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Post by dragoneyes618 on Sept 25, 2021 20:02:31 GMT -5
Pip and Squeak drive the taxi because their father is "ill'. He is never seen. It also seems that they have lost their home, from all the times they got food from Jake instead of their home and they slept in their taxi.
It would not surprise me at all if it turned out that the Bellerophon brothers lost their father, and their home, in a fire. My only question would be why VFD didn't find (read: recruit) (read: kidnap) them before now.
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Post by Hermes on Sept 26, 2021 6:20:44 GMT -5
There are a lot of absent/inactive parents in ATWQ, and they certainly aren't all dead - I think we see Mr Mallahan at some point, and we certainly see Mr and Mrs Knight. Why this is is never explained - it is one of the many mysteries the series leaves us with.
As to why VFD didn't kidnap P and S, I don't think they kidnap only children from rich families - there are certainly some rich familes, and the villains would be most interested in them, but it's not clear that the Widdershins family, for instance, was rich, and we know that Hector's father was a handyman. But my sense is that they kidnap mostly from VFD families, since they have to get permission - there are certainly cases of new recruitments from outside, e.g. Daniel Handler, but I suspect they are rare, since coming up to a child's parents and saying 'We are a secret organisation which wishes to kidnap you son' would cause some confusion.
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