of the same gender.
- Sigma's father was killed in front of him by Grande for foretelling that someone else than his leader would save his people. This shattered Sigma so much that he distrusts anyone else, especially people in power.
- Lennon was separated from his mother, Atelia, and then his father, Jidan, for most of his life. He resents his mother in the belief that she abandoned her human husband and mixed son for getting in the way of her rise to power. In truth, a ship accident separated him from his father, who took him away from her to protect their family from persecution. His father tried to find him in the Magical Realm later, only to get imprisoned again for 6 years.
- Hanamomo's mother from "The Ice Witch and the Dragon of Fire and Ice" died in a house fire telling Gana to take care of her only daughter. Gana kept Hanamomo in the dark about what happened to her mother.
- Jestor died before the events of "The Secret of Dragon House", leaving Magica in the care of Gigi.
Lennon As An Outcast
As Sheila finds out in "Suspicion", Lennon is not listed in the registry of apprentice witches nor the list of those who were sent to the Human Realm. This makes him the equivalent of a person without a family register in Japan, the franchise's country of origin."Lennon's True Identity" reveals that his origins as a mixed Child of Forbidden Love are responsible for his situation. Due to the racist eugenic law of the witches, his parents could only live together in a secret Common Law Marriage. His father comes from Japan while his mother is a pale blonde woman from the European-inspired Magical Realm, making him the equivalent of a half-Asian half-white child. The nature of their relationship makes him an illegitimate child as well, though neither the narrative nor a character comments on it. His father eventually fled with him to protect his mother, but a ship accident separated them and the boy became a pirate to survive.
The only proof of his human origins is his lack of vestigial wings, one of the reasons why he's able to pass as purely one of his mother's people. Nonetheless, their traditionalism has damaged his view of himself, leading to the false belief that she abandoned the family to satisfy her lust for power.
He's the feminine boy to Arusu's masculine girl. In "Promise", she tells him to man up when he gets tired earlier than her during their journey to Wizard Kingdom. Even without his physical weakness, he has plenty of effeminate traits: delicate, androgynous features, crossdressing, a soft, high-pitched voice, and a sensitive personality. Surprisingly, this is one of the few times the franchise mentions gender stereotypes, as well as the only time his effeminacy is presented negatively.
