Leia Fee wrote:

I think mums worrying about some unlikely accident befalling their offspring is a common enough cliche, I'm not sure about falling down a cliff specifically.

I remember my mum being constantly wibbling that I could be 'dead under a bus' quite a lot if I didn't call when I was supposed to.

With me it was always 'dead at the bottom of a cliff'. It was a joke between me and my sister. And very usable too in the B7 universe with all their cliffs and quarries; you'd have to replace your bus with something else. ;-)

Though my mother did have a thing about wearing fresh underwear 'in case you're run over by a bus'. There must be something about buses. Anyway, Vila's mum is definitely based on mine, with her worries and attitudes and some expressions, though I think she's a little too Jewish at times to fit B7; I'll have to check for that. I think there's a very non-B7 'already' in there somewhere. She's also nicer to Vila and a lot less critical than my mother - hey, he needs someone on his side!

Nico

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