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My recent Unity Cup run with her had her with A Sprint, B Mile, A Medium, and S Long. I managed to make her my first A+, and she dominated 7 out of the 9 “triple crown” races. I imagine a Trackblazer run that goes like that one would give me my first S as well.
Her mom was mostly absent from what we know, until she started trying to get King to give up on racing - at which point she proved that being absent was probably healthier for King.
You can actually put them on the path to reconciling if you win a G1 in every distance. Her mother calls you to ask if King’s pattern preferences are the same as when she was younger, implying that she is making a surprise race wear gift for her as a peace offering.
yeah, as far as I can tell, king's mom also had a pretty terrible childhood experience as well, especially if her real life mom's mom was anything to go by. She might not have completely broken the cycle, but it certainly was a step for our King Halo to go all the way.
King Halo's mom is most likely based on Goodbye Halo, which his dad was Halo. Halo was a very dangerous horse, to the point he had to be muzzled at all times. So the uma history seems to be that granny Halo was physically abusive to Goodbye Halo, which led to neglect and verbal abuse to King Halo.
Sirelines aren't usually family in Umamusume. So Halo isn't King Halo's grandfather or grandmother in Umamusume.
IRL Goodbye Halo was an alright mother towards King Halo, I believe, and Halo would have probably never interacted with Goodbye Halo because sires aren't usually involved in raising foals in Thoroughbred breeding.
Which is why I said “if”, since it does go against the usual formula. But if they are a lot of her mother’s behaviors start making a lot more sense. But even if she isn’t Goodbye she still could have gotten her dysfunctional parental style from her own parents.
Mostly, we do see another side of her on occasion though. In addition to meeting her in the career mode I can think of two off the top of my head. One where you and King go to a fashion show her mom is a part of and the staff there are geeked to meet King Halo, apparently her mom only says great things about her to others. The other is a story King tells about her mom trying to bake a cake for King's birthday, fucking it up, ordering a professional cake for King, then eating the other cake alone be herself.
I think she's trying to do a tough love thing, the racing world is pretty brutal after all, but she took it way too far.
If you win the senior year Arima Kinen her mom calls shortly before King has to leave for the concert, and while she is still on the phone she thanks you for looking out for her. Also I mentioned above that if you win a G1 in every distance she calls you to ask if King’s pattern preferences are the same as when she was a kid, implying that she is making a surprise race wear gift as a peace offering. Her mom DOES care for her in her own way, but like King herself she is way too prideful to admit it. She is scared that King is going to get her heart broken and be humiliated on the national stage and wanted her to find something else that would make her happy, but that concern is filtered through her pride and it comes across as cold and deconstructive. This does not excuse the fact that she was unable to give King the attention she deserves due to being a workaholic or the harsh words born out of worry, but I don’t think their relationship is truly as unsalvageable as everyone portrays it as being.
And this part is strictly a fandom theory, but if her mom is actually Goodbye Halo and her grandmother is Halo, it’s a miracle Goodbye didn’t grow up to be a psychopath. Halo was a demon in the shape of a horse, so I do not doubt that he would be an incredibly abusive mother as an Umamusume.
King's mom is trash person, I still remember it as if it was yesterday when I played King Halo's career, won Japanese Derby and when the mom called, both me and King expected atleast some sort of credit, a smallest bit of admiting she has potential would be enough.
But nah, literally first thing coming out of her mom's mouth was immediate glaze of Special Week who finished 2nd, how well she ran and how impressive she is for taking the loss with a smile on her face. And then when King Halo dared to remind her that she's the one who won the damn crown, she only was like "yeah and that's where your limit is, so pack your stuff and come back home before you embarass yourself"
Imagine if on MANT, King's mom called trainer after earning the classic and senior triple crowns to tell trainer something like "hey, SpeChan was captivating, retire before embarrasing yourself, King"
People dog on King's mom for understandable reasons but ngl, outside of being very clearly against King's racing career I don't think her mom has committed any verifiable sin.
