Examples of Missing Mom in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- but i wrote the words to the swan song: No direct mention of Carlotta's mother is made and is only briefly hinted at by Roberto's status as a widower who raises his daughter alone.
- Child of the Storm:
- Harry Potter, as per canon, lost his mother when he was a baby (his father too, though since he was the mortal incarnation of Thor, he wasn't actually dead - just amnesiac). As it turned out, though, she actually Ascended to a Higher Plane of Existence as the new White Phoenix of the Crown as part of her bargain with the Phoenix to protect him. So, she's actually Not Quite Dead, and most certainly not gone, but functionally... she's dead. Harry is particularly drawn to anything and everything about her, and as time goes by he's noted to be increasingly like her, even down to aspects of his appearance and mannerisms. It also has knock-on effects, as the lack of a mother means that he becomes very close to his godmother and Parental Substitute, Wanda Maximoff, who loves him like her own.
- Harry Dresden's mother died in childbirth (via a magical curse), and her legacy as both a parent and a very powerful and dangerous witch, has followed him around ever since. It's later revealed in the sequel that she was an apprentice of Doctor Strange, for a while, which directly impacts Dresden's life, as he starts to wonder just how much of his very existence was engineered.
- Children of an Elder God: Shinji and Asuka's mothers died when they were little children, although Asuka was taken in by a foster mother.
- Last Child of Krypton: Shinji and Asuka lost their mothers due to contact experiments with Evangelion Units. Ten years later Shinji found out his mother was the cause of his kryptonian DNA, and Asuka found out during her stay in Paradise Island that her mother got forced to undergo that experiment.
- Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: Asuka's mother dying when she was barely four is the main cause of her pain and her angry, bitter behaviour. Later she finds out Shinji's mother is dead, too.
- Tales of the Otherverse: In the "A New Generation" arc, Cora Zir-El's mother became ill and died when her daughter was a newborn baby.
- In Thousand Shinji, the mothers of Shinji, Asuka, Rei, Touji Hikari... and all his classmates are dead. Shinji suspects that it's not a coincidence, and when he finds out that their mothers were taken from them by SEELE, he's both appalled and homicidally furious.
- Early in Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse, the fledgling Kamikaze Pirates bond over discovering the fact that their mothers are all dead during a game of truth-or-dare.
- married to the flames: The Fire Nation kills any benders that aren't firebenders. Jin's mother was killed because she was an earthbender.
- Kanin of The Tainted Grimoire has never known who her mother is or anything about her, except the fact that she's a Viera, though has at least once expressed the desire too.
- Golden Threads Tie Us: Severa's mother was killed in battle several years before the beginning of the story.Severa sniffled and wiped her eyes with her forearm. She just wanted to know. She wanted the same finality for Father as she and Morgan had received for Mother, no matter how wretched and distant the memory was.
- Five Nights At Freddy's: Lost Souls: Cody and Bridget's mother died some time ago. They still remember her fondly.
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / The Untamed
- While Lan Xichen was motherless in-canon, he is for different reasons in Forget-me-not (don't leave me behind). Namely, while she's still alive, she escaped Cloud Recesses, taking Wangji with her.
- In Dead of Night, Vesser's selkie mother was emotionally distant with him. According to him, she could never decide if she wanted him around or not, so she spent most of her time in the ocean, leaving him in the care of a guy she enchanted into looking after him. When the story starts, she'd also been murdered under extremely suspicious circumstances...
- Happy Tree Friends: Origins states that Handy's mother left him when he was two years old. The story doesn't say anything about what happened to her."His mother left them when he was only 2 so its always really been him and his old man together. He doesn't remember what she looked like or knows what happened to his mom; his father lied to him about his mother and that she just went missing."
- The Ultimate Evil: It's revealed that the mother of the eight Demon Sorcerers disappeared shortly after they reached their full powers and started their conquest of Earth. It's merely stated that she was so horrified by her children's actions that she has probably hidden herself away for the past millennium. The sequel called The Stronger Evil reveals that she's actually the goddess of primordial chaos named Tiamat and that the recently unnatural climatic changes on Earth are a result of her awakening from her slumber. Shendu sets out to find her with Valerie's help, believing that only bonded Others such as them can find her.
