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Widow Jane has gotten herself a nice home, and is raising her son Jack there, happy except for the loss of his father -- but it has been years, and she has her son. Except one day, Jack comes running home burbling about someone's telling him that his father killed the dragon and Tell Me About My Father. And Widow Jane feels like she's been stabbed to the heart, envisioning her son lying before her, pale and bleeding, like his dying father had. See also In the Blood, Generation Xerox, Follow in My Footsteps. Contrast Loser Son of Loser Dad, Raise Him Right This Time.

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  • Widow Jane has gotten herself a nice home, and is raising her son Jack there, happy except for the loss of his father -- but it has been years, and she has her son. Except one day, Jack comes running home burbling about someone's telling him that his father killed the dragon and Tell Me About My Father. And Widow Jane feels like she's been stabbed to the heart, envisioning her son lying before her, pale and bleeding, like his dying father had. See also In the Blood, Generation Xerox, Follow in My Footsteps. Contrast Loser Son of Loser Dad, Raise Him Right This Time.
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  • Widow Jane has gotten herself a nice home, and is raising her son Jack there, happy except for the loss of his father -- but it has been years, and she has her son. Except one day, Jack comes running home burbling about someone's telling him that his father killed the dragon and Tell Me About My Father. And Widow Jane feels like she's been stabbed to the heart, envisioning her son lying before her, pale and bleeding, like his dying father had. A character has charge of a child (usually her son) and is desperate to keep this child from imitating another relative (usually his father). This is a fear of history's repeating itself for his fate, which may be turning evil and usually ends with being dead. Making this relative a secret is one technique; which usually makes the forbidden relative Forbidden Fruit. Another, as popular, is extracting a promise, which the child will usually try to keep until the pressure gets too high. Trying to keep him from evil has a fairly good success rate. Trying to keep him from his father's profession has a considerably poorer one, particularly when the reaction to the father's violent life is to try to make an Actual Pacifist; though the child may turn out less violent, there is usually something he must defend against. When the mother's motive is to keep him from being killed by the precise character who killed the father, generally a prequel to You Killed My Father. Keeping the Ancestral Weapon out of the child's hand is often an element of it, and when he finally gets it, a sign that the struggle is over, and the child will be like his father -- Take Up My Sword metaphorically as well as literally. When the hero wants the child away from him, it's Give Him a Normal Life. When the villain wants to raise the kid to act differently, it's Evil Parents Want Good Kids. When the character hates his "condition" and doesn't want to pass it on, it's What If the Baby Is Like Me?. See also In the Blood, Generation Xerox, Follow in My Footsteps. Contrast Loser Son of Loser Dad, Raise Him Right This Time. Examples of Turn Out Like His Father include:
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