#terra (aa)

[deathstroke-the-himbonator]

Black Hat: He doesn't deserve you. If he doesn't treat you right by now, you're gone.

Terra: I'm gone.

Black Hat: Now go chop his dick off!

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Black Hat: *On the phone with Terra* So no head?

Black Hat: *Smashes his phone and car window*

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Terra: There's only one thing worse than abusing someone!

Terra: *Pulls off paper to reveal "Abusing your Stepson" on a whiteboard*

Harold: My stepson :/

Terra: No!

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Where does Terra stand in her opinion of Kenning?

Oooooo, okay, here we go:

Terra, by all accounts, loves her son. She’s not the best at showing it, but she tries really hard to be there for Kenning, especially once he’s hit twelve to thirteen years old, as she was pretty emotionally absent when he was a little kid and wants to make up for it now that he’s older. On that same note, she definitely holds some level of resentment towards Kenning, as she low-key, subconsciously blames him for being why her marriage is falling apart.

She wants to get to know Kenning better, and she wants to be a good mother to him, but she’s still fairly entrenched in her own bullshit, and she’s a tad too selfish to completely set it aside and focus on raising her son. Terra’s a good mom at heart, but she’s also very self absorbed- she’s not a narcissistic or anything, but she’s certainly selfish- and kind of obsessed with getting out of her family’s shadow (something she and Kenning could bond over if she was more open with him/bothered to realize he was just as miserable as her).

Although this is a smaller factor, it should be noted that both Terra and Harold fear Kenning to some degree; they know he’s Black Hat’s biological child, and as Black Hat has never had any children before Kenning, no one really knows what kind of a person Kenning will/can be. It’s expected that he’ll have some of the villain’s powers- body modification, resistance to poison, high pain tolerance, etc- but it’s unclear if he’ll be just as powerful as Black Hat, who may or may not be at the power level of a young god. Needless to say, Terra and Harold are terrified to find out just what their son is capable of.

So, all in all, Terra loves her son Kenning a whole lot, but not enough to be the mother he desperately needs in his life.