Week 62! (Patreon)

Alright, and now we're gonna move onto the cast's parents that we've seen, starting with Campy's mother and stepfather, Judy and Peter.

Now, with pretty much all of the parents, I wanted to go across the spectrum of types of marriages and combinations of parenting types, in order to be able to explore and display the diverse gambit instead of just having a bunch of families that were just the mom and dad. So, for Campy, he got the 'step-parent/remarriage' type of family.

I'm pretty sure I've explained the history of Campy's mother and real father somewhere, but I forget where, so I'll recap. While developing the New Canon, I decided to make Campy's real father be absent, giving the explanation that Judy and Campy's father were young lovers, but Campy's father was also a wandering hippie-esque musician that sort of just... left his family one day. This simultaneously allowed me to give a sort of easy (and kind of cheap) explanation as to where Campy's accent and appearance comes from (having picked it up from his father when he was an infant and toddler), and it also allowed me to introduce this step-parent situation, since I myself have had two step-mothers in my life. I've unfortunately not gone into what that kind of familial situation does to a person, and I especially can't totally translate my own experience to Campy's since his relationship with Peter is entirely healthy and mine... haven't been so much, but still, it was something I knew and I wanted to have shown in something.

As for Judy and Peter themselves, Judy was meant to be a far more free-spirited girl in her younger years, but her former husband and the father to her child having left her all of a sudden really soured that hard. Judy has thus become far more strict and stern in current times, being the sort of controlling mother archetype. She obviously loves and cares for Campy dearly, but she's still that sort of regiment-abiding type. Peter, on the other hand, is a rather "soft" person both physically and socially. He's nervous, withdrawn, not very confident, that sort of type. Judy most likely fell for Peter because of those attributes, a person unlike her first husband that she could feel safe and secure with. It's not an abusive or control-freak sort of situation, just an assertive and strict mother/wife with a submissive and lax step-father/husband.