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* ''LightNovel/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'': Shuhei becomes [[ArtificialHuman Hikone]]'s parental figure after making them realize there's no reason they should listen to [[TheSociopath Tokinada]] just because he's the one who made them, and resolves to teach Hikone about the world since they were isolated for so long.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfVladimirTod'', the titular teenage vampire is taken care of by his "Aunt" Nelly, who is in actuality a really close family friend of Vlad's deceased parents.
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': It's mentioned that master/disciple relationships often become closer than parent/child relationships. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Yerin, who was tutored by the Sword Sage after her entire family was killed, saw him as her father. After he is killed, she spends weeks staying nearby in an attempt to recover what he left for her, fighting an entire combat school that entire time, when she could have easily just left. Later, we meet the Winter Sage, who was the Sword Sage's fiance. To Yerin's annoyance, she clearly sees Yerin as an estranged daughter, and tearfully asks why Yerin didn't come home.
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': It's mentioned that master/disciple relationships often become closer than parent/child relationships. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Yerin, who was tutored by the Sword Sage after her entire family was killed, saw him as her father. After he is killed, she spends weeks staying nearby in an attempt to recover what he left for her, fighting an entire combat school that entire time, when she could have easily just left. Later, we meet the Winter Sage, who was the Sword Sage's fiance. To Yerin's annoyance, she clearly sees Yerin as an estranged daughter, and tearfully asks why Yerin didn't come home.
* ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan'': Stella becomes very motherly toward Ruby when the two start sharing a cage.
* Georgia from ''Literature/SavingMax'' has helped out so much during Max's childhood, filling the role that would have been filled by his GlorifiedSpermDonor, that he sees her almost as another parent.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight raise Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze as their own after Leafpool gives them up; only Squirrelflight and Leafpool know of this until the end of the 3rd series.
** Brindleface fostered Cloudkit, and he loves her just as much as his mother.
** Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight raise Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze as their own after Leafpool gives them up; only Squirrelflight and Leafpool know of this until the end of the 3rd series.
** Brindleface fostered Cloudkit, and he loves her just as much as his mother.
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* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight raise Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze as their own after Leafpool gives them up; only Squirrelflight and Leafpool know of this until the end of the 3rd series.
** Brindleface fostered Cloudkit, and he loves her just as much as his mother.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfVladimirTod'', the titular teenage vampire is taken care of by his "Aunt" Nelly, who is in actuality a really close family friend of Vlad's deceased parents.
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': It's mentioned that master/disciple relationships often become closer than parent/child relationships. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Yerin, who was tutored by the Sword Sage after her entire family was killed, saw him as her father. After he is killed, she spends weeks staying nearby in an attempt to recover what he left for her, fighting an entire combat school that entire time, when she could have easily just left. Later, we meet the Winter Sage, who was the Sword Sage's fiance. To Yerin's annoyance, she clearly sees Yerin as an estranged daughter, and tearfully asks why Yerin didn't come home.
* Georgia from ''Literature/SavingMax'' has helped out so much during Max's childhood, filling the role that would have been filled by his GlorifiedSpermDonor, that he sees her almost as another parent.
* ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan'': Stella becomes very motherly toward Ruby when the two start sharing a cage.
** Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight raise Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze as their own after Leafpool gives them up; only Squirrelflight and Leafpool know of this until the end of the 3rd series.
** Brindleface fostered Cloudkit, and he loves her just as much as his mother.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfVladimirTod'', the titular teenage vampire is taken care of by his "Aunt" Nelly, who is in actuality a really close family friend of Vlad's deceased parents.
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': It's mentioned that master/disciple relationships often become closer than parent/child relationships. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Yerin, who was tutored by the Sword Sage after her entire family was killed, saw him as her father. After he is killed, she spends weeks staying nearby in an attempt to recover what he left for her, fighting an entire combat school that entire time, when she could have easily just left. Later, we meet the Winter Sage, who was the Sword Sage's fiance. To Yerin's annoyance, she clearly sees Yerin as an estranged daughter, and tearfully asks why Yerin didn't come home.
* Georgia from ''Literature/SavingMax'' has helped out so much during Max's childhood, filling the role that would have been filled by his GlorifiedSpermDonor, that he sees her almost as another parent.
* ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan'': Stella becomes very motherly toward Ruby when the two start sharing a cage.
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** Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight raise Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze as their own after Leafpool gives them up; only Squirrelflight and Leafpool know of this until the end of the 3rd series.
** Brindleface fostered Cloudkit, and he loves her just as much as his mother.
* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfVladimirTod'', the titular teenage vampire is taken care of by his "Aunt" Nelly, who is in actuality a really close family friend of Vlad's deceased parents.
* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': It's mentioned that master/disciple relationships often become closer than parent/child relationships. So it shouldn't be a surprise that Yerin, who was tutored by the Sword Sage after her entire family was killed, saw him as her father. After he is killed, she spends weeks staying nearby in an attempt to recover what he left for her, fighting an entire combat school that entire time, when she could have easily just left. Later, we meet the Winter Sage, who was the Sword Sage's fiance. To Yerin's annoyance, she clearly sees Yerin as an estranged daughter, and tearfully asks why Yerin didn't come home.
* Georgia from ''Literature/SavingMax'' has helped out so much during Max's childhood, filling the role that would have been filled by his GlorifiedSpermDonor, that he sees her almost as another parent.
* ''Literature/TheOneAndOnlyIvan'': Stella becomes very motherly toward Ruby when the two start sharing a cage.
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* ''Literature/MonsterOfTheMonthClub'': Mr. Tamerow, a regular guest at the Harmony House B&B, is the closest Rilla has to a father for most of her life.
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* ''LightNovel/BleachCantFearYourOwnWorld'': Shuhei becomes [[ArtificialHuman Hikone]]'s parental figure after making them realize there's no reason they should listen to [[TheSociopath Tokinada]] just because he's the one who made them, and resolves to teach Hikone about the world since they were isolated for so long.
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* ''Literature/AnUnkindnessOfGhosts'': Aint Melusine raised Aster from infancy after her birth mother's suicide, along with several other orphaned or abandoned children. Though she considers herself generally MaternallyChallenged, they love each other like a family all the same.
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* In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', Freckles acquires two: McLean is a father figure, and Mrs. Duncan as a mother figure who assures him that she loves him like a son and weeps over how desperately he needs the affection.
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* In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', Freckles acquires two: McLean [=McLean=] is a father figure, and Mrs. Duncan as a mother figure who assures him that she loves him like a son and weeps over how desperately he needs the affection.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter''--Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute to one degree or another. They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black and Remus Lupin (both of whom knew his father) or Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house and might possibly be the most consistent adult in his life and always does right by him. Harry thinks so highly of her that he [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uses an illegal curse]] on someone in the seventh book for spitting at her. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
*** Lampshaded in perhaps the most heartwarming moment of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' when Hagrid finds Harry as a baby, minutes after James and Lily were killed and [[TearJerker swears to look after him no matter what]].
