Is it true that mack calls his dad dada?
the short answer to this question is... yes!
we see rick mention it in this article (more detailed analysis of the whole situation he's talking about here in this post):
This was one of those moments where dad expected the tension from the hill to make it to the dinner table.
But Macklin, instead, wrapped his arms around his seated father from behind. The son squeezed tight enough to convey a love they don’t often declare.
“And he gives me a kiss on the cheek,” Rick said. “And he’s like, ‘Thanks, da-da.’”
then mack follows it up by saying:
“I don’t remember that,” Macklin said, fighting off a smile as he barely hung onto the bit. “At all. He made that part up.”
...was he brushing off the kiss on the cheek part or the 'da-da' part? we'll never know.
and i kind of thought that was it right? i'd never really come across this fact until reading some willmack fics that included mack calling rick 'da-da', which i honestly thought was like, a stylistic choice, before i read it in more than one fic.
then i saw it in the article and was like 'hmm okay then!' because the article doesn't actually specify when the story they're describing took place, and we know rick has always trained his kids hard from a young age so i thought mack was maybe kind of young at the time, still growing out of 'da-da' etc before your friends think you're uncool for it, and that we were just clinging onto it fanfic-wise but ohohoho, i was so wrong.
the video below is from the 2024 nhl draft where mack went first overall, mack hugs his family one by one and when mack gets to rick he says, 'Thanks da-da.'
now, mack absolutely knows he's mic'd up. he obviously doesn't care that people know what he calls his dad, it's absolutely normal for him, so one can safely assume this is what he calls his dad on a regular basis!
a small, but definitely interesting, piece of information for willmack lore :)
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