#operation strix

[lpham2525]

Loid needs dad friends

I was so glad when I saw this scene in Spy x Family because I felt like Yor finally had someone to talk to about her insecurities (even if she can't be completely forthright about it). Then I thought it was sad that Loid didn't have this kind of dynamic with someone outside of his fake family since he struggles with feeling inadequate as a parent, too, as evidenced by this scene:

I know that Loid feels he needs to be the perfect husband and father for his mission and for world peace, but it's sad that he doesn't have many people to confide in about how hard it is to be a parent. He has Yor to help him in this scene:

Which is great (!), but I feel like Loid would also benefit greatly from having other dad friends who he can confide in about his struggles in parenting (instead of using the "dad struggle" as a way to get closer to Donovan Desmond). On one hand, Loid might feel like he is struggling to be a father because he never really planned for it and was thrown into it (not to mention that his fatherhood is part of a larger mission for world peace), but he is also not related to Anya in any way. He had very little time to "prepare" to be a father and most of his initial learning was through reading parenting books.

And while there's nothing wrong with reading parenting books, it doesn't always translate to effective parenting in real life (and parenting for Operation Strix is even further complicated by the fact that Loid chose the one child in the orphanage who is a telepath). Don't get me wrong, Loid is making considerable efforts to be a good parent and to maintain Operation Strix, but I think it would help him enormously on an emotional level if he had dad friends who can also tell him how much they struggle with raising/understanding/connecting with their children.

That way, Loid can see that even biological fathers who wanted children and who have been with their children from the beginning also struggle with fatherhood.

I think that would give him much needed perspective (and relief) about how he's doing as a parent.

[posiesinapocket]

OH LET'S GO LOID HAVING AN EMOTIONAL CRISIS AT THE END OF THIS ARC

[correctmeifimwrongplease]

Can you imagine operation strix being revealed to the public decades and decades later since there’s no real harm with the amount of time. And people (probably our current times) reaction to the story of an agent getting a fake wife and a kid and then boom they actually do fall in love and the kid gets a happy family. Like it’s a stretch that like over 60 or 70 years later people find out the basic details and I am just waiting for their reactions. Like Spy x Family is similar to post world war 2 right; specifically Germany right, please tell me if I’m wrong I’m ok with being corrected as long it’s sharing information and not insults. It’s just the possibilities from the idea of the general story without all the finer details becoming available to an audience like modern day is interesting.

[thinkingisadangerouspastime]

outlining damianya fics knowing im gonna have to tag them something like "canon divergent (in the sense that all older!damianya is canon divergent bc there's not a chance spy x family doesn't resolve operation strix within at most two years of story time so imagining the eden kids older with any type of recent strix fallout or with any sense of ongoing strix is purely au)"

[threemoonwatchers]

A concept that probably wouldn’t happen but I think it’d be cool

Operation Strix is over. Loid Forger, as far as the public is concerned, is dead.

Yor has decided to continue raising his daughter. (Hopefully the fact that she WAS married and widowed won’t have the SSS on her tail for staying single.)

One day, Yor and Anya are at the park with Bond, as they tend to do sometimes.

A stranger walks up to Yor as she watches Anya and Bond chase each other around.

He tells her he’s new in town and asks for directions to a grocery store or something. Yor points him in the right direction, and somehow, some way, they engage in small talk.

Eventually, Yor realizes it’s probably time to get Anya and Bond back home, so she calls them over.

And Anya and the stranger make eye contact.

And Anya, suddenly overtaken by emotion for reasons Yor can’t decipher, shouts “Papa!”

[julesjunimos]

Help! 😭

Yuri is so hilarious 😭

[sky-poke-luz]

Likely Foreshadowing

Like maybe more development and advancement for Operation Strix? Like the Cruise Arc? During the second midterm break, will Anya likely visit Septiva and maybe Loid will see what the king and queen will learn how to advance Strix there? Will Yor be also likely protecting another client in Septiva?

[mayariviolet]

Y’all ever think about how once Operation Strix is over and the Forgers have to dissolve (highly doubt this will happen but yk) Twilight/Loid will have no real reason to rush home anymore? He has the freedom to become whoever he wants except a family man…