Vise doesn’t understand mothers and fathers? How much does he not understand? Cuz, like, there have to be SOME parents in the Mantis tribe, right? Surely there are moms and dads in the village?

He understands functionally what a mother and father are, but has no emotional attachment or personal experience with the concepts. He's an orphan, his memories of his earliest days are a haze of Infection, and he spent his formative years in the Gardens, often alone but occasionally with Hornet and Hollow and (to a much lesser extent) the Lady, none of whom were parental towards him. As a young…