*** Lampshaded in perhaps the most heartwarming moment of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' when Hagrid finds Harry as a baby, minutes after James and Lily were killed and [[TearJerker swears to look after him no matter what]].
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter''--Nearly ''Literature/HarryPotter'': Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute to one degree or another. They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black and Remus Lupin (both of whom knew his father) or Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house and might possibly be the most consistent adult in his life and always does right by him. Harry thinks so highly of her that he [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uses an illegal curse]] on someone in the seventh book for spitting at her. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
*** ** Lampshaded in perhaps the most heartwarming moment of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' when Hagrid finds Harry as a baby, minutes after James and Lily were killed and [[TearJerker swears to look after him no matter what]].
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* In Teresa Frohock's ''MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Lindsey contrasts Lucian's pride in her to her own father.
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* ''Literature/TheNeverendingStory'': In one of the last chapters, Dame Eyola takes the role of Bastian's deceased mother for a time.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter''--Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute to one degree or another. They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black and Remus Lupin (both of whom knew his father) or Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house so there's definitely an element of this trope there. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter''--Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute to one degree or another. They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black and Remus Lupin (both of whom knew his father) or Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house and might possibly be the most consistent adult in his life and always does right by him. Harry thinks so there's definitely highly of her that he [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness uses an element of this trope there. illegal curse]] on someone in the seventh book for spitting at her. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
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*** Lampshaded in perhaps the [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming most heartwarming]] moment of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' when Hagrid finds Harry as a baby, minutes after James and Lily were killed and [[TearJerker swears to look after him no matter what]].
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*** Lampshaded in perhaps the [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming most heartwarming]] heartwarming moment of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' when Hagrid finds Harry as a baby, minutes after James and Lily were killed and [[TearJerker swears to look after him no matter what]].
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* In ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' [[TheBigGuy Barda]] gradually becomes this for the seemly orphan [[JunglePrincess Jasmine]] in the first series to the point where towards the FinalBattle when Barda nearly dies she stays by his sickbed and cries openly. [[spoiler: Jasmine however [[TheReveal learns]] her actual father is Doom and is overjoyed though if the second series is anything to go by Jasmine is still a bit closer to Barda. Lief loses his father Endon so Barda effortlessly fills the role in the second and third series and arguably had already proved himself a good father surrogate to Lief throughout Part 1]].
** In [[Anime/DeltoraQuest anime adaption]] Barda is a explicit PapaWolf to Jasmine at times and even [[MentorArchetype trains]] more Lief in swordplay.
** In [[Anime/DeltoraQuest anime adaption]] Barda is a explicit PapaWolf to Jasmine at times and even [[MentorArchetype trains]] more Lief in swordplay.
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* In ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' [[TheBigGuy Barda]] gradually becomes this for the seemly orphan [[JunglePrincess Jasmine]] in the first series to the point where towards the FinalBattle when Barda nearly dies she stays by his sickbed and cries openly. [[spoiler: Jasmine Jasmine, however [[TheReveal learns]] her actual father is Doom and is overjoyed though if the second series is anything to go by Jasmine is still a bit closer to Barda. Lief loses his father Endon so Barda effortlessly fills the role in the second and third series and arguably had already proved himself a good father surrogate to Lief throughout Part 1]].
** In [[Anime/DeltoraQuest the anime adaption]] Barda isa an explicit PapaWolf to Jasmine at times and even [[MentorArchetype trains]] more Lief in swordplay.
** In [[Anime/DeltoraQuest the anime adaption]] Barda is
*** Lampshaded in perhaps the [[SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfHeartWarming most heartwarming]] moment of ''Theatre/HarryPotterAndTheCursedChild'' when Hagrid finds Harry as a baby, minutes after James and Lily were killed and [[TearJerker swears to look after him no matter what]].
-->'''Hagrid''': “Well. Hello. Yeh must be Harry. Hello, Harry Potter. I’m Rubeus Hagrid. And I’m gonna be yer friend whether yeh like it or not. ’Cos yeh’ve had it tough, not that yeh know it yet. An’ yer gonna need friends. Now yeh best come with me, don’t yeh think?”
-->'''Hagrid''': “Well. Hello. Yeh must be Harry. Hello, Harry Potter. I’m Rubeus Hagrid. And I’m gonna be yer friend whether yeh like it or not. ’Cos yeh’ve had it tough, not that yeh know it yet. An’ yer gonna need friends. Now yeh best come with me, don’t yeh think?”
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* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/IceCrown'', the princess was raised by her grandfather. Roane appears to be in her uncle's charge, though he seems more taken with the notion of another pair of hands with less regulation, since she's related.
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* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/IceCrown'', the princess was raised by her grandfather. Roane appears to be in her uncle's charge, though he seems more taken with the notion of another pair of hands with less regulation, regulation since she's related.
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* ''Literature/PrinceCaspian'' has something of a mother figure in his nurse, and much more of a father figure in Doctor Cornelius.
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** ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'': Mr and Mrs Gardiner are Parental Substitutes to Elizabeth and other girls, despite the fact that mama and papa Bennets are very much alive, but their parenting skills are less than excellent and the girls are lucky they can approach such understanding, reasonable and affectionate adults. Mrs Gardiner is their favourite aunt and provides great advice and much comfort to Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia.
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** ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'': Mr and Mrs Gardiner are Parental Substitutes to Elizabeth and other girls, despite the fact that mama and papa Bennets their parents are very much alive, alive but their parenting skills are less than excellent and the girls are lucky they can approach such understanding, reasonable and affectionate adults. Mrs Gardiner is their favourite aunt and provides great advice and much comfort to Jane, Jane and Elizabeth and Lydia.(Lydia disregards all such attempts, however).
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter''--Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute. They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black and Remus Lupin (both of whom knew his father) or Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house so there's definitely an element of this trope there. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
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** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' makes it completely explicit; Molly is the mom Harry never had. [[https://www.pottermore.com/features/chapter-that-made-us-fall-in-love-with-molly-weasley This Pottermore article explains in depth.]]
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* In ''Literature/HettyFeather'', Hetty encounters lots of parental substitutes: Peg Cotton/Nurse Winnie in 'Hetty Feather', Mrs Briskett in 'Sapphire Battersea', Lizzie in 'Emerald Star', and Madame Adeline in 'Diamond/Little Stars'.
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* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfVladimirTod'', the titular teenage vampire is taken care of by his "Aunt" Nelly, who is in actuality a really close family friend of Vlad's parents before they were killed.
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* In ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfVladimirTod'', the titular teenage vampire is taken care of by his "Aunt" Nelly, who is in actuality a really close family friend of Vlad's parents before they were killed.deceased parents.
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*** Mrs Norris somehow manages to meddle in upbringing of the Bertram children, especially for Julia and Maria. Their parents are both alive, but their mother is too lazy to bother. Her constant flattering has bad results on their character.
