Muggle Foster Parents: Difference between revisions

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This is a frequent trope in mythology. If the foster parents are not called the child's mother and father, they are frequently their aunt and/or uncle. This is a throwback to older times, where children whose parents died were often adopted by the parent's brother.

[[Doomed Hometown|Don't expect them]] [[Friendly Target|to live too long]] [[Death By Origin Story|once they've served their purpose]], and their "son" [[Forgotten Fallen Friend|might not be terribly grief struck either]]. On other hand, if they are still around into the hero's adulthood and you are stupid enough to ''[[Too Dumb to Live|threaten]]'' them, you've just hit his [[Berserk Button]].

[[Doomed Hometown|Don't expect them]] [[Friendly Target|to live too long]] [[Death by Origin Story|once they've served their purpose]], and their "son" [[Forgotten Fallen Friend|might not be terribly grief struck either]]. On other hand, if they are still around into the hero's adulthood and you are stupid enough to ''[[Too Dumb to Live|threaten]]'' them, you've just hit his [[Berserk Button]].

See [[Tell Me About My Father]], can be [[Happily Adopted]]. Contrast [[Raised by Orcs]], [[Turn Out Like His Father]]. See also [[Changeling Fantasy]] and [[Raised by Natives]].

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* ''[[The Inheritance Cycle|Eragon]]''.

* Pratchett's ''[[Discworld]]'' has Carrot Ironfoundersson, born human but raised by dwarves; he is in fact the legitimate heir to the throne of Ankh-Morpork. He doesn't claim the title, though: he doesn't want the job, and there's a good chance [[Badass|Vimes]] would [[Off with His Head|literally have his head]] if he did. (Only not really. More to the point, Carrot admires Vimes and Vimes doesn't believe in kings, and Carrot is quite sure he can do more for the city in the Watch. He's right.) It's the biggest [[Open Secret]] in the city.

* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]],'' Rand is found by Tam al'Thor on a battlefield, and Tam decides to take him home to his wife Kari to raise as their son. Tam isn't completely a muggle however. He is a skilled swordsman and Rand uses basic techniques Tam taught him to survive his first brushes with baddies before he can get [[Took a Level In Badass|more training]]. Also subverted in that it appeared Tam was going to be a [[Death By Origin Story]], but he survives and becomes an active member of his hometown's resistance fighters and {{spoiler|has a heated confrontation with Rand in book 12 that leads to Rand having a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] / [[Epiphany Therapy]] moment}}.

* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]],'' Rand is found by Tam al'Thor on a battlefield, and Tam decides to take him home to his wife Kari to raise as their son. Tam isn't completely a muggle however. He is a skilled swordsman and Rand uses basic techniques Tam taught him to survive his first brushes with baddies before he can get [[Took a Level In Badass|more training]]. Also subverted in that it appeared Tam was going to be a [[Death by Origin Story]], but he survives and becomes an active member of his hometown's resistance fighters and {{spoiler|has a heated confrontation with Rand in book 12 that leads to Rand having a [[My God, What Have I Done?]] / [[Epiphany Therapy]] moment}}.

* ''[[Chronicles of Prydain]]'': Inverted, Taran is a muggle with a Magician for a foster parent.

* Subverted in ''[[Akata Witch]]'' by [[Nnedi Okorafor]]. Sunny has magical abilities, but her parents don't. However her parents are her biological parents, the magic just skipped a generation.