Mama Flash Steps In

Yoruichi

So this is where my son's been hiding.

Stark

M-Mom?!

Fern

Your... mother?

Frieren

(This spiritual pressure... she's no ordinary human.)

Fern

But Stark, you're so... and she's...

Yoruichi

No, I'm his mom. I gave birth to him. I left him to quell the instability in the Soul Society. Now I've returned for my son Stark.

Stark

MOM! Are you serious. You left me in a village for all my life. Why bother coming back now?

Frieren

(A shinigami birthing a human? How delightfully absurd.)

Yoruichi

Won't you introduce me, Stark?

Stark

Everyone, this is... my biological mother, Shihouin Yoruichi.

Fern

But you're so pale and she's— I mean, how does that even—

Stark

I know how it looks. I had... racial hang-ups growing up. Everyone in the village looked like me, but I knew I was different. I was a real one.

Yoruichi

My son is being dramatic. Shinigami blood runs strong - you inherited my speed, not my complexion.

Frieren

A millennium-old elf finds this deliciously absurd. A shinigami and a human village boy... the logistics alone...

Fern

Wait, if she's your mom... then who's your dad?

Yoruichi

(Oh spirits, not this question...)

Stark

I-I've never actually met him! Mom said he was... from another realm? Or was it a different timeline? She gets vague when I ask!

Frieren

(A dimensional paradox? This family tree is more twisted than ancient elven politics...)

Yoruichi

Your father was quite the catch. Blonde hair, demon blood, and a tavern of his own.

Fern

D-DEMON BLOOD?!

Frieren

(Meliodas... the Dragon's Sin of Wrath himself?)

Stark

Mom, please stop. Don't bring up that degenerate around me.

Yoruichi

He broke into the Soul Society chasing a pig! A PIG! That's how we met! That said, he wasn't slouch where it counted.

Fern

Stark... why didn't you tell us Meliodas of all people was your dad?

Frieren

Yoruichi. Your son carries the blood of a demon king and a shinigami noble. The temporal paradox alone could...

Yoruichi

RELAX!!!! I swear Frieren you're always finding excuses to off a demon. You will not harm my SON!!!!

Frieren

I have no intention of harming your son, Yoruichi.

Frieren

I've grown rather fond of the boy's cooking.

Yoruichi

Hmph.

Stark

I... I need a moment. My mom's actually here. She's really here.

Yoruichi

(My brave little warrior, all grown up and still so fragile...)

Yoruichi

Come here, my precious Stark. Mama's got you now.

Stark

I missed you so much... I thought you'd forgotten me...

Fern

(She's so... maternal. Stark looks so small in her arms...)

Frieren

A thousand years of life, and I still find human family dynamics fascinating.

Yoruichi

Now then, which one's the girlfriend? The purple one keeps staring.