*** Sir Thomas, Lady Bertram and Mrs Norris are all parental substitutes for Fanny Price, being her uncle and maternal aunts. They adopt her because Fanny's parents are poor and have too many children to take care of. Neither of them does a very good job as Fanny's guardians. Sir Thomas is too strict (and unreasonably so, considering how scared Fanny is), Lady Bertram can't be bothered, and Mrs Norris is downright emotionally abusive. The real parent substitute to little Fanny is her older cousin Edmund, who is the only really affectionate person in the house.
*** Sir Thomas, Lady Bertram and Mrs Norris are all parental substitutes for Fanny Price, being her uncle and maternal aunts. They adopt her because Fanny's parents are poor and have too many children to take care of. Neither of them does a very good job as Fanny's guardians. Sir Thomas is too strict (and unreasonably so, considering how scared Fanny is), Lady Bertram can't be bothered, and Mrs Norris is downright emotionally abusive. The real parent substitute to little Fanny is her older cousin Edmund, who is the only really affectionate person in the house.
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*** Mrs Norris somehow manages to meddle in upbringing of the Bertram children, especially for Julia and Maria. Their parents are both alive, but their mother is too lazy to bother. Her constant flattering has bad results on does not improve their character.
*** Sir Thomas, Lady Bertram and Mrs Norris are allparental substitutes for Parental Substitutes to Fanny Price, being her uncle and maternal aunts. They adopt her because Fanny's parents are poor and have too many children to take care of. Neither of them does a very good job as Fanny's guardians. Sir Thomas is too strict (and unreasonably so, considering how scared Fanny is), Lady Bertram can't be bothered, and Mrs Norris is downright emotionally abusive. The real parent substitute Parental Substitute to little Fanny is her older cousin Edmund, who is the only really affectionate person in the house.
*** Sir Thomas, Lady Bertram and Mrs Norris are all
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** ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'': Mrs Gardiner and Mr Gardiner are parental substitutes to Elizabeth and other girls, despite the fact that mama and papa Bennets are very much alive, but their parenting skills are less than excellent and the girls are lucky they can approach such understanding, reasonable and affectionate adults. Mrs Gardiner is their favourite aunt and provides great advice and much comfort to Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia.
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** ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'': Mr and Mrs Gardiner and Mr Gardiner are parental substitutes Parental Substitutes to Elizabeth and other girls, despite the fact that mama and papa Bennets are very much alive, but their parenting skills are less than excellent and the girls are lucky they can approach such understanding, reasonable and affectionate adults. Mrs Gardiner is their favourite aunt and provides great advice and much comfort to Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia.
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** ''Literature/{{Emma}}'': Mrs Woodhouse died when Emma and Isabella were small children. Miss Taylor becomes a governess at the Woodhouses and she was like a mother to both girls. They all lucked out: Miss Taylor was lucky to be hired by such a loving family who treated her more like a friend and family member than an employee; the Woodhouses were lucky to find such a treasure of a woman who loved the girls like her own. Although she was supposedly a mother-figure, she was more like a sister to Emma because they adored each other so much. This in turn resulted in Emma not really having a lot of parental discipline growing up. When she marries, as Mrs Weston she also becomes a devoted stepmother to adult Frank Churchill, who clearly loves her.
** ''Literature/MansfieldPark'':
*** Mrs Norris somehow manages to meddle in upbringing of the Bertram children, especially for Julia and Maria. Their parents are both alive, but their mother is too lazy to bother. Her constant flattering has bad results on their character.
*** Sir Thomas, Lady Bertram and Mrs Norris are all parental substitutes for Fanny Price, being her uncle and maternal aunts. They adopt her because Fanny's parents are poor and have too many children to take care of. Neither of them does a very good job as Fanny's guardians. Sir Thomas is too strict (and unreasonably so, considering how scared Fanny is), Lady Bertram can't be bothered, and Mrs Norris is downright emotionally abusive. The real parent substitute to little Fanny is her older cousin Edmund, who is the only really affectionate person in the house.
*** After they were orphaned, siblings Mary and Henry Crawford have been brought up by their Aunt and Uncle, Admiral and Mrs Crawford. Both were very loving to them as children, but they were not happily married, and generally it's assumed that they were a bad influence on them.
** ''Literature/{{Persuasion}}'': Lady Russell steps in as Anne's (and Mary's and Elizabeth's) mother figure after Lady Elliot's death, and she's the only one who ever considers Anne's happiness and needs.
** ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'': Mrs Gardiner and Mr Gardiner are parental substitutes to Elizabeth and other girls, despite the fact that mama and papa Bennets are very much alive, but their parenting skills are less than excellent and the girls are lucky they can approach such understanding, reasonable and affectionate adults. Mrs Gardiner is their favourite aunt and provides great advice and much comfort to Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia.
** ''Literature/{{Emma}}'': Mrs Woodhouse died when Emma and Isabella were small children. Miss Taylor becomes a governess at the Woodhouses and she was like a mother to both girls. They all lucked out: Miss Taylor was lucky to be hired by such a loving family who treated her more like a friend and family member than an employee; the Woodhouses were lucky to find such a treasure of a woman who loved the girls like her own. Although she was supposedly a mother-figure, she was more like a sister to Emma because they adored each other so much. This in turn resulted in Emma not really having a lot of parental discipline growing up. When she marries, as Mrs Weston she also becomes a devoted stepmother to adult Frank Churchill, who clearly loves her.
** ''Literature/MansfieldPark'':
*** Mrs Norris somehow manages to meddle in upbringing of the Bertram children, especially for Julia and Maria. Their parents are both alive, but their mother is too lazy to bother. Her constant flattering has bad results on their character.
*** Sir Thomas, Lady Bertram and Mrs Norris are all parental substitutes for Fanny Price, being her uncle and maternal aunts. They adopt her because Fanny's parents are poor and have too many children to take care of. Neither of them does a very good job as Fanny's guardians. Sir Thomas is too strict (and unreasonably so, considering how scared Fanny is), Lady Bertram can't be bothered, and Mrs Norris is downright emotionally abusive. The real parent substitute to little Fanny is her older cousin Edmund, who is the only really affectionate person in the house.
*** After they were orphaned, siblings Mary and Henry Crawford have been brought up by their Aunt and Uncle, Admiral and Mrs Crawford. Both were very loving to them as children, but they were not happily married, and generally it's assumed that they were a bad influence on them.
** ''Literature/{{Persuasion}}'': Lady Russell steps in as Anne's (and Mary's and Elizabeth's) mother figure after Lady Elliot's death, and she's the only one who ever considers Anne's happiness and needs.
** ''Literature/PrideAndPrejudice'': Mrs Gardiner and Mr Gardiner are parental substitutes to Elizabeth and other girls, despite the fact that mama and papa Bennets are very much alive, but their parenting skills are less than excellent and the girls are lucky they can approach such understanding, reasonable and affectionate adults. Mrs Gardiner is their favourite aunt and provides great advice and much comfort to Jane, Elizabeth and Lydia.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is crawling with Parental Substitutes.
** Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black (who is also his godfather), Remus Lupin and Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house so there's definitely an element of this trope there. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
** Harry's friends are not immune either. Neville Longbottom is raised by his grandmother due to his parents having been tortured to madness by Death Eaters. Harry himself also becomes one to Teddy Lupin. Although he seems to be living with his grandmother, he often visits the Potter-family.
** More stories of this are told for reoccurring background characters. Susan Bones seems to have been raised by her aunt as nearly her entire family were killed by Death Eaters.
** Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black (who is also his godfather), Remus Lupin and Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house so there's definitely an element of this trope there. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
** Harry's friends are not immune either. Neville Longbottom is raised by his grandmother due to his parents having been tortured to madness by Death Eaters. Harry himself also becomes one to Teddy Lupin. Although he seems to be living with his grandmother, he often visits the Potter-family.
** More stories of this are told for reoccurring background characters. Susan Bones seems to have been raised by her aunt as nearly her entire family were killed by Death Eaters.
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* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is crawling with Parental Substitutes.
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* In ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' [[TheBigGuy Barda]] gradually becomes this for the seemly orphan [[JunglePrincess Jasmine]] in the first series to the point where towards the FinalBattle when Barda nearly dies she stays by his sickbed and cries openly. [[spoiler: Jasmine however [[TheReveal learns]] her actual father is Doom and is overjoyed though if the second series is anything to go by Jasmine is still a bit closer to Barda. Lief loses his father Endon so Barda effortlessly fills the role in the second and third series and arguably had already proved himself a good father surrogate to Lief throughout Part 1]].
** In [[Anime/DeltoraQuest anime adaption]] Barda is a explicit PapaWolf to Jasmine at times and even [[MentorArchetype trains]] more Lief in swordplay.
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* The children's book ''Literature/TheStarPixieAndTheSerpentQueen'' is partially inspired by [[Creator/KentJStarrett Kent J. Starrett's]] real-life run-ins with people who have an [[SnakesAreSinister over-the-top irrational fear of snakes.]]
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* The children's book In ''Literature/TheStarPixieAndTheSerpentQueen'' is partially inspired by [[Creator/KentJStarrett Kent J. Starrett's]] real-life run-ins with people who have an [[SnakesAreSinister over-the-top irrational fear the title character, The Star Pixie, has no parents nor any others of snakes.]]her kind; yet the moon of planet Clarionix and the titular Serpent Queen play the part of her father figure and maternal figure, respectively.
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* In the ''Literature/AgeOfFire'' series, each of the three main protagonists gets one at some point or another after their parents are killed and they're scattered as hatchlings: [=AuRon=] had [=NooMoahk=] (the elder dragon who served as his mentor during his last drakehood years), Wistala had Rainfall (the elf who raised her most of her life), and [=RuGaard=] had [=FeHazathant=] (who took pity on him and adopted him into the Lavadome's Imperial Line when he arrived), respectively.
** [=AuRon=] himself was in turn one to Heiba, the orphaned human girl he was tasked with protecting until he could get her back to her own kind, which took long enough that they ended up bonding closely.
* Madame (a.k.a. The Old Lady) in ''Literature/{{Babar}}'' took the role of Babar's mother after he gets lost in Paris, raising him and paying for his education creating a strong bond among them. This is expanded in the animated series.
* In ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'', Claudia's grandmother Mimi was this to both Mary Anne (whose mother died when she was very young) and to Claudia (whose parents are alive but don't really "get" her).
* Subverted in ''Brotherhood of the Rose'', by David Morrell. The two protagonists meet in an orphanage from which they're recruited by CIA chief Elliot, who presents himself as a surrogate father figure. They later discover that Elliot (and other members of his worldwide conspiracy) have done the same thing with other orphans, in order to create a team of EliteMooks who'll obey their orders without question.
* ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'': Fyodor Karamazov cares little for any of his three sons; young Dimitri goes half-naked and unfed until [[OldRetainer Grigory]] steps in and virtually raises him himself; Ivan and Alexei are adopted by their uncle Miusov.
* After her parents go to war in ''Literature/DirgeForPresterJohn'', Sefelet is cared for by Vyala, her mother's friend's mother. They appear to bond more than Sefalet did to her real parents.
* In Creator/JimButcher's ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', this features twice in the orphaned Harry's BackStory. Justin exploited his need for one. Afterward, Ebneazer did a much better job of it; he is still protective of Harry and deploys such tropes as SoProudOfYou.
* In ''Literature/FireAndHemlock'', Pollys grandmother is her parent substitute, as her own parents are in an unhappy marriage and fight a lot.[[spoiler: They divorce later in the novel]] There is also Mr. Lynn and to a lesser extent his friends, who treat Polly more like a friend, but still qualify, as they readily step in when Polly's actual parents neglect her and her grandma is not nearby.
* In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', Freckles acquires two: McLean is a father figure, and Mrs. Duncan as a mother figure who assures him that she loves him like a son and weeps over how desperately he needs the affection.
* In Creator/WilliamAlexander's ''Literature/GoblinSecrets'', the children were taken in by Graba.
* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''A Night in Terror Tower'', [[spoiler:Morgred the sorceror is set to fill this role for Edward and Susannah when they finally escape into the future to live new lives away from their evil uncle and the High Executioner. As the late, rightful King's court mage, he promised to protect them from harm.]]
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is crawling with Parental Substitutes.
** Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black (who is also his godfather), Remus Lupin and Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house so there's definitely an element of this trope there. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
** Harry's friends are not immune either. Neville Longbottom is raised by his grandmother due to his parents having been tortured to madness by Death Eaters. Harry himself also becomes one to Teddy Lupin. Although he seems to be living with his grandmother, he often visits the Potter-family.
** More stories of this are told for reoccurring background characters. Susan Bones seems to have been raised by her aunt as nearly her entire family were killed by Death Eaters.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/TheHermeticMillennia'', Soorm recounts how Asvid became for him the only father he had ever known, and taught him filial piety. [[spoiler:He's lying.]]
* Bush towards the decade-younger Hornblower in the ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' books, evolved out of a BigBrotherInstinct from early in their careers; he's constantly worrying that his captain isn't getting enough rest or credit or human contact and Hornblower compares him to a mother hen at one point. Not that Bush quite realizes this since he's [[BritishStuffiness Britishly]] out-of-touch with his own emotions.
* Celia and Tam Lin in ''Literature/HouseOfTheScorpion'' who are Matt's caretaker and bodyguard respectively, are pretty much his Parental Substitutes, since being a clone, he has no parents, unless you count his original's parents, which would be technically, but they have been dead for over a century.
* Jim could be seen as this to Literature/HuckleberryFinn, whose own father is a violent and uncaring drunk.
* Haymitch develops this kind of relationship with Katniss and Peeta in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''.
* John Cleaver's therapist in ''Literature/IAmNotASerialKiller'' acts like a father figure for John.
* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/IceCrown'', the princess was raised by her grandfather. Roane appears to be in her uncle's charge, though he seems more taken with the notion of another pair of hands with less regulation, since she's related.
