Discussion Dead mothers and missing fathers

Is it just me, or in a lot of novels(and manga), the protagonist has a dead mother and missing father?(like fullmetal alchemist and attack on titan)

other bl novels I've read are similar too, like Legendary Master's wife and daily task of preventing disciple from turning to the dark side.

I'm choosing not to mention het novels or novels with female leads because all I remember is the parents dying altogether and scumbag relatives.

1.) why do so many people have such settings in their book?
2.) Do they want their parents to die?
3.) Do you think a novel centering around the thread title would be a good read?

 

It is easier to write a story without parents and siblings.

 

Maybe it's dead parents making the MC more independent. I could probably name a dozen manga like that off the top of my head. I remember almost no one having a mother in Bleach.

 

You gain 2 possible plot points

 

it's very prevalent in western YA novels as well.

 

It's true, and it's the easiest way to get a story going and to give mysterious background to characters or an explanation as to why they're personality is so and so.

 

Easy fighting drive. Higher moral standing when MC decide to kill the relatives. Negate any abnormal finding surrounding the MC. Manage to skip 3 stage in week, must be because of the MC will to avenge his parents not because the mysterious ring that have an old man voice.

 

It’s easier, most novels garnered towards young adults have to have an independent character, and things become more complicated and harder to do and work around if the kid didn’t start off already alone and independent.

Parents would drag the story out and make it become boring as the kid struggles to earn his parents approval and all this crap which is honesty boring if you’re looking for something good.

 

that's... really logical...

 

Hentai

 

This pretty much summarize it

 

Thank you.

 

then she died. leading to mc going on a journey.

hence, dead mother, missing father.

 

two trope at once ya know
mysterious and tragic background

cliche thing on rpg game
or
the author not have become a parent yet so dunno what will parent with cheat plot armour child teach them
also family seem not important factor on such story so who cares
at best it can used for reason mc need to level up