ray calling mika "kiddo" in a cyborg among us... obviously it's really sweet for the two of them but also. ray really sees them as kids. i don't think he ever really talked to henry like he was a kid, like, every time he called him "kid" it was short for "kid danger". and overall he doesn't seem to be super aware of how young henry is and how great the responsibility he (ray) has for him is, with maybe a few exceptions. when he thought that cannonball killed him he said "you killed my friend!". nothing like the word "kiddo" was said. ray didn't really see henry as a kid, not even when he was literally a tiny baby. and now he has this group of children who want to be heroes so bad and who are growing so quickly and are so capable and determined and they're kids. the parallel of ray seeing them as kids but not kid danger... i think this goes for schwoz too btw. i think he and ray simultaneously had the realisation of "oh FUCK these are kids" about henry, jasper and charlotte after the blimp crash and that's why schwoz seems sweeter and more caring and paternal in df than he did in hd (like when he stood up for them in test friends). and you can also see this in ray with "kiddo" like i mentioned and "sweet bosey" and just how he behaves with them, it feels a lot more like he's treating them like kids than he ever did henry. i HATE the parallels between henry and the df kids man. poor boy was basically the first pancake that never turns out right