* In ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', Charlotte raised Will, Jem, and Jessie since they came to the institute. Will says that she would have been called a governess had she not been so intelligent and if she didn't have the ability to chop one into pieces.
* ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'': Since the issue of ManChild Bertie Wooster having parents is never dwelt on, there are plenty of implications that he regards ''[[TheJeeves Jeeves]]'' as something of a father figure. Jeeves, for his part, is often noted to cast a "paternal" eye on Bertie's antics.
* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars The Chessman Of Mars]]'', U-Thor received a slave woman from his jeddak; he freed and married her, and regards the son she bore the jeddak, A-Kor, as like a son to him. When the jeddak, a RoyalBrat, has A-Kor imprisoned out of fear and envy, U-Thor demands an accounting.
-->''I have made of her a free woman, and I have married her and made her thus a princess of Manatos. Her son is my son, O-Tar, and though thou be my jeddak, I say to you that for any harm that befalls A-Kor you shall answer to U-Thor of Manatos.''
** Also, in the earlier books ''Gods of Mars'' and ''Warlord of Mars'' Tars Tarkas, Tardos Mors, and Mors Kajak are implied to have served this role for John Carter's son, Carthoris, after Carter was returned to Earth.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'':
** Nunnal Enaz is a second mother to Kallen Selios because she adopted the girl at a young age and she was already an HonoraryAunt at that point.
** Dengel became a surrogate father to one of his students. He was even father-of-the-bride at her wedding.
* Liz Pennykettle for David Rain in [[Literature/{{Dragons}} The Last Dragon Chronicles]]. Later, it turns out that [[spoiler:she actually is his mother in an parallel universe.]] She even acts as a mother to Zanna at times.
* In ''Literature/TheLightbringerSeries'' Dazen, masquerading as his brother Gavin, takes on the role of father to Kip, who is actually his nephew.
* In ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'', Sara becomes this to Lottie.
* Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' feature many parental substitutes: Bilbo (for Frodo), Théoden (for Éomer, Éowyn and arguably Merry), Elrond (for Aragorn), Maglor (for Elrond and Elros), Annael (for Tuor), Thingol (for Túrin) etc. Maglor's fostering of Elrond and Elros is perhaps especially notable in that Maglor had been (twice, reluctantly) involved in the slaughter of the boys' family before that, and that he had contributed to their mother's attempted suicide...
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', Rest spent most of his childhood as a poor kid whom nobody wanted to care about, constantly kicked out of every apprenticeship he tried. Then Veres (badass monster hunter MagicKnight) came, said the kid has a magic gift and took him on as his student. At the end of the book another wizard mistakes them for father and son. Rest corrects him, but states that he'd be proud to be Veres' child and he regards the wizard as a substitute parent.
* In ''{{Literature/Malevil}}'', the main character Emmanuel is adopted by his uncle Samuel after he runs away from home. Samuel is far more of a father to Emmanuel then his cowardly, hen-pecked brother Simon ever was.
* ''Literature/{{Mirabile}}'' is set on a recently-established colony world where there are professional parental substitutes, like the protagonist's friend Elly, who make a living raising other people's children alongside their own. The protagonist explains that the "population is still so small we can't afford to lose genes just because someone's not suited, one way or another, for parenting".
* In Teresa Frohock's ''MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Lindsey contrasts Lucian's pride in her to her own father.
* In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', Luke helped raise Clary along with Jocelyn. By ''City of Heavenly Fire'', they're referred to as father and daughter more often than not by themselves and others. In a way, he was sort of a father figure to Simon, too, as the latter's father died when he was younger.
* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' novel ''Late Eclipses'', Toby reflects on how Sylvester has been this to her, despite his failings.
* In Creator/IanFleming's "[[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights Octopussy]]", Literature/JamesBond is sent to take a retired officer to justice. The man, working intelligence at the end of WWII, smuggled a cache of Nazi gold home and killed the mountaineer who had led him up to where it was hidden. It's business for Bond, but it's also [[ItsPersonal personal]], as he'd been a friend to the dead man, who had taught him to ski as a teen before the war, and was "something of a father to me at a time that I happened to need one."
* George serves as this to Lennie in ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''.
* In ''Literature/PetSematary'', Louis Creed, who lost his father at age three, meets Jud Crandall who becomes a father figure to him when he's an adult.
-->He called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life.
* Creator/TamoraPierce: What with her penchant for [[ParentalAbandonment killing off/extremely distant parents]], it only makes sense that...
** Alanna of ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' first has OldRetainer Coram, who reminds her that he changed her diapers. As a page, she has Myles of Olau, who is ''such'' a good replacement father that he eventually adopts her.
** ''Literature/TheImmortals''' Daine is "mothered" by three different women -- Queen Thayet, K'mir warrior Buri, and horse trainer Onua.
** Kel of ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'' actually has living GoodParents, but obviously they're not around while she's training for knighthood and they're ambassading. Lord Raoul, her knight-master, essentially pulls her through the crappy, 15-18 years. Kel herself becomes a substitute parent to Tobe when she basically adopts him by [[IndenturedServitude buying his indenture]] from an abusive master.
** The four main characters in the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series are raised by two women who, after a time, they refer to as their "foster mothers".
* ''Literature/APrayerForOwenMeany'': Owen's real parents don't take much interest in Owen, so Johnny's mother pretty much takes care of him. [[spoiler: This makes her accidental death at Owen's hands all the more heart breaking.]]
* Halt from ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' is a father-figure to both Will and Horace. It comes up several times in the books that Will and Halt think of each other as father and son. Similarly, Pauline thinks of Alyss as a daughter.
* ''Literature/{{RCN}}'': Given Cordel Leary's frequent absences from the Leary household due to his political activities, Hogg serves as a substitute father for Daniel, teaching him what it means to be a man.
* In ''Literature/TheRedAbbeyChronicles'', girls who newly join the Abbey usually choose a girl who has been there for longer, and follow her around all the time. Apparently, the Sisters do not formally control this, but encourage it by assigning the same duties to both girls. (The Sisters also serve as parental subsitutes, but cannot focus on one girl; only the very young ones have a Sister specifically devoted to caring for them.)
* Oliver to Lionel in Creator/RafaelSabatini's ''Literature/TheSeaHawk''.
* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': Marcia Overstrand is this to Septimus, according to WordOfGod.
* Dr. Montgomery in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' is a good example. In ''The Penultimate Peril'', volunteers Kit Snicket and Dewey Denouement answer ''some'' of the Baudelaires' questions and the latter offers to become their guardian. All three of them die.
* In ''Literature/TheShatteredKingdoms'', Lahlil survived an attempt to [[OffingTheOffspring kill her by exposure]] and was taken in by the Nomas people, acquiring some parental substitutes. However, some misapplied Nomas religious practices resulted in her being cursed with an illness, and she realised that at least some of them knew the source of her problem but were unwilling to admit it to her. She left, and didn't stay in touch. As such, she's estranged from both birth and adoptive parents.
