True_Avery wrote:Oh god, I can't even picture what Didi's parents would be like. Have we seen anyone else's parents to any degree?
DiDi mentioned in passing, when first talking to Kiley, that her parents were not very well off, but still did all that could for her. This is actually part of why I call her a cuckoo (in the
Sandman sense); it seems that her weird powers are independent of and predate her boobs. Everyone feels
compelled to love her, which has made her incapable of normal human relationships.
Aside from the flashbacks, we did meet Yuki's father briefly, shortly after the Yuki/Sonya/Gary sex contest. He's still an arsehole. Aside from that, though, the cast's parents have been kept pretty much entirely offstage. Which actually makes sense; this is a comic about people at the stage of life when they are defining themselves as individuals, independent of their families.
I do have an entirely personal and fan-wanky theory about Gary's upbringing, though. He
claimed that he was brought up in a fanatically religious community, full of girls his own age who loved to taunt him. Sure, right. But his vocabulary and cultural references show zero traces of religious indoctrination, he admits to having been a jerkish troll in his late teens, and the phone call from his mother suggested that she was actually quite nice and somewhat aware of his social problems. So my head-cannon says he's deluding himself. That community was no more than mildly conservatively religious, those girls were ordinary teenagers reacting defensively to a creepy trollish teenage boy, and his problems are all his own fault. His parents are probably reasonably okay people.
(Oh, and Zii said that Amber's parents were well-off doctors, while Ruby says that they favoured Amber over herself. And Amber hasn't dared to tell them about her porn career, while Ruby agreed to keep that secret from them. So; probably somewhat conservative, and in my opinion, made a pig's ear of conveying love or toleration to their daughters. But we haven't actually seen them, so that's all tentative deduction.)
samtheman wrote:I really hope they don't do the Zii/Gary/Yuki OT3 because that allows Yuki and Zii to have their cake and eat it too so to speak and I thought that Zii did not want to be with Yuki again anyway because she's too clingy and crazy.
Letting two people (actually three people) have their cake and eat it too sounds like a recipe for a happy ending, and comedies traditionally have happy endings. Hence that guess, whether or not I think it's "deserved". (Not that I give a shit about what these characters "deserve". If we all got what we deserved, the world would end in ice and fire.) And sure, Zii (sensibly) ran from crazy Yuki; since then, though, Yuki has actually undergone (gasp)
character development. She's moving toward a state where a happy ending with Zii and/or Gary would be viable. She's not there yet, but she's measurably less crazy.
Though the one final pairing I actually
want, in my sentimental way, would be 100% platonic. I want to see Peggy sharing an apartment with Ruby. Peggy deserves a flatmate who she could trust to keep the place tidy and the bills paid, and who'd know what to do when Peggy yells "emergency call-out". Ruby deserves a big sister figure who she could respect and admire, and who'd offer good, sensible advice to a nervous introvert getting her too-long-delayed love life in gear. And funnily enough, they both need somewhere to live, long term.