Coal's Links
Coal's second-eldest son.
Though he never cared much for the kid, and indeed ended his relationship with Viva the first time mostly due to his conception, after both Ivory and Viva had passed before his eyes, he expended energy trying to raise the runt in a half-hearted attempt to give his own life some legacy.
He failed.
Whip's biological father.
He hates him.
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.
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 Step-Daughter.
He never cared much for her when he first hooked up with Ivory. After Ivory passed, however, he found himself in the forced custody of the young little girl, scarcely able to talk and walk at that point.
He raised her to listen and behave like a good girl should, and despite having to teach her lesson once...
Well, it was only once.
Sugar's step-father.
She is his good little girl. With one violent exception, she would never speak out against him. In fact, she can thank that one exception for the subservience she now feels around him.
He terrifies her.
Coal's daughter.
She was far too sassy for her own good. She thought she was so smart, but in a cathartic way, it always made him feel good to put her in her place. She's lucky Sugar would reel her in when she went too far, otherwise the brat would have far worse consequences than she did.
Swii's father.
Ugh.
She doesn't think of him at all anymore. He's in the past and she never wants to put up with him ever again.
One of Coal's daughters.
He never paid much mind to Tii after getting back together with Viva. She knew to keep her mouth shut around him --figuratively, since she always had that ugly smile on-- so they never had any problems.
Mostly an unremarkable kid.
Tii's father.
He is one of the reasons she has to smile so much. Nobody ever smiles around him, so she has to do it always around him, otherwise things will get really really sad.
Though, quite frankly, she hopes to never be around him again. She hates smiling around him.