Dad!Hasan who is always ready to hype his kids up when they hit milestones in their lives. Anything from mastering a skill to kissing someone else for the first time to wanting to check out collages, he's their biggest cheerleader and is willing to give out any advice he can that the kids will listen to.
Dad!Ludwig who is undeniably the fun parent. His son wants to stay up after bedtime while you're away on a business trip? That okay, as long he's not on a screen, Lud would absolutely let him stay up. They'll draw or build Legos or he'll play a game and let his son watch (I mean technically the young boy isn't playing therefore he's good, right?)
Dad!Wilbur whose always willing to encourage his daughter when she starts collecting things. Postcards from places she visits with her parents? Okay, he'll make sure to stop at every town and take her to pick out her favorite card, or two or three. She's interested in rocks? They go out at least once a week to go and look for different rock to tumble and add to her little collection.
the man who starts off the first year with his kids by having ornaments for each year with a picture of them in it, on their own. a star of their own ornament, you make sure to date the picture and the year just so that its specific when you get older. this turns into just hand making ornaments with the kids, too.
i also see him splurging on different materials in the sense that its like "dad can we do clay" "yeah" and then you have $200 worth of polymer clay at the house two days later ?? (they turn out great for what its worth, and your kid(s) are very excited to give their vast amount of aunts and uncles homemade ornaments)
your insistence on a real tree whenever possible from christmas #1 together as a family turns into going every year the same weekend and making a day out of it:
breakfast has to be sweet - your favorite was the year you made pancakes with the help of your daughter who wanted colored pancakes and refused to do any red or green on purpose (and got upset when the blue one wouldnt be "blue enough")
going to a random christmas tree farm (different every year) taking way too long to decide on one (your son is insistent that it has to be the right height for maximum ornament placement options), buying it (and some other families who are in line with you, "some good christmas will" lud says with a shrug) and taking it home to decorate.
letting the tree fluff out before decorating it and when the kids are little, the time is just used for trying to get them to eat or be clean or just behave for a few minutes (please we can put the shiny circles on the tree in a few minutes it still has to fluff out), but when they're at least preteens having friends over helps because they don't want to decorate with you but they will absolutely decorate with uncle aiden. (which is fine, the more the merrier for tree-day)
lud being the dad who at first is, no they can wait until christmas day to open gifts 🙄 but caves immediately because he wants to open christmas gifts early and as soon as he's like "okay but i can open a gift right" your kid hears and just gives the biggest 🥺 face they can muster and it's always one (or two, depending on how excited lud is to have them open specific gifts) on christmas eve and then the rest the next morning.
ludwig who dances you around the living room, drunk off his ass one year, but continues the tradition with your kid. you holding the baby as he sways with you both lit by the light of the three, which turns into both of you dancing with your toddler, hoping that as each year goes by, you'll never miss a dance.
dad ludwig + "[Parent], can we play?" "No baby I need to finish this thing for work." ??? :)
i hope this is good ;v; ludwig and his lil duck and you
it's cute when the little duck watches lud record videos because she sits very quietly and they came up with a system for when he was done recording. unfortunately, today was NOT a good day in the household and she was needy.
she was bouncing on her feet, doing her best to stay patient for him to do the "outro", whatever that word really meant, she clung to her tiny duck plush. ludwig stopped the recording and turned his chair to face her.
"well hey there," he reached down and picked her up and she immediately went to grab his face, dropping the duck plush between the two of them.
"i wanna play," she started, squishing his cheeks the way he would see her mother squish them, only momma needed one hand and she needed two, "can we play? pwleeeeeeease?" he made kissy noises at her before covering her cheeks in kisses, holding her tightly to him. "NOOOOOOOO!" she squealed, trying to wriggle out of his grasp.
"ow duck, your quackin is gonna blow my ears out." she giggled and covered her mouth.
"so can we play?" but ludwig frowned and she frowned in return, lip already quivering. he leaned his face against hers, nuzzling his slightly scruffy cheek against hers causing her to protest but at least stop frowning.
"i'm sorry baby, i can't play right now, i have to finish recording for work."
"but i wanna plaaaaaayyyyyyy!" ludwig snuggled her tighter, kissing her cheek and forehead mumbling that he knew and he was sorry and he was the WORST dad in the world, which only caused her to yell NOOOOO at the top of her tiny lungs.
"okay okay okay, shh shh shh, how about this? i get through one more video and then we can do whatever you want, we can even ask mommy if she wants to play with us too, huh?" she sniffled, playing up that she was indeed very upset at this development, but after a moment she relented, with a very quiet okay. "if you sit real quiet next to me while i record, you can sit right next to me." she nodded again and ludwig put her on the loveseat a few feet away (just out of camera view) and nestled her in with a blanket and her duck plush.
recording the second video took a few tries which bothered him but he could see her out of the corner of his eye, smiling at him and just enjoying spending time with them. it couldn't have been more than 30 minutes, but when he clicked stop recording and looked over, she was asleep. instantly guilt ran through his body, taking his headphones out and trying to sigh as quietly as he could. scooping her up in his arms with little protest from the sleepy toddler, he left the stream room and headed towards where you were, curled up in the corner of your couch with a book.
"well there you- oh look at her."
"i think i put her to sleep talking about a recent chess tournament." you laughed, of course, he was always good at putting her to sleep. he sat down gently, leaning most of himself into you. "we were going to play but..."
"you know if you wake her up, she'll be ready to go." he looked at you, incredulously.
"and wake up the princess? never. we can play when we get up."
"we?"
"yeah, scooch, i'm napping with her." you rolled your eyes but stretched out so he could nestle easier. "g'night."
Dad!wig who isn't great a verbalizing his emotions. Really is okay at admitting how he's feeling, but he can explain why he feels that way. As his son grows up, Lud learns along with his son how to verbalize his emotions.
Lud is no stranger to "big emotions", as you loving call it. Usually it end with the two of you sitting down and talking to him until you get a real answer, almost two hours later. After his son is born and gains sentience, he realizes the he has to be able to explain emotions.
It starts as a family event, you and Lud gather around the kid and try to calm him down. Once he's calmed down some, Lud has you take the lead and help guide the kid to figure out what happened to cause his "big emotions". Eventually, like a year or two later Lud becomes a master at talking through both his own and his kids emotions.