- Clash's Revolt: Clash's mother died when she was young, leaving her father to raise her. As a result of this, he spoiled her rotten and turned her into a Daddy's Girl.
- Trying to sort out who and where Ryuuko and Satsuki's mother is in The Outside is a plotpoint, as, due to Satsuki being deemed an unfit guardian, the former gets removed from her care and their father has died. We finally get to meet her in Chapter 27.
- Blind Courage: Zelda's mother Queen Iriana died when she was seven. She had been ill for a while with something that gave her headaches, convulsions, and vision problems. On Zelda's seventh birthday, her mother lost consciousness and died.
- In The Legend of the Princess, Zelda's mother died while on a diplomatic mission to the Gerudo Desert.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Trixie's mother Hope Lulamoon in Actually, I'm Dead, left Trixie on the steps of her old mentors in Neigh Orleans, when she was an infant. It is later revealed that Hope died and was reincarnated as the The Grim Reaper of Travelers.
- In The God Squad:
- Their mother, when Luna was barely a few months old, abandoned them with their older brother Tydal, the gruff God of the Sea and God of War. Luckily, Tydal turned out to be a great father and his wife stepped in a surrogate mother. Still, they reference from time to time that they were abandoned... and they never call Tydal's wife 'mom'.
- Cadence was also abandoned, with Celestia raising her.
- Why Am I Crying? reveals that Diamond Tiara's mother was killed in train accident (while she was pregnant!), Scootaloo's mother walked out on her, and Apple Bloom's is implied to have died giving birth to her. The former was disproved by the episode "Crusaders of the Lost Mark", which shows that Diamond's mother is alive and well.
- Naru-Hina Chronicles: Miho's mother left her in the care of her father, to give Miho a chance to grow up into something other than a berserker warrior.
- Advice and Trust:
- After their First Kiss Shinji tells Asuka his mother died when he was four. Astonished, Asuka reveals her mother died when she was four, too.
- Later Rei reveals to them that she grew up without a mother.
- Hikari's mother is also missing although she felt her when she was stuck inside her Eva.
- The Child of Love: In chapter 2 Shinji convinces Misato to tell him why Asuka dreams about her mother. Misato tells him about Kyoko, her madness, her suicide… how she had a doll she thought was Asuka together with her… and Shinji feels he can understand her at last because he also lost his mother.
- A Crown of Stars:
- Shinji and Asuka lost their mothers when they were barely four. When Daniel tells both pilots he can bring them back and promises to do so, they agree to trust him and go with him.
- Misato's mother passed away twenty years earlier before the beginning of the story, when she was a teenager. When she was told her mother had returned too, she demanded to go to see her right away.
- Hikari's mother was also missing due to SEELE. When she got her back, she barely could believe it.
- Doing It Right This Time: Shinji and Asuka's mothers died when they were children and Rei never knew hers. After returning to the past they know what happened to them, and they try talk to them when they are inside their robots.
- Evangelion 303: During a conversation Shinji reveals to Asuka that his mother died when he was a little kid
and he barely remembers her. Given Asuka's reaction to his history and her own backstory in the original series, her mother also may be dead. - Ghosts of Evangelion: Shinji, Asuka and Misato lost their mothers when they were kids. After a while Shinji finally gets over Yui's death. However, Asuka gets her mother back.
- HERZ: A good number of Shinji and Asuka’s traumas are rooted in having lost their mothers when they were four. In chapter 2 Asuka notes the irony that their mothers were always with them when they piloted their Evas.
- Higher Learning: Asuka and Shinji's mothers died when they were very young. Their teacher Kaoru also lost her mother and grandmother when he was a child, before the beginning of the story.
- Neon Genesis Evangelion: Genocide:
- Both Shinji and Asuka lost their mothers when they were barely four. In chapter 8 they bond over their loss.
- Keiko reveals to Asuka that her mother died when she was a little child.
- The One I Love Is...: In chapter 9, Asuka reveals to Shinji that her mother is dead. Shocked, Shinji realizes she is just like him.
