#I managed to avoid the Dead Parents Everywhere trope for DnD characters and it's completely by accident

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for the dnd ask thing, number 1 for everyone >:3

Can do! (from here)

How many dead parents do they have?

All FYF knows about their parents is that they have a necklace with a pendant made of chainmail that Naoka found them with, so it probably belonged to their folks. They assume their parents are dead

TABER doesn’t know if either of her parents are dead yet, but they’ve been missing for over two years now, and The Broker knows that they’re missing

Both of WILVER’s parents are alive and well, and they’re thankfully not in the town with the demon problem. Two of Willy’s sisters have gone home to let their parents know what happened in Brighthaven, and their mother is apparently not taking the news well – given the lives of two of her children are at stake, who can blame her?

ERISONNE left home ages ago and hasn’t seen her parents since, and the story is similar with NIAMH. They both assume their parents are well though

The thing with SHUVERMHEL is that he really only ever cared for one parent. Mhel’s birth mother hadn’t cared all that much for him, which was fine as it meant his dad was his primary caretaker – with the help of the rest of his community of course. He loves his dad to smithereens, and they frequently hunted undead together as a pair – Mhel is a druid and his father is a ranger. A couple of decades back, Mhel’s dad left the Underdark in search of treasure, and he has yet to return; Mhel becomes an adventurer when he leaves the Underdark to look for his dad so they can be together when Mhel, his husband Nalinyon, and Nali’s husband Nowhere start a family

(To actually answer the question though, he’s pretty sure his father isn’t dead. His mother did die a few years after his father left the Underdark, but he only saw her as a community member, not as a parent)