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Noted the high overlap with Victoria Cross recipients (I think this description really needs a cleanup in general, but I'm not qualified)
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On a positive note, the sibling-parent is usually within the [[Competence Zone]], and will be understanding if you have to [[Wake Up, Go to School, Save the World]]. If they get [[Trapped in Another World]] themselves, they'll expect to be fully responsible for their charges' safety, even to the point of [[Heroic Sacrifice]]. Becoming a sibling-parent often makes a child [[Wise Beyond Their Years]].
[[Truth in Television]], although it's more common on the frontiers of civilization and when families were larger and more spread out in ages. (Westerns make use of this a lot.) Sometimes the oldest kid of a one-parent family tries to take some responsibility off the parent too. Data shows that ''75%'' of Victoria Cross recipients were men that took this kind of role in their family.
If this takes place on a society-wide level, it's a [[Teenage Wasteland]]: the strongest of the survivors, where "strongest" usually equals "oldest", end up taking the younger survivors under their wings, forming pseudo-familial units in which the older kids are the "parents" and the younger ones are "children". Smaller-scale versions include the plane crash that strands a family while killing or incapacitating the parents and the Neverland scenario, in which a bunch of kids have run away from home or are otherwise isolated.
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