Fathers
Posted by Prior_Recipe_5999@reddit | xena | View on Reddit | 7 comments
S1e20 maybe I'm remembering wrong but didn't xena say in Hercules that both her father and brother died in battle unless she just means he's dead to her or it's a retcon or I'm trippin idk
Medium_War6594@reddit
She has a brother Lyceus (?) who died fighting Cortez. She had a brother Taurus who disappeared from the lore
koiivy@reddit
Yes, she tells Iolaus that her father and “all three of her brothers” died in battle. But she was lying constantly to manipulate Iolaus so I think she just said anything she had to get him on her side.
Prior_Recipe_5999@reddit (OP)
I always thought she used the truth to make herself more sympathetic which is a bigger manipulation imo
koiivy@reddit
I guess it was a blend of both. In those days she definitely lied a lot. Probably as a way of protecting herself. She was giving so much of her time, fighting spirit, and even body to her mission. So I think she wanted to hold back on the matters of her soul, such as her family.
She has very deep traumatic wounds with her family and most likely would never want to expose them.
Prior_Recipe_5999@reddit (OP)
Fair
AvocadoPizzaCat@reddit
xena's past is very confusing. her father was a warrior and her mother said he wandered off to battle but she killed him. but there is also a possibility that wasn't even her father but some god was her father. xena doesn't really question it much after the whole "mom killed dad but dad might not be dad." situation think she felt her life was too complicated to care.
larinyan@reddit
As her father was a warrior and one day que didn’t come home, I think she imagined he died in battle until the s03e01, when she finds that >! her mother killed her father when he decided to sacrifice her to Ares. !< Her younger bother indeed died when Cortese attacked her village. Her older brother is pretty much alive.