Damian Sinmore's Links
"You're only your mother's son." Damian did not pay attention to Jake while he was a child, focusing on Sky especially after he killed Isidell. In his mind, Jake was never going to be as good as him and Sky and was not worth his effort in the end, even if he did inherit his aptitude for mind manipulation.
"I will never call you my dad." Despite being ignored as a child, young Jake still desperately wanted to know his father, but never really got to because Damian payed Jake no mind. After Isidell died, he became Cloud's only comfort since their father was of no help at all. Because of this, and because he grew older, wanting to get to know his father turned into wanting nothing to do with him. Jake resents his father in every sense of the word, blaming him for the way Sky turned out and how he and his siblings didn't get a normal childhood.
"Control is power." While he was alive, Damian molded Sky into a perfect version of himself, more powerful and with more potential than he ever had when he was Sky's age. He wanted to see Sky surpass him in the best ways possible and snuff out all of his enemies, and was pleased when he was already on his way to doing so. He doesn't really care that he neglected his other kids in favor of Sky.
"Control is power." Sky was close with his father, if for the wrong reasons. He owes everything he knows to his father, and relied very heavily on him while he was alive. His thought process and words still guide him to this day because of how often he used his Mind Manipulation ability on him, and Sky desperately wishes his father was still alive. He vowed revenge on his father's murderer.
"It was a mean to an end." Damian was never in love with Isidell, but was in love with the power being with her granted him. He wanted to become leader, and being with her was the easiest way to do it. That, and her aptitude was one of the strongest in the packs and combined with his, he knew something great would come from it if they had kids. He felt no remorse when he killed her, only acting distraught to keep his image.
"How could you?" Isidell was never in love with Damian, but was pressured by her family to find someone strong to marry and have kids with for the sake of her pack. If she could have done it all over again, she should have been more firm in saying no. Even though she loved her kids she had with him, seeing what he was like and what he was doing to them while she was alive was almost too much for her. She fought back in her own way whenever she could against him, but when he attacked her, it wasn't enough.
"You're your mother's daughter." Like with Jake, Damian didn't pay much attention to Cloud. She was too much like Isidell for him to justify spending time with her, especially with how occupied he was with Sky.
"You were never a father to us." Cloud resents her father for everything he's put their family through. She's never blamed Sky for his actions to an extent, but she can definitely place it all on him. When he died, she felt no sadness and did not cry for him, and probably never will. She's glad he's dead.