* Mrs. Alowo becomes this to her orphaned students in ''Literature/SomeoneElsesWar''.
* [[PlayedForDrama Twisted like most things]] in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Sansa Stark is forced to masquerade as [[MagnificentBastard Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish's]] bastard daughter for the sake of her own survival, which would be okay except Littlefinger can't seem to work out if he views Sansa as a daughter or as a [[ReplacementGoldfish younger, more beautiful version]] of the woman he'd loved obsessively since childhood.
** As part of the same scenario, Sansa's cousin Lord Robert Arryn comes to view her as something between a parental substitute (for his late mother Lysa, who was murdered by Littlefinger after marrying her) and a CoolBigSis (since Robert believes that "Alayne" is his stepsister).
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** Running a galactic government and occasionally saving it alongside one's scoundrel husband leaves little time for parenting, as the children of Han Solo and Princess Leia learn. Much of their parenting is done by Leia's longtime friend and aide Winter Celchu.
** C-3PO, in a pinch, makes a surprisingly effective babysitter.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Dalinar Kholin does this quite a bit. At one point he even claims that everyone under his command is part of his family.
** After his brother's death, he had to act as a father to his nephew, King Elhokar. Part of the problem with Elhokar's reign is that Dalinar coddles him a bit too much, treating him like a child.
** After the climax of the first book, Dalinar starts treating Kaladin as a son, specifically like Adolin. It's just easy to miss because he treats Adolin like a soldier. It comes to a head when Elhokar is mad at Kaladin for [[spoiler:derailing the plan to deal with Sadeas. Elhokar wants him executed, but Dalinar flat-out says that if he tries, he'll make Dalinar an enemy]].
* Jaxon is the closest to a father that Corie and Elisandra have in ''Literature/SummersAtCastleAuburn'', and he tells them all the time how proud their father would be.
* Vikus from ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'' is the closest thing to a parent Luxa has.
* ''Literature/VampireAcademy'':
** Victor Dashkov to Lissa and a bit to Rose, originally. He acts as a parental figure to both, offering advice and kind words, organizing shopping trips, and buying Rose gifts unavailable to her.
** Tasha Ozera is the mother figure to Christian. She raised him herself once his parents were killed. He treats her like his mother and is uncomfortable whenever her love life is discussed.
* In the ''Literature/VillageTales'' novels, the Duke of Taunton is this to his nephews and niece – rather to his sister-in-law's vexation, she being after all their mum, and present, living, and in her right mind. Then again, he ''is'' the duke, ThePatriarch, head of TheClan, and, most importantly, the man whose lands, money, and titles the eldest nephew will presumptively inherit, so....
* In ''Literature/TheWestingGame'', Flora Baumbach acts as this for Turtle, who is treated as TheUnfavorite by her actual mother. [[spoiler:Baumbach's own daughter died years before the story started, and it is heavily implied that Westing paired Flora and Turtle together with the intent of invoking this trope.]]
* In ''Literature/TheWitchesOfKarres'', Captain Pausert fills this roll for Goth and The Leewit while they are sailing with him.
* ''Literature/WolfHall'':
** Thomas Cromwell sometimes thinks back on the late Cardinal Wolsey not just as master and mentor, but as a father. Wolsey certainly treated him with more regard and affection than Walter Cromwell ever did.
** Cromwell ends up as a stand-in father to a lot of people. Initially there's his ward Rafe Sadler, who becomes his right-hand man in court intrigues. His nephew Richard takes the name Cromwell after his own father's death, explicitly saying "you are my father now," and an elderly family friend tells Cromwell to look after his wayward ''adult'' son. Cromwell also steps into this role for his young nieces as their guardian and looks out for their marriage prospects. Also, any poor but intelligent boy in the vicinity of his London home ends up living there (at one point he has a whole choirful of them) because he's mindful of how he went from Putney urchin to King's right hand and is eager to give other young men the same chance.
* In ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', Nellie Dean serves as a parent to the second generation. As both children lost their mothers practically in childbirth, Nellie is the only mother either has ever known.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight raise Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze as their own after Leafpool gives them up; only Squirrelflight and Leafpool know of this until the end of the 3rd series.
** Brindleface fostered Cloudkit, and he loves her just as much as his mother.
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** [=AuRon=] himself was in turn one to Heiba, the orphaned human girl he was tasked with protecting until he could get her back to her own kind, which took long enough that they ended up bonding closely.
* Madame (a.k.a. The Old Lady) in ''Literature/{{Babar}}'' took the role of Babar's mother after he gets lost in Paris, raising him and paying for his education creating a strong bond among them. This is expanded in the animated series.
* In ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'', Claudia's grandmother Mimi was this to both Mary Anne (whose mother died when she was very young) and to Claudia (whose parents are alive but don't really "get" her).
* Subverted in ''Brotherhood of the Rose'', by David Morrell. The two protagonists meet in an orphanage from which they're recruited by CIA chief Elliot, who presents himself as a surrogate father figure. They later discover that Elliot (and other members of his worldwide conspiracy) have done the same thing with other orphans, in order to create a team of EliteMooks who'll obey their orders without question.
* ''Literature/TheBrothersKaramazov'': Fyodor Karamazov cares little for any of his three sons; young Dimitri goes half-naked and unfed until [[OldRetainer Grigory]] steps in and virtually raises him himself; Ivan and Alexei are adopted by their uncle Miusov.
* After her parents go to war in ''Literature/DirgeForPresterJohn'', Sefelet is cared for by Vyala, her mother's friend's mother. They appear to bond more than Sefalet did to her real parents.
* In Creator/JimButcher's ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', this features twice in the orphaned Harry's BackStory. Justin exploited his need for one. Afterward, Ebneazer did a much better job of it; he is still protective of Harry and deploys such tropes as SoProudOfYou.
* In ''Literature/FireAndHemlock'', Pollys grandmother is her parent substitute, as her own parents are in an unhappy marriage and fight a lot.[[spoiler: They divorce later in the novel]] There is also Mr. Lynn and to a lesser extent his friends, who treat Polly more like a friend, but still qualify, as they readily step in when Polly's actual parents neglect her and her grandma is not nearby.
* In Creator/GeneStrattonPorter's ''Literature/{{Freckles}}'', Freckles acquires two: McLean is a father figure, and Mrs. Duncan as a mother figure who assures him that she loves him like a son and weeps over how desperately he needs the affection.
* In Creator/WilliamAlexander's ''Literature/GoblinSecrets'', the children were taken in by Graba.
* In the ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book ''A Night in Terror Tower'', [[spoiler:Morgred the sorceror is set to fill this role for Edward and Susannah when they finally escape into the future to live new lives away from their evil uncle and the High Executioner. As the late, rightful King's court mage, he promised to protect them from harm.]]
* ''Literature/HarryPotter'' is crawling with Parental Substitutes.
