...and all of that is why we can spin so many different stories about his childhood, because what is known is sketchy, at best. It takes a skilled writer with a deft hand to make it believable, but considering what we have to go on...there's room for almost anything :)
There is mythos that runs through a lot of SK that talks about how put upon Lord Fluffy was. It had been revised after SessMom was introduced. In the old mythos his father had run off from his mom and then his mom had died. In the new one he just ran off leaving SessMom to raise Fluffy. Fluffy was supposed to have our sympathy because his father had deserted him.
LOL, well Sesshoumaru has to be put upon so he can be redeemed, no? :P
SessMom's existence certainly throws a wrench into the works; from her appearance in the manga it's obvious she holds little to no resentment for her partner/mate/husband. It seems that if she knows of Inuyasha's existence, she doesn't care. Her feelings on how he came into being are also unknown, as that was not the point of her appearance in the manga.
It's easy to make her into a bitch or some put upon spineless housefrau, but I at least attempt to give her some sort of personality when I write her. I think Sess gets a lot of his personality from her, actually, the cold, snarky, possibly vindictive side.
The only thing we know about Inuyasha is that he never knew his father and has no feeling one way or another about him. All we know about his mother is that she died when he was young, that he was ashamed of her because she was human and that he did love her. She does appear to be wearing some very fancy kimonos suggesting that she was of high rank.
Indeed, I tend to go with the fanon notion that she was a high-ranking hime. I almost wrote the scene where Sesshoumaru discovers his father's secret with Inuyasha as a toddler, but figured that *might* be pushing things just a bit :P
Sesshoumaru does not seem to hate Inuyasha though he does look down upon him because he is a hanyou.
I think he resents Inuyasha, because he sees him as being unworthy of the gifts their father has bestowed upon him - and Inuyasha seems ungrateful/uncaring about things that Sesshoumaru would value as lucky or impressive. Depending on how deep you think he can feel, that resentment might have fueled the original hatred seen as they fight over the sword.
They both recognize each other when they meet in the manga.
And there's a fanon convention that Sesshoumaru raised Inuyasha for a small portion of his life, straight after the death of both of his parents. *shrug*
All these different notions are out there, take it or leave it. I like to spin the story from a certain angle for whatever reason (prompt, inspiration, whim), even if the end goal is just to have a fresh perspective on one or more of the characters :)
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There is mythos that runs through a lot of SK that talks about how put upon Lord Fluffy was. It had been revised after SessMom was introduced. In the old mythos his father had run off from his mom and then his mom had died. In the new one he just ran off leaving SessMom to raise Fluffy. Fluffy was supposed to have our sympathy because his father had deserted him.
LOL, well Sesshoumaru has to be put upon so he can be redeemed, no? :P
SessMom's existence certainly throws a wrench into the works; from her appearance in the manga it's obvious she holds little to no resentment for her partner/mate/husband. It seems that if she knows of Inuyasha's existence, she doesn't care. Her feelings on how he came into being are also unknown, as that was not the point of her appearance in the manga.
It's easy to make her into a bitch or some put upon spineless housefrau, but I at least attempt to give her some sort of personality when I write her. I think Sess gets a lot of his personality from her, actually, the cold, snarky, possibly vindictive side.
The only thing we know about Inuyasha is that he never knew his father and has no feeling one way or another about him. All we know about his mother is that she died when he was young, that he was ashamed of her because she was human and that he did love her. She does appear to be wearing some very fancy kimonos suggesting that she was of high rank.
Indeed, I tend to go with the fanon notion that she was a high-ranking hime. I almost wrote the scene where Sesshoumaru discovers his father's secret with Inuyasha as a toddler, but figured that *might* be pushing things just a bit :P
Sesshoumaru does not seem to hate Inuyasha though he does look down upon him because he is a hanyou.
I think he resents Inuyasha, because he sees him as being unworthy of the gifts their father has bestowed upon him - and Inuyasha seems ungrateful/uncaring about things that Sesshoumaru would value as lucky or impressive. Depending on how deep you think he can feel, that resentment might have fueled the original hatred seen as they fight over the sword.
They both recognize each other when they meet in the manga.
And there's a fanon convention that Sesshoumaru raised Inuyasha for a small portion of his life, straight after the death of both of his parents. *shrug*
All these different notions are out there, take it or leave it. I like to spin the story from a certain angle for whatever reason (prompt, inspiration, whim), even if the end goal is just to have a fresh perspective on one or more of the characters :)