BW’s Saturday Article Link> The Found Family Folly

There is an episode of Captain N: The Game Master where Kevin Keene refers to the N-Team, the collection of video game heroes he joins to fight a collaboration of game villains, as his “family”. That was my first exposure to the “found family”, a bunch of friends who act like a family. Actually you could make the case that was the Fantastic Four but between marriage and blood relations it’s not the same thing. I found the idea silly. My friends are my friends but no matter how close they are, they aren’t my family. Then again we live in a time where the traditional family in stories are rare and usually don’t seem to even like each other, nevermind love each other.

Author Caroline Furlong, using the Star Wars expanded universe (the part that was tossed into “Legends” by Disney in favor of their own continuity), discusses how even the found family is suffering the same issues as the biological family it tried to shove aside.