Does your character have siblings or family members in their age group? Which one are they closest with?
She’s an only child, but Daigo would be the only one closest to her in age that she’d consider family.
What is/was your character’s relationship with their mother like?
What is/was your character’s relationship with their father like?
Professor Cedric Juniper is the kind of father would would drop everything in the middle of a serious conversation to say, “you see this woman here? This is my daughter! I’m so proud of her.” And that’s something that’s both a blessing and a curse. Just imagine how mortified anyone would be in a professional setting. Juniper jr. had to learn to take it all in stride whether she wanted to or not.
However, that isn’t to say that their relationship was ever strained.
Growing up with a single father certainly allowed for a great amount of independence, especially when the two spent as much time in hotels as they did outdoors beneath the stars. Each moment with him as a child (and, at time, even now) was a learning opportunity. He never stopped answering her questions, encouraging her to do so. No matter how harsh they could be, he never knocked it down, answering them the best he could — ah, so long as he wasn’t drunk.
For as long as she could remember, the only time she’d recall her and her father ever having a ‘strained’ relationship would be when she was younger, during the vaguest and earliest of her memories with him. As much as he loved his daughter and his wife, he’d pushed the girl aside to spend more time with his wife, particularly when she was bedridden.
Or, perhaps, the moment when he’d first caught her drinking on her own. Under aged, of course, during the time when Aurea and Daigo had split ways.
Growing up alongside a man who’s fairly absent minded as her father, she’s taken up the habit of taking care of him (or of those close to her in general), whether consciously or not. And, most of the times, it’s without regard to her own health. In a way, it’s funny, really, considering how she often ends up the same state as he does when he travels when she’s on her own, abet with a few amendments.
She has his charm, that much is certain. And his terrible ‘dad’ jokes.
Now, while she was the child of a professor, there was never any purposeful pressure placed on her to follow in her father’s footsteps from him. His eagerness to share what he knows and to encourage Aurea to learn was something that came out of habit to him. He never pushed her to follow him, not like his fellow coworkers who’s often remark on how she was ‘catching up to him,’ seeing just how easily Aurea had taken to answering his questions and offering her own. It was these habits that allowed the then-future-professor to keep up with other scientists on a higher level, even managing to encourage a different view point for some that they’d encouraged her to follow Cedric.
Somewhere along the lines, it got blurred and she began to believe that’s what he wanted of her.