And Millie! Though I half tend to think of Millie as serving as Christopher's parent, too. Christopher strikes me as the kind of parent who's too busy to really be a good parent, and tries to compensate by being indulgent in some areas("We want a horse!" "I want a bicycle!" *buys a horse and bicycle the next day*), and too focused on some others.

Though it often works well, the way so much fiction gravitates towards authority in general and parents especially (part of why I have problems with a lot of kdramas and shoujo) as forces to be overcome doesn't sit well with me a lot of the time.