the moominvalley crew is obviously preparing something for joxter because there’s no way in hell that they omitted his presence in moominpappa’s play of his memoirs accidentally or, that we got the camera shifting to snufkin unintentionally after too ticky told moomin to keep listening to lost souls (a concept easily tied to neglected children).
like for snufkin, the theme of his dad (his parents in general but i guess his dad is little a more on the edge) is an extremely sensible one.
In Comet in Moomivalley, when he was asked if he had a home or a mother, he denied sadly both questions and say that someone (we had no idea about who) told him he was found in a basket (and snufkin was promptly compared to Moses by sniff, a fact i will never let go because it made me laugh and ‘cause maybe, just maybe, it means that Snufkin wasn’t abandoned on negligence but more on necessity to protect him or they simply lost him on dire circumstances, but its a super maybe so dont get your hopes up).
That means that not even the mymble, his mom, could take care of him for enough time for Snufkin to remember her. We start forming memories from around the age of 3-4, so she probably lost/abandoned/had to give away snufkin before that.
In The Exploits of Moominpappa, Snufkin is especially interested in his dad, was even more insistent and emotional about it than Sniff, whose parents were lost too. He made Moominpappa promise to write the truth and no more than the truth about the joxter (and before that, snufkin was fascinated at the fact that they both hated park keepers lmao). So sensible he is about it, that before he knew his mother was the mymble, he was curious as if the joxter liked her more than him (pappa immediately told him that the joxter did not know him but that if he had, he would have like snufkin a lot and gifted him something that the joxter loved, good ol’ moominpappa).
The question of snufkin’s origins has never been answered with complete exactitude and the little hint that the moominvalley crew apparently wants to answer it is very freaking good and scary at the same time and maybe am i overanalyzing? idc lmao
