Chapter 36 breakie

I thought I was the only one, I relate to you there is nothing that they show will ever redeem how they treated their son

Don’t you think he simply doesn’t want his kid to be in danger ?
He seriously suck at communication, not to say, he seems borderline autistic. But he also show up to check his son evaluation and dive in despite all risks to rescue him… It’s not like the son ever mention his dad not loving him, either ? Lack of trust and recognition, sure, but love, i didn’t read this ? Somehow, they do seem have some understanding in their interactions too ?
Also that dad, also happens on dead kids hunters every week. He certainly is entitled to have a strong opinion on the cost of being unqualified as a hunter. Seeing his son is F rank which can never improve, it’s very unlikely he’ll encourage him to pursue a carrier in which his life will at risk every second.
It makes sense to me ?
I understand supporting your kid’s dream, but it’s also complicated to just support anything, when the abilities are simply not there. Like, should you support a tone death kid to try become a singer ? Where’s the limit ?
As for why he wants to train the other kid : because, as he mentioned in the flashback first chapter, he believes there a need for better trained hunters to get rid of monsters without casualties. He’s a rescuer. Why would he help his own son when he has every reason to think it’s a deadly path for him ?
On the contrary, he has the ability to teach a child with great chance at becoming truly exceptional. He can see the limits of that talented child and knows his teaching can make difference between life and death. What’s wrong with offering guidance ?

It’s beautiful how you feel touched about the MC situation, but in case, you ever meet someone like that, i wanted to share a little bit of real life experience.
About the Mom. If you have in your surrounding, a parent of seriously handicaped or sick kid, you might see, that what we perceive as neglect is akin to trauma, guilt, despair… You name it.
It’s a parent instinct to lick the wound of your cub, and to try to heal and help him when he’s in a bad shape. You’ll always blame yourself for what you didn’t do if there’s an accident, or for the gene you passed on if there’s a sickness. You will always blame yourself, thinking it would have been different, if you had seen sooner, if… if… if…
That’s why the mom can’t give up doing by herself what she could delegate.
She badly needs help. She has a medical condition. She’s in pain.
She blames herself and she’s terrified, something might happen again if she looks away just a second… This is PTSD.
It’s very hard for a healthy kid to have a sick sibling.
A sick or badly handicaped kid, is going to drains the attention, the energy and good will of his limited number of caregiver, living them pretty much empty for anything else. No one is to blame.
I believe this is truly a place in which that answer can only come with strong and supportive surrounding, made of helpful family, friend, neighbors, as you would find in traditional societies (aloparenting if you wish).
The mom needs help. The dad probably also.
The both shows lots of burn out or depressive behaviors.
To be a good parent, you need to be in good shape too. You need some energy to give energy, you need hope to give hope, etc.
This is very hard when there’s a situation like the one described with the sister.
We may reason what they are doing is wrong, the parent themselves may even know and self blame a lot… but emotions are what they are : irrationnal to the boot.

As for forgiveness… It should be the something the son answer, and it doesn’t seem like it’s a question the MC ask himself. This is probably for the best, as it would only burden him further…

If i go back to real life family with terrible circumstances, of course, kids feels somethings are unfair, as well as they feel their parents pain. They grow fast (to fast), wanting to be a reassuring presence, wanting to be supportive.
Blaming the mom is going to trigger the child to defend her : he knows her reasons, and thankfully, he also knows this is not about him.
So just like some of his dad friend are here for him, this is way more meaningful to actually make a difference, by contributing to the kid life, than to point the fault of his damaged family. To help the kid, the true way is to support him AND his family, so they don’t collapse any further, and they might get better.
Also under what we can see, there might be lots of signs of care we don’t recognize, but the child does. Growing up learning gratitude will make the child stronger that if he’s only grieving about how unfair the world is. Of course, he is very much entitled to also accept and express negative feelings. But it would be very painful to see only these.

I pray, none of us ever has to live this kind of situation. I don’t know that we’d do any better in the same circumstances, but i know for a fact, that this is definitely a place where compassion is much much needed.
Peace