- In Once More With Feeling (Crazy-88), Shinji and Asuka's mothers died when they were barely four. After going back to the past, Shinji knows what really happened to his mother, but Asuka is still unaware of it.
- Scar Tissue: In several scenes Shinji and Asuka argue over how their mothers left them, and wonder about their motives. Both children are quite bitter about it.
- The Second Try: Shinji and Asuka lost their mothers when they were four. When they return to the past and have the chance to talk to their mothers for the first time after so many years, it's a very emotional moment for them.
- Changes: Kim Hall becomes this when she goes missing to her and Don's daughter, Abby, and is later found out to have been killed the same day she disappeared, leaving Don to care for her with the help of his family.
- In Everybody's Gotta Leave Sometime, Peppermint Patty mentions she helped her father pull through after her mother left.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- In Laying Waste To Halloween, Sally Jackson, Percy's mother, isn't around. It is later revealed that she went to prison for attempted murder, even though it was self defense.
- Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has a few.
- Red's mother, Shinku Tajiri. She's confirmed to be deceased by the time of the story, strongly hinted to have died when their house burned down. There's the strong implication that Red might have been the one who accidentally caused it.
- Belladonna Tyrian's mother is absent by via of being imprisoned for child abuse and risk of public health by being a hoarder. Her girlfriend Aurora lost her mother to illness when she was little.
- The Trial Captain from Akala Island, Iolani Pueo, lost her mother to sickness and being poor, but she remembers her as being loving and caring to her.
- A Kalosian trainer named Fitzdane lost his mother when she protected him from an angry mob in his hometown.
- Ma Fille: Katrina's mother Heather died when she was a few months old due to childbirth complications.
- Human After All: Lola's biological mother has been absent in her life because she was sentenced to thirty years for being involved in a massacre.
- Brunswick Arc- The Adel Aka Rewrite gives a backstory for Adam. His mother died of overwork on the farm they lived on. The humans who owned the farm didn't care to help her, so Adam began hating humans.
- In Humble Beginnings it's shown that Zwei's mother and several of his siblings mysteriously disappeared when he was a few days old.
- Little Bird: Robin's mother Leona is killed by Grimm when she's five.
- You and Me (and Everyone in Between): Yang's biological mother Raven has been out of Yang's life for fifteen years. She tried to get custody of Yang after Yang's father Taiyang died, but she lost out in a custody battle with her brother Qrow. Since then, no one has heard from Raven.
- The Missing Mom issue for the Smurfs in Empath: The Luckiest Smurf is explained with The Plague killing off all the parents in Papa Smurf's generation of Smurfs, including Empath's mother.
- Single Parents Night: Cream lost her original two mothers. Her biological mother Vanilla died shortly after birth, while Vanilla's wife died while Vanilla was pregnant.
- The Portal has a young Earth Dragoness named Hope, who got her name because her father said she gave him hope after her mother passed away.
- In chapter 8 of Bait and Switch (STO) Captain Kanril Eleya and Lieutenant Commander Reshek Gaarra are talking about their families, and Gaarra mentions that his mother died when he was two. He was raised by his father and a paternal aunt.
- It's implied in Changing Luck that Jinx being Born Unlucky is why her mother died when she was a baby.
- From the Gensokyo 20XX series, we have Reimu's mother, Reiko. Aside from the sidestories, she generally didn't appear until about Life in Gensokyo Village and remained present through 20XXIII to about 20XXIV, when she died. In the sidestory, The Woman Whose Hair Smelled of Violets, Reimu mentions that, when her training was finished, her mother went away and left her to take over her duties. We find out in the Gensokyo Diaries that she's found her way to the Outside World.
- Better Bones AU: Ripplestar was separated from his mother, Larkstripe, at only four moons old due to Dalestar's plan to discredit the clerics who protested SkyClan's exile, and she dies shortly afterward.
- Quicken: Taylor’s mother Annette died several months before the beginning of the story. Her death comes into play when Emma wants to prove who she is to Taylor, and reminds her of their talks after Annette's death.
