[Menarker]

Retarded how? Paranoid perhaps. Over-protective, sure! Retarded, no.

They figured that Renny was mostly going to be an officer fighting trainers and rogue pokemons in general and that PATCA was just "weird" and "unconvential". Now they find out he's effectively fighting terrorists, soldiers ready to kill and futuristic assassins (although the news report was INCORRECT about how the chief died.)

It's pretty like how Lola said the dangers they are facing are much higher than what their job description is supposed to entail.

But further more, they are also upset at Renny because he didn't tell them anything about that. Granted, it was fairly recent, since for almost the entire length of the RP, Renny had always been split up so he'd fight pokebrids and trainers in general. It was that other mission where Faynoc kidnapped Myrie where Renny found out otherwise. And instead of talking with them about it, he goes and pokebrid in secret, goes into a mission which was just bad timing (They are skeptical that Renny is THAT important that the mission would have possibly failed without him, especially since he arrived late) and after the mission is over, he effectively loses a battle against someone who merely lets him lives. They think his way of jumping into battle is going to get himself killed, as if it was some sort of game or that because he feels young, he'd feel he's invincible. (Renny is smarter than that, but he doesn't behave like a typical youth anyhow. His parents are behaving as if he was, which is RATIONAL.)

They are very much justified in feeling the way they do using information that is MOSTLY accurate (even Renny is unaware how the chief really died), for someone their only child who is underaged and is yet jumping into soldier status with some pretty questionable behaviors like leaving for a mission right after surgery. They also were part of the battles first hand in Renny's sidequest, so they know it can get pretty dangerous (blame "refuge in audicity" for why it didn't occur to them since PATCA did save their life and all while being "silly about it" like stripping in combat.)

Moving out is a bit much, but frankly, they didn't expect Honmyr to be as dangerous/violent as it turns out to be. Too bad they don't know that the circumstances in Honmyr are so dire that if it succeeds, it'll probably effect them no matter where they go.

So really, you have to explain why you feel they were being retarded. Because this is the way many parents behave. They are GOOD parents, but parents of a major protagonist (which by nature has them do unrational behaviors for the sake of love or justice or whatnot!). And from what I see, you only think they are retarded because you are using information you have access to as a player (practically everything) when I'm writing them out as if they are responding to what they actually know as actual NPCs (which isn't much!).

Basically they are RATIONAL but NOT CORRECT.