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[the_infiltrator]

I've been wondering this for a while.

What do you do without a mother?

[Obviously she is nowhere near as worried as she sounds, but you'd have to be a near mind-reader to see that.]

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[culver]

Be normal ?
Never had a mother.

[the_infiltrator]

Were you created without one?

[theyalldieforme]

Seriously?

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[the_infiltrator]

I'm curious. I don't have one. And you aren't normal.

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[falsehoods]

A strange question to be asking.

Why the curiosity?

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[the_infiltrator]

My mother is gone. She used to take care of things.

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[hangedmanstree]

Mothers do not do terribly much. So perhaps you should just keep doing whatever it is you wish to do now.

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[the_infiltrator]

...That's good advice.

I still want to learn how to do imagining.

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[learnedtosmile]

[Well this just hits Blake right in the feels. Thanks, Cameron.]

A lot of people don't have mothers, for one reason or another. I guess you do the best you can without.

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[the_infiltrator]

[She's good at that :( you should see her with suicidal teens.]

But how do you do the best you can? Mothers are supposed to teach you that.

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[walksonrooftops]

Keep a memento if you have one. And try to live the way she would want you to.

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[the_infiltrator]

[There's a moment of clarity there. She doesn't have them often.]

Thank you for explaining.

Do you have a memento of yours?

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[godofthemachine]

Live without one.

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[the_infiltrator]

But there are too many choices.

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[yardbird]

...

[Okay, he must be seeing things, but... Wow, this girl looks familiar -- kind of like a certain "near mind-reader" that came at him with a knife fairly recently, actually. She seems different, though.

[Focus, Pendleton.]

Never knew my mother. I was raised by other people, so... there was that option. Or you live alone, I guess.

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[the_infiltrator]

I have a brother. But she took care of things. She made decisions. I don't know if we'll make the right ones now.

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[tg]

your own laundry

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[the_infiltrator]

I already do everyone's laundry. And I'm a better cook than she was.

Am I a better mom?

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[willpunchfaces]

[ahahahaha BAD SUBJECT]

You don't think about it and you just keep moving.

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[the_infiltrator]

That's what my brother is doing.

I can't stop thinking about it. [Ah, the little things she's honest about and therefore has to encrypt so John won't see.]

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[redhotsummers]

Might be better off without one.

[His own abandoned him just after he was born (so he thinks). And woah, there are a lot of orphans on this damn ship. Strange.]

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[the_infiltrator]

Why do you think that?

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[wolfdreamer]

You don't have to do anything.

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[the_infiltrator]

...No. I do.

It's complicated.

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[servant]

Did you lose her recently or have you never had one at all?

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[the_infiltrator]

[She doesn't know if the cover story still applies.]

She left a little while ago. I didn't know how to handle it.

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[lacksgrace]

Never really seen the point of, uh, family things. They just get in the way and ruin what you've got going on.

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[the_infiltrator]

Like what? We don't have much here.

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[littleduck]

Hope that you have a good sister. [She frowns, looking down.]

It's what I did. [Of course she was without a mother due to illness. It's not quite the same as not having one at all.]

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[the_infiltrator]

...But I only have a brother.

[She tilts her head, hitting an idea]

What makes a good sister?

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[biffail]

You...don't have a mother?

[He looks concerned. Sad for her, even.]

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[the_infiltrator]

No.

[She never did have one, but she needs to go over the cover story with John.]

She left.

[forlifeloveandcheese]

I... never had a mother. I wouldn't know.

What do you do with a mother?

[the_infiltrator]

They tell you what to do. And they make you pancakes when they feel guilty. And they clean the guns even if you already did. But mothers make the plans.

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[cl_cl_claudius]

[Hello to the FEELINGS. Claudius has been talking in video a lot more lately but he'd be a stuttering mess if he had to address this one aloud.]

I suppose one's actions when losing a mother must be based on her place in your life, and also on the manner of her loss. Some people hold their mother more dearly than others, and feel a greater sense of grief and obligation upon their death. But nearly everyone I have known considers the relationship an important one.

Then there is the question of how she died, or was lost. If it was not by natural causes, or through injustice, one may consider it necessary to avenge her death. If however she died of old age, or sickness, or by her own hand, then there is little more to do than to carry out whatever burial rites and honoriums she would have wished, and mourn. If one has other family members or friends who remember her and also feel sorrow, spending time in their company may bring some measure of consolation.

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[the_infiltrator]

How do you comfort someone?

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[touchie]

You remember them.

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[the_infiltrator]

With mementos.