** Nearly every adult who has any interaction with Harry is a Parental Substitute They range from mentor/grandfathers like Albus Dumbledore to doting/supportive uncle figures like Sirius Black (who is also his godfather), Remus Lupin and Hagrid. Minerva [=McGonagall=] was the head of his house so there's definitely an element of this trope there. Arthur and Molly Weasley basically became his parents once he got away from the Dursleys. Because this is ''Harry Potter'', [[spoiler:things don't [[DeathByNewberyMedal end well for the first three]]]].
** Harry's friends are not immune either. Neville Longbottom is raised by his grandmother due to his parents having been tortured to madness by Death Eaters. Harry himself also becomes one to Teddy Lupin. Although he seems to be living with his grandmother, he often visits the Potter-family.
** More stories of this are told for reoccurring background characters. Susan Bones seems to have been raised by her aunt as nearly her entire family were killed by Death Eaters.
* In Creator/JohnCWright's ''Literature/TheHermeticMillennia'', Soorm recounts how Asvid became for him the only father he had ever known, and taught him filial piety. [[spoiler:He's lying.]]
* Bush towards the decade-younger Hornblower in the ''Literature/HoratioHornblower'' books, evolved out of a BigBrotherInstinct from early in their careers; he's constantly worrying that his captain isn't getting enough rest or credit or human contact and Hornblower compares him to a mother hen at one point. Not that Bush quite realizes this since he's [[BritishStuffiness Britishly]] out-of-touch with his own emotions.
* Celia and Tam Lin in ''Literature/HouseOfTheScorpion'' who are Matt's caretaker and bodyguard respectively, are pretty much his Parental Substitutes, since being a clone, he has no parents, unless you count his original's parents, which would be technically, but they have been dead for over a century.
* Jim could be seen as this to Literature/HuckleberryFinn, whose own father is a violent and uncaring drunk.
* Haymitch develops this kind of relationship with Katniss and Peeta in ''Literature/TheHungerGames''.
* John Cleaver's therapist in ''Literature/IAmNotASerialKiller'' acts like a father figure for John.
* In Creator/AndreNorton's ''Literature/IceCrown'', the princess was raised by her grandfather. Roane appears to be in her uncle's charge, though he seems more taken with the notion of another pair of hands with less regulation, since she's related.
* In ''Literature/TheInfernalDevices'', Charlotte raised Will, Jem, and Jessie since they came to the institute. Will says that she would have been called a governess had she not been so intelligent and if she didn't have the ability to chop one into pieces.
* ''Literature/JeevesAndWooster'': Since the issue of ManChild Bertie Wooster having parents is never dwelt on, there are plenty of implications that he regards ''[[TheJeeves Jeeves]]'' as something of a father figure. Jeeves, for his part, is often noted to cast a "paternal" eye on Bertie's antics.
* In Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs's ''[[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars The Chessman Of Mars]]'', U-Thor received a slave woman from his jeddak; he freed and married her, and regards the son she bore the jeddak, A-Kor, as like a son to him. When the jeddak, a RoyalBrat, has A-Kor imprisoned out of fear and envy, U-Thor demands an accounting.
-->''I have made of her a free woman, and I have married her and made her thus a princess of Manatos. Her son is my son, O-Tar, and though thou be my jeddak, I say to you that for any harm that befalls A-Kor you shall answer to U-Thor of Manatos.''
** Also, in the earlier books ''Gods of Mars'' and ''Warlord of Mars'' Tars Tarkas, Tardos Mors, and Mors Kajak are implied to have served this role for John Carter's son, Carthoris, after Carter was returned to Earth.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'':
** Nunnal Enaz is a second mother to Kallen Selios because she adopted the girl at a young age and she was already an HonoraryAunt at that point.
** Dengel became a surrogate father to one of his students. He was even father-of-the-bride at her wedding.
* Liz Pennykettle for David Rain in [[Literature/{{Dragons}} The Last Dragon Chronicles]]. Later, it turns out that [[spoiler:she actually is his mother in an parallel universe.]] She even acts as a mother to Zanna at times.
* In ''Literature/TheLightbringerSeries'' Dazen, masquerading as his brother Gavin, takes on the role of father to Kip, who is actually his nephew.
* In ''Literature/ALittlePrincess'', Sara becomes this to Lottie.
* Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'' and ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'' feature many parental substitutes: Bilbo (for Frodo), Théoden (for Éomer, Éowyn and arguably Merry), Elrond (for Aragorn), Maglor (for Elrond and Elros), Annael (for Tuor), Thingol (for Túrin) etc. Maglor's fostering of Elrond and Elros is perhaps especially notable in that Maglor had been (twice, reluctantly) involved in the slaughter of the boys' family before that, and that he had contributed to their mother's attempted suicide...
* In ''Literature/LoyalEnemies'', Rest spent most of his childhood as a poor kid whom nobody wanted to care about, constantly kicked out of every apprenticeship he tried. Then Veres (badass monster hunter MagicKnight) came, said the kid has a magic gift and took him on as his student. At the end of the book another wizard mistakes them for father and son. Rest corrects him, but states that he'd be proud to be Veres' child and he regards the wizard as a substitute parent.
* In ''{{Literature/Malevil}}'', the main character Emmanuel is adopted by his uncle Samuel after he runs away from home. Samuel is far more of a father to Emmanuel then his cowardly, hen-pecked brother Simon ever was.
* ''Literature/{{Mirabile}}'' is set on a recently-established colony world where there are professional parental substitutes, like the protagonist's friend Elly, who make a living raising other people's children alongside their own. The protagonist explains that the "population is still so small we can't afford to lose genes just because someone's not suited, one way or another, for parenting".
* In Teresa Frohock's ''MiserereAnAutumnTale'', Lindsey contrasts Lucian's pride in her to her own father.
* In ''Literature/TheMortalInstruments'', Luke helped raise Clary along with Jocelyn. By ''City of Heavenly Fire'', they're referred to as father and daughter more often than not by themselves and others. In a way, he was sort of a father figure to Simon, too, as the latter's father died when he was younger.
* In Creator/SeananMcGuire's ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' novel ''Late Eclipses'', Toby reflects on how Sylvester has been this to her, despite his failings.
* In Creator/IanFleming's "[[Literature/OctopussyAndTheLivingDaylights Octopussy]]", Literature/JamesBond is sent to take a retired officer to justice. The man, working intelligence at the end of WWII, smuggled a cache of Nazi gold home and killed the mountaineer who had led him up to where it was hidden. It's business for Bond, but it's also [[ItsPersonal personal]], as he'd been a friend to the dead man, who had taught him to ski as a teen before the war, and was "something of a father to me at a time that I happened to need one."
* George serves as this to Lennie in ''Literature/OfMiceAndMen''.
* In ''Literature/PetSematary'', Louis Creed, who lost his father at age three, meets Jud Crandall who becomes a father figure to him when he's an adult.
-->He called this man a friend, as a grown man must do when he finds the man who should have been his father relatively late in life.
