Maternal Munday

1. Is your character's mother alive, or deceased? If alive, what kind of health / shape is she in? If not, how did she die?
She is deceased, and has been for decades.  She was killed by a water demon when my character was seven years old.

2. Was she married, or a single parent? A young or older woman when she gave birth to your character? How many children does she have?
  She was a very young newlywed when my character, her eldest daughter, was born.  She and her husband (my char's father) separated when my character was about four, and divorced after their third daughter's birth.  My character's mother has four daughters.

3. What sort of mother was she to your character when they were small? How did the relationship change as your char grew up?
    She was practical-minded, but very tender and loving.  After her death, my character essentially put her mother's memory on a pedestal, and it sharply contrasted with the very immediate and every-day relationship she then had with her grandmother.  Her grandmother, who had helped her relatively young daughter raise my character and her sisters, became the girls' primary caregiver after their mother's death.
    
4. Was there ever / could there ever be a time when your character and mom were more like friends than parent and child?
    Because of the distance of death, even in a fantasy/magical fandom, practically speaking no.  Moreover, Prue has so much psychological baggage stemming from her early childhood that, well, I'll be lucky if I can get her to a place where she can see her mother in herself and vice versa, and not be nearly paralyzed with fear at the resemblance, a place where Prue can acknowledge, "You're human, and you made human choices.  They were messy, imperfect, and sometimes painful, but they were yours to make."

5. If your character has children (or plans to), how did their mother's parenting style influence the character's own? (can be positive or negative influence)
    Character is getting/going to have an inconvenient!baby, similar (not in circumstances or morality, but similar) to her mom's inconvenient!baby, which character knows about.   Ergo, character is going to fight like hell (literally) for her kid, and she is going to have a very practical concern for his welfare beyond that, and she is going to love him dearly.

6. Did mom have any sayings, quirks, or rules that still influence the character's thoughts or behavior? (you'll put your eye out with that crossbow!, don't wear white before labor day, etc.)
    Canon suggests that she was big on her older girls, my character and her sister, not using their powers (this was pre-binding), at least not on people.  This is something I now want to flesh out down the line!

7. What role (if any) does your character's mother play in his or her story?
She's the reason for my character's once and future morality.  Her death marked the final end of my character's childhood, and the start of her role as a more or less full time surrogate parent to her two younger sisters.  Her fate, and the possibility of sharing it, terrifies my character, and the list of things that truly terrify my character is maybe five items long.  The fact that my character's sister shares many of their mother's traits is one reason the two of them were particularly close.

8. Does your relationship with your own mother influence how you write your character's relationship with his or her mother? Why or why not?
    Um.  While fanfic =/= psychotherapy, there is a common element of daughters making their own choices or figuring themselves out and looking to understand maternal choices as they do so.  I look at how my mom's life is, and I wonder about her choices.  Prue looks at her own life, which was so shaped by her mom's choices, and wonders the same thing.  It's a huge part of the theme of agency in Binding Ties.