Dave and Karkat coparenting is a recipe for wholesome. Both have serious baggage about their upbringing, they both have cycles of abuse they'd be wanting to not only leave behind, but also smash entirely. They got a kid they wanna ensure has a happy childhood, one that doesn't have a weighty destiny hanging overhead, one without prejudice of their blood, fighting for survival. Would this desire for overcorrection lead to being too hands off? Too undisciplined? A lack of boundaries? Would the child have to assume the role of therapist for their own parents, help them deal with their baggage? Like there's no way this would go perfectly smooth without any mistakes. But Dave and Karkat would try really fuckin hard. They'd try every fuckin day. They'd show that kid all the love in the world, regardless of any mistakes they'd make.
so i was dithering about trying to figure out what to do for an orv fic today and then, like a lightning bolt of inspiration, i saw this post and decided sure. why not. Letâs continue the bihyung-kdj coparenting au. further inspiration from @mytoomanybookstoreadâs tags which i took some liberties with, but are:
#For extra fun dies combine it w some of those kdj and yjh knew eo in high school very briefly#And you get an intensely consumed yjh who tracked down kdj years later only to find him w a 10yo and is squinting at the Situation so hard
Yoo Joonghyuk doesnât really remember much about high school. He doesnât particularly want to remember very much about high school. Still, there are some things that stick in his mind. Cheap cafeteria food, playing games underneath his desk and hoping his teacher wouldnât catch him, voices he couldnât care less jabbering at him and blending into so much white noise, one voice in particular that didnât â
âStop telling me what to buy, I can feed myself. I did it without you for years, donât you have any faith in me by now?â
Yoo Joonghyuk really thinks heâs hallucinating when he hears that one voice in the middle of the produce section on his weekly grocery run. Â
âWhatâs with that look on your face. Itâs like you donât trust me. Bihyung, you know a healthy parenting relationship needs to be built on ââ
âKim Dokja,â Yoo Joonghyuk says, mouth moving before he can even think of doing anything else.
Kim Dokja â could it be anyone else? â looks up from an argument he appears to be losing. âSorry, do I know you?â he says, polite smile automatically stretching across his face, and then, â...Yoo Joonghyuk?â
Kim Dokja looks⊠better than he did in high school. He doesnât have that adolescent gangliness anymore; doesnât have the bruises, the bandages, that sallow look to his skin. Thereâs a faint darkness under his eyes that speaks of the fact that he could be sleeping more, but overall, he looks⊠healthier. Like heâs improved his lot in life. Like heâs doing well.
Instead of saying any of this, Yoo Joonghyuk says, âYou have a child.â
This is less of a non-sequitur than it should be, because Kim Dokja has a hand resting loosely, absentmindedly, in the hair of a little girl clinging to his leg. She looks up at Yoo Joonghyuk with big dark eyes that look unsettlingly similar to the man sheâs currently attached to.   Â
âYes, I see youâre as observant as ever, Yoo Joonghyuk,â Kim Dokja says, which doesnât explain anything at all. âThis is Biyoo,â he adds, which helps less than he seems to think it does.
âKim Dokja, who is this,â says the man who Kim Dokja was arguing with. Heâs holding a cabbage like he thinks he can do serious damage with it and is contemplating whether he should aim for Kim Dokja or Yoo Joonghyuk first.
âOh, thatâs Yoo Joonghyuk,â Kim Dokja says, and then to Yoo Joonghyuk, he says, âThis is Bihyung.â Â
From the look on Bihyungâs face, heâs finding this introduction about as helpful as Yoo Joonghyuk is, which is to say, not at all. âReally?âÂ
âWhat?â says Kim Dokja.
âYou have a child?â Yoo Joonghyuk repeats, because the longer he looks at the little girl the more distressingly similar to Kim Dokja she appears and the obvious conclusion is not one that heâs readily capable of believing.
âI feel like I should be offended here,â Kim Dokja says. âIs there something wrong with me having a child?â
âIs she a relative.â
Kim Dokja sighs, sounding faintly pained. âTechnically correct, I suppose.â
âIn the sense that sheâs related to him because sheâs his daughter,â Bihyung says.
âWho are you,â Yoo Joonghyuk says, because the name âBihyungâ doesnât tell him anything at all about who Bihyung actually is and why Kim Dokja knows him.
Bihyung quirks a brow up. âIâm the other parent,â he says dryly. âWho are you?â
âHigh school classmate,â Yoo Joonghyuk says automatically. âYouâre married?â
In perfect unison, Kim Dokja and Bihyung take on matching faces of distaste.
âAbsolutely not,â Bihyung says.
âRight, Bihyungâs just the other parent. Weâre ex-roommates.â
Chapter 1 - Prologue: We Were Built to Fall Apart (And Fall Back Together)
Hannah Asher has had a lot of fuck-ups in her life-- less so recently, though, now that she's nearly three years sober. She's no stranger to consequences, long-term and short-term both, but this⊠this is a new problem.
4,149 words - rated M - TW for past drug use, canon-typical hospital environments, brief infidelity
Yâknow what, fuck it, Kegboys Coparent/Full House AU because @mediocre--writing inspired me not to just let it go đ
-SO,,, At first I was thinking Steve as Danny, Billy as Jesse, and Tommy as Joey,,, BUT youâve changed my mind and convinced me into Tommy as Danny, Billy as Jesse, Steve as Joey,,, because I do think youâre right that the only one out of the boys to settle down and have 3 children would be Tommy,,, with Carol ofc. Also, it leaves Steve and Billy to be goofballs together and I love it.
- Tommy and Carol live together in Chicago after both graduating college, sticking with it through thick and thin, and pulling through to have a beautiful family. Carol is a middle school teacher and Tommy works for Steveâs dad as a businessman, holding him to his promise that he made both him and Steve on their 16th birthdays that if they could make it through college heâd have a job for them, an offer Steve did not end up taking.
- They have three daughters of course, Amanda, their oldest, Kelly, the middle child, and June, the youngest named after Carolâs grandmother. The two oldest came out brunette, and the youngest blonde, which is a running joke in their family because neither side has a blonde hair in sight other than her.
-Carol dies, aged 29, t-boned by a drunk driver. Tommy is devastated, literally a shell of himself after his high school sweetheart dies, left to raise 3 children on his own.
- Thatâs where Steve and Billy come in. His two best friends from high school. Billy now a mechanic by day, aspiring rock star by night. And Steve who by a turn of events is now a comedian, which to Tommy is actually not that surprising.
-And before Tommyâs kids know it they have three dads and a very chaotic house.
I have so many ideas for this but this is just an outline to get all my ideas into one place SKDMDNNF
Ben *glares*: Alex is washing the dishes and I just heard him say "who do you work for? who's your contact?!?â while repeatedly pushing a glass under water. Do you have anything to say on this
Yassen: ......
Yassen *sigh*: Iâll talk to him about more effective ways to gather intelligence from uncooperative parties
