Oh God, they're both perfect. Zephiel's childhood is an infamous mess, and Cori would definitely give Brunya a crapton of angst. Dead father, abusive mother, no siblings. She latched onto Zephiel as her True Love because OMG THEY SUFFERED THE SAME WAY.

And Jaffar never knew his parents so he'd be weeping at Nino all "omg did we make the same mistakes by leaving our kids in Araphen?!!?!", but Nino would reassure him that it was only temporary and they'd be back. Or Cori might retcon them into never having gone away at all! Rei and Lugh were just at the orphanage visiting the poor little kiddies!