What is/was your protagonists relationship with their mom like?
Flynne loves her mom, and vice versa, but they don't talk with each other about many things. For example, Flynne is gone all day every day, and when she returns home, her mom asks very few questions. They have a sort of telepathic relationship, and what I mean by this is that they don't need to speak words to feel like they're together. Flynne’s mother (who doesn't currently have a name) taught her how to heal herself and others using nature's gifts, which is one of Flynne’s core memories that makes her the character we love so much.
Oooh, I kind of always… default to giving all of my characters a dead mother- I’m not really sure why. If one of their parents died, it’s almost always the mother, and most of my characters have either one or two dead parents. Felicity, Nikolai, Alwen (although to be fair most of her family is dead), and a bunch of unnamed characters from unwritten stories are a few. However, most of my protagonists who do have mothers get along with them very well, and have close relationships with them. Lennard is an exception, however, since his mother was the one who decided to abandon him after being cursed, and, even after he’s freed, she still acts different around him.