2. Their mother? How do they think of her? What do they hate? Love? What influence - literal or imagined - did the mother have?
//Haha. Entirely imagined, since Lacus doesn’t know who she is, whether she’s alive or dead, etc, etc. It’s just one more weird piece of a weird life, given that all Siegel would tell her was that quote about “you belong to the world as much as it belongs to you”.
Lacus really doesn’t think about her as much these days, only periodically. When she was little it was more of a constant thing, but her mother was just one of her imaginary friends.
A lot of Lacus hates her, certainly, for abandoning her at the least and not existing at the most, but her natural kindness and gathered images of ‘a good mother’ have led her to try showing that sort of unconditional love to most of those who cross her path…(She wants to be a biological mother, rather badly, just to prove she can and to do it better, but what with everything else she figures she’ll get around to conceiving and bearing a child when she gets a chance.)
…Her mother had red hair. Lacus is quite certain of this, and how much it influenced her own occasional wish for it and collection of redheaded heroines is up for not much debate.
Maybe the biggest non-imaginary role her mother played was saying “I never had a mother,” and the man then looked at her and said very matter-of-factly “Neither did I”.