Mini info dump about Johnnys childhood but i imagine him having a distant connection with his family but not for any truly negative reasons or tension.
One of the main reasons being because they had a language barrier, with Johnny not being able to speak spanish and his parents knowing limited english.
Johnny wasn't bothered by their lack of interaction outside of basic parental behavior, if anything he appreciated the relationship being just child and parent with nothing extra. When he got older they just drifted apart naturally and he eventually moved far away for no particular reason relating to them. other stuff.
his elaborate way of speech wouldn't have made it easy for him to have a heart to heart conversation with his family anyway if he wanted to. He has always gravitated towards explaining his feelings in some overdramatic vague-yet-detailed way, maybe to cushion some of the serious elements he spoke about and prevent it from coming off as too strong or awkward, or because he himself didn't fully understand what he was feeling and saying "I'm sad" really just is an understatement. i imagine its a heavy mix of both
ontop of that don't think he would've festered some angsty teenage hatred "i couldn't talk about my feewings!" for them or anything, maybe now in therapy he could complain about that but he honestly doesn't see a problem. infact, as a teenager he was pretty a happy one and didn't really need to often confide in someone (*difference between how he normally acts and genuinely trying to talk about his frustrations)
-and when he DID it wasn't life or death at stake or anything, he would just go be angsty and ramble to one of his "friends" at the time.
i have to stick friends in quotations because i think Johnny would undermine them more as "people i hung out with sometimes"
the eric stuff is. something in my head idk.
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