History VideoGame / MyChildLebensborn

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: As the game is ultimately an interactive story, nothing is keeping the player from being anything from neglectful to outright abusive as a parent. While it's easy to fall into both by accident because of the limited resources, it's also possible to choose bad options ''knowing'' they are bad or just because they are there.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: The child being half-German is enough for the community to consider them to be German and take any resentement towards UsefulNotes/NaziGermany out on them.

* Downplayed. The child is seven in the game, and thus the best they can do as far as finding their biological relatives is to ask the PlayerCharacter to do it. The player can conduct the search in the child’s behalf, state that they’ll do so when the child is older, or refuse outright.

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: One instance of getting bullied results in the child not being home at their usual bedtime and the player using the "early night" time unit (the one that can be used on a bedtime story) to find where the child is and bring them home. This means that the child isn't home in the evening either, which the actual player may pick up on as worrying in itself. Unfortunately, the game will only allow for a trip to the store until the evening's time units have been spent and wait for the child's usual bedtime to allow the player to select the child's location when going outside. This concretely means the PlayerCharacter is either doing chores or ''doing noting but waiting'' (if the time units are skipped) for the entire evening. In the end, the child is found [[spoiler:having been tied to a tree by their classmates for several hours]].

* SuperBreedingProgram: The game is about caring for a child born to the most (in)famous case of selectively breeding human beings in recent history, so the Lebensborn program from the title gets a few mentions.

* VideoGameCrueltyPotential: As the game is ultimately an interactive story, noting is keeping the player from being anything from neglectful to outright abusive as a parent. While it's easy to fall into both by accident because of the limited resources, it's also possible to choose bad options ''knowing'' they are bad or just because they are there.

** "SinsOfOurFathers: The Video Game" would almost be a viable alternative title for the game. The main motivation behind the bullying undergone by the child is resentment towards things ''their parents'' did. Their father for being part of an occupying force, their mother for beign in a relationship with him.

* PurelyAestheticGender: Caring for Klaus or Karin doesn't bring any change to gameplay or story. The most visible change to the story induced by the child's gender is what happens during the child's encounter with verbally hostile stranger in late Febuary: Klaus will be told he has "traitor-blood", while Karin will be called a "whore like [her] mother".

* AbandonedWarChild: Karin and Klaus were born to a German Soldier and a Norwegian woman during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII. They have been abandonned by both by the time the game starts.

** The journal mentions that the child's mother may have abandonned them simply because of how badly women who had been in a relationship with a German soldier were treated right after the war, which included being publicly humiliated and getting fired from their jobs. [[spoiler:The mother eventually comes around just enough to inform the PlayerCharacter that her parents have some information about the child's father.]]

* TimeSkip: The game covers strings of consecuitive days between which days to weeks can be skipped at a time.

* NotSoDifferentRemark: One journal entry points out that both the Germans who valued the child and the Norwegians who are ostracizing the child are both thinking of genes the same way, one group thinking those carried by the child are inherently good and another considering them inherently bad.

** "SinsOfOurFathers: The Video Game" would alsmost be a viable alternative title for the game. The main motivation behind the bullying undergone by the child is resentment towards things ''their parents'' did. Their father for being part of an occupying force, their mother for beign in a relationship with him.

* DarkReprise: The game's main theme has a darker variant that plays during long-drawn events that are very hard on the child, such as [[spoiler:the meeting with their Norwegian granparents and aunt]] and the night on which [[spoiler:the are not home at their bedtime because bullies left them tied to a tree]].

** A later entry about the punishments mentions that those women goat harsher punishments than people who had formally worked UsefulNotes/NaziGermany or profited from it presence. One of the possible reasons for the harsh punishment offered by the entry is people considering the women "belonged" to Norwegians and feeling betrayed because they chose German soldiers ''instead of local men''.

* KidsAreCruel: The bullying of the child first comes from their classmates, who, on their own, eventually go as far as [[spoiler:tying the child to a tree and just leaving them there]]. In fact, the PlayerCharacter won't relize that the adults are just as bad until the aftermath of the backpack/schoolbooks damaging incident.

** Liv can't come visit for the child's birthday because she's visiting her aunt elsewere. The child turning out to have and aunt on their biological mother's side allows for one of the steps towards getting in contact with their biological father.

** One of the newspaper articles mentions two possible forms of adoption, with inheritance rights being noted as one of the differences between the two. [[spoiler:The child's deceased German grandparents turn out to have set some money aside for them. Enough for the them and the PlayerCharacter to move out of town and start fresh somewhere else.]]

** One of the child's possible comments about the mail is that ''they'' never get any. [[spoiler:Liv's reaction to the ExcrementStatement incident and request to be friends again]] is conveyed via a letter intended for the child.

** One of the newspaper articles about the King's upcoming visit mentions that it will be to the delight to all local children. [[spoiler:Just like with the parade, the child will sneak out in the early morning to catch a glimpse of the King whether whether the PlayerCharacter permits it or not]].
** The child only ever gives details about the circumstances in which they had detention on the first day, on which they mention having caught up with the school work they missed during their impromptu mental health days if sked if they managed to do so. After that, they complain either about Mr. Solheim being mean or just not liking detention. [[spoiler:It turns out Mr. Solheim is doing things he really shouldn't to the child.]]

** The train station seen when going outside eventually gets used to [[spoiler:visit the child's Norwegian grandparent's and for leaving town forever at the end of the game]].

** Helping the child study doesn't actually use up a time unit, despite the fact that not having the time can be used as an excuse to not do it. In cases where the study session can be missed entirely by doing overtime at the factory, the game reward the player for being present at the house during the evening at all.

* ExcrementStatement: The bullying against the child eventually escalates to the "urinating on the person" variant. [[spoiler:It's started by Mr. Solheim who even goads some of the students into it]].

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: One instance of gettin bullied results in the child not being home at their usual bedtime and the player using the "early night" time unit (the one that can be used on a bedtime story) to find where the child is and bring them home. This means that the child isn't home in the evening either, which the actual player may pick up on as worrying in itself. Unfortunately, the game will only allow for a trip to the store until the evening's time units have been spent and wait for the child's usual bedtime to allow the player to select the child's location when going outside. This concretely means the PlayerCharacter is either doing chores or ''doing noting but waiting'' (if the time units are skipped) for the entire evening. In the end, the child is found [[spoiler:having been tied to a tree by their classmates for several hours]].

** The journal entry added in response to finding out that the child's father is a baker includes a comment according to which the child must take after their father because they enjoy baking. It's entirely possible to get to that point of the game with the only cake ever baked being the child's birthday cake, which is used for the cooking ''tutorial''.

* StupidityIsTheOnlyOption: One instance of bullying results in the child not being home at their usual bedtime and the player using the "early night" time unit (the one that can be used on a bedtime story) to find where the child is and bring them home. This means that the child isn't home in the evening either, which the actual player may pick up on as worrying in itself. Unfortunately, the game will only allow for a trip to the store until the evening's time units have been spent and wait for the child's usual bedtime to allow the player to select the child's location when going outside. This concretely means the PlayerCharacter is either doing chores or ''doing noting but waiting'' (if the time units are skipped) for the entire evening. In the end, the child is found [[spoiler:having been tied to a tree by their classmates for several hours]].