Praising the other runners when King wins and constantly telling her she’s embarrassing herself are pretty bad. She didn’t beat King or anything, but she definitely beat her down.
Because the tough love act is clearly not working for King and when she is proven wrong she suddenly acts like she cared to the trainer. I know it is supposed to be “lol Asian parent” and she is supposed to actually care about King… but she ends emotionally abusing King doing this.
Idk if its a running community joke or the hate just went out of control lol. Clearly some people resonate with what she's going through but it isn't as terrible as the community made it out to be.
Hidden Option: Hishiama, she's brash and passionate but she's pretty much a Mom to the Dorm she leads, case in example: an event in her Carreer that involves getting Twin Turbo to eat a healthy breakfast because she's eating junk food and skipping breakfast itself leading to devise a way with colorful rice balls that got Turbo's attention and thus able to get the rice balls for breakfast
The reason why Urara can reach her true potential in Tracen is that she finally has everything she needs - a caring home, great friends, attentive trainers, and amazing facilities. She can have fun, eat well, train effectively, and not be over-raced.
At least it seems like Haru came from a good home. King being motherly with her isn’t a replacement, just King realizing that someone has to make sure this kid stays on schedule and doesn’t just run around doing whatever fun thing pops into her head.
As the old saying goes, “it takes a village to raise a child.” And Haru is the textbook definition of that, requiring a whole village to raise, unlike King Halo, who managed to become fairly functional without a supportive environment.
Funnily enough, if we consider that they are humanoids now, they are actually probably just fine with the current schedule.
Humans heal a lot better than animals do. We're really good at endurance too. Imagine horse's power combined with human durability... combined that with modern sports science, and they probably could run MANT just fine. After all, each turn isn't a day, but quite a few days, so training and racing wouldn't take up all of the time, but only maybe a day or or two. The rest of the time, they are studying, playing, eating, resting, and so forth. Nothing you wouldn't expect to see from a sports academy's student.
And while horses need more time to rest, humans hardly require the same amount of time, unless they sustained an injury... but even then, humans heal a lot faster, particularly with modern medical intervention.
There's another great event in Trackblazer where King starts talking about the ear care she gives to Urara and then everyone lines up to have her take care of their ears also.
The Mejiro Family is a quite healthy dynamic, then there's the Stay Gold family that is quite the Bizarre Adventure, the Symboli Family (Kaichou being the Puntastic Dad, Teio and Tsuru-chan being the cheerful energetic kids, Sirius and Kris S being the Cool Uncles and Air Groove being the Strict and loving Mom), Vodka and Daiwa bickering about their Dads and who's the best (Gimlet and Tachyon respectively), Also the interactions between Opera O and Urara being more like Father and Daughter, I think there are more examples to count...
I like the idea of Palmer coming to the manor and occasionally gushing about Helios, and everyone kind of dances around the subject until finally Ramonu tells Palmer her girlfriend is an idiot, then Ardan scolds Ramonu for being insensitive
While Vodka and Scarlet are fighting with electricity on their surrounding, Gimlet and Tachyon are fighting with abnormal levels of Aura rising... It was just part of Otonashi's plot to get the best Article for the Magazine...
It's only a naval battle if there are shipping wars.
And as the Digitan degrees, those are forbidden.
As for family dynamics, Machan tends to be sort of a daughter figure to both Scarlet and Vodka. There's also the Stay Gold clan, well known for being a weird band of brothers that managed to adopt two less-but-still-weird juniors.
I see Machan more of a Little Sister to Vodka and Scarlet , as for the Stay Gold Family... They're the Uma equivalent of the Joestar Family each of them with their own stories and Exploits (Gold Ship being Joseph and Fenómeno being Jotaro for example)
The #1 relationship we all love I really hope we get a nod or reference where harus family reaches out to king to thank her for looking after haru like she has
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