Viva's Links
Viva's son. The eldest of her two children, and eldest of the five children total she tried to raise before her passing.
She regarded him with much care and love. In her sickness, her biggest regret was not being well enough to give him a better life.
Whip's mother. Though he was about sevenish when she passed away, he retains very little memory of her, mostly due to repression. As a child, he cared about her more than anything else, and her passing was a large part of why he eventually left his father to live on his own despite his age.
On some level, he blames himself for her death.
The only man Viva had ever entered a relationship with.
She... Only wished he would be better, one day. That hope proved to be her fatal undoing. Perhaps she wouldn't have succumbed to the severe stresses upon her if she'd simply cast him aside.
Coal's second... Woman-with-which-he-had-a-child.
Though for a time, he found her quite attractive and fun, his interests eventually meandered elsewhere. He did reconnect with her after bogging himself down with three children and no one to help him raise them, though his very presence placed a frailty on her that ultimately led to her passing as well.
His feelings for her were probably the closest to love he'd ever experience.
Viva's step-daughter.
A major part of why Viva took Coal back when he returned two years after leaving her the first time was because he carried in tow three little children, one of whom was now an orphan.
That was Sugar. Viva felt horrible for what happened to the poor girl, and no small part of the regret she felt upon her deathbed came from never getting to know Sugar better.
Sugar's step-mother.
Despite living with her longer than her own mother, Sugar never quite bonded with Viva. Even as a child, she felt partly-responsible for the illness that befell Viva, and so she didn't feel worthy of her as a mother.
She felt guilty when her sibings mourned Viva's death, because she felt nothing.
One of Viva's step-children.
Though Viva herself never really connected with Tii particularly well, she always appreciated the energy the young girl had, even as a toddler. She's also the reason Tii and her sister have a pun-derful naming convention
Tii's step-mother.
While Tii had no more of a connection to Viva than any of the other children, she was arguably the one most moved by her. When she was little, and Viva, sickly and unable to defend them, the step-mother would always tell her that her smile was what held the family together.
Thanks to that, Tii is able to keep smiling, even when things are hard, because if she doesn't, then no one will. And that's sad.
One of Viva's step-children.
Swii was young when Viva passed away, so she could never really form a strong bond with her.
She was the one who decided to name her along with her sister, for what it's worth.
Swii's step-mother.
Though Viva was the only motherly figure she ever knew, Swii could only bond with the woman so much. She... Appreciated her in life and mourned her death as a child, but if you asked her, she couldn't tell you anything about her otherwise.
If she didn't just ignore the question.
Viva's only daughter by blood and youngest child.
Giving birth to her was what tipped Viva over the edge, her health being unable to recover after it. Despite this, she only blames herself. It's her fault that this wonderful child got an unfair start in this cruel world. It's all her fault.
Mars' mother.
Viva died only a short tens of months after she was born, making her the only of her sibilings who'd not had even the faintest of memories of the woman. Mars doesn't think of her very often, most likely because she is still too young to consider the things in life she couldn't experience.