#I mentioned lark and hero but I’m not gonna tag them cause it’s more father son focused

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I feel like what hurts me most about Sparrow being all “I’m not proud of you” isn’t that he said it, cause I could already kinda guess that from the first scene.

It’s just that normal doesn’t seem to have had any inclination of it prior. Like, to him that’s just his dad being his dad. Not his dad trying to nudge him into being more normal.

And that’s exactly why Normal believes his dad hates him (at least in my mind). Cause as humans we are built to remember the bad as a way of survival, and normal probably can only think about the times he’s seen his dad cringe and how he’s so stupid for just thinking his dad was worried (even if he was worried and not in fact cringing.) like every memory gets corrupted with this new realization. When Teeny won the mascot contest was your dad actually smiling at how happy you were or was he just avoiding a scene, Did he actually enjoy watching those anime movies with you and hero when you were little or are you misremembering, was your uncle trying to warn you that you shouldn’t trust when your dad says he loves you, and so on and so on.

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #dndaddies #normal oak swallows garcia #normal oak #sparrow oak swallows garcia #sparrow oak garcia #I mentioned lark and hero but I’m not gonna tag them cause it’s more father son focused #this is also coming from someone who overthinks everything #if this is confusing I’m sorry #like when Lincoln places together all the little sniper stuff his dad did #honestly that’s probably why part of me doesn’t like sparrow #y’know I love sparrow but I don’t want to show him off to people #I don’t even dislike him though #you think my therapist would let me figure out what I feel about sparrow in a session #another good example might be Nick getting all of his memories of Glenn back #you love your dad but you have an example of a father that is at least from what we know so much better #Honestly Nick and Normal might need to talk about looking back at memories with new knowledge