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Back on topic.
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I’m pretty sure N had a spouse and at least one kid, everything about the way that they savor the time they spend with the Detective tells me that they had someone(s) in their human life, but unlike Angst du Mortain, I don’t think it ended in tragedy, only…acceptance of the fragility and mortality of human life, without any judgement.
If anyone has ever played Mass Effect, then you know the Asari (a species that live approximately four times as long as all the other species) are similar. “Don’t regret time you didn’t have, just enjoy the time you did.” I believe that’s the motto their species has to romancing a non-Asari (except a krogan), and I feel like that encapsulates N really well.
Nothing about their view on life and mortality is as bitter as A and even M seem to be, but they also have experienced it (unlike F), of that I have no doubt. So whatever previous life N had, the way the people close to him died wasn’t very angsty (at least not compared to what I imagine for A), and only really imparted on them that spending time, making memories, are the most important thing to do in a relationship. -
Angst du Mortain had an angsty human life and nothing can change my mind. I always imagined that they had a human lover before they were turned, but when they tried to go back to them after being turned into a vampire (and I’m thinking recent as heck, like, within a year of being turned) instead of being greeted with open arms, the lover spurned them and their perceived monstrosity.
A seems the most bitter toward humanity, and the most reactive (second only to N) to a fearful post-reveal MC, especially if you equate them with Murphy, and the easiest way to get bitter is to be spurned for something you couldn’t control. And then subsequent human behavior only reinforced the idea of fickle and useless humans, eventually turning into the dismissive attitude that A has at the beginning.
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F is a middle child and here’s why:
As @mewsly said, they have a level of emotional maturity that surpasses even N, at least when it comes to identifying and processing emotions. Middle children, in my experience, excel at that. They’re not quite the oldest sibling, with all the responsibility it entails, and they’re young enough to still identify with the baby and the carefree nature of childhood, and because they’re stuck in the middle, they generally don’t get as much attention as the baby or eldest (who need the most guidance, usually).
All this screams F to me. They had a baby sibling that they loved in the Echo World, though they sometimes wished their parents would drop a little more attention in their own direction, but most of the love real estate was also seized by an older sibling who I’m sure F loved deep down, even though F’s proficiency at verbal sparring tells me that they must have had quite the few sparring sessions themselves.
And unless F’s whole family came to Earth, I doubt we’ll get a dinner scene at the Hauville household.