Riddle’s Parents

Riddle has voice lines of “I read that the Queen of Hearts had a very amicable marriage. If there’s a secret to that, I wish I could share it with my parents,” and “What a grandiose wedding that was. I wonder if my parents’ wedding was like that…no, I can’t imagine it,” but that is maybe all the information on what the relationship between his father and mother might be. 

In Riddle’s dream his parents are no medical mages but, instead, a stay-at-home mom and a novelist, both magicless.

According to Idia, Riddle might have been incapable of imagining a nice version of his mother beyond her voice, which might be why his mother never physically appears. 

Riddle’s father also never appears, but he also never speaks. If Riddle’s kind, stay-at-home mother who would bake him cookies is the opposite of his real-life mother, was the novelist who was always in his study and available to read Riddle a story whenever he wished the opposite of his real-life father?

Riddle is an only child.

When asked what he aspires to be in the future Riddle responds, “A…medical mage, I suppose,” explaining that both his parents are medical mages and have raised I’m from childhood to follow in their footsteps: “Over and over, they’d tell me: ‘When you grow up, you’ll be just like us, Riddle!’ I took that as a given and never even considered other options.”

But, Riddle says, he has taken an interested in the legal profession since becoming Housewarden of Heartslabyul, and has started reading books about judicial topics as well, though “before coming to Night Raven College, (he) never would’ve imagined (himself) entertaining the idea of a career path outside of medical magic.”

When asked why he didn’t skip any grades in school despite his academic achievements Riddle says that, in addition to the fact that “grade-skipping isn’t really done in the Queendom of Roses” and how the private school he attended before NRC also did not allow it, one must be at least 24 years of age in order to get a medical license where he is from. It seems that, as a medical license is his parents’ goal for him, they did not see “much point in (him) skipping a grade or two.”

After explaining his growing interested in the law to Azul, Azul recommends that he get licensed in every field that interests him: “You could easily be a doctor, a judge, a lawyer…even a magic marshal or part of the Arcane Response Unit.”

Later Azul says, “When you cross a bridge, you have to pay a toll. One has to make sacrifices to make their dreams a reality,” which seems to resonate with Riddle.