"Daddy Dearest"
༼🥊༽ Yandad! Knuckles x gn! Child! Reader
Synopsis : yandad Knuckles having some binding time with his puggle (young echidna), which involves boxing lessons.
Tw : emotional manipulation, overprotective, other characters are villainized. 🤢Icky do not eat!!🤢
Genre : Fluff / Platonic / Yandere
His rough, gloved hands tangle around with the spines on your head, twisted relatively gently, in a messy lop of quills all outward. Your tomato red quills spiral softly, once he was done, that is.
"Ready?"
"Do I have to learn boxing dad?" The puggle quipped, not meaning to come out snippy. Knuckles' brow scorned, at this—his maw tightening slightly. Too badly his young one noticed. "You will learn boxing, to solely protect yourself—why—are you gonna cling to me like a damned leech forever?" His hands cuffed 'round the younglings' shoulders, if his claws would've been out of the containment of those gloves; there would've been blood already.
"Don't tell me you want that hedgehog to parent you instead—as I'm apparently too rough and vicious for you." He falsely sulked, your face dropped, the tan of your muzzle almost whitening. A gruelling smirk almost tugged at his lip, knowing he had his youngster wrapped around his finger. "I'm only like this, not that I ever AM, because I care for you. Don't be all ungrateful now."
"Sorry. Dad."
"That's better. Master Emerald, you're so damn clingy." Always gotta have your dad breathing down your shoulder. Else he'd lose his mind; by not being able to protect his precious. He always had you plummet the punching bag first, unleash he felt like unnerving you—by going gruesomely vicious at the sand filled bag. It's cover would writhe from every blow he threw at it. "See. Look at this, not even swinging that hard." He gallantly throttled. Mockery swimming outward. "Let me show you." He wailed his fists into the bag, the springs squealed violently.
Oh yeah—now the bag was on the floor due to a gnarly blow as a finale.
"Hit harder wontcha kid..?" He slurred, as your smaller paws patched him up from a grotesque fight with Shadow. A yelling match. Involving you. "Yeah yeah, daddy dearest."