Broflovski family headcanons in honour of Kyle Broflovski (and Matt Stone)'s Birthday
A fair bit of this is from A Complete Disgrace, which ends with Kyle's literal Birthday. This isn't an exhaustive list, just a few that popped up for me.
Kyle's full name is "Kyle Brandeis Broflovski". He was named in honour of two of Sheila's grandparents (her maternal grandmother and paternal grandfather). Gerald hadn't had anyone deceased on his family's side that he knew well enough to honour, so he went with Louis Brandeis, a trailblazing Supreme Court Justice.
He is a rainbow baby. Sheila and Gerald had an early second-trimester miscarriage that was deeply traumatizing for them both (not to mention that they'd been casually "trying" for about 2-3 years prior to that and had just started to get serious about it). One night like a month after it, Gerald suggested they get drunk, and that's how Kyle was conceived.
The fact that it happened both quickly and unplanned is one reason why both his parents are pretty overprotective of him.
The reason the two Kyle's share the same name is that Sheila shared a list of names she liked with her (also pregnant) younger sister when she was pregnant the first time (mostly "k" names for both sexes). Though it was never a set name for the baby, it was a whole Thing since her sister never asked permission. When Gerald and Sheila found out they were having a boy, 'Kyle' was the one name that felt right for the kid. Sheila talked to her sister about it, and the conditions were essentially that her baby was 'Kyle 1', and that their Hebrew names had to be different.
Kyle B's Hebrew name is "Akiva" and Kyle S's is "Eitan" (a name from his father's side of the family).
Like Gerald's family, Kyle's Reform. Sheila grew up in a Conservative family, but when they moved to South Park to start a family, they opted for the Reform synagogue that Gerald's family had always gone to.
Because Gerald was from a lower observance family, while Sheila was from a higher observance one, they have split the difference to somewhere in the middle. They'll keep kosher for holidays, and occasionally Shabbat but (at least Gerald, Kyle and Ike) won't for the rest of the year. They also probably do about every other week for synagogue.
Though primarily Ashkenazi, Kyle's actually a quarter Irish (Gerald's mom converted prior to marrying his Dad), and also has some Sephardic ancestry through Sheila's Dad.
He had trans neonatal diabetes mellitus (TNDM) as a baby, which is another reason Sheila's very overprotective of him. He's generally been fine since then but he lives in fear.
He's close to his mom, but it's... complicated (hey, the movie of it all). He probably fights with Sheila more than Gerald (since they both have similar tempers and trigger points), but she's also the parent who's more likely to give him all the love and validation she can, which Gerald isn't always great with.
Despite... the S20 of it all, Kyle and Gerald genuinely have a solid father-son relationship. He knows his Dad has many flaws, but at the end of the day, he's still a solid dad... even if the rest of him can be a bit of a dumpster fire. He's also probably more likely to go to Gerald if there's some sort of gigantic problem than to Sheila because Gerald is less likely to lose his shit.
When it comes to romantic relationship stuff, he would honestly rather die than talk to either of his parents. It's just too awkward. Sheila I feel like is that parent who overshares, while Gerald is like "yeah let's never talk about this".
Both of his parents would 100% cheerlead almost any relationship he ends up in. Embarrassingly (especially on Sheila's end) Unless that person is like... genuinely bigoted/antisemitic in which case, there'd probably be a lot of genuine worry.
Ike thinks he's the best big brother ever. Even when he gets older and a bit more cynical, he still thinks that Kyle's solid and while he knows he can do plenty of wrong, he still thinks he's good at heart.
Overall, he has the most functional home family life of his friends, which he is acutely aware of. In some ways, this is difficult because he feels like he can't complain when things frustrate him (and they definitely do), which isn't the healthiest thing. Tolkien and Wendy in turn often become two people he'll talk to more about those things.
Definitely in that AP/all-around well-rounded high achiever group with Tolkien and Wendy.
Like his father, Kyle's on the debate team in high school. That being said, Gerald usually tries to dissuade him from doing law since he thinks he'd hate it. But Kyle loves debate.
He's a solid basketball player, and remains so all throughout high school. While he doesn't have what it takes to go pro or get athletic scholarships, he's still a very respectable amateur.
He probably also does track. He's a good runner!
While he likes TTRPG's just fine (especially if he's playing with his friends), he's a really big CRPG/MMO guy. And he'll almost always get into games that none of his friends give a fuck about.
Likes playing characters that are completely different from him in MMO's and CRPG's, so he ends up playing girls (or someone nonbinary if the game allows) a lot of the time, often of some fun fantasy race that isn't a generic human.
Took psychology as an option to figure out what the fuck was wrong with everyone in his life, but actually found it to be super interesting.
Does do some synagogue youth group activities and Jew Scouts. He's not always the most patient with younger kids not named Ike, but he's trying.
