This has been said already, but I agree: the mother is a key element of a child's life (as is the father). Losing the mother is a way of introducing an insecurity or some other such character trait. Or it could help with a story in which a child was raised by merely one abusive father, which caused them to be meek and submissive, generally. Then, they can have the basic quiet, weak-seeming character type that really has a strong heart that can be called upon to partake in an amazing quest with wild adventures (and I am beginning to sound like a book jacket)...
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"I think we dream so we don't have to be apart so long. If we're in each others dreams, we can be together all the time." - Hobbes of Calvin and Hobbes
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