I just realized back then I kind of (shamefully) thought Kai was being a big meanie about attacking his parents and seeming mad when he saw them, it kind of took him awhile to grow to them, but it hit me. He was literally left alone to take care of his little sister. ALONE. Probably when he was a little kid, he had to learn how to take care of his sister using what he learned and observed from his mom and dad?? Like imagine that as a child, having to be the parent?? That's insane.. and not to mention, Nya's ractions, she honestly had no reaction to first meeting her parents and just adknowledges them as her parents and only helped saved them because it was right, you know? But in Seabound, Nya starts to have the feelings she had as a child. She never knew her parents honestly didn't know what they looked like, sound like, or anything about them really. Like, sure she could have asked for stories or information from Kai. But honestly, I feel like Nya never felt like she never needed parents. Like she has Kai anyway and I honestly took that as why she is so independent and felt the need to prove her worth through Samurai X and the time she learned she was the water ninja especially since it brought back memories onto her lost long mother that she barely knew anything about but now that she inherited her elemental powers. Like?? Now her reaction makes sense in Seabound, which I also thought she was being hard at first too (again, shamefully, I really take shame to that). But she hates how her mother who she knew nothing about pretended like she was always there. It probably made her question a lot of things about her childhood. She hated how her mother tried to take something she build for herself WITHOUT her and hated how maybe she shared a reminder of the mother who was never in her life. Like imagine if someone you barely knew tried to walk into your life and told you what to do. Imagine. That doesn't sound too delightful. Like you barely know me and vice versa. But you know, Nya begin to slowly warm up to her mother thanks to her actual and persistent affection towards her. Just a thought, I guess.. feel free to add more.