For real, that's total fanon. Mark's depression, Vicky's power fucking with people and her general recklessness, Amy's weird temptations and code and martyr complex, it does not make for a healthy family. Super Mom might manage all that AND putting food on the table AND handling legal shit for her team, but Carol is as flawed as the rest of the family.
People blame her for her family's craziness like she drove Mark to depression or forced a martyr complex on Amy or made Vicky a brat, but there's no real indication in canon that's true. You could blame Vicky as easily as Carol for all that, in fanon some do.
She's part of the reason for sure, and handled Amy badly, but far from the whole reason her family's messed up.
This is whitewashing a problem.
You can't lay the blame for Mark's depression on her. That was caused by his own mind and the parasite in his head and more.
You can't blame Vicky because with everything she ended up doing that was wrong, the fault lies with her parent. The one who encouraged her, trained her, and gave her free reign.
Further, canon is written from the perspective of Unreliable Narrator. From the mind of her daughter in terms of Ward. Expecting ANYTHING said in it about stuff close to the heart like the problems Carol caused is the blindness of a child to her parent.
Looking outside the box, and looking from the events as a whole as written, it shows Carol to be a toxic personality type from deep seeded emotional trauma she refused to receive treatment for. And being kidnapped as a teenager and made to grow up with Parahuman issues alone was enough to exacerbate it.
Carol's neglect causing the emotional instability in Vicky strong enough to cause her Trigger event after being fouled in a basketball game. Because she, once again, was a disappointment to the mother she desperately wanted to make proud of her.
Carol's abusive relationship as a whole with Amy. And not even going to go into detail because the Dallon family is one of the touchiest subjects in all of Worm because of how BADLY Wildbow wrote it.
Carol's neglect of her husband to the point where she was not getting him the help he needs. Because he was safe if he was just a depressed lump.
Carol is a bag of neurosis in the body of an attractive lady.
Further, there is the very fact that she is the Adult. And she failed so badly at raising two children it caused all the bullshit in canon.
Parents are responsible for their children. And blaming the children for their failings when they are children when the parents failed to help correct and guide the issue and, in fact, caused a majority of the issues is nothing but whitewashing and shifting blame.
Calling it 'fanon' and dismissing it out of hand because its someone's opinion of a badly written, toxic household in a story that had so many issues it has black holes for plotholes.
In the end, Carol Dallon is a broken doll that never got better. And everything about the actions of canon agrees with that.
