Hikaru's family is frankly an *issue* to me. His parents don't know anything about what he does, what he likes, what he worries about. And they exhibit only very cursory efforts to find out. Certainly his dad never shows up, and his mom - I'm not a fan of hers. She has shown a total lack of confidence in Hikaru, she doesn't know him *at all*. It's like to her, he's an adult with a young adult's rights and the simplicity of thought and the emotional needs of a four-year-old, if that.
Hikaru grows up a lot in the course of the series, and it looks like his parents missed that happening.
It's like the idea that every teenager has, that their parents don't understand them, is explicitly true for Hikaru.
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Date: 2010-07-14 09:14 pm (UTC)And they exhibit only very cursory efforts to find out. Certainly his dad never shows up, and his mom - I'm not a fan of hers.
She has shown a total lack of confidence in Hikaru, she doesn't know him *at all*.
It's like to her, he's an adult with a young adult's rights and the simplicity of thought and the emotional needs of a four-year-old, if that.
Hikaru grows up a lot in the course of the series, and it looks like his parents missed that happening.
It's like the idea that every teenager has, that their parents don't understand them, is explicitly true for Hikaru.