* Creator/TamoraPierce: What with her penchant for [[ParentalAbandonment killing off/extremely distant parents]], it only makes sense that...
** Alanna of ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'' first has OldRetainer Coram, who reminds her that he changed her diapers. As a page, she has Myles of Olau, who is ''such'' a good replacement father that he eventually adopts her.
** ''Literature/TheImmortals''' Daine is "mothered" by three different women -- Queen Thayet, K'mir warrior Buri, and horse trainer Onua.
** Kel of ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'' actually has living GoodParents, but obviously they're not around while she's training for knighthood and they're ambassading. Lord Raoul, her knight-master, essentially pulls her through the crappy, 15-18 years. Kel herself becomes a substitute parent to Tobe when she basically adopts him by [[IndenturedServitude buying his indenture]] from an abusive master.
** The four main characters in the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series are raised by two women who, after a time, they refer to as their "foster mothers".
* ''Literature/APrayerForOwenMeany'': Owen's real parents don't take much interest in Owen, so Johnny's mother pretty much takes care of him. [[spoiler: This makes her accidental death at Owen's hands all the more heart breaking.]]
* Halt from ''Literature/RangersApprentice'' is a father-figure to both Will and Horace. It comes up several times in the books that Will and Halt think of each other as father and son. Similarly, Pauline thinks of Alyss as a daughter.
* ''Literature/{{RCN}}'': Given Cordel Leary's frequent absences from the Leary household due to his political activities, Hogg serves as a substitute father for Daniel, teaching him what it means to be a man.
* In ''Literature/TheRedAbbeyChronicles'', girls who newly join the Abbey usually choose a girl who has been there for longer, and follow her around all the time. Apparently, the Sisters do not formally control this, but encourage it by assigning the same duties to both girls. (The Sisters also serve as parental subsitutes, but cannot focus on one girl; only the very young ones have a Sister specifically devoted to caring for them.)
* Oliver to Lionel in Creator/RafaelSabatini's ''Literature/TheSeaHawk''.
* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': Marcia Overstrand is this to Septimus, according to WordOfGod.
* Dr. Montgomery in ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'' is a good example. In ''The Penultimate Peril'', volunteers Kit Snicket and Dewey Denouement answer ''some'' of the Baudelaires' questions and the latter offers to become their guardian. All three of them die.
* In ''Literature/TheShatteredKingdoms'', Lahlil survived an attempt to [[OffingTheOffspring kill her by exposure]] and was taken in by the Nomas people, acquiring some parental substitutes. However, some misapplied Nomas religious practices resulted in her being cursed with an illness, and she realised that at least some of them knew the source of her problem but were unwilling to admit it to her. She left, and didn't stay in touch. As such, she's estranged from both birth and adoptive parents.
* Mrs. Alowo becomes this to her orphaned students in ''Literature/SomeoneElsesWar''.
* [[PlayedForDrama Twisted like most things]] in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''. Sansa Stark is forced to masquerade as [[MagnificentBastard Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish's]] bastard daughter for the sake of her own survival, which would be okay except Littlefinger can't seem to work out if he views Sansa as a daughter or as a [[ReplacementGoldfish younger, more beautiful version]] of the woman he'd loved obsessively since childhood.
** As part of the same scenario, Sansa's cousin Lord Robert Arryn comes to view her as something between a parental substitute (for his late mother Lysa, who was murdered by Littlefinger after marrying her) and a CoolBigSis (since Robert believes that "Alayne" is his stepsister).
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** Running a galactic government and occasionally saving it alongside one's scoundrel husband leaves little time for parenting, as the children of Han Solo and Princess Leia learn. Much of their parenting is done by Leia's longtime friend and aide Winter Celchu.
** C-3PO, in a pinch, makes a surprisingly effective babysitter.
* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'': Dalinar Kholin does this quite a bit. At one point he even claims that everyone under his command is part of his family.
** After his brother's death, he had to act as a father to his nephew, King Elhokar. Part of the problem with Elhokar's reign is that Dalinar coddles him a bit too much, treating him like a child.
** After the climax of the first book, Dalinar starts treating Kaladin as a son, specifically like Adolin. It's just easy to miss because he treats Adolin like a soldier. It comes to a head when Elhokar is mad at Kaladin for [[spoiler:derailing the plan to deal with Sadeas. Elhokar wants him executed, but Dalinar flat-out says that if he tries, he'll make Dalinar an enemy]].
* Jaxon is the closest to a father that Corie and Elisandra have in ''Literature/SummersAtCastleAuburn'', and he tells them all the time how proud their father would be.
* Vikus from ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'' is the closest thing to a parent Luxa has.
* ''Literature/VampireAcademy'':
** Victor Dashkov to Lissa and a bit to Rose, originally. He acts as a parental figure to both, offering advice and kind words, organizing shopping trips, and buying Rose gifts unavailable to her.
** Tasha Ozera is the mother figure to Christian. She raised him herself once his parents were killed. He treats her like his mother and is uncomfortable whenever her love life is discussed.
* In the ''Literature/VillageTales'' novels, the Duke of Taunton is this to his nephews and niece – rather to his sister-in-law's vexation, she being after all their mum, and present, living, and in her right mind. Then again, he ''is'' the duke, ThePatriarch, head of TheClan, and, most importantly, the man whose lands, money, and titles the eldest nephew will presumptively inherit, so....
* In ''Literature/TheWestingGame'', Flora Baumbach acts as this for Turtle, who is treated as TheUnfavorite by her actual mother. [[spoiler:Baumbach's own daughter died years before the story started, and it is heavily implied that Westing paired Flora and Turtle together with the intent of invoking this trope.]]
* In ''Literature/TheWitchesOfKarres'', Captain Pausert fills this roll for Goth and The Leewit while they are sailing with him.
* ''Literature/WolfHall'':
** Thomas Cromwell sometimes thinks back on the late Cardinal Wolsey not just as master and mentor, but as a father. Wolsey certainly treated him with more regard and affection than Walter Cromwell ever did.
** Cromwell ends up as a stand-in father to a lot of people. Initially there's his ward Rafe Sadler, who becomes his right-hand man in court intrigues. His nephew Richard takes the name Cromwell after his own father's death, explicitly saying "you are my father now," and an elderly family friend tells Cromwell to look after his wayward ''adult'' son. Cromwell also steps into this role for his young nieces as their guardian and looks out for their marriage prospects. Also, any poor but intelligent boy in the vicinity of his London home ends up living there (at one point he has a whole choirful of them) because he's mindful of how he went from Putney urchin to King's right hand and is eager to give other young men the same chance.
* In ''Literature/WutheringHeights'', Nellie Dean serves as a parent to the second generation. As both children lost their mothers practically in childbirth, Nellie is the only mother either has ever known.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'':
** Brambleclaw and Squirrelflight raise Hollyleaf, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze as their own after Leafpool gives them up; only Squirrelflight and Leafpool know of this until the end of the 3rd series.
** Brindleface fostered Cloudkit, and he loves her just as much